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原文传递 Surface Transportation: Issues Related to Preserving Inactive Rail Lines as Trails; Report to the Congress

题名：	Surface Transportation: Issues Related to Preserving Inactive Rail Lines as Trails; Report to the Congress
关键词：	Rail transportation; Right of way(Land); Abandonment; Land ownership; Communities; Property owners
摘要：	The Congress, in 1983, amended the 1968 National Trails System Act to give interested parties the opportunity to negotiate agreements with rail carriers to use railroad rights-of-way (the property used for rail lines) for trails. The amendments provided rail carriers with an alternative, referred to as rail banking, to abandoning unused rights-of-way. The Surface Transportation Board (the Board) administers the rail-banking program under which a trail sponsor assumes full managerial, financial, and legal responsibility for a right-of-way. Concerns have been raised, however, by some landowners adjoining these rights-of-way about the lack of opportunity for them to either recover the use of that property or to express their views about how the property is being used, among other issues. In response to these concerns, this report describes (1) the implementation process for rail banking, including whether it protects the various interests of landowners, communities, rail carriers, and those interested in converting the rights-of-way to trails; (2) the extent to which rail-banked property has returned to use as rail lines and the potential for future reactivation of rights-of-way for rail service; and (3) whether rail banking facilitates the return of these rights-of-way to rail service.
总页数：	22p
报告类型：	科技报告