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Federal Register/Vol. 82, No. 4/Friday, January 6, 2017/Notices 1780 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 4 / Friday, January 6, 2017 / Notices Paper Comments County, Ill., and milepost 27.63 (Green’s Board decisions and notices are • Send paper comments in triplicate Switch) near Decatur, Macon County, available on our Web site at to Secretary, Securities and Exchange Ill., a distance of approximately 13 WWW.STB.GOV. Commission, 100 F Street NE., miles (the Line). The Line is currently Decided: January 3, 2017. Washington, DC 20549–1090. leased to and operated by Decatur By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, Junction Railway Co. (DJRC), which All submissions should refer to File No. Director, Office of Proceedings. consents to the proposed change in Raina S. Contee, SR–NYSE–2016–91. This file number operators. DC will become a rail carrier Clearance Clerk. should be included on the subject line as a result of this transaction. if email is used. To help the [FR Doc. 2017–00020 Filed 1–5–17; 8:45 am] DC describes itself as a joint venture Commission process and review your BILLING CODE 4915–01–P comments more efficiently, please use between OmniTRAX Holdings only one method. The Commission will Combined, Inc. and Topflight Grain post all comments on the Commission’s Cooperative, Inc., which each own 50% SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD of DC. DJRC has agreed to relinquish to Internet Web site (http://www.sec.gov/ [Docket No. AB 55 (Sub-No. 769X)] rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the DC, and DC has agreed to assume, the submission, all subsequent exclusive common carrier obligation over the Line. CSX Transportation, Inc.— amendments, all written statements Discontinuance of Service with respect to the proposed rule DC states that the agreement by which Exemption—in Boone County, W. Va. change that are filed with the it will assume operations does not Commission, and all written contain any provision that prohibits DC CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT), filed communications relating to the from interchanging traffic with a third a verified notice of exemption under 49 proposed rule change between the party or limits DC’s ability to CFR pt. 1152 subpart F—Exempt Commission and any person, other than interchange traffic with a third party Abandonments and Discontinuances of those that may be withheld from the railroad. Service to discontinue service over an public in accordance with the DC certifies that the proposed approximately 9.9-mile rail line on provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be transaction will not result in DC’s CSXT’s Southern Region, Florence available for Web site viewing and becoming a Class II or Class I rail Division, Seth Subdivision, between printing in the Commission’s Public carrier. DC will become a Class III milepost CLN 0.3 and milepost CLN Reference Room, 100 F Street NE., carrier upon consummation of the 10.2 in Boone County, W. Va. (the Line). Washington, DC 20549 on official proposed transaction, but the projected The Line traverses United States Postal business days between the hours of annual revenue of DC will not exceed $5 Service Zip Code 25181. There is one 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Copies of such million. Under 49 CFR 1150.32(b), a station on the Line, Prenter, located at filing also will be available for change in operator requires that notice milepost CLN 10 (FSAC 82243/OPSL inspection and copying at the principal be given to shippers. DC certifies that it 64790).1 office of the Exchange. All comments has provided notice of the proposed CSXT has certified that: (1) No local received will be posted without change; change in operator to the only shipper traffic has moved over the Line for at the Commission does not edit personal on the Line. least two years; (2) because the Line is identifying information from The earliest this transaction can be not a through route, no overhead traffic submissions. You should submit only consummated is January 21, 2017, the has operated, and, therefore, none needs information that you wish to make effective date of the exemption.1 to be rerouted over other lines; (3) no formal complaint filed by a user of rail available publicly. All submissions If the verified notice contains false or service on the Line (or by a state or local should refer to File No. SR–NYSE– misleading information, the exemption government entity acting on behalf of 2016–91, and should be submitted on or is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the such user) regarding cessation of service before January 27, 2017. exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) over the Line is pending either with the For the Commission, by the Division of may be filed at any time. The filing of Surface Transportation Board (Board) or Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated a petition to revoke will not 18 with any U.S. District Court or has been authority. automatically stay the effectiveness of decided in favor of complainant within Eduardo A. Aleman, the exemption. Petitions for stay must the two-year period; and (4) the Assistant Secretary. be filed no later than January 13, 2017 requirements at 49 CFR 1105.12 (at least seven days before the [FR Doc. 2016–32038 Filed 1–5–17; 8:45 am] (newspaper publication) and 49 CFR exemption becomes effective). BILLING CODE 8011–01–P 1152.50(d)(1) (notice to governmental An original and 10 copies of all agencies) have been met. pleadings, referring to Docket No. FD As a condition to this exemption, any SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 36080, must be filed with the Surface employee adversely affected by the Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW., [Docket No. FD 36080] discontinuance of service shall be Washington, DC 20423–0001. In protected under Oregon Short Line addition, one copy of each pleading Decatur Central Railroad, L.L.C.— Railroad—Abandonment Portion must be served on Karl Morell, Karl Change in Operator Exemption— Goshen Branch Between Firth & Morell & Associates, Suite 225, 655 Decatur Junction Railway Co. Ammon, in Bingham & Bonneville Fifteenth Street NW., Washington, DC Counties, Idaho, 360 I.C.C. 91 (1979). To Decatur Central Railroad, L.L.C. (DC), 20005. address whether this condition a noncarrier, has filed a verified notice adequately protects affected employees, of exemption under 49 CFR 1150.31 to 1 DC filed its verified notice of exemption on a petition for partial revocation under assume operations of a rail line located December 8, 2016, and supplemented it by letter filed on December 22, 2016. The date of DC’s 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) must be filed. between milepost 14.22 in Cisco, Piatt supplement will be considered the filing date for purposes of calculating the effective date of the 1 CSXT states that the Prenter station can be 18 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12). exemption. closed. VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:06 Jan 05, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00096 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\06JAN1.SGM 06JAN1 sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES.
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