Norfolk Southern Corporation and Norfolk Southern Railway Company-Acquisition of Control-Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad Company

Surface Transportation Board.

Decision No. 3 in Docket No. FD 36836; Notice of Proposed Procedural Schedule and Request for Comments.

Norfolk Southern Corporation and Norfolk Southern Railway Company (collectively, Applicants) are seeking Board approval to acquire control of Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad Company (NPBL). In this decision, the Board is publishing notice of the proposed procedural schedule, inviting public comments on that schedule, and designating 2023 as the year to be used for the impact analysis.

Written comments on the proposed procedural schedule must be filed by April 28, 2025.

Any filing submitted in this proceeding must be filed with the Board either via e-filing on the Board's website or in writing addressed to 395 E Street SW, Washington, DC 20423-0001. In addition, one copy of each filing must be sent (and may be sent by email only if service by email is acceptable to the recipient) to each of the following: (1) Secretary of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590; (2) Attorney General of the United States, c/o Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Room 3109, Department of Justice, Washington, DC 20530; (3) Applicants' representative, William Mullins, Mullins Law Group, PLLC, 2001 L Street NW, Suite 720, Washington, DC 20036; and (4) any other person designated as a Party of Record on the service list.