5272 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 23 / Tuesday, February 4, 1997 / Notices

1On January 6, 1997, Inland Steel Company and

LTV Steel Company, Inc., jointly filed a petition to

reject the notice of exemption or to revoke the

exemption. Simultaneously, they filed a petition to

stay the effectiveness of the notice of exemption

pending a ruling on the petition to reject or revoke.

The stay request was denied by decision served

January 24, 1997. The petition to reject or revoke

will be handled in a separate decision.

2 Trackage between Negaunee, MI, and

Ishpeming is owned and operated jointly by UP,

Wisconsin Central Ltd. (WCL), and the Lake

Superior & Ishpeming Railroad Company (LS&I).

Reflecting this arrangement, changes in milepost

numbering occur at West Wye near Negaunee,

where milepost 176.85 and WCL milepost 164.49

designate the same point, and again at Euclid

Avenue Yard in Ishpeming, where WCL milepost

170.70 and LS&I milepost 73.79 designate the same

point. The Escanaba Subdivision includes industry

trackage at Menominee/Marinette jointly owned or

operated with the Escanaba & Lake Superior

Railroad Company (E&LS).

this end, the Coast Guard will sponsor

a Technology Symposium on VTS

systems. The symposium will feature

oral presentations by industry about

VTS technology.

DATES: The Symposium will be held on

February 12, 1997 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:45

p.m.

ADDRESSES: The Symposium will be

held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel Crystal

City, 2799 Jefferson Davis Highway,

Arlington, Virginia.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Gene Lockhart (USCG) (202) 267–2813;

Robert Perris (USCG) (202) 267–2220;

FAX (202) 267–4018.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

preliminary agenda for the Symposium

is as follows: 0800–0830 Registration;

0830–0835 Welcome; 0835–0900

Announcements; 0900–1145 Industry

Presentations by CDA Corp., Denbridge

Digital Limited, GP&C Sweden AB,

Hughes Aircraft Company, Kongsberg

Norcontrol; 1145–1300 Lunch Break;

1300–1630 Industry Presentations by

Lockheed Martin Corp., Meteor

Communication Corp., Newcomb

Communications Corp., Computer

Sciences Corp., Ross Engineering, STN

Atlas Elektronic; 1630–1645 Closing

Remarks.

The Hyatt Regency Hotel Crystal City

is located at the southern end of Crystal

City near National Airport. The hotel’s

phone number is (703) 418–1234/7226.

Dated: January 29, 1997.

Frederic N. Squires,

Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Acting Director

of Acquisition.

[FR Doc. 96–2634 Filed 2–3–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–14–M

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Finance Docket No. 33338]

Luzerne and Susquehanna Railway

Company—Lease and Operation

Exemption—Luzerne County Rail

Corporation, F & L Realty, Inc., and

SLIBCO Utilities, Inc.

Luzerne and Susquehanna Railway

Company (LS), a Class III rail carrier,

has filed a verified notice of exemption

under 49 CFR 1150.41 to lease and

operate certain lines of Luzerne County

Rail Corporation (LCRC), F & L Realty,

Inc. (F & L), and SLIBCO Utilities, Inc.

(SLIBCO), located in Luzerne and

Lackawanna Counties, PA. The

proposed transaction was to have been

consummated as soon as possible after

the January 20, 1997 effective date of the

exemption.

The lines involved are described as

follows: (1) approximately 1.7 miles of

rail line owned by LCRC and F & L

between milepost 10.0 at the north side

of Montage Road Crossing and milepost

10.5 at Little Virginia (the Dunmore

Secondary Track); and between

milepost 3.7 at Little Virginia and

milepost 2.5 at Runaround Switch (the

Brady Industrial Track); and (2) the

Minooka Industrial Track owned by

SLIBCO for its entire 1.5-mile length

from Runaround Switch to the end of

the track at Davis Street (the Minooka

line). LS will lease and operate rail lines

totaling approximately 3.2 miles.

If the notice contains false or

misleading information, the exemption

is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the

exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d)

may be filed at any time. The filing of

a petition to revoke will not

automatically stay the transaction.

An original and 10 copies of all

pleadings, referring to STB Finance

Docket No. 33338, must be filed with

the Surface Transportation Board, Office

of the Secretary, Case Control Branch,

1201 Constitution Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20423 and served on:

Eric B. Lee, Esq., 501 Plaza Drive,

Vestal, NY 13850.

Decided: January 27, 1997.

By the Board, David M. Konschnik,

Director, Office of Proceedings.

Vernon A. Williams,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–2699 Filed 2–3–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4915–00–P

Surface Transportation Board,

Transportation

[STB Finance Docket No. 33290] 1

Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Company—

Acquisition and Operation

Exemption—Lines of Union Pacific

Railroad Company

Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Company

(SSMB), a Class III rail carrier, has filed

a notice of exemption under 49 CFR

1150.41 to acquire and operate

approximately 220 miles of rail lines of

Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) in

the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and

northern Wisconsin. The lines to be

acquired and operated are: (1) The

Escanaba Subdivision, extending from

milepost 4.0 near Duck Creek, WI, to

LS&I milepost 74.50 at Ishpeming, MI,

a distance of 178.25 miles. (There are

milepost equations at Menominee, MI,

where milepost 49.99 = milepost 51.00,

and at Escanaba, MI, where milepost

116.49 = milepost 117.00.) 2; (2) The

Iron Mountain Branch, extending from

milepost 0.0 at Powers, MI (connection

with the Escanaba Subdivision) to

milepost 30.24 at Antoine, MI, a total

distance of 32.01 miles. (The Iron

Mountain Branch includes 1.30 miles of

trackage rights over E&LS between UP

mileposts 28.45 and 29.60 at Antoine,

and a 1.62-mile industrial park spur at

Antoine.); (3) The Niagara Industrial

Lead, extending from milepost -0.40 at

Quinnesec, MI (connection with the

Iron Mountain Branch) to milepost 3.75

at Niagara, WI, a distance of 4.15 miles.;

and (4) The Palmer Industrial Lead,

extending from milepost 0.0 at Cascade

(connection with the Escanaba

Subdivision) to milepost 6.06 at Palmer,

MI, a distance of 6.06 miles. (The

Palmer Industrial Lead currently is out

of service.) SSMB also will acquire by

assignment from UP incidental trackage

rights over lines of LS&I between Eagle

Mills Jct. and Eagle Mills, MI, a distance

of approximately 3 miles, and between

Empire Junction and Empire Mine, MI,

a distance of approximately 2 miles, and

over lines of Fox Valley & Western Ltd.

between Duck Creek and Green Bay, WI,

a distance of approximately 4 miles.

The scheduled consummation date

originally was January 20, 1997, but

SSMB extended it to January 24, 1997.

If the notice contains false or

misleading information, the exemption

is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the

exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d)

may be filed at any time. The filing of

a petition to revoke does not

automatically stay the transaction.

An original and 10 copies of all

pleadings, referring to STB Finance

Docket No. 33290, must be filed with

the Surface Transportation Board, Office

of the Secretary, Case Control Branch,

1201 Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, DC 20423. In addition, a

copy of each pleading must be served

on: Janet H. Gilbert, 6250 North River

Road, Suite 9000, Rosemont, IL 60018

and Robert H. Wheeler, Two Prudential
Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 23 / Tuesday, February 4, 1997 / Notices 5273

1 This notice corrects and supersedes the notice

in this proceeding that was served on January 24,

1997, and published the same date at 62 FR 3735.

1Although final rules in Abandonment and

Discontinuance of Rail Lines and Rail

Transportation under 49 U.S.C. 10903, STB Ex

Parte No. 537 (STB served Dec. 24, 1996) went into

effect on January 23, 1997, this abandonment

application was filed before that date and, therefore,

we have processed the application under the former

regulations and will continue to use them in this

proceeding to process an OFA, if one is filed.

1 See Exempt. of Rail Abandonment—Offers of

Finan. Assist., 4 I.C.C.2d 164 (1987).

Plaza, 45th Floor, 180 North Stetson

Avenue, Chicago, IL 60601.

Decided: January 28, 1997.

By the Board, David M. Konschnik,

Director, Office of Proceedings.

Vernon A. Williams,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–2696 Filed 2–3–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4915–00–P

[STB Finance Docket No. 33332] 1

Summit View Incorporated—Corporate

Family Exemption—Continuance in

Control of the Youngstown Belt

Railroad Company

Summit View Incorporated (Summit)

has filed a notice of exemption to

continue in control of its subsidiary,

The Youngstown Belt Railroad

Company (YBRR), upon YBRR’s

becoming a Class III rail carrier. The

transaction was to have been

consummated shortly after December

31, 1996, the effective date of the

exemption.

YBRR, a noncarrier, has concurrently

filed a notice of exemption in The

Youngstown Belt Railroad Company—

Lease and Operation Exemption—

Warren & Trumbull Railroad Company,

STB Finance Docket No. 33333, to lease

and operate approximately 12.9 miles of

rail line, together with incidental

trackage rights, owned by another

Summit subsidiary, The Warren and

Trumbull Railroad Company (WTRC);

and (2) to acquire and operate 2.4 miles

of connected rail line owned by CSX

Transportation, Inc. (CSXT) via

simultaneous assignment of WTRC’s

rights under a Track Lease/Operating

Agreement with CSXT, a total of 15.3

miles of rail line, exclusive of the

incidental trackage rights, located in

Mahoning and Trumbull Counties, OH.

Summit controls four other

nonconnecting Class III rail carriers: the

Ohio & Pennsylvania Railroad

Company; the Ohio Central Railroad,

Inc.; the Ohio Southern Railroad, Inc.;

and the Youngstown & Austintown

Railroad, Inc.

Summit has filed its notice of

exemption under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(3) as

the proposed continuance in control is

a corporate family transaction. Summit

states that: Summit, YBRR and WTRC

are members of the same corporate

family; and that the transactions

involved will not result in any adverse

changes in service levels, significant

operational changes, or a change in the

competitive balance with carriers

outside Summit’s corporate family. The

transaction therefore is exempt from the

prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C.

11323. See 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(3).

Under 49 U.S.C. 10502(g), the Board

may not use its exemption authority to

relieve a rail carrier of its statutory

obligation to protect the interests of its

employees. Section 11326(c), however,

does not provide for labor protection for

transactions under sections 11324 and

11325 that involve only Class III

railroad carriers. Because this

transaction involves Class III rail

carriers only, the Board, under the

statute, may not impose labor protective

conditions for this transaction.

Petitions to revoke the exemption

under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) may be filed

at any time. The filing of a petition to

revoke will not automatically stay the

transaction.

An original and 10 copies of all

pleadings, referring to STB Finance

Docket No. 33332, must be filed with

the Surface Transportation Board, Office

of the Secretary, Case Control Branch,

1201 Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, DC 20423 and served on:

Kelvin J. Dowd, Slover & Loftus, 1224

Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington,

DC 20036.

Decided: January 29, 1997.

By the Board, David M. Konschnik,

Director, Office of Proceedings.

Vernon A. Williams,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–2697 Filed 2–3–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4915–00–P

[STB Docket No. AB–167 (Sub-No. 1175)]

Consolidated Rail Corporation—

Abandonment—in Huntingdon County,

PA

The Board has issued a certificate

authorizing Consolidated Rail

Corporation (Conrail) to abandon its

1.60-mile Mt. Union Industrial Track,

from milepost 0.0 to milepost 1.60, in

the Borough of Mt. Union, Huntingdon

County, PA. The abandonment was

granted subject to standard employee

protective conditions.

The abandonment certificate will

become effective on March 6, 1997,

unless the Board finds that a financially

responsible person has offered financial

assistance (through subsidy or purchase)

to enable rail service to be continued.

Requests for public use conditions

must be filed with the Board and

Conrail by February 14, 1997.

Any offers of financial assistance

(OFA) must be filed with the Board and

Conrail no later than February 14, 1997.

The following notation must be typed in

bold face on the lower left-hand corner

of the envelope containing the offer:

‘‘Office of Proceedings, AB–OFA.’’ Any

offer previously made must be remade

within this 10-day period.

Information and procedures regarding

financial assistance for continued rail

service are contained in 49 U.S.C. 10904

and former 49 CFR 1152.27.1 Requests

for public use conditions must conform

with former 49 CFR 1152.28(a)(2).

Decided: January 29, 1997.

By the Board, David M. Konschnik,

Director, Office of Proceedings.

Vernon A. Williams,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–2698 Filed 2–3–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4915–00–P

[STB Docket No. AB–227 (Sub-No. 7X)]

Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway

Company—Abandonment Exemption—

in Wyandot County, OH

AGENCY: Surface Transportation Board,

Transportation.

ACTION: Notice of exemption.

SUMMARY: The Board, under 49 U.S.C.

10502, exempts from the prior approval

requirements of 49 U.S.C. 10903 the

abandonment by the Wheeling & Lake

Erie Railway Company of its 2.3-mile

Carey Spur line between milepost 55.3

and milepost 53.0 near Carey, in

Wyandot County, OH, subject to labor

protective conditions and an

environmental condition.

DATES: Provided no formal expression of

intent to file an offer of financial

assistance (OFA) has been received, this

exemption will be effective on March 6,

1997. Formal expressions of intent to

file an OFA 1 under 49 CFR

1152.27(c)(2) and requests for interim

trail use/rail banking under 49 CFR

1152.29 must be filed by February 14,

1997; petitions to stay must be filed by

February 19, 1997; requests for a public

use condition under 49 CFR 1152.28

must be filed by February 24, 1997; and

petitions to reopen must be filed by

March 3, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Send pleadings referring to

STB Docket No. AB–227 (Sub-No. 7X):

(1) Office of the Secretary, Case Control