Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate Disputes Between Certain Railroads Represented by the National Carriers' Conference Committee of the National Railway Labor Conference and Their Employees Represented by the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Disputes exist between certain railroads represented by the National Carriers' Conference Committee of the National Railway Labor Conference, including Consolidated Rail Corporation (including the Clearfield Cluster), Burlington Northern Railroad Co., CSX Transportation Inc., Norfolk Southern Railway Co., Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co., Union Pacific Railroad, Chicago & North Western Railway Co., Kansas City Southern Railway Co., and their employees represented by the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes. The railroads involved in these disputes are designated on the attached list, which is made a part of this order.

Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 97 / Friday, May 17, 1996 / Presidential Documents

Executive Order 13003 of May 15, 1996

Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate Disputes Between Certain Railroads Represented by the National Carriers' Conference Committee of the National Railway Labor Conference and Their Employees Represented by the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes

Disputes exist between certain railroads represented by the National Carriers' Conference Committee of the National Railway Labor Conference, including Consolidated Rail Corporation (including the Clearfield Cluster), Burlington Northern Railroad Co., CSX Transportation Inc., Norfolk Southern Railway Co., Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co., Union Pacific Railroad, Chicago & North Western Railway Co., Kansas City Southern Railway Co., and their employees represented by the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes. The railroads involved in these disputes are designated on the attached list, which is made a part of this order.

The 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 15, 1996, a Board of three members to be appointed by the President to investigate any and all of the disputes raised in mediation. 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 15, 1996.

RAILROADS

Alton & Southern Railroad

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company

Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company

Belt Railway Company of Chicago

Burlington Northern Railroad Company

Camas Prairie Railroad Company

Chicago and North Western Railway Company

Consolidated Rail Corporation (including the Clearfield Cluster)

CSX Transportation, Inc.

The Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Company

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company (former)

The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company (former) (Northern and Southern Regions)

Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company (former)

Clinchfield Railroad (former)

Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company (former)

Monon Railroad (former)

Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railway Company

Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company (former)

Toledo Terminal Railroad Company (former)

Western Maryland Railway Company (former)

Western Railway of Alabama

Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad

Houston Belt and Terminal Railway

The Kansas City Southern Railway Company

CP-Kansas City Southern Joint Agency

Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad Company

Longview, Portland & Northern Railway Company

Los Angeles Junction Railway

Manufacturers Railway Company

Meridian & Bigbee Railroad Company

Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad

Oklahoma, Kansas & Texas Railroad

Missouri Pacific Railroad

New Orleans Public Belt Railroad

Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad Company

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

Interstate Railroad Company

Norfolk & Western Railway Company

Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway Company

Tennessee Railway Company

Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation

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

Union Pacific Railroad

Utah Railway Company

Western Pacific Railroad

Wichita Terminal Association

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