# Exclusion of Demurrage Regulation From Certain Class Exemptions
> **Surface Transportation Board** · Final rule. · Published 2020-03-04 · Effective 2020-04-03 · 85 FR 12749
## Document
- **Document number:** 2020-04460
- **Category:** rail-rate
- **Sub-agency:** Surface Transportation Board
- **Federal Register citation:** 85 FR 12749
- **CFR reference:** 49 CFR 1039
- **Publication date:** 2020-03-04
- **Effective date:** 2020-04-03
- **DOT docket:** Docket No. EP 760
## Abstract

The Surface Transportation Board (STB or Board) is adopting a final rule amending its regulations governing the class exemptions for the rail transportation of certain miscellaneous commodities and rail transportation by boxcar to state more clearly that the exemptions do not apply to the regulation of demurrage. The final rule also revokes, in part, the class exemption that currently covers the rail transportation of certain agricultural commodities so that the exemption will not apply to the regulation of demurrage, thereby making the agricultural commodities exemption consistent with similar class exemptions covering non-intermodal rail transportation.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/03/04/2020-04460/exclusion-of-demurrage-regulation-from-certain-class-exemptions)
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