[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 3, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
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[CITE: 3CFR]

[Page 204-205]

Executive Order 13429 of April 4, 2007

Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate a Dispute Between Metro-
North Railroad and Its Maintenance of Way Employees Represented by the
International Brotherhood of Teamsters

A dispute exists between Metro-North Railroad and its maintenance of way
employees represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
The dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions of the
Railway Labor Act, as amended, 45 U.S.C. 151-188 (the ``Act'').
A first emergency board to investigate and report on this dispute and
disputes of other employees represented by other labor organizations was
established on December 7, 2006, by Executive Order 13417 of December 6,
2006. The emergency board terminated upon issuance of its report.
Subsequently, its recommendations were not accepted by the parties.
A party empowered by the Act has requested that the President establish
a second emergency board pursuant to section 9A of the Act (45 U.S.C.
159a).
Section 9A(e) of the Act provides that the President, upon such request,
shall appoint a second emergency board to investigate and report on the
dispute.
NOW, THEREFORE, by the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 9A of
the Act, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Establishment of Emergency Board (Board). There is
established, effective April 6, 2007, a Board of three members to be
appointed by the President to investigate and report on this dispute. No
member shall be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization
of railroad employees or any carrier. The Board shall perform its
functions subject to the availability of funds.

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Sec. 2. Report. Within 30 days after the creation of the Board, the
parties to the dispute shall submit to the Board final offers for
settlement of the dispute. Within 30 days after the submission of final
offers for settlement of the dispute, the Board shall submit a report to
the President setting forth its selection of the most reasonable offer.
Sec. 3. Maintaining Conditions. As provided by section 9A(h) of the Act,
from the time a request to establish a second emergency board is made
until 60 days after the Board submits its report to the President, the
parties to the controversy shall make no change in the conditions out of
which the dispute arose except by agreement of the parties.
Sec. 4. Records Maintenance. The records and files of the Board are
records of the Office of the President and upon the Board's termination
shall be maintained in the physical custody of the National Mediation
Board.
Sec. 5. Expiration. The Board shall terminate upon the submission of the
report provided for in section 2 of this order.
George W. Bush
The White House,
    April 4, 2007.