FOR RELEASE	Contact: Dennis Watson
07/07/2003 (Monday)	(202) 565-1596
No. 03-29	FIRS 1 (800) 877-8339
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Public & Media Advisory: Surface Transportation Board To Hold July 29 Information Session for Practitioners & Agency Stakeholders

Surface Transportation Board (Board) Chairman Roger Nober today announced that the Board will hold an informal information session for the benefit of practitioners (counselors involved in official Board proceedings) and other agency stakeholders beginning at 10:00 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 29, 2003, in Room 760, the Board's hearing room, on the 7th Floor at the agency's headquarters in the Mercury Building, 1925 K Street, N.W. (on the northeast corner of the intersection of 20th and K Sts.), Washington, D.C.

The information session will include informal presentations by the Board's office heads and the opportunity for those interested in the Board's work to meet and converse with agency staff members and each other.

Members of the public, the industry, and the media wishing to attend the July 29 information session should R.S.V.P. to Vernon A. Williams, Esq. by telephoning(202) 565-1718 by July 26, 2003.

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