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>From the Surface Transportation Board, Washington, D.C.
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The Surface Transportation Board announced that the agency will hold
a public hearing concerning a renewed petition, filed by The Western Coal
Traffic League (WCTL). The hearing will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday,
July 27, 2006, in Room 760, the agency’s hearing room, on the 7th Floor of
the agency’s headquarters in the Mercury Building, 1925 K Street, NW,
Washington, D.C.
WCTL has requested that the STB adopt rules limiting the extent to
which agreements for the sale or lease of railroad lines, by larger
railroads to existing or newly created short line railroads, may contain
“paper barriers” restricting the incentive or ability of a purchaser or
tenant to interchange traffic with connecting railroads that could compete
with the seller or landlord railroad. The purpose of this hearing is
further to explore this topic, to give the STB Members the opportunity to
ask questions, and to provide a forum for the expression of views by rail
shippers, railroads, and other interested persons, on WCTL’s renewed
petition.
The STB announced the July 27 hearing in its “Decision” in the
proceeding entitled Review of Rail Access and Competition Issues—Renewed
Petition of The Western Coal Traffic League, STB Ex Parte No. 575, issued
on June 2, 2006. 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 STB’s decision also is available for a fee by contacting ASAP Document
Solutions, 9332 Annapolis Rd., Suite 103, Lanham, MD 20706, telephone
(202) 306-4004, or via asapdc@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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