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certain programmed track, roadbed and DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION will also provide local rail service to structural maintenance.2 shippers located on the line. Surface Transportation Board As a condition to this exemption, any As a condition to this exemption, any employees affected by the trackage employees affected by the trackage [STB Finance Docket No. 34848] rights will be protected by the rights will be protected by the conditions imposed in Norfolk and conditions imposed in Norfolk and The Kansas City Western Ry. Co.—Trackage Rights—BN, Western Ry. Co.—Trackage Rights—BN, Company—Trackage Rights 354 I.C.C. 605 (1978), as modified in 354 I.C.C. 605 (1978), as modified in Exemption—The Mexican Railway Company Mendocino Coast Ry., Inc.—Lease and Mendocino Coast Ry., Inc.—Lease and Operate, 360 I.C.C. 653 (1980). Operate, 360 I.C.C. 653 (1980), and any The Texas Mexican Railway Company This notice is filed under 49 CFR employee affected by the (Tex Mex) has agreed to grant local and 1180.2(d)(7). If the notice contains false discontinuance of those trackage rights overhead trackage rights to The Kansas or misleading information, the will be protected by the conditions set City Southern Railway Company exemption is void ab initio. Petitions to out in Oregon Short Line R. Co.— (KCSR),1 to permit KCSR to operate over revoke the exemption under 49 U.S.C. Abandonment—Goshen, 360 I.C.C. 91 its entire line of railroad, approximately 10502(d) may be filed at any time. The (1979). 157 miles, between milepost 0.0 at filing of a petition to revoke will not This notice is filed under 49 CFR Laredo, TX, and milepost 157.0 at automatically stay the transaction. 1180.2(d)(8). If the notice contains false Corpus Christi, TX, including access to An original and 10 copies of all or misleading information, the all sidings, yards and connections pleadings, referring to STB Finance exemption is void ab inito. Petitions to thereto. Docket No. 34848, must be filed with This notice is related to a revoke the exemption under 49 U.S.C. the Surface Transportation Board, 1925 concurrently filed notice of exemption 10502(d) may be filed at any time. The K Street, NW., Washington, DC 20423– in STB Finance Docket No. 34849, filing of a petition to revoke will not 0001. In addition, a copy of each Kansas City Southern, The Kansas City pleading must be served on Robert B. automatically stay the transaction. Southern Railway Company, and The Terry, 427 West 12th Street, Kansas An original and 10 copies of all Texas Mexican Railway Company— City, MO 64105, and William A. pleadings, referring to STB Finance Exemption for Transactions Within a Mullins, 2401 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Docket No. 34857, must be filed with Corporate Family, which involves the Suite 300, Washington, DC 20037. the Surface Transportation Board, 1925 assignment to, and acquisition by, KCSR Board decisions and notices are K Street, NW., Washington, DC 20423– of all of Tex Mex’s trackage and available on our Web site at http:// 0001. In addition, a copy of each operating rights, generally: (1) Over www.stb.dot.gov. pleading must be served on William A. lines of Decided: April 7, 2006. Company (UP) between Beaumont and Mullins, 2401 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20037. Houston, TX; (2) over lines of Houston Director, Office of Proceedings. Belt & Terminal Railway Company Board decisions and notices are Vernon A. Williams, (HBT) in and around Houston; and (3) available on our Web site at http:// over lines of UP between Houston and Secretary. www.stb.dot.gov. Corpus Christi and Robstown, TX. [FR Doc. E6–5550 Filed 4–14–06; 8:45 am] Decided: April 11, 2006. The parties state that the transaction BILLING CODE 4915–01–P By the Board, David M. Konschnik, was scheduled to be consummated on April 1, 2006. However, on March 29, Director, Office of Proceedings. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Vernon A. Williams, 2006, the record in the concurrently filed notice of exemption was Secretary. Surface Transportation Board supplemented, thereby causing the [FR Doc. 06–3620 Filed 4–14–06; 8:45 am] official filing date for both notices to be [STB Finance Docket No. 34849] BILLING CODE 4915–01–M March 29, 2006. Therefore, the earliest this transaction could have been Kansas City Southern, The Kansas consummated was April 5, 2006 (the City Southern Railway Company, and effective date of the exemption).2 The Texas Mexican Railway This transaction, in conjunction with Company—Exemption for the assignment and acquisition of Tex Transactions Within a Corporate Family 2 Applicants state that Tex Mex has operated over Mex’s trackage and operating rights in the Glidden Subdivision via trackage rights since the related notice of exemption, will Kansas City Southern (KCS), The 1996. On March 29, 2006, in STB Finance Docket allow KCSR to provide single-line Kansas City Southern Railway Company No. 34849, Kansas City Southern, The Kansas City service from Kansas City to Laredo, and (KCSR), and The Texas Mexican Southern Railway Company, and The Texas to market the route as a KCSR route Railway Company (Tex Mex), have filed Mexican Railway Company—Exemption for without having to include Tex Mex in a verified notice of exemption for a Transactions Within a Corporate Family, applicants the routing or the bill of lading. KCSR filed a verified notice of exemption involving the transaction within a corporate family. assignment to, and acquisition by, KCSR of all of The transaction involves the assignment 1 Tex Mex’s trackage and operating rights. Also on A draft copy of the trackage rights agreement to, and acquisition by, KCSR of all of March 29, in STB Finance Docket No. 34848, The was filed with the notice of exemption. Applicants state that a copy of the executed agreement will be Tex Mex’s trackage and operating rights. Kansas City Southern Railway Company—Trackage filed with the Board within the time frame specified The trackage rights agreements and Rights Exemption—The Texas Mexican Railway at 49 CFR 1180.6(a)(7)(ii). mileposts governing Tex Mex’s trackage Company, Tex Mex agreed to grant KCSR local and 2 Under 49 CFR 1180.4(g), a railroad must file a rights are as follows: (1) An agreement overhead trackage rights over its entire 157-mile rail verified notice of the transaction with the Board at line between Laredo and Corpus Christi, TX. All least one week in advance of consummation, in dated June 16, 1997, between Southern three related notices are being published and served order to qualify for an exemption under 49 CFR Pacific Transportation Company (SP) simultaneously. 1180.2(d). and Tex Mex, granting Tex Mex trackage

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