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20590, Fax Number 202–366–4329, e- DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Board decisions and notices are mail [email protected]. The meeting available on our website at will be held at the Tysons Westpark Surface Transportation Board ‘‘WWW.STB.DOT.GOV.’’ Hotel, 8401 Westpark Drive, McLean, Decided: July 13, 1999. [STB Finance Docket No. 33781] VA. By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of Proceedings. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Indiana & Ohio Rail Passenger Delia Lopez, (202) 366–1810. Corp.ÐTrackage Rights ExemptionÐ Vernon A. Williams, Indiana & Ohio Rail Corp. and The Secretary. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NHTSA Central Railroad Company of Indiana [FR Doc. 99–18331 Filed 7–20–99; 8:45 am] holds a regular, quarterly meeting to BILLING CODE 4915±00±P answer questions from the public and Indiana & Ohio Rail Corp. (I&O) and the regulated industries regarding the The Central Railroad Company of agency’s vehicle regulatory program. Indiana (CIND) have agreed to grant DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Questions on aspects of the agency’s local trackage rights 1 to The Indiana & research and development activities that Ohio Rail Passenger Corp. (IORP) for the Surface Transportation Board relate directly to ongoing regulatory operation of rail passenger service from [STB Finance Docket No. 33778] actions should be submitted, as in the Cincinnati, OH, at M.P. 0.0, to M.P. past, to the agency’s Safety Performance 81.0, near Shelbyville, IN, a distance of Louisville & Indiana Railroad Standards Office. The purpose of this 81.0 miles. This transaction is expected CompanyÐTrackage Rights meeting is to focus on those phases of to be consummated on or after July 23, ExemptionÐNew York Central Lines, 1 NHTSA activities which are technical, 1999. LLC and CSX Transportation, Inc. The purpose of the trackage rights is interpretative or procedural in nature. to permit IORP to conduct rail passenger New York Central Lines, LLC (NYC), Transcripts of these meetings will be operations over the lines of CIND and as owner, and CSX Transportation, Inc. available for public inspection in the (CSXT), as operator, have agreed to I&O. grant overhead trackage rights to DOT Docket in Washington, DC, within This notice is filed under 49 CFR Louisville & Indiana Railroad Company four weeks after the meeting. Copies of 1180.2(d)(7). If it contains false or (L&I) as follows: (1) Approximately 5.5 the transcripts will then be available at misleading information, the exemption miles over NYC main line, former ten cents a page, (length has varied from is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the Consolidated Rail Corporation (CRC) 80 to 150 pages) upon request to DOT exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) Louisville Secondary, (a) from the Docket, Room PL–401, 400 Seventh may be filed at any time. The filing of connection between NYC and L&I Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590. The a petition to revoke will not milepost 4.0 +/¥at Indianapolis, IN, DOT Docket is open to the public room automatically stay the transaction. and the connection in the southeast 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The transcript Under 49 U.S.C. 10502(g), the Board quadrant of the former Indianapolis may be also accessed electronically at may not use its exemption authority to Union Belt running track (former http://dms.dot.gov.at docket NHTSA– relieve a rail carrier of its statutory Indiana Union Belt Railroad) milepost 1999–5087. Questions to be answered at obligation to protect the interests of its 6.0 +/¥known as Dale, a distance of the quarterly meeting should be employees. Section 11326(c), however, approximately 2.7 miles; and (b) from organized by categories to help us does not provide for labor protection for this connection in the southeast process the questions into an agenda transactions under sections 11324 and quadrant of running track in the vicinity form more efficiently. Sample format: 11325 that involve only Class III rail of the former Indianapolis Union Belt carriers. Because this transaction I. Rulemaking Railroad milepost 6.0 +/¥and the involves Class III rail carriers only, the entrance to Hawthorne Yard at or near A. Crash avoidance Board, under the statute, may not B. Crashworthiness milepost 8.8 +/¥, a distance of impose labor protective conditions for C. Other Rulemakings approximately 2.8 miles; and (2) this transaction. II. Consumer Information approximately 7.8 miles over NYC main An original and 10 copies of all III. Miscellaneous line, former CRC Louisville Secondary, pleadings, referring to STB Finance (a) from the connection between NYC NHTSA will provide auxiliary aids to Docket No. 33781, must be filed with participants as necessary. Any person the Surface Transportation Board, Office 1 By decision served July 23, 1998, the Board desiring assistance of ‘‘auxiliary aids’’ of the Secretary, Case Control Unit, 1925 approved, subject to certain conditions, the (e.g., sign-language interpreter, K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20423– acquisition of control of Conrail, and the division 0001. In addition, one copy of each of the assets thereof, by CSX Corporation and CSX telecommunications devices for deaf Transportation, Inc. (referred to collectively as CSX) persons (TDDs), readers, taped texts, pleading must be served on Robert L. and Norfolk Southern Corporation and Norfolk brailled materials, or large print Calhoun, Esq., Redmon, Boykin & Southern Railway Company (referred to collectively Braswell, L.L.P. 510 King Street, Suite as NS). See CSX Corporation and CSX materials and/or a magnifying device), 301, Alexandria, VA 22314. Transportation, Inc., Norfolk Southern Corporation please contact Delia Lopez on (202) and Norfolk Southern Railway Company—Control 366–1810, by COB September 13, 1999. and Operating Leases/Agreements—Conrail Inc. 1 The trackage rights agreement filed in STB and Consolidated Rail Corporation, STB Finance Issued: July 15, 1999. Finance Docket No. 33781 is a confirmation of and Docket No. 33388, Decision No. 89 (STB served July L. Robert Shelton, an amendment to an earlier trackage rights 23, 1998). Acquisition of control of Conrail was agreement, dated June 4, 1996, between the IORP effected by CSX and NS on August 22, 1998. The Associate Administrator for Safety and certain other Class III carriers. See The Indiana division of the assets of Conrail was effected by Performance Standards. & Ohio Rail Passenger Corporation—Acquisition by CSX and NS on June 1, 1999. See CSX Corporation Trackage Rights and Operation Exemption— and CSX Transportation, Inc., Norfolk Southern [FR Doc. 99–18644 Filed 7–20–99; 8:45 am] Cincinnati Terminal Railway Corp., Indiana and Corporation and Norfolk Southern Railway BILLING CODE 4910±59±M Ohio Railroad Company, Indiana & Ohio Railway Company—Control and Operating Leases/ Company, Inc., and Indiana & Ohio Central Agreements—Conrail Inc. and Consolidated Rail Railroad Company, Inc., STB Finance Docket No. Corporation, STB Finance Docket No. 33388, 32976 (STB served June 21, 1996). Decision No. 127 (STB served May 20, 1999).

VerDate 18-JUN-99 15:18 Jul 20, 1999 Jkt 183247 PO 00000 Frm 00073 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\A21JY3.285 pfrm12 PsN: 21JYN1 39186 Federal Register / Vol. 64, No. 139 / Wednesday, July 21, 1999 / Notices and L&I milepost 4.0 +/¥at pleading must be served on Rose- The transaction was scheduled to be Indianapolis, IN, and the connection in Michele Weinryb, Esq., Weiner, consummated on or after July 8, 1999, the northeast quadrant of former CRC Brodsky, Sidman & Kider, P.C., 1350 the effective date of the exemption. Indianapolis Line milepost 283.7 +/¥, a New York Avenue, NW, Suite 800, The purpose of the trackage rights is distance of approximately 4 miles; (b) Washington, DC 20005–4797. to enhance rail competition for from this connection milepost 283.7 +/ Board decisions and notices are movements of traffic on the east side of ¥of the former Indianapolis Line and available on our website at the Hudson River. milepost 283.1 ‘‘WWW.STB.DOT.GOV.’’ As a condition to this exemption, any +/¥of the former CRC Indianapolis By the Board, David M. Konschnik, employees affected by the trackage Line, a distance of approximately 0.6 Director, Office of Proceedings. rights will be protected by the miles; (c) from CRC Indianapolis Line Vernon A. Williams, conditions imposed in Norfolk and milepost 283.1 Secretary. Western Ry. Co.—Trackage Rights—BN, +/¥connection to milepost 109.3 +/¥of 354 I.C.C. 605 (1978), as modified in [FR Doc. 99–18330 Filed 7–20–99; 8:45 am] the former CRC Shelbyville Secondary Mendocino Coast Ry., Inc.—Lease and and from this connection in the former BILLING CODE 4915±00±P Operate, 360 I.C.C. 653 (1980). CRC Shelbyville Secondary milepost This notice is filed under 49 CFR 109.3 +/¥and CRC Shelbyville DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 1180.2(d)(7). If it contains false or Secondary milepost 106.9 +/¥, a misleading information, the exemption distance of approximately 2.4 miles; and Surface Transportation Board is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the (d) from CRC Shelbyville Secondary exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) milepost 106.9 +/¥connection to former [STB Finance Docket No. 33776] may be filed at any time. The filing of Indianapolis Union Belt running track Delaware and Hudson Railway a petition to revoke will not milepost 8 +/¥in the southeast Company, Inc.ÐTrackage Rights automatically stay the transaction. quadrant and from this connection to ExemptionÐNew York State An original and 10 copies of all former Indianapolis Union Belt running Department of Transportation pleadings, referring to STB Finance track milepost 8 +/¥and the entrance to Docket No. 33776, must be filed with Hawthorne Yard in the northeast New York State Department of the Surface Transportation Board, Office quadrant at or near milepost 8.8 +/¥of Transportation has agreed to grant full of the Secretary, Case Control Unit, 1925 the Indianapolis Union Belt running service trackage rights to Delaware and K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20423– track, a distance of approximately 0.8 Hudson Railway Company, Inc. (D&H), 0001. In addition, one copy of each 2 miles. over the South Bronx Oak Point Link, pleading must be served on Eric von The transaction was scheduled to be which is approximately 10,000 feet of Salzen, Hogan & Hartson L.L.P., 555 consummated on or after July 8, 1999, railroad track from 800 feet north of the Thirteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC the effective date of the exemption. north end of the track support structure 20004–1109. The purpose of the trackage rights is south to Harlem River Yard, then east Board decisions and notices are to permit L&I to interchange certain 6,000 feet along an easement through available on our website at traffic with the Norfolk Southern the Harlem River Yard to the ‘‘WWW.STB.DOT.GOV.’’ Railway Company at Hawthorne Yard, northeastern end of the easement at the thereby promoting operating Harlem River Yard property line at East By the Board, David M. Konschnik, efficiencies. Director, Office of Proceedings. 132nd Street between Walnut and Decided: July 14, 1999. As a condition to this exemption, any Willow Streets.1 According to employees affected by the trackage applicants, the notice of exemption in Vernon A. Williams, rights will be protected by the STB Finance Docket No. 33776 is filed Secretary. conditions imposed in Norfolk and in connection with Surface [FR Doc. 99–18504 Filed 7–20–99; 8:45 am] Western Ry. Co.—Trackage Rights—BN, Transportation Board Decision Nos. 109 BILLING CODE 4915±00±P 354 I.C.C. 605 (1978), as modified in and 123 in STB Finance Docket No. Mendocino Coast Ry., Inc.-Lease and 33388 (Sub-No. 69).2 Operate, 360 I.C.C. 653 (1980). DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION This notice is filed under 49 CFR 1 In Delaware and Hudson Railway Company, 1180.2(d)(7). If it contains false or Inc.—Trackage Rights Exemption—CSX Surface Transportation Board misleading information, the exemption Transportation, Inc. and New York Central Lines LLC, STB Finance Docket No. 33771 (STB served [STB Docket No. AB±227 (Sub±No. 9X)] is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the July 8, 1999), D&H acquired overhead trackage exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) rights from CSX Transportation, Inc. and New York Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway may be filed at any time. The filing of Central Lines LLC, over lines generally between CompanyÐAbandonment ExemptionÐ a petition to revoke will not Schenectady, NY, and Fresh Pond Junction, NY. The scope of these rights and their terms were in Harrison and Jefferson Counties, automatically stay the transaction. established by the Board in CSX Corporation and OH An original and 10 copies of all CSX Transportation, Inc., Norfolk Southern pleadings, referring to STB Finance Corporation and Norfolk Southern Railway On July 1, 1999, Wheeling & Lake Erie Docket No. 33778, must be filed with Company—Control and Operating Leases/ Railway Company (W&LE) filed with Agreements—Conrail Inc. and Consolidated Rail the Surface Transportation Board, Office Corporation, STB Finance Docket No. 33388, the Surface Transportation Board of the Secretary, Case Control Unit, 1925 Decision Nos. 89, 109, and 123 (STB served July 23, (Board) a petition under 49 U.S.C. 10502 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20423– 1998, December 18, 1998, and May 20, 1999, for exemption from the provisions of 49 0001. In addition, one copy of each respectively). U.S.C. 10903 to abandon its line of 2 The responsive application filed jointly by the State of New York, acting by and through its railroad known as the Valley Line 2 A redacted version of the Trackage Rights Department of Transportation, and the New York extending from milepost 188.5 near Agreement among L&I, NYC, and CSXT was filed City Economic Development Corporation, acting on Unionvale to milepost 205.54 near with the notice of exemption. The full version of behalf of the City of New York, in connection with Warrenton, a distance of approximately the agreement was concurrently filed under seal, the railroad control application in STB Finance along with a motion for a protective order which Docket No. 33388, was docketed as STB Finance 18 miles in Jefferson and Harrison was granted in a separate decision. Docket No. 33388 (Sub-No. 69). Counties, OH. The line traverses U.S.

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