81 FR 71160 - The Indiana Rail Road Company-Trackage Rights Exemption-CSX Transportation, Inc.

SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 199 (October 14, 2016)

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 199 (Friday, October 14, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 71160]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-24876]


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SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD

[Docket No. FD 36068]


The Indiana Rail Road Company--Trackage Rights Exemption--CSX 
Transportation, Inc.

    The Indiana Rail Road Company (INRD), a Class III rail carrier, has 
filed a verified notice of exemption under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(7) for its 
acquisition of trackage rights over a line of railroad of CSX 
Transportation, Inc. (CSXT) between approximately milepost OZA 204.5 at 
Sullivan, Ind., and milepost OZA 219.05 at Oaktown, Ind., a distance of 
approximately 14.55 miles (the Line).
    INRD states that, pursuant to a May 15, 2008 trackage rights 
agreement and two subsequent supplements to that agreement, dated as of 
August 1, 2009, and November 20, 2009, INRD holds trackage rights over 
CSXT's rail line from Sullivan to Carlisle and Oaktown, Ind.,\1\ for 
the purpose of handling unit coat trains from mines at Carlisle and 
Oaktown to specified destinations on INRD or other railroads with which 
INRD interchanges.
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    \1\ See Ind. Rail Rd.--Trackage Rights Exemption--CSX Transp., 
Inc., FD 35328 (STB served Dec. 31, 2009); Ind. Rail Rd.--Trackage 
Rights Exemption--CSX Transp., Inc., FD 35287 (STB served Sept. 2, 
2009); Ind. Rail Rd.--Amended Trackage Rights Exemption--CSX 
Transp., Inc., FD 35137 (STB served May 22, 2008).
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    Pursuant to a written Supplemental Agreement No. 6 (Agreement) 
dated September 1, 2016,\2\ CSXT has agreed to grant additional 
limited, temporary trackage rights to INRD over the Line. The purpose 
of the transaction is to allow INRD to handle loaded and empty coal 
trains between the Oaktown Mine and the Kentucky Utilities Generating 
Station in Harrodsburg, Ky., in interline service with other rail 
carriers.\3\ The Agreement provides that the trackage rights are 
temporary in nature and are scheduled to expire on December 31, 
2017.\4\
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    \2\ The fully executed Agreement between CSXT and INRD was filed 
with the notice as Exhibit 2.
    \3\ INRD's notice of exemption initially described the trackage 
rights as ``local.'' However, on October 4, 2016, INRD filed a 
supplement in which it states that, beyond serving the mine at 
Oaktown, the temporary trackage rights will not allow INRD to 
provide local service at any points between Sullivan and Oaktown.
    \4\ INRD states that, because the temporary trackage rights 
established by the Agreement are longer than one year in duration, 
it is not filing under the Board's class exemption for temporary 
trackage rights under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(8). Instead, INRD has filed 
under the trackage rights class exemption at 1180.2(d)(7). 
Concurrently, INRD has filed, in Docket No. FD36068 (Sub-No. 1), a 
petition for partial revocation of this exemption to permit these 
proposed trackage rights to expire on December 31, 2017, as provided 
in the Agreement. The Board will address that petition in a separate 
decision.
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    The transaction may be consummated on or after October 29, 2016, 
the effective date of the exemption (30 days after the verified notice 
was filed).
    As a condition to this exemption, any employees affected by the 
acquisition of the 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--Lease & Operate--California Western Railroad, 360 I.C.C. 653 
(1980).
    If the notice 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 October 21, 2016 (at 
least seven days before the exemption becomes effective).
    An original and 10 copies of all pleadings, referring to Docket No. 
FD 36068, 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 Thomas J. Litwiler, Fletcher & Sippel LLC, 
29 North Wacker Drive, Suite 920, Chicago, IL 60606.
    Board decisions and notices are available on our Web site at 
``WWW.STB.GOV.''

    Decided: October 11, 2016.

    By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.

Marline Simeon,
Clearance Clerk.
[FR Doc. 2016-24876 Filed 10-13-16; 8:45 am]
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