Quarterly Rail Cost Adjustment Factor, 13819 [2025-05102]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 57 / Wednesday, March 26, 2025 / Notices Business Administration, 409 3rd Street SW, Suite 6050, Washington, DC 20416, (202) 205–6734. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that as a result of the Administrator’s disaster declaration, applications for disaster loans may be submitted online using the MySBA Loan Portal https://lending.sba.gov or other locally announced locations. Please contact the SBA disaster assistance customer service center by email at disastercustomerservice@ sba.gov or by phone at 1–800–659–2955 for further assistance. The following areas have been determined to be adversely affected by the disaster: Primary Counties: San Patricio Contiguous Counties: Texas: Aransas, Bee, Jim Wells, Live Oak, Nueces, Refugio The Interest Rates are: For Physical Damage: Homeowners with Credit Available Elsewhere .................... Homeowners without Credit Available Elsewhere ............ Businesses with Credit Available Elsewhere .................... Businesses without Credit Available Elsewhere ............ Non-Profit Organizations with Credit Available Elsewhere Non-Profit Organizations without Credit Available Elsewhere ................................... For Economic Injury: Business and Small Agricultural Cooperatives without Credit Available Elsewhere Non-Profit Organizations without Credit Available Elsewhere ................................... Approval of rail cost adjustment factor. The Surface Transportation Board has adopted the second quarter 2025 Rail Cost Adjustment Factor and cost index filed by the Association of American Railroads. DATES: Applicability Date: April 1, 2025. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pedro Ramirez, (202) 245–0333. If you require an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act, please call (202) 245–0245. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The rail cost adjustment factor (RCAF) is an index formulated to represent changes in railroad costs incurred by the nation’s largest railroads over a specified period of time. The Surface Transportation Board (Board) is required by law to publish the RCAF on at least a quarterly basis. Each quarter, the Association of American Railroads computes three types of RCAF figures and submits those Percent figures to the Board for approval. The Board has reviewed the submission and adopts the RCAF figures for the second 5.500 quarter of 2025. The second quarter 2025 RCAF (Unadjusted) is 0.945. The 2.750 second quarter 2025 RCAF (Adjusted) is 0.366. The second quarter 2025 RCAF– 8.000 5 is 0.347. Additional information is 4.000 contained in the Board’s decision, which is available at www.stb.gov. By the Board, Board Members Fuchs, 3.625 Hedlund, Primus, and Schultz. 3.625 SUMMARY: Decided: March 21, 2025. Andrea Pope-Matheson, Clearance Clerk. [FR Doc. 2025–05102 Filed 3–25–25; 8:45 am] 4.000 BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 3.625 SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD The number assigned to this disaster for physical damage is 209955 and for economic injury is 209960. The States which received an EIDL Declaration are Texas. [Docket No. FD 36840] (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number 59008) American Services Rail, LLC (ASR), a noncarrier, has filed a verified notice of exemption under 49 CFR 1150.31 to lease from Coahoma County, Miss. (County), a noncarrier, and operate approximately 0.25 miles of rail line extending between milepost 103.75 and milepost 104.00 at or near Swan Lake, Miss. (the Line). Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, LLC (CRIP) currently operates the Line. See Chi., Rock Island & Pac. R.R.—Lease & Operation Exemption—Rail Line of Coahoma Cnty., Miss., near Swan Lake, Miss., FD 36307 (served June 7, 2019). ASR states that it and the County have entered into a lease under which ASR James Stallings, Associate Administrator, Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience. [FR Doc. 2025–05079 Filed 3–25–25; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 8026–09–P khammond on DSK9W7S144PROD with NOTICES ACTION: SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD [Docket No. EP 290 (Sub-No. 5) (2025–2)] Quarterly Rail Cost Adjustment Factor AGENCY: Surface Transportation Board. VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:57 Mar 25, 2025 Jkt 265001 American Services Rail, LLC—Change of Operators Exemption—Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, LLC PO 00000 Frm 00093 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 13819 will operate as a common carrier on the Line and will operate an additional 50.81 miles of County-owned track as a contract carrier. According to ASR, upon consummation of the proposed transaction, ASR will replace CRIP as the operator of the Line, releasing CRIP from its common carrier obligation on the Line.1 ASR certifies that the agreement between ASR and the County does not impose or include an interchange commitment. ASR also certifies that its projected annual revenues as a result of this transaction will not result in the creation of a Class II or Class I rail carrier and will not exceed $5 million. Under 49 CFR 1150.32(b), a change in operators exemption requires that notice be given to shippers. ASR states there are no shippers on the Line, but that ASR gave notice to shippers that will receive contract service and whose commodities will traverse the Line. The transaction may be consummated on or after April 9, 2025, the effective date of the exemption (30 days after the verified notice was filed). If the verified notice contains false or misleading information, the exemption is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) may be filed at any time. The filing of a petition to revoke will not automatically stay the effectiveness of the exemption. Petitions for stay must be filed by April 2, 2025 (at least seven days before the exemption becomes effective). All pleadings, referring to Docket No. FD 36840, must be filed with the Surface Transportation Board either via e-filing on the Board’s website or in writing addressed to 395 E Street SW, Washington, DC 20423–0001. In addition, a copy of each pleading must be served on ASR’s representative, Justin J. Marks, Clark Hill PLC, 1001 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 1300 South, Washington, DC 20004. According to ASR, this action is categorically excluded from environmental review under 49 CFR 1105.6(c) and from historic preservation reporting requirements under 49 CFR 1105.8(b). Board decisions and notices are available at www.stb.gov. 1 It appears that another rail carrier, C&J Railroad Company d/b/a Mississippi Delta Railroad (C&J), continues to hold operating authority over the Line. See C&J R.R.—Acquis. & Operation Exemption— Rail Line in Tallahatchie Cnty., Miss., FD 34673 (STB served May 6, 2005); see also Chi., Rock Island & Pac. R.R., FD 36307, slip op. at 2 n.3 (declining to convert a lease and operation exemption to a change in operators exemption ‘‘because the verified notice does not indicate that CRIP has reached an agreement with C&J for C&J to cease its own operations over the [Line]’’). E:\FR\FM\26MRN1.SGM 26MRN1

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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 57 (Wednesday, March 26, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 13819]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-05102]


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SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD

[Docket No. EP 290 (Sub-No. 5) (2025-2)]


Quarterly Rail Cost Adjustment Factor

AGENCY: Surface Transportation Board.

ACTION: Approval of rail cost adjustment factor.

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SUMMARY: The Surface Transportation Board has adopted the second 
quarter 2025 Rail Cost Adjustment Factor and cost index filed by the 
Association of American Railroads.

DATES: Applicability Date: April 1, 2025.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pedro Ramirez, (202) 245-0333. If you 
require an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act, 
please call (202) 245-0245.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The rail cost adjustment factor (RCAF) is an 
index formulated to represent changes in railroad costs incurred by the 
nation's largest railroads over a specified period of time. The Surface 
Transportation Board (Board) is required by law to publish the RCAF on 
at least a quarterly basis. Each quarter, the Association of American 
Railroads computes three types of RCAF figures and submits those 
figures to the Board for approval. The Board has reviewed the 
submission and adopts the RCAF figures for the second quarter of 2025. 
The second quarter 2025 RCAF (Unadjusted) is 0.945. The second quarter 
2025 RCAF (Adjusted) is 0.366. The second quarter 2025 RCAF-5 is 0.347. 
Additional information is contained in the Board's decision, which is 
available at www.stb.gov.
    By the Board, Board Members Fuchs, Hedlund, Primus, and Schultz.

    Decided: March 21, 2025.
Andrea Pope-Matheson,
Clearance Clerk.
[FR Doc. 2025-05102 Filed 3-25-25; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4915-01-P
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