CSX Transportation, Inc.-Discontinuance of Service Exemption-in Vermilion County, Ill

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 232 (Monday, December 3, 2018)

Federal Register Volume 83, Number 232 (Monday, December 3, 2018)

Notices

Pages 62398-62399

From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov

FR Doc No: 2018-26227

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SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD

Docket No. AB 55 (Sub-No. 785X)

CSX Transportation, Inc.--Discontinuance of Service Exemption--in Vermilion County, Ill

CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT), has filed a verified notice of exemption under 49 CFR part 1152, subpart F--Exempt Abandonments and Discontinuances of Service to discontinue service over an approximately 3.6-mile rail line on its Woodlands Subdivision between milepost QSK 0.0 and milepost QSK 3.6, the end of the line in Vermilion County, Ill. (the Line). The Line traverses United States Postal Service Zip Code 61832.

CSXT has certified that: (1) No freight traffic has moved over the Line for at least two years; (2) any overhead traffic on the Line can be rerouted over other lines; (3) no formal complaint filed by a user of rail service on the Line (or a state or local government entity acting on behalf of such user) regarding cessation of service over the Line either is pending with the Surface Transportation Board or any U.S. District Court or has been decided in favor of a complainant within the two-year period; and (4) the requirements at 49 CFR 1105.12 (newspaper publication) and 49 CFR 1152.50(d)(1) (notice to governmental agencies) have been met.

As a condition to this exemption, any employee adversely affected by the discontinuance of service shall be protected under Oregon Short Line Railroad--Abandonment Portion Goshen Branch Between Firth & Ammon, in Bingham & Bonneville Counties, Idaho, 360 I.C.C. 91 (1979). To address whether this condition adequately protects affected employees, a petition for partial revocation under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) must be filed.

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Provided no formal expression of intent to file an offer of financial assistance (OFA) \1\ to subsidize continued rail service has been received, this exemption will be effective on January 2, 2019, unless stayed pending reconsideration. Petitions to stay that do not involve environmental issues and formal expressions of intent to file an OFA to subsidize continued rail service under 49 CFR 1152.27(c)(2) \2\ must be filed by December 13, 2018.\3\ Petitions for reconsideration must be filed by December 24, 2018, with the Surface Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW, Washington, DC 20423-0001.

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\1\ The Board modified its OFA procedures effective July 29, 2017. Among other things, the OFA process now requires potential offerors, in their formal expression of intent, to make a preliminary financial responsibility showing based on a calculation using information contained in the carrier's filing and publicly available information. See Offers of Financial Assistance, EP 729 (STB served June 29, 2017); 82 FR 30997 (July 5, 2017).

\2\ Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing fee, which currently is set at $1,800. See 49 CFR 1002.2(f)(25).

\3\ Because this is a discontinuance proceeding and not an abandonment, trail use/rail banking and public use conditions are not appropriate. Because there will be an environmental review during abandonment, this discontinuance does not require environmental review.

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A copy of any petition filed with Board should be sent to CSXT's representative, Louis E. Gitomer, Law Offices of Louis E. Gitomer, LLC, 600 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 301, Towson, MD 21204.

If the verified notice contains false or misleading information, the exemption is void ab initio.

Board decisions and notices are available on our website at www.stb.gov.

Decided: November 28, 2018.

By the Board, Scott M. Zimmerman, Acting Director, Office of Proceedings.

Jeffrey Herzig,

Clearance Clerk.

FR Doc. 2018-26227 Filed 11-30-18; 8:45 am

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