[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 50 (Friday, March 14, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 14596]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-05660]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[Docket No. FD 35809]


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

    BNSF Railway Company (BNSF), pursuant to a written trackage rights 
agreement dated March 1, 2014, has agreed to grant temporary overhead 
trackage rights to Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) between milepost 
579.3 near Mill Creek, Okla., on BNSF's Creek Subdivision and milepost 
631.0 near Joe Junction, Tex., on BNSF's Madill Subdivision, a distance 
of 51.7 miles.
    The transaction may be consummated on or after March 30, 2014, the 
effective date of the exemption (30 days after the verified notice of 
exemption was filed).\1\ The temporary trackage rights will expire on 
November 30, 2014. The purpose of the temporary trackage rights is to 
allow UP to move loaded and empty unit ballast trains to be used for UP 
maintenance of way projects.
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    \1\ UP states that the transaction will be consummated on April 
1, 2014.
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    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 & Western Railway--Trackage Rights--
Burlington Northern, Inc., 354 I.C.C. 605 (1978), as modified in 
Mendocino Coast Railway, Inc.--Lease & Operate--California Western 
Railroad, 360 I.C.C. 653 (1980), and any employees affected by the 
discontinuance of those trackage rights will be protected by the 
conditions set out in Oregon Short Line Railroad--Abandonment Portion 
Goshen Branch Between Firth & Ammon, in Bingham & Bonneville Counties, 
Idaho, 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 effectiveness of the exemption. Petitions for stay must be 
filed no later than March 21, 2014 (at least 7 days before the 
exemption becomes effective).
    An original and 10 copies of all pleadings, referring to Docket No. 
FD 35809, must be filed with the Surface Transportation Board, 395 E 
Street SW., Washington, DC 20423-0001. In addition, a copy of each 
pleading must be served on Jeremy M. Berman, 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: March 6, 2014.

    By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Raina S. White,
Clearance Clerk.
[FR Doc. 2014-05660 Filed 3-13-14; 8:45 am]
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