[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 180 (Monday, September 16, 1996)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 48639-48640]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-23664]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board
49 CFR Part 1002
[STB Ex Parte No. 542]
Regulations Governing Fees for Services Performed in Connection
With Licensing and Related Services--1996 Update
AGENCY: Surface Transportation Board, DOT.
ACTION: Final rules; Delay of effectiveness.
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SUMMARY: The Surface Transportation Board (Board) is delaying the
effective date for Fee Item (60), Labor arbitration proceedings and Fee
Item (61), Appeals to a Surface Transportation Board decision and
petitions to revoke an exemption pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 10502(d), to
allow sufficient time for the Board to consider the related petition to
reopen that has been filed in this proceeding.
EFFECTIVE DATE: The effective date for 49 CFR 1002.2(f), fee items (60)
and (61), published in the Federal Register at 61 FR 42190 (August 14,
1996) is delayed until the Board issues a decision on the merits of the
related petition to reopen filed in this proceeding. The Board will
announce further information in the Federal Register regarding the
effective date of these two fee items when a decision on the merits of
the related petition to reopen filed in this proceeding is issued.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kathleen M. King, (202) 927-5249 or
David T. Groves, (202) 927-6395. [TDD for the hearing impaired: (202)
927-5721.]
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Board issued final rules to implement
its 1996 user fee update on August 14, 1996 at 61 FR 42190. Those rules
are scheduled to go into effect on September 16, 1996.
On August 26, 1996, Joseph Szabo, the Illinois Legislative Director
for the United Transportation Union (Mr. Szabo), filed a petition for
stay
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requesting that the Board stay the establishment of the new $7,600
filing fee for Fee Item (60), Labor arbitration proceedings, and the
new $150 filing fee for Fee Item (61), Appeals to a Surface
Transportation Board decision and petitions to revoke an exemption
pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 10502(d), pending the disposition of his petition
to reopen the August 14, 1996 decision. In letters filed August 26,
1996, the United Transportation Union and the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers also objected to the establishment of these two fees and
supported Mr. Szabo's petition for stay. On September 3, 1996, Mr.
Szabo filed his petition to reopen this proceeding.
Under the authority of 49 U.S.C. 721(a), I am granting a
``housekeeping'' delay of the effective date of Fee Items (60) and (61)
so that the Board will have sufficient time to consider the issues
raised in the related petition to reopen. The Board intends to act on
that petition by October 1, 1996. All other fee items will go into
effect as scheduled.
This action will not significantly affect either the quality of the
human environment or the conservation of energy resources.
Decided: August 11, 1996.
By the Commission, Chairman Morgan.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
For the reasons set forth in the preamble, the effective date of 49
CFR 1002.2(f), fee items (60) and (61), published at 61 FR 42190
(August 14, 1996), is delayed until the Board issues a decision on the
merits of the related petition to reopen filed in this proceeding. The
Board will announce further information in the Federal Register
regarding the effective date of these two fee items when a decision on
the merits of the petition to reopen is issued.
[FR Doc. 96-23664 Filed 9-13-96; 8:45 am]
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