[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 74 (Tuesday, April 18, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19922-19923]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-5737]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Finance Docket No. 34812 (Sub-No. 1)]


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 BNSF Railway Company 
(BNSF), has agreed to grant BNSF temporary overhead trackage rights, to 
expire on April 30, 2006, over UP's Chester Subdivision between 
milepost 131.3, Rockview Junction, MO, and milepost 0.0, Valley 
Junction, IL, a distance of approximately 132 miles. The original grant 
of temporary overhead trackage rights exempted in BNSF Railway 
Company--Temporary Trackage Rights Exemption--Union Pacific Railroad 
Company, STB Finance Docket No. 34812 (STB served Jan. 6, 2006), 
covered the same line, but expired on March 21, 2006. The purpose of 
this transaction is to modify the temporary overhead trackage rights 
exempted in STB Finance Docket No. 34812 to extend the expiration date 
from March 21, 2006, to April 30, 2006.
    The transaction was scheduled to be consummated on April 5, 2006, 
the effective date of this notice. The temporary overhead trackage 
rights will

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allow BNSF to continue to bridge its train service over UP's Chester 
Subdivision while BNSF's main lines are out of service due to certain 
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. 34812 (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 Sidney L. 
Strickland Jr., Sidney Strickland and Associates, PLLC, 3050 K Street, 
NW., Suite 101, Washington, DC 20007.
    Board decisions and notices are available on our website at http://www.stb.dot.gov.

    Decided: April 11, 2006.

    By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-5737 Filed 4-17-06; 8:45 am]
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