---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 1152.2"
title: "49"
number: "1152.2"
heading: "Definitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/1152.2"
---

# §1152.2. Definitions.


Unless otherwise provided in the text of the regulations, the following definitions apply in this part:

- (a) Account means an account in the Board's Uniform System of Accounts for Railroad Companies ([49 CFR part 1201](/cfr/49/part1201.md)).
- (b) Act means the ICC Termination Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-88, 109 Stat. 803), as amended.
- (c) Base year means the latest 12-month period, ending no earlier than 6 months prior to the filing of the abandonment or discontinuance application, for which data have been collected at the branch level as prescribed in [§ 1152.30(b)](/cfr/49/1152.30.md?p=b).
- (d) Board means the Surface Transportation Board.
- (e) Branch means a segment of line for which an application for abandonment or discontinuance, pursuant to [49 U.S.C. 10903](/usc/49/10903.md), has been filed.
- (f) Carrier means a railroad company or the trustee or trustees of a railroad company subject to regulation under 49 U.S.C., Subtitle IV, chapter 105.
- (g) Designated state agency means the instrumentality created by a state or designated by appropriate authority to administer or coordinate its state rail plan.
- (h) Forecast Year means the 12-month period, beginning with the first day of the month in which the application is filed with the Board, for which future revenues and costs are estimated.
- (i) Form R-1 means the railroad's annual report filed with the Board in accordance with the requirements of [49 U.S.C. 11145](/usc/49/11145.md).
- (j) Offeror means a shipper, a state, the United States, a local or regional transportation authority, or any financially responsible person offering rail service continuation assistance under [49 U.S.C. 10904](/usc/49/10904.md).
- (k) URCS means the Uniform Railroad Costing System.
- (l) **Significant user—** means:
  - (1) Each of the 10 rail patrons which originated and/or received the largest number of carloads (or each patron if there are less than 10); and
  - (2) Any other rail patron which originated and/or received 50 or more carloads, on the line proposed for abandonment or discontinuance, during the 12-month period preceding the month in which notice is given of the abandonment or discontinuance application.
- (m) Subsidy year means any 12-month period for which a subsidy agreement has been negotiated and is in operation.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 11 U.S.C. 1170; 16 U.S.C. 1247(d) and 1248; 45 U.S.C. 744; and 49 U.S.C. 1301, 1321(a), 10502, 10903-10905, and 11161.

### Source

Source: 61 FR 67883, Dec. 24, 1996, unless otherwise noted.