[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 165 (Friday, August 26, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50439-50440]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-17025]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Finance Docket No. 34743]


BNSF Railway Company--Temporary Trackage Rights Exemption--Union 
Pacific Railroad Company

    Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP), pursuant to a written trackage 
rights agreement entered into between UP and the BNSF Railway Company 
(BNSF), has agreed to grant temporary overhead trackage rights to BNSF 
over UP's rail line between Valley Junction, IL, UP milepost 0.00, and 
Rockview Junction, MO, UP milepost 131.3, a distance of approximately 
131.3 miles.

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    The transaction was scheduled to be consummated on August 15, 2005, 
and the temporary trackage rights will expire on October 16, 2005. The 
purpose of the temporary trackage rights is to allow BNSF to bridge a 
limited number of its trains while its main lines are out of service 
due to programmed track, roadbed, and structural maintenance.
    As a condition to this exemption, any employee affected by the 
acquisition of the temporary trackage 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), and any employee affected by the 
discontinuance of those trackage rights will be protected by the 
conditions set out in Oregon Short Line R. Co.--Abandonment--Goshen, 
360 I.C.C. 91 (1979).
    This notice is filed under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(8). 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) 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. 34743, must be filed with the Surface Transportation 
Board, 1925 K Street, NW., Washington, DC 20423-0001. In addition, a 
copy of each pleading must be served on Michael E. Roper, Senior 
General Attorney, BNSF Railway Company, P. O. Box 961039, Fort Worth, 
TX 76161-0039.
    Board decisions and notices are available on our Web site at http://www.stb.dot.gov.

    Decided: August 22, 2005.

    By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 05-17025 Filed 8-25-05; 8:45 am]
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