[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 7]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR1039.10]

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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
  CHAPTER X--SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 1039_EXEMPTIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1039.10  Exemption of agricultural commodities except grain, soybeans, 
and sunflower seeds.




Sec.
1039.10 Exemption of agricultural commodities except grain, soybeans, 
          and sunflower seeds.
1039.11 Miscellaneous commodities exemptions.
1039.12 Long and short haul transportation exemption.
1039.13 Rail intermodal transportation exemption.
1039.14 Boxcar transportation exemptions and rules.
1039.16 Exemption of new highway trailers or containers.
1039.17 Protective service contracts exemption.
1039.20 Storage leases.
1039.21 International joint through rates.
1039.22 Exemption of certain payments, services, and commitments from 
          the Elkins Act and related provisions.

    Authority: 49 U.S.C. 10502, 13301.

    Source: 47 FR 50262, Nov. 5, 1982, unless otherwise noted.


    The rail transportation of the commodities listed below is exempt 
from the provisions of subtitle IV of title 49, except that carriers 
must continue to comply with Board accounting and reporting 
requirements, including a brief statement in their annual reports of 
operations under this exemption, and must maintain copies of rates, 
charges, rules or regulations, for traffic moved under this exemption, 
at their principal office, subject to inspection, and send a letter of 
notification to the docket [Ex Parte No. 346 (Sub-No. 14)], within 30 
days, of the fact that they are using the exemption. All tariffs 
pertaining to the transportation of these miscellaneous commodities will 
no

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longer apply except to the extent adopted by carrier quotations. The 
categories of commodities which are exempt under this decision, by 
Standard Transportation Commodity Code (STCC) number are:

01..................................  Farm products, with the exception
                                       of grain (STCC No. 0113),
                                       soybeans (STCC No. 01144), and
                                       sunflower seeds (STCC No.
                                       0114940).
09..................................  Fresh fish and other marine
                                       products.
20-11...............................  Fresh meat.
20-15...............................  Fresh dressed poultry.
20-17...............................  Processed poultry.
20-21...............................  Creamery Butter.
20-23...............................  Condensed, Evaporated or Dried
                                       Milk.
20-25...............................  Cheese and Special Dairy Products.
20-26...............................  Processed Whole Milk.
20-141..............................  Hides and Skins.
20-144..............................  Animal refuse, tankage, or meat
                                       meal.
20-421-27...........................  Citrus pomace.
20-712-12...........................  Shelled walnuts.
20-914-25...........................  Cottonseed hulls.
20-915..............................  Cotton linters.
20-999-29...........................  Butter and honey mixed.
20-999-41...........................  Honey, comb, granulated or
                                       strained, or heat treated to
                                       retard granulation.
20-999-76...........................  Freeze-dried poultry.
20-999-77...........................  Freeze-dried meat.
20-999-78...........................  Freeze-dried salad ingredients.
20-999-93...........................  Fresh and salted meat and products
                                       mixed, not hung.
20-999-94...........................  Fresh and salted meat and products
                                       mixed, hung and not hung.
21-4................................  Stemmed or redried tobacco.
22-811-30...........................  Cotton, carded, dyed or not dyed,
                                       but not spun, woven or knitted,
                                       but including cotton lap.
22-911-63...........................  Mattress felt, nec, cjors, not
                                       finished.
22-911-74...........................  Felts, cotton, nec.
22-971-35...........................  Wool, nec, scoured.
22-995-22...........................  Flax fibre.
22-999-26...........................  Cotton linters, bleached or dyed.
28-423-37...........................  Beeswax.



and shall embrace all articles assigned additional digits. The STCC 
shall be those code numbers in effect as of January 1, 1979, as shown in 
Standard Transportation Commodity Code Tariff 1-G, STB STCC 6001-C. 
Nothing in this exemption shall be construed to affect our jurisdiction 
under section 10502 or our ability to enforce this decision or any 
subsequent decision made under authority of this exemption section. This 
exemption shall remain in effect, unless modified or revoked by a 
subsequent order of this Board.

[48 FR 9277, Mar. 4, 1983; 49 FR 22095, May 25, 1984, as amended at 49 
FR 26745, June 29, 1984; 49 FR 27321, July 3, 1984; 64 FR 53267, Oct. 1, 
1999; 69 FR 58365, Sept. 30, 2004]