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45 U.S.C. § 160 — Emergency board
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If a dispute between a carrier and its employees be not adjusted under the foregoing provisions of this chapter and should, in the judgment of the Mediation Board, threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive any section of the country of essential transportation service, the Mediation Board shall notify the President, who may thereupon, in his discretion, create a board to investigate and report respecting such dispute. Such board shall be composed of such number of persons as to the President may seem desirable: Provided, however, That no member appointed shall be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of employees or any carrier. The compensation of the members of any such board shall be fixed by the President. Such board shall be created separately in each instance and it shall investigate promptly the facts as to the dispute and make a report thereon to the President within thirty days from the date of its creation.
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If a dispute between a carrier and its employees be not adjusted under the foregoing provisions of this chapter and should, in the judgment of the Mediation Board, threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive any section of the country of essential transportation service, the Mediation Board shall notify the President, who may thereupon, in his discretion, create a board to investigate and report respecting such dispute. Such board shall be composed of such number of persons as to the President may seem desirable: Provided, however, That no member appointed shall be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of employees or any carrier. The compensation of the members of any such board shall be fixed by the President. Such board shall be created separately in each instance and it shall investigate promptly the facts as to the dispute and make a report thereon to the President within thirty days from the date of its creation.
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**(a) Applicability of provisions** Except as provided in section 590(h) 11 See References in Text note below. of this title, the provisions of this section shall apply to any dispute subject to this chapter between a publicly funded and publicly operated carrier providing rail commuter service (including the Amtrak Commuter Services Corporation) and its employees.
**(b) Request for establishment of emergency board** If a dispute between the parties described in subsection (a) is not adjusted under the foregoing provisions of this chapter and the President does not, under [section 160 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title45-section160&num=0&edition=prelim), create an emergency board to investigate and report on such dispute, then any party to the dispute or the Governor of any State through which the service that is the subject of the dispute is operated may request the President to establish such an emergency board.
**(c) Establishment of emergency board**
(1) Upon the request of a party or a Governor under subsection (b), the President shall create an emergency board to investigate and report on the dispute in accordance with [section 160 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title45-section160&num=0&edition=prelim). For purposes of this subsection, the period during which no change, except by agreement, shall be made by the parties in the conditions out of which the dispute arose shall be 120 days from the day of the creation of such emergency board.
(2) If the President, in his discretion, creates a board to investigate and report on a dispute between the parties described in subsection (a), the provisions of this section shall apply to the same extent as if such board had been cre
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**(a) Notice of Discontinuance.—**
(1) Except as provided in subsection (c), not later than 180 days before discontinuing service over a route, Amtrak shall give notice of the discontinuance in the way Amtrak decides will give a State, a regional or local authority, or another person the opportunity to agree to share or assume the cost of any part of the train, route, or service to be discontinued.
(2) Notice of the discontinuance under paragraph (1) shall be posted in all stations served by the train to be discontinued at least 14 days before the discontinuance.
**(b) Discontinuance or Substantial Alteration of Long-distance Routes.—** Except as provided in subsection (c), in an emergency, or during maintenance or construction outages impacting Amtrak routes, Amtrak may not discontinue, reduce the frequency of, suspend, or substantially alter the route of rail service on any segment of any long-distance route in any fiscal year in which Amtrak receives adequate Federal funding for such route on the National Network.
**(c) Discontinuance for Lack of Appropriations.—**
(1) Amtrak may discontinue service under subsection (a)(1) during—
(A) the first month of a fiscal year if the authorization of appropriations and the appropriations for Amtrak are not enacted at least 90 days before the beginning of the fiscal year; and
(B) the 30 days following enactment of an appropriation for Amtrak or a rescission of an appropriation.
(2) Amtrak shall notify each affected State or regional or local transportation authority of a discontinuance under this subsection as soon as possible after Amtrak decides to discontinue the service.
**(d) Congressional Notification of Discontinuance.—** Except as provided in subsection (c), not later than 210 days before discontinuing serv
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TITLE 45—RAILROADS
§ 160a
(d) Public hearing by National Mediation Board
upon failure of emergency board to effec-
tuate settlement of dispute
Within 60 days after the creation of an emer-
gency board under this section, if there has been
no settlement between the parties, the National
Mediation Board shall conduct a public hearing
on the dispute at which each party shall appear
and provide testimony setting forth the reasons
it has not accepted the recommendations of the
emergency board for settlement of the dispute.
(e) Establishment of second emergency board
If no settlement in the dispute is reached at
the end of the 120-day period beginning on the
date of the creation of the emergency board, any
party to the dispute or the Governor of any
State through which the service that is the sub-
ject of the dispute is operated may request the
President to establish another emergency board,
in which case the President shall establish such
emergency board.
(f) Submission of final offers to second emer-
gency board by parties
Within 30 days after creation of a board under
subsection (e), the parties to the dispute shall
submit to the board final offers for settlement of
the dispute.
(g) Report of second emergency board
Within 30 days after the submission of final of-
fers under subsection (f), the emergency board
shall submit a report to the President setting
forth its selection of the most reasonable offer.
(h) Maintenance of status quo during dispute pe-
riod
From the time a request to establish a board
is made under subsection (e) until 60 days after
such board makes its report under subsection
(g), no change, except by agreement, shall be
made by the parties in the conditions out of
which the dispute arose.
(i) Work stoppages by e
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