The Surface Transportation Board today provided a schedule of speakers' appearances and their time allocations--as well as new attendance instructions--for the STB's April 11, 2007 public hearing in the proceeding entitled Rail Capacity and Infrastructure Requirements, STB Ex Parte No. 671.
The Wednesday, April 11 hearing will begin at 8:00 a.m.--please note that this is a new starting time--in the STB's hearing room on the 1st Floor of the agency's headquarters at Patriots Plaza, 395 E Street, S.W., Washington, D.C.
The STB announced the April 11 hearing in STB Ex Parte No. 671 in a decision issued to the public on March 6, 2007. That decision established due dates for those wishing to speak at the hearing to advise the agency of their intent to participate and to request a time allotment, and for the submission of written testimony. Based on submissions received, the STB has set the hearing's schedule of speakers as shown on the Attachment to this news release. During the hearing, there will be no breaks in excess of 15 minutes.
Attendance instructions. The STB requests that all persons attending the hearing use the Patriots Plaza Building's main entrance at 395 E Street, S.W. (closest to the northeast corner of the intersection of 4th and E Streets). There will be no reserved seating, except for witnesses. The building will be open to the public at 7:00 a.m. and participants are encouraged to arrive early. There is no visitor parking in the building. Upon arrival, check in at the 1st Floor security desk in the main lobby. Be prepared to produce valid photographic identification (driver's license or local, state, or federal-government identification); sign-in at the security desk; receive a hearing-room pass (to be displayed at all times); submit to an inspection of all briefcases, handbags, etc.; then pass through a metal detector. Upon entering the hearing room, witnesses should check in with the Board Secretary. Persons choosing to exit the building during the course of the hearing must surrender their hearing-room passes to security personnel and will be subject to the above security procedures if they choose to re-enter the building. Hearing-room passes likewise will be collected from those exiting the hearing upon its conclusion.
Quiet laptops and tape recorders may be brought into the hearing room, but no provision will be made for the connection of personal computers to agency telephone lines. Cellular telephone use is not permitted in the hearing room; cell phones may be used quietly in the corridor surrounding the hearing room, or in the building's main lobby.
The STB's hearing room complies with the Americans With Disabilities Act, and persons needing such accommodations should telephone (202) 245-0245, or (202) 245-0352, by the close of business on April 10, 2007.
If a party wishes to enhance its presentation by using projector-adaptable visual displays and/or handouts, it may do so. Agency staff will be available to demonstrate the hearing room's projection system on April 10, 2007, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Please telephone (202) 245-0245, or (202) 245-0352, to make arrangements.
The schedule of speakers' appearances and time allocations was provided in a Decision issued today, March 30, 2007 in Rail Capacity and Infrastructure Requirements, STB Ex Parte No. 671. That schedule is available for viewing and downloading via the agency's Web site at http://www.stb.dot.gov. A printed copy of the STB's decision also is available by contacting ASAP Document Solutions, 9332 Annapolis Rd., Suite 103, Lanham, MD 20706, telephone (202) 306-4004, or via asapdc@verizon.net.
A video broadcast of the hearing will be accessible via the STB's Web site at http://www.stb.dot.gov, under "Information Center"/"Webcast"/"Live Video" on the home page.
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ATTACHMENT
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Attachment
Surface Transportation Board Public Hearing
RAIL CAPACITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE REQUIREMENTS,
STB Ex Parte No. 671
April 11, 2007
8:00 a.m.
Party / Speaker / Time Alloted
Panel I: Federal Government
U.S. Department of Transportation / Jeffrey N. Shane / 15 minutes
Panel II-A: Freight Railroads
BNSF Railway Company / Matthew K. Rose / 15 minutes
Union Pacific Railroad Company / James R. Young / 15 minutes
Panel II-B: Freight Railroads
CSX Transportation, Inc. / Michael J. Ward / 15 minutes
Kansas City Southern Railway Company / Michael R. Haverty / 10 minutes
Norfolk Southern Railway Company / Charles W. Moorman / 10 minutes
Panel III: Short Line and Regional Railroads
American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association / Richard F. Timmons / 10 minutes
Iowa Pacific Holdings, LLC and Permian Basin Railways, Inc. / John D. Heffner / 5 minutes
Panel IV: Passenger Rail
National Railroad Passenger Corporation / Alexander Kummant / 15 minutes
American Public Transportation Association / Dale Zehner / 10 minutes
Panel V: State Government Interests
American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials / David Ganovski / 10 minutes
Texas Department of Transportation / Richard H. Streeter / 10 minutes
Virginia Port Authority / Jeff Keever / 10 minutes
Washington State Transportation Commission / Dan O'Neal / 10 minutes
Panel VI: Regional and Local Government Interests
City of Chicago / Marcia Jiminez / 10 minutes
Regional Transportation District of Denver, Colorado / Charles A. Spitulnik / 10 minutes
Panel VII: Coal Shippers and Utilities
Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation / Gary Voigt / 10 minutes
Concerned Captive Coal Shippers / C. Michael Loftus and Andrew B. Kolesar III / 10 minutes
Edison Electric Institute / William M. Mohl / 15 minutes
Foundation Energy Sales, Inc. / Betsy Monseu / 5 minutes
National Coal Transportation Association / Thomas C. Canter / 5 minutes
Western Coal Traffic League / Thomas D. Crowley and Peter A. Pfohl / 15 minutes
Panel VIII-A: Shippers and Shipper Interests
Alliance for Rail Competition, et al. / Michael W. Snovitch / 10 minutes
The National Industrial Transportation League / Curt Warfel and John Ficker / 15 minutes
UPS / Thomas F. Jensen / 10 minutes
Panel VIII-B: Shippers and Shipper Interests
American Chemistry Council / Thomas E. Schick / 10 minutes
Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc. / Steve Hirsch / 5 minutes
National Grain & Feed Association / Kendell W. Keith / 10 minutes
Total Petrochemicals USA, Inc. / Rick Charter and Michael McBride / 10 minutes
Panel IX: Labor
United Transportation Union-General Committee of Adjustment / Gordon P. MacDougall / 5 minutes
Panel X: Other Interests
Nick J. Rahall, II Appalachian Transportation Institute / Robert H. Plymale / 10 minutes
CenterPoint Properties / Daniel J. Hemmer / 10 minutes
RAIL Solution / David L. Foster / 10 minutes
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