The Surface Transportation Board is charged with the economic oversight of the nations freight rail system. The Board has regulatory jurisdiction over the reasonableness of rates that railroads charge shippers, mergers, line acquisitions, new rail-line construction, abandonments of existing rail lines, and the conversion of rail rights-of-way into hiking and biking trails.
Surface Transportation Board Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2012
2011
37 pages
Report
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Railroad Transportation , Transportation Safety , Business & Economics , Public Administration & Government , Rail transportation , Budget estimates , Financial management , Federal government , Transportation safety , Freight transportation , Surface Transportation Board(STB) , Surface Transportation Board