[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 156 (Monday, August 13, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 42582]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-20102]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Finance Docket No. 34048]


Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad Company--Lease and 
Operation Exemption--Norfolk Southern Railway Company and Pennsylvania 
Lines, LLC

    Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad Company (RBMN), a Class 
III rail carrier, has filed a verified notice of exemption under 49 CFR 
1150.41 to sublease and operate approximately 1.3 miles of rail line 
currently owned by Pennsylvania Lines LLC and currently operated by 
Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NSR). The rail line extends between 
milepost 212.2 and a point 150 feet west of the western control point 
for Robinson's Crossing (milepost 213.5) near Mehoopany, in 
Wyoming County, PA.\1\
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    \1\ RBMN will replace NSR as the operator on the line.
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    Because RBMN's projected annual revenues will exceed $5 million, 
RBMN certified to the Board on July 17, 2001, that, on May 25, 2001, it 
had posted the required notice of intent to undertake the proposed 
transaction at the workplace of the employees on the affected lines and 
had served a copy of the notice of intent on the national offices of 
the labor union with employees on the rail line. See 49 CFR 
1150.42(e).\2\ RBMN stated in its verified notice that the transaction 
was scheduled to be consummated on or after July 25, 2001.\3\
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    \2\ The National Office of the United Transportation Union (UTU) 
apparently had not received a copy of RBMN's notice of intent in 
May. RBMN has subsequently provided that notice of intent to the UTU 
and certified its compliance on July 25, 2001.
    \3\ Due to the timing of RBMN's certification to the Board, 
consummation under these circumstances would have had to be delayed 
until September 23, 2001 (60 days after RBMN's certification to the 
Board that it had complied with the Board's rule at 49 CFR 
1150.42(e)). In a decision in this proceeding served on August 1, 
2001, however, the Board granted the request by RBMN for waiver of 
the remainder of the 60-day period, as measured from the 
certification date to the Board, to allow consummation to occur as 
early as August 1, 2001.
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    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 does not automatically stay the transaction.
    An original and 10 copies of all pleadings, referring to STB 
Finance Docket No. 34048, must be filed with the Surface Transportation 
Board, Office of the Secretary, Case Control Unit, 1925 K Street, NW., 
Washington, DC 20423-0001. In addition, a copy of each pleading must be 
served on Eric M. Hocky, Esq., Gollatz, Griffin & Ewing, P.C., 213 West 
Miner Street, P. O. Box 796, West Chester, PA 19381-0796.
    Board decisions and notices are available on our website at 
www.stb.dot.gov.

    Decided: August 6, 2001.

    By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-20102 Filed 8-10-01; 8:45 am]
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