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Ex. AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE-077 Context (guidance or announcement) Primary source read

Amtrak Essential Service Plan: Updates to Service (Apr. 2-3, 2020) (further reductions effective Apr. 6, 2020: Hartford Line, Cascades, Adirondack and other routes)

Essential Service Plan: Updates to Service (April 3, 2020, 5:30 p.m.)

Amtrak · National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) (Federal)

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Context, not an order

This record is guidance or an announcement kept for context. It is not counted among the orders in force.

The record

Jurisdiction
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
Level
Federal
Authority
49 U.S.C. § 24305(a)
Issued
2020-04-02 Apr. 2, 2020
Effective
2020-04-06
End
restorations began June 2020 (read as 2020-06-30)
In force
Apr. 6, 2020 to June 30, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Travel and quarantineOther
Addressees
  • Amtrak passengers and State partners
Functions reached
  • TR
  • WF
  • CB
Character
context
Collection
Aviation and surface-transport regulators AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE

Operative words

"Essential Service Plan: Updates to Service April 3, 2020 5:30 p.m.... [service adjusted because of] reduced demand.... Reduced schedule: Adirondack (New York - Montreal): No service north of Albany; Amtrak Hartford Line (New Haven, Conn.[ - Springfield]): [reduced] beginning on Monday, April 6; Cascades (Eugene - Vancouver, B.[C.]): [no service north of Seattle]...."

Enforcement

n/a (see Ex. 076)

Notes

Amtrak's 'Essential Service Plan' nomenclature tracks the State essential-service orders of March-April 2020.

Retrieval note

Cite it as context and cite the underlying order, statute or emergency rule it describes as the instrument. (Bulletins whose operative text imposes a mandatory duty on licensees under the regulator's own authority are excluded from this downgrade and listed separately for review.)).