Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 101 / Thursday, May 27, 2021 / Notices 28671

McDowell, Nicholas, Putnam, influence-strategies-tickets- Transportation, LLC—Operation Raleigh, Roane, Wyoming. 153520669455. To request reasonable Exemption—in Effingham County, Ga., Kentucky: Boyd, Lawrence, Martin, accommodation, please email ACPD Docket No. FD 36489. In that Pike. Program Assistant Kristy Zamary at proceeding, SIT seeks an exemption : Gallia, Lawrence. [email protected]. Please send any under 49 U.S.C. 10502(a) to commence : Buchanan. request for reasonable accommodation common carrier operations on certain The Interest Rates are: no later than June 8, 2021. Requests trackage that it leased from the track received after that date will be owner, Savannah Industrial Logistics, Percent considered, but might not be possible to LLC, another noncarrier holding of fulfill. Attendees should plan to enter OmniTRAX.1 If that petition is For Physical Damage: the web conference waiting room by approved, SIT will operate as a common Homeowners with Credit Avail- 11:50 a.m. to allow for a prompt start. carrier over certain trackage in Rincon, able Elsewhere ...... 2.500 Since 1948, the ACPD has been Effingham County, Ga., extending from Homeowners without Credit Available Elsewhere ...... 1.250 charged with appraising activities a connection with Norfolk Southern Businesses with Credit Avail- intended to understand, inform, and Railway Company (NSR) near NSR able Elsewhere ...... 6.000 influence foreign publics and to milepost 16.6 to a connection with CSX Businesses without Credit increase the understanding of, and Transportation, Inc. (CSXT), near CSXT Available Elsewhere ...... 3.000 support for, these same activities. The milepost S484.0, a distance of Non-Profit Organizations with ACPD conducts research that provides approximately 11,404 feet. Credit Available Elsewhere ... 2.000 honest assessments of public diplomacy Applicants state that they will control Non-Profit Organizations with- efforts, and disseminates findings SIT upon SIT’s becoming a Class III rail out Credit Available Else- through reports, white papers, and other carrier. According to Applicants, where ...... 2.000 publications. It also holds public OmniTRAX and HGS are under joint For Economic Injury: 2 Businesses & Small Agricultural symposiums that generate informed managerial and operational control. Cooperatives without Credit discussions on public diplomacy issues Applicants state that OmniTRAX Available Elsewhere ...... 3.000 and events. The Commission reports to currently controls 20 Class III railroads Non-Profit Organizations with- the President, Secretary of State, and and HGS currently controls two Class III out Credit Available Else- Congress and is supported by the Office railroads.3 The properties of the rail where ...... 2.000 of the Under Secretary of State for carriers controlled by OmniTRAX and Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. HGS are located in the following states: The number assigned to this disaster For more information on the U.S. , , , Florida, for physical damage is 16989 6 and for Advisory Commission on Public , , , Maryland, economic injury is 16990 0. Diplomacy, please visit https:// Nebraska, , Ohio, , (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance www.state.gov/bureaus-offices/under- , Virginia, , and West Number 59008) secretary-for-public-diplomacy-and- Virginia. Applicants certify that the proposed transaction does not involve James Rivera, public-affairs/united-states-advisory- commission-on-public-diplomacy/, or an interchange commitment. Associate Administrator for Disaster Applicants state that: (1) The line Assistance. contact Executive Director Vivian S. Walker at [email protected] or Senior over which SIT seeks authority to [FR Doc. 2021–11224 Filed 5–26–21; 8:45 am] Advisor Shawn Baxter at BaxterGS@ operate does not connect with the lines BILLING CODE 8026–03–P state.gov. of any of the existing rail carriers controlled by OmniTRAX or by HGS, (2) Kristina K. Zamary, the proposed transaction is not part of DEPARTMENT OF STATE Department of State. a series of anticipated transactions that [Public Notice: 11430] [FR Doc. 2021–11246 Filed 5–26–21; 8:45 am] would connect the line with any other BILLING CODE 4710–45–P railroads in the OmniTRAX or HGS U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy Notice of Meeting 1 According to the verified notice, while SIT is SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD currently controlled solely by OmniTRAX, if SIT’s The U.S. Advisory Commission on petition to commence common carrier operations in [Docket No. FD 36490] Docket No. FD 36489 is granted, OmniTRAX and Public Diplomacy (ACPD) will hold a HGS seek to control SIT jointly. (Notice 4.) virtual public meeting from 12:00 p.m. 2 OmniTRAX Holdings Combined, Inc., See OmniTRAX Holdings Combined, Inc.— until 1:30 p.m., Thursday, June 17, Control Exemption—The Winchester & W. R.R., FD and HGS Railway Holdings, Inc.— 2021. The meeting will focus on public 36338 (STB served Aug. 22, 2019). Control Exemption—Savannah 3 diplomacy responses to China’s Specifically, OmniTRAX currently controls: Industrial Transportation, LLC Alabama & Tennessee River Railway, LLC; influence strategies. A panel of experts Brownsville & Rio Grande International Railway, on China’s information and public OmniTRAX Holdings Combined, Inc. LLC; Central Texas & Colorado River Railway, LLC; diplomacy initiatives will discuss (OmniTRAX), and HGS Railway Rail Link, L.L.C.; & Cuyahoga challenges and opportunities for PD Railway, LLC; Fulton County Railway, LLC; Georgia Holdings, Inc. (HGS) (collectively, & Florida Railway, LLC; Georgia Woodlands practitioners in responding to China’s Applicants), both noncarriers, filed a Railroad, L.L.C.; Great Western Railway of state-sponsored influence operations. verified notice of exemption under 49 Colorado, L.L.C.; , LLC; Kettle Falls This meeting is open to the public, CFR 1180.2(d)(2) to control Savannah International Railway, LLC; Manufacturers’ including the media and members and Junction Railway, L.L.C.; Nebraska, Kansas & Industrial Transportation, LLC (SIT), a Colorado Railway, LLC; Newburgh & South Shore staff of governmental and non- noncarrier currently controlled by Railroad, LLC; Northern Ohio & Western Railway, governmental organizations. To obtain OmniTRAX, once SIT is authorized to L.L.C.; Panhandle Northern Railroad, L.L.C.; Peru the web conference link and password commence common carrier operations. Industrial Railroad, LLC; please register here: https:// Company; Stockton Terminal and Eastern Railroad; This notice of exemption is related to and Winchester & Western Railroad Company. HGS www.eventbrite.com/e/public- a concurrently filed petition for currently controls HGS–ATN, LLC and HGS–FCR, diplomacy-responses-to-chinas- exemption in Savannah Industrial LLC.

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