Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 29/12/1995

Union Pacific Railroad CompanyAbandonmentWallace Branch, ID

The Rails to Trails Conservancy (RTC) seeks the immediate issuance of a certificate of interim trail use (CITU) under section 8(d) of the National Trails System Act, 16 U.S.C. 1247(d) (Trails Act), for a 71.5-mile rail line of Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) between milepost 16.5, near Plummer, and milepost 7.6, near Mullan, via milepost 80.4/0.0, near Wallace, in Benewah, Kootenai, and Shoshone Counties, ID. This notice is to request comments from all interested parties, agencies, and members of the public as to whether there is any impediment to the issuance of Trails Act authority in the unusual circumstances of this case. In Union Pacific RR. Co.--Aband.--Wallace Branch, ID, 9 I.C.C.2d 325 (1992), 9 I.C.C.2d 377 (1992), and 9 I.C.C.2d 446 (1993), the Commission granted UP's application to abandon this line, subject to various conditions. Specifically, the Commission allowed UP to discontinue service on the line, but provided that the carrier could not fully abandon the line (i.e., salvage the line and give up the right-of-way) until the environmental impacts of those actions are fully addressed and resolved. A request for a CITU was filed in 1992, but it was not acted on be