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Rail Service Webpage Improvements
User-friendly improvements have been made to the Rail
Service Updates in EP 724, U.S. Rail Service Issues. To
check out the latest data on the rail network, click here.
New STB Webpage on Agency Oversight of
Household Goods Moving
The STB has created a new webpage describing the
agency’s limited role in overseeing the interstate
transportation of household goods by motor carriers
(“moving companies”). This new webpage will serve as
a resource for moving companies and their customers
that would like more information about the STB's role in
this area and the informal assistance that its customer
assistance program can provide. It is important to note
that the STB's oversight applies only to interstate moves
(moves crossing state lines) and not to intrastate moves
(moves within a single state). Please click here for more
information. A link to this webpage can also be found
under the "Quick Links" section of the STB's homepage.
Rail Service Updates “Quick Link”
The Board has made available a Rail Service Updates
quick link to a page on this site providing easy access to
all incoming filings, reports, and agency decisions in
U.S. Rail Service Issues, EP 724. To access this
information, click “Rail Service Updates” under “Quick
Links” at the top-right of this homepage, or click here.
Supplemental Environmental Assessment and
Request for Comment Issued on CSXT Request for
Acquisition and Joint Use of Louisville & Indiana
Railroad Company Line.

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The STB’s Office of Environmental Analysis has issued
a Supplemental Environmental Assessment and
Request for Comments on CSX Transportation, Inc.
(CSXT) and Louisville & Indiana Railroad Co.’s (L&I)
proposal seeking Board authority for CSXT to acquire
from the L&I, and jointly use with it, a perpetual, nonexclusive operating easement over the L&I rail line
between Indianapolis, Ind. and Louisville, Ky. To view
the Supplemental Environmental Assessment and
Request for Comment, click here.
Environmental Notices: Canaveral Port Authority
Petition to Build and Operate Rail-Line Extension to
Port Canaveral, Fla.
To provide Port Canaveral, Brevard County, Florida with
direct access to freight rail service, the Canaveral Port
Authority plans to file a request with the STB to build
and operate approximately 11 miles of new railroad line
from a point near the Port’s North Cargo Area to
connect with the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration’s John F. Kennedy Space Center’s
existing rail line. To view the Notice of Intent to Prepare
an EIS, Notice of its Draft Scope of Study, Notice of
Scoping Meetings, and Request for Comments on the
Draft Scope, click here.
Railroads’ Fall Peak-Season Service Plans.
Since 2004, the Chairman of the Surface Transportation
Board has annually requested the railroad industry to
explain its plans to handle increased traffic volumes
associated with the traditional fall "peak shipping
season." To view STB Chairman Daniel R. Elliott’s 2014
fall peak-season letter to the railroads, and the railroads’
respective responses, click here.

Got a Complaint?
Need help from the Board without filing a formal
complaint? The Rail Customer and Public Assistance
team offers a free, confidential avenue to settle disputes
between shippers and railroads. Read more about the
program here.
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E-FILING E-LIBRARY

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Welcome to E-Filing at STB
E-filings (electronic filings) can be made in
lieu of certain paper filings. E-filing is a file
attachment process. The document(s) you
submit must include the name and address
of the person responsible for the filing.
E-filing may not be used to file:
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initial filings in a proceeding;
filings requiring a fee (with the
exception of recordations, which may
be e-filed);or
large evidentiary filings (over 10MB).

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Processes that require a Login
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How To E-file

E-filing is not mandatory. You may continue
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Some of our e-filing systems will require
Notice of Intent to Participate
you to log in, others will not. If you are
prompted for a user name and password, Other Submissions (Correspondence
you must first request a login account. Your
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user name will be your e-mail address and
you will choose your password during
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registration. Once we grant you an account,
submit a Formal Filing, a
you can continue with your e-filing.
Recordation, an Environmental
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Please note that e-filed documents received
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after 5pm EST will be processed the next
business day.
For any issues regarding STB filings,
please call 1-202-245-0350

contact information is considered
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within and outside of STB without
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HOW TO E-FILE
Access the STB’s e-filing system through its web site at
www.stb.dot.gov. Once on the homepage, you will see a tab at the top
left marked “E-FILING”. Click your mouse on that tab and you enter the
STB’s e-filing process. The first page will be titled “Welcome to the
E-Filing Process”.
The e-filing system will permit you to electronically file documents in
the following categories:
Formal filings (those requiring service upon parties to a formal
proceeding)
Recordations
Environmental Comments
FOIA Requests
Information Quality Comments
Other submissions (e.g. general correspondence and comments)
NOTE: When an individual chooses to submit a Formal Filing, a
Recordation, an Environmental Comment, or some Other Submissions,
his or her personal contact information is considered public information
and is shared within and outside of STB without additional
authorization.
The following are not eligible for e-filing:
• initial filings in a proceeding
• filings requiring a fee (with the exception of recordations, which may
be e-filed); or
• large evidentiary filings (in which all documents submitted with the
filing combined is more than 10mb)
Login Accounts
In order to file formal filings or recordations electronically, you must
first establish a login account. To begin this process, click on the
“Request a login account” box on the e-filing welcome page. You will
then be directed to a screen that will prompt you to fill in required
information (those fields marked with a red asterisk), including
choosing a password. Once you have filled in all the required
information, click on the submit button. You will receive a message

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confirming that your registration request has been submitted. Within
fifteen minutes, you will receive an e-mail providing instructions on
how to complete the registration process. Please note that your user
name is your email address, and the password is the one you have
chosen. Once your registration is complete, please record your user
name and password in a safe place so that you have it ready whenever
you need to make a formal filing, or to file a recordation.
Formal Filing
To e-file a formal filing, click on the formal filing link on the right side
of the e-filing welcome page. You will be prompted to log in. Your user
name is your email address and your password is the one you chose
when you created your login account. If you have forgotten your
password, click on the link that says “If you forgot your password, click
here” and your password will be emailed to you.
Once you have logged in you will be taken to the formal filing screen.
This screen asks whether you have served all parties of record. There is
a link to service list if you need to confirm that you have served all
parties of record. Please note that unless the parties agree otherwise,
you may not serve your filing by email; service of paper copies is
required, and service must be accomplished in the manner prescribed
by applicable regulations. A certificate of service must be included with
a formal filing. If you answer “no” you will be taken to a screen for
“other submissions” (see instructions below for “submission not
requiring a login account”). This means that you will not be permitted
to submit a formal filing because you have not complied with the
service rules.
If you answer “yes”, you will be directed to the second formal filing
screen. This is the screen at which you will submit your documents for
filing. You will need to fill in all the required fields (designated with a
red asterisk) to submit your filing. If the filing is made on behalf of
more than one party, we have provided additional “Filed for” boxes to
be completed. Please remember that documents must be submitted in
PDF format and, if available, in the original electronic format. You will
attach your document using the boxes at the bottom of this screen.
Indicate whether the document is public or confidential. Then, use the
“browse” button to locate the documents you wish to attach. In
addition, formal filings must be submitted as a PDF document and, if
available, in the original electronic document format (such as Word,

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Wordperfect or Excel). For example, if you prepared a document in
Word, attach both a PDF version and a Word version. If, however, you
are submitting an exhibit you scanned, but did not produce
electronically, you will submit only a PDF version.
Once the attachment is located, click on the document you wish to
attach. Once you have input the required information and attached
your documents, hit the submit button. You will receive an email within
15 minutes confirming that your formal filing has been received. Once
your filing has been formally accepted by the Board, the public version
of the filing will be placed in the “Filing” database on the Board’s Web
site.
Recordations
To e-file a recordation, click on the recordation link on the right side of
the e-filing welcome page. You will be prompted to log in. Your user
name is your email address and your password is the one you chose
when you created your login account. If you have forgotten your
password, click on the link that says “If you forgot your password, click
here” and your password will be emailed to you.
Once you have logged in you will be taken to the recordations screen.
This screen asks whether you are filing a primary recordation or a
secondary recordation. A primary recordation is a mortgage (excluding
those under the Ship Mortgage Act of 1920, as amended--46 U.S.C. et
seq.), lease, equipment trust agreement, conditional sales agreement,
assignment of a lease or leases which have not previously been filed,
or other instrument evidencing the mortgage, lease, conditional sale, or
bailment of one or more vessels operated subject to Surface
Transportation Board jurisdiction, railroad cars, locomotives, or other
rolling stock for a use related to interstate commerce. A secondary
recordation is any assignment of rights or interest, supplement, or
amendment to any primary or other secondary document. These
include releases, discharges, or satisfactions, either total or partial.
Once you have chosen the type of recordation you will be directed to a
second recordations screen. You will have the option of using your
account or sending in a check. Please note that your recordation will
not be processed until the fee is received. Fill in all of the required
fields (indicated by the red asterisks) and attach your recordation using
the browse button. Recordations must be submitted in pdf format.

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Once all required fields are completed and the recordation is attached,
click on the submit button. You will receive an email within 15 minutes
confirming that your recordation has been received. You will receive a
separate email once your filing has been formally accepted by the
Board.
Submission not Requiring a Login Account
Environmental Comments, Rail Consumer Inquiries, FOIA Requests,
and Other Case Submissions do not require a login account to submit
an e-filing. For each of these click on the type of filing, fill out the
information on the screen being certain to provide all items marked
with a red asterisk, attach any files in the manner described above in
formal filings, and click on the submit button. You will receive an email
acknowledging that your filing has been submitted.

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