[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 110 (Thursday, June 6, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 28924]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-14294]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
    \1\ The ICC Termination Act of 1995, Pub. L. No. 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. 11323-24.
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[STB Finance Docket No. 32956]


Fort Worth and Western Railroad Company, Inc.--Trackage Rights 
Exemption--St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company

    The St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company (SSW) has agreed to 
assign its local and overhead trackage rights on a rail line owned by 
the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Property Acquisition Company (DARTPAC) to 
Fort Worth and Western Railroad Company, Inc. (FWWR), over 
approximately 28.77 miles of rail line in Texas between milepost 632.27 
at North Fort Worth and milepost 603.5 at Carrollton. The trackage 
rights were to become effective on or after May 24, 1996.
    This transaction will also permit FWWR to use the subject trackage 
to serve Hodge Yard, which it seeks to lease from SSW in a related 
pending proceeding, STB Finance Docket No. 32955, Fort Worth and 
Western Railroad Company, Inc.--Lease and Operation Exemption--St. 
Louis Southwestern Railroad Company. This notice is filed under 49 CFR 
1180.2(d)(7). 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 stay the transaction.
    An original and 10 copies of all pleadings, referring to STB 
Finance Docket No. 32956, 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: Kevin M. Sheys, 
Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, 1020 Nineteenth Street, NW, Suite 400, 
Washington, DC 20036.
    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, 360 I.C.C. 
653 (1980).

    Decided: May 29, 1996.

    By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-14294 Filed 6-5-96; 8:45 am]
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