# Alternate Passenger Rail Service Pilot Program
> **Surface Transportation Board** · Final rule. · Published 2011-12-14 · Effective 2012-02-13 · 76 FR 77716
## Document
- **Document number:** 2011-31990
- **Category:** rail-rate
- **Sub-agency:** Surface Transportation Board
- **Federal Register citation:** 76 FR 77716
- **CFR reference:** 49 CFR 269
- **Publication date:** 2011-12-14
- **Effective date:** 2012-02-13
- **DOT docket:** Docket No. FRA-2009-0108
## Abstract

This final rule is in response to a statutory mandate that FRA complete a rulemaking proceeding to develop a pilot program that permits a rail carrier or rail carriers that own infrastructure over which Amtrak operates certain passenger rail service routes to petition FRA to be considered as a passenger rail service provider over such a route in lieu of Amtrak for a period not to exceed five years after the date of enactment of the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008. The final rule develops this pilot program in conformance with the statutory directive.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2011/12/14/2011-31990/alternate-passenger-rail-service-pilot-program)
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