[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 188 (Thursday, September 28, 1995)] [Notices] [Pages 50216-50217] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 95-24100] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION [Finance Docket No. 32774] Southern Pacific Transportation Company; Trackage Rights Exemption; Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) has granted trackage rights to Southern Pacific Transportation Company (SP) over approximately 13,000 feet of UP connecting and access trackage in Oakland, CA, to connect SP's existing trackage at Oakland with an industrial property on UP known as ``Schnitzer Steel.'' 1 The trackage rights were [[Page 50217]] scheduled to become effective on September 15, 1995. \1\ On August 4, 1995, Union Pacific Corporation, Union Pacific Railroad Company, Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, Southern Pacific Rail Corporation, Southern Pacific Transportation Company, St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company, SPCSL Corp., and The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company filed a notice of intent to file a control and merger application in Finance Docket No. 32760. Under 49 CFR 1180.4(c)(2)(vi), any proceeding directly related to an application in a major transaction must be filed concurrently with the primary application. It does not appear that this notice is directly related to the intended application. SP, UP, and other interested persons are invited to comment on the relationship, if any, between this notice and the merger application to be filed in Finance Docket No. 32760. Additionally, within 10 days after publication of this notice of exemption, SP must file a copy of the trackage rights agreement. 49 CFR 1180.4(g)(1)(i) and 1180.6(a)(7) (ii). If SP wishes to protect any commercially or competitively sensitive information in the agreement, as it suggests in its verified notice, it may file another, redacted version of the agreement for the public docket along with a request to keep the confidential copy under seal and outside of the public docket and to refrain from otherwise disclosing its contents to the public. The redacted version should adhere to the pagination scheme of the confidential version but should redact those details that warrant confidential treatment. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 stay the transaction. Pleadings must be filed with the Commission and served on: Gary A. Laakso, Southern Pacific Transportation Company, One Market Plaza, Room 846, San Francisco, CA 94105. As a condition to the use of this exemption, any employees adversely affected by the trackage rights will be protected under Norfolk and Western Ry. Co.--Trackage Rights--BN, 354 I.C.C. 605 (1978), as modified in Mendocino Coast Ry., Inc.--Lease and Operate, 360 I.C.C. 653 (1980). Decided: September 18, 1995. By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of Proceedings. Vernon A. Williams, Secretary. [FR Doc. 95-24100 Filed 9-27-95; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7035-01-P