A plan to consider purchase offers for Luzerne County’s rail line incrementally advanced Tuesday.

The board of the Luzerne County Redevelopment Authority, which owns the line, voted Tuesday to authorize a team of authority staff and two board members to prepare for the eventual public solicitation seeking offers.

Specifically, Tuesday’s authorization was for this team to “take all steps necessary to secure information relative to valuation of rail line assets and obligations in order to prepare requests for proposals.”

All three authority board members in attendance approved the authorization: Chairman Scott Linde, Stephen E. Phillips and Erik Laskosky. Board members John Pekarovsky and Vincent Fayock were absent.

Linde said a valuation will define the assets for sale.

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