Iowa, Chicago & Eastern Railroad Corporation-Acquisition and Operation Exemption-Lines of I&M Rail Link, LLC: Environmental Review

Summary

The Iowa, Chicago & Eastern Railroad Corporation and the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad Corporation submitted an Environmental Appendix to the Board on November 9, 2006, arguing that their acquisition of I&M Rail Link's rail lines will not significantly impact DM&E's Powder River Basin coal traffic, thus exempting them from a formal environmental analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.