[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 168 (Friday, August 29, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52071-52072]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-22020]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Finance Docket No. 34394]


Union Pacific Railroad Company--Trackage Rights Exemption--The 
Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company

    The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) has 
agreed to grant overhead trackage rights to Union Pacific Railroad 
Company (UP) over a line of BNSF's railroad between BNSF milepost 210.2 
and BNSF milepost 211.7, a distance of approximately 1.5 miles in 
Wichita, KS.
    The transaction was scheduled to be consummated on or after August 
22, 2003.
    The purpose of the trackage rights is to facilitate the City of 
Wichita's Central Rail Corridor Project (the City). This project is 
designed to minimize rail/vehicle conflicts at existing grade crossings 
in central Wichita by constructing grade crossings and other 
improvements on the BNSF route.\1\
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    \1\ UP states that the actual use of the trackage rights will 
not commence until the City has progressed sufficiently to permit 
the existing UP-BNSF connection near BNSF milepost 211.7 to be moved 
to a location near BNSF milepost 210.2.
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    Any employees affected by the subject transaction will be protected 
by the labor conditions prescribed 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).
    This notice is filed under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(7). If it contains 
false or misleading information, the exemption is void ab initio. 
Petitions to revoke the exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d)

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may be filed at any time. The filing of a petition to revoke will not 
automatically stay the transaction.
    An original and 10 copies of all pleadings, referring to STB 
Finance Docket No. 34394, must be filed with the Surface Transportation 
Board, 1925 K Street, NW., Washington, DC 20423-0001. In addition, one 
copy of each pleading must be served on Robert T. Opal, 1416 Dodge 
Street, Room 830, Omaha, NE 68179.
    Board decisions and notices are available on our Web site at http://www.stb.dot.gov.

    Decided: August 22, 2003.

    By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-22020 Filed 8-28-03; 8:45 am]
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