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Interstate Commerce Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
The ICC, the first regulatory commission in U.S. history, was established as a result of mounting public indignation in the 1880s against railroad malpractices and abuses.
The ICC's jurisdiction was gradually extended beyond railroads to all common carriers except airplanes by 1940. Its enforcement powers to set rates were also progressively extended, through statute and broadened Supreme Court interpretations of the commerce clause of the Constitution, as were its investigative powers for determining fair rates of return on which to base rates. In addition, the ICC was given the task of consolidating railroad systems and managing labor disputes in interstate transport. In the 1950s and 60s the ICC enforced U.S. Supreme Court rulings that required the desegregation of passenger terminal facilities.
The ICC's safety functions were transferred to the Department of Transportation in 1966. The ICC retained its rate-making and regulatory functions. However, in consonance with the deregulatory movement, the ICC's powers over rates and routes in rails and trucking were curtailed in 1980 by the Staggers Rail Act and Motor Carriers Act. Most ICC control over interstate trucking was abandoned in 1994, and the agency was terminated at the end of 1995. Many of its remaining functions were transferred to the new National Surface Transportation Board.
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Saginaw Valley Railway Company, Inc.; Acquisition Exemption; CSX Transportation, Inc.
Under 49 U.S.C. 10505, the acquisition by Saginaw Valley Railway Company, Inc., of 51.32 miles of rail line in the State of Michigan from milepost CBD 4.50 near Hoyt, just east of Saginaw, to milepost CBD 55.82, near Brown City, is exempted from the prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 11343-45, subject to standard labor protective conditions.
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Union Pacific Railroad CompanyAbandonment Exemptionin Sutter County, CA (Yuba City Branch)
The Board, under 49 U.S.C. 10505, exempts from the prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 10903-04 the abandonment by Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) of a 5.20-mile portion of its Yuba City Branch extending from milepost 0.00 near Colusa Jct. to the end of the line at milepost 5.20 near Sutter, in Sutter County, CA, subject to trail use,...
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Canadian Pacific LimitedAbandonment Exemptionin Orleans County, VT
The Commission, pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 10505, exempts Canadian Pacific Limited, operated as CP Rail System (CPRS), from the prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 10903-04 to permit CPRS to abandon 4.05 miles of rail line, known as the Beebe Subdivision, from milepost 39.04 near Newport, VT, to the end of the line at milepost 34.99 near the...
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Raymond L. OrtmanContinuance in Control ExemptionWinamac Southern Railway Company, Inc.
The Commission under 49 U.S.C. 10505 exempts from the prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 11343-44 the continuance in control by Raymond L. Ortman of the Winamac Southern Railway Company, Inc. (WSR), subject to standard labor protective conditions. The petition for exemption was filed because of the Ortman family interests in Kokomo Grain...
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Portland & Western Railroad, Inc.Lease and Operation ExemptionBurlington Northern Railroad Company
Under 49 U.S.C. 10505, the Commission exempts Portland & Western Railroad, Inc. (PNWR) from the prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 11343-45 to lease from Burlington Northern Railroad Company (BN) and operate five branch lines totaling approximately 52.94 miles of railroad in Oregon,<SUP>2 specifically: (1) 1.96 miles between BN milepost...