The Surface Transportation Board (STB) is seeking input on a new approach that looks at how it considers class exemption and revocation issues.
The board’s request came a day before it declared that five of the seven Class I railroads were revenue adequate for 2019.
Shippers for commodities such as forest products and scrap recycling have sought for their exemptions to be lifted so that the STB has greater oversight over them. These shoppers say that lifting the exemptions would give them access...
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