[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 6 (Friday, January 9, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 1470]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-00151]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board
[Docket No. AB 490 (Sub-No. 2X)]
Greenville County Economic Development Corporation--Abandonment
Exemption--in Greenville County, S.C.
Greenville County Economic Development Corporation (GCEDC) has
filed a verified notice of exemption under 49 CFR part 1152 subpart F--
Exempt Abandonments for GCEDC to abandon approximately 3.29 miles of
railroad line extending between milepost AJK 585.34 in East Greenville,
S.C., and milepost AJK 588.63 in Greenville, S.C. (the Line). The Line
traverses United States Postal Service Zip Code 29607 and is located in
Greenville County, S.C.\1\
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\1\ The Board granted GCEDC authority to discontinue service
over the Line in 2005. See Greenville Cnty. Econ. Dev. Corp.--Aban.
& Discontinuance Exemption--in Greenville Cnty., S.C., AB 490 (Sub-
No. 1X) (STB served Oct. 12, 2005). Since 2005, GCEDC has provided
no local or overhead common carrier service over the Line, and it
asserts that it has not received any requests for common carrier
service over the Line.
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GCEDC has certified that: (1) No local traffic has moved over the
Line for at least two years; (2) no overhead traffic has moved over the
Line for at least two years, and overhead traffic, if there were any,
could be rerouted over other lines; (3) no formal complaint has been
filed by a user of rail service on the Line (or by a state or local
government entity acting on behalf of such user) regarding cessation of
service over the Line, and no such complaint is either pending with the
Surface Transportation Board (Board) or with any U.S. District Court or
has been decided in favor of a complainant within the two-year period;
and (4) the requirements at 49 CFR 1105.7(c) (environmental report), 49
CFR 1105.11 (transmittal letter), 49 CFR 1105.12 (newspaper
publication), and 49 CFR 1152.50(d)(1) (notice to governmental
agencies) have been met.
As a condition to this exemption, any employee adversely affected
by the abandonment shall be protected under Oregon Short Line
Railroad--Abandonment Portion Goshen Branch Between Firth & Ammon, in
Bingham & Bonneville Counties, Idaho, 360 I.C.C. 91 (1979). To address
whether this condition adequately protects affected employees, a
petition for partial revocation under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) must be filed.
Provided no formal expression of intent to file an offer of
financial assistance (OFA) has been received, this exemption will be
effective on February 8, 2015, unless stayed pending reconsideration.
Petitions to stay that do not involve environmental issues,\2\ formal
expressions of intent to file an OFA under 49 CFR 1152.27(c)(2),\3\ and
interim trail use/rail banking requests under 49 CFR 1152.29 must be
filed by January 20, 2015. Petitions to reopen or requests for public
use conditions under 49 CFR 1152.28 must be filed by January 29, 2015,
with the Surface Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW., Washington, DC
20423-0001.
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\2\ The Board will grant a stay if an informed decision on
environmental issues (whether raised by a party or by the Board's
Office of Environmental Analysis (OEA) in its independent
investigation) cannot be made before the exemption's effective date.
See Exemption of Out-of-Serv. Rail Lines, 5 I.C.C. 2d 377 (1989).
Any request for a stay should be filed as soon as possible so that
the Board may take appropriate action before the exemption's
effective date.
\3\ Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing fee, which is
currently set at $1,600. See 49 CFR 1002.2(f)(25).
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A copy of any petition filed with the Board should be sent to
GCEDC's representative: William A. Mullins, Baker & Miller PLLC, 2401
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Suite 300, Washington, DC 20037.
If the verified notice contains false or misleading information,
the exemption is void ab initio.
GCEDC has filed a combined environmental and historic report that
addresses the effects, if any, of the abandonment on the environment
and historic resources. OEA will issue an environmental assessment (EA)
by January 16, 2015. Interested persons may obtain a copy of the EA by
writing to OEA (Room 1100, Surface Transportation Board, Washington, DC
20423-0001) or by calling OEA at (202) 245-0305. Assistance for the
hearing impaired is available through the Federal Information Relay
Service at (800) 877-8339. Comments on environmental and historic
preservation matters must be filed within 15 days after the EA becomes
available to the public.
Environmental, historic preservation, public use, or interim trail
use/rail banking conditions will be imposed, where appropriate, in a
subsequent decision.
Pursuant to the provisions of 49 CFR 1152.29(e)(2), GCEDC shall
file a notice of consummation with the Board to signify that it has
exercised the authority granted and fully abandoned the Line. If
consummation has not been effected by GCEDC's filing of a notice of
consummation by January 9, 2016, and there are no legal or regulatory
barriers to consummation, the authority to abandon will automatically
expire.
Board decisions and notices are available on our Web site at
www.stb.dot.gov.
Decided: January 6, 2015.
By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, Director, Office of
Proceedings.
Jeffrey Herzig,
Clearance Clerk.
[FR Doc. 2015-00151 Filed 1-8-15; 8:45 am]
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