Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 13 / Friday, January 19, 2018 / Notices 2865

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: St. Paul Subdivision to the connection 1105.6(c) and from historic reporting Elliot Chiu in the Office of the Legal at milepost 16.25+/¥ on BNSF’s Staples under 49 CFR 1105.8(b). Adviser, U.S. Department of State Subdivision and thence to the Board decisions and notices are (telephone: 202–632–6471; email: connection with BNSF’s Hinckley available on our website at [email protected]). The mailing Subdivision near Coon Creek, Minn. WWW.STB.GOV. address is U.S. Department of State, L/ From there, Soo Line’s trackage rights Decided: January 16, 2018. PD, SA–5, Suite 5H03, Washington, DC continue to the connection at Hinckley By the Board, Scott M. Zimmerman, Acting 20522–0505. Subdivision milepost 11.8+/¥ with Director, Office of Proceedings. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BNSF’s Lakes Subdivision in Boylston, Jeffrey Herzig, foregoing determinations were made Wis. (Lakes Subdivision milepost Clearance Clerk. ¥ pursuant to the authority vested in me 12.6+/ ), and thence to Lakes [FR Doc. 2018–00927 Filed 1–18–18; 8:45 am] by the Act of October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. Subdivision milepost 9.4+/¥ at M&J BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 985; 22 U.S.C. 2459), E.O. 12047 of Junction in Superior, Wis., including March 27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs the BNSF-owned turnout at milepost Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 10.44+/¥ to the Saunders Connecting DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (112 Stat. 2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 6501 Track. Soo Line acquired the trackage note, et seq.), Delegation of Authority rights in its 1985 acquisition of the Federal Aviation Administration No. 234 of October 1, 1999, Delegation Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and of Authority No. 236–3 of August 28, Pacific Railroad Company’s assets. Agency Information Collection 2000 (and, as appropriate, Delegation of According to Soo Line, the parties Activities: Requests for Comments; Authority No. 257–1 of December 11, intend to enter into a written agreement Clearance of a Renewed Approval of 2015). I have ordered that Public Notice renewing the overhead trackage rights, Information Collection: Helicopter Air of these determinations be published in and a redacted copy of the draft Ambulance Operator Reports the Federal Register. agreement has been submitted as an 1 AGENCY: Federal Aviation Alyson Grunder, exhibit with its verified notice. As a condition to this exemption, any Administration (FAA), DOT. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Bureau employees affected by the trackage ACTION: Notice and request for of Educational and Cultural Affairs, comments. Department of State. rights will be protected by the [FR Doc. 2018–00911 Filed 1–18–18; 8:45 am] conditions imposed in Norfolk & SUMMARY: In accordance with the Western Railway—Trackage Rights— BILLING CODE 4710–05–P Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA Burlington Northern, Inc., 354 I.C.C. 605 invites public comments about our (1978), as modified in Mendocino Coast intention to request the Office of Railway—Lease & Operate—California SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD Management and Budget (OMB) Western Railroad, 360 I.C.C. 653 (1980). approval to renew an information [Docket No. FD 36162] The transaction may be consummated collection. The Federal Register Notice on or after February 4, 2018, the Company— with a 60-day comment period soliciting effective date of the exemption (30 days comments on the following collection of Trackage Rights Exemption—BNSF after the verified notice was filed). Railway Company information was published on If the verified notice contains false or November 3, 2017 (82 FR 51331). Soo Line Railroad Company (Soo misleading information, the exemption The FAA Modernization and Reform Line), a Class I rail carrier, has filed a is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the Act of 2012 mandates that all helicopter verified notice of exemption under 49 exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) air ambulance operators must begin CFR 1180.2(d)(7) to renew overhead may be filed at any time. The filing of reporting the number of flights and trackage rights over approximately 137 a petition to revoke will not hours flown, along with other specified miles of rail line owned and operated by automatically stay the effectiveness of information, during which helicopters BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) the exemption. Petitions for stay must operated by the certificate holder are between , Minn., and be filed no later than January 26, 2018 providing helicopter air ambulance Superior, Wis. (the Line). (at least seven days before the services. The helicopter air ambulance Soo Line states that the purpose of the exemption before effective). operational data provided to the FAA is transaction is to renew the overhead An original and 10 copies of all used by the agency as background trackage rights agreement governing Soo pleadings, referring to Docket No. information useful in the development Line’s continued freight service between 36162, must be filed with the Surface of risk mitigation strategies to reduce Minneapolis, Minn., and Superior, Wis. Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW, the helicopter air ambulance accident The agreement provides trackage rights Washington, DC 20423–0001. In rate, and to meet the mandates set by to Soo Line over two separate routes addition, one copy of each pleading Congress. from Minneapolis that converge on must be served on W. Karl Hansen, In response to the November 3, 2017 BNSF’s Staples Subdivision. The first Stinson Leonard Street LLP, 50 South notice and request for comments, the route is from milepost 11.4+/¥ on Sixth St., Suite 2600, Minneapolis, MN FAA received two comments. One BNSF’s Staples Subdivision at or near 55402. comment from an individual and one University Avenue in Minneapolis, According to Soo Line, this action is comment from the Air Medical Minn. to the connection at milepost categorically excluded from Operators Association (AMOA). The 21.0+/¥ with BNSF’s Hinckley environmental review under 49 CFR individual commented that the hourly Subdivision near Coon Creek, Minn. burden per average response estimate ( milepost 136.9 1 With the verified notice, Soo Line filed a motion has increased since the last notice was +/¥). The second route is over the for a protective order to protect the confidential and published on July 29, 2014 (79 FR commercially sensitive information contained in North Runner Lead from BNSF’s the agreement, which Soo Line submitted under 44083) and asked for the reason for the Northtown Yard to Soo Line’s Shoreham seal. That motion will be addressed in a separate change in estimated burden. In Yard at milepost 11.66+/¥ on BNSF’s decision. response, the FAA clarifies that none of

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