A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that a moratorium be declared on any further abandonment of rail services or facilities within the rural nonmetropolitan regions of the United States until such time that appropriate investigations can be conducted to determine what might be done to continue such service where it is determined to be essential to the continued growth and development of communities and industries located within such regions. This moratorium shall remain in effect until at least June 30, 1974.

Makes it the sense of the Congress that the Federal Interstate Commerce Commission, in coooperation with the United States Department of Transportation and other appropriate departments and agencies of Federal and State governments, declare a moratorium on all futher abandonment of rail service or railways until such time as appropriate studies and analysis can be made abandonment are having on the area and communities served by rail transportation. Requires that recommendations should be submitted to the Congress, the executive branch, and to the Interstate Commerce Commission regarding what actions maght be taken to continue such rail service where it is essential to the continued growth and development of the regions and communities largely dependent upon such service.