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Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 241 / Thursday, December 15, 2011 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
Reports, Forms and Recordkeeping
Requirements; Agency Information
Collection Activity Under OMB Review
Maritime Administration, DOT.
Notice and request for
comments.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice
announces that the Information
Collection abstracted below has been
forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and
approval. The nature of the information
collection is described as well as its
expected burden. The Federal Register
Notice with a 60-day comment period
soliciting comments on the following
collection of information was published
on June 29, 2011, and comments were
due by August 29, 2011. No comments
were received.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before January 17, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Edmond J. Fitzgerald, Maritime
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590.
Telephone: (202) 366–2279; Fax: (202)
366–7901; or Email:
edmond.j.fitzgerald@dot.gov. Copies of
this collection also can be obtained from
that office.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Maritime
Administration (MARAD).
Title: Seamen’s Claims—
Administrative Action and Litigation.
OMB Control Number: 2133–0522.
Type of Request: Extension of
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Officers or members
of a crew who suffered death, injury, or
illness while employed on vessels
owned or operated by the United States
through the Maritime Administration.
Also included are surviving dependents,
beneficiaries, and legal representatives
of officers or crew members.
Forms: None.
Abstract: The collection consists of
information obtained from claimants for
death, injury, or illness suffered while
serving as officers or members of a crew
on board a vessel owned or operated by
the United States through the Maritime
Administration. The Maritime
Administration reviews the information
and makes a determination regarding
the issues of agency and vessel liability
and the reasonableness of the recovery
demand.
Annual Estimated Burden Hours: 750
hours.

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Addresses: Send comments regarding
these information collections to the
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, 725 Seventeenth Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20503, Attention:
MARAD Desk Officer. Alternatively,
comments may be sent via email to the
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs (OIRA), Office of Management
and Budget, at the following address:
oira.submissions@omb.eop.gov.
Comments Are Invited On: Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed information collection; ways
to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
A comment to OMB is best assured of
having its full effect if OMB receives it
within 30 days of publication.
(Authority: 49 CFR 1.66.)
By order of the Maritime Administrator.
Dated: December 9, 2011.
Julie P. Agarwal,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. 2011–32119 Filed 12–14–11; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910–81–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board
[Docket No. FD 35573]

Watco Holdings, Inc. and Watco
Transportation Services, L.L.C.—
Acquisition of Control Exemption—
Wisconsin & Southern Railroad, L.L.C.
Watco Holdings, Inc. (Watco
Holdings) and Watco Transportation
Services, L.L.C. (Watco Services)
(collectively, Watco), both noncarriers,
have filed a verified notice of exemption
for Watco Holdings to acquire indirect
control, and for Watco Services to
acquire direct control, of the Wisconsin
& Southern Railroad, L.L.C., a Class II
railroad. Watco intends to consummate
the transaction on or shortly after
December 29, 2011, the effective date of
the exemption (30 days after the verified
notice was filed).
Watco Holdings, a Kansas
corporation, controls Watco Services.
Watco Holdings indirectly controls 23
Class III railroads operating in 18 states.
For a complete list of these Class III

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carriers and the states within which
they operate, see Watco’s notice of
exemption filed on November 29, 2011.
The notice is available on the Board’s
Web site at ‘‘http://www.stb.dot.gov.’’
Prior to consummation of the
transaction, Wisconsin & Southern
Railroad Co., a Wisconsin corporation,
will convert from a corporation to a
Wisconsin limited liability company
known as Wisconsin & Southern
Railroad, L.L.C. (WSOR). As a result of
the transaction, Watco Services will
acquire, pursuant to a Purchase
Agreement, 90 percent of all the issued
and outstanding ownership and
membership interests of WSOR, and
Watco Holdings thus will indirectly
control WSOR.1 WSOR will remain a
Class II carrier.
Applicants represent that: (1) The rail
lines operated by WSOR do not connect
with any of the rail lines operated by the
carriers in the Watco corporate family; 2
(2) the transaction is not part of a series
of anticipated transactions that would
connect the rail lines operated by WSOR
with any railroad in the Watco corporate
family; and (3) the transaction does not
involve a Class I rail carrier. Therefore,
the transaction is exempt from the prior
approval requirements of 49 U.S.C.
11323. See 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(2). Watco
states that the purpose of the transaction
is to permit Watco Holdings to acquire
control of WSOR as an investment in
order to reduce overhead expenses and
coordinate billing, maintenance,
mechanical and personnel policies and
practices of its rail carrier subsidiaries
and thereby improve the overall
efficiency of rail service provided by the
railroads in the Watco corporate family.
Under 49 U.S.C 10502(g), the Board
may not use its exemption authority to
relieve a rail carrier of its statutory
obligation to protect the interests of its
employees. Because the transaction
involves the control of one Class II and
one or more Class III rail carriers, the
transaction is subject to the labor
protection requirements of 49 U.S.C.
11326(b) and Wisconsin Central Ltd.—
Acquisition Exemption—Lines of Union
Pacific Railroad, 2 S.T.B. 218 (1997).
If the verified notice contains false or
misleading information, the exemption
is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the
exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d)
1 A redacted version of the draft Purchase
Agreement was filed with the notice of exemption.
The applicant concurrently filed a motion for
protective order pursuant to 49 CFR 1104.14(b) to
allow the filing under seal of the unredacted
Purchase Agreement. That motion will be addressed
in a separate decision.
2 According to the notice, the rail lines operated
by WSOR are located in Wisconsin and Illinois, and
none of the Watco railroads own or operate a rail
line in Wisconsin or Illinois.

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