IV. POOL OPERATIONS.

A. The following pool consolidations may be implemented to achieve efficient operations in the Salt Lake City Hub:

1 . Salt Lake City - Elko and Ogden - Elko. These operations may be run as either two separate pools or as a combined pool with the home terminal within the Salt Lake City/Ogden metro complex. This pool service shall be subject to the following:

(a) If the pools are combined, then the former SP and WP trainmen shall have prior rights on a 40/60 basis.

(b) If separate pools, the Carrier may operate the crews at the far terminal of Elko as one pool back to the metro complex with the crew being transported by the Carrier back to its original on duty point at the end of their service trip.

(c) The Carrier must give ten days written notice of its intent to change the number of pools or to combine the pools at Elko for a single pool returning to Salt Lake City/Ogden.

(d) Since Elko will no longer be a home terminal for pool freight operations east to the metro complex a sufficient number of pool and extra board employees will be relocated to the metro complex.

2. Salt Lake City - Green River/Pocatello and Ogden - Green River. These operations may be run as either one, two, or three separate pools. The Carrier shall determine whether to combine any or all of the pools and shall give ten days notice of its combining of pools.

3. Salt Lake City - Grand Junction/Helper/Provo. These operations may be run as either one, two, or three separate pools with the home terminal within the metro complex. The carrier must give ten days written notice of its intent to change the number of pools. If run as a combined pool(s) then prior rights to the pool(s) shall be based on the percentages that existed on the day the ten day notice is given.

4. Helper-Grand junction/Provo and Milford-Provo/Helper. Each of these operations will be run as a single pool.

5. Other Service. Any pool freight, local, work train or road switcher service may be established to operate from any point to any other point within the new Seniority District with the on duty point within the new seniority district.

Note: All service, with on duty points at Elko, operating to Winnemucca, but not including Winnemucca, shall be operated as part of the Salt Lake City Hub.

6. The operations listed in A 1-4 above, may be implemented separately, in groups or collectively, upon ten (10) days written notice by the Carrier to the General Chairman. Implementation notices governing item (5) above, shall be governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Note 1: While the Sparks-Carlin and Wendel-Carlin pools are not covered in this notice it is understood that they will operate Sparks-Elko and Wendel-Elko and will be paid actual miles when operating trains between these two points pursuant to the current collective bargaining agreements and will be further handled when merger coordinations are handled for that area.

Note 2: The Portola-Elko and Winnemucca-Elko pools shall continue to operate pursuant to the current collective bargaining agreements and will be further handled when merger coordinations are handled for that area.

B. The terms and conditions of the pool operations set forth in Section A shall be the same for all pool freight runs whether run as combined pools or separate pools.  The terms and conditions are those of the designated collective bargaining agreement as modified by subsequent national agreements, awards and implementing documents and those set forth below. The basic Interdivisional Service conditions shall apply to all pool freight service. Each pool shall be paid the actual miles run for service and combination service/deadhead with a minimum of a basic day.

1 . Twenty-Five Mile Zone - At Salt Lake City, Ogden, Elko, Milford, Grand Junction, Helper, Provo, Green River, Las Vegas, Yermo and Pocatello pool crews may receive their train up to twenty-five miles on the far side of the terminal and run on through to the scheduled terminal. Crews shall be paid an additional one-half (Y2) basic day for this service in addition to the miles run between the two terminals. If the time spent in this zone is greater than four (4) hours, then they shall be paid on a minute basis.

Example: A Salt Lake City-Milford crew receives their north bound train ten miles south of Milford but within the 25 mile zone limits and runs to Salt Lake. They shall be paid the actual miles established for the Salt Lake-Milford run and an additional one-half basic day for handling the train from the point ten (10) miles south of Milford back through Milford.

Note: Crews receiving their trains on the far side of their terminal but within the Salt Lake-Ogden complex shall be paid under this provision.

2. Tumaround Service/Hours of Service Relief.  Except as provided in (1) above, turnaround service/hours of service relief at both home and away from home terminals shall be handled by extra boards, if available, prior to setting up other employees. Trainmen used for this service may be used for multiple trips in one tour of duty in accordance with the designated collective bargaining agreement rules. Extra boards may handle this service in all directions out of a terminal that is within the Hub.

3. Nothing in this Section B (1) and (2) prevents the use of other employees to perform work currently permitted by prevailing agreements.

C.  Agreement coverage. Employees working in the Salt Lake Hub shall be governed, in addition to the provisions of this Agreement by the UP Agreement covering the Eastern District for both road and yard, including all addenda and side letter agreements pertaining to that agreement (the 1996 National Agreement) applicable to Union Pacific and previous National 
Agreement provisions still applicable. Except as specifically provided herein, the system and national collective bargaining agreements, awards and interpretations shall prevail. None of the provisions of these agreements are retroactive. Since the employees have not worked under a daily preference system in the yard the employees shall be governed by the regular application system for yard assignments and the daily preference system shall not apply in the Salt Lake Hub.

D. After implementation, the application process will be used to fill all vacancies in the Hub as follows:

1 . Prior right vacancies must first be filled by an employee with prior rights to the vacancy who is on a reserve board prior to considering applications from employees who do not have prior rights to the assignment

2. If no prior right applications are received, then the junior dovetailed employee on a reserve board at the location who holds prior rights to the assignment will be forced to the assignment or permitted to exercise seniority to a position held by another employee.

3. If there are no prior right employees on one of the reserve boards covering the vacant prior right assignment then the senior non-prior right applicant will be assigned if no applications are received then the most junior employee on any of the reserve boards will be recalled and will take the assignment or displace a junior employee. If there are no trainmen on any reserve boards, then the senior furloughed trainman in the Salt Lake Hub shall be recalled to the vacancy. When forcing or recalling, prior rights trainmen shall be forced or recalled to prior right assignments prior to trainmen who do not have prior rights.

4. Non prior right vacancies will be filled by the senior applicant from the dovetail roster. If no applicant then the junior employee on any reserve board in the Hub shall be recalled to the vacancy in accordance with the provisions of the UPED reserve board agreement.