[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 63 (Monday, April 1, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 14372]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-7825]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Continuation of the Effectiveness of Interstate Commerce
Commission Legal Documents
AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice of effectiveness of legal documents.
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SUMMARY: This document gives notice of the continued effectiveness of
all legal documents of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) as
provided for in section 204, Saving Provisions, of the ICC Termination
Act of 1995. Specifically, section 204 provides that all rules and
regulations of the ICC shall continue in effect past the sunset date of
the ICC. Motor carriers are also notified that consolidations, mergers,
and acquisitions of control of motor carriers of property are no longer
subject to approval and authorization pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 11343.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Stanley M. Braverman, Motor
Carrier Law Division, (202) 927-6316, or Ms. Grace E. Reidy, Motor
Carrier Law Division, (202) 366-0834, Department of Transportation,
Federal Highway Administration, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC
20590. Office hours are from 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., e.t., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The ICC Termination Act of 1995 (P.L. 104-
88, 109 Stat. 803), effective January 1, 1996, eliminated unnecessary
ICC regulatory functions and partly transferred residual functions to a
newly established independent Surface Transportation Board (STB) within
the DOT and partly to the Secretary of Transportation. Section 204 of
the ICC Termination Act of 1995, the Saving Provisions, provides that
all legal documents of the ICC that were issued or granted by an
official authorized to effect such document shall continue in effect
beyond the transfer of any function from the ICC to the STB or DOT.
The Saving Provisions provide, in part, that all rules of the ICC
that were legally enacted by the proper official with requisite
authority and which are not based upon a provision of law repealed and
not substantially reenacted by the Act shall remain in effect after the
ICC sunset. Moreover, such rules and regulations shall remain in effect
until modified by the STB, the Secretary of Transportation or another
authorized competent official. To ensure proper public notice of the
continued effectiveness of such regulations, the current regulations
issued by the previously existing ICC shall remain in effect until
further action is taken to change the applicability and/or requirements
of such regulations. Motor carriers are also notified that
consolidations, mergers, and acquisitions of control of motor carriers
of property are no longer subject to approval and authorization
pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 11343. Section 11343 is a provision that was
found in the repealed statute and was not revived or continued by the
ICC Termination Act of 1995.
(23 U.S.C. 315; 49 CFR 1.48, Pub. L. 104-88, sec. 204.)
Issued on: March 25, 1996.
Rodney E. Slater,
Federal Highway Administrator.
[FR Doc. 96-7825 Filed 3-29-96; 8:45 am]
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