1. Proposed increases in freight rates and charges found necessary, in part, to enable the respondents to provide adequate and efficient transportation service required in the public interest and, to the extent authorized, not unjust or unreasonable or otherwise in violation of the Interstate Commerce Act.

2. Authority granted respondent railroads to establish a 3-percent increase in freight
rates and charges, within and between all territories, subject to indicated excep-
tions.

3. Increases authorized found not to contravene economic stabilization policies.
4. Authorization of considered increases on commodities other than those trans-
ported for purposes of recycling found not to constitute a major Federal action
significantly affecting the quality of the human environment within the meaning of
the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.

5. Substantial progress noted in respondents' updating of tariffs; continuing priority
efforts found to be necessary and reporting requirement imposed.

6. Service considerations and future actions discussed. Showing of improved service required as prerequisite to filing of general increase proposals. Continued filing of quarterly reports ordered.

7. Increased rates permitted to become effective on not less than 20 days' notice. 8. Appropriate orders entered modifying our outstanding orders, authorizing certain departures from our tariff circular rules, and granting fourth-section relief. Proceeding discontinued.

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Andrew C. Armstrong, Harry N. Babcock, Curtis H. Berg, R. W. Bridges, John J. Burchell, J. T. Clark, John A. Daily, Harry L. DeLung, Jr., Louis T. Duerinck, R. S. M. Emrich III, J. D. Feeney, Stuart F. Gassner, Rene J. Gunning, Louis Harris, James L. Howe III, Charles.H. Johns, Edward A. Kaier, Richard W. Kienle, George H. Kleinberger, Richard D. LaLanne, Harry B. LaTourette, Charles N. Marshall, John P. McCall, Don McDevitt, Thormund A. Miller, Robert B. Munsell, Richard J. Murphy, J. J. Nagle, William J. O'Brien, Jr., Joseph M. O'Malley, C. Harold Peterson, Chas. C. Rettberg, Jr., Albert B. Russ, Jr., Scott W. Scully, John M. Simms, John F. Smith, James L. Tapley, Wm. A. Thie, Thomas E. Tisza, D. M. Tolmie, Walter G. Treanor, Donal L. Turkal, John S. Walker, Sidney Weinberg, and Robert E. Zimmerman for respondents. Harold M. Carter, Edward Heitz, Paul L. Mills, and Kenneth H. Vail for the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States. William E. Casselman II, Maurice J. Street, and Leonard A. Salters for the United States General Services Administration. John P. Mathis, J. Calvin Simpson, and Sheldon Rosenthal, Attorneys for the State of California and the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California.

George F. Mohr for the Delaware River Port Authority.
Sam H. Lloyd for the Georgia Ports Authority.

John F. Hynes for the Department of Business and Economic Development, State of Illinois.

David H. Stevens, Commissioner, Department of Transportation, for the State of Maine.

A. G. Grimm for the Department of Agriculture of the State of Missouri.

George Lackman, Commissioner, for the Montana Department of Agriculture.

Louis G. Boedecker, Ernest C. Steel, and Robert E. McTaggart, for the Montana Public Service Commission.

Robert Brastup for the Wheat Research & Marketing Committee, Montana Department of Agriculture.

Gordon E. Ganka for the Nebraska Public Service Commission. Phillip Alampi, Secretary of Agriculture for the State of New Jersey.

Darrell W. Harp and John C. McTiernan for the New York State Department of Transportation.

Evan A. Davis and Sheila J. Feldman, for the City of New York.

Patrick J. Falvey, F. A. Mulhern, Arthur L. Winn, Jr., Samuel H. Moerman, and Paul M. Donovan for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Gene J. Carroll for the Public Service Commission, State of North Dakota.

Clinton E. Jeffers, Commissioner, Colorado Department of Agriculture.

Robert H. Smith for the International Association of Great Lakes Ports, et al.

Robert K. Jorgensen for the Board of Harbor Commissioners, City of Milwaukee.

J. I. Finsness for the North Dakota State Wheat Commission. Richard W. Sabin, Public Utility Commissioner, and Lionel V. Topaz, Assistant Commissioner for the State of Oregon and the Oregon Potato Commission.

Marion S. Moore, Jr., for the South Carolina State Ports Authority.

Vernon B. Romney, Attorney General of the State of Utah, and Harry D. Pugsley for the Utah Transportation Council.

Joseph H. Francis, Commissioner, Utah Department of Agriculture.

Robert B. Jacobson for the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission.

Lysander L. Dudley, Sr., Commissioner, for the Department of Commerce, State of West Virginia.

Robert W. Barclay for the Brown County Board of Harbor Commissioners, Port of Green Bay, Wis.

Lee Adler, Clarence N. Anderson, Eugene D. Anderson, Meldon B. Anderson, R. C. Bachelder, William Lynn Bailes, Jr., R. L. Bailey, W. E. Balsiger, Duane A. Bartsch, C. W. Bath, Jacob P. Billig, W. W. Blackledge, Richard W. Blake, Wm. O. Bohnefeld, A. S. Bonney, James S. Bowman, A. R. Boyd, Don A. Boyd, Eugene D. Bradbury, H. B. Branson, Wilburn Breken, C. L. Brennan, James B. Brenna, George B. Breznay, W. H. Broderick, Ronald Bryant, Davis E. Buckels, A. J. Budash, Gene Burnett, Bernard D. Butnik, John H. Caldwell, O. G. Callson, Pierre O. Caron, David C. Carter, William L. Carter, Charles W. Chapman, J. K. Christensen, John D. Clark, John M. Cleary, J. J. Clement, H. B. Cleveland, Mel J. Condon, W. H. Cowles, Leslie M. Cox, Richard Crabtree, Joseph M. Creed, Carol A. Curran, A. P. Davis, Jr., E. Gaines Davis, Jr., Murrel L. Dean, Harry W. Deck, John G. Dingley, James N. Ditmer, John L. Dodge, R. Stanley Dollar, Jr., N. A. Domrose, John F. Donelan,