Time for a New Class Exemption for Emergency Temporary Trackage Rights?
Time for a New Class Exemption for Emergency Temporary Trackage Rights?
Written by
Marybeth Luczak, Executive Editor
The Surface Transportation Board (STB) is initiating a rulemaking proceeding to establish a new “emergency temporary trackage
rights class exemption” that could be invoked during natural disasters, accidents or derailments; comments are due by July 12, 2021.
The Association of American Railroads (AAR) filed a petition for the proceeding on Oct. 9, 2020, explaining that an exemption “would allow emergency temporary trackage rights to take effect immediately, without need for the 30-day notice requirement under 49 C.F.R. § 1180.4(g)(1).”