[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 8 (Wednesday, January 12, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-769]


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[Federal Register: January 12, 1994]


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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 32427]

 

City of Los Angeles and City of Long Beach--Acquisition 
Exemption--Rail Lines of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co., 
Southern Pacific Transportation Co., and Union Pacific Railroad Co.; 
Notice of Exemption

    The City of Los Angeles, acting by and through the Board of Harbor 
Commissioners of the Port of Los Angeles, and the City of Long Beach, 
acting by and through its Board of Harbor Commissioners (collectively 
referred to as the Cities), have jointly filed a notice of exemption to 
acquire from The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company (Santa 
Fe), Southern Pacific Transportation Company (SPT), and Union Pacific 
Railroad Company (UP) certain interest in property described below to 
construct a railroad corridor that will permit consolidation of Santa 
Fe's, SPT's, and UP's overhead rail service to and from the ports to a 
point in central Los Angeles. The exemption became effective on 
December 24, 1993.
    The lines being acquired, by subdivision, include the following: 
(a) Santa Fe's line on the Los Angeles Harbor Subdivision between 
milepost 27.6 and milepost 28.3 in the County of Los Angeles; and the 
connection track between SPT's San Pedro Branch and Santa Fe's Watson 
Yard; (b) SPT's line from the connection with UP switch at the east 
side of Santa Fe Avenue easterly of ``J'' Yard, milepost BG 486.17 (San 
Pedro Branch) southeasterly through ``J'' Yard and a portion of the 
SPT's Santa Monica Branch to a point of connection with the San Pedro 
Branch milepost BBM 484.99 (Wilmington Branch) then southerly 
paralleling Alameda Street to a crossing of the Wilmington Branch at 
Dominguez Junction milepost BG 496.50 (San Pedro Branch) crossing over 
to the Wilmington Branch southerly to a point southerly of Sepulveda 
Boulevard and merging into the San Pedro Branch with the Wilmington 
Branch terminating at the Santa Fe's Harbor Subdivision Thernard 
Crossing milepost BBM 501.20 (Wilmington Branch) and milepost BG 501.4 
(San Pedro Branch) and the San Pedro Branch continuing southerly and 
southeasterly through the Port of Los Angeles to approximately 22nd 
Street in San Pedro and also including to the legs of the West Wye and 
the Long Beach Branch from the San Pedro Branch into the Port of Long 
Beach and terminating south of the 8th Street Yard milepost BH 503.73 
(Long Beach Branch); and (c) UP's line from a connection with SPT's 
``J'' Yard at the east side of Santa Fe Avenue in Los Angeles milepost 
1.8 via Redondo Jct. and Bridge Jct. to a connection with the East Bank 
main line at Ninth St. Jct. milepost 0.97; from Bridge Jct. on the 
aforesaid line milepost 1.30 to Soto St. Jct. milepost 2.08 (a distance 
of approximately 500 feet); from Soto St. Jct. milepost 2.08 to Downey 
Road milepost 2.88; and from milepost 2.84 near Downey Road to Hobart 
Junction milepost 3.08 on the San Pedro Branch north of Santa Fe's at-
grade crossing; and the San Pedro Branch from milepost 21.71 to 
milepost 23.73 in the County of Los Angeles.
    Santa Fe, SPT, and UP are to retain trackage rights and/or 
permanent easements over those portions of property on which they 
currently conduct rail operations so as to continue rail freight 
service.
    According to the Cities, their acquisition of the described 
property interests from Santa Fe, SPT, and UP will not confer common 
carrier status on the Cities, and the Cities reserve their right to 
file a motion to dismiss this notice or subsequently to seek revocation 
of the exemption. If we subsequently find that we lack jurisdiction 
over these transactions, we will enter a supplemental order vacating 
this exemption.
    Any comments must be filed with the Commission and served on: 
Samuel M. Sipe, Jr., Steptoe & Johnson, 1330 Connecticut Ave., NW., 
Washington, DC 20036.
    This notice is filed under 49 CFR 1150.31. If the notice contains 
false or misleading information, the exemption is void ab initio. 
Petitions to revoke the exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10505(d) may be filed 
at any time. The filing of a petition to revoke will not automatically 
stay the transaction.

    Decided: January 5, 1994.

    By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Sidney L. Strickland, Jr.,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-769 Filed 1-11-94; 8:45 am]
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