# Final Offer Rate Review; Expanding Access to Rate Relief
> **Surface Transportation Board** · Final rule; termination of proceeding. · Published 2023-01-04 · Effective 2023-03-06 · 88 FR 299
## Document
- **Document number:** 2022-27926
- **Category:** rail-rate
- **Sub-agency:** Surface Transportation Board
- **Federal Register citation:** 88 FR 299
- **CFR reference:** 49 CFR 1002
- **Publication date:** 2023-01-04
- **Effective date:** 2023-03-06
- **DOT docket:** Docket No. EP 755
## Abstract

The Surface Transportation Board (STB or Board) is adopting a final rule in Docket No. EP 755 to establish a new procedure for challenging the reasonableness of railroad rates in smaller cases. Under this rate review procedure, the Board will decide a case by selecting either the complainant's or the defendant's final offer, subject to an expedited procedural schedule that adheres to firm deadlines. The Board is also terminating its proceeding in Docket No. EP 665 (Sub-No. 2).

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/04/2022-27926/final-offer-rate-review-expanding-access-to-rate-relief)
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