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PUBLIC LAW 9 4 - 2 1 0 — F E B. 5, 1976 maintenance of rail transportation facilities and services, (2) the relationship of such policies and methods to the policies and methods of providing Federal aid for other modes of transportation, and (3) whether common carriers by railroad have been or are disadvantaged by reason of such policies and methods, and, if such carriers have been or are disadvantaged, the extent of such disadvantage. The Secretary shall examine ways and means by which future policy respecting Federal aid to rail transportation may be so determined and developed as to encourage the establishment and maintenance of an open and competitive market in which rail transportation competes on equal terms with other modes of transportation, and in which market shares are governed by customer preference based upon the service and full economic costs. (b) COOPERATION.—The Commission and the Secretary of the Army are authorized and directed to cooperate fully with the Secretary in carrying out the purposes of this section, and also to submit such independent and separate reports, comments, and recommendations as they consider appropriate. (c) INFORMATION.—In carrying out the purposes of this section, the Secretary may require all common carriers by railroad to file such reports containing such information as the Secretary considers necessary. The Secretary shall have the power to require by subpoena the production of such books, papers, tariffs, contracts, agreements, or other documents or data of a common carrier by railroad related to the study and analysis as he considers relevant. The Secretary may treat as confidential and privileged any document, data, or information received for such study and analysis, notwithstanding the provisions of section 552 of title 5, United States Code. (d) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Within 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall complete the study and analysis authorized and directed by this section, and shall transmit a report to the Congress containing his findings and conclusions, together with his recommendations for a sound and rational policy with respect to Federal aid to rail transportation. STUDY o r CONGLOMERATES
49 USC 5c note.
Report to Congress.
SEC. 903. The Commission shall undertake a study of conglomerates and of such other corporate structures as are presently found within the rail transportation industry. The Commission shall determine what effects, if any, such diverse structures have on effective transportation, on intermodal competition, on revenue levels, and on such other aspects of national transportation as the Commission considers to be legitimate subjects of study. The Commission shall prepare a report with appropriate recommendations and shall submit its report to the Congress within 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act. RAIL ABANDONMENT REPORT
Report to Congress. 45 USC 745 note,
SEC. 904. The Secretary shall submit to the Congress, within 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, a comprehensive report on the anticipated effect, including the environmental impact, of an^ abandonments of lines of railroad and any discontinuances of rail service in States outside the region, as defined in section 102 of the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 (45 U.S.C. 702). NONDISCRIMINATION
45 USC 803.
SEC. 905. (a) GENERAL.—No person in the United States shall on the ground of race, color, national origin, or sex be excluded from
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