82 FR 19782 - The Indiana Rail Road Company-Amended Trackage Rights Exemption-CSX Transportation, Inc.

SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 81 (April 28, 2017)

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 81 (Friday, April 28, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 19782]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-08632]


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SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD

[Docket No. FD 35283 (Sub-No. 1)]


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

    Pursuant to a written Supplemental Agreement, dated February 16, 
2017, The Indiana Rail Road Company (INRD) seeks to acquire 
approximately 30.6 miles of limited and amended overhead trackage 
rights from CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT),\1\ between the INRD-CSXT 
connection near INRD's Senate Avenue Yard and CSXT's Avon Yard in 
Indianapolis, Ind. INRD presently holds overhead trackage rights over 
the subject lines, which it can utilize in conjunction with specified 
categories of traffic.\2\ INRD states that the proposed transaction 
would amend those existing trackage rights to allow INRD to handle 
interchange traffic between CSXT and Louisville & Indiana Railroad 
Company in intermediate switching service.
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    \1\ INRD is indirectly controlled by CSXT and operates as an 
independent Class II rail carrier.
    \2\ Pursuant to an August 22, 1996 trackage rights agreement and 
a September 1, 2009 Supplemental Agreement between INRD and CSXT, 
INRD holds trackage rights over several CSXT line segments in the 
Indianapolis terminal for the purpose of handling certain limited 
categories of overhead traffic. See Ind. R.R.--Trackage Rights 
Exemption--CSX Transp., Inc., FD 35283 (STB served Sept. 3, 2009); 
Ind. R.R.--Trackage Rights Exemption--Consol. Rail Corp., FD 33380 
(STB served Apr. 30, 1997).
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    The additional restricted overhead trackage rights to be acquired 
are over the following CSXT line segments: (1) Between the INRD-CSXT 
connection south of INRD's Senate Avenue Yard at milepost QIB 5.3 and 
the Hamilton Connection at milepost QIB 9.0, a distance of 
approximately 3.7 miles; (2) over CSXT's Hamilton Connection between 
milepost QIB 9.0 and milepost BD 122.0, a distance of approximately 0.5 
miles; (3) between milepost BD 122.0 and milepost QS 12.5 at CP AN near 
the west end of Avon Yard, a distance of approximately 14.4 miles, with 
two milepost equations where milepost BD 123.7 = milepost QI 283.7 and 
milepost QI 283.9 = milepost QS 0.0; (4) between milepost QSC 0.7 at CP 
IJ and milepost QSC 8.6 at CP South Hunt, a distance of approximately 
7.9 miles, connecting at both ends with Line Segment #3; (5) between 
milepost QSL 1.7 at CP Dale and milepost QSL 0.0 at CP IU, a distance 
of approximately 1.7 miles, connecting Line Segment #1 to Line Segment 
#3; and (6) between milepost QSS 106.9 at Belt Crossing and milepost 
QSS 109.3 at CP IU, a distance of approximately 2.4 miles, connecting 
Line Segment #1 to Line Segment #3.
    The earliest this transaction may be consummated is May 13, 2017, 
the effective date of the exemption (30 days after the verified notice 
of exemption was filed).
    As a condition to this exemption, any employees affected by 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).
    This notice is filed under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(7). 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. Stay petitions 
must be filed by May 5, 2017 (at least seven days before the exemption 
becomes effective).
    An original and 10 copies of all pleadings, referring to Docket No. 
35283 (Sub-No. 1), 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 60606-2832.
    Board decisions and notices are available on our Web site at 
``WWW.STB.GOV.''

    Decided: April 25, 2017.

    By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Raina S. Contee,
Clearance Clerk.
[FR Doc. 2017-08632 Filed 4-27-17; 8:45 am]
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