Interstate Commerce Commission

The documents posted on this site are XML renditions of published Federal Register documents. Each document posted on the site includes a link to the corresponding official PDF file on govinfo.gov. This prototype edition of the daily Federal Register on FederalRegister.gov will remain an unofficial informational resource until the Administrative Committee of the Federal Register (ACFR) issues a regulation granting it official legal status. For complete information about, and access to, our official publications and services, go to About the Federal Register on NARA's archives.gov. The ICC, the first regulatory commission in U.S. history, was established as a result of mounting public indignation in the 1880s against railroad malpractices and abuses. The ICC's jurisdiction was gradually extended beyond railroads to all common carriers except airplanes by 1940. Its enforcement powers to set rates were also progressively extended, through statute and broadened Supreme Court interpretations of the commerce clause of the Constitution, as were its investigative powers for determining fair rates of return on which to base rates. In addition, the ICC was given the task of consolidating railroad systems and managing labor disputes in interstate transport. In the 1950s and 60s the ICC enforced U.S. Supreme Court rulings that required the desegregation of passenger terminal facilities. The ICC's safety functions were transferred to the Department of Transportation in 1966. The ICC retained its rate-making and regulatory functions. However, in consonance with the deregulatory movement, the ICC's powers over rates and routes in rails and trucking were curtailed in 1980 by the Staggers Rail Act and Motor Carriers Act. Most ICC control over interstate trucking was abandoned in 1994, and the agency was terminated at the end of 1995. Many of its remaining functions were transferred to the new National Surface Transportation Board. by the Transportation Department and the Interstate Commerce Commission on 07/29/1996 . Under 49 U.S.C. 10505, the acquisition by Saginaw Valley Railway Company, Inc., of 51.32 miles of rail line in the State of Michigan from milepost CBD 4.50 near Hoyt, just east of Saginaw, to milepost CBD 55.82, near Brown City, is exempted from the prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 11343-45, subject to standard labor protective conditions. by the Transportation Department and the Interstate Commerce Commission on 03/29/1996 . The Board, under 49 U.S.C. 10505, exempts from the prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 10903-04 the abandonment by Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) of a 5.20-mile portion of its Yuba City Branch extending from milepost 0.00 near Colusa Jct. to the end of the line at milepost 5.20 near Sutter, in Sutter County, CA, subject to trail use,... The Commission, pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 10505, exempts Canadian Pacific Limited, operated as CP Rail System (CPRS), from the prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 10903-04 to permit CPRS to abandon 4.05 miles of rail line, known as the Beebe Subdivision, from milepost 39.04 near Newport, VT, to the end of the line at milepost 34.99 near the... The Commission exempts from the requirements of 49 U.S.C. 10903-06 the abandonment by Southern Pacific Transportation Company of approximately 2.54 miles of rail line, known as the San Bruno Branch, from milepost 10.80, at or near the Baden rail station, to milepost 13.34, at or near the Tanforan rail station, in San Mateo County, CA, subject to... Under 49 U.S.C. 10505, the Commission exempts Portland & Western Railroad, Inc. (PNWR) from the prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 11343-45 to lease from Burlington Northern Railroad Company (BN) and operate five branch lines totaling approximately 52.94 miles of railroad in Oregon, 2 specifically: (1) 1.96 miles between BN milepost... The Commission under 49 U.S.C. 10505 exempts from the prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 11343-44 the continuance in c