Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 29 / Friday, February 11, 2000 / Notices 7099

1This proceeding embraces the following other

motorcarrier rate bureau renewal

applications:Pacific Inland Tariff Bureau, Inc.—

Renewal of Agreement, Section 5a Application No.

22 (Sub–No. 8);The New England Motor Rate

Bureau, Inc., Section 5a Application No. 25 (Sub–

No. 9); Middlewest Motor Freight Bureau, Inc.—

Renewal of Agreement, Section 5a Application No.

34 (Sub–No. 10); Niagara Frontier Tariff Bureau,

Inc., Section 5a Application No. 45 (Sub–No. 16);

Southern Motor Carriers Rate Conference, Inc.,

Section 5a Application No. 46 (Sub–No. 21);

Carriers Traffic Association—Agreement, Section 5a

Application No. 55 (Amendment No. 2); Machinery

Haulers Association Inc.—Agreement, Section 5a

Application No. 58 (Sub–No. 4); Rocky Mountain

Motor Tariff Bureau, Inc., Section 5a Application

No. 60 (Sub–No. 11); Nationwide Bulk Trucking

Association, Inc.—Agreement, Section 5a

Application No. 63 (Sub–No. 4); Western Motor

Tariff Bureau, Inc—Agreement., Section 5a

Application No. 70 (Sub–No. 12); and Willamette

Tariff Bureau, Inc.—Renewal of Agreement, STB

Section 5a Agreement No. 116 (Sub–No. 1).

By the Board, Chairman Morgan, Vice

Chairman Burkes, and Commissioner

Clyburn.

Vernon A. Williams,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–3238 Filed 2–10–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4915–00–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[Sec. 5a Application No. 118 (Sub–No. 2),

et al.]

EC-MAC Motor Carriers Service

Association, Inc., et al.1

AGENCY: Surface Transportation Board.

ACTION: Request for proposals and

comments.

SUMMARY: The Surface Transportation

Board (Board) seeks suggested

methodologies that the motor carrier

rate bureaus that have applied for

renewal of their operating authority can

use to adjust the collective rates

established by their bureaus to

prevailing levels of market based rates,

as required by the Board’s decisions in

EC-MAC Motor Carriers Service

Association, Inc., et al., Sec. 5a

Application No. 118 (Amendment No.

1), et al. (STB served Dec. 18, 1998, and

Feb. 11, 2000).

DATES: Opening proposals or comments

are due April 11, 2000. Reply comments

are due May 11, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Send an original and 10

copies of proposals, comments, and

replies, referring to ‘‘Section 5a

Application No. 118 (Sub–No. 2), et

al.,’’ to: Surface Transportation Board,

Office of the Secretary, Case Control

Unit, 1925 K Street, NW., Washington,

DC 20423.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Joseph H. Dettmar, (202) 565–1600.

[TDD for the hearing impaired: 1–800–

877–8338.]

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Additional information is contained in

the Board’s decisions, which are

available on our website at

‘‘WWW.STB.DOT.GOV.’’

Decided: February 4, 2000.

By the Board, Chairman Morgan, Vice

Chairman Burkes, and Commissioner

Clyburn.

Vernon A. Williams,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–3136 Filed 2–10–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4915–00–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[Section 5a Application No. 9 (Amendment

No. 8)]

Application of the National Motor Bus

Traffic Association, Inc., for Extended

Approval of its Conformed Agreement

AGENCY: Surface Transportation Board.

ACTION: Request for comments.

SUMMARY: The Surface Transportation

Board (Board) seeks comments on

whether the Board should approve the

application of the National Motor Bus

Traffic Association, Inc. (NBTA), for

extended approval of its rate bureau

agreement.

DATES: Opening comments are due

March 13, 2000. Reply comments are

due March 27, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Send an original and 10

copies of comments and replies,

referring to ‘‘Sec. 5a Application No. 9

(Amendment No. 8),’’ to: Surface

Transportation Board, Office of the

Secretary, Case Control Unit, 1925 K

Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20423.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Joseph H. Dettmar, (202) 565–1600.

[TDD for the hearing impaired: 1–800–

877–8339.]

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In our

decision and notice issued today in EC–

MAC Motor Carriers Service

Association, Inc., et al., Section 5a

Application No. 118 (Sub-No. 2), et al.

(EC–MAC) (which are available on the

Board’s website at

‘‘WWW.STB.DOT.GOV’’), we expressed

concern with the way in which motor

freight carrier rate bureaus collectively

set ‘‘benchmark’’ class rates, from which

discount rates may be offered to many,

but not all, shippers. We indicated our

intent to approve the rate bureau

agreements of the motor freight bureaus

only if class rates were reduced to

market-based levels, and we requested

public input on ways in which to

achieve our objective.

NBTA has asked to have its agreement

approved. It states that, while it does

file tariffs on behalf of its member

carriers, its members express their rates

in dollars and cents, and not as

discounts off of collectively-established

bureau rates. Thus, it states that the

issues over which we expressed concern

in the EC–MAC proceeding should not

be factors in our consideration of its

agreement.

We tend to agree with NBTA that the

issues about which we raised concerns

in EC–MAC should not be of concern

here. Nonetheless, any person who

believes that we should initiate further

proceedings of the sort that we are

pursuing in EC–MAC, or that the

agreement should be disapproved or

conditioned for other reasons may file

comments.

Decided: February 4, 2000.

By the Board, Chairman Morgan, Vice

Chairman Burkes, and Commissioner

Clyburn.

Vernon A. Williams,

Secretary,

[FR Doc. 00–3137 Filed 2–10–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4915–00–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

Release of Waybill Data

The Surface Transportation Board has

received requests from Sidley & Austin

on behalf of Norfolk Southern

Corporation and Norfolk Southern

Railway Company (WB568—1/3/2000),

from Stephen Brown (WB569—2/1/

2000), and from Sidley & Austin on

behalf of Canadian Pacific Railway

Company, Soo Line Railroad Company,

St. Lawrence and Hudson Railway Co.

Limited, and Delaware and Hudson

Railway Co., Inc. (WB471–5—February

4, 2000) for permission to use certain

data from the Board’s Carload Waybill

Samples. A copy of the requests may be

obtained from the Office of Economics,

Environmental Analysis, and

Administration.

The waybill sample contains

confidential railroad and shipper data;

therefore, if any parties object to these

requests, they should file their

objections with the Director of the

Board’s Office of Economics,

Environmental Analysis, and

Administration within 14 calendar days

of the date of this notice. The rules for

release of waybill data are codified at 49

CFR 1244.8.