29840 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 100 / Friday, May 23, 2014 / Notices

Board decisions and notices are UP’s grant of certain operating rights to DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION available on our Web site at PHL over the Subject Track. Surface Transportation Board ‘‘www.stb.dot.gov.’’ PHL states that the agreement Decided: May 19, 2014. between PHL and UP does not contain [Docket No. FD 35827] By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, any provision that may limit future Director, Office of Proceedings. interchange of traffic with any third- Company— Raina S. White, party connecting carrier. Temporary Trackage Rights Exemption—Dallas Area Rapid Transit Clearance Clerk. PHL intends to consummate the [FR Doc. 2014–11988 Filed 5–22–14; 8:45 am] and Fort Worth Transportation proposed transaction 30 days or more Authority BILLING CODE 4915–01–P after the exemption was filed (May 7, 2014), or 60 days or more after filing its Trinity Railway Express (TRE),1 certification with the Board pursuant to pursuant to a written trackage rights DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 49 CFR 1150.42(e). agreement dated May 2, 2014, has agreed to grant Union Pacific Railroad Surface Transportation Board PHL certifies that its projected annual Company (UP) temporary overhead revenues as a result of this transaction [Docket No. FD 35814] trackage rights over approximately 1.4 will not result in the creation of a Class miles of the TRE Rail Corridor in Ft. Pacific Harbor Line, Inc.—Operation II or Class I rail carrier. Because PHL’s Worth, Tex., between milepost 610.5 Exemption—Union Pacific Railroad projected annual revenues will exceed (the T&P Station) and milepost 611.9 Company $5 million, PHL certified to the Board (the 6th Street Junction). on April 30, 2014, that it had complied The transaction may be consummated Pacific Harbor Line, Inc. (PHL), a with the requirements of 49 CFR Class III rail carrier, has filed a verified on or after June 7, 2014, the effective 1150.32(e) by providing notice to notice of exemption under 49 CFR date of the exemption (30 days after the employees and their labor unions on the 1150.41 to operate, pursuant to a lease verified notice of exemption was filed). agreement, approximately 5.75 miles of affected 5.75-mile line. Under 49 CFR The temporary trackage rights are track owned by the City of Los Angeles, 1150.32(e), this exemption cannot scheduled to expire on December 30, Cal., acting by and through its Board of become effective until 60 days after the 2014. The purpose of the temporary Harbor Commissioners (POLA), and the date notice was provided, which would trackage rights is to allow UP to City of Long Beach, Cal., acting by and be June 29, 2014. continue providing rail service between through its Board of Harbor If the verified notice contains false or adjacent UP lines during outages on Commissioners (POLB), and over which misleading information, the exemption connecting UP lines caused by Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the construction of improvements to Tower 55. currently operates. Specifically, the 5.75 exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) As a condition to the exemption, any miles of rail line consists of: (1) may be filed at any time. The filing of employees affected by the acquisition of approximately 5.5 miles extending from a petition to revoke will not the temporary trackage rights will be milepost 10.6 (CP Compton) to milepost automatically stay the effectiveness of 16.1 (CP West Thenard), known as the protected by the conditions imposed in the exemption. Petitions to stay must be Norfolk & Western Railway—Trackage Rail Corridor Portion; and (2) an filed no later than June 20, 2014 (at least industrial lead (no known mileposts), Rights—Burlington Northern, Inc., 354 7 days before the exemption becomes I.C.C. 605 (1978), as modified in known as the Drill Track Portion, effective). extending less than a quarter mile in Mendocino Coast Railway—Lease & length and located on the west side of An original and 10 copies of all Operate— Western Railroad, the Rail Corridor Portion in Los Angeles pleadings, referring to Docket No. FD 360 I.C.C. 653 (1980), and any County, Cal. (the Subject Track). 35814, must be filed with the Surface employees affected by the This transaction is related to a Transportation Board, 395 E Street, SW., discontinuance of those trackage rights concurrently filed verified notice of Washington, DC 20423–0001. In will be protected by the conditions set exemption in Pacific Harbor Line, Inc.— addition, a copy of each pleading must out in Oregon Short Line Railroad— Lease and Operation Exemption—Union be served on Rose-Michele Nardi, Abandonment Portion Goshen Branch Pacific Railroad Company, Docket No. Transport Counsel PC, 1701 Between Firth & Ammon, in Bingham & FD 35789, wherein PHL seeks Board Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Suite 300, Bonneville Counties, Idaho, 360 I.C.C. approval to lease and operate Washington, DC 20006. 91 (1979). approximately 30,820 feet of rail line, The verified notice of exemption is Board decisions and notices are known as the Santa Ana Bypass Track, filed under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(8). If it available on our Web site at extending from milepost 21.7 at CP contains false or misleading ‘‘WWW.STB.DOT.GOV.’’ Compton to milepost 15.9 at Firestone information, the exemption is void ab Park in Los Angeles County, Cal. Decided: May 19, 2014. initio. Petitions to revoke the exemption According to PHL, the proposed grant By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) may be filed of authority to operate over the Subject Director, Office of Proceedings. at any time. The filing of a petition to Track is necessary because it will allow Jeffrey Herzig, revoke will not automatically stay the PHL to access a line of railroad it is Clearance Clerk. 1 Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) and the Fort seeking to lease and operate in its [FR Doc. 2014–12006 Filed 5–22–14; 8:45 am] Worth Transportation Authority (the T) are regional verified notice of exemption filed in BILLING CODE 4915–01–P transportation authorities established under Docket No. FD 35789. PHL states that, Chapter 452 of the Texas Transportation Code. See pursuant to an agreement among Dall. Area Rapid Transit—Acquis. & Operation Exemption—Certain Lines of the Atchison, Topeka themselves, POLA, POLB, and the & Santa Fe Ry., FD 32611 (ICC served Mar. 17, Transportation 1995). DART and the T are collectively referred to Authority (ACTA), have consented to as Trinity Railway Express.

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