The Surface Transportation Board today announced a schedule of speakers’ appearances and their time allocations for the Board’s February 24, 2010 public hearing to review exemptions from railroad-transportation regulations for certain commodities and for boxcar and intermodal freight.
The Thursday, Feb. 24 hearing will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Board’s Hearing Room on the 1st Floor of the agency’s headquarters at Patriots Plaza I, 395 E Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. The hearing will be webcast on the agency’s website, www.stb.dot.gov.
SCHEDULE OF APPEARANCES
Panel I: Federal Government
U.S. Department of Transportation, Peter Plocki, 10 minutes
Panel II: Railroad Interests
American Short Line & Regional Railroad Association, Richard F. Timmons, 10 minutes
Association of American Railroads, Edward R. Hamberger and Prof. Robert Willig, 20 minutes
Panel III: Shipper Interests
Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, Jeffrey O. Moreno, 10 minutes
American Forest & Paper Association and The Paper and Forest Industry Committee, Bill Lovick, 10 minutes
Blue Line Community, Dean Zulger, 10 minutes
National Industrial Transportation League, Bruce Carlton, 10 minutes
Wisconsin Central Group, John Duncan Varda, 10 minutes
Panel IV: Freight Railroads
BNSF Railway Company, John P. Lanigan, 10 minutes
CSX Transportation, Inc., Clarence Gooden, 10 minutes
Kansas City Southern, Patrick J. Ottensmeyer, 10 minutes
Norfolk Southern Railway Company, David Lawson, 10 minutes
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Eric Butler, Julie Krehbiel, 10 minutes
Panel V: Shippers
Holcim (US) Inc., Mike Eischer, 10 minutes
Packaging Corporation of America, Dina Calabro and Bruce Ridley, 10 minutes
Weaver Popcorn Company, Inc., Will Weaver, 10 minutes
Panel VI: Intermodal Interests
Intermodal Association of North America, Inc., Joanne F. Casey, 10 minutes
Panel VII: Other Interests
CNJ Rail Corporation, Eric Strohmeyer, 5 minutes
Mercury Group, Craig S. Dickman, 5 minutes
Ray Tylicki, 5 minutes
United Transportation Union-New York State Legislative Board, Gordon MacDougall, 5 minutes
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