Offices Office of Public Assistance, Governmental Affairs, and Compliance Īssisting the Board in carrying out its responsibilities is a staff of 117 (FY2018) with experience in economics, law, accounting, transportation analysis, finance and administration. Primus was named as vice chair on February 1, 2021. Primus' term runs until December 31, 2022. Schultz's term runs for five years from the day of entering office. Primus were confirmed to two newly-created seats on the board on November 18, 2020, both by voice vote. Patrick Fuchs was confirmed to the Board on January 2, 2019, by a voice vote in the United States Senate. Hedlund was confirmed on December 16, 2021, as a member of the Board. He was designated chairman of the board by President Joe Biden on January 21, 2021. Oberman was confirmed to the Board on January 3, 2019, by a voice vote in the United States Senate. Oberman in the board's annual rotation of that position. Primus, appointed February 1, 2021, succeeding Martin J. Additionally, the vice chairman oversees matters involving the admission, discipline, and disbarment of non-attorney Board practitioners. The vice chairman represents the Board and assumes the chairman's duties as appropriate. He was designated as the Board's chairman on Januby President Joe Biden, succeeding Ann Begeman who had been Chairman and Acting Chairman between January 2017 and January 2021. Senate on January 2, 2019, and was sworn in on January 21, 2019. Oberman was nominated to the Surface Transportation Board by President Donald Trump on July 17, 2018, was confirmed by the U.S. As its chief executive, the chairman coordinates and organizes the agency's work and acts as its representative in legislative matters and in relations with other governmental bodies. The Board's chairman is designated by the President from among the members. The Surface Transportation Board Reauthorization Act expanded the Board from three to five members in 2015. The Board is composed of five members nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate for five-year terms. It has the authority to limit or remove regulatory requirements where appropriate. The Board provides a forum for the resolution of surface-transportation disputes and other matters within its jurisdiction.
The Board has wide discretion, through its exemption authority from federal, state, and local laws, to tailor its regulatory activities to meet the nation's changing transportation needs. The STB also has oversight of pipeline carriers, intercity bus carriers, moving van companies, trucking companies involved in collective activities, and water carriers engaged in non-contiguous domestic trade. The STB has broad economic regulatory oversight of railroads, including rates, service, the construction, acquisition, and abandonment of rail lines, carrier mergers, and interchange of traffic among carriers. Other ICC regulatory functions were either eliminated or transferred to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration or Bureau of Transportation Statistics within DOT. The STB was established on January 1, 1996, to assume some of the regulatory functions that had been administered by the Interstate Commerce Commission when the ICC was abolished. The Surface Transportation Board ( STB) of the United States is a federal, bipartisan, independent adjudicatory board. Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act.
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