[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 248 (Wednesday, December 27, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 66988]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-31320]



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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 32797]


RailAmerica, Inc.; Continuance in Control Exemption; West Texas 
and Lubbock Railroad Company, Inc. and Plainview Terminal Company

    RailAmerica has filed a notice of exemption to continue in control 
of the West Texas and Lubbock Railroad Company, Inc. (WTLR) and the 
Plainview Terminal Company (PTC) upon WTLR and PTC becoming active 
class III shortline rail carriers.
    WTLR has filed a notice of exemption in West Texas and Lubbock 
Railroad Company, Inc.--Purchase and Operation Exemption--Seagraves, 
Whiteface and Lubbock Railroad Company, Finance Docket No. 32796, to 
acquire and operate 113.0 route miles of interconnected rail lines from 
the Seagraves, Whiteface and Lubbock Railroad Company (SWGR). WTLR will 
also obtain ancillary overhead trackage rights held by SWGR over 
certain lines and yard tracks of The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe 
Railway Company (ATSF) at Lubbock Subdivision and in ATSF's Lubbock 
yards.
    PTC has filed a notice of exemption in Plainview Terminal Company--
Purchase and Operation Exemption--Floydada and Plainview Railroad 
Company, Finance Docket No. 32795, to acquire operating rights over a 
4.6 mile line of railroad at Plainview, TX.
    RAI controls five other carriers: The Delaware Valley Railway 
Company, Inc. (DVRY), the Huron and Eastern Railway Company, Inc. 
(HESR) the Saginaw Valley Railway Company, Inc. (SGVR), the South 
Central Tennessee Railroad Company (SCTR), and Dakota Rail, Inc. (DRI).
    RAI certifies that: (1) The WTLR and PTC do not interconnect, nor 
do they interconnect with any other rail carrier it controls; (2) the 
continuance in control is not part of a series of anticipated 
transactions that would connect the railroads with each other or any 
railroad in their corporate family; and (3) the transaction does not 
involve a class I carrier. The transaction, therefore, is exempt from 
the prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 11343. See 49 CFR 
1180.2(d)(2).
    As a condition to use of this exemption, any employees affected by 
the transaction will be protected by the conditions set forth in New 
York Dock Ry.--Control--Brooklyn Eastern Dist., 360 I.C.C. 60 (1979).
    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 
automatically stay the transaction. Pleadings must be filed with the 
Commission <SUP>1 and served on: Robert A. Wimbish, Rea, Cross & 
Auchincloss, 1920 N Street, NW, Suite 420, Washington, D.C. 20036.

    \1\ Legislation to sunset the Commission on December 31, 1995, 
and transfer remaining functions is now under consideration in 
Congress. Until further notice, parties submitting pleadings should 
continue to use the current name and address.

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    Decided: December 19, 1995.

    By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-31320 Filed 12-26-95; 8:45 am]
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