"Canadian National" has filed its first compliance reports pursuant to the Board's oversight of CN's acquisition of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. To see the reports, click here.
The Board extended, until May 7, the public comment period and the deadline for filing petitions to reopen and requests for trail- and public-use conditions concerning the Environmental Assessment regarding the "Harsimus Embankment," in Jersey City, N.J. To see the Board's decision setting the new due date, in Consolidated Rail Corporation--Abandonment Exemption--in Hudson County, NJ , STB Docket No. AB-167 (Sub-No. 1189X), click here.
On January 16, 2009, the Board's Office of Economics issued Study of Railroad Rates: 1985-2007. The study is available here.
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The agency has jurisdiction over railroad rate and service issues and rail restructuring transactions (mergers, line sales, line construction, and line abandonments); certain trucking company, moving van, and non-contiguous ocean shipping company rate matters; certain intercity passenger bus company structure, financial, and operational matters; and rates and services of certain pipelines not regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.