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07/22/2004 (Thursday)	(202) 565-1596
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Surface Transportation Board Postpones July 27 Voting Conference

Surface Transportation Board Chairman Roger Nober today announced that the open voting conference originally scheduled to be held on Tuesday, July 27, 2004, at the STB's headquarters, has been postponed. The voting conference will be held on Wednesday, August 11, 2004, at 10:00 a.m., prior to the agency's scheduled public hearing in the "small carrier abandonments" proceeding, Class Exemption for Expedited Abandonment Procedure for Class II and Class III Railroads, STB Ex Parte No. 647.

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