Order No. 1998-R-4

January 22, 1998

January 22, 1998

IN THE MATTER OF an application by the County of Renfrew pursuant to section 32 of the Canada Transportation Act, S.C., 1996, c. 10 (hereinafter the CTA), to amend Order No. 99661 of the Board of Transport Commissioners for Canada dated November 9, 1959 to reflect a change in road authority and the associated cost apportionment responsibilities at the road crossing.

File No. R 8050/331-S00.11


The County of Renfrew has advised the Canadian Transportation Agency (hereinafter the Agency) that it is now the road authority at the crossing and accepts the maintenance responsibility assigned to the Ministry of Transportation of the Province of Ontario as outlined in Order No. 99661.

No comments were filed with the Agency by the Ministry of Transportation of the Province of Ontario on the proposed amendment to Order No. 99661.

The Canadian National Railway Company has no objection to the change in road authority.

The Agency has reviewed the submissions filed and has found, pursuant to section 32 of the CTA, that there has been a change in the facts or circumstances pertaining to Order No. 99661 since it was issued and that this Order should be varied.

Accordingly, pursuant to section 32 of the CTA, Order No. 99661 of the Board of Transport Commissioners for Canada dated November 9, 1959 is hereby varied by replacing, in clause 4, "Department of Highways of the Province of Ontario" with "County of Renfrew".

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