[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 38 (Friday, February 26, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 9556]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-4715]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board
[STB Finance Docket No. 33594]


Ballard Terminal Railroad Company, L.L.C.--Modified Rail 
Certificate 1
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    \1\ In a decision served on August 11, 1998, this proceeding was 
consolidated with Sea Lion Railroad--Abandonment Exemption--In King 
County, WA, STB Docket No. AB-544X, and Adventure Trail D/B/A Sea 
Lion Railroad--Acquisition and Operation Exemption--The Burlington 
Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company, STB Finance Docket No. 33486.
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    On May 4, 1998, Ballard Terminal Railroad Company, L.L.C. (BTRC), 
filed a notice for a modified certificate of public convenience and 
necessity under 49 CFR 1150, Subpart C, Modified Certificate of Public 
Convenience and Necessity, to operate a line of railroad (the Ballard 
Line) between milepost 0.09 and the end of the line at milepost 2.70, a 
distance of almost 3 miles in the Ballard District of Seattle, King 
County, WA. BTRC intends to operate over the Ballard Line under an 
agreement with the City of Seattle. Seattle has granted BTRC a 30-year 
franchise to operate the Ballard Line.
    The involved rail line was approved for abandonment by Adventure 
Trail, Inc., doing business as Sea Lion Railroad (Sea Lion), in Sea 
Lion Railroad--Abandonment Exemption--In King County, WA, et al., STB 
Docket No. AB-544X, et al. (STB served Aug. 11, 1998). In that 
proceeding, the Board deferred action on BTRC's request for a modified 
certificate pending administrative finality of the proceeding and 
notice from Seattle that it had acquired the line. The abandonment 
exemption proceeding has become administratively final, and Seattle has 
notified the Board that, on December 30, 1998, it acquired the real 
estate underlying the line.
    The rail segment qualifies for a modified certificate of public 
convenience and necessity. See Common Carrier Status of States, State 
Agencies and Instrumentalities, and Political Subdivisions, Finance 
Docket No. 28990F (ICC served July 16, 1981).
    No subsidy is involved. BTRC indicates that, in order to receive 
service, shippers must meet the following preconditions: ``Minimum of 
30 carloads per year averaged over a rolling 36 month period.''
    This notice will be served on the Association of American Railroads 
(Car Service Division) as agent for all railroads subscribing to the 
car-service and car-hire agreement: Association of American Railroads, 
50 F St., NW, Washington, DC 20001; and on the American Short Line 
Railroad Association: American Short Line Railroad Association, 1120 G 
St., NW, Suite 520, Washington, DC 20005.

    Decided: February 19, 1999.

    By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-4715 Filed 2-25-99; 8:45 am]
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