Req. #10154
RESOLUTION NO. " '6301 1
WHEREAS the City of Tacoma, Department of Public Utilities, Beltline
Division (d.b.a. Tacoma Rail), Tidelands Division (TMBL) has been negotiating
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3 terms for an agreement with The Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway
4 ("BNSF") to acquire rights to provide freight service between South Tacoma
5 and Nisqually, St. Clair and Quadlok, and Olympia and Belmore, Washington,
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7 WHEREAS BNSF intends to outsource carload service to about fifteen
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existing customers in these areas, moving approximately 2,600 loads per year,
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10 by the end of September 2004, and
I I WHEREAS BNSF is selling its line between South Tacoma and
12 Nisqually (the Lakeview Subdivision) to Sound Transit for improvement for
13 commuter rail use, and has reserved a Freight Service Easement and
14 negotiated a Joint Use Agreement with Sound Transit as part of that sale, and
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WHEREAS under the proposed agreements, Tacoma Rail will purchase
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a permanent Freight Service Easement from BNSF and will be assigned
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18 BNSF's rights under the Joint Use Agreement with Sound Transit, and will
19 purchase a ten-year lease over the lines between St. Clair and Quadlok and
20 Olympia and Belmore, together with trackage rights to use BNSF and Union
21 Pacific main lines for access, and
22 WHEREAS, initially BNSF will continue to retain trackage rights over the
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Lakeview Subdivision to provide freight service to Fort Lewis, but BNSF may
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