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Silvermine Drive to U.S. 290 in Travis
County. The proposed improvements
were originally considered in a Final
Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS)
covering improvements to U.S. 290/SH
71 from RM 1826 to Farm to Market
(FM) 973. A Record of Decision (ROD)
was issued by FHWA on August 22,
1988. The mid-section of the original
project limits, between east of
Williamson Creek and Riverside Drive,
has been constructed. Since the
issuance of the U.S. 290/SH 71 ROD, the
proposed design concept for the current
project has changed as a result of
changes in adjacent land use, State and
federal listing of the Barton Springs
salamander as endangered, changes in
funding mechanisms to include tolling,
a proposed shift in the alignment, and
public input. The original FEIS will be
supplemented to evaluate the changes
in potential impacts from the proposed
improvements. The proposed project
limits of the U.S. 290/SH 71 limited
scope SEIS would extend beyond the
limits of the original FEIS to allow for
a transition back to existing U.S. 290
west of Scenic Brook Drive and along
SH 71 at Silvermine Drive. The
proposed project limits, including
transitional area, cover approximately
3.6 miles along U.S. 290 and 1.2 miles
along SH 71.
The project is listed in the Capital
Area Metro Planning Organization
(CAMPO) Mobility 2030 Plan, as
amended, (the long-range transportation
plan) as a six-lane tolled freeway west
of Scenic Brook to east of Williamson
Creek. The proposed action would
include continuous non-tolled frontage
roads with two to three lanes in each
direction. The need for the proposed
project, as stated in the 1988 FEIS,
stems from congestion and low travel
speeds caused by rapid population
growth in the Austin metropolitan area.
Crash data have also indicated safety
concerns as a primary need for this
project. Additionally, the economic
growth of the U.S. 290/SH 71 corridor
is dependent on the ability of the
roadway network to accommodate both
local trips created by recent nearby
development as well as regional through
traffic. In order to address these needs,
the purpose of the proposed project is
to increase traffic flow capacities and
improve mobility in the roadway
corridor while enhancing safety and
system interconnectivity, in compliance
with the adopted CAMPO Mobility 2030
Plan.
The SEIS will evaluate potential
impacts from construction and
operation of the proposed roadway
including, but not limited to, the
following: Transportation impacts

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(construction detours, construction
traffic, and mobility improvement), air
quality and noise impacts from
construction equipment and operation
of the facilities, water quality impacts
from construction area and roadway
storm water runoff, impacts to waters of
the United States including wetlands
from right-of-way encroachment,
impacts to historic and archaeological
resources, impacts to floodplains, and
impacts and/or displacements to
residents and businesses, land use,
vegetation, wildlife, aesthetic and visual
resources, socioeconomic resources, and
cumulative and indirect impacts.
Public involvement is a critical
component of the project development
process and will occur throughout the
planning and study phases. A public
scoping meeting is planned, but has not
yet been scheduled. The purpose of the
public scoping meeting is to solicit
public comments on the proposed
action as part of the National
Environmental Policy Act process.
Opportunities for public involvement
would also exist during public meetings
and public review of the draft SEIS.
Letters describing the proposed action
and soliciting comments will be sent to
the appropriate Federal, State, and local
agencies, and private organizations and
citizens who have previously expressed
or are known to have interest in this
proposal. To ensure that the full range
of issues related to this proposed action
is addressed and all significant issues
are identified, comments and
suggestions are invited from all
interested parties. Comments or
questions concerning this proposed
action and the SEIS should be directed
to FHWA at the address above.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Program Number 20.205, Highway, Planning,
and Construction. The regulations
implementing Executive Order 12372
regarding intergovernmental consultation on
Federal programs and activities apply to this
program.)
Issued on August 6, 2008.
Salvador Deocampo,
District Engineer.
[FR Doc. E8–18956 Filed 8–14–08; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2008–0211]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Revision of a CurrentlyApproved Information Collection:
Application for Certificate of
Registration for Foreign Motor Carriers
and Foreign Motor Private Carriers
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
information.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
FMCSA announces its plan to submit an
Information Collection Request (ICR) to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval. FMCSA
requests approval to revise an existing
information collection (IC) entitled,
‘‘Application for Certificate of
Registration for Foreign Motor Carriers
and Foreign Motor Private Carriers,’’
that requires Mexico-domiciled for-hire
and private motor carriers to file an
application Form OP–2 if they wish to
register to transport property only
within municipalities in the United
States on the U.S.-Mexico international
borders or within the commercial zones
of such municipalities. On June 9, 2008,
FMCSA published a Federal Register
notice announcing for a 60-day
comment period on the ICR. No
comments were received on the ICR.
DATES: Please send your comments by
September 15, 2008. OMB must receive
your comments by this date in order to
act quickly on the ICR.
ADDRESSES: All comments should
reference DOT Docket No. FMCSA–
2008–0211. You may submit comments
to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, 725
Seventeenth Street, NW., Washington,
DC 20503, Attention: DOT/FMCSA Desk
Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Denise Ryan, Transportation Specialist,
Office of Information Technology,
Operations Division, Department of
Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, 6th Floor, West
Building, 1200 New Jersey Ave., SE.,
Washington DC 20590. Telephone
Number: (202) 493–0242; E-mail
Address: denise.ryan@dot.gov. Office
hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal
Holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Title: Application for Certificate of
Registration for Foreign Motor Carriers
and Foreign Motor Private Carriers.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0019.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently-approved information
collection.
Respondents: Foreign motor carriers
and commercial motor vehicle drivers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
615.
Estimated Time per Response: 4 hours
to complete Form OP–2.
Expiration Date: August 31, 2008.
Frequency of Response: Other (Once).
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
2,460 hours [615 responses × 4 hours to
complete Form OP–2 = 2,460].
Background: Title 49 U.S.C. 13902(c)
contains basic licensing procedures for
registering foreign motor carriers to
operate across the Mexico-U.S. border
into the United States. Part 368 of title
49, CFR, contains the regulations that
require Mexico-domiciled motor carriers
to apply to FMCSA for a Certificate of
Registration to provide interstate
transportation in municipalities in the
United States on the U.S.-Mexico
international border or within the
commercial zones of such
municipalities as defined in 49 U.S.C.
13902(c)(4)(A). FMCSA carries out this
registration program under authority
delegated by the Secretary of
Transportation.
Foreign (Mexico-based) motor carriers
use Form OP–2 to apply for a Certificate
of Registration from the FMCSA. The
form requests information on the foreign
motor carrier’s name, address, U.S. DOT
Number, form of business (e.g.,
corporation, sole proprietorship,
partnership), locations where the
applicant plans to operate, types of
registration requested (e.g., for-hire
motor carrier, motor private carrier),
insurance, safety certifications,
household goods arbitration
certifications, and compliance
certifications.
Public Comments Invited: You may
comment on any aspect of this
information collection, including: (1)
Whether the proposed collection is
necessary for the FMCSA to perform it’s
functions; (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden; (3) ways for the
FMCSA to enhance the quality,
usefulness, and clarity of the collected
information; and (4) ways that the
burden could be minimized without
reducing the quality of the collected
information.

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Issued on: August 6, 2008.
Terry Shelton,
Associate Administrator for Research and
Information Technology.
[FR Doc. E8–18902 Filed 8–14–08; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board
[STB Docket No. AB–55 (Sub-No. 687X)]

CSX Transportation, Inc.—
Abandonment Exemption—in Fulton
and Clayton Counties, GA
CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT) has
filed a verified notice of exemption
under 49 CFR 1152 Subpart F—Exempt
Abandonments to abandon a 1.67-mile
line of railroad on its Southern Region,
Atlanta Division, Atlanta Terminal
Subdivision in College Park, between
Valuation Station 0+00 and the end of
the line, Valuation Station 88+00, in
Fulton and Clayton Counties, GA. The
line traverses United States Postal
Service Zip Code 30337.
CSXT has certified that: (1) No local
traffic has moved over the line for at
least 2 years; (2) any overhead traffic on
the line can 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
or with any U.S. District Court or has
been decided in favor of complainant
within the 2-year period; and (4) the
requirements of 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 this exemption, any
employee adversely affected by the
abandonment 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, this
exemption will be effective on
September 13, 2008, unless stayed
pending reconsideration. Petitions to
stay that do not involve environmental

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issues,1 formal expressions of intent to
file an OFA under 49 CFR
1152.27(c)(2),2 and trail use/rail banking
requests under 49 CFR 1152.29 must be
filed by August 25, 2008. Petitions to
reopen or requests for public use
conditions under 49 CFR 1152.28 must
be filed by September 3, 2008, 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 CSXT’s
representative: Louis E. Gitomer, 600
Baltimore Avenue, Suite 301, Towson,
MD 21204.
If the verified notice contains false or
misleading information, the exemption
is void ab initio.
CSXT has filed an environmental and
historic report addressing the effects, if
any, of the abandonment on the
environment and historic resources.
SEA will issue an environmental
assessment (EA) by August 19, 2008.
Interested persons may obtain a copy of
the EA by writing to SEA (Room 1100,
Surface Transportation Board,
Washington, DC 20423–0001) or by
calling SEA, at (202) 245–0305.
[Assistance for the hearing impaired is
available through the Federal
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–
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), CSXT 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
CSXT’s filing of a notice of
consummation by August 14, 2009, 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 http://
www.stb.dot.gov.
Decided: August 11, 2008.
1 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
exemption’s effective date. See Exemption of Outof-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.
2 Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing
fee, which, as of July 18, 2008, is set at $1500. See
49 CFR 1002.2(f)(25).

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