IV.    EXTRA BOARDS

A.              The following shall govern, in relevant part, the administration and operation of extra boards in Zone 2:

1.            Spokane

 a.                        Carrier may establish a single consolidated extra board at Spokane.

 NOTE 1:              Carrier may consolidate the extra board at Spokane by the serving of a sixty (60)‑day advanced written notice.

NOTE 2:              If implementation of a consolidated extra board at Spokane is postponed, two extra boards at Spokane will be established ‑ (1) a "north" extra board to protect vacancies, service and hours‑of‑service relief on the territory between, and including, Spokane and Eastport, including Trentwood; and, (2) a "south" extra             board to protect vacancies, service and hours‑of­ service relief between (excluding) Spokane and (excluding) Ayer.

This extra board shall protect service and vacancies, including hours‑of‑service relief, in the territory presently protected by the two existing extra boards at Spokane, including those protected by the Spokane International Railroad extra board.

2.                        Hinkle

     a. Upon sixty (60) days advanced written notice, Carrier may establish a single consolidated extra board at Hinkle.

 b. This extra board will protect service at/from Hinkle, including service to/from Castle and the utility plant near Boardman and hours-of-service relief into Hinkle or to/from a location closer to Hinkle than any other extra board, in all directions out of Hinkle. Additionally, this extra board will protect service on non-through freight assignments originating in the territory comprising the former UP 4th Seniority District.

 NOTE:   It is not intended this extra board be used to protect service at The Dalles or to supplant service performed by Zone 1 engineers at The Dalles. Accordingly, an extra engineer assigned to this extra board will not be used west of the east switch at The Dalles.

 3.                LaGrande

 a.  There shall be a single consolidated extra board at LaGrande.  

b. This extra board shall protect all service, including hours-of-service relief, in all directions, subject to Article IV, Section B, Paragraph 2, below.

 B.              The following shall govern, in relevant part, the administration and operation of extra boards in Zone 3:

 1. Zone 3 extra board administration and/or operations will, except as specifically set forth in this Agreement, remain unchanged and will continue to be governed by existing collective bargaining agreement provisions and practices,

 2.    Nampa  

a.              There shall be a single extra board at Nampa. This extra board will protect service and vacancies between Glenns Ferry and Huntington and hours‑of‑service relief at or east of Huntington.  

b.  For as long as Nampa remains a home terminal for the LaGrande ‑Nampa through freight pool, this extra board will protect pool freight vacancies at Nampa. Once Nampa ceases to be a home terminal, all vacancies in this pool will be protected by the LaGrande extra board.  

3. This Article IV is not intended, except as set forth in this Agreement and specifically those provisions that govern filling of positions and protecting vacancies in the LaGrande ‑ Nampa pool, to permit Carrier to use extra Zone 2 engineers to protect Zone 3 or Zone 1 vacancies, extra Zone 3 engineers to protect Zone 2 or Zone 1 vacancies, or extra Zone 1 engineers to protect Zone 2 or Zone 3 vacancies.