[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 226 (Friday, November 24, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 58097]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-28640]



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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 32800]


Columbus and Steens Junction Railway, Inc.; Trackage Rights 
Exemption; Columbus and Greenville Railway Company

    Columbus and Steens Junction Railway, Inc. (CSJ), a noncarrier, has 
filed a notice of exemption under 49 CFR 1150.31 to acquire local 
trackage rights over a 8.54-mile line of railroad,1 owned by 
Columbus and Greenville Railway Company (C&G). The trackage rights 
include: (1) The rail line of C&G lying between the north boundary line 
of U.S. Highway No. 182 (milepost 0.5) and the western terminus of the 
former main line track of C&G (milepost 6.54), a distance of 6.04 
miles, and (2) the main tracks in C&G's Columbus, MS, rail yard between 
the yard limits on the north and east (milepost 935.0) and South 
Seventh Avenue on the south, a distance of 2.5 miles, including wye 
tracks adjacent to the C&G shop, in Lowndes County, MS.2 The 
trackage rights were scheduled to become effective on November 2, 1995, 
the effective date of the exemption.

    \1\ The class exemption at 49 CFR 1150.31 is properly invoked 
here, as 49 U.S.C. 10901 governs an acquisition of trackage rights 
by a noncarrier.
    \2\ C&G states that, under the trackage rights agreement, CSJ 
will have the nonexclusive right to serve all industrial side tracks 
and team tracks appurtenant to the subject line as well as the right 
to use its existing rail terminals located along or adjacent 
thereto. If the industrial, side, and team tracks that CSJ intends 
to acquire trackage rights over are an integral part of a continuous 
movement in interstate commerce, then the tracks are not covered by 
49 U.S.C. 10907(b)(1) and the Commission has jurisdiction over the 
transaction. Accordingly, the exemption here applies to such track 
if it is used in interstate commerce.
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    Any comments must be filed with the Commission and served on: Eric 
M. Hocky, 213 W. Miner Street, P.O. Box 796, West Chester, PA 19381-
0796.
    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: November 17, 1995.

    By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-28640 Filed 11-22-95; 8:45 am]
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