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SURFACE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT WhEKL'TsfAf^FMINUTES---------------- ~ AUGUST 17'. l98f Stark Mays Fi Provlas Wells J2U. The Weekly Staff Meeting convened at 7:45 a.m. on Monday, August 17, ISff Mr. Bob Walker presided at the meeting, and items of current interest C. A. BARRERE Hartford C&P .... ~ t/'f.i' Site preparation and pipeline construction were shut down August 3. by the strike - of the Operating Engineers Union against the Southern Illinois contractors. Negotiations were completed August 11 and project construction has resumed. Davy McKee has agreed to shift the remaining P&I drafting to their Chicago office prior to shutting down their St. Louis office. This should allow us to maintain our planned startup date of September 1, 1982. *" We have reached agreement with the Illinois Terminal Railroad on the new private crossing and construction of the new spur. L.- A. BRADSHAW Albuquerque DF Three 20,000 gallon tank cars of lube oil have been shipped to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Construction remains ahead of schedule. The facility should be operational by September 1. Personnel Effective August 1, 1981, Steve Vaugier has been hired as an analyst at the Hartford C&P construction site. Pittsburg DF A small 3,400 sq. ft. warehouse operated by a combined Marketing Department and Eastern Division truck terminal, exists at Carnegie, Pennsylvania. No LTL service is currently provided. A study indicates a need for a larger warehouse and CTL delivery service. Effective October 1, 1981 the costs associated with the existing operation will be accumulated and charged to Distribution Facility Division accounting and a Pittsburg DF ledger established. Jerry Pinto and Bill Graham will be in Pittsburg, this week evaluating alternative warehouse sites. C. B. CLEAVER Chocolate Bayou Project We have made arrangements to lease seventy-five jumbo pressure cars for six months to cover former Monsanto requirements. The rates range from $540 to $735 per month. DTH 00002f>.149 Weekly Staff Minutes August 17, 1981 Page 2 C. B. CLEAVER (cont'd) Corrosion Damage on Twenty Muriatic Acid Cars We have reached an agreement with Union Tank Car Company for corrosion damage on twenty muriatic acid cars. We agreed to pay $61,134 to a total $117,000 claim. The twenty cars have been replaced with twenty new cars. Forty Pressure Tank Cars Leased To Outside Company August 5, 1981, we leased forty pressure tank cars to Transportation Equipment, Inc. for seven months. The cars will be transferred from NGP and Conoco Chemicals Butadi.ene Service. Estimated unforecasted revenue is $151,000. 6ATX Built 33,000 Gallon Pressure Cars ^ Ml There has been an advanced,warning bulletin published alerting car owners and lessees that approximately 1800 jumbo pressure cars built by GATX in 1962 - 1965 may be developing cracks in the tank shell. Conoco has forty-six cars that may be involved and Monsanto has seventy-three. The estimated cost to repair these cars is $9,000 per car. General Purpose Cars - Trinity Industries We expect the one hundred and ninety-four car order to be completed during the week of August 31, 1981. As of August 10, 1981, one hundred and forty-six cars have been released for service and fifteen cars are completed waiting on bottom outlet valves. Increased Crude Runs at Denver Refining is currently studying the possibility of increasing crude runs at the Denver Refinery 10,000 barrels per day in approximately two weeks because of projected gasoline requirements. Increased crude runs would result in thirty additional general purpose tank cars to move vacuum resid and clarified oil to Ponca City. Tank cars will be available from cars now moving vacuum resid from Pride in Abilene. Future purchases from Pride are planned to be trucked to Wichita Falls and then Pipeline to the Ponca City Refinery. C. R. KLEINMANN Million Mile Terminal The Baltimore Transport Terminal completed 1,000,000 responsible accident free miles last week. Environmental Council Cal Kleinmann attended the Corporate Environmental Council meeting which was held in St. Clairsville, Ohio on August 11 and 12. DTH 000022150 Weekly Staff Minutes August 17, 1981 Page 3 E. A. MATTOX ' Port Plant Pressure Vessel Elmer Kallemeyn and David Chambers were In the Port Arthur Gasoline Plant and the Bay City Plant of Celanese to survey the loading, transportation, and off loading requirements of a pressure vessel which Conoco has-purchased. The vessel is 75 feet long, 13 feet 4 inches wide and weighs 287,000 pounds. West Fargo Asphalt .The Western Weighing and Inspection Bureau has officially confirmed that Conoco has shipped 52,412 tons of asphalt from Billings to West Fargo, NO which qualifies our shipments for the lower annual volume rates for the year ended June 14. Total freight charges on these shipments was $248,000 less than would have been perTd in the absence of the annual volume provisions. Total savings to Conoco in the three years since Traffic negotiated the annual volume arrangement is $880,000. L. W. SALYER Consol- Burnham Mine Coal Hauling A temporary coal hauling terminal has been established in Gallup, New Mexico to handle a 40,000 ton shipment of coal from Consol's-Burnham Mine to a rail-loading site near Gallup. Approximately 16,000 tons have been moved to date on the project utilizing 10 surplus units and a complement of drivers from the Falls City ore project. G. R. WATSON Transportation Claims Paid We have received a check in the amount of $63,736.23 from the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Company. This was in full payment of our claim for loss of product (polyvinyl chloride) in car PTLX 41825 which was derailed January 12, 1981 at Aberdeen, MS. A check in the amount of $31,284.98 has been received from Frontier Transportati Company. This covered loss and damage resulting from loss of a CDR container by Totem Ocean Trailer Express, Inc., March 4, 1980. DISTRIBUTION R. W. Lee, Houston J. L. Carson, Denver M. W. Black, Greensboro D. H. Reilley, Overland Park J. W. Hamilton, Houston D. A. Lyle, Westlake H. S. Wood, Legal J. L. Thompson, Houston J. W. Skelton, Houston D. L. Kern, Houston G. W. Roller, Houston E. C. Wright, Houston G. G. Harryman, Ponca City N. B. Mavris, Houston W. E. Laughlin, Houston Joe Laskosky, Houston G. E. Leipold, Houston J. F. Pinkman, Houston H. J. Trimble, Houston J. F. Cummings, Costa Mesa R. W. Grimme, Houston DTH 000022151