Comment EI-34301
Received or sent (printed as 9/8/2026)
Submitted by Ruth L. Tines, Party of Record in Docket No. FD 36873 (STB Control No. 312171). This evidentiary submission responds directly to the Board's Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) regarding the proposed Union Pacific / Norfolk Southern consolidation. This filing documents over 50 years of cumulative environmental justice impacts, toxic diesel particulate matter (PM2.5) emissions, and public health disparities along Chicago's South Side rail corridors (including 79th Street Columbus Drive and Landers Yard in ZIP codes 60620, 60621, 60629, 60636, and 60652). Key evidence includes municipal pediatric asthma rates 4 to 6 times the citywide average, EPA EJScreen 90th-100th percentile DPM burdens, 2026 Union of Concerned Scientists freight cluster data, executive forum transcript rebuttals, and specific mandatory mitigation conditions under 49 U.S.C. § 11324 and Executive Orders 12898/14096. Full submission and Exhibit A footnotes attached as PDF.
Submitted by: RUTH L TINES · Self / Party of Record (STB Control No. 312171) · Springfield, IL
The Board publishes this comment in its environmental-comment table for this proceeding. It is quoted here as printed; nothing is inferred from it, and it states the commenter's own position in their own words, not this record's.
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