[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 23 (Tuesday, February 4, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 5273]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-2698]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
[STB Docket No. AB-167 (Sub-No. 1175)]


Consolidated Rail Corporation--Abandonment--in Huntingdon County, 
PA

    The Board has issued a certificate authorizing Consolidated Rail 
Corporation (Conrail) to abandon its 1.60-mile Mt. Union Industrial 
Track, from milepost 0.0 to milepost 1.60, in the Borough of Mt. Union, 
Huntingdon County, PA. The abandonment was granted subject to standard 
employee protective conditions.
    The abandonment certificate will become effective on March 6, 1997, 
unless the Board finds that a financially responsible person has 
offered financial assistance (through subsidy or purchase) to enable 
rail service to be continued.
    Requests for public use conditions must be filed with the Board and 
Conrail by February 14, 1997.
    Any offers of financial assistance (OFA) must be filed with the 
Board and Conrail no later than February 14, 1997. The following 
notation must be typed in bold face on the lower left-hand corner of 
the envelope containing the offer: ``Office of Proceedings, AB-OFA.'' 
Any offer previously made must be remade within this 10-day period.
    Information and procedures regarding financial assistance for 
continued rail service are contained in 49 U.S.C. 10904 and former 49 
CFR 1152.27.1 Requests for public use conditions must conform with 
former 49 CFR 1152.28(a)(2).

    \1\ Although final rules in Abandonment and Discontinuance of 
Rail Lines and Rail Transportation under 49 U.S.C. 10903, STB Ex 
Parte No. 537 (STB served Dec. 24, 1996) went into effect on January 
23, 1997, this abandonment application was filed before that date 
and, therefore, we have processed the application under the former 
regulations and will continue to use them in this proceeding to 
process an OFA, if one is filed.
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    Decided: January 29, 1997.

    By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-2698 Filed 2-3-97; 8:45 am]
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