[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 38 (Friday, February 26, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 9556]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-4715]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board
[STB Finance Docket No. 33594]
Ballard Terminal Railroad Company, L.L.C.--Modified Rail
Certificate 1
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\1\ In a decision served on August 11, 1998, this proceeding was
consolidated with Sea Lion Railroad--Abandonment Exemption--In King
County, WA, STB Docket No. AB-544X, and Adventure Trail D/B/A Sea
Lion Railroad--Acquisition and Operation Exemption--The Burlington
Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company, STB Finance Docket No. 33486.
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On May 4, 1998, Ballard Terminal Railroad Company, L.L.C. (BTRC),
filed a notice for a modified certificate of public convenience and
necessity under 49 CFR 1150, Subpart C, Modified Certificate of Public
Convenience and Necessity, to operate a line of railroad (the Ballard
Line) between milepost 0.09 and the end of the line at milepost 2.70, a
distance of almost 3 miles in the Ballard District of Seattle, King
County, WA. BTRC intends to operate over the Ballard Line under an
agreement with the City of Seattle. Seattle has granted BTRC a 30-year
franchise to operate the Ballard Line.
The involved rail line was approved for abandonment by Adventure
Trail, Inc., doing business as Sea Lion Railroad (Sea Lion), in Sea
Lion Railroad--Abandonment Exemption--In King County, WA, et al., STB
Docket No. AB-544X, et al. (STB served Aug. 11, 1998). In that
proceeding, the Board deferred action on BTRC's request for a modified
certificate pending administrative finality of the proceeding and
notice from Seattle that it had acquired the line. The abandonment
exemption proceeding has become administratively final, and Seattle has
notified the Board that, on December 30, 1998, it acquired the real
estate underlying the line.
The rail segment qualifies for a modified certificate of public
convenience and necessity. See Common Carrier Status of States, State
Agencies and Instrumentalities, and Political Subdivisions, Finance
Docket No. 28990F (ICC served July 16, 1981).
No subsidy is involved. BTRC indicates that, in order to receive
service, shippers must meet the following preconditions: ``Minimum of
30 carloads per year averaged over a rolling 36 month period.''
This notice will be served on the Association of American Railroads
(Car Service Division) as agent for all railroads subscribing to the
car-service and car-hire agreement: Association of American Railroads,
50 F St., NW, Washington, DC 20001; and on the American Short Line
Railroad Association: American Short Line Railroad Association, 1120 G
St., NW, Suite 520, Washington, DC 20005.
Decided: February 19, 1999.
By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-4715 Filed 2-25-99; 8:45 am]
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