# Assessment of Mediation and Arbitration Procedures
> **Surface Transportation Board** · Final rules. · Published 2013-05-17 · Effective 2013-06-12 · 78 FR 29071
## Document
- **Document number:** 2013-11675
- **Category:** rail-rate
- **Sub-agency:** Surface Transportation Board
- **Federal Register citation:** 78 FR 29071
- **CFR reference:** 49 CFR 1002
- **Publication date:** 2013-05-17
- **Effective date:** 2013-06-12
- **DOT docket:** Docket No. EP 699
## Abstract

The Surface Transportation Board (Board or STB) adopts regulations that allow the Board to order parties to participate in mediation in certain types of cases and modify and clarify its existing mediation regulations. The Board also establishes a new arbitration program under which carriers and shippers may agree voluntarily in advance to arbitrate certain types of disputes that come before the Board, and clarifies and simplifies its existing arbitration rules.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2013/05/17/2013-11675/assessment-of-mediation-and-arbitration-procedures)
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