[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 27 (Friday, February 8, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9450-9451]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-02917]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[Docket No. FD 35661]


Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company--Acquisition of Operating 
Easement--CSX Transportation, Inc.

AGENCY: Surface Transportation Board, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of exemption.

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SUMMARY: The Board is granting an exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502 from 
the prior approval requirements at 49 U.S.C. 11323-25 for Grand Trunk 
Western Railroad Company (GTW), an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of 
Canadian National Railway Company, to acquire from CSX Transportation, 
Inc. (CSXT) an exclusive, perpetual, non-assignable railroad operating 
easement over approximately 2.1 miles of CSXT's Memphis Terminal 
Subdivision, between Leewood, Tenn., milepost 00F371.4, and Aulon, 
Tenn., milepost 00F373.4 (Leewood-Aulon Line), subject to employee 
protective conditions. The Leewood-Aulon Line is currently owned by 
CSXT. Illinois Central Railroad Company, a GTW affiliate, operates over 
it via trackage rights. Along with the proposed easement acquisition by 
GTW, CSXT would retain local and overhead trackage rights over the 
Leewood-Aulon Line.
    GTW's easement acquisition is one part of an Agreement for Exchange 
of Perpetual Easements between GTW and CSXT. In exchange for GTW's 
acquiring an easement from CSXT over the Leewood-Aulon Line, GTW has 
agreed to grant CSXT an exclusive, perpetual, non-assignable railroad 
operating easement over 22.37 miles of GTW track on the Elsdon 
Subdivision between the connection with CSXT at Munster, Ind., milepost 
31.07, and Elsdon, Ill., milepost 8.7, which connects to the southern 
end of the BNSF Railway Company's Corwith Yard. The Board is separately 
granting authority for CSXT's acquisition of this operating easement in 
the Chicago area in Docket Nos. FD 35522 et al.\1\
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    \1\ See CSX Transp. Inc.--Acquis. of Operating Easement--Grand 
Trunk W. R.R., FD 35522, et al. (STB served February 8, 2013).

DATES: This exemption will be effective on March 10, 2013. Petitions to 
stay must be filed by February 19, 2013. Petitions to reopen must be 
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filed by February 28, 2013.

ADDRESSES: Send an original and 10 copies of all pleadings referring to 
Docket No. FD 35661 to: Surface Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW.,

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Washington, DC 20423-0001. In addition, send one copy of pleadings to 
David A. Hirsh, Harkins Cunningham LLP, 1700 K Street NW., Suite 400, 
Washington, DC 20006-3804.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Scott M. Zimmerman, (202) 245-0386. 
Assistance for the hearing impaired is available through the Federal 
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at (800) 877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Additional information is contained in the 
Board's decision served February 8, 2013, which is available on our Web 
site at www.stb.dot.gov.


    Decided: February 4, 2013.

    By the Board, Chairman Elliott, Vice Chairman Begeman, and 
Commissioner Mulvey.
Derrick A. Gardner,
Clearance Clerk.
[FR Doc. 2013-02917 Filed 2-7-13; 8:45 am]
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