[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 248 (Wednesday, December 27, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 66988]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-31320]
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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 32797]
RailAmerica, Inc.; Continuance in Control Exemption; West Texas
and Lubbock Railroad Company, Inc. and Plainview Terminal Company
RailAmerica has filed a notice of exemption to continue in control
of the West Texas and Lubbock Railroad Company, Inc. (WTLR) and the
Plainview Terminal Company (PTC) upon WTLR and PTC becoming active
class III shortline rail carriers.
WTLR has filed a notice of exemption in West Texas and Lubbock
Railroad Company, Inc.--Purchase and Operation Exemption--Seagraves,
Whiteface and Lubbock Railroad Company, Finance Docket No. 32796, to
acquire and operate 113.0 route miles of interconnected rail lines from
the Seagraves, Whiteface and Lubbock Railroad Company (SWGR). WTLR will
also obtain ancillary overhead trackage rights held by SWGR over
certain lines and yard tracks of The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railway Company (ATSF) at Lubbock Subdivision and in ATSF's Lubbock
yards.
PTC has filed a notice of exemption in Plainview Terminal Company--
Purchase and Operation Exemption--Floydada and Plainview Railroad
Company, Finance Docket No. 32795, to acquire operating rights over a
4.6 mile line of railroad at Plainview, TX.
RAI controls five other carriers: The Delaware Valley Railway
Company, Inc. (DVRY), the Huron and Eastern Railway Company, Inc.
(HESR) the Saginaw Valley Railway Company, Inc. (SGVR), the South
Central Tennessee Railroad Company (SCTR), and Dakota Rail, Inc. (DRI).
RAI certifies that: (1) The WTLR and PTC do not interconnect, nor
do they interconnect with any other rail carrier it controls; (2) the
continuance in control is not part of a series of anticipated
transactions that would connect the railroads with each other or any
railroad in their corporate family; and (3) the transaction does not
involve a class I carrier. The transaction, therefore, is exempt from
the prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 11343. See 49 CFR
1180.2(d)(2).
As a condition to use of this exemption, any employees affected by
the transaction will be protected by the conditions set forth in New
York Dock Ry.--Control--Brooklyn Eastern Dist., 360 I.C.C. 60 (1979).
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. Pleadings must be filed with the
Commission 1 and served on: Robert A. Wimbish, Rea, Cross &
Auchincloss, 1920 N Street, NW, Suite 420, Washington, D.C. 20036.
\1\ Legislation to sunset the Commission on December 31, 1995,
and transfer remaining functions is now under consideration in
Congress. Until further notice, parties submitting pleadings should
continue to use the current name and address.
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Decided: December 19, 1995.
By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-31320 Filed 12-26-95; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 7035-01-P
