[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 44 (Tuesday, March 5, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 8709]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-5063]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board \1\
[Finance Docket No. 32769]


Central New England Railroad, Inc., Modified Certificate

    On October 11, 1995, Central New England Railroad, Inc. filed a 
notice under 49 CFR Part 1150, Subpart C--Modified Certificate of 
Public Convenience and Necessity to operate approximately 13.5-miles of 
an abandoned \2\ rail line between milepost 8.8 at Enfield, CT (on the 
Connecticut-Massachusetts State line) and milepost 23.3 at East Windsor 
Hill, CT, owned by the Connecticut Department of Transportation 
(ConnDOT).

    \1\ The ICC Termination Act of 1995, Pub. L. No. 104-88, 109 
Stat. 803 (the Act), which was enacted on December 29, 1995, and 
took effect on January 1, 1996, abolished the Interstate Commerce 
Commission (ICC) and transferred certain functions and proceedings 
to the Surface Transportation Board (Board). Section 204(b)(1) of 
the Act provides, in general, that proceedings pending before the 
ICC on the effective date of that legislation shall be decided under 
the law in effect prior to January 1, 1996, insofar as they involve 
functions retained by the Act. This notice relates to a proceeding 
that was pending with the ICC prior to January 1, 1996, and to 
functions that are subject to Board jurisdiction pursuant to 49 
U.S.C. 10901. Therefore, this notice applies the law in effect prior 
to the Act, and citations are to the former sections of the statute, 
unless otherwise indicated.
    \2\ The 5.5-mile portion of the line between milepost 12.5 
(Hazardville, CT) and milepost 18.0 (East Windsor, CT), was formerly 
owned by the Trustee of Penn Central Transportation Company, one of 
the eastern railroads reorganized under the Regional Rail 
Reorganization Act, and was never designated in the United States 
Railway Associations's Final System Plan for transfer to 
Consolidated Rail Corporation (CR). The line was abandoned by the 
Trustee in 1976 pursuant to section 308 of the Regional Rail 
Reorganization Act of 1973, 45 U.S.C. 744(b) and acquired by the 
State of Connecticut's Department of Transportation (ConnDOT) for 
continued rail service.
    The 3.7-mile portion of the line between milepost 12.5 
(Hazardville, CT) and milepost 8.8 (Enfield, CT) was abandoned by 
the Boston and Maine Corporation in 1993. See Boston and Maine 
Corporation--Abandonment Exemption--In Hartford County, CT, and 
Hampden County, MA, AB-32 (Sub-No. 62X), and Springfield Terminal 
Railway Company--Discontinuance Exemption--In Hartford County, CT, 
and Hampden County, AB-355 (Sub-No. 14X) (ICC served Nov. 24, 1993).
    The 4.3-mile portion of the line between milepost 18.0 and 
milepost 22.3 (East Windsor Hill, CT/CR milepost 6.77--Troy Road 
Connection) was abandoned by CR in 1987. See Conrail Abandonment in 
Hartford County, CT, Docket No. AB-167 (Sub-No. 984N) (ICC served 
Feb. 23, 1987). ConnDOT subsequently acquired this portion of the 
line on May 11, 1995, for continued rail service.
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    The Commission will serve a copy of this notice on the Association 
of American Railroads (Car Service Division), as agent of all railroads 
subscribing to the car-service and car-hire agreement, and on the 
American Short Line Railroad Association.

    Decided: February 28, 1996.

    By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-5063 Filed 3-4-96; 8:45 am]
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