96-23898. Sacramento-Placerville Transportation Corridor Joint Powers AuthorityAcquisition ExemptionCertain Assets of Southern Pacific Transportation Company

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 182 (Wednesday, September 18, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 49191]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-23898]


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Surface Transportation Board
Surface Transportation Board 1
[STB Finance Docket No. 33046]


Sacramento-Placerville Transportation Corridor Joint Powers 
Authority--Acquisition Exemption--Certain Assets of Southern Pacific 
Transportation Company

    Sacramento-Placerville Transportation Corridor Joint Powers 
Authority (JPA) has filed a notice of exemption to acquire 
approximately 13.7 miles of rail line owned by Southern Pacific 
Transportation Company (SP) extending between milepost 94.3 at 65th 
Street in Brighton, CA, and milepost 108.0 at Nimbus, CA, in Sacramento 
County, CA. SP will retain the exclusive right and obligation to 
provide rail freight service on the trackage to be acquired. JPA will 
not operate any rail freight service on that trackage.2
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    \1\ The ICC Termination Act of 1995, Pub. L. No. 104-88, 109 
Stat. 803, which was enacted on December 29, 1995, and took effect 
on January 1, 1996, abolished the Interstate Commerce Commission and 
transferred certain functions to the Surface Transportation Board 
(Board). This notice relates to functions that are subject to Board 
jurisdiction pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 10901.
    \2\ JPA has simultaneously filed in this docket a motion to 
dismiss the notice of exemption to obtain a jurisdictional 
determination from the Board regarding JPA's prospective common 
carrier status.See State of Maine, Department of Transportation--
Acquisition and Operation Exemption--Maine Central Railroad Company, 
8 I.C.C.2d 835 (1991). That motion will be the subject of a separate 
decision by the Board.
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    JPA expects to consummate its acquisition on or after September 4, 
1996.
    Any comments must be filed with the Board and served on Kevin M. 
Sheys, Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, 1020 Nineteenth Street, N.W., 
Washington, DC 20036.
    This notice is filed under 49 CFR 1150.31. If the notice contains 
false or misleading information, the exemption is voidab initio. 
Petitions to revoke the exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) may be filed 
at any time. The filing of a petition to revoke will not automatically 
stay the transaction.

    Decided: September 12, 1996.

    By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-23898 Filed 9-17-96; 8:45 am]
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