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miles of railroad between Sparks and Valdosta, GA.

See Georgia & Florida Railroad Co., Inc.—

Acquisition, Lease, and Operation Exemption—

Norfolk Southern Railway Company, Finance

Docket No. 32680 (ICC served May 5, 1995).

3Legislation 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.

1Although the Claussens will own all of the

outstanding stock of LOP&G, they have placed this

stock in an irrevocable voting trust pending

Commission action on the petition filed in Finance

Docket No. 32813. The Claussens now control

through stock ownership seven other rail common

carriers: Georgia & Florida Railroad Co., Inc.;

Albany Bridge Company; Gulf & Ohio Railways,

Inc. (operating under the trade names Mississippi

Delta Railroad in Mississippi and Atlantic & Gulf

Railroad in Georgia); Wiregrass Central Railroad

Company, Inc.; H&S Railroad Company, Inc.;

Piedmont & Atlantic Railroad Co., Inc.; and Rocky

Mount & Western Railroad Co., Inc.

2Legislation 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.

Although G&F will operate over the

line, LOP&G will retain a residual

obligation to provide common carrier

service. The parties intended to

consummate the transaction on or after

December 15, 1995.

This transaction is related to Finance

Docket No. 32834, Georgia & Florida

Railroad Co., Inc.—Amended Trackage

Rights Exemption—Georgia Southern

and Florida Railway Company, a

concurrently filed notice of exemption

under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(7), in which

G&F seeks to amend its existing trackage

rights to be able to handle certain traffic

to and from the subject line.

This notice is filed under 49 CFR

1150.31. If the notice contains false or

misleading information, the exemption

is void ab initio. 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.

Any comments must be filed with:

Office of the Secretary, Case Control

Branch, Interstate Commerce

Commission, Washington, DC 20423. A

copy of any pleading filed with the

Commission should be sent to

applicant’s representative: Mark H.

Sidman, Suite 800, 1350 New York

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20005–

4797.3

Decided: December 20, 1995.

By the Commission, David M. Konschnik,

Director, Office of Proceedings.

Vernon A. Williams,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96–151 Filed 1–4–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7035–01–P

[Finance Docket No. 32811]

Live Oak, Perry & Georgia Railroad

Company, Inc.—Acquisition and

Operation Exemption—Line of Georgia

Southern and Florida Railway

Company and Norfolk Southern

Railway Company

Live Oak, Perry & Georgia Railroad

Company, Inc. (LOP&G), a noncarrier,

has filed a notice of exemption to

acquire and operate approximately

83.05 miles of rail line from Norfolk

Southern Railway Company (NS) and its

subsidiary, Georgia Southern and

Florida Railway Company (GS&F), as

follows: (1) From milepost GB 1.0 at

Adel, GA, to milepost 77.3 at Perry, FL,

in Cook, Lowndes, and Brooks Counties,

GA, and Madison and Taylor Counties,

FL; and (2) from milepost LO 45.75 at

Perry, FL, to milepost 39.0 at Foley, FL,

in Taylor County, FL. The transaction

was expected to be consummated on or

after December 15, 1995.

As part of the agreement between the

parties, NS and GS&F will acquire

incidental trackage rights over a portion

of the rail line between milepost GB 1.0,

at Adel, GA, and milepost GB 3.0 for the

purpose of serving Weyerhaeuser Corp.,

and any successors exclusively, and

serving on a non-exclusive basis

industries that subsequently locate on

that portion of the rail line.

This proceeding is related to Finance

Docket No. 32813, H. Peter Claussen

and Linda C. Claussen—Continuance in

Control Exemption—Live Oak, Perry &

Georgia Railroad Company, Inc., where

H. Peter and Linda C. Claussen (the

Claussens), noncarrier individuals, have

concurrently filed a petition for

exemption to continue to control

LOP&G and seven other rail carriers

upon LOP&G’s becoming a carrier.1

Also concurrently filed, in Finance

Docket No. 32812, Georgia & Florida

Railroad Co., Inc.—Operation

Exemption—Live Oak, Perry & Georgia

Railroad Company, is a notice of

exemption where Georgia & Florida

Railroad Co., Inc. (G&F) seeks an

exemption to operate over the line to be

acquired by LOP&G. LOP&G will retain

a residual common carrier obligation to

provide service over the rail line.

Any comments must be filed with:

Office of the Secretary, Case Control

Branch, Interstate Commerce

Commission,2 1201 Constitution

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20423. A

copy of any pleading filed with the

Commission should be sent to

applicant’s representative: Mark H.

Sidman, Suite 800, 1350 New York

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20005–

4797.

This notice is filed under 49 CFR

1150.31. If the notice contains false or

misleading information, the exemption

is void ab initio. 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.

Decided: December 19, 1995.

By the Commission, David M. Konschnik,

Director, Office of Proceedings.

Vernon A. Williams,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96–152 Filed 1–4–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7035–01–P

[Finance Docket No. 32842]

Norfolk Southern Railway Company

and Norfolk and Western Railway

Company—Trackage Rights

Exemption—Burlington Northern

Railroad Company

Burlington Northern Railroad

Company (BN) has agreed to grant

overhead trackage rights to Norfolk

Southern Railway Company (NSR) and

Norfolk Western Railway Company

(NW), collectively referred to as NS,

over a 112-mile line of railroad between

milepost 10.2, at Jacksonville, IL, and

milepost 122.3, at Centralia, IL. NW is

a class I railroad controlled through

stock ownership by NSR. NSR and its

rail carrier subsidiaries operate a rail

system extending throughout the

Southeast and Midwest.

NS contends that the trackage rights

will enable it to have more efficient

routing of its trains. Currently, NS

receives coal trains in interchange from

The Union Pacific Railroad Company at

E. St. Louis, IL. These trains then move

over NS trackage from E. St. Louis for

delivery at Coffeen, IL. The BN trackage

rights will allow NS to receive coal

trains in interchange at Worden, IL, and

move to Coffeen via NS to Litchfield,

then over BN’s trackage rights between

Litchfield/Winston and Sorento and NS

Sorento to Coffeen. NS also claims that

the trackage rights will enable it to

rationalize the E. St. Louis-Sorento

portion of its E. St. Louis-Coffeen line.

The trackage rights will become

effective on June 1, 1996.

This notice is filed under 49 CFR

1180.2(d)(7). If the notice contains false

or misleading information, the

exemption is void ab initio. 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