[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 135 (Friday, July 14, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 36308]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-17330]
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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Docket No. AB-55 (Sub-No. 510X)]
CSX Transportation, Inc.--Abandonment Exemption--in St. Clair
County, MI
CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT) has filed a notice of exemption
under 49 CFR 1152 Subpart F--Exempt Abandonments to abandon
approximately 1.5 miles of its float operation over the St. Clair River
between milepost CBD-90.01 at Port Huron and the United States-Canada
Boundary line, in St. Clair County, MI.1
\1\ The full scope of the operation extends to milepost CUB-
70.33 at Sarnia in the Province of Ontario, Canada. The Commission
does not have jurisdiction to exempt operations outside of the
United States. CSXT must file its request for any necessary
approvals relating to service in Canada with the National
Transportation Agency of Canada.
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CSXT has certified that: (1) No local traffic has moved over the
line for at least 2 years; (2) there is no overhead traffic on the
line; (3) no formal complaint filed by a user of rail service on the
line (or by a State or local government entity acting on behalf of such
user) regarding cessation of service over the line either is pending
with the Commission or with any U.S. District Court or has been decided
in favor of the complainant within the 2-year period; and (4) the
requirements at 49 CFR 1105.7 (environmental report), 49 CFR 1105.8
(historic report), 49 CFR 1105.11 (transmittal letter), 49 CFR 1105.12
(newspaper publication), and 49 CFR 1152.50(d)(1) (notice to
governmental agencies) have been met.
As a condition to this exemption, any employee adversely affected
by the abandonment shall be protected under Oregon Short Line R. Co.--
Abandonment--Goshen, 360 I.C.C. 91 (1979). To address whether this
condition adequately protects affected employees, a petition for
partial revocation under 49 U.S.C. 10505(d) must be filed.
Provided no formal expression of intent to file an offer of
financial assistance (OFA) has been received, this exemption will be
effective on August 13, 1995, unless stayed pending reconsideration.
Petitions to stay that do not involve environmental issues,2
formal expressions of intent to file an OFA under 49 CFR
1152.27(c)(2),3 and trail use/rail banking requests under 49 CFR
1152.29 4 must be filed by July 26, 1995. Petitions to reopen or
requests for public use conditions under 49 CFR 1152.28 must be filed
by August 3, 1995, with: Office of the Secretary, Case Control Branch,
Interstate Commerce Commission, Washington, DC 20423.
\2\ A stay will be issued routinely by the Commission in those
proceedings where an informed decision on environmental issues,
whether raised by a party or by the Commission's Section of
Environmental Analysis in its independent investigation) cannot be
made before the effective date of the notice of exemption. See
Exemption of Out-of-Service Rail Lines, 5 I.C.C.2d 377 (1989). Any
entity seeking a stay on environmental concerns is encouraged to
file its request as soon as possible in order to permit the
Commission to review and act on the request before the effective
date of this exemption.
\3\ See Exempt. of Rail Abandonment--Offers of Finan. Assist., 4
I.C.C.2d 164 (1987).
\4\ The Commission will accept a late-filed trail use request as
long as it retains jurisdiction to do so.
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A copy of any pleading filed with the Commission should be sent to
applicant's representative: Charles M. Rosenberger, Senior Counsel, CSX
Transportation, Inc. 500 Water Street, J150 , Jacksonville, FL 32202.
If the notice of exemption contains false or misleading
information, the exemption is void ab initio.
CSXT has filed an environmental report which addresses the
abandonment's effects, if any, on the environmental and historic
resources. The Section of Environmental Analysis (SEA) will issue an
environmental assessment (EA) by July 19, 1995. Interested persons may
obtain a copy of the EA by writing to SEA (Room 3219, Interstate
Commerce Commission, Washington, DC 20423) or by calling Elaine Kaiser,
Chief of SEA, at (202) 927-6248. Comments on environmental and historic
preservation matters must be filed within 15 days after the EA is
available to the public.
Environmental, historic preservation, public use, or trail use/rail
banking conditions will be imposed, where appropriate, in a subsequent
decision.
Decided: July 10, 1995.
By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-17330 Filed 7-13-95; 8:45 am]
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