PUBLIC & MEDIA ADVISORY: SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD PROVIDES NEW STARTING TIME, SCHEDULE OF SPEAKERS' APPEARANCES & NEW ATTENDANCE INSTRUCTIONS FOR APRIL 11 PUBLIC HEARING ON RAIL CAPACITY & INFRASTRUCTURE REQUIREMENTS

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>From the Surface Transportation Board, Washington, D.C.
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The Surface Transportation Board today provided a schedule of speakers'
appearances and their time allocations--as well as new attendance
instructions--for the STB's April 11, 2007 public hearing in the proceeding
entitled Rail Capacity and Infrastructure Requirements, STB Ex Parte No.
671.


 The Wednesday, April 11 hearing will begin at 8:00 a.m.--please note that
 this is a new starting time--in the STB's hearing room on the 1st Floor of
 the agency's headquarters at Patriots Plaza, 395 E Street, S.W.,
 Washington, D.C.


 The STB announced the April 11 hearing in STB Ex Parte No. 671 in a
 decision issued to the public on March 6, 2007.  That decision established
 due dates for those wishing to speak at the hearing to advise the agency
 of their intent to participate and to request a time allotment, and for
 the submission of written testimony.  Based on submissions received, the
 STB has set the hearing's schedule of speakers as shown on the Attachment
 to this news release.  During the hearing, there will be no breaks in
 excess of 15 minutes.


 Attendance instructions.  The STB requests that all persons attending the
 hearing use the Patriots Plaza Building's main entrance at 395 E Street,
 S.W. (closest to the northeast corner of the intersection of 4th and E
 Streets).  There will be no reserved seating, except for witnesses.  The
 building will be open to the public at 7:00 a.m. and participants are
 encouraged to arrive early.  There is no visitor parking in the building.
 Upon arrival, check in at the 1st Floor security desk in the main lobby.
 Be prepared to produce valid photographic identification (driver's license
 or local, state, or federal-government identification); sign-in at the
 security desk; receive a hearing-room pass (to be displayed at all times);
 submit to an inspection of all briefcases, handbags, etc.; then pass
 through a metal detector.  Upon entering the hearing room, witnesses
 should check in with the Board Secretary.  Persons choosing to exit the
 building during the course of the hearing must surrender their
 hearing-room passes to security personnel and will be subject to the above
 security procedures if they choose to re-enter the building.  Hearing-room
 passes likewise will be collected from those exiting the hearing upon its
 conclusion.


 Quiet laptops and tape recorders may be brought into the hearing room, but
 no provision will be made for the connection of personal computers to
 agency telephone lines.  Cellular telephone use is not permitted in the
 hearing room; cell phones may be used quietly in the corridor surrounding
 the hearing room, or in the building's main lobby.


 The STB's hearing room complies with the Americans With Disabilities Act,
 and persons needing such accommodations should telephone (202) 245-0245,
 or (202) 245-0352, by the close of business on April 10, 2007.


 If a party wishes to enhance its presentation by using projector-adaptable
 visual displays and/or handouts, it may do so.  Agency staff will be
 available to demonstrate the hearing room's projection system on April 10,
 2007, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.  Please telephone (202) 245-0245, or
 (202) 245-0352, to make arrangements.


 The schedule of speakers' appearances and time allocations was provided in
 a Decision issued today, March 30, 2007 in Rail Capacity and
 Infrastructure Requirements, STB Ex Parte No. 671(
 http://www.stb.dot.gov/decisions/readingroom.nsf/WebDecisionID/37853?OpenDocument
 )
 .  That schedule is available for viewing and downloading via the agency's
 Web site at http://www.stb.dot.gov.  A printed copy of the STB's decision
 also is available by contacting ASAP Document Solutions, 9332 Annapolis
 Rd., Suite 103, Lanham, MD 20706, telephone (202) 306-4004, or via
 asapdc@xxxxxxxxxxxx


 A video broadcast of the hearing will be accessible via the STB's Web site
 at http://www.stb.dot.gov, under "Information Center"/"Webcast"/"Live
 Video" on the home page.


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 ATTACHMENT
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 Attachment

 Surface Transportation Board Public Hearing
 RAIL CAPACITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE REQUIREMENTS,
 STB Ex Parte No. 671
 April 11, 2007
 8:00 a.m.


 Party / Speaker / Time Alloted

 Panel I:  Federal Government

 U.S. Department of Transportation / Jeffrey N. Shane / 15 minutes


 Panel II-A:  Freight Railroads

 BNSF Railway Company / Matthew K. Rose / 15 minutes

 Union Pacific Railroad Company / James R. Young / 15 minutes


 Panel II-B:  Freight Railroads

 CSX Transportation, Inc. / Michael J. Ward / 15 minutes

 Kansas City Southern Railway Company / Michael R. Haverty / 10 minutes

 Norfolk Southern Railway Company / Charles W. Moorman / 10 minutes


 Panel III:  Short Line and Regional Railroads

 American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association / Richard F. Timmons
 / 10 minutes

 Iowa Pacific Holdings, LLC and Permian Basin Railways, Inc. / John D.
 Heffner / 5 minutes


 Panel IV:  Passenger Rail

 National Railroad Passenger Corporation / Alexander Kummant / 15 minutes

 American Public Transportation Association / Dale Zehner / 10 minutes


 Panel V:  State Government Interests

 American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials / David
 Ganovski / 10 minutes

 Texas Department of Transportation / Richard H. Streeter / 10 minutes

 Virginia Port Authority / Jeff Keever / 10 minutes

 Washington State Transportation Commission / Dan O'Neal / 10 minutes


 Panel VI:  Regional and Local Government Interests

 City of Chicago / Marcia Jiminez / 10 minutes

 Regional Transportation District of Denver, Colorado / Charles A.
 Spitulnik / 10 minutes


 Panel VII:  Coal Shippers and Utilities

 Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation / Gary Voigt / 10 minutes

 Concerned Captive Coal Shippers / C. Michael Loftus and Andrew B. Kolesar
 III / 10 minutes

 Edison Electric Institute / William M. Mohl / 15 minutes

 Foundation Energy Sales, Inc. / Betsy Monseu / 5 minutes

 National Coal Transportation Association / Thomas C. Canter / 5 minutes

 Western Coal Traffic League / Thomas D. Crowley and Peter A. Pfohl / 15
 minutes


 Panel VIII-A:  Shippers and Shipper Interests

 Alliance for Rail Competition, et al. / Michael W. Snovitch / 10 minutes

 The National Industrial Transportation League / Curt Warfel and John
 Ficker / 15 minutes

 UPS / Thomas F. Jensen / 10 minutes


 Panel VIII-B:  Shippers and Shipper Interests

 American Chemistry Council / Thomas E. Schick / 10 minutes

 Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc. / Steve Hirsch / 5 minutes

 National Grain & Feed Association / Kendell W. Keith / 10 minutes

 Total Petrochemicals USA, Inc. / Rick Charter and Michael McBride / 10
 minutes


 Panel IX:  Labor

 United Transportation Union-General Committee of Adjustment / Gordon P.
 MacDougall / 5 minutes


 Panel X:  Other Interests

 Nick J. Rahall, II Appalachian Transportation Institute / Robert H.
 Plymale / 10 minutes

 CenterPoint Properties / Daniel J. Hemmer / 10 minutes

 RAIL Solution / David L. Foster / 10 minutes


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