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The board is asking stakeholders to issue comments by June 5. The deadline to reply to comments is July 6. “Machine-readable invoicing may be one way to make the process of verifying demurrage ...
The Surface Transportation Board will require railroads to submit service recovery plans and provide additional data and regular progress reports on rail service, operations and employment ...
The Surface Transportation Board [http://www.stb.dot.gov]of the United States is a bipartisan, decisionally-independent adjudicatory body organizationally housed within the U.S. Department of ...
The U.S. Surface Transportation Board on Jan. 21 approved Canadian National Railway Co.’s request to acquire and operate Waterloo-based Iowa Northern Railway Co.’s 218-mile rail system.
The Biden administration is asking the Surface Transportation Board, the independent, appointed body that regulates U.S. rail, to set a precedent by forcing railways to let Amtrak restart an old ...
Republican Patrick J. Fuchs on Monday was designated by President Donald Trump as chairman of the five-member Surface Transportation Board. The 36-year-old Fuchs succeeds Democrat Robert E. Primus ...
July 10, 2025 Regulatory STB: Nominations Welcome for RSTAC, RETAC The Surface Transportation Board (STB) is seeking nominations to fill vacancies on its Railroad-Shipper Transportation Advisory ...
The U.S. Surface Transportation Board, in a news update Friday, called on the parties involved in a lawsuit before them -- Amtrak and the freight operators along the route (CSX and Norfolk ...
Surface Transportation Board Docket No. FD 36369, Association of American Railroads—Petition for Declaratory Order, Served Dec. 30, 2020.
The federal Surface Transportation Board has declined to issue a declaratory order requested almost three years ago by the North County Transit District that would give the local agency clear ...
The Surface Transportation Board is asking the Class I railroads to explain how they are addressing congestion within the international intermodal supply chain amid shippers' reports about ...