[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 214 (Monday, November 4, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56734-56735]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-28232]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board
[STB Finance Docket No. 32760 (Sub-No. 20)]


The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company--Trackage 
Rights Exemption--Southern Pacific Transportation Company

    Southern Pacific Transportation Company (SPT) will assign overhead 
trackage rights to The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company 
over a total of approximately 3,683 feet of track owned by Kansas City 
Southern Railway (KCS) from KCS milepost 766.70 to SPT milepost 30.50 
near Beaumont, TX.1 The transaction is expected to be consummated 
on or about December 16, 1996.
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    \1\ SPT has overhead trackage rights on this trackage pursuant 
to its 1979 Agreement with KCS, which was approved by the Interstate 
Commerce Commission (ICC) in Southern Pacific Transportation 
Company--Trackage Rights--Over Kansas City Southern Railway Company, 
Finance Docket No. 29441 (ICC served Dec. 1, 1980). SPT states that 
the instant verified notice of exemption corrects the description of 
the total footage and SPT milepost number stated in that ICC 
decision.
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    These trackage rights are related to conditions imposed as part of 
the recently approved merger in Union Pacific Corporation, Union 
PacificRailroad Company, and Missouri Pacific Railroad Company--Control 
and Merger--Southern Pacific Rail Corporation, Southern Pacific 
Transportation Company, St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company, SPCSL 
Corp., and The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company; Finance 
Docket No. 32760 (STB served Aug. 12, 1996) (Decision No. 44).
    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. 32760 (Sub-No. 20), must be filed with the Surface 
Transportation Board, Office of the Secretary, Case Control Branch, 
1201 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20423 and served on: (1) 
Richard E. Weicher, Vice President and General Counsel, The Atchison, 
Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, 6th Floor, 1700 East Golf Road, 
Schaumburg, IL 60173-5860; and (2) Gary A. Laakso, General Attorney, 
Southern Pacific Transportation Company, One Market Plaza, San 
Francisco, CA 94105.
    As a condition to this exemption, any employees affected by the 
trackage

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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: October 28, 1996.

    By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-28232 Filed 11-1-96; 8:45 am]
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