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SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD Line and a lease agreement with NSR to OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES operate over the North Beach and TRADE REPRESENTATIVE [Docket No. FD 36202] Diamond Springs Line. Buckingham Branch Railroad BB states that the proposed operation Fiscal Year 2019 Tariff-Rate Quota Company—Change in Operators of the Lines does not involve any Allocations for Raw Cane Sugar, Exemption—Cassatt Management, LLC provision or agreement that would limit Refined and Specialty Sugar and d/b/a future interchange with a third-party Sugar-Containing Products connecting carrier. BB also certifies that AGENCY: Buckingham Branch Railroad its projected annual revenues from Office of the United States Company (BB), a Class III rail carrier, freight operations will not result in the Trade Representative. has filed a verified notice of exemption creation of a Class II or Class I rail ACTION: Notice. under 49 CFR 1150.41 to assume carrier. SUMMARY: The Office of the United operations over the following rail lines: Under 49 CFR 1150.42(b), a change in States Trade Representative (USTR) is (1) A 2.6-mile rail line, owned by operators requires that notice be given providing notice of country-by-country Canonie Atlantic Co. (CAC) on behalf of to shippers. BB states that it has allocations of the Fiscal Year 2019 (Oct. the Accomack-Northampton provided notice of the proposed change 1, 2018 through Sept. 30, 2019) in-quota Transportation District Commission in operator to the shippers on the Lines. (ANTDC), extending between milepost BB certifies that on June 13, 2018, it quantity of the tariff-rate quotas for 95.0 at Little Creek (Virginia Beach), posted notice of the transaction at the imported raw cane sugar. Va., and milepost 97.6 at Camden workplace of BCR employees as DATES: This notice is applicable on July Heights (Norfolk), Va. (the Little Creek required under 49 CFR 1150.42(e). BB 18, 2018. Line); and (2) a 4.2-mile rail line owned states that BCR employees are not FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: by Company represented by any labor union. Dylan Daniels, Office of Agricultural (NSR), extending between milepost SN Concurrently with its notice of Affairs, at 202–395–6095. 6.7 at Diamond Springs (Virginia exemption, BB filed a petition for partial SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant Beach), Va., and milepost SN 2.5 at waiver of the 60-day advance labor to Additional U.S. Note 5 to Chapter 17 Coleman Place (Norfolk), Va. (the North notice requirement under 49 CFR of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of Beach and Diamond Springs Line) 1 1150.42(e) to allow the transaction to be the United States (HTS), the United (collectively, the Lines). According to consummated on August 1, 2018. The States maintains tariff-rate quotas BB, the Lines represent two branches petition for waiver will be addressed in (TRQs) for imports of raw cane sugar. forming a ‘‘Y’’ with an overlapping a separate decision, which will establish Section 404(d)(3) of the Uruguay Round convergence into the stem at Camden the earliest date this transaction may be Agreements Act (19 U.S.C. 3601(d)(3)) Heights, with milepost SN 2.5 at consummated. authorizes the President to allocate the Coleman Place located west of the If the verified notice contains false or in-quota quantity of a TRQ for any convergence. BB states that it will also misleading information, the exemption agricultural product among supplying utilize an additional four miles of is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the countries or customs areas. The trackage rights to facilitate interchange exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) President delegated this authority to the with NSR at Portlock Yard. may be filed at any time. The filing of U.S. Trade Representative under BB states that it will provide rail a petition to revoke will not Presidential Proclamation 6763 (60 FR common carrier service to shippers on automatically stay the effectiveness of 1007). the Lines and that its operations will the exemption. Petitions for stay must On June 29, 2018, the Secretary of replace those of Cassatt Management, be filed no later than July 25, 2018. Agriculture (Secretary) announced the LLC d/b/a Bay Coast Railroad (BCR), the An original and 10 copies of all sugar program provisions for Fiscal Year current operator.2 BB further states that pleadings, referring to Docket No. FD 2019. The Secretary announced an in- BCR seeks to imminently cease 36202, must be filed with the Surface quota quantity of the TRQ for raw cane operations over the Lines and does not Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW, sugar for Fiscal Year 2019 of 1,117,195 object to the proposed change in Washington, DC 20423–0001. In metric tons (conversion factor: 1 metric operators. According to BB, BCR’s addition, a copy of each pleading must ton = 1.10231125 short tons) raw value ability to continue operation of the be served on BB’s representative, Robert (MTRV), which is the minimum amount Lines has recently become uncertain, A. Wimbish, Fletcher & Sippel LLC, 29 to which the United States is committed and recent personnel departures at BCR North Wacker Drive, Suite 920, Chicago, under the World Trade Organization have prompted BCR to press for IL 60606–2832. (WTO) Uruguay Round Agreements. terminating its Norfolk-area operations According to BB, this action is USTR is allocating this quantity as soon as possible.3 BB states it is excluded from environmental review (1,117,195 MTRV) to the following negotiating a lease and operation under 49 CFR 1105.6(c) and from countries in the amounts specified agreement with CAC for the Little Creek historic preservation reporting below: requirements under 49 CFR 1 BB states that NSR formerly leased the North 1105.8(b)(1). Fiscal year Beach and Diamond Springs Line to another carrier, Board decisions and notices are 2019 raw . According to BB, no available on our website at Country cane sugar discontinuance authority is required as this is a WWW.STB.GOV. allocations change in operators. (MTRV) 2 See Cassatt Mgmt. LLC—Lease & Operation Decided: July 13, 2018. Exemption—Canonie Atlantic Co. ex rel. By the Board, Scott M. Zimmerman, Acting Argentina ...... 45,281 Accomack-Northampton Transp. Dist. Comm’n, FD Australia ...... 87,402 34818 (STB served Feb. 6, 2006). Director, Office of Proceedings. Barbados ...... 7,371 3 BB states that the circumstances here are related Kenyatta Clay, Belize ...... 11,584 to those underlying the transaction in Delmarva Clearance Clerk. Central Railroad—Change in Operator Exemption— Bolivia ...... 8,424 Cassatt Management, LLC D/B/A Bay Coast [FR Doc. 2018–15331 Filed 7–17–18; 8:45 am] Brazil ...... 152,691 Railroad, FD 36196 (STB served Jun. 8, 2018). BILLING CODE 4915–01–P Colombia ...... 25,273

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Fiscal year ACTION: Federal notice of intent to access in this corridor and the region. 2019 raw prepare an Environmental Impact The purpose of the proposed project is Country cane sugar Statement (EIS). to relieve congestion and improve safety allocations (MTRV) along the existing RM 150 corridor SUMMARY: FHWA, on behalf of TxDOT, between RM 150 west of Kyle and I–35. is issuing this notice to advise the Congo ...... 7,258 The EIS will develop and evaluate Costa Rica ...... 15,796 public that an EIS will be prepared for alternatives intended to satisfy the Cote d’Ivoire ...... 7,258 a proposed transportation project to identified purpose and need. The Dominican Republic ...... 185,335 construct a new location four lane alternatives will include a range of build Ecuador ...... 11,584 roadway in and near the City of Kyle in alternatives and a no-build alternative El Salvador ...... 27,379 Hays County. The roadway would start within the study corridor, which is Fiji ...... 9,477 west of Kyle and run east to Interstate generally bounded to the north by RM Gabon ...... 7,258 35 (I–35), and may follow portions of 150 south of Indian Hills Trail, to the Guatemala ...... 50,546 existing Ranch-to-Market (RM) 150, east by the existing RM 150 east of Guyana ...... 12,636 from west of Arroyo Ranch Road, Arroyo Ranch Road and through the city Haiti ...... 7,258 running east to I–35. of Kyle to I–35, to the south by the Honduras ...... 10,530 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: India ...... 8,424 intersection of Yarrington Rd. and I–35, Carlos Swonke, Division Director, Jamaica ...... 11,584 and to the west by the Blanco River. Madagascar ...... 7,258 TxDOT Environmental Affairs Division, The roadway build alternatives may Malawi ...... 10,530 125 East 11th Street, Austin, Texas include limited access and non-limited Mauritius ...... 12,636 78701; Phone (512) 416–2734; email: access (arterial) design. The EIS will Mexico ...... 7,258 [email protected]. TxDOT’s evaluate potential impacts from Mozambique ...... 13,690 normal business hours are 8:00 a.m.– construction and operation of the Nicaragua ...... 22,114 5:00 p.m. (central time), Monday proposed project, including, but not Panama ...... 30,538 through Friday. limited to, the following: Transportation Papua New Guinea ...... 7,258 SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The impacts, air quality and noise impacts; Paraguay ...... 7,258 environmental review, consultation, and water quality impacts including storm Peru ...... 43,175 other actions required by applicable water runoff, water recharge zone Philippines ...... 142,160 Federal environmental laws for this impacts; impacts to waters of the United South Africa ...... 24,220 States, including wetlands; impacts to St. Kitts & Nevis ...... 7,258 project are being, or have been, carried- Swaziland ...... 16,849 out by TxDOT pursuant to 23 U.S.C. 327 floodplains; impacts to historic and Taiwan ...... 12,636 and a Memorandum of Understanding archeological resources; socio-economic Thailand ...... 14,743 dated December 16, 2014, and executed impacts including environmental justice Trinidad & Tobago ...... 7,371 by FHWA and TxDOT. and limited English proficiency Uruguay ...... 7,258 TxDOT will prepare an EIS for the populations; impacts to land use, Zimbabwe ...... 12,636 proposed construction of a new location vegetation and wildlife, including four lane roadway in and near the City threatened and endangered species and These allocations are based on the of Kyle in Hays County. The roadway habitat impacts; impacts to or potential countries’ historical shipments to the would start west of Kyle and run east to displacement of residents and United States. The allocations of the in- I–35, and may follow portions of businesses; and impacts to aesthetic and quota quantities of the raw cane sugar existing RM 150, from west of Arroyo visual resources. TxDOT will issue a TRQ to countries that are net importers Ranch Road, running east to I–35. The single Final EIS and Record of Decision of sugar are conditioned on receipt of proposed project is included in the document pursuant to 23 U.S.C. the appropriate verifications of origin, Capital Area Metropolitan Planning 139(n)(2), unless TxDOT determines and certificates for quota eligibility must Organization (CAMPO) 2040 statutory criteria or practicability accompany imports from any country Metropolitan Transportation Plan, 2015, considerations preclude issuance of the as a new location four-lane roadway that for which an allocation has been combined document. may follow portions of the existing RM Anticipated state and federal permits, provided. Raw cane sugar for Fiscal 150 roadway. The proposed project is pending selection of alternatives and Year 2019 TRQs may enter the United approximately 6 miles long. field surveys, may include, but are not States as of October 1, 2018. Proposed improvements to Ranch to limited to, the following: United States Robert Lighthizer, Market (RM) 150 are needed because the Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) United States Trade Representative. existing two-lane facility is inadequate Section 404 permit, Texas Commission [FR Doc. 2018–15266 Filed 7–17–18; 8:45 am] to handle existing and future traffic on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) volumes between I–35 and RM 150 west Section 401 Water Quality Certification; BILLING CODE 3290–F8–P of Kyle, resulting in congestion and TCEQ Texas Pollutant Discharge safety concerns. In addition, the overall Elimination System (TPDES) permit, transportation network does not provide Advisory Council for Historic DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION sufficient linkage to I–35 to handle Preservation (ACHP) Section 106 existing and future traffic volumes in (National Historic Preservation Act) Federal Highway Administration this growing area of Hays County. The approval, and United States Fish and current two-lane facility does not meet Wildlife Service Section 7 (Endangered Environmental Impact Statement; Hays current design standards, does not meet Species Act) permits and approval. County, Texas the Level of Service to meet increasing Public involvement is a critical travel demand and does not provide a component of the project development AGENCY: Texas Department of safe and adequate crossing of the Union process and will continue throughout Transportation (TxDOT), Federal Pacific Railroad. In addition, regional the development of the EIS. A draft Highway Administration (FHWA), population growth continues to increase project coordination plan has been Department of Transportation. demand for additional capacity and developed in accordance with 23 U.S.C.

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