Notice of Receipt of Express Pipeline LLC (Express US) Notification for Maintaining a Presidential Permit to Operate and Maintain Pipeline Facilities on the Border of the United States and Canada, 24200-24201 [2017-10685]
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(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Number 59008)
Rafaela Monchek,
Acting Associate Administrator for Disaster
Assistance.
[FR Doc. 2017–10699 Filed 5–24–17; 8:45 am]
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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Meeting of the Interagency Task Force
on Veterans Small Business
Development
U.S. Small Business
Administration
ACTION: Notice of open Federal
Interagency Task Force meeting.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Small Business
Administration (SBA) is issuing this
notice to announce the location, date,
time and agenda for the next meeting of
the Interagency Task Force on Veterans
Small Business Development. The
meeting is open to the public.
DATES AND TIMES: Wednesday, June 7,
2017, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
ADDRESSES: U.S. Small Business
Administration, 409 3rd Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20416.
Where:
Eisenhower Conference Room B,
located on the Concourse level.
Teleconference Call In Number:
888–858–2144 Passcode: 4881729.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant
to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C.,
Appendix 2), SBA announces the
meeting of the Interagency Task Force
on Veterans Small Business
Development (Task Force). The Task
Force is established pursuant to
Executive Order 1354 to coordinate the
efforts of Federal agencies to improve
capital, business development
opportunities, and pre-established
federal contracting goals for small
business concerns owned and
controlled by veterans and servicedisabled veterans.
Moreover, the Task Force shall
coordinate administrative and
regulatory activities and develop
proposals relating to ‘‘six focus areas’’:
(1) Improving capital access and
capacity of small business concerns
owned and controlled by veterans and
service-disabled veterans through loans,
surety bonding, and franchising; (2)
ensuring achievement of the preestablished Federal contracting goals for
small business concerns owned and
controlled by veterans and service
disabled veterans through expanded
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such small business concerns with
contracting opportunities; (3) increasing
the integrity of certifications of status as
a small business concern owned and
controlled by a veteran or servicedisabled veteran; (4) reducing
paperwork and administrative burdens
on veterans in accessing business
development and entrepreneurship
opportunities; (5) increasing and
improving training and counseling
services provided to small business
concerns owned and controlled by
veterans; and (6) making other
improvements relating to the support for
veterans business development by the
Federal Government.
Additional Information: This meeting
is open to the public. Advance notice of
attendance is requested. Anyone
wishing to attend and/or make
comments to the Task Force must
contact SBA’s Office of Veterans
Business Development no later than
June 2, 2017 at veteransbusiness@
sba.gov. Comments for the record
should be applicable to the ‘‘six focus
areas’’ of the Task Force and will be
limited to five minutes in the interest of
time and to accommodate as many
participants as possible. Written
comments should also be sent to the
above email no later than June 2, 2017.
Special accommodations requests
should also be directed to SBA’s Office
of Veterans Business Development at
(202) 205–6773 or to veteransbusiness@
sba.gov.
For more information on veteran
owned small business programs, please
visit www.sba.gov/veterans.
Dated: May 16, 2017.
Richard W. Kingan,
SBA Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017–10730 Filed 5–24–17; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice: 10001]
Notice of Receipt of Express Pipeline
LLC (Express US) Notification for
Maintaining a Presidential Permit to
Operate and Maintain Pipeline
Facilities on the Border of the United
States and Canada
Department of State.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice is hereby given that
the Department of State (‘‘Department’’)
has received from Enbridge Inc.
(‘‘Enbridge’’) notice that Enbridge has
acquired the entities that own Express
Pipeline LLC (‘‘Express US’’), which
owns, operates and maintains pipeline
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facilities (‘‘Express Pipeline’’)
authorized under a Presidential permit
issued to Express US on July 9, 2015.
Express US will continue to own,
operate, and maintain the Express
Pipeline as well as hold the Presidential
permit.
Interested parties are invited to
submit comments within 30 days of the
publication date of this notice on https://
www.regulations.gov with regard to
whether maintaining a Presidential
permit for the Express Pipeline would
be in the national interest in light of the
change in control of the existing border
facility.
DATES: The Department will accept
comments until June 26, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Presidential Permit Coordinator, Energy
Resources Bureau, Office of Policy
Analysis and Public Diplomacy, United
States Department of State, 2201 C St.
NW., Suite 4422, Washington, DC
20520.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Enbridge’s
notification is available at https://
www.state.gov/e/enr/applicant/
applicants/expresspipeline/index.htm.
Express US is a corporation duly
organized under the laws of Delaware.
The ultimate parent company of Express
is now Enbridge, a publicly traded
corporation based in Calgary, Canada
with approximately 15,811 miles
(25,446 kilometers) of active crude
pipeline across North America.
The Express Pipeline is a 786-mile,
24-inch crude oil pipeline crossing the
U.S.-Canada border near Wild Horse,
Montana, and terminating near Casper,
Wyoming. The Express Pipeline has
been in operation since 1997 and
primarily transports crude oil from
Hardisty, Alberta, Canada.
Under Executive Order 13337 the
Secretary of State is designated and
empowered to receive all applications
for Presidential permits for the
construction, connection, operation, or
maintenance at the borders of the
United States, of facilities for the
exportation or importation of liquid
petroleum, petroleum products, or other
non-gaseous fuels to or from a foreign
country. The Department has the
responsibility to determine whether
issuance of a new Presidential permit
reflecting the change in control of the
Express Pipeline would be in the U.S.
national interest.
Consistent with Public Notice 5092,
(Procedures for Issuance of a
Presidential Permit Where There Has
Been a Transfer of the Underlying
Facility, Bridge or Border Crossing for
Land Transportation, 70 FR 30990,
issued on May 31, 2005), the
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Department typically does not conduct
environmental analysis when deciding
whether to issue a permit that reflects a
change in ownership or control of an
existing border facility, where that
change in ownership or control is not
accompanied by changes to the facilities
or their use as authorized by the existing
permit unless information is brought to
the Department’s attention in
connection with the application process
that the transfer potentially would have
a significant impact on the quality of the
human environment.
To submit a comment, go to https://
www.regulations.gov, enter Federal
Registrar number DOS–2017–0024, and
follow the prompts. Written comments
should be addressed to: Mr. Marcus D.
Lee, U.S. Department of State, 2201 C
Street NW., Suite 4422, Washington, DC
20520.
Comments are not private. They will
be posted on the Regulations.gov site.
The comments will not be edited to
remove identifying or contact
information, and the Department
cautions against including any
information that one does not want
publicly disclosed. The Department
requests that any party soliciting or
aggregating comments received from
other persons for submission to the
Department inform those persons that
the Department will not edit their
comments to remove identifying or
contact information, and that they
should not include any information in
their comments that they do not want
publicly disclosed.
Matthew T. McManus,
Acting Director, Office of Policy, Analysis and
Public Diplomacy, Bureau of Energy
Resources, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2017–10685 Filed 5–24–17; 8:45 am]
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SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD
[Docket No. AB 290 (Sub-No. 393X)]
Norfolk Southern Railway Company—
Abandonment Exemption—Between
Mansfield and Bloomington, in
McLean, Dewitt and Piatt Counties, Ill.
Norfolk Southern Railway Company
(NSR) has filed a verified notice of
exemption under 49 CFR part 1152
subpart F—Exempt Abandonments to
abandon approximately 30.40 miles of
rail line between milepost UM 47.9 and
milepost UM 78.3 between Mansfield
and Bloomington, in McLean, Dewitt
and Piatt Counties, Ill. (the Line).1 The
1 NSR
was authorized to discontinue service over
the Line in 2004. Norfolk S. Ry.—Discontinuance of
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Line traverses United States Postal
Service Zip Codes 61701, 61704, 61705,
61736, 61752, 61842, and 61854.
NSR 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 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 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 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 June 24,
2017, 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
June 2, 2017. Petitions to reopen or
requests for public use conditions under
49 CFR 1152.28 must be filed by June
14, 2017, with the Surface
Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20423–0001.
Serv. Exemption—in McLean, Dewitt, & Piatt Ctys.,
Ill., AB 290 (Sub-No. 249X) (STB served Feb. 11,
2004).
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 $1,700. See 49 CFR
1002.2(f)(25).
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A copy of any petition filed with the
Board should be sent to 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.
NSR 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 May
30, 2017. 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 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), NSR 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
NSR’s filing of a notice of
consummation by May 25, 2018, 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.GOV.’’
Decided: May 22, 2017.
By the Board, Scott M. Zimmerman, Acting
Director, Office of Proceedings.
Kenyatta Clay,
Clearance Clerk.
[FR Doc. 2017–10746 Filed 5–24–17; 8:45 am]
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SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD
[Docket No. FD 36109]
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Grupo Mexico, S.A.B. de C.V. and
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GMexico Transportes, S.A. de C.V.—
Control Exemption—Florida East
Coast Holdings Corp.
Surface Transportation Board.
Correction to notice of
exemption.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
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On April 10, 2017, GMexico
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Transportes, S.A. de C.V. (GMexico
Transportes), a non-carrier holding
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice: 10001]
Notice of Receipt of Express Pipeline LLC (Express US)
Notification for Maintaining a Presidential Permit to Operate and
Maintain Pipeline Facilities on the Border of the United States and
Canada
AGENCY: Department of State.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Department of State
(``Department'') has received from Enbridge Inc. (``Enbridge'') notice
that Enbridge has acquired the entities that own Express Pipeline LLC
(``Express US''), which owns, operates and maintains pipeline
facilities (``Express Pipeline'') authorized under a Presidential
permit issued to Express US on July 9, 2015. Express US will continue
to own, operate, and maintain the Express Pipeline as well as hold the
Presidential permit.
Interested parties are invited to submit comments within 30 days of
the publication date of this notice on https://www.regulations.gov with
regard to whether maintaining a Presidential permit for the Express
Pipeline would be in the national interest in light of the change in
control of the existing border facility.
DATES: The Department will accept comments until June 26, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Presidential Permit Coordinator,
Energy Resources Bureau, Office of Policy Analysis and Public
Diplomacy, United States Department of State, 2201 C St. NW., Suite
4422, Washington, DC 20520.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Enbridge's notification is available at
https://www.state.gov/e/enr/applicant/applicants/expresspipeline/index.htm. Express US is a corporation duly organized under the laws of
Delaware. The ultimate parent company of Express is now Enbridge, a
publicly traded corporation based in Calgary, Canada with approximately
15,811 miles (25,446 kilometers) of active crude pipeline across North
America.
The Express Pipeline is a 786-mile, 24-inch crude oil pipeline
crossing the U.S.-Canada border near Wild Horse, Montana, and
terminating near Casper, Wyoming. The Express Pipeline has been in
operation since 1997 and primarily transports crude oil from Hardisty,
Alberta, Canada.
Under Executive Order 13337 the Secretary of State is designated
and empowered to receive all applications for Presidential permits for
the construction, connection, operation, or maintenance at the borders
of the United States, of facilities for the exportation or importation
of liquid petroleum, petroleum products, or other non-gaseous fuels to
or from a foreign country. The Department has the responsibility to
determine whether issuance of a new Presidential permit reflecting the
change in control of the Express Pipeline would be in the U.S. national
interest.
Consistent with Public Notice 5092, (Procedures for Issuance of a
Presidential Permit Where There Has Been a Transfer of the Underlying
Facility, Bridge or Border Crossing for Land Transportation, 70 FR
30990, issued on May 31, 2005), the
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Department typically does not conduct environmental analysis when
deciding whether to issue a permit that reflects a change in ownership
or control of an existing border facility, where that change in
ownership or control is not accompanied by changes to the facilities or
their use as authorized by the existing permit unless information is
brought to the Department's attention in connection with the
application process that the transfer potentially would have a
significant impact on the quality of the human environment.
To submit a comment, go to https://www.regulations.gov, enter
Federal Registrar number DOS-2017-0024, and follow the prompts. Written
comments should be addressed to: Mr. Marcus D. Lee, U.S. Department of
State, 2201 C Street NW., Suite 4422, Washington, DC 20520.
Comments are not private. They will be posted on the
Regulations.gov site. The comments will not be edited to remove
identifying or contact information, and the Department cautions against
including any information that one does not want publicly disclosed.
The Department requests that any party soliciting or aggregating
comments received from other persons for submission to the Department
inform those persons that the Department will not edit their comments
to remove identifying or contact information, and that they should not
include any information in their comments that they do not want
publicly disclosed.
Matthew T. McManus,
Acting Director, Office of Policy, Analysis and Public Diplomacy,
Bureau of Energy Resources, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2017-10685 Filed 5-24-17; 8:45 am]
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