[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 226 (Friday, November 24, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 58097]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-28640]
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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 32800]
Columbus and Steens Junction Railway, Inc.; Trackage Rights
Exemption; Columbus and Greenville Railway Company
Columbus and Steens Junction Railway, Inc. (CSJ), a noncarrier, has
filed a notice of exemption under 49 CFR 1150.31 to acquire local
trackage rights over a 8.54-mile line of railroad,1 owned by
Columbus and Greenville Railway Company (C&G). The trackage rights
include: (1) The rail line of C&G lying between the north boundary line
of U.S. Highway No. 182 (milepost 0.5) and the western terminus of the
former main line track of C&G (milepost 6.54), a distance of 6.04
miles, and (2) the main tracks in C&G's Columbus, MS, rail yard between
the yard limits on the north and east (milepost 935.0) and South
Seventh Avenue on the south, a distance of 2.5 miles, including wye
tracks adjacent to the C&G shop, in Lowndes County, MS.2 The
trackage rights were scheduled to become effective on November 2, 1995,
the effective date of the exemption.
\1\ The class exemption at 49 CFR 1150.31 is properly invoked
here, as 49 U.S.C. 10901 governs an acquisition of trackage rights
by a noncarrier.
\2\ C&G states that, under the trackage rights agreement, CSJ
will have the nonexclusive right to serve all industrial side tracks
and team tracks appurtenant to the subject line as well as the right
to use its existing rail terminals located along or adjacent
thereto. If the industrial, side, and team tracks that CSJ intends
to acquire trackage rights over are an integral part of a continuous
movement in interstate commerce, then the tracks are not covered by
49 U.S.C. 10907(b)(1) and the Commission has jurisdiction over the
transaction. Accordingly, the exemption here applies to such track
if it is used in interstate commerce.
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Any comments must be filed with the Commission and served on: Eric
M. Hocky, 213 W. Miner Street, P.O. Box 796, West Chester, PA 19381-
0796.
If the notice contains false or misleading information, the
exemption is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the exemption under 49
U.S.C. 10505(d) may be filed at any time. The filing of a petition to
revoke will not automatically stay the transaction.
Decided: November 17, 1995.
By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-28640 Filed 11-22-95; 8:45 am]
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