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[CITE: 45USC1113]

 
                           TITLE 45--RAILROADS
 
                   CHAPTER 20--NORTHEAST RAIL SERVICE
 
Sec. 1113. Intercity passenger service


(a) Responsibility of Conrail to provide crews terminated; negotiations 
        for employee transfers

    After January 1, 1983, Conrail shall be relieved of the 
responsibility to provide crews for intercity passenger service on the 
Northeast Corridor. Amtrak, Amtrak Commuter, and Conrail, and the 
employees with seniority in both freight and passenger service shall 
commence negotiations not later than 120 days after August 13, 1981, for 
the right of such employees to move from one service to the other once 
each six-month period. Such agreement shall ensure that Conrail, Amtrak, 
and Amtrak Commuter have the right to furlough one employee in the same 
class or craft for each employee who returns through the exercise of 
seniority rights. If agreement is not reached within 360 days, such 
matter shall be submitted to binding arbitration.

(b) Eligibility of employees for employee protection benefits

    Conrail employees who are deprived of employment by an assumption or 
discontinuance of intercity passenger service by Amtrak shall be 
eligible for employee protection benefits under section 797 \1\ of this 
title, notwithstanding any other provision of law, agreement, or 
arrangement, and notwithstanding the inability of such employees 
otherwise to meet the eligibility requirements of such section. Such 
protection shall be the exclusive protection applicable to Conrail 
employees deprived of employment or adversely affected by any such 
assumption or discontinuance.
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    \1\ See References in Text note below.
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(Pub. L. 97-35, title XI, Sec. 1165, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 686; Pub. 
L. 97-468, title V, Sec. 505(a), Jan. 14, 1983, 96 Stat. 2553.)

                       References in Text

    Section 797 of this title, referred to in subsec. (b), was repealed 
by Pub. L. 99-509, title IV, Sec. 4024(c), Oct. 21, 1986, 100 Stat. 
1904, effective on the sale date (Apr. 2, 1987).

                          Codification

    ``August 13, 1981'', referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original 
``the date of the enactment'', which was editorially translated as the 
date of the enactment of this section, as the probable intent of 
Congress.


                               Amendments

    1983--Pub. L. 97-468, Sec. 505(a), designated existing provisions as 
subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).


   Conrail Employees Eligible for Employee Protection Benefits Under 
                Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973

    Pub. L. 97-377, title I, Sec. 137, Dec. 21, 1982, 96 Stat. 1915, 
provided that: ``Conrail employees who are deprived of employment by 
assumption or discontinuance of intercity passenger service by Amtrak 
shall hereafter be eligible for employee protection benefits under 
section 701 of the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 (45 U.S.C. 
797), notwithstanding any other provision of law, agreement, or 
arrangement, and notwithstanding the inability of such employees 
otherwise to meet the eligibility requirements of such section. Such 
protection shall be the exclusive protection applicable to Conrail 
employees deprived of employment or adversely affected by any such 
assumption or discontinuance.''
