53770 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 170 / Thursday, September 2, 2004 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Western Railway, L.P.; M&B Railroad, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION L.L.C.; , L.P.; Surface Transportation Board , L.P.; Western Surface Transportation Board [STB Finance Docket No. 34525] Kentucky Railway, L.L.C., and Wilmington Terminal Railroad, L.P. [STB Finance Docket No. 34523] K. Earl Durden, Rail Management (referred to as the RMC Rail Group). Corporation, and Rail Partners, L.P.— KWT Railway, Inc.—Acquisition and Applicants state that: (1) The railroads Continuance in Control Exemption— Operation Exemption—Rail Line of do not connect with any other rail lines Riceboro Southern Railway, L.L.C. CSX Transportation, Inc. in applicants’ corporate family; (2) the K. Earl Durden (Durden), Rail continuance in control of RSOR is not KWT Railway, Inc. (KWT), a Class III Management Corporation (RMC),1 and part of a series of anticipated rail carrier, has filed a verified notice of Rail Partners, L.P. (Partners) transactions that would connect exemption under 49 CFR 1150.41 to (collectively, applicants), have filed a applicants’ rail lines; and (3) the acquire by purchase from CSX verified notice of exemption to continue transaction does not involve a Class I Transportation, Inc. (CSXT), and operate in control of Riceboro Southern rail carrier. Therefore, the transaction is approximately 12.8 miles of rail line Railway, L.L.C. (RSOR), upon RSOR’s exempt from the prior approval extending from milepost OND 116.8 at becoming a rail carrier. requirements of 49 U.S.C. 11323. See 49 McKenzie, TN (Valuation Station The transaction was expected to be CFR 1180.2(d)(2). 6166+68), to milepost OND 129.6 at consummated on or after August 25, Dresden, TN (Valuation Station 2004. Under 49 U.S.C. 10502(g), the Board 6848+78.8), in Weakley and Carroll This transaction is related to a may not use its exemption authority to Counties, TN. The transaction also simultaneously filed verified notice of relieve a rail carrier of its statutory includes incidental trackage rights exemption in STB Finance Docket No. obligation to protect the interests of its granted by CSXT to KWT over 34524, Riceboro Southern Railway, employees. Section 11326(c), however, approximately 23 miles of CSXT’s main L.L.C.—Acquisition and Operation does not provide for labor protection for line from milepost OND 116.8 at Exemption—Rail Line of CSX transactions under sections 11324 and McKenzie to milepost OND 93.8 at Transportation, Inc., wherein: (1) RSOR 11325 that involve only Class III rail CSXT’s Bruceton, TN yard limit. The seeks to acquire by purchase from CSX carriers. Accordingly, the Board may not transaction will extend KWT’s existing Transportation, Inc., (CSXT), and impose labor protective conditions here, rail line and will facilitate interchange operate approximately 18.8 route miles because all of the carriers involved are at CSXT’s Bruceton Yard from the west. of rail line between milepost S512.2 at Class III carriers. KWT certifies that its projected Ogeechee, GA (near Richmond Hill), in If the verified notice contains false or revenues as a result of this transaction Bryan County, GA, and milepost S531.0 will not result in the creation of a Class at Riceboro, GA, in Liberty County, GA; misleading information, the exemption is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the I or Class II rail carrier, and that they and (2) RSOR will obtain incidental will not exceed $5 million annually. trackage rights from CSXT over exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) approximately 14 miles of CSXT’s line may be filed at any time. The filing of The transaction is scheduled to be from milepost S512.2 at Ogeechee to a petition to revoke will not stay the consummated within 30 days after the milepost S498.0 at CSXT’s Southover transaction. effective date of the exemption (7 days after the exemption was filed). Yard at Savannah, GA. Through these An original and 10 copies of all If the verified notice contains false or trackage rights, RSOR will access the pleadings, referring to STB Finance misleading information, the exemption Southover Yard for the purpose of Docket No. 34525, must be filed with is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the interchanging with CSXT from the the Surface Transportation Board, 1925 exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) south. K Street, NW., Washington, DC 20423– At the time applicants filed this may be filed at any time. The filing of 0001. In addition, a copy of each notice, Durden, RMC, and Partners a petition to revoke does not pleading must be served on Andrew B. controlled 14 Class III rail carriers automatically stay the transaction. Kolesar III, Slover & Loftus, 1224 located in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, An original and 10 copies of all Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Seventeenth Street, NW., Washington, pleadings, referring to STB Finance North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and DC 20036. Docket No. 34523, must be filed with . They are: AN Railway, Board decisions and notices are the Surface Transportation Board, 1925 L.L.C.; Atlantic & Western Railway, L.P.; available on our Web site at http:// K Street, NW., Washington, DC 20423– The , L.L.C.; Copper www.stb.dot.gov. 0001. In addition, one copy of each Basin Railway, Inc.; East Tennessee Decided: August 25, 2004. pleading must be served on Andrew B. Railway, L.P.; , L.P.; Kolesar III, Slover & Loftus, 1224 , L.P. (GC); 2 By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Seventeenth Street, NW., Washington, KWT Railway, Inc.; Little Rock & Director, Office of Proceedings. DC 20036. Vernon A. Williams, Board decisions and notices are 1 RMC’s former corporate name was Rail Secretary. available on our Web site at http:// Management & Consulting Corporation. [FR Doc. 04–19927 Filed 9–1–04; 8:45 am] www.stb.dot.gov. 2 Applicants note that GC connects with CSXT’s Southover Yard from the north. Applicants state BILLING CODE 4915–01–P Decided: August 25, 2004. that there will be no connection between the lines By the Board, David M. Konschnik, of RSOR and GC. The point at which RSOR will Director, Office of Proceedings. access the Southover Yard and the point at which GC accesses the Southover Yard are entirely Vernon A. Williams, separated by CSXT yard track, thus precluding a Secretary. direct interchange between RSOR and GC. Moreover, there are no plans to interchange traffic [FR Doc. 04–19928 Filed 9–1–04; 8:45 am] even indirectly among the RSOR, CSXT, and GC. BILLING CODE 4915–01–P

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