[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 62 (Friday, March 31, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 16665]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-7927]



[[Page 16665]]

INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION

[Finance Docket No. 32675]


Hartwell Railroad Company--Acquisition and Operation Exemption--
Line of Norfolk Southern Railway Company

    Hartwell Railroad Company (HRC), a noncarrier, has filed a notice 
of exemption to acquire and operate approximately 48.3-miles of rail 
line, the Toccoa Line, owned by Norfolk Southern Railway Company.2 
The line extends from milepost P 0.5, near Toccoa, to milepost P 48.80, 
near Elberton, in Elbert, Franklin, Hart, and Stephens Counties, GA. 
The proposed transaction is to be consummated after the effective date 
of the notice of exemption and will result in HRC becoming a class III 
carrier.3

    \2\ In a concurrently filed notice of exemption, Great Walton 
Railroad Company, Inc. d/b/a Hartwell Railroad Company--Trackage 
Rights Exemption--Hartwell Railroad Company, Finance Docket No. 
32676, HRC agrees to grant local and overhead trackage rights over 
the Toccoa Line to Great Walton Railroad Company, Inc., an 
unaffiliated carrier, because HRC assertedly will not be prepared to 
provide immediate service to the line's shippers.
    \3\ Under 49 CFR 1150.32(b), the notice of exemption is 
effective 7 days after it is filed. The notice was filed on March 
15, 1995.
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    Any comments must be filed with the Commission and served on: 
William A. Mullins, Troutman Sanders, 601 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., 
Washington, DC 20004.
    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: March 24, 1995.

    By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-7927 Filed 3-30-95; 8:45 am]
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