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criteria given in § 388.4 of MARAD’s
regulations at 46 CFR part 388.
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Submit comments on or before
April 17, 2009.
[Docket No. MARAD–2009 0020]
Maritime Administration
DATES:
Comments should refer to
docket number MARAD–2009–0023.
Written comments may be submitted by
hand or by mail to the Docket Clerk,
U.S. Department of Transportation,
Docket Operations, M–30, West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. You may also
send comments electronically via the
Internet at https://www.regulations.gov.
All comments will become part of this
docket and will be available for
inspection and copying at the above
address between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
E.T., Monday through Friday, except
federal holidays. An electronic version
of this document and all documents
entered into this docket is available on
the World Wide Web at https://
www.regulations.gov.
ADDRESSES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Joann Spittle, U.S. Department of
Transportation, Maritime
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Room W21–203,
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone 202–
366–5979.
As
described by the applicant the intended
service of the vessel Tardis is:
Intended Use: ‘‘Coastwise passenger
charters.’’
Geographic Region: ‘‘ME, NH, MA, RI,
NY, FL.’’
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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).
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Dated: March 9, 2009.
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Christine Gurland,
Acting Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. E9–5789 Filed 3–17–09; 8:45 am]
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Requested Administrative Waiver of
the Coastwise Trade Laws
AGENCY: Maritime Administration,
Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Invitation for public comments
on a requested administrative waiver of
the Coastwise Trade Laws for the vessel
Wet Dreams.
SUMMARY: As authorized by 46 U.S.C.
12121, the Secretary of Transportation,
as represented by the Maritime
Administration (MARAD), is authorized
to grant waivers of the U.S.-build
requirement of the coastwise laws under
certain circumstances. A request for
such a waiver has been received by
MARAD. The vessel, and a brief
description of the proposed service, is
listed below. The complete application
is given in DOT docket MARAD–2009–
0020 at https://www.regulations.gov.
Interested parties may comment on the
effect this action may have on U.S.
vessel builders or businesses in the U.S.
that use U.S.-flag vessels. If MARAD
determines, in accordance with 46
U.S.C. 12121 and MARAD’s regulations
at 46 CFR part 388 (68 FR 23084; April
30, 2003), that the issuance of the
waiver will have an unduly adverse
effect on a U.S.-vessel builder or a
business that uses U.S.-flag vessels in
that business, a waiver will not be
granted. Comments should refer to the
docket number of this notice and the
vessel name in order for MARAD to
properly consider the comments.
Comments should also state the
commenter’s interest in the waiver
application, and address the waiver
criteria given in § 388.4 of MARAD’s
regulations at 46 CFR part 388.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
April 17, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to
docket number MARAD–2009–0020.
Written comments may be submitted by
hand or by mail to the Docket Clerk,
U.S. Department of Transportation,
Docket Operations, M–30, West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. You may also
send comments electronically via the
Internet at https://www.regulations.gov.
All comments will become part of this
docket and will be available for
inspection and copying at the above
address between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
E.T., Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays. An electronic version
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of this document and all documents
entered into this docket is available on
the World Wide Web at https://
www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Joann Spittle, U.S. Department of
Transportation, Maritime
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Room W21–203,
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone 202–
366–5979.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As
described by the applicant the intended
service of the vessel Wet Dreams is:
Intended Use: ‘‘Sportfishing/
coastwise endorsement.’’
Geographic Region: ‘‘New Jersey.’’
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).
Dated: March 10, 2009.
By order of the Maritime Administrator.
Christine Gurland,
Acting Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. E9–5784 Filed 3–17–09; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[Docket No. MARAD–2009–0021]
Requested Administrative Waiver of
the Coastwise Trade Laws
AGENCY: Maritime Administration,
Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Invitation for public comments
on a requested administrative waiver of
the Coastwise Trade Laws for the vessel
KAMAIIANA.
SUMMARY: As authorized by 46 U.S.C.
12121, the Secretary of Transportation,
as represented by the Maritime
Administration (MARAD), is authorized
to grant waivers of the U.S.-build
requirement of the coastwise laws under
certain circumstances. A request for
such a waiver has been received by
MARAD. The vessel, and a brief
description of the proposed service, is
listed below. The complete application
is given in DOT docket MARAD–2009–
0021 at https://www.regulations.gov.
Interested parties may comment on the
effect this action may have on U.S.
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vessel builders or businesses in the U.S.
that use U.S.-flag vessels. If MARAD
determines, in accordance with 46
U.S.C. 12121 and MARAD’s regulations
at 46 CFR part 388 (68 FR 23084; April
30, 2003), that the issuance of the
waiver will have an unduly adverse
effect on a U.S.-vessel builder or a
business that uses U.S.-flag vessels in
that business, a waiver will not be
granted. Comments should refer to the
docket number of this notice and the
vessel name in order for MARAD to
properly consider the comments.
Comments should also state the
commenter’s interest in the waiver
application, and address the waiver
criteria given in § 388.4 of MARAD’s
regulations at 46 CFR part 388.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
April 17, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to
docket number MARAD–2009–0021.
Written comments may be submitted by
hand or by mail to the Docket Clerk,
U.S. Department of Transportation,
Docket Operations, M–30, West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. You may also
send comments electronically via the
Internet at https://www.regulations.gov.
All comments will become part of this
docket and will be available for
inspection and copying at the above
address between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
E.T., Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays. An electronic version
of this document and all documents
entered into this docket is available on
the World Wide Web at https://
www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Joann Spittle, U.S. Department of
Transportation, Maritime
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Room W21–203,
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone 202–
366–5979.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As
described by the applicant the intended
service of the vessel KAMAIIANA is:
Intended Use: ‘‘Sightseeing harbor
cruises for 6 passengers of our limo
company.’’
Geographic Region: ‘‘California’’.
tjames on PRODPC61 with NOTICES
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
VerDate Nov<24>2008
14:48 Mar 17, 2009
Jkt 217001
published on April 11, 2000 (Volume
65, Number 70; Pages 19477–78).
Dated: March 10, 2009.
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Christine Gurland,
Acting Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. E9–5788 Filed 3–17–09; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board
Consolidated Rail Corporation—
Abandonment Exemption—in Hudson
County, NJ [STB Docket No. AB–167
(Sub-No. 1189X)]; CSX Transportation,
Inc.—Discontinuance of Service
Exemption—in Hudson County, NJ
[STB Docket No. AB–55 (Sub-No.
686X)]; Norfolk Southern Railway
Company—Discontinuance of Service
Exemption—in Hudson County, NJ;
[STB Docket No. AB–290 (Sub-No.
306X)]
Consolidated Rail Corporation
(Conrail), CSX Transportation, Inc.
(CSXT), and Norfolk Southern Railway
Company (NS) (collectively, applicants)
have jointly filed a verified notice of
exemption under 49 CFR part 1152
Subpart F–Exempt Abandonments and
Discontinuances of Service 1 for Conrail
to abandon, and for CSXT and NS to
discontinue service over, an
approximately 1.36-mile portion of a
line of railroad known as the Harsimus
Branch, between milepost 0.00, CP
Waldo, and milepost 1.36, a point east
of Washington Street, in Jersey City,
Hudson County, NJ.2 The line traverses
United States Postal Service Zip Codes
07302, 07306, and 07310.
Applicants have certified that: (1) No
local or overhead traffic has moved over
the property for at least 2 years; (2) any
overhead traffic that has moved or could
move over the property can be rerouted;
(3) no formal complaint filed by a user
of rail service on the property (or by a
state or local government entity acting
on behalf of such user) regarding
1 On January 6, 2009, applicants previously filed
a notice of exemption to abandon the same line of
railroad. However, in a decision served on January
26, 2009, the notice was rejected without prejudice
to refilling. The decision stated that applicants did
not meet the prefiling notice requirements at 49
CFR 1105.7(b) and 1105.8(c).
2 In City of Jersey City, Rails to Trails
Conservancy, Pennsylvania Railroad Harsimus
Stem Embankment Preservation Coalition, and New
Jersey State Assemblyman Louis M. Manzo-Petition
for Declaratory Order, STB Finance Docket No.
34818 (STB served August 9, 2007), the Board
described the line as follows: Extending between
milepost 1.3 near Luis Munoz Marin Boulevard
(formerly Henderson Avenue) and milepost 2.54
near Waldo Avenue, in Jersey City, NJ.
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cessation of service over the property
either is 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 2-year period; and (4) the
requirements at 49 CFR 1105.7
(environmental report), 49 CFR 1105.8
(historic 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 these exemptions,
any employee adversely affected by the
abandonment or discontinuances shall
be protected under Oregon Short Line R.
Co.—Abandonment—Goshen, 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,
these exemptions will be effective on
April 17, 2009, unless stayed pending
reconsideration. Petitions to stay that do
not involve environmental issues,3
formal expressions of intent to file an
OFA under 49 CFR 1152.27(c)(2),4 and
trail use/rail banking requests under 49
CFR 1152.29 must be filed by March 30,
2009. Petitions to reopen or requests for
public use conditions under 49 CFR
1152.28 must be filed by April 7, 2009,
with the Surface Transportation Board,
395 E Street, SW., Washington, DC
20423–0001.
A copy of any petition filed with the
Board should be sent to applicants’
representatives: John K. Enright, 1717
Arch Street, 32nd Floor, Philadelphia,
PA 19103, and Robert M. Jenkins III,
Mayer Brown LLP, 1909 K Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20006.
If the verified notice contains false or
misleading information, the exemptions
are void ab initio.
Applicants have filed a joint
combined environmental and historic
report, which addresses the effects, if
any, of the abandonment and
discontinuances on the environment
3 The Board will grant a stay if an informed
decision on environmental issues (whether raised
by a party or by the Board’s Section of
Environmental Analysis (SEA) in its independent
investigation) cannot be made before the
abandonment exemption’s effective date. See
Exemption of Out-of-Service 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.
4 Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing
fee, which is currently set at $1,500. See 49 CFR
1002.2(f)(25).
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[Docket No. MARAD-2009-0021]
Requested Administrative Waiver of the Coastwise Trade Laws
AGENCY: Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Invitation for public comments on a requested administrative
waiver of the Coastwise Trade Laws for the vessel KAMAIIANA.
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SUMMARY: As authorized by 46 U.S.C. 12121, the Secretary of
Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD),
is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the
coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for such a waiver
has been received by MARAD. The vessel, and a brief description of the
proposed service, is listed below. The complete application is given in
DOT docket MARAD-2009-0021 at https://www.regulations.gov. Interested
parties may comment on the effect this action may have on U.S.
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vessel builders or businesses in the U.S. that use U.S.-flag vessels.
If MARAD determines, in accordance with 46 U.S.C. 12121 and MARAD's
regulations at 46 CFR part 388 (68 FR 23084; April 30, 2003), that the
issuance of the waiver will have an unduly adverse effect on a U.S.-
vessel builder or a business that uses U.S.-flag vessels in that
business, a waiver will not be granted. Comments should refer to the
docket number of this notice and the vessel name in order for MARAD to
properly consider the comments. Comments should also state the
commenter's interest in the waiver application, and address the waiver
criteria given in Sec. 388.4 of MARAD's regulations at 46 CFR part
388.
DATES: Submit comments on or before April 17, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to docket number MARAD-2009-0021.
Written comments may be submitted by hand or by mail to the Docket
Clerk, U.S. Department of Transportation, Docket Operations, M-30, West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. You may also send comments electronically via the
Internet at https://www.regulations.gov. All comments will become part
of this docket and will be available for inspection and copying at the
above address between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., E.T., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays. An electronic version of this document and all
documents entered into this docket is available on the World Wide Web
at https://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joann Spittle, U.S. Department of
Transportation, Maritime Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Room W21-203, Washington, DC 20590. Telephone 202-366-5979.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As described by the applicant the intended
service of the vessel KAMAIIANA is:
Intended Use: ``Sightseeing harbor cruises for 6 passengers of our
limo company.''
Geographic Region: ``California''.
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).
Dated: March 10, 2009.
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Christine Gurland,
Acting Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. E9-5788 Filed 3-17-09; 8:45 am]
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