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1PAW states that Woods RR has been used as a 

spur line only to serve the facilities of 

Weyerhaeuser NR Company, not as a common 

carrier railroad. PAW will hold itself out to perform 

common carrier service for any shipper and intends 

to operate the line for the purpose of becoming a 

rail carrier. 

2After these transactions are consummated, PAW 

will connect with Columbia & Cowlitz Railway 

Company, LLC. 

complied with the requirements of 49 

CFR 1150.32(e) on October 20, 2010, by 

providing notice to employees and their 

labor unions on the affected line. Under 

49 CFR 1150.32(e), this exemption 

cannot become effective until 60 days 

after the date notice was provided. 

If the verified 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 effectiveness of 

the exemption. Petitions to stay must be 

filed no later than December 10, 2010 (at 

least 7 days before the exemption 

becomes effective). 

An original and 10 copies of all 

pleadings, referring to Docket No. FD 

35430, must be filed with the Surface 

Transportation Board, 395 E Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20423–0001. In 

addition, a copy of each pleading must 

be served on Louis E. Gitomer, 600 

Baltimore Ave., Suite 301, Towson, MD. 

21204. 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our Web site at http:// 

www.stb.dot.gov. 

Decided: November 1, 2010. 

By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Jeffrey Herzig, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2010–27995 Filed 11–4–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[Docket No. FD 35431] 

Patriot Woods Railroad, LLC— 

Acquisition and Operation 

Exemption—Weyerhaeuser NR 

Company, Weyerhaeuser Woods 

Railroad Operating Division 

Patriot Woods Railroad, LLC (PAW), a 

noncarrier, has filed a verified notice of 

exemption under 49 CFR 1150.31 to 

acquire from Weyerhaeuser NR 

Company, Weyerhaeuser Woods 

Railroad Operating Division (Woods 

RR), and to operate approximately 21.5 

miles of rail line 1 between milepost 8.5 

(the connection with the Columbia & 

Cowlitz Railway Company 2 at 

Ostrander Junction) and milepost 30.0 

(Green Mountain), including auxiliary 

and temporary storage tracks, in Cowlitz 

County, Wash. 

This transaction is related to a 

transaction in which Patriot Rail, LLC 

and its subsidiaries entered into an asset 

purchase agreement on July 21, 2010, to 

acquire from Weyerhaeuser NR 

Company certain rail assets and the rail 

assets of five of its subsidiaries. 

This transaction is also related to six 

other transactions for which notices of 

exemption have been concurrently filed: 

Docket No. FD 35425, Tennessee 

Southern Railroad Company, Patriot 

Rail, LLC, Patriot Rail Holdings LLC, 

and Patriot Rail Corp.—Continuance in 

Control Exemption—Columbia & 

Cowlitz Railway, LLC, DeQueen and 

Eastern Railroad, LLC, Golden Triangle 

Railroad, LLC, Mississippi & Skuna 

Valley Railroad, LLC, Patriot Woods 

Railroad, LLC, and Texas, Oklahoma 

and Eastern Railroad, LLC, in which 

Patriot Rail, LLC and its subsidiaries 

seek to continue in control of PAW in 

this proceeding and five other newly 

created noncarrier subsidiaries, upon 

the latter becoming Class III rail carriers 

in the following proceedings: (1) Docket 

No. FD 35426, Columbia & Cowlitz 

Railway, LLC—Acquisition and 

Operation Exemption—Columbia & 

Cowlitz Railway Company; (2) Docket 

No. FD 35427, DeQueen and Eastern 

Railroad, LLC—Acquisition and 

Operation Exemption—DeQueen and 

Eastern Railroad Company; (3) Docket 

No. FD 35428, Golden Triangle 

Railroad, LLC—Acquisition and 

Operation Exemption—Golden Triangle 

Railroad Company; (4) Docket No. FD 

35429, Mississippi & Skuna Valley 

Railroad, LLC—Acquisition and 

Operation Exemption—Mississippi & 

Skuna Valley Railroad Company; and 

(5) Docket No. FD 35430, Texas, 

Oklahoma & Eastern Railroad, LLC— 

Acquisition and Operation Exemption— 

Texas, Oklahoma & Eastern Railroad 

Company. 

The parties intend to consummate the 

transaction on or after December 21, 

2010. 

PAW certifies that its projected 

annual revenues as a result of the 

transaction will not exceed those that 

would make it a Class III rail carrier and 

will not exceed $5 million. 

If the verified 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 effectiveness of 

the exemption. Petitions for stay must 

be filed no later than November 12, 

2010 (at least 7 days before the 

exemption becomes effective). 

An original and 10 copies of all 

pleadings, referring to Docket No. FD 

35431, must be filed with the Surface 

Transportation Board, 395 E Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20423–0001. In 

addition, a copy of each pleading must 

be served on Louis E. Gitomer, 600 

Baltimore Avenue, Suite 301, Towson, 

MD 21204. 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our Web site at http:// 

www.stb.dot.gov. 

Decided: November 1, 2010. 

By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Jeffrey Herzig, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2010–27992 Filed 11–4–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[Docket No. FD 35413] 

Lancaster & Chester Railroad, LLC— 

Acquisition and Operation 

Exemption—Line of Lancaster & 

Chester Railway Company 

AGENCY: Surface Transportation Board, 

DOT. 

ACTION: Correction to Notice of 

Exemption. 

SUMMARY: This document contains a 

correction to the Notice of Exemption 

served and published in the Federal 

Register on Friday, October 15, 2010 (75 

FR 63,532–33). In the notice, noncarrier 

Lancaster & Chester Railroad, LLC (L&C 

Railroad) seeks to acquire and operate 

under 49 CFR 1150.31 approximately 62 

miles of rail line owned by Class III rail 

carrier Lancaster & Chester Railway 

Company. The correction relates to the 

name of the connecting railroad in the 

description of the rail line. The notice 

incorrectly indicated that L&C Railroad 

would connect with Consolidated Rail 

Corporation at former Survey Station 

0+06 (milepost SG–346+2210) in 

Chester County, S.C. Instead, L&C 

Railroad will connect with CSX 

Transportation, Inc. at the specified 

station in Chester County. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joseph H. Dettmar, (202) 245–0395. 

[Assistance for the hearing impaired is 

available through the Federal 

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1CLC states that it intends to interchange traffic 

at Rocky Point, Wash., with BNSF Railway 

Company and Union Pacific Railroad Company, 

and at Ostrander Junction, with its affiliate, Patriot 

Woods Railroad, LLC. 

1The Board authorized abandonment of the Line 

in CSX Transportation, Inc.—Abandonment 

Exemption—in Allegany County, Md., Docket No. 

AB 55 (Sub-No. 659X) (STB served Aug. 25, 2005). 

By decision served December 14, 2005, WMS, LLC 

(WMS) was authorized to acquire the Line pursuant 

to the Board’s offer of financial assistance (OFA) 

provisions at 49 U.S.C. 10904 and 49 CFR 1152.27, 

and by decision served August 18, 2006, James 

Riffin was substituted as the acquiring entity in lieu 

of WMS. 

2Applicants state that consummation of this 

transaction is subject to approval by the bankruptcy 

court. Consummation is also subject to a grant of 

the petition filed in AB 55 (Sub-No. 659X). 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at: 

(800) 877–8339.] 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is related to a concurrently filed 

notice of exemption also served and 

published on October 15, 2010 in Gulf 

& Ohio Railways Holding Co., Inc., H. 

Peter Claussen and Linda C. Claussen— 

Continuance in Control Exemption— 

Lancaster & Chester Railroad, LLC, 

Docket No. FD 35414, wherein the 

above parties seek to continue in control 

of L&C Railroad, upon L&C Railroad’s 

becoming a Class III rail carrier. 

Decided: October 28, 2010. 

By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Andrea Pope-Matheson, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2010–27975 Filed 11–4–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[Docket No. FD 35426] 

Columbia & Cowlitz Railway, LLC— 

Acquisition and Operation 

Exemption—Columbia & Cowlitz 

Railway Company 

Columbia & Cowlitz Railway, LLC 

(CLC), a noncarrier, has filed a verified 

notice of exemption under 49 CFR 

1150.31 to acquire from Columbia & 

Cowlitz Railway Company and to 

operate approximately 8.5 miles of rail 

line between milepost 0.0 (Longview) 

and milepost 8.5 (Ostrander Junction), 

including auxiliary and spur tracks, in 

Cowlitz County, Wash.1

This transaction is related to a 

transaction in which Patriot Rail, LLC 

and its subsidiaries entered into an asset 

purchase agreement on July 21, 2010, to 

acquire from Weyerhaeuser NR 

Company certain rail assets and the rail 

assets of five of its subsidiaries. 

This transaction is also related to six 

other transactions for which notices of 

exemption have been concurrently filed: 

Docket No. FD 35425, Tennessee 

Southern Railroad Company, Patriot 

Rail, LLC, Patriot Rail Holdings LLC, 

and Patriot Rail Corp.—Continuance in 

Control Exemption—Columbia & 

Cowlitz Railway, LLC, Dequeen and 

Eastern Railroad, LLC, Golden Triangle 

Railroad, LLC, Mississippi & Skuna 

Valley Railroad, LLC, Patriot Woods 

Railroad, LLC, and Texas, Oklahoma & 

Eastern Railroad, LLC, in which Patriot 

Rail, LLC and its subsidiaries seek to 

continue in control of CLC in this 

proceeding and five other newly created 

noncarrier subsidiaries, upon the latter 

becoming Class III rail carriers in the 

following proceedings: (1) Docket No. 

FD 35427, DeQueen and Eastern 

Railroad, LLC—Acquisition and 

Operation Exemption—DeQueen and 

Eastern Railroad Company; (2) Docket 

No. FD 35428, Golden Triangle 

Railroad, LLC—Acquisition and 

Operation Exemption—Golden Triangle 

Railroad Company; (3) Docket No. FD 

35429, Mississippi & Skuna Valley 

Railroad, LLC—Acquisition and 

Operation Exemption—Mississippi & 

Skuna Valley Railroad Company; (4) 

Docket No. FD 35430, Texas, Oklahoma 

& Eastern Railroad, LLC—Acquisition 

and Operation Exemption—Texas, 

Oklahoma & Eastern Railroad 

Company; and (5) Docket No. FD 35431, 

Patriot Woods Railroad, LLC— 

Acquisition and Operation Exemption— 

Weyerhaeuser NR Company, 

Weyerhaeuser Woods Railroad 

Operating Division. 

The parties intend to consummate the 

transaction on or after December 21, 

2010. 

CLC certified that its projected annual 

revenues as a result of the transaction 

will not exceed those that would qualify 

it as a Class III rail carrier. 

Because CLC’s projected annual 

revenues will exceed $5 million, CLC 

certified to the Board on October 20, 

2010, that it had complied on October 

20, 2010, with the requirements of 49 

CFR 1150.32(e) providing for notice to 

employees and their labor unions on the 

affected line. Under 49 CFR 1150.32(e), 

this exemption cannot become effective 

until 60 days after the date notice was 

provided. 

If the verified 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 effectiveness of 

the exemption. Petitions for stay must 

be filed no later than December 10, 2010 

(at least 7 days before the exemption 

becomes effective). 

An original and 10 copies of all 

pleadings, referring to Docket No. FD 

35426 must be filed with the Surface 

Transportation Board, 395 E Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20423–0001. In 

addition, a copy must be served on 

Louis E. Gitomer, 600 Baltimore 

Avenue, Suite 301, Towson, MD 21204. 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our Web site at http:// 

www.stb.dot.gov. 

Decided: November 1, 2010. 

By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Jeffrey Herzig, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2010–27978 Filed 11–4–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[Docket No. FD 35438] 

Eighteen Thirty Group, LLC— 

Acquisition Exemption—in Allegany 

County, MD 

Eighteen Thirty Group, LLC (Eighteen 

Thirty), a noncarrier, has filed a verified 

notice of exemption under 49 CFR 

1150.31 to acquire an 8.54-mile line of 

railroad between milepost BAI 27.0 near 

Morrison and milepost BAI 18.46 at the 

end of the track near Carlos, in Allegany 

County, Md. (the Line). Eighteen Thirty 

is seeking to acquire the Line as a result 

of the bankruptcy of James Riffin 1

through an agreement with Mark J. 

Friedman, Chapter 7 Trustee of the 

Bankruptcy Estate of James Riffin.2

This transaction is related to two 

simultaneously filed notices of 

exemption: (1) Docket No. FD 35437, 

Georges Creek Railway, LLC—Operation 

Exemption—in Allegany County, Md., in 

which Georges Creek Railway, LLC 

(Georges Creek), seeks an exemption 

under 49 CFR 1150.31 to operate the 

Line; and (2) Docket No. FD 35436, 

Duncan Smith and Gerald Altizer— 

Continuance in Control Exemption— 

Eighteen Thirty Group, LLC and Georges 

Creek Railway, LLC, in which Duncan 

Smith and Gerald Altizer, the owners of 

Eighteen Thirty and Georges Creek, seek 

an exemption to continue in control of 

Eighteen Thirty and Georges Creek upon 

their becoming Class III rail carriers. 

This transaction is also related to a 

petition simultaneously filed by 

Eighteen Thirty in Docket No. AB 55 

(Sub-No. 659X), CSX Transportation, 

Inc.—Abandonment Exemption—in 

Allegany County, Md., seeking an 

exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502 from 

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