FOR RELEASE	Contact: Dennis Watson
10/07/2004 (Thursday)	(202) 565-1596
No. 04-44	FIRS 1 (800) 877-8339
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Public & Media Advisory: Surface Transportation Board To Hold October 13 Oral Argument on "Buckingham Branch Railroad's" Proposed Lease of "CSX" Rail Line in Virginia

Surface Transportation Board Chairman Roger Nober has announced that the agency will hold a October 13, 2004 oral argument concerning a proposed lease transaction in the case entitled Buckingham Branch Railroad Company--Lease--CSX Transportation, Inc., STB Finance Docket No. 34495.

The STB will hold the oral argument at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 13, 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.

The STB announced its scheduling of the oral argument in its "Decision No. 4" issued October 5, 1004 in STB Finance Docket No. 34495. 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 asapdc@verizon.net.

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