[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 67 (Friday, April 7, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17956-17957]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-4933]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Finance Docket No. 34841 (Sub-No. 1)]


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

    BNSF Railway Company (BNSF), pursuant to a written trackage rights 
agreement entered into between BNSF and Union Pacific Railroad Company 
(UP), has agreed to provide UP with temporary overhead trackage rights, 
to expire on April 30, 2006, over BNSF's line of railroad between 
milepost 2.0, in Lake Yard, OR, and milepost 8.1, in North Portland 
Junction, OR, a distance of approximately 6.1 miles. The original 
trackage rights granted in Union Pacific Railroad Company--Temporary 
Trackage Rights Exemption--BNSF Railway Company, STB Finance Docket No. 
34841 (STB served Mar. 20, 2006), covered the same line, but expire on 
March 30, 2006. The purpose of this transaction is to modify the 
temporary overhead trackage rights exempted in STB Finance Docket No. 
34841 to extend the expiration date from March 30, 2006, to April 30, 
2006.\1\
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    \1\ Under the agreement between the parties, the temporary 
trackage rights will run through the date on which BNSF ceases to 
use temporary trackage rights granted by UP between Vallard Jct. and 
North Portland Jct., OR, but no later than April 30, 2006.
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    The transaction is scheduled to be consummated on March 30, 2006. 
The modified temporary overhead trackage

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rights will allow UP to continue to perform maintenance work on its 
lines.
    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. 34841 (Sub-No. 1), 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 Robert T. Opal, 
Union Pacific Railroad Company, 1400 Douglas Street, STOP 1580, Omaha, 
NE 68179.
    Board decisions and notices are available on our Web site at 
``http://www.stb.dot.gov.''

    Decided: March 30, 2006.

    By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
 [FR Doc. E6-4933 Filed 4-6-06; 8:45 am]
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