[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 100 (Friday, May 23, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29840-29841]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-11985]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[Docket No. FD 35827]


Union Pacific Railroad Company--Temporary Trackage Rights 
Exemption--Dallas Area Rapid Transit and Fort Worth Transportation 
Authority

    Trinity Railway Express (TRE),\1\ pursuant to a written trackage 
rights agreement dated May 2, 2014, has agreed to grant Union Pacific 
Railroad Company (UP) temporary overhead trackage rights over 
approximately 1.4 miles of the TRE Rail Corridor in Ft. Worth, Tex., 
between milepost 610.5 (the T&P Station) and milepost 611.9 (the 6th 
Street Junction).
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    \1\ Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) and the Fort Worth 
Transportation Authority (the T) are regional transportation 
authorities established under Chapter 452 of the Texas 
Transportation Code. See Dall. Area Rapid Transit--Acquis. & 
Operation Exemption--Certain Lines of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa 
Fe Ry., FD 32611 (ICC served Mar. 17, 1995). DART and the T are 
collectively referred to as Trinity Railway Express.
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    The transaction may be consummated on or after June 7, 2014, the 
effective date of the exemption (30 days after the verified notice of 
exemption was filed). The temporary trackage rights are scheduled to 
expire on December 30, 2014. The purpose of the temporary trackage 
rights is to allow UP to continue providing rail service between 
adjacent UP lines during outages on connecting UP lines caused by 
construction of improvements to Tower 55.
    As a condition to the exemption, any employees affected by the 
acquisition of the temporary trackage rights will be protected by the 
conditions imposed in Norfolk & Western Railway--Trackage Rights--
Burlington Northern, Inc., 354 I.C.C. 605 (1978), as modified in 
Mendocino Coast Railway--Lease & Operate--California Western Railroad, 
360 I.C.C. 653 (1980), and any employees affected by the discontinuance 
of those trackage rights will be protected by the conditions set out in 
Oregon Short Line Railroad--Abandonment Portion Goshen Branch Between 
Firth & Ammon, in Bingham & Bonneville Counties, Idaho, 360 I.C.C. 91 
(1979).
    The verified notice of exemption is filed under 49 CFR 
1180.2(d)(8). If it 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

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effectiveness of the exemption. Petitions for stay must be filed no 
later than May 30, 2014 (at least seven days before the exemption 
becomes effective).
    An original and 10 copies of all pleadings, referring to Docket No. 
FD 35827, 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 Jeremy Berman, 1400 Douglas Street, Union 
Pacific Railroad Company, STOP 1580, Omaha, NE 68179.
    Board decisions and notices are available on our Web site at 
``WWW.STB.DOT.GOV.''

    Decided: May 19, 2014.

    By the Board,
Rachel D. Campbell,
Director, Office of Proceedings.
Raina S. White,
Clearance Clerk.
[FR Doc. 2014-11985 Filed 5-22-14; 8:45 am]
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