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81 FR 226 pgs. 84673-84674 - Central of Georgia Railroad Company—Abandonment Exemption—in Newton County, Ga.

Type: NOTICEVolume: 81Number: 226Pages: 84673 - 84674
Docket number: [Docket No. AB 290 (Sub-No. 343X)]
FR document: [FR Doc. 2016-28295 Filed 11-22-16; 8:45 am]
Agency: Surface Transportation Board
Official PDF Version:  PDF Version
Pages: 84673, 84674

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SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD

[Docket No. AB 290 (Sub-No. 343X)]

Central of Georgia Railroad Company-Abandonment Exemption-in Newton County, Ga.

AGENCY:

Surface Transportation Board.

ACTION:

Correction to notice of exemption.

On July 1, 2013, Central of Georgia Railroad Company (CGA)?1 filed a verified notice of exemption under 49 CFR pt. 1152 subpart F- Exempt Abandonments to abandon approximately 14.90 miles of rail line between milepost E 65.80 and milepost E 80.70, in Newton County, Ga. The notice was served and published in the Federal Register on July 19, 2013 (78 FR 43,273).

Footnotes:

1 ?CGA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Norfolk Southern Railway Company.

Before the exemption became effective, Newton County Trail-Path Foundation, Inc. (Newton Trail) filed a request for a notice of interim trail use (NITU). The Board issued a NITU on August 19, 2013, and on September 28, 2016, CGA and Newton Trail filed a notice informing the Board that they had entered into a lease agreement for interim trail use and rail banking for the 14.90 miles of rail line that was subject to abandonment.


[top] On October 14, 2016, CGR filed a letter stating that the map attached as page 84674 Appendix A to its July 1, 2013 verified notice did not properly depict the location of milepost E 65.80, and that parentheticals in the notice incorrectly refer to milepost E 65.80 as: "(at the point of the Line's crossing of Route 229 in Newborn)."?2 Thus, CGR requests that the Board accept the corrected map attached to the October 14, 2016 letter and clarify the parenthetical references to milepost E 65.80 in its July 1, 2013 verified notice and the notice the Board served and published on July 19, 2013, to read: "(a point just east of the Ziegler Road crossing west of downtown Newborn)". These corrections are recognized here. All of the remaining information in the July 19, 2013 notice remains unchanged.

Footnotes:

2 ?On October 14, 2016, CGA and Newton Trail also filed a letter to correct their September 28, 2016 notification that a lease agreement for interim trail use and rail banking had been reached. This filing as well as the modification of the NITU to reflect the correct location of milepost E 65.80 will be addressed in a separate decision.

Board decisions and notices are available on our Web site at " WWW.STB.DOT.GOV."

Decided: November 18, 2016.

By the Board, Scott M. Zimmerman, Acting Director, Office of Proceedings.

Jeffrey Herzig,

Clearance Clerk.

[FR Doc. 2016-28295 Filed 11-22-16; 8:45 am]

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