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| Long title | To abolish the Interstate Commerce Commission, to amend subtitle IV of title 49, United States Code, to reform economic regulation of transportation, and for other purposes. |
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| Enacted by | the 104th United States Congress |
| Effective | December 29, 1995 |
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| Public law | Pub. L. 104–88 (text) (PDF) |
| Statutes at Large | 109 Stat. 183 |
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| Titles amended | 49 U.S.C.: Transportation |
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The ICC Termination Act of 1995 is a United States federal law enacted in 1995 that abolished the Interstate Commerce Commission and simultaneously created its successor agency, the Surface Transportation Board. [1] [2]
On December 1, 2020, Oklahoma City federal judge Charles B. Goodwin referred to this Act when he declared unconstitutional a 2019 State of Oklahoma law preventing trains from blocking streets for longer than 10 minutes; declaring, in part: [3]
. . . a state or local government can address grade-level railroad crossing issues in a manner that does not run afoul of federal law . . . But a statute that tells railroad companies how long they may stop their trains — for whatever ends — intrudes on the territory reserved to the ICCTA.
