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identified and considered early in the determination, and its finding may be FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Section 106 review process. rebutted by filings and evidence Jonathon Binet, (202) 245–0368. submitted into the record for this [Assistance for the hearing impaired is VII. Definitions proceeding. The Board will give careful available through the Federal If not specifically addressed below, consideration to any claims that the Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– terms used within this Program Transaction would have anticompetitive 800–877–8339.] Comment shall be defined consistent effects that are not apparent from the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: GWI is a application itself. with the definitions provided in 36 CFR publicly traded, noncarrier holding part 800. DATES: The effective date of this company. RailAmerica is a publicly Common Bridge is, for purposes of decision is September 5, 2012. Any traded, noncarrier holding company. this Program Comment, a common post- person who wishes to participate in this See Appendix B for a complete list of 1945 bridge or culvert of a type proceeding as a party of record (POR) each company’s relevant holdings. identified in Section V. must file, no later than September 19, Program Comment is an alternative to 2012, a notice of intent to participate. Applicants state that, pursuant to an Section 106 review that allows a Federal All comments, protests, requests for agreement and plan of merger agency to request the ACHP to comment conditions, and any other evidence and (Agreement), Jaguar Acquisition Sub, on a category of undertakings in lieu of argument in opposition to the primary Inc., a newly formed, wholly owned conducting individual reviews under application and related filings, noncarrier subsidiary of GWI, would Sections 800.4 through 800.6 of the including filings by the U.S. Department acquire control of RailAmerica and its regulations (36 CFR Part 800). of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Department railroad subsidiaries. RailAmerica’s Qualified cultural resource specialist of Transportation (DOT), must be filed shareholders would receive $27.50 per means an individual meeting the by October 5, 2012. Responses to share of RailAmerica common stock. Secretary of the Interior’s professional comments, protests, requests for According to GWI, all shares of qualifications for historian or conditions, and other opposition, and common stock of RailAmerica will be architectural historian by virtue of rebuttal in support of the primary placed into an independent voting education and experience to carry out application or related filings must be trust.1 Applicants state that, on or after historic preservation work. filed by October 26, 2012, see the the effective date of the Board’s decision [FR Doc. 2012–21699 Filed 9–4–12; 8:45 am] Appendix A (Procedural Schedule). authorizing the Transaction, the voting BILLING CODE 4910–22–P Further procedural orders, if any, will trust would be terminated, be issued by the Board as necessary. RailAmerica’s shares would be ADDRESSES: Any filing submitted in this transferred to GWI, and RailAmerica DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION proceeding must be submitted either via would become a wholly owned the Board’s e-filing format or in the subsidiary of GWI. Surface Transportation Board traditional paper format. Any person Applicants state four primary [STB Docket No. FD 35654] using e-filing should attach a document purposes for pursuing the Transaction. and otherwise comply with the First, Applicants state that expanding Genesee & Wyoming Inc.—Control— instructions found on the Board’s Web GWI’s safe and efficient rail operation of RailAmerica, Inc., et al. site at ‘‘www.stb.dot.gov’’ at the ‘‘E- regional and shortline railroads would AGENCY: Surface Transportation Board. FILING’’ link. Any person submitting a improve customer service for GWI and filing in the traditional paper format ACTION: Decision No. 2 in Docket No. FD RailAmerica customers, as well as the 35654; Notice of acceptance of should send an original and 10 paper Class I railroads with which they application; issuance of procedural copies of the filing (and also an connect. Second, Applicants anticipate schedule. electronic version) to: Surface an increased likelihood of industrial Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW., and manufacturing development SUMMARY: The Surface Transportation Washington, DC 20423–0001. In opportunities in the communities they Board (Board) is accepting for addition, one copy of each filing in this serve. Third, they seek to enhance consideration the application filed proceeding must be sent (and may be operational efficiencies by combining August 6, 2012, by Genesee and sent by email only if service by email is the best practices of each company. Wyoming Inc. (GWI) and RailAmerica, acceptable to the recipient) to each of Lastly, Applicants assert that the Inc. (RailAmerica). The application the following: (1) Secretary of Transaction would create stability for seeks Board approval under 49 U.S.C. Transportation, 1200 New Jersey employees and customers. 11323–11325 of the acquisition of Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590; (2) Financial Arrangements. Under the control of RailAmerica, a noncarrier Attorney General of the United States, Agreement, the purchase price would be holding company, by GWI, a noncarrier c/o Assistant Attorney General, paid in cash. RailAmerica would not holding company. This proposal is Antitrust Division, Room 3109, issue any new railroad securities in referred to as the Transaction, and GWI Department of Justice, Washington, DC connection with the Transaction and RailAmerica are referred to 20530; (3) Terence M. Hynes although, following approval by the collectively as Applicants. (representing RailAmerica), Sidley Board, it may guarantee debt obligations The Board finds that the application Austin LLP, 1501 K Street NW., incurred by GWI. GWI would incur is complete and that the Transaction is Washington, DC 20005; (4) David H. approximately $2 billion of debt a minor transaction upon the Coburn (representing GWI), Steptoe & obligations and would issue up to $800 preliminary determination that the Johnson LLP, 1330 Connecticut Ave. million of equity and/or equity-linked Transaction clearly will not have any NW., Washington, DC 20036; and (5) securities in connection with the anticompetitive effects. 49 CFR any other person designated as a POR Transaction. 1180.2(b)(1), (c). The Board makes this on the service list notice (as explained determination based solely on the below, the service list notice will be 1 See GWI Voting Trust—Control Exemption— evidence presented in the application. issued as soon after September 19, 2012, RailAmerica, Inc., FD 35660 (STB served Aug. 17, The Board stresses that this is not a final as practicable). 2012).

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Passenger Service Impacts. shortlines, Applicants contend that they Transaction would have any Applicants state that the Transaction have little ability to influence rail anticompetitive effects, and any such would not affect passenger rail service. transportation at the regional or national effects that might result from the Discontinuances/Abandonments. level. Also, because they believe the Transaction would appear to be Applicants state that there would not be Transaction would result in safer, more outweighed by its contribution to the any Transaction-related line reliable rail and customer service as public in meeting significant abandonments. well as local economic development, transportation needs. A transaction that Public Interest Considerations. Applicants assert that these public does not involve the control or merger Applicants state that the Transaction interest considerations outweigh any de of two or more Class I railroads is not would benefit the public by providing minimis effects on competition. of regional or national transportation safe, reliable, and efficient rail service Time Schedule for Consummation. significance and, therefore, is classified and by allowing GWI to focus on local Applicants intend to consummate as minor if: (1) The transaction clearly economic development. Applicants control of RailAmerica as soon as will not have any anticompetitive point to GWI’s history in the industry possible after the effective date of the effects, or (2) any anticompetitive effects and its commitment to providing final order, should the Board authorize will clearly be outweighed by the continuously improved customer the proposed Transaction. Applicants anticipated contribution to the public service as additional public benefits. will place all shares of RailAmerica interest in meeting significant Applicants assert that the Transaction common stock into a voting trust. On or transportation needs. See 49 CFR would have a negligible effect on after the effective date of the Board’s 1180.2(b), (c). Therefore, based on the shippers and the railroad industry and, final order (assuming the Board information provided in the therefore, has a limited possibility of authorizes the Transaction), the voting Application, the Board finds the creating any adverse competitive effects. trust would be terminated and the proposed Transaction to be a minor According to Applicants, the shares of RailAmerica would be transaction under 49 CFR 1180.2(c).2 Transaction would not create a transferred to GWI. Such a categorization does not mean monopoly and would not result in any Environmental Impacts. Applicants that the proposed Transaction is restraint of trade. Applicants note that contend that, because the Transaction insignificant or not of importance. GWI and RailAmerica currently serve relates only to the change in corporate Indeed, the Board will carefully review the same customer in only one control and ownership of RailAmerica, the proposed Transaction to make locality—Linden, Alabama—but they no environmental impacts are certain that it does not substantially state that no customer there would anticipated and that the thresholds lessen competition, create a monopoly, experience a reduction in service established in 49 CFR 1105.7(e)(4) and or restrain trade and that any alternatives because the routes of these (5) would not be triggered. anticompetitive effects are outweighed two carriers have completely opposite Historic Preservation Impacts. by the public interest. See 49 U.S.C. orientations and serve distinctly Applicants contend that there is no 11324(d)(1)–(2). different destinations. In other words, at need for historic review under Section On August 9, 2012, Napa Valley Linden, a shipper wishing to ship traffic 106 of the National Historic Railroad Company (NVRR) and Yreka east or west has one option and the Preservation Act, 16 U.S.C. 470, because Western Railroad Company (YW) filed same shipper wishing to ship traffic the Transaction involves only a replies in opposition to Applicants’ north or south has a different option. corporate change in control of Motion To Establish a Procedural Applicants assert that there would be RailAmerica and would not Schedule. On August 16, 2012, similar no ‘‘2-to-1 shippers’’ (i.e., shippers substantially change the levels of replies were filed by Samuel J. Nasca, served by two carriers before the operations over, or maintenance of, rail for and on behalf of United Transaction that would be served by one lines of any of the GWI railroads or the Transportation Union-New York State after it) as a result of the Transaction. RailAmerica railroads. Applicants state that GWI and Labor Impacts. Applicants state that Legislative Board (UTU–NY), and RailAmerica railroads interconnect or no employees of the subsidiary railroads jointly by Winamac Southern Railway interchange in only four localities and would be adversely affected. Applicants Company (WSRY) and US Rail are in close proximity (five miles or further acknowledge that the Corporation (URC). Opposing parties less) in two localities and that the Transaction would be subject to labor argue that the Board should treat the combination would not affect protective requirements and other Transaction as a significant transaction, competition at any of those locations. procedures of 49 U.S.C. 11326(b) and pursuant to the applicable statutes and According to Applicants, the Wisconsin Central—Acquisition regulations. For example, NVRR and Transaction would have no effect on Exemption—Lines of Union Pacific YW argue that, in terms of competition geographic competition. Lastly, Railroad, 2 S.T.B. 218 (1997). among holding companies, GWI’s Applicants state that the Transaction Application Accepted. The acquisition of RailAmerica is of national would not have a detrimental impact on Transaction has characteristics that transportation significance. WSRY and non-affiliated shortlines that connect to suggest it might be classified as URC infer from the numbers (e.g., post- GWI and RailAmerica railroads or on ‘‘significant’’ under 49 CFR 1180.2(b), merger GWI would control more than any transportation in a transportation given that it involves the merger of two 100 rail carriers, manage in excess of corridor. large holding companies that own 15,000 miles of track, and handle 1.835 Applicants assert that, even if the railroads transacting business in 37 million carloads per year) that this is a Transaction had any adverse impacts on states. The size of the Transaction alone, matter of regional and national competition, those effects would be de however, is insufficient to classify it as transportation significance. UTU–NY minimis due to the limited connections significant. As provided for under 49 claims that the Transaction would result between Applicants’ railroad CFR 1180.2, rather than meeting a size in a reduction in competition among subsidiaries and, in any event, would be threshold, to be significant a transaction 2 Because the Transaction proposed in the outweighed by the public benefits of the has to have the potential for application is a minor transaction, no responsive Transaction. As all of the railroads anticompetitive effects. Nothing in the applications will be permitted. See 49 CFR involved in the Transaction are record thus far suggests that the 1180.4(d)(1).

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Class I rail carriers. Applicants filed a clearly benefit from GWI’s demonstrated service lists. Any person designated as response to the replies on August 28, commitment to safety and customer a Non-Party will receive copies of Board 2012. service. decisions, orders, and notices but not The Board finds the proposed The Board reiterates, however, that its copies of official filings. Persons seeking Transaction to be a minor transaction, findings regarding anticompetitive to change their status must accompany because, as we have noted, on the face impacts are preliminary. The Board will that request with a written certification of the application there does not appear give careful consideration to any claims that he or she has complied with the to be a likelihood of any anticompetitive that the Transaction would have service requirements set forth at 49 CFR effects resulting from the Transaction, if anticompetitive effects that are not 1180.4, and any other requirements set approved. Applicants state that the apparent from the application itself. The forth in this decision. combined GWI and RailAmerica Board can also condition the Service List Notice. The Board will railroads would handle only 2.8% of the Transaction to mitigate or eliminate any serve, as soon after September 19, 2012, carloads handled by freight railroads in deleterious effects on regional or as practicable, a notice containing the the United States and would earn only national transportation. official service list (the service-list 1.1% of the total gross freight revenue The Board accepts the application for notice). Each POR will be required to earned by those railroads. The consideration because it is in substantial serve upon all other PORs, within 10 Transaction involves the common compliance with the applicable days of the service date of the service- ownership of individual shortlines, each regulations governing minor list notice, copies of all filings limited in its geographic scope and transactions. See 49 U.S.C. 11321–26; 49 previously submitted by that party (to operating in different areas of the CFR pt. 1180. The Board reserves the the extent such filings have not United States. The Transaction, if right to require the filing of previously been served upon such other approved, would alter matters at the supplemental information as necessary parties). Each POR also will be required administrative level, but Applicants to complete the record. to file with the Board, within 10 days of Procedural Schedule. The Board has indicate that the existing operating the service date of the service-list considered Applicants’ request (filed plans governing each railroad would notice, a certificate of service indicating August 6, 2012) for an expedited continue unchanged. Thus, those that the service required by the procedural schedule under which the railroads would continue to operate and preceding sentence has been Board would issue its final decision compete in their own local markets. accomplished. Every filing made by a Our analysis of the effect on before the statutory deadline of 180 days after the filing of the application. In the POR after the service date of the service- competition appropriately examines not list notice must have its own certificate how many railroad holding companies interest of allowing time for the record to develop fully, the Board will not at of service indicating that all PORs on there are, or how many miles they the service list have been served with a operate, but rather whether the this time set a particular target date for its decision. Rather, after reviewing the copy of the filing. Members of the combination would have an adverse United States Congress (MOCs) and effect on shippers and communities. We record developed, we will decide whether an expedited procedural Governors (GOVs) are not parties of perform that analysis by looking at the record and need not be served with individual serving rail carriers (here, schedule is appropriate. For further information respecting dates, see the copies of filings, unless any Member or shortline carriers that are not Governor has requested to be, and is interconnected, with few exceptions), Appendix A (Procedural Schedule). Notice of Intent To Participate. Any designated as, a POR. rather than just the holding companies. Service of Decisions, Orders, and Based on a review of the application person who wishes to participate in this proceeding as a POR must file with the Notices. The Board will serve copies of and the careful description of the its decisions, orders, and notices only interchange points, it does not appear Board, no later than September 19, 2012, a notice of intent to participate, on those persons who are designated on that any shipper would have fewer the official service list as either POR, competitive rail alternatives as a result accompanied by a certificate of service indicating that the notice has been MOC, GOV, or Non-Party. All other of the Transaction, even in the four interested persons are encouraged to localities where GWI interconnects or properly served on the Secretary of Transportation, the Attorney General of secure copies of decisions, orders, and interchanges with RailAmerica because, notices via the Board’s Web site at as addressed in the application and the United States, and Messrs. Hynes and Coburn. ‘‘www.stb.dot.gov’’ under ‘‘E-LIBRARY/ supporting materials, the relevant lines Decisions & Notices.’’ either run in different directions or the If a request is made in the notice of Access to Filings. Under the Board’s affected shippers are served by multiple intent to participate to have more than one name added to the service list as a rules, any document filed with the railroads.3 Lastly, the public would POR representing a particular entity, the Board (including applications, 3 See e.g., App., V.S. of Kevin Neels 11–13 extra name will be added to the service pleadings, etc.) shall be promptly (stating that common ownership of the Tazewell list as a ‘‘Non-Party.’’ The list will furnished to interested persons on and Peoria Railroad and the Toledo, Peoria and reflect the Board’s policy of allowing request, unless subject to a protective Western Railway (TPW) in Peoria, Illinois would only one official representative per order. 49 CFR 1180.4(a)(3). The not have an anticompetitive effect because the affected customers are also served by Union Pacific party to be placed on the service list, as application and other filings in this and a barge terminal); id. 13–15 (stating that specified in Press Release No. 97–68 proceeding are available for inspection although the Illinois and Midland Railroad and dated August 18, 1997, announcing the in the library (Room 131) at the offices TPW ‘‘can theoretically interchange traffic at implementation of the Board’s ‘‘One of the Surface Transportation Board, 395 Sommer[, Illinois], no traffic has been interchanged between the railroads at that location in 15 years Party-One Representative’’ policy for E Street SW., in Washington, DC, and or more’’); id. 19–20 (stating that the common will also be available on the Board’s ownership of the Meridian and Bigbee Railroad and only have multiple interchange partners, but Web site at ‘‘www.stb.dot.gov’’ under the Alabama and Gulf Coast Railway would not multiple Class I interchange partners); id. 27–28 ‘‘E-LIBRARY/Filings.’’ In addition, the negatively affect competition because one line runs (stating that there is no overlap in territory north-south and the other east-west); id. 22–23 currently served by the RailAmerica line in Eugene, application may be obtained from (stating that the railroads that would fall under Oregon and territory currently served by the two Messrs. Hynes and Coburn at the common ownership in Columbus, Mississippi, not GWI lines in Eugene, Oregon.) addresses indicated above.

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This action will not significantly required significant agency resources.5 conditions, and other opposition due. affect either the quality of the human This disconnect is a result of the Board’s Rebuttal in support of the application environment or the conservation of current and restrictive rules for due. energy resources. classifying mergers, which base the TBD A public hearing or oral argument It is ordered: determination solely on competitive may be held. 1. The application in FD 35654 is impact even though such a limitation is TBD Close of evidentiary proceeding. accepted for consideration. nowhere to be found in 11325(c).6 TBD Date by which a final decision 2. The parties to this proceeding must Competitive issues are, without a doubt, will be served. comply with the procedural schedule the Board’s primary concern in merger TBD Date by which a final decision adopted by the Board in this proceeding review and I agree with the Board’s will become effective. as shown in Appendix A. preliminary determination with regard Holdings 3. The parties to this proceeding must to the likely competitive impact of this comply with the procedural merger. But because the Board’s review According to GWI, it controls, within requirements described in this decision. of minor and significant mergers is not the United States, one Class II rail 4. This decision is effective on limited to just competitive issues, we carrier, Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad, September 5, 2012. should not so severely limit the analysis Inc., and 59 Class III rail carriers: • Allegheny and Eastern Railroad, Decided: August 30, 2012. we employ to determine a merger’s significance. See Village of Barrington et LLC; By the Board, Chairman Elliott, and • The Aliquippa and Ohio River Commissioner Begeman. Vice Chairman al. v. Surface Transportation Board, 636 F.3d 650 (D.C. Cir. 2011) (Board has the Railroad Co.; Mulvey dissented with a separate • AN Railway, LLC; expression. authority to condition minor mergers on • environmental grounds); 49 CFR 1180.6 Company; Vice Chairman Mulvey, dissenting: • Arkansas Louisiana & Mississippi (requiring minor and significant merger Congress directed the Board to ensure Railroad Co.; applicants to submit information that certain procedural safeguards are • Atlantic and Western Railway, LP; regarding environmental issues, total followed when the Board reviews a rail • The , LLC; fixed charges, impacts on commuter/ transaction (not involving at least two • Chattahoochee Bay Railroad, Inc.; passenger rail transportation, etc.). Class I railroads) that is of ‘‘regional or • Chattahoochee Industrial Railroad; Although I would have classified the national transportation significance.’’ 49 • Chattooga and Chickamauga merger as being of regional or national U.S.C. 11325(c). Presently before the Railway Co.; transportation significance, based on the Board is a request to consolidate GWI • Columbus & Chattahoochee current record, I do not see an issue that and RailAmerica, the two largest Railroad, Inc.; would have prevented the Board from • shortline holding companies in the Columbus and Greenville Railway completing its review in less time than country. If approved, more than 100 Co.; allotted for significant mergers. • shortline railroads, operating in 37 The Columbus and Ohio River Rail states, would be consolidated under a Derrick A. Gardner, Road Co.; • , Inc.; single corporate umbrella. I believe that Clearance Clerk. • a transaction of this magnitude is of Corpus Christi Termini Railroad, Procedural Schedule Inc.; regional or national transportation • significance and, accordingly, should August 6, 2012 Motion for Protective The Dansville and Mount Morris Order filed. Application and Motion Railroad Co.; have been classified by the Board as • ‘‘significant’’ rather than ‘‘minor.’’ A to Establish Procedural Schedule East Railway, LP; • Inc.; ‘‘significant’’ classification would have filed. • September 5, 2012 Board notice of Fordyce and Princeton RR Co.; given interested parties and the Board • acceptance of application published , LP; more information and opportunity to • Genesee and Wyoming Railroad examine any concerns regarding the in the Federal Register. September 19, 2012 Notices of intent Co.; transaction. • to participate in this proceeding due. , LP; While I do not believe that every large • Georgia Southwestern Railroad, transaction merits a significant October 5, 2012 All comments, protests, requests for conditions, and Inc.; classification, the proposed transaction • any other evidence and argument in Golden Isles Terminal Railroad, would greatly change the ownership Inc.; structure of the short line industry. In opposition to the application, • including filings of DOJ and DOT, Hilton & Albany Railroad, Inc.; the past, this agency has been criticized • Illinois & Midland Railroad, Inc.; by some for allowing, over time and due. • October 26, 2012 Responses to KWT Railway, Inc.; many individual transactions, • comments, protests, requests for Little Rock & Western Railway, LP; significant consolidation of the Class I • Louisiana and Delta Railroad, Inc.; railroad industry. Although there • Luxapalila Valley Railroad, Inc.; 5 In Canadian National Ry.—Control—EJ&E West • remain many other shortline railroads Co., FD 35087 (STB served Nov. 26, 2007) (Cmr. The Co.; today, the present transaction would Mulvey, dissenting), the Board classified the • Maryland and Pennsylvania consolidate nearly 20% of the shortlines transaction as minor, but subsequently Railroad, LLC; in the country under a single owner. acknowledged that the high level of public • , Inc.; participation in the merger review was This agency has only once found a • Meridian & Bigbee Railroad, LLC; ‘‘unprecedented.’’ Canadian National, slip op. at 3 • transaction to be significant.4 Yet some (STB served Dec. 24, 2008). Ohio and purportedly ‘‘minor’’ transactions have 6 Section 11325(c) provides that certain Co.; resulted in significant opposition and procedures are to be followed ‘‘[i]f the application • Ohio Central Railroad, Inc.; involves a transaction other than the merger or • Ohio Southern Railroad, Inc.; control of at least two Class I railroads, as defined • 4 Pittsburg & Shawmut Railroad, LLC; Canadian Pacific Ry.—Control—Dakota, by the Board, which the Board has determined to • Minnesota & Eastern R.R., FD 35081 (STB served be of regional or national transportation The Pittsburgh & Ohio Central Dec. 27, 2007). significance * * *’’. Railroad Co.;

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• Portland & Western Railroad, Inc.; • Co., LLC; [Assistance for the hearing impaired is • Riceboro Southern Railway, LLC; • Co.; available through the Federal • Rochester & Southern Railroad, Inc.; • , LLC; Information Relay Service (FIRS) at: • Salt Lake City Southern Railroad • The Massena Terminal Railroad (800) 877–8339]. Co., Inc.; Co.; SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: RETAC • Savannah Port Terminal Railroad • Mid- Railroad, Inc.; • arose from a proceeding instituted by Inc.; , Inc.; the Board, in Establishment of a Rail • • Co.; Missouri & Northern Arkansas Energy Transportation Advisory • St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad Railroad Co., Inc.; Committee, STB Docket No. EP 670. • New England Central Railroad, Inc.; Co.; RETAC was formed to provide advice • • North Carolina & Virginia Railroad Talleyrand Terminal Railroad Co., and guidance to the Board, and to serve Co., LLC; Inc.; as a forum for discussion of emerging • Tazewell & Peoria Railroad, Inc.; • Otter Tail Valley Railroad Co., Inc.; • • Point Comfort & Northern Railway issues regarding the transportation by , LP; rail of energy resources, particularly, but • Co.; Co.; • • Puget Sound & Pacific Railroad; not necessarily limited to, coal, ethanol, , LP; and other biofuels. The purpose of this • The Warren & Trumbull Railroad Rockdale, • meeting is to continue discussions Co.; Sandow & Southern Railroad Co.; • • San Diego & Imperial Valley regarding issues such as rail , LLC; performance, capacity constraints, • Willamette & Pacific Railroad, Inc.; Railroad Co., Inc.; • infrastructure planning and • Wilmington Terminal Railroad, LP; San Joaquin Valley Railroad Co.; • development, and effective coordination • Co.; South Carolina Central Railroad among suppliers, carriers, and users of • Yorkrail, LLC; Co., LLC; • energy resources. Potential agenda items • The Youngstown & Austintown Texas Northeastern Railroad; • Three Notch Railway, LLC; include presentations by the Energy Railroad, Inc.; and • • Co. Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway Information Administration on its latest GWI explains that Allegheny & Corp.; projections on coal supply and short- • Corp.; and long-term oil production; a Eastern Railroad, LLC and Pittsburg & • Shawmut Railroad, LLC are non- Wellsboro & Corning Railroad, LLC; discussion of tank car supply and and demand issues; industry segment operating carriers that own rail lines • operated by Buffalo Pittsburgh Railroad, Wiregrass Central Railway, LLC. reports by RETAC members; and a RR Acquisition Holding, LLC, a Inc.; and, Maryland and Pennsylvania roundtable discussion. noncarrier affiliate of Fortress Railroad, LLC and Yorkrail, LLC are also The meeting, which is open to the Investment Group, currently owns non-operating carriers that own rail public, will be conducted pursuant to approximately 60% of RailAmerica’s lines operated by York Railway RETAC’s charter and Board procedures. publicly traded shares. Company. The Board recently granted Further communications about this Western Kentucky Railway, LLC [FR Doc. 2012–21846 Filed 9–4–12; 8:45 am] meeting may be announced through the Board’s Web site at WWW.STB.DOT. authority to abandon all of its remaining BILLING CODE 4915–01–P rail lines that have been inactive since GOV. This action will not significantly prior to 2005. According to RailAmerica, it operates DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION affect either the quality of the human environment or the conservation of the following Class III railroads: Surface Transportation Board • Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway LLC; energy resources. • Arizona & California Railroad Co.; [STB Docket No. EP 670 (Sub-No. 1)] Authority: 49 U.S.C. 721, 49 U.S.C. 11101; • Bauxite & Northern Railway Co.; 49 U.S.C. 11121. • California Northern Railroad Co.; Notice of Rail Energy Transportation Decided: August 29, 2012. • Advisory Committee Meeting Carolina Piedmont Division; By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, • Cascade and Columbia River AGENCY: Surface Transportation Board, Director, Office of Proceedings. Railroad Co.; Department of Transportation. Derrick A. Gardner, • Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad, ACTION: Clearance Clerk. Inc.; Notice of Rail Energy • The Central Railroad Company of Transportation Advisory Committee [FR Doc. 2012–21801 Filed 9–4–12; 8:45 am] ; meeting. BILLING CODE 4915–01–P • Central Railroad Company of SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of a Indianapolis; meeting of the Rail Energy • DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Chesapeake & Albemarle Railroad Transportation Advisory Committee Co., Inc.; (RETAC), pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of United States Mint • Chicago, Ft. Wayne & Eastern; • the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as Conecuh Valley Railway; amended. Price for the 2012 Annual Uncirculated • Connecticut Southern Railroad, DATES: The meeting will be held on Dollar Coin Set Inc.; Thursday, September 20, 2012, at 9 • Dallas, Garland & Northeastern AGENCY: United States Mint, Department a.m., E.D.T. Railroad, Inc.; of the Treasury. • ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in , LLC; ACTION: Notice. • Grand Rapids Eastern Railroad Inc.; the Hearing Room on the first floor of • Huron & Eastern Railway Company, the Board’s headquarters at 395 E Street SUMMARY: The United States Mint is Inc.; SW., Washington, DC 20423. announcing a price of $54.95 for the • Indiana & Ohio Railway Company; FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 2012 Annual Uncirculated Dollar Coin • Indiana Southern Railroad, LLC; Scott M. Zimmerman (202) 245–0386. Set. This set contains the following

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