Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 121 / Friday, June 24, 2005 / Notices 36695 By order of the Maritime Administrator. be available for inspection and copying The transaction was scheduled to be Joel C. Richard, at the above address between 10 a.m. consummated on or after June 1, 2005, Secretary, Maritime Administration. and 5 p.m., E.T., Monday through the effective date of the exemption (7 [FR Doc. 05–12546 Filed 6–23–05; 8:45 am] Friday, except Federal holidays. An days after the notice was filed). GWI directly or indirectly controls BILLING CODE 4910–81–P electronic version of this document and all documents entered into this docket Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad, Inc. is available on the World Wide Web at (BPRR), 3 a Class II rail carrier operating DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION http://dms.dot.gov. in New York and Pennsylvania, and the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: following 23 Class III rail carriers: Maritime Administration Joann Spittle, U.S. Department of Arkansas, Louisiana & Mississippi Railroad Company, operating in [Docket Number 2005 21647] Transportation, Maritime Administration, MAR–830 Room 7201, Arkansas and Louisiana; Chattahoochee Requested Administrative Waiver of 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, Industrial Railroad, operating in the Coastwise Trade Laws DC 20590. Telephone 202–366–5979. Georgia; Commonwealth Railway, Inc., operating in Virginia; Corpus Christi SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As AGENCY: Maritime Administration, Terminal Railroad, Inc., operating in described by the applicant the intended Department of Transportation. Texas; Dansville and Mount Morris service of the vessel VALHALLA is: ACTION: Invitation for public comments Railroad Company, operating in New Intended Use: ‘‘12 Passenger Charter.’’ York; First Coast Railroad, Inc., on a requested administrative waiver of Geographic Region: Hawaii USA. the Coastwise Trade Laws for the vessel operating in Florida and Georgia; VALHALLA. Dated: June 17, 2005. Fordyce & Princeton Railroad Company, By order of the Maritime Administrator. operating in Arkansas; Genesee & SUMMARY: As authorized by Pub. L. 105– Joel C. Richard, Wyoming Railroad Company, Inc., 383 and Pub. L. 107–295, the Secretary Secretary, Maritime Administration. operating in New York; Golden Isles of Transportation, as represented by the [FR Doc. 05–12552 Filed 6–23–05; 8:45 am] Terminal Railroad, Inc., operating in Maritime Administration (MARAD), is BILLING CODE 4910–81–P Georgia; Illinois & Midland Railroad, authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.- Inc., operating in Illinois; Louisiana & build requirement of the coastwise laws Delta Railroad, Inc., operating in under certain circumstances. A request DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Louisiana; Portland & Western Railroad, for such a waiver has been received by Inc., operating in Oregon; Rochester & MARAD. The vessel, and a brief Surface Transportation Board Southern Railroad, Inc., operating in description of the proposed service, is New York; Salt Lake City Southern [STB Finance Docket No. 34708] listed below. The complete application Railroad Company, operating in Utah; is given in DOT docket 2005–21647 at Genesee & Wyoming Inc., RP Savannah Port Terminal Railroad, Inc., http://dms.dot.gov. Interested parties Acquisition Company One and RP operating in Georgia; South Buffalo may comment on the effect this action Acquisition Company Two—Control Railway Company, operating in New may have on U.S. vessel builders or Exemption—Rail Partners, L.P., AN York; St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad businesses in the U.S. that use U.S.-flag Railway, et al., Atlantic & Western Company, operating in Vermont, New vessels. If MARAD determines, in Railway, et al., and KWT Railway, Inc. Hampshire, and Maine; St. Lawrence & accordance with Pub. L. 105–383 and Atlantic Railroad (Quebec), Inc., MARAD’s regulations at 46 CFR part Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (GWI), a operating in Vermont; Talleyrand 388 (68 FR 23084; April 30, 2003), that noncarrier holding company, and RP Terminal Railroad, Inc., operating in the issuance of the waiver will have an Acquisition Company One (RP 1) and Florida; Tazewell & Peoria Railroad, unduly adverse effect on a U.S.-vessel RP Acquisition Company Two (RP 2), Inc., operating in Illinois; Utah Railway builder or a business that uses U.S.-flag newly created noncarrier holding Company, operating in Colorado and vessels in that business, a waiver will companies which are wholly owned by Utah; Willamette & Pacific Railroad, not be granted. Comments should refer GWI (collectively, applicants), have Inc., operating in Oregon; and York to the docket number of this notice and filed a notice of exemption to permit: (1) Railway Company (York),4 operating in the vessel name in order for MARAD to GWI and RP 1 to acquire control of Rail Pennsylvania (collectively, Affiliates). properly consider the comments. Partners, L.P., and eight Class III rail Rail Partners, L.P., a noncarrier Comments should also state the carriers formed as limited partnerships;1 limited partnership, currently holds all commenter’s interest in the waiver and (2) GWI and RP 2 to acquire control non-managing membership interests or application, and address the waiver of Rail Partners, L.P., KWT Railway, all limited partnership interests (as criteria given in § 388.4 of MARAD’s Inc., a Class III rail carrier corporation, applicable) in each of the AN Railway, regulations at 46 CFR part 388. and five Class III rail carriers organized et al. group and the Atlantic & Western 2 DATES: Submit comments on or before as limited liability companies. Railway, et al. group. Under the July 25, 2005. proposed transaction, RP 1 will acquire 1 The limited partnership Class III rail carriers the entire general partnership interest of ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to are: Atlantic & Western Railway, Limited Rail Partners, L.P., and the entire docket number MARAD 2005 21467. Partnership; East Tennessee Railway, L.P.; general partnership interest of each rail Written comments may be submitted by Galveston Railroad, L.P.; Georgia Central Railway, hand or by mail to the Docket Clerk, L.P.; Little Rock & Western Railway, L.P.; Tomahawk Railway, Limited Partnership; Valdosta 3 GWI also has control over Allegheny & Eastern, U.S. DOT Dockets, Room PL–401, Railway, L.P.; and Wilmington Terminal Railroad, L.L.C. and Pittsburgh & Shawmut Railroad, L.L.C., Department of Transportation, 400 7th Limited Partnership (collectively, Atlantic & two non-operating Class III rail carriers that St., SW., Washington, DC 20590–0001. Western Railway, et al. group). separately hold certain rail assets over which BPRR You may also send comments 2 The limited liability companies are: AN operates. Railway, L.L.C.; The Bay Line Railroad, L.L.C.; M&B 4 GWI also has control over Maryland and electronically via the Internet at http:// Railroad, L.L.C.; Riceboro Southern Railway, LLC; Pennsylvania, L.L.C., and Yorkrail, L.L.C., two non- dmses.dot.gov/submit/. All comments and Western Kentucky Railway, L.L.C. (collectively, operating Class III rail carriers that separately hold will become part of this docket and will AN Railway, et al. group). the rail assets over which York operates. VerDate jul<14>2003 19:06 Jun 23, 2005 Jkt 205001 PO 00000 Frm 00139 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\24JNN1.SGM 24JNN1.