# Disclosure of Rail Interchange Commitments
> **Surface Transportation Board** · Final rule. · Published 2008-05-30 · Effective 2008-06-29 · 73 FR 31033
## Document
- **Document number:** E8-11952
- **Category:** rail-rate
- **Sub-agency:** Surface Transportation Board
- **Federal Register citation:** 73 FR 31033
- **CFR reference:** 49 CFR 1114
- **Publication date:** 2008-05-30
- **Effective date:** 2008-06-29
- **DOT docket:** STB Ex Parte No. 575 (Sub-No. 1)
## Abstract

The Surface Transportation Board is amending its regulations to require that parties seeking to obtain an individual exemption for, or to invoke a class exemption covering, a transaction involving the sale or lease of a railroad line identify any provision in their agreements that would restrict the ability of the purchaser or tenant railroad to interchange traffic with a rail carrier other than the seller or landlord railroad (interchange commitment). The rules also provide a procedure whereby a shipper or other affected party may obtain access to such provisions. The Board is adopting these regulations to facilitate the case-specific review of challenges involving interchange commitments and to facilitate the Board's monitoring of their usage. The final rule appears below.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/05/30/E8-11952/disclosure-of-rail-interchange-commitments)
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