FOR RELEASE
Contact: Dennis Watson
09/09/2004 (Thursday)
(202) 565-1596
No. 04-38
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Public & Media Advisory: Surface Transportation Board To Hold September 29 Oral Argument in "Arizona Public Service & PacifiCorp" v. "Burlington Northern" Rail Rate-Complaint Case
Surface Transportation Board Chairman Roger Nober today announced that the agency will hold a
September 29, 2004
oral argument concerning the railroad rate-complaint case entitled
Arizona Public Service Company & PacifiCorp v. The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company
, Docket No. 41185.
The STB will hold the oral argument at
10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, September 29, 2004, in Room 760
, the agency's hearing room, on the
7th Floor
of the agency's headquarters in the
Mercury Building, 1925 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
At issue are the maximum reasonable rates that "Burlington Northern" may charge for the transportation of coal from the Pittsburgh & Midway Coal Mining Company's McKinley Mine, northeast of Gallup, New Mexico, to an electric-generating plant near Joseph City, Arizona, owned by "Arizona Public Service" and PacifiCorp, the complainants in this case.
The STB announced its scheduling of the oral argument
in its decision issued September 9, 2004 in Docket 41185
. That decision is available for viewing and downloading via the agency's Web site at
http://www.stb.dot.gov
.
A printed copy of the Board's decision also is available for a fee by contacting
ASAP Document Solutions, 9332 Annapolis Rd., Suite 103, Lanham, MD 20706, telephone (301) 577-2600
, or via
asapmd@verizon.net.
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