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action. A request for Federal action or
approval to implement specific noise
compatibility measures may be
required, and an FAA decision on the
request may require an environmental
assessment of the proposed action.
Approval does not constitute a
commitment by the FAA to financially
assist in the implementation of the
program nor a determination that all
measures covered by the program are
eligible for grant-in-aid funding from the
FAA. Where federal funding is sought,
requests for project grants must be
submitted to the FAA Regional Office in
Fort Worth, Texas.
The Greater Baton Rouge Airport
District submitted to the FAA on May
14, 2007 the noise exposure maps,
descriptions, and other documentation
produced during the noise compatibility
planning study conducted from May
2005 through May 2007. The Baton
Route Metropolitan Airport, Ryan Field
noise exposure maps were determined
by FAA to be in compliance with
applicable requirements on July 30,
2007. Notice of this determination was
published in the Federal Register on
August 7, 2007.
The Baton Rouge Metropolitan
Airport, Ryan Field Part 150 study
contains a proposed noise compatibility
program comprised of actions designed
for phased implementation by airport
management and adjacent jurisdictions
from November 2007 to the year 2011.
It was requested that the FAA evaluate
and approve this material as a noise
compatibility program as described in
section 47504 of the Act. The FAA
began its review of the program on
August 7, 2007, and was required by a
provision of the Act to approve or
disapprove the program within 180 days
(other than the use of new or modified
flight procedures for noise control).
Failure to approve or disapprove such
program within the 180-day period shall
be deemed to be an approval of such
program.
The submitted program contained ten
proposed actions for noise mitigation
located on and/or off the airport. The
FAA completed its review and
determined that the procedural and
substantive requirements of the Act and
FAR Part 150 have been satisfied. The
overall program, therefore, was
approved by the FAA effective
November 13, 2007.
Outright approval was granted for
nine of the specific program elements.
Only one program element, Land Use
Element 3a, was ‘‘Disapproved Pending
Submittal of Additional Information to
the FAA’’. Under this program element,
the Airport District asked the FAA to
approve the voluntary land acquisition
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of one hundred eight (108) acres of
undeveloped land that was zoned to
allow incompatible development within
the 2011 65 DNL around Baton Rouge
Metropolitan Airport, Ryan Field. The
acreage in question amounted to 13
separate parcels in various locations
northwest, northeast, east and southeast
of the airport. In disapproving this
program element, the FAA found the
land in question to be zoned
commercial or industrial (a compatible
use under Part 150 guidelines), however
the involved local zoning districts all
permit a variety of noise-sensitive land
uses; to include libraries, nursing
homes, assisted living residences and
hospitals (noncompatible use) within
the areas described. In addition, it was
determined that undeveloped,
residential-zoned land (noncompatible
use) northwest, northeast, and east of
the Airport is inside the 65 DNL. The
FAA therefore determined that
supporting documentation would need
to be provided showing that (1) the
Airport is in compliance with its Grant
Assurance 31, (2) appropriate existing
and proposed new local land use
controls are inadequate to prevent
noncompatible development, and (3)
noncompatible development of the
parcel(s) is highly likely.
The nine program elements approved
by the FAA included: Five Land Use
Elements that addressed City/Parish
compatible use planning around the
airport; the development of an airport
noise information program; the
acquisition of seven (7) homes at
various locations around the airport
(within the 65 DNL); the offer to sound
insulate ninety-two (92) homes located
with the 65 DNL contour; and the offer
to purchase noise servitudes from those
owners who do not wish to participate
in the sound insulation program or
who’s house cannot accommodate the
sound insulation process.
Four Program Management Elements
were approved that established a system
for logging and tracking noise
complaints; developing and maintaining
a log for recording engine maintenance
run-ups on the airport; periodically
reviewing the Part 150 Study to
determine if changing airport conditions
warrant further review; and preparing a
plan to deal with the disposal or
development of noise lands acquired by
the airport under previous noise
mitigation actions.
These determinations are set forth in
detail in a Record of Approval signed by
the Airports Division Manager on
November 13, 2007. The Record of
Approval, as well as other evaluation
materials and the documents
comprising the submittal, are available
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for review at the FAA office listed above
and at the administrative offices of the
Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport, Ryan
Field. The Record of Approval also will
be available on-line at https://
www.faa.gov/apr/environmental/
14cfr150/index14.cfm.
Issued in Fort Worth, Texas, November 21,
2007.
Kelvin L. Solco,
Manager, Airports Division.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[Docket No. MARAD 2007 0014]
Information Collection Available for
Public Comments and
Recommendations
Notice and request for
comments.
ACTION:
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the Maritime
Administration’s (MARAD’s) intention
to request extension of approval for
three years of a currently approved
information collection.
DATES: Comments should be submitted
on or before January 28, 2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rita
Jackson, Maritime Administration, 1200
New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington,
DC 20590. Telephone: (202) 366–0284;
or E-Mail: Rita.Jackson@dot.gov. Copies
of this collection can also be obtained
from that office.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title of Collection: Request for Waiver
of Service Obligation, Request for
Deferment of Service Obligation and
Application for Review.
Type of Request: Extension of
currently approved information
collection.
OMB Control Number: 2133–00510.
Form Numbers: MA–935, MA–936,
MA–937.
Expiration Date of Approval: Three
years from date of approval by the
Office of Management and Budget.
Summary of Collection of
Information: This information collection
is essential for determining if a student
or graduate of the United States
Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA)
or subsidized student or graduate of a
State maritime academy has a waive
able situation preventing them from
fulfilling the requirements of a service
obligation contract signed at the time of
their enrollment in a Federal maritime
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training program. It also permits the
Maritime Administration (MARAD) to
determine if a graduate, who wishes to
defer the service obligation to attend
graduate school, is eligible to receive a
deferment. Their service obligation is
required by law.
Need and Use of the Information:
This information collected establishes
overall compliance with the service
obligation contract in support of the
Economic Growth and Trade and
National Security goals identified in the
DOT Strategic Plan. Because the
graduates are required to serve as
commissioned officers in the U.S.
Merchant Marine Reserve, U.S. Naval
Reserve (as an aspect of the service
obligation), they become the Navy’s
single largest source of naval reserve
officers except for Naval R.O.T.C. In
their civilian capacities, they are
required first to sail on their
professional merchant marine licenses
or work in the maritime industry ashore.
This dual role makes the graduates
especially valuable because national
defense planning initiatives and the
Nation’s economic needs depend on
available personnel who are highly
trained.
Description of Respondents: U.S.
Merchant Marine Academy students
and graduates, and subsidized students
and graduates.
Annual Responses: 21.
Annual Burden: 4.2 hours.
Comments: Comments should be
referred to the docket number that
appears at the top of this document.
Written comments may be submitted to
the Docket Clerk, U.S. DOT Dockets,
Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590.
Comments also may be submitted by
electronic means via the Internet at
https://www.regulations.gov. Specifically
address whether this information
collection is necessary for proper
performance of the functions of the
agency and will have practical utility,
accuracy of the burden estimates, ways
to minimize this burden, and ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the information to be collected. All
comments received will be available for
examination at the above address
between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. EDT (or
EST), Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays. An electronic version
of this document is available on the
World Wide Web at https://
www.regulations.gov.
Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search
the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association,
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business, labor union, etc.). You may
review DOT’s complete Privacy Act
Statement in the Federal Register
published on April 11, 2000 (Volume
65, Number 70; Pages 19477–78) or you
may visit https://www.regulations.gov.
Authority: 49 CFR 1.66.
By order of the Maritime Administrator.
Dated: November 20, 2007.
Christine S. Gurland,
Acting Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. E7–23152 Filed 11–28–07; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board
[STB Finance Docket No. 35087]
Canadian National Railway Company
and Grand Trunk Corporation—
Control—EJ&E West Company 1
AGENCY:
Surface Transportation Board,
DOT.
Decision No. 2 in STB Finance
Docket No. 35087; Notice of Acceptance
of Primary Application and Related
Filings; Issuance of Procedural
Schedule.
ACTION:
SUMMARY: The Surface Transportation
Board (Board) is accepting for
consideration the primary application
filed October 30, 2007, by Canadian
National Railway Corporation (CNR)
and Grand Trunk Corporation (GTC), a
noncarrier holding company through
which CNR controls its U.S. rail
subsidiaries, and seven related filings.
The primary application seeks Board
approval under 49 U.S.C. 11321–26 of
the acquisition of control of EJ&E West
Company (EJ&EW), a wholly owned
noncarrier subsidiary of Elgin, Joliet and
Eastern Railway Company (EJ&E), by
CNR and GTC. This proposal is referred
to as the Control Transaction, and CNR
1 This decision also embraces Elgin, Joliet and
Eastern Railway Company—Corporate Family
Exemption—EJ&E West Company, STB Finance
Docket No. 35087 (Sub-No. 1); Chicago, Central &
Pacific Railroad Company—Trackage Rights
Exemption—EJ&E West Company, STB Finance
Docket No. 35087 (Sub-No. 2); Grand Trunk
Western Railroad Incorporated—Trackage Rights
Exemption—EJ&E West Company, STB Finance
Docket No. 35087 (Sub-No. 3); Illinois Central
Railroad Company—Trackage Rights Exemption—
EJ&E West Company, STB Finance Docket No.
35087 (Sub-No. 4); Wisconsin Central Ltd.—
Trackage Rights Exemption—EJ&E West Company,
STB Finance Docket No. 35087 (Sub-No. 5); EJ&E
West Company—Trackage Rights Exemption—
Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad Company, STB
Finance Docket No. 35087 (Sub-No. 6); and EJ&E
West Company—Trackage Rights Exemption—
Illinois Central Railroad Company, STB Finance
Docket No. 35087 (Sub-No. 7).
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and GTC are referred to collectively as
applicants.
The related filings are notices of
exemption involving an intra-corporate
family transaction and the granting of
trackage rights. The Sub-No. 1 filing
provides for EJ&E to transfer property to
EJ&EW, which, at that time, would
become a rail common carrier, prior to
applicants acquiring control of EJ&EW.
The Sub-Nos. 2 through 7 filings
provide for grants of trackage rights by
EJ&EW to Grand Trunk Western
Railroad (GTW), Illinois Central
Railroad Company (IC), Chicago, Central
& Pacific Railroad Company (CCP), and
Wisconsin Central Ltd. (WCL), and by
IC and CCP to EJ&EW, promptly upon
applicants’ acquisition of control of
EJ&EW, should the Board approve the
proposed Control Transaction.
The Board finds that the Control
Transaction is a ‘‘minor transaction’’
under 49 CFR 1180.2(c), and adopts a
procedural schedule for consideration of
the application. In finding that the
transaction is a minor transaction, the
Board has preliminarily determined that
any anticompetitive effects of the
transaction will clearly be outweighed
by the transaction’s anticipated
contribution to the public interest in
meeting significant transportation
needs. 49 CFR 1180.2(b)(2). The Board
makes this determination based solely
on evidence presented in the
application. The Board stresses that this
is not a final determination, and its
finding may be rebutted by filings and
evidence submitted into the record for
this proceeding. The Board will give
careful consideration to any claims that
the transaction will have
anticompetitive effects that are not
apparent from the application itself.
Moreover, the Board has determined
to prepare an Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) with respect to the
transaction.
The effective date of this
decision is November 29, 2007. Any
person who wishes to participate in this
proceeding as a party of record (POR)
must file, no later than December 13,
2007, a notice of intent to participate.
All comments, protests, requests for
conditions, and any other evidence and
argument in opposition to the primary
application and related filings,
including filings by the U.S. Department
of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Department
of Transportation (DOT), must be filed
by January 28, 2008. Responses to
comments, protests, requests for
conditions, and other opposition, and
rebuttal in support of the primary
application or related filings must be
filed by March 13, 2008. If a public
DATES:
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[Docket No. MARAD 2007 0014]
Information Collection Available for Public Comments and
Recommendations
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the Maritime Administration's (MARAD's) intention to
request extension of approval for three years of a currently approved
information collection.
DATES: Comments should be submitted on or before January 28, 2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rita Jackson, Maritime Administration,
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: (202)
366-0284; or E-Mail: Rita.Jackson@dot.gov. Copies of this collection
can also be obtained from that office.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title of Collection: Request for Waiver of Service Obligation,
Request for Deferment of Service Obligation and Application for Review.
Type of Request: Extension of currently approved information
collection.
OMB Control Number: 2133-00510.
Form Numbers: MA-935, MA-936, MA-937.
Expiration Date of Approval: Three years from date of approval by
the Office of Management and Budget.
Summary of Collection of Information: This information collection
is essential for determining if a student or graduate of the United
States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) or subsidized student or
graduate of a State maritime academy has a waive able situation
preventing them from fulfilling the requirements of a service
obligation contract signed at the time of their enrollment in a Federal
maritime
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training program. It also permits the Maritime Administration (MARAD)
to determine if a graduate, who wishes to defer the service obligation
to attend graduate school, is eligible to receive a deferment. Their
service obligation is required by law.
Need and Use of the Information: This information collected
establishes overall compliance with the service obligation contract in
support of the Economic Growth and Trade and National Security goals
identified in the DOT Strategic Plan. Because the graduates are
required to serve as commissioned officers in the U.S. Merchant Marine
Reserve, U.S. Naval Reserve (as an aspect of the service obligation),
they become the Navy's single largest source of naval reserve officers
except for Naval R.O.T.C. In their civilian capacities, they are
required first to sail on their professional merchant marine licenses
or work in the maritime industry ashore. This dual role makes the
graduates especially valuable because national defense planning
initiatives and the Nation's economic needs depend on available
personnel who are highly trained.
Description of Respondents: U.S. Merchant Marine Academy students
and graduates, and subsidized students and graduates.
Annual Responses: 21.
Annual Burden: 4.2 hours.
Comments: Comments should be referred to the docket number that
appears at the top of this document. Written comments may be submitted
to the Docket Clerk, U.S. DOT Dockets, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590. Comments also may be submitted by
electronic means via the Internet at https://www.regulations.gov.
Specifically address whether this information collection is necessary
for proper performance of the functions of the agency and will have
practical utility, accuracy of the burden estimates, ways to minimize
this burden, and ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of
the information to be collected. All comments received will be
available for examination at the above address between 10 a.m. and 5
p.m. EDT (or EST), Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. An
electronic version of this document is available on the World Wide Web
at https://www.regulations.gov.
Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search the electronic form of all
comments received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual
submitting the comment (or signing the comment, if submitted on behalf
of an association, business, labor union, etc.). You may review DOT's
complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register published on
April 11, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 70; Pages 19477-78) or you may visit
https://www.regulations.gov.
Authority: 49 CFR 1.66.
By order of the Maritime Administrator.
Dated: November 20, 2007.
Christine S. Gurland,
Acting Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-23152 Filed 11-28-07; 8:45 am]
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