-----------------------------***----------------------------- >From the Surface Transportation Board, Washington, D.C. -----------------------------***----------------------------- The Surface Transportation Board is providing a schedule of speakers’ appearances, their time allocations, and attendance instructions for the STB’s July 18, 2007 public hearing in Kansas City, Missouri, in the proceeding entitled Rail Transportation of Resources Critical to the Nation’s Energy Supply, STB Ex Parte No. 672. The July 18 public hearing will begin at 9:00 a.m. in the Ground Floor Conference Room of the Richard Bolling Federal Building, 601 East 12th Street, Kansas City, MO. The STB announced the July 18 public hearing in a decision issued to the public on June 6, 2007 (STB Ex parte No. 672). That decision established due dates for persons wishing to speak at the public hearing to advise the agency of their intent to participate and torequest a time allotment, and for the submission of written testimony. Based on submissions received, the STB has set the hearing’s schedule of speakers as shown on the Attachment to this news release. Attendance instructions. The Richard Bolling Federal Building opens at 6:00 a.m., and all hearing participants and observers are encouraged to arrive early for the 9:00 hearing. All persons must present a valid photographic identification (driver’s license or local, state, or federal-government identification) and pass security screening before being granted access into the building. There will be no reserved seating, except for witnesses. Visitors will have access only to public areas of the building. Quiet laptops and tape recorders may be brought into the conference room, but no provision will be made for the connection of personal computers to telephone lines. Cellular telephone use is not permitted in the conference room. The conference room complies with the Americans With Disabilities Act, and persons needing such accommodations should telephone (202) 245-0245, or (202) 245-0352, by the close of business on July 13, 2007. The schedule of speakers’ appearances and time allocations was provided in a Decision issued on June 27, 2007 in STB Ex Parte No. 672. That schedule 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 by contacting ASAP Document Solutions, 9332 Annapolis Rd., Suite 103, Lanham, MD 20706, telephone (202) 306-4004, or via asapdc@xxxxxxxxxxx . ### ATTACHMENT ______________ Surface Transportation Board Public Hearing RAIL TRANSPORTATION OF RESOURCES CRITICAL TO THE NATION’S ENERGY SUPPLY STB Ex Parte No. 672 July 18, 2007 Party / Speaker/ Time Allotted Panel I: Freight Railroads BNSF Railway Company / Kevin D. Kaufman & Stevan Bobb / 10 minutes Union Pacific Railroad Company / Jack Koraleski / 10 minutes Panel II: Freight Railroads CSX Transportation, Inc. / Christopher P. Jenkins & Timothy J. McNulty / 10 minutes Norfolk Southern Railway Company / Danny D. Smith / 10 minutes Kansas City Southern Railway Company / Daniel Avramovich / 10 minutes Panel III: Coal Shippers and Utilities Western Coal Traffic League / Dave Laffere / 10 minutes Edison Electric Institute / Charles W. Linderman / 10 minutes Panel IV: Coal Shippers and Utilities Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation / Steve Sharp / 10 minutes Western Fuels Association, Inc. / Duane L. Richards / 10 minutes Dairyland Power Cooperative / Dennis Rackers / 10 minutes Entergy Services, Inc. / Jeffrey G. Herndon / 10 minutes Panel V: Other Interests Ethanex Energy, Inc. / Randall Rahm / 10 minutes T.W. Blasingame Company, Inc. / Thomas Blasingame / 10 minutes -----------------------------***----------------------------- 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.
