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has sought an exemption under Section
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SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
[Disaster Declaration #15975 and #15976;
LOUISIANA Disaster Number LA–00092]
Presidential Declaration of a Major
Disaster for Public Assistance Only for
the State of Louisiana
U.S. Small Business
Administration.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
This is a Notice of the
Presidential declaration of a major
disaster for Public Assistance Only for
the State of Louisiana (FEMA–4439–
DR), dated 06/03/2019.
Incident: Severe Storms and
Tornadoes.
Incident Period: 04/24/2019 through
04/25/2019.
DATES: Issued on 06/03/2019.
Physical Loan Application Deadline
Date: 08/02/2019.
Economic Injury (EIDL) Loan
Application Deadline Date: 03/03/2020.
ADDRESSES: Submit completed loan
applications to: U.S. Small Business
Administration, Processing and
Disbursement Center, 14925 Kingsport
Road, Fort Worth, TX 76155.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A.
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these issues, on June 25 and September
20, 2019. Any future Meetings will be
announced at https://www.state.gov/
bureaus-offices/under-secretary-foreconomic-growth-energy-and-theenvironment/bureau-of-oceans-andinternational-environmental-andscientific-affairs/office-of-internationalhealth-and-biodefense/.
DATES: Written comments are welcome
before each of the two planned public
meetings referenced above and will be
reviewed periodically beginning July 10,
2019.
ADDRESSES: One submission per
meeting is welcome, with no more than
10 pages of single-spaced text including
relevant examples with no more than
one page per example. Submissions
should be made via the internet at
Percent
www.regulations.gov docket number
DOS–2019–0016. For alternatives to
For Physical Damage:
online submissions, please contact Dr.
Non-Profit Organizations with
Credit Available Elsewhere ...
2.750 Jennifer Seedorff at (202) 647–3017 or
Non-Profit Organizations withseedorffje@state.gov. Note that relevant
out Credit Available Elsecomments submitted to regulations.gov
where .....................................
2.750 will be posted without editing and will
For Economic Injury:
be available to the public; therefore,
Non-Profit Organizations withbusiness-confidential information
out Credit Available Elsewhere .....................................
2.750 should be clearly identified as such and
submitted by email. The public is
strongly encouraged to file submissions
The number assigned to this disaster
electronically rather than by facsimile or
for physical damage is 15975B and for
mail.
economic injury is 159760.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Questions regarding the submission of
Number 59008)
comments should be directed to Dr.
Rafaela Monchek,
Jennifer Seedorff (202) 647–3017,
Acting Associate Administrator for Disaster
seedorffje@state.gov.
Assistance.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Representatives from the Department of
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State will review written submissions
and share them, as appropriate, with
staff from other Federal Agencies to
inform U.S. Government policy and our
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
international engagements on these
[Public Notice: 10789]
issues. U.S. officials may contact
individuals making submissions for
Notice and Request for Comments on
the Implications of Access and Benefit- further information or explanation. In
particular, we seek comments on and
Sharing (ABS) Regimes on Global
specific examples of the impacts of
Health and Biomedical Research
other countries’ implementation of the
AGENCY: Department of State.
Nagoya Protocol or other ABS measures
SUMMARY: In order to inform U.S.
on such issues as: International research
Government policy and international
collaborations, international pathogen
engagement, the U.S. Department of
sample sharing, infectious disease
State (DOS) invites submission of
research, including influenza, Zika and
comments from the public, academia,
other diseases, pandemic and epidemic
relevant industries, and other interested preparedness and response, medical
stakeholders on the implications of
countermeasure product development
Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS)
efforts, investor interest in vaccine
regimes on global health and biomedical development, and other aspects. We
research. In particular, DOS invites
would also welcome views on what the
comments related to the effects of
World Health Organization (WHO),
Nagoya Protocol and other ABS
other UN bodies, and non-governmental
implementation on public health
organizations can do to effectively
systems. The Department will hold at
protect public health equities in the
least two public meetings to discuss
context of the Nagoya Protocol and
U.S. Small Business Administration,
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President’s major disaster declaration on
06/03/2019, Private Non-Profit
organizations that provide essential
services of a governmental nature may
file disaster loan applications at the
address listed above or other locally
announced locations.
The following areas have been
determined to be adversely affected by
the disaster:
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other national level ABS
implementation. We also welcome
examples of:
(1) Monetary or non-monetary
benefits to the global public health
system that are facilitated by
international sharing of pathogens,
biospecimens, pathogen genetic
sequence data, and/or relevant
metadata.
(2) Influenza-specific issues and/or
examples related to the items described
above or other items that could affect
global influenza pandemic preparedness
and response or efforts to combat
seasonal influenza.
(3) Non-ABS challenges and barriers
with sharing pathogens internationally
or that otherwise have significant
implications for global pandemic or
epidemic preparedness and response
efforts that might merit additional
attention or analysis.
Background: Biological threats to the
U.S. homeland—whether as the result of
deliberate attack, accident, or a natural
outbreak—are growing and require
actions to address them at their source.
Naturally emerging outbreaks of viruses
such as Ebola and Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), as well
as the deliberate 2001 anthrax attacks in
the United States, demonstrated the
impact of biological threats on national
security by taking lives, generating
economic losses, and contributing to a
loss of confidence in government
institutions. To effectively prepare for or
respond to epidemic and pandemic
infectious disease threats, the United
States government and other public
health actors need rapid, systematic,
and consistent access to both
information and samples from
outbreaks, including pathogens, related
clinical material, pathogen genetic
sequence data, epidemiological data,
and relevant metadata. The Global
Influenza Surveillance and Response
System and Pandemic Influenza
Preparedness Framework facilitate the
sharing of samples of influenza viruses
and access to vaccines and other
benefits. WHO is engaging with Member
States, stakeholders, and other UN
bodies to better understand the impacts
of Nagoya Protocol and other ABS
measures on public health, including
the sharing of influenza and noninfluenza pathogens.
Several meetings are planned in
association with this request for written
submissions.
Time and Date: Two initial meetings
are planned on Tuesday, June 25 and
Friday, September 20, 2019. Each
meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m. EDT and
last for up to two hours. If the
Department decides to hold additional
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public meetings, the time and place will
be announced on the Department
website: https://www.state.gov/bureausoffices/under-secretary-for-economicgrowth-energy-and-the-environment/
bureau-of-oceans-and-internationalenvironmental-and-scientific-affairs/
office-of-international-health-andbiodefense/.
Place: The two initial meetings will
be held at the U.S. State Department’s
Harry S. Truman Building, 2201 C Street
NW, Washington, DC 20520. Please use
the 21st Street entrance, and plan to
arrive at least twenty minutes prior to
the start of the meeting to allow for ID
verification and escorting requirements.
Status: The meetings will be open to
the public. Persons planning on
attending must provide their full name
and organization to Dr. Jennifer Seedorff
at seedorffje@state.gov and copy RSVPIHB@state.gov at least three days prior
to each meeting. Persons who need
special accommodations should also
contact Dr. Seedorff at seedorffje@
state.gov or (202) 647–3017 and copy
RSVP-IHB@state.gov at least seven days
before each meeting. Requests made
after that time will be considered, but
might not be possible to accommodate.
Personal data is requested pursuant to
Public Law 99–399 (Omnibus
Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism
Act of 1986), as amended; Public Law
107–56 (USA PATRIOT Act); and E.O.
13356. The purpose of the collection is
to validate the identity of individuals
who enter 1033 Department facilities.
The data will be entered into the Visitor
Access Control System (VACS–D)
database. Please see the Security
Records System of Records Notice
(State-36) at https://www.state.gov/
documents/organization/242611.pdf for
additional information.
Dated June 4, 2019.
Jerrold L. Mallory,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science Space
and Health (Acting), Bureau of Oceans and
International Environmental and Scientific
Affairs, Department of State.
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SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD
[Docket No. AB 1273X]
New York & Greenwood Lake
Railway—Abandonment Exemption—
in Bergen and Passaic Counties, N.J.
New York & Greenwood Lake Railway
(NYGL) has filed with the Surface
Transportation Board (Board) a petition
under 49 U.S.C. 10502 for exemption
from the prior approval requirements of
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49 U.S.C. 10903 to abandon 1.1 miles of
rail line extending between milepost 0.0
and milepost 1.1 in Bergen and Passaic
Counties, N.J. (the Line).1 The Line
traverses U.S. Postal Service Zip Codes
07055 and 07026.
According to NYGL, the Line was
purchased in 2017 by Passaic Street
Properties, LLC (PSP), through a tax
foreclosure sale due to NYGL’s failure to
pay federal taxes. In 2018, PSP filed a
notice of exemption in Docket No. FD
36187 to acquire the Line, which NYGL
opposed. The Board rejected PSP’s
notice of exemption with respect to the
Line.2 NYGL states that, thereafter, it
entered into negotiations with PSP and
that the parties have reached a
settlement in which NYGL has agreed to
abandon the Line. NYGL filed the
petition for exemption in accordance
with the settlement agreement.
NYGL states that the Line has not had
a significant amount of traffic since
2009 when its last customer went out of
business. According to NYGL, starting
in 2017, it renewed efforts to market the
Line as a transload facility, and those
efforts led to handling about eight
carloads of traffic, which NYGL states is
insufficient to produce a profit and
enable NYGL to rehabilitate the
trackage. NYGL states that PSP and the
local governments wish to reclaim the
right-of-way for urban redevelopment,
and local planners seek to redevelop the
area for residential and commercial
purposes.
In addition to an exemption from the
provisions of 49 U.S.C. 10903, NYGL
also seeks an exemption from the offer
of financial assistance (OFA) procedures
of 49 U.S.C. 10904. NYGL states that the
submission of an OFA could defeat the
very purpose for which this
abandonment has been filed. NYGL’s
request for exemption from section
10904 will be addressed in the final
decision.
According to NYGL, the Line does not
contain federally granted rights-of-way,
and any documentation in NYGL’s
possession will be made available
promptly to those requesting it.
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 &
1 NYGL initially submitted its petition on April
24, 2019, but supplemented it on May 10, 2019, and
again on May 21, 2019. In light of NYGL’s
supplements, the petition is deemed to have been
filed on May 21, 2019.
2 Passaic Street Props., LLC—Acquis. & Operation
Exemption—N.Y. & Greenwood Lake Ry., FD 36187
(STB served July 18, 2018).
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice: 10789]
Notice and Request for Comments on the Implications of Access and
Benefit-Sharing (ABS) Regimes on Global Health and Biomedical Research
AGENCY: Department of State.
SUMMARY: In order to inform U.S. Government policy and international
engagement, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) invites submission of
comments from the public, academia, relevant industries, and other
interested stakeholders on the implications of Access and Benefit-
Sharing (ABS) regimes on global health and biomedical research. In
particular, DOS invites comments related to the effects of Nagoya
Protocol and other ABS implementation on public health systems. The
Department will hold at least two public meetings to discuss these
issues, on June 25 and September 20, 2019. Any future Meetings will be
announced at https://www.state.gov/bureaus-offices/under-secretary-for-economic-growth-energy-and-the-environment/bureau-of-oceans-and-international-environmental-and-scientific-affairs/office-of-international-health-and-biodefense/.
DATES: Written comments are welcome before each of the two planned
public meetings referenced above and will be reviewed periodically
beginning July 10, 2019.
ADDRESSES: One submission per meeting is welcome, with no more than 10
pages of single-spaced text including relevant examples with no more
than one page per example. Submissions should be made via the internet
at www.regulations.gov docket number DOS-2019-0016. For alternatives to
online submissions, please contact Dr. Jennifer Seedorff at (202) 647-
3017 or [email protected]. Note that relevant comments submitted to
regulations.gov will be posted without editing and will be available to
the public; therefore, business-confidential information should be
clearly identified as such and submitted by email. The public is
strongly encouraged to file submissions electronically rather than by
facsimile or mail.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions regarding the submission of
comments should be directed to Dr. Jennifer Seedorff (202) 647-3017,
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Representatives from the Department of State
will review written submissions and share them, as appropriate, with
staff from other Federal Agencies to inform U.S. Government policy and
our international engagements on these issues. U.S. officials may
contact individuals making submissions for further information or
explanation. In particular, we seek comments on and specific examples
of the impacts of other countries' implementation of the Nagoya
Protocol or other ABS measures on such issues as: International
research collaborations, international pathogen sample sharing,
infectious disease research, including influenza, Zika and other
diseases, pandemic and epidemic preparedness and response, medical
countermeasure product development efforts, investor interest in
vaccine development, and other aspects. We would also welcome views on
what the World Health Organization (WHO), other UN bodies, and non-
governmental organizations can do to effectively protect public health
equities in the context of the Nagoya Protocol and
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other national level ABS implementation. We also welcome examples of:
(1) Monetary or non-monetary benefits to the global public health
system that are facilitated by international sharing of pathogens,
biospecimens, pathogen genetic sequence data, and/or relevant metadata.
(2) Influenza-specific issues and/or examples related to the items
described above or other items that could affect global influenza
pandemic preparedness and response or efforts to combat seasonal
influenza.
(3) Non-ABS challenges and barriers with sharing pathogens
internationally or that otherwise have significant implications for
global pandemic or epidemic preparedness and response efforts that
might merit additional attention or analysis.
Background: Biological threats to the U.S. homeland--whether as the
result of deliberate attack, accident, or a natural outbreak--are
growing and require actions to address them at their source. Naturally
emerging outbreaks of viruses such as Ebola and Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), as well as the deliberate 2001 anthrax
attacks in the United States, demonstrated the impact of biological
threats on national security by taking lives, generating economic
losses, and contributing to a loss of confidence in government
institutions. To effectively prepare for or respond to epidemic and
pandemic infectious disease threats, the United States government and
other public health actors need rapid, systematic, and consistent
access to both information and samples from outbreaks, including
pathogens, related clinical material, pathogen genetic sequence data,
epidemiological data, and relevant metadata. The Global Influenza
Surveillance and Response System and Pandemic Influenza Preparedness
Framework facilitate the sharing of samples of influenza viruses and
access to vaccines and other benefits. WHO is engaging with Member
States, stakeholders, and other UN bodies to better understand the
impacts of Nagoya Protocol and other ABS measures on public health,
including the sharing of influenza and non-influenza pathogens.
Several meetings are planned in association with this request for
written submissions.
Time and Date: Two initial meetings are planned on Tuesday, June 25
and Friday, September 20, 2019. Each meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m.
EDT and last for up to two hours. If the Department decides to hold
additional public meetings, the time and place will be announced on the
Department website: https://www.state.gov/bureaus-offices/under-secretary-for-economic-growth-energy-and-the-environment/bureau-of-oceans-and-international-environmental-and-scientific-affairs/office-of-international-health-and-biodefense/.
Place: The two initial meetings will be held at the U.S. State
Department's Harry S. Truman Building, 2201 C Street NW, Washington, DC
20520. Please use the 21st Street entrance, and plan to arrive at least
twenty minutes prior to the start of the meeting to allow for ID
verification and escorting requirements.
Status: The meetings will be open to the public. Persons planning
on attending must provide their full name and organization to Dr.
Jennifer Seedorff at [email protected] and copy [email protected]
at least three days prior to each meeting. Persons who need special
accommodations should also contact Dr. Seedorff at [email protected]
or (202) 647-3017 and copy [email protected] at least seven days
before each meeting. Requests made after that time will be considered,
but might not be possible to accommodate. Personal data is requested
pursuant to Public Law 99-399 (Omnibus Diplomatic Security and
Antiterrorism Act of 1986), as amended; Public Law 107-56 (USA PATRIOT
Act); and E.O. 13356. The purpose of the collection is to validate the
identity of individuals who enter 1033 Department facilities. The data
will be entered into the Visitor Access Control System (VACS-D)
database. Please see the Security Records System of Records Notice
(State-36) at https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/242611.pdf
for additional information.
Dated June 4, 2019.
Jerrold L. Mallory,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science Space and Health (Acting),
Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific
Affairs, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2019-12150 Filed 6-7-19; 8:45 am]
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