-----------------------------***----------------------------- >From the Surface Transportation Board, Washington, D.C. -----------------------------***----------------------------- Surface Transportation Board Chairman Roger Nober has announced the matters and cases to be addressed at the STB's open voting conference to begin at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, September 24, 2004, in Room 760, the agency's hearing room, on the 7th Floor of the agency's headquarters in the Mercury Building, 1925 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. At the conference, the Members will discuss and vote on the cases listed below. While the conference is open for public observation, no public participation is permitted. THE CONFERENCE ITEMS ARE: -Texas Municipal Power Agency v. The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company, STB Docket No. 42056. -Granite State Concrete Co., Inc. and Milford-Bennington Railroad Company, Inc. v. Boston and Maine Corporation and Springfield Terminal Railway Company, STB Docket No. 42083. -Engelhard Corporation--Petition for Declaratory Order--Springfield Terminal Railway Company and Consolidated Rail Corporation, STB Docket No. 42075. -Ohio Valley Railroad Company--Acquisition and Operation Exemption--Harwood Properties, Inc., STB Finance Docket No. 34486. -City of Peoria IL, d/b/a Peoria, Peoria Heights and Western Railroad--Construction of Connecting Track Exemption--in Peoria County, IL, STB Finance Docket No. 34395. -Climate Master Inc. and International Environmental, Inc.--Petition for Declaratory Order--Certain Rates and Practices of Trans Tech Solutions, Inc., F&M Bank, and Midland Transportation Co., STB Docket No. 42085. -Regulations Governing Fees for Services Performed in Connection with Licensing and Related Services--2004 Update, STB Ex Parte No. 542 (Sub-No. 11). -Procedures to Expedite Resolution of Rate Challenges to be Considered Under the Stand-Alone Cost Methodology, STB Ex Parte No. 638. -Revision of Exemption Authority Citations, STB Ex Parte No. 652. -Semiannual Regulatory Agenda, STB Ex Parte No. 536 (Sub-No. 17). The STB's decision issued today announcing the voting-conference agenda, in Meetings of the Board, STB Ex Parte No. 333, 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 ### -----------------------------***----------------------------- 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.
