[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 188 (Thursday, September 28, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50216-50217]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-24100]
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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 32774]
Southern Pacific Transportation Company; Trackage Rights
Exemption; Union Pacific Railroad Company
Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) has granted trackage rights to
Southern Pacific Transportation Company (SP) over approximately 13,000
feet of UP connecting and access trackage in Oakland, CA, to connect
SP's existing trackage at Oakland with an industrial property on UP
known as ``Schnitzer Steel.'' 1 The trackage rights were
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scheduled to become effective on September 15, 1995.
\1\ On August 4, 1995, Union Pacific Corporation, Union Pacific
Railroad Company, Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, Southern
Pacific Rail Corporation, Southern Pacific Transportation Company,
St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company, SPCSL Corp., and The Denver
and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company filed a notice of intent to
file a control and merger application in Finance Docket No. 32760.
Under 49 CFR 1180.4(c)(2)(vi), any proceeding directly related to an
application in a major transaction must be filed concurrently with
the primary application. It does not appear that this notice is
directly related to the intended application. SP, UP, and other
interested persons are invited to comment on the relationship, if
any, between this notice and the merger application to be filed in
Finance Docket No. 32760.
Additionally, within 10 days after publication of this notice of
exemption, SP must file a copy of the trackage rights agreement. 49
CFR 1180.4(g)(1)(i) and 1180.6(a)(7) (ii). If SP wishes to protect
any commercially or competitively sensitive information in the
agreement, as it suggests in its verified notice, it may file
another, redacted version of the agreement for the public docket
along with a request to keep the confidential copy under seal and
outside of the public docket and to refrain from otherwise
disclosing its contents to the public. The redacted version should
adhere to the pagination scheme of the confidential version but
should redact those details that warrant confidential treatment.
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This notice is filed under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(7). If the notice
contains false or misleading information, the exemption is void ab
initio. Petitions to revoke the exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10505(d) may
be filed at any time. The filing of a petition to revoke will not stay
the transaction. Pleadings must be filed with the Commission and served
on: Gary A. Laakso, Southern Pacific Transportation Company, One Market
Plaza, Room 846, San Francisco, CA 94105.
As a condition to the use of this exemption, any employees
adversely affected by the trackage rights will be protected under
Norfolk and Western Ry. Co.--Trackage Rights--BN, 354 I.C.C. 605
(1978), as modified in Mendocino Coast Ry., Inc.--Lease and Operate,
360 I.C.C. 653 (1980).
Decided: September 18, 1995.
By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-24100 Filed 9-27-95; 8:45 am]
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