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1Laurinburg & Southern Railroad Company 

previously was authorized to lease these lines and 

YVRR was authorized to operate them in 

Laurinburg and Southern Railroad Company, et 

al.—Lease and Operation Exemption—Southern 

Railway Company, Finance Docket No. 31526 (ICC 

served Nov. 7, 1989). 

2See Piedmont & Atlantic Railroad Co., Inc.— 

Lease and Operation Exemption—L & S Holding 

Company d/b/a/Laurinburg & Southern Railroad 

Co. and Yadkin Valley Railroad Company, Finance 

Docket No. 32462 (ICC served Mar. 29, 1994). Also, 

in H. Peter and Linda C. Claussen—Continuance in 

Control Exemption—Piedmont & Atlantic Railroad 

Co., Inc., Finance Docket No. 32464, (ICC served 

Mar. 29, 1994), H. Peter and Linda C. Claussen were 

authorized to continue in control of Piedmont & 

Atlantic Railroad Co., Inc., once it became a Class 

III rail carrier. 

3On October 8, 2009, YVRR concurrently filed a 

certification of labor notice compliance and a 

petition for waiver of the 60-day advance labor 

notice requirement at 49 CFR 1150.42(e). That 

request will be addressed in a separate decision. 

Unless the Board grants the waiver request, the 

earliest this transaction may be consummated will 

be December 7, 2009. 

rail service and salvage of the line, the 

line may be suitable for other public 

use, including interim trail use. Any 

request for a public use condition under 

49 CFR 1152.28 or for trail use/rail 

banking under 49 CFR 1152.29 will be 

due no later than November 12, 2009. 

Each trail use request must be 

accompanied by a $250 filing fee. See 49 

CFR 1002.2(f)(27). 

All filings in response to this notice 

must refer to STB Docket No. AB– 

1041X, and must be sent to: (1) Surface 

Transportation Board, 395 E Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20423–0001, and (2) 

Thomas F. McFarland, Thomas F. 

McFarland, P.C., 208 South LaSalle 

Street, Suite 1890, Chicago, IL 60604– 

1112. Replies to DN’s petition are due 

on or before November 12, 2009. 

Persons seeking further information 

concerning abandonment procedures 

may contact the Board’s Office of Public 

Assistance, Governmental Affairs and 

Compliance at (202) 245–0238 or refer 

to the full abandonment or 

discontinuance regulations at 49 CFR 

part 1152. Questions concerning 

environmental issues may be directed to 

the Board’s Section of Environmental 

Analysis (SEA) at (202) 245–0305. 

Assistance for the hearing impaired is 

available through the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– 

800–877–8339. 

An environmental assessment (EA) (or 

environmental impact statement (EIS), if 

necessary) prepared by SEA will be 

served upon all parties of record and 

upon any agencies or other persons who 

commented during its preparation. 

Other interested persons may contact 

SEA to obtain a copy of the EA (or EIS). 

EAs in these abandonment proceedings 

normally will be made available within 

60 days of the filing of the petition. The 

deadline for submission of comments on 

the EA generally will be within 30 days 

of its service. 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our Web site at http:// 

www.stb.dot.gov. 

Decided: October 19, 2009. 

By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Jeffrey Herzig, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. E9–25503 Filed 10–22–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[STB Finance Docket No. 35308] 

Piedmont & Atlantic Railroad Co., Inc., 

d/b/a/ Yadkin Valley Railroad 

Company—Acquisition and Operation 

Exemption—Norfolk Southern Railway 

Company 

Piedmont & Atlantic Railroad Co., 

Inc., d/b/a Yadkin Valley Railroad 

Company (YVRR), a Class III rail carrier, 

has filed a verified notice of exemption 

under 49 CFR 1150.41 to acquire, by 

purchase pursuant to an agreement it 

anticipates entering into with Norfolk 

Southern Railway Company (NS) 

(successor to Southern Railway 

Company), and to operate 

approximately 93 miles of rail lines as 

follows: (1) From milepost K–37.0 at 

Rural Hall, in Forsyth County, NC, to 

milepost K–100.2 at North Wilkesboro, 

in Wilkes County, NC; and (2) from 

milepost CF–0.0 at Mount Airy, in Surry 

County, NC, to milepost CF–29.8 at 

Rural Hall, in Forsyth County, NC.1

YVRR has subleased and operated these 

rail lines since March 1994.2

YVRR certifies that its projected 

annual revenues as a result of this 

transaction will not result in the 

creation of a Class II or Class I rail 

carrier. 

YVRR states that it intends to 

consummate the transaction on or after 

November 7, 2009, but shall in no event 

consummate the transaction before the 

Board either grants its petition for 

waiver of the 60-day labor notice 

requirement or YVRR satisfies the 

applicable labor notice requirement at 

49 CFR 1150.42(e).3 YVRR requests 

expedited action on its petition. 

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. Stay petitions must be 

filed no later than 7 days before the 

exemption becomes effective. 

Pursuant to the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act, 2008, Public Law 

No. 110–161, § 193, 121 Stat. 1844 

(2007), nothing in this decision 

authorizes the following activities at any 

solid waste rail transfer facility: 

collecting, storing, or transferring solid 

waste outside of its original shipping 

container; or separating or processing 

solid waste (including baling, crushing, 

compacting, and shredding). The term 

‘‘solid waste’’ is defined in section 1004 

of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, 42 

U.S.C. 6903. 

An original and 10 copies of all 

pleadings, referring to STB Finance 

Docket No. 35308, 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 RoseMichele Nardi, Esq., Weiner Brodsky 

Sidman Kider PC, 1300 19th Street, 

NW., Fifth Floor, Washington, DC 

20036–1609. 

Board decisions and notices are 

available on our website at http:// 

www.stb.dot.gov. 

Decided: October 19, 2009. 

By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, 

Director, Office of Proceedings. 

Kulunie L. Cannon, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. E9–25512 Filed 10–22–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[STB Finance Docket No. 35035] 

Adrian & Blissfield Rail Road 

Company—Acquisition and Operation 

Exemption—Tecumseh Branch 

Connecting Railroad Company 

Adrian & Blissfield Rail Road 

Company (ADBF), a Class III rail carrier, 

has filed a verified notice of exemption 

under 49 CFR 1150.41 to acquire from 

Tecumseh Branch Connecting Railroad 

Company (TCBY) and to operate, 

approximately 1.3 miles of rail line 

between milepost 44.2 and milepost 

45.5, in the City of Adrian, Lenawee 

County, MI. 

As a result of a transaction between 

ADBF and TCBY on November 19, 2001, 


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