Presidential Documents

18101 

Federal Register 

Vol. 72, No. 68 

Tuesday, April 10, 2007 

Title 3— 

The President 

Executive Order 13429 of April 4, 2007 

Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate a Dispute 

Between Metro-North Railroad and Its Maintenance of Way 

Employees Represented by the International Brotherhood of 

Teamsters 

A dispute exists between Metro-North Railroad and its maintenance of way 

employees represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. 

The dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions of the 

Railway Labor Act, as amended, 45 U.S.C. 151–188 (the ‘‘Act’’). 

A first emergency board to investigate and report on this dispute and disputes 

of other employees represented by other labor organizations was established 

on December 7, 2006, by Executive Order 13417 of December 6, 2006. 

The emergency board terminated upon issuance of its report. Subsequently, 

its recommendations were not accepted by the parties. 

A party empowered by the Act has requested that the President establish 

a second emergency board pursuant to section 9A of the Act (45 U.S.C. 

159a). 

Section 9A(e) of the Act provides that the President, upon such request, 

shall appoint a second emergency board to investigate and report on the 

dispute. 

NOW, THEREFORE, by the authority vested in me as President by the 

Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 9A of 

the Act, it is hereby ordered as follows: 

Section 1. Establishment of Emergency Board (Board). There is established, 

effective April 6, 2007, a Board of three members to be appointed by the 

President to investigate and report on this dispute. No member shall be 

pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of railroad employees 

or any carrier. The Board shall perform its functions subject to the availability 

of funds. 

Sec. 2. Report. Within 30 days after the creation of the Board, the parties 

to the dispute shall submit to the Board final offers for settlement of the 

dispute. Within 30 days after the submission of final offers for settlement 

of the dispute, the Board shall submit a report to the President setting 

forth its selection of the most reasonable offer. 

Sec. 3. Maintaining Conditions. As provided by section 9A(h) of the Act, 

from the time a request to establish a second emergency board is made 

until 60 days after the Board submits its report to the President, the parties 

to the controversy shall make no change in the conditions out of which 

the dispute arose except by agreement of the parties. 


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Sec. 4. Records Maintenance. The records and files of the Board are records 

of the Office of the President and upon the Board’s termination shall be 

maintained in the physical custody of the National Mediation Board. 

Sec. 5. Expiration. The Board shall terminate upon the submission of the 

report provided for in section 2 of this order. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

April 4, 2007. 

[FR Doc. 07–1816 

Filed 4–9–07; 11:01 am] 

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