[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 63 (Monday, April 1, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 14372]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-7825]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Continuation of the Effectiveness of Interstate Commerce 
Commission Legal Documents

AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of effectiveness of legal documents.

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SUMMARY: This document gives notice of the continued effectiveness of 
all legal documents of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) as 
provided for in section 204, Saving Provisions, of the ICC Termination 
Act of 1995. Specifically, section 204 provides that all rules and 
regulations of the ICC shall continue in effect past the sunset date of 
the ICC. Motor carriers are also notified that consolidations, mergers, 
and acquisitions of control of motor carriers of property are no longer 
subject to approval and authorization pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 11343.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Stanley M. Braverman, Motor 
Carrier Law Division, (202) 927-6316, or Ms. Grace E. Reidy, Motor 
Carrier Law Division, (202) 366-0834, Department of Transportation, 
Federal Highway Administration, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 
20590. Office hours are from 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., e.t., Monday 
through Friday, except Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The ICC Termination Act of 1995 (P.L. 104-
88, 109 Stat. 803), effective January 1, 1996, eliminated unnecessary 
ICC regulatory functions and partly transferred residual functions to a 
newly established independent Surface Transportation Board (STB) within 
the DOT and partly to the Secretary of Transportation. Section 204 of 
the ICC Termination Act of 1995, the Saving Provisions, provides that 
all legal documents of the ICC that were issued or granted by an 
official authorized to effect such document shall continue in effect 
beyond the transfer of any function from the ICC to the STB or DOT.
    The Saving Provisions provide, in part, that all rules of the ICC 
that were legally enacted by the proper official with requisite 
authority and which are not based upon a provision of law repealed and 
not substantially reenacted by the Act shall remain in effect after the 
ICC sunset. Moreover, such rules and regulations shall remain in effect 
until modified by the STB, the Secretary of Transportation or another 
authorized competent official. To ensure proper public notice of the 
continued effectiveness of such regulations, the current regulations 
issued by the previously existing ICC shall remain in effect until 
further action is taken to change the applicability and/or requirements 
of such regulations. Motor carriers are also notified that 
consolidations, mergers, and acquisitions of control of motor carriers 
of property are no longer subject to approval and authorization 
pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 11343. Section 11343 is a provision that was 
found in the repealed statute and was not revived or continued by the 
ICC Termination Act of 1995.

(23 U.S.C. 315; 49 CFR 1.48, Pub. L. 104-88, sec. 204.)

    Issued on: March 25, 1996.
Rodney E. Slater,
Federal Highway Administrator.
[FR Doc. 96-7825 Filed 3-29-96; 8:45 am]
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