[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 100 (Wednesday, May 22, 1996)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 25771-25773]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-13081]
                        Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 100 / Wednesday, May 22, 1996 /
Presidential Documents
[[Page 25771]]
                Executive Order 13004 of May 17, 1996
Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate
                Disputes Between Certain Railroads Represented by the
                National Railway Labor Conference and Their- Employees
                Represented by Certain Labor Organizations
                Disputes exist between certain railroads represented by
                the National Railway Labor Conference and their
                employees represented by certain labor organizations.
                The railroads and labor organizations involved in these
                disputes are designated on the attached lists, which
                are made a part of this order.
                These disputes have not heretofore been adjusted under
                the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45
                U.S.C. 151 et seq.) (the ``Act'').
                In the judgment of the National Mediation Board, these
                disputes threaten substantially to interrupt interstate
                commerce to a degree that would deprive a section of
                the country of essential transportation service.
                NOW, THEREFORE, by the authority vested in me as
                President by the Constitution and the laws of the
                United States, including section 10 of the Act (45
                U.S.C. 160), it is hereby ordered as follows:
                Section 1. Establishment of Emergency Board
                (``Board''). There is established effective May 17,
                1996, a Board of three members to be appointed by the
                President to investigate the disputes. No member shall
                be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any
                organization of railroad employees or any railroad
                carrier. The Board shall perform its functions subject
                to the availability of funds.
                Sec. 2. Report. The Board shall report to the President
                with respect to the dispute within 30 days of its
                creation.
                Sec. 3. Maintaining Conditions. As provided by section
                10 of the Act, from the date of the creation of the
                Board and for 30 days after the Board has made its
                report to the President, no change, except by agreement
                of the parties, shall be made by the railroads or the
                employees in the conditions out of which the disputes
                arose.
                Sec. 4. Records Maintenance. The records and files of
                the Board are records of the Office of the President
                and upon the Board's termination shall be maintained in
                the physical custody of the National Mediation Board.
                Sec. 5. Expiration. The Board shall terminate upon the
                submission of the report provided for in sections 2 and
                3 of this order.
                    (Presidential Sig.)
                THE WHITE HOUSE,
                    May 17, 1996.
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                RAILROADS
                Alameda Belt Line Railway
                Alton & Southern Railroad
                American Refrigerator Transit Company
                Arkansas Memphis Bridge Company
                Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company
                Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company
                Belt Railway Company of Chicago
                Brownsville & Matamoros Bridge Company
                Burlington Northern Railroad Company
                    Allouez Taconite Facility
                    Brainerd Timber Treating Plant
                    Western Fruit Express Company
                Camas Prairie Railroad Company
                Canadian National North America
                Central California Traction Company
                Chicago Heights Terminal Railroad
                Chicago Heights Terminal Transfer Railroad
                Chicago and North Western Railway Company
                Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad
                Consolidated Rail Corporation
                CSX Transportation, Inc.
                    The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company (former)
                    The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company (former)
                    Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company (former)
                    Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company (former)
                Houston Belt and Terminal Railway
                Joint Railroad Agency - National Stock Yards
                The Kansas City Southern Railway Company
                    CP-Kansas City Southern Joint Agency
                Kansas City Terminal Railway Company
                Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad Company
                Los Angeles Junction Railroad Company
                Missouri Pacific Railroad
                New Orleans Public Belt Railroad
                Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad Company
                Norfolk Southern Corporation
                Norfolk Southern Railway Company
                    The Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company
                    Atlantic & East Carolina Railway Company
                    Central of Georgia Railroad Company
                    The Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific
                Railway Company
                    Georgia Southern and Florida Railway Company
                    Norfolk & Western Railway Company
                    Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway Company
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                Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District
                Peoria and Pekin Union Railway Company
                The Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny Railway
                Company
                Port Terminal Railroad Association
                Portland Terminal Railroad Company
                Spokane International Railroad
                Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis
                Texarkana Union Station Trust Company
                Union Pacific Fruit Express
                Union Pacific Railroad
                    Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad
                    Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad
                    Oklahoma, Kansas & Texas Railroad
                Western Pacific Railroad
                Wichita Terminal Association
                LABOR ORGANIZATIONS
                Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
                International Association of Machinists & Aerospace
                Workers, AFL-CIO
                International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
                Sheet Metal Workers International Association
[FR Doc. 96-13081
Filed 5-21-96; 8:45 am]
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