-----------------------------***----------------------------- >From the Surface Transportation Board, Washington, D.C. -----------------------------***----------------------------- Surface Transportation Board Chairman Roger Nober today provided a schedule of speakers' appearances and their time allocations for the STB's August 31, 2004 public hearing concerning Class Exemption for Expedited Abandonment Procedure for Class II and Class III Railroads, STB Ex Parte No. 647. The hearing will be held immediately after the conclusion of the STB's voting conference, which begins at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, August 31, 2004, in Room 760, the STB's hearing room, on the 7th Floor of the agency's headquarters in the Mercury Building, 1925 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. The STB officially announced the public hearing in STB Ex Parte No. 647 in a Notice issued to the public on July 22, 2004. The schedule of speakers' appearances and time allocations as published in the STB's August 24 decision in STB Ex Parte No. 647 is attached. That decision is available for viewing and downloading via the agency's Web site at http://www.stb.dot.gov. A printed copy of the Board's decision also is available for a fee by contacting ASAP Document Solutions, 9332 Annapolis Rd., Suite 103, Lanham, MD 20706, telephone (301) 577-2600, or via asapmd@xxxxxxxxxxxx A fact sheet is attached. A live broadcast of the hearing will be accessible via the STB's agency's Web site at "http://www.stb.dot.gov.,"; under "Information Center"/"Webcast "/"Live Audio" on the home page. ### ATTACHMENT _______________ ATTACHMENT SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD PUBLIC HEARING Class Exemption for Expedited Abandonment Procedure for Class II and Class III Railroads, STB Ex Parte No. 647, August 31, 2004 SCHEDULE OF APPEARANCES Party / Speaker / Time Allotted Petitioners Speaker: Mark H. Sidman, Weiner, Brodsky, Sidman, Kider P.C. (Note: The Petitioners will open and may reserve part of their time for rebuttal) / 30 minutes Association of American Railroads Speaker: To be determined / 15 minutes United Transportation Union Speaker: Daniel R. Elliot, III / 15 minutes Rail Labor Division of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO Speaker: Mitchell Kraus / 15 minutes MATTER AT ISSUE: The Surface Transportation Board's August 31, 2004 public hearing concerning Class Exemption for Expedited Abandonment Procedure for Class II and Class III Railroads, STB Ex Parte No. 647, will provide a forum for the discussion of a petition filed with the STB by a group of 65 short-line and regional railroads ("Petitioners") requesting a rulemaking to amend the agency's current rail-line abandonment regulations. ### -----------------------------***----------------------------- If you have received this e-mail in error or wish to unsubscribe from STB News, please send an e-mail message to stbnewslistserver@xxxxxxxxxxx and place "unsubscribe stbnews" as the body of the message.
