Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 157 / Thursday, August 14, 1997 / Notices
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Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 157 / Thursday, August 14, 1997 / Notices 43577 addition, CCPN will acquire incidental Corpus Christi Authority of Nueces of the Secretary, Case Control Unit, 1925 trackage rights over lines of UP between County, Texas, Union Pacific Railroad K Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20423± milepost 145.9 and milepost 149.0, Company, Southern Pacific 0001. In addition, a copy of each together with the ``loop'' trackage off of Transportation Company, The Texas pleading must be served on Eric M. the main line, all in the terminal area of Mexican Railway Company and The Hocky, Esq., Gollatz, Griffin & Ewing, Corpus Christi, TX, a distance of Burlington Northern and Santa Fe P.C., 213 West Miner Street, West approximately 3.1 miles. Railway Company, wherein CCPN seeks Chester, PA 19381±0796. The transaction was expected to be to acquire and operate certain rail lines Decided: August 5, 1997. from Port of Corpus Christi Authority of consummated on or after August 1, By the Board, David M. Konschnik, 1997. Nueces County, Texas. Director, Office of Proceedings. GWI directly controls one existing This transaction is related to STB Vernon A. Williams, Finance Docket No. 33437, Genesee & Class II rail carrier subsidiary: Buffalo & Secretary, Wyoming Inc.ÐContinuance in Control Pittsburgh Railroad, Inc., operating in ExemptionÐCorpus Christi Terminal New York and Pennsylvania. GWI [FR Doc. 97±21548 Filed 8±13±97; 8:45 am] Railroad, Inc., wherein the Genesee & directly controls 11 existing Class III rail BILLING CODE 4915±00±P Wyoming Inc. has concurrently filed a carrier subsidiaries: Genesee & verified notice to continue in control of Wyoming Railroad Company, Inc., DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION CCPN, upon its becoming a Class III rail operating in western New York; Dansville and Mount Morris Railroad carrier. Surface Transportation Board If the verified notice contains false or Company, operating in New York; misleading information, the exemption Rochester & Southern Railroad, Inc., [STB Finance Docket No. 33439] is void ab initio. Petitions to reopen the operating in New York; Louisiana & proceeding to revoke the exemption Delta Railroad, Inc., operating in Kauri, Inc. and StatesRail LLCÐ under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) may be filed Louisiana; Bradford Industrial Rail, Inc., Continuance in ControlÐAlabama & at any time. The filing of a petition to operating in Pennsylvania and New Gulf Coast Railway LLC York; Allegheny & Eastern Railroad, revoke will not automatically stay the Kauri, Inc. (Kauri) and StatesRail LLC Inc., operating in Pennsylvania; transaction. (StatesRail) filed a notice of exemption Willamette & Pacific Railroad, Inc., An original and 10 copies of all under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(2) and 1180.4(g) pleadings, referring to STB Finance operating in Oregon; GWI Switching Services, operating in Texas; Illinois & to continue in control of Alabama & Docket No. 33436, must be filed with Gulf Coast Railway LLC (ALA) upon the Surface Transportation Board, Office Midland Railroad, Inc., operating in Illinois; Pittsburg & Shawmut Railroad, ALA's becoming a Class III rail carrier. of the Secretary, Case Control Unit, 1925 The transaction is expected to be K Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20423± Inc., operating in Pennsylvania; and Portland & Western Railroad, Inc., consummated on or after September 1, 0001. In addition, a copy of each 1997. pleading must be served on Eric M. operating in Oregon. GWI indirectly controls 3 Class III rail ALA, a noncarrier, has concurrently Hocky, Esq., Gollatz, Griffin & Ewing, carriers through its ownership of Rail filed a notice of exemption in Alabama P.C., 213 West Miner Street, West Link, Inc.: Carolina Coastal Railway, & Gulf Coast Railway LLCÐAcquisition Chester, PA 19381±0796. Inc., operating in North Carolina; and Operation ExemptionÐThe Decided: August 5, 1997. Commonwealth Railway, Inc., operating Burlington Northern and Santa Fe By the Board, David M. Konschnik, in Virginia; and Talleyrand Terminal Railway Company, STB Finance Docket Director, Office of Proceedings. Railroad, Inc., operating in Florida. No. 33438, to acquire from The Vernon A. Williams, GWI states that: (i) The rail lines to be Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Secretary. operated by CCPN do not connect with Railway Company (BNSF) and operate a [FR Doc. 97±21547 Filed 8±13±97; 8:45 am] any railroad in the corporate family; (ii) 140.58-mile rail line between milepost 776.10 near Kimbrough, AL, and BILLING CODE 4915±00±P the transaction is not part of a series of anticipated transactions that would milepost 916.68 in Pensacola, FL. ALA connect CCPN with any railroads in the will also acquire incidental trackage DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION corporate family; and (iii) the rights over 13.6 miles of BNSF's line transaction does not involve a Class I between milepost 776.10 near Surface Transportation Board carrier. Therefore, the transaction is Kimbrough, AL, and milepost 762.5 near Magnolia, AL. ALA will also be [STB Finance Docket No. 33437] exempt from the prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 11323. See 49 temporarily assigned trackage rights Genesee & Wyoming Inc.Ð CFR 1180.2(d)(2). over a 43.1-mile line of CSX Continuance in Control ExemptionÐ As a condition to this exemption, the Transportation, Inc., between milepost Corpus Christi Terminal Railroad, Inc. continuance in control of CCPN by GWI L621.7 near Atmore, AL, and milepost is subject to the labor protection L635.4 near Catonment, FL, pending Genesee & Wyoming, Inc. (GWI) has requirements of 49 U.S.C. 11326(b). completion of repairs to the line to be filed a notice of exemption to continue If the notice contains false or acquired from BNSF. in control of the Corpus Christi misleading information, the exemption Kauri, a noncarrier, through its Terminal Railroad, Inc. (CCPN), upon is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the noncarrier subsidiary, StatesRail, CCPN's becoming a Class III railroad. exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) controls: (1) Kiamichi Railroad The transaction was expected to be may be filed at any time. The filing of Company, L.L.C. (Kiamichi), which consummated on or after August 1, a petition to revoke will not operates lines in Arkansas, Oklahoma, 1997. automatically stay the transaction. and Texas; and (2) through its This transaction is related to STB An original and 10 copies of all noncarrier subsidiary StatesRail, Inc., Finance Docket No. 33436, Corpus pleadings, referring to STB Finance and its noncarrier subsidiary, Kyle Christi Terminal Railroad, Inc.ÐLease Docket No. 33437, must be filed with Railways, Inc., controls: (a) Arizona and Operation ExemptionÐPort of the Surface Transportation Board, Office Eastern Railway Company, which 43578 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 157 / Thursday, August 14, 1997 / Notices operates lines in Arizona; (b) Eastern DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Alabama Railway Company, which operates lines in Alabama; (c) Kyle Surface Transportation Board Surface Transportation Board Railroad Company, which operates lines [STB Finance Docket No. 33432] [STB Docket No. AB±33 (Sub±No. 113)] in Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska; (d) San Joaquin Valley Railroad Company, Paducah & Louisville RailwayÐ Union Pacific Railroad CompanyÐ which operates lines in California; and Trackage Rights ExemptionÐCSX Discontinuance of Trackage Rights (e) SWKR Operating Co., which operates Transportation, Inc. and AbandonmentÐIn Natrona and lines in Arizona. 1 Converse Counties, WY CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT) has As noted, StatesRail controls agreed to grant overhead trackage rights On July 25, 1997, Union Pacific Kiamichi and would be in control of to Paducah & Louisville Railway (P&L) Railroad Company (UP) filed with the ALA upon its becoming a carrier. between the P&L/CSXT connection at Surface Transportation Board, Kauri states that: (1) The rail lines to Madisonville, KY, at or near milepost Washington, DC 20423, an application be acquired by ALA will not connect OOH 275, and the Providence 1 Mine for permission for the abandonment of with other rail lines under Kauri's or and Diamond J Mine (Mines) located on and discontinuance of service on a line StatesRail's control or with any CSXT's Morganfield Branch, at or near of railroad known as the Casper Branch railroads within their corporate family; mileposts MB 288.8 and MB 294.1, extending from railroad milepost 590.0 (2) the continuance in control is not part respectively, a distance of to the end of the line at milepost 607.8, of a series of anticipated transactions approximately 18.8 miles in Hopkins near Casper (Air Base), a distance of that would connect the railroads with and Webster Counties, KY. 17.8 miles, in Natrona County, WY, and each other or any railroad in the The transaction is scheduled to be for discontinuance of UP's trackage corporate family; and (3) the transaction consummated on August 8, 1997. rights over The Burlington Northern and does not involve a Class I railroad. The The purpose of the trackage rights is Santa Fe Railway Company trackage transaction therefore is exempt from the to allow P&L to handle movements of from UP milepost 532.5 near Orin to UP prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. coal from the Mines to the BRT milepost 600.0 near Casper, a distance 11323. See 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(2). Terminal for blending and for barge of 67.5 miles in Natrona and Converse Under 49 U.S.C. 10502(g), the Board movement beyond to the Gallatin Steam Counties, Wyoming. The line includes may not use its exemption authority to Plant of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the non-agency stations of Strouds at relieve a rail carrier of its statutory and to handle empties via the reverse milepost 595.0, Casper at milepost obligation to protect the interests of its route under contract PAL±C±0761. 599.7, and Air Base at milepost 607.5 employees.