[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 111 (Friday, June 10, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-14129]


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[Federal Register: June 10, 1994]


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INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION
 

INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION

[Finance Docket No. 32507]

Cen-Tex Rail Link, Ltd.--Acquisition and Operation Exemption--
Certain Lines of The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co.

    Cen-Tex Rail Link, Ltd. (Cen-Tex), a noncarrier, has filed a notice 
of exemption to acquire and operate approximately 151 miles of rail 
line owned by The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company (ATSF) 
as follows: (1) Between Fort Worth, TX (approximately milepost 1 + 
1,541 feet on ATSF's Dublin Subdivision) and Ricker, TX (approximately 
134 + 2,171 feet on ATSF's Dublin Subdivision), and between a point on 
the foregoing segment near Cresson, TX (approximately milepost 18 + 133 
feet on ATSF's Cresson Subdivision), and Cleburne, TX (approximately 
milepost 0 + 1,167.1 feet on ATSF's Cresson Subdivision).1
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    \1\ ATSF will retain limited overhead trackage rights between 
Fort Worth and Ricker, TX, while transferring all other rights on 
the line to Cen-Tex.
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    This proceeding is related to a petition for exemption filed 
concurrently in Joel T. Williams, III, Roy C. Coffee, Jr., Rafael 
Fernandez-Macgregor, Bristol Investment Co., Inc.--Continuance in 
Control Exemption--Cen-Tex Rail Link, Ltd. and South Orient Railroad 
Company, Ltd., in Finance Docket No. 32478, wherein Joel T. Williams, 
III et al. have concurrently filed a petition for exemption to continue 
in control of Cen-Tex and South Orient Railroad Company, Ltd. when the 
former becomes a rail carrier upon consummation of the transaction 
described in this notice.
    Cen-Tex will also acquire incidental overhead trackage rights: (i) 
On the ATSF line between Ricker, TX (approximately milepost 134 + 2,171 
feet on ATSF's Dublin Subdivision) and San Angelo Junction, TX 
(approximately milepost 0 + 330 feet on ATSF's San Angelo Subdivision), 
(ii) on the ATSF line between milepost 1 + 1,541 feet (ATSF Dublin 
Subdivision) and milepost 368.5 (ATSF Fort Worth Subdivision) for 
certain intermodal produce shipments, and (iii) on the ATSF line 
between milepost 1 + 1,541 feet and milepost 0 + 4,752 feet on ATSF's 
Dublin Subdivision, to reach other carriers in Ft. Worth, TX. Cen-Tex's 
acquisition of the properties is expected to be consummated and 
operations to begin upon or soon after the effective date of this 
exemption.2
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    \2\ Shortly after consummation, Cen-Tex will sell the subject 
rail lines (but not the incidental trackage rights and other assets) 
to the Centex Rural Rail Transportation District. However, Cen-Tex 
will retain all of its common carrier operating rights on the lines 
under a permanent freight railroad operations easement.
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    Any comments must be filed with the Commission and served on: Kevin 
M. Sheys, Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, 1020 19th St., NW., Suite 400, 
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: June 3, 1994.

    By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Sidney L. Strickland, Jr.,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-14129 Filed 6-9-94; 8:45am]
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