[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 139 (Thursday, July 20, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41313-41314]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-11476]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Finance Docket No. 34843 (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 grant UP temporary overhead trackage rights, to 
expire on September 15, 2006, over BNSF's lines between milepost 2.1 
(Grand Avenue), St. Louis, MO, and milepost 34.1, Pacific, MO, a 
distance of 32 miles. The original grant of temporary overhead trackage 
rights exempted in Union Pacific Railroad Company--Temporary Trackage 
Rights Exemption--BNSF Railway Company, STB Finance Docket No. 34843 
(STB served Mar. 24, 2006), covered the same line, but will expire on 
or about July 31, 2006. The purpose of this transaction is to modify 
the temporary overhead trackage rights exempted in STB Finance Docket 
No. 34843 to extend the expiration date from July 31, 2006, to 
September 15, 2006.
    The transaction was scheduled to be consummated on or after July 7, 
2006, the effective date of the notice. The purpose of the temporary 
trackage rights is to facilitate the performance of maintenance work on 
UP 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

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a petition to revoke will not automatically stay the transaction.
    An original and 10 copies of all pleadings, referring to STB 
Finance Docket No. 34843 (Sub-No. 1), 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 Gabriel S. Meyer, 
Union Pacific Railroad Company, 1400 Douglas St., STOP 1580, Omaha, NE 
68179.
    Board decisions and notices are available on our Web site at http://www.stb.dot.gov.

    Decided: July 13, 2006.

    By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
 Vernon A. Williams,
 Secretary.
 [FR Doc. E6-11476 Filed 7-19-06; 8:45 am]
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