21216 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 83 / Monday, May 1, 1995 / Notices

1Soo has trackage rights on the WSOR line and

Soo formerly owned the WSOR line. See Wisconsin

& Southern Railroad Co.—Purchase, Lease and

Operation Exemption—Canadian Pacific Rail

Services, Finance Docket No. 32546, (ICC served

Aug. 16, 1994).

approximately 15,750 acres of land

bordering Lake Pleasant Regional Park

north of Phoenix, Arizona.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Copies of

the Environmental Assessment are

available from the Bureau of Land

Management’s Phoenix District Office,

2015 West Deer Valley Road, Phoenix,

AZ 85027. Public comments on the

Environmental Assessment will be

accepted for a period of thirty (30) days

following publication of this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gail

Acheson, Phoenix Resource Area

Manager, 2015 West Deer Valley Road,

Phoenix, AZ 85027 or telephone (602)

780–8090.

Dated: April 25, 1995.

David J. Miller,

Associate District Manager.

[FR Doc. 95–10630 Filed 4–28–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–32–P

INTERSTATE COMMERCE

COMMISSION

[Finance Docket No. 32685]

Chicago & North Western Railway Co.,

Soo Line Railroad Co., d/b/a CP Rail

System, Wisconsin & Southern

Railroad Company, Wisconsin

Department of Transportation—Joint

Relocation Project Exemption—in

Dane County, WI

On March 31, 1995, Chicago and

North Western Railway Company

(CNW), Soo Line Railroad Company, d/

b/a CP Rail System (Soo), and

Wisconsin and Southern Railroad

Company (WSOR), and the Wisconsin

Department of Transportation jointly

filed a notice of exemption under 49

CFR 1180.2(d)(5) to relocate a line of

railroad in Madison, Dane County, WI.

The proposed transaction was expected

to be consummated on or after April 7,

1995.

The line relocation project is to

facilitate construction of the new

Monona Terrace Convention Center in

Madison, WI. CNW and WSOR1

currently operate two closely parallel

rail lines in a rail corridor running at the

base of a bluff under the planned

convention center site. The convention

design will require supporting piers for

the structure to be placed on the site of

the current CNW track.

The joint project involves: (1) The

incidental construction of connecting

tracks between existing CNW and

WSOR tracks, which would involve the

moving of all rail operations a distance

of approximately 2,090 feet to the

current WSOR line; (2) the transfer of

WSOR’s ownership of track within the

relocation limits to CNW, which CNW

will rehabilitate, and CNW will grant

trackage rights over the track to WSOR

and Soo; and (3) the removal of CNW’s

track within the relocation limits. The

notice states that service to shippers

will not be disrupted.

The Commission will exercise

jurisdiction over the abandonment or

construction components of a relocation

project, and require separate approval or

exemption, only where the removal of

track affects service to shippers or the

construction of new track involves

expansion into new territory. See City of

Detroit v. Canadian National Ry. Co., et

al, 9 I.C.C.2d 1208 (1993). The

Commission has determined that line

relocation projects may embrace

trackage rights transactions such as the

one involved here. See D.T.&I.R.—

Trackage Rights, 363 I.C.C. 878 (1981).

Under these standards, the incidental

abandonment, construction, and

trackage rights components require no

separate approval or exemption when

the relocation project, as here, will not

disrupt service to shippers and thus

qualifies for the class exemption at 49

CFR 1180.2(d)(5).

As a condition to the use of this

exemption, any employees affected by

the trackage rights agreement will be

protected by the conditions in Norfolk

and Western Ry. Co.—Trackage Rights—

BN, 354 I.C.C. 605 (1978), as modified

in Mendocino Coast Ry., Inc.—Lease

and Operate, 360 I.C.C. 653 (1980).

Petitions to revoke the exemption

under 49 U.S.C. 10505(d) may be filed

at any time. The filing of a petition to

revoke will not stay the transaction.

Pleadings must be filed with the

Commission and served on: Robert T.

Opal, Chicago and North Western

Railway Company, 165 North Canal

Street, Chicago, IL 60606; Larry D.

Starns, Soo Line Railroad Company,

Suite 1000, Soo Line Building, Box 530,

Minneapolis, MN, 55440; John D.

Heffner, 1920 N Street, NW, Suite 420,

Washington, DC 20036; and James S.

Thiel, Wisconsin Department of

Transportation, Room 115B, Hill Farms

State Transportation Building, P.O. Box

7910, Madison, WI 53707.

Decided: April 24, 1995.

By the Commission, David M. Konschnik,

Director, Office of Proceedings.

Vernon A. Williams,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95–10595 Filed 4–28–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7035–01–P

[Finance Docket No. 32133]

Union Pacific Corporation, Union

Pacific Railroad Company and

Missouri Pacific Railroad Company—

Control—Chicago and North Western

Transportation Company and Chicago

and North Western Railway Company

AGENCY: Interstate Commerce

Commission.

ACTION: Decision No. 27; notice that the

Commission has been requested to issue

a finding that the terms and conditions

of the proposed merger of UP Rail, Inc.,

into Chicago and North Western

Transportation Company are just and

reasonable.

SUMMARY: UP Rail, Inc. (a subsidiary of

Union Pacific Corporation) is to be

merged into Chicago and North Western

Transportation Company (the holding

company parent of Chicago and North

Western Railway Company), assuming

the success of a tender offer that was

commenced on March 23, 1995. The

merger envisions, among other things, a

tender offer to stockholders of $35 per

share and a ‘‘cashing out’’ of all nontendering stockholders at a price of $35

per share. The Commission has been

requested to issue a finding that the

terms and conditions of the merger are

just and reasonable.

DATES: Comments must be filed by May

31, 1995. Replies must be filed by June

15, 1995.

ADDRESSES: All pleadings should refer

to Finance Docket No. 32133. Comments

(an original and 10 copies) should be

sent to: Office of the Secretary, Case

Control Branch, Interstate Commerce

Commission, 1201 Constitution Avenue,

NW., Washington, DC 20423. Comments

should also be served (one copy each)

on: (1) Arvid E. Roach II, Covington &

Burling, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue,

NW., P.O. Box 7566, Washington, DC

20044–7566; and (2) L. John Osborn,

Suite 600, East Tower, 1301 K Street,

NW., Washington, DC 20005. Replies

(an original and 10 copies) should be

sent to: Office of the Secretary, Case

Control Branch, Interstate Commerce

Commission, 1201 Constitution Avenue,

NW., Washington, DC 20423. Replies

should also be served (one copy each)

on all active parties in this proceeding,

counsel for the plaintiffs in the

Delaware shareholder suits referenced