[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 222 (Friday, November 17, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 67017]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-19407]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Finance Docket No. 34866 (Sub-No. 2)]


Union Pacific Railroad Company--Temporary Trackage Rights 
Exemption--The Kansas City Southern Railway Company

    The Kansas City Southern Railway Company (KCS), pursuant to a 
written trackage rights agreement entered into between KCS and Union 
Pacific Railroad Company (UP), has agreed to grant UP temporary 
overhead trackage rights, to expire on December 1, 2006, over KCS's 
trackage between milepost 482.0 on KCS's Mexico Subdivision at Kansas 
City, MO, and milepost 252.1 on KCS's East St. Louis Terminal 
Subdivision at Godfrey, IL, a distance of approximately 285 miles. The 
original grant of temporary overhead trackage rights exempted in Union 
Pacific Railroad Company--Temporary Trackage Rights Exemption--The 
Kansas City Southern Railway Company, STB Finance Docket No. 34866 (STB 
served on May 2, 2006), cover the same line. Those trackage rights were 
due to expire on July 31, 2006, but were extended to October 31, 2006, 
in a decision served on July 20, 2006, in the (Sub-No. 1) proceeding in 
this docket. The purpose of this transaction is to modify the temporary 
overhead trackage rights previously exempted by extending the 
expiration date from October 31, 2006, to December 1, 2006.
    The transaction was scheduled to be consummated on November 6, 
2006, the effective date of the exemption. The purpose of the temporary 
overhead trackage rights is to facilitate maintenance work on UP lines.
    As a condition to this exemption, any employees 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. 34866 (Sub-No. 2), must be filed with the Surface 
Transportation Board, 1925 K Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20423-0001. 
In addition, a copy of each pleading must be served on Gabriel S. 
Meyer, Assistant General Attorney, Union Pacific Railroad Company, 1400 
Douglas Street, STOP 1580, Omaha, NE 68179.
    Board decisions and notices are available on our Web site at 
www.stb.dot.gov.

    Decided: November 9, 2006.
    By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E6-19407 Filed 11-16-06; 8:45 am]
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