Certification Related to Foreign Military Financing for Colombia Under Section 7045(c)(3)(B) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2024, 78426 [2024-21952]

Download as PDF 78426 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 186 / Wednesday, September 25, 2024 / Notices Clarendon, Colleton, Dorchester, Georgetown, Lexington, Williamsburg The Interest Rates are: Percent For Physical Damage: Homeowners with Credit Available Elsewhere ...................... Homeowners without Credit Available Elsewhere .............. Businesses with Credit Available Elsewhere ...................... Businesses without Credit Available Elsewhere .............. Non-Profit Organizations with Credit Available Elsewhere ... Non-Profit Organizations without Credit Available Elsewhere ..................................... For Economic Injury: Business and Small Agricultural Cooperatives without Credit Available Elsewhere .............. Non-Profit Organizations without Credit Available Elsewhere ..................................... 5.625 2.813 8.000 4.000 3.250 3.250 4.000 3.250 The number assigned to this disaster for physical damage is 205748 and for economic injury is 205750. The State which received an EIDL Declaration is South Carolina. BILLING CODE 4710–29–P Isabella Guzman, Administrator. SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD [FR Doc. 2024–21906 Filed 9–24–24; 8:45 am] [Docket No. AB 290 (Sub-No. 553X)] BILLING CODE 8026–09–P Norfolk Southern Railway Company— Discontinuance of Trackage Rights Exemption—in Cuyahoga County, Ohio DEPARTMENT OF STATE [Public Notice: 12547] ddrumheller on DSK120RN23PROD with NOTICES1 Certification Related to Foreign Military Financing for Colombia Under Section 7045(c)(3)(B) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2024 Pursuant to the authority vested in the Secretary of State, including under section 7045(c)(3)(B) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2024 (Div. F, Pub. L. 118–47), I hereby certify that: (i) the Special Jurisdiction for Peace and other judicial authorities, as appropriate, are sentencing perpetrators of gross violations of human rights, including those with command responsibility, to deprivation of liberty; (ii) the Government of Colombia is making consistent progress in reducing threats and attacks against human rights defenders and other civil society activists, and judicial authorities are 17:28 Sep 24, 2024 Dated: September 9, 2024. Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State. [FR Doc. 2024–21952 Filed 9–24–24; 8:45 am] (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number 59008) VerDate Sep<11>2014 prosecuting and punishing those responsible for ordering and carrying out such attacks; (iii) the Government of Colombia is making consistent progress in protecting Afro-Colombian and Indigenous communities and is respecting their rights and territories; (iv) senior military officers credibly alleged, or whose units are credibly alleged, to be responsible for ordering, committing, and covering up cases of false positives and other extrajudicial killings, or of committing other gross violations of human rights, or of conducting illegal communications intercepts or other illicit surveillance, are being held accountable, including removal from active duty if found guilty through criminal, administrative, or disciplinary proceedings; and (v) the Colombian Armed Forces are cooperating fully with the requirements described in (I) through (IV) above. This Certification shall be published in the Federal Register and shall be transmitted, along with the accompanying Memorandum of Justification, to Congress. Jkt 262001 Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NSR) has filed a verified notice of exemption under 49 CFR part 1152 subpart F—Exempt Abandonments and Discontinuances of Service to discontinue trackage rights over approximately 1.3 miles of rail line owned by CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT), between milepost BJB 73.21 and milepost BJB 74.51 (the Line) on CSXT’s Cleveland Subdivision.1 The 1 CSXT received authority to abandon the Line in 2023. See CSX Transp., Inc.—Aban. Exemption—in Cuyahoga Cnty., Ohio, AB 55 (Sub-No. 812X) (STB served Sept. 1, 2023). CSXT did not disclose the existence of NSR’s trackage rights in that proceeding. On September 6, 2024, in that docket, CSXT filed a request for an extension of the consummation deadline. CSXT states that NSR’s trackage rights constitute a barrier to CSXT’s consummation of abandonment and requests that the Board extend the deadline to consummate until 60 days after NSR’s discontinuance authority in this docket is granted. CSXT’s request for an extension will be addressed in a separate decision in Docket No. AB 55 (Sub-No. 812X). In light of that pending request, however, NSR is directed to notify CSXT when NSR has PO 00000 Frm 00148 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Line traverses U.S. Postal Service Zip Codes 44113 and 44115. NSR has certified that: (1) no local traffic has moved over the Line for at least two years; (2) any common carrier overhead traffic can be rerouted; (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 on the Line 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 1105.12 (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 discontinuance of service 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) 2 to subsidize continued rail service has been received, this exemption will be effective on October 25, 2024, unless stayed pending reconsideration. Petitions to stay that do not involve environmental issues and formal expressions of intent to file an OFA to subsidize continued rail service under 49 CFR 1152.27(c)(2) 3 must be filed by October 4, 2024.4 Petitions to reopen must be filed by October 15, 2024. consummated its authority to discontinue service over the Line. See BNSF Ry.—Aban. Exemption— in Flathead Cnty., Mont., AB 6 (Sub-No. 495X), slip op. at 2 n.2 (STB served Aug. 14, 2017). 2 Persons interested in submitting an OFA to subsidize continued rail service must first file a formal expression of intent to file an offer, indicating the intent to file an OFA for subsidy and demonstrating that they are preliminarily financially responsible. See 49 CFR 1152.27(c)(2)(i). 3 The filing fee for OFAs can be found at 49 CFR 1002.2(f)(25). 4 Because this is a discontinuance proceeding and not an abandonment, interim trail use/rail banking and public use conditions are not appropriate. As noted, supra note 1, CSXT received authority to abandon the Line in CSX Transportation, Inc.— Abandonment Exemption—in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, AB 55 (Sub-No. 812X) (STB served Sept. 1, 2023). In its environmental review in that proceeding, the Board’s Office of Environmental Analysis found that the abandonment would not significantly affect the quality of the human environment and recommended no environmental conditions. As a result, none were imposed. CSX Transp., Inc.—Aban. Exemption—in Cuyahoga Cnty., Ohio, AB 55 (Sub-No. 812X) (STB served Sept. 28, 2023). Because the Line has already been E:\FR\FM\25SEN1.SGM 25SEN1

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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 186 (Wednesday, September 25, 2024)]
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[FR Doc No: 2024-21952]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice: 12547]


Certification Related to Foreign Military Financing for Colombia 
Under Section 7045(c)(3)(B) of the Department of State, Foreign 
Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2024

    Pursuant to the authority vested in the Secretary of State, 
including under section 7045(c)(3)(B) of the Department of State, 
Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2024 (Div. 
F, Pub. L. 118-47), I hereby certify that:
    (i) the Special Jurisdiction for Peace and other judicial 
authorities, as appropriate, are sentencing perpetrators of gross 
violations of human rights, including those with command 
responsibility, to deprivation of liberty;
    (ii) the Government of Colombia is making consistent progress in 
reducing threats and attacks against human rights defenders and other 
civil society activists, and judicial authorities are prosecuting and 
punishing those responsible for ordering and carrying out such attacks;
    (iii) the Government of Colombia is making consistent progress in 
protecting Afro-Colombian and Indigenous communities and is respecting 
their rights and territories;
    (iv) senior military officers credibly alleged, or whose units are 
credibly alleged, to be responsible for ordering, committing, and 
covering up cases of false positives and other extrajudicial killings, 
or of committing other gross violations of human rights, or of 
conducting illegal communications intercepts or other illicit 
surveillance, are being held accountable, including removal from active 
duty if found guilty through criminal, administrative, or disciplinary 
proceedings; and
    (v) the Colombian Armed Forces are cooperating fully with the 
requirements described in (I) through (IV) above.
    This Certification shall be published in the Federal Register and 
shall be transmitted, along with the accompanying Memorandum of 
Justification, to Congress.

    Dated: September 9, 2024.
Antony J. Blinken,
Secretary of State.
[FR Doc. 2024-21952 Filed 9-24-24; 8:45 am]
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