[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 79 (Tuesday, April 23, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 17952]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-9967]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION -
Surface Transportation Board 1
[STB Finance Docket No. 32902]


Central Railroad Company of Indiana--Trackage Rights Exemption--
CSX Transportation, Inc.

    Central Railroad Company of Indiana (CIND) has filed a verified 
notice under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(7) to acquire trackage rights from the 
CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT) from connection with CIND on CSXT's 
connection track T-1415 (D)(1) at Ownership Point (O.P.) 1+53 at North 
Bend, OH, near CSXT's milepost B.C.15 and CSXT's connection with CIND 
on CSXT's connection track T-2 at O.P. 1144+96.2 at Lawrenceburg, IN 
near CSXT's milepost 22, a distance of approximately 7 miles.
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    \1\ The ICC Termination Act of 1995, Pub. L. 104-88, 109 Stat. 
803, which was enacted on December 29, 1995, and took effect on 
January 1, 1996, abolished the Interstate Commerce Commission and 
transferred certain functions to the Surface Transportation Board 
(Board). This notice relates to functions that are subject to Board 
jurisdiction pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 11323.
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    The purpose of the transaction is to reroute overhead traffic for 
CIND's Lawrenceburg, IN customers via CSXT, in order that CIND may 
abandon its own 2.3 miles of right-of-way from railroad milepost 22.4 
near Lawrenceburg Junction (about 0.4 miles north of the intersection 
of Route 50 and Route 1 in Greendale) to railroad milepost 24.7 near 
Dearborn Junction (at the CIND/CSXT connection south of the former 
Pierson-Hollowell site in Lawrenceburg), in Dearborn County, IN. See 
Central Railroad Company of Indiana--Abandonment Exemption--in Dearborn 
Country, IN, STB Docket No. AB-459 (Sub-No. 1X) (ICC served Mar. 11, 
1996). By Board decision served April 5, 1996, the effective date of 
the abandonment exemption was postponed until April 30, 1996.
    The trackage rights transaction is expected to be consummated 
immediately after conveyance of the abandoned right of way for 
construction of a public highway.
    As a condition to this exemption, any employees affected by the 
trackage rights will be protected by the conditions imposed in Norfolk 
and Western Ry. Co.--Trackage Rights--BN, 354 I.C.C. 605 (1978), as 
modified in Mendocino Coast Ry., Inc.--Lease and Operate, 354 I.C.C. 
732 (1978) and 360 I.C.C. 653 (1980).
    If the notice contains false or misleading information, the 
exemption is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the exemption under 49 
U.S.C. 10502(d) may be filed at any time. The filing of a petition to 
revoke will not automatically stay the transaction.
    An original and 10 copies of all pleadings, referring to STB 
Finance Docket No. 32902, must be filed with the Surface Transportation 
Board, Office of the Secretary, Case Control Branch, 1201 Constitution 
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20423 and served on: Jo A. DeRoche, Weiner, 
Brodsky, Sidman & Kider, P.C., 1350 New York Avenue NW., Suite 800, 
Washington, DC 20005-4797.

    Decided: April 16, 1996.

    By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-9967 Filed 4-22 -96; 8:45 am]
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