42083                  SERVICE DATE – LATE RELEASE DECEMBER 14, 2011

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SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD

 

DECISION

 

Docket No. NOR 42125

 

E.I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY

v.

NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY

 

Decided:  December 14, 2011

 

            This decision grants a motion for extension of time for filing the joint submission of operating characteristics.

 

By decision served August 25, 2011, the Board adopted a revised procedural schedule, which required that the joint submission of operating characteristics be submitted by December 15, 2011.  On December 12, 2011, Norfolk Southern Railway Company and E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company filed a joint request to extend this date by seven days, to December 22, 2011.  The parties state that the requested extension would allow sufficient time to confer about the calculation of operating characteristics for the movements at issue and to resolve as many disputes about operating characteristic calculations as possible.  The parties further state that this extension will not affect any other deadlines in this case.

 

The motion for extension of time will be granted.  The joint submission of operating characteristics will be due by December 22, 2011.

 

This decision will not significantly affect either the quality of the human environment or the conservation of energy resources.

 

It is ordered: 

 

1.      The motion for extension of time is granted.

 

2.      The joint submission of operating characteristics is due by December 22, 2011.

 

            3.  This decision is effective on its service date.

 

By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, Director, Office of Proceedings.