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[CITE: 49USC10905]

 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
                 SUBTITLE IV--INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION
 
                              PART A--RAIL
 
                         CHAPTER 109--LICENSING
 
Sec. 10905. Offering abandoned rail properties for sale for 
        public purposes
        
    When the Board approves an application to abandon or discontinue 
under section 10903, the Board shall find whether the rail properties 
that are involved in the proposed abandonment or discontinuance are 
appropriate for use for public purposes, including highways, other forms 
of mass transportation, conservation, energy production or transmission, 
or recreation. If the Board finds that the rail properties proposed to 
be abandoned are appropriate for public purposes and not required for 
continued rail operations, the properties may be sold, leased, 
exchanged, or otherwise disposed of only under conditions provided in 
the order of the Board. The conditions may include a prohibition on any 
such disposal for a period of not more than 180 days after the effective 
date of the order, unless the properties have first been offered, on 
reasonable terms, for sale for public purposes.

(Added Pub. L. 104-88, title I, Sec. 102(a), Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 
827.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in 
section 10906 of this title prior to the general amendment of this 
subtitle by Pub. L. 104-88, Sec. 102(a).
    A prior section 10905, Pub. L. 95-473, Oct. 17, 1978, 92 Stat. 1405; 
Pub. L. 96-448, title IV, Sec. 402(c), Oct. 14, 1980, 94 Stat. 1942; 
Pub. L. 103-272, Sec. 4(j)(26), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1369, related to 
offers of financial assistance to avoid abandonment and discontinuance, 
prior to the general amendment of this subtitle by Pub. L. 104-88, 
Sec. 102(a). See section 10904 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 10903, 11702, 11901 of this 
title.
