[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 122 (Monday, June 25, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37953-37954]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-15243]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Highway Administration


Final Federal Agency Actions on Proposed Bridge Replacement in 
Massachusetts

AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of Limitations on Claims for Judicial Review of Actions 
by the

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Army Corps of Engineers, (USACE) and the United States Coast Guard 
(USCG).

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SUMMARY: This notice announces action taken by the United States Army 
Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the United States Coast Guard (USCG) 
that is final within the meaning of 23 U.S.C. 139(l)(1). The action 
relates to the proposed Fore River Bridge (State Route 3A over the 
Weymouth Fore River) replacement project in Quincy and Weymouth, 
Norfolk County, Massachusetts. The action grants licenses, permits, and 
approvals for the project.

DATES: By this notice, the FHWA is advising the public of final agency 
actions subject to 23 U.S.C. 139(l)(1). A claim seeking judicial review 
of the Federal agency actions on the highway project will be barred 
unless the claim is filed on or before December 24, 2012. If the 
Federal law that authorizes judicial review of a claim provides a time 
period of less than 180 days for filing such claim, then that shorter 
time period still applies.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For FHWA: Damaris Santiago, 
Environmental Engineer, FHWA Massachusetts Division Office, 55 
Broadway, 10th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02142, 617-494-2419, 
[email protected]. For Massachusetts Department of Transportation 
Highway Division (MassDOT): Michael Furlong, Project Manager, 
Environmental Services, 10 Park Plaza, Room 4260, Boston, MA 02116, 
Monday through Friday 8:45 a.m.-5:00 p.m., 617-973-8067. 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On January 11, 2012, the FHWA published 
``Notice of Final Federal Agency Actions on Proposed Bridge in 
Massachusetts'' in the Federal Register at 77 FR 1782. The proposed 
project involves the replacement of the temporary bridge over the 
Weymouth Fore River in Quincy and Weymouth,
    Massachusetts with a vertical lift bridge, as well as 
reconstruction of the immediate approaches. The bridge will provide a 
250-foot navigable, horizontal opening with a 175-foot vertical 
clearance on the same alignment of the 1936 bridge, and will have two 
travel lanes in each direction, shoulders, and sidewalks. The Finding 
of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for this project was issued December 
12, 2011. Notice is hereby given that, subsequent to the earlier FHWA 
notice, the USACE and USCG have taken final agency actions within the 
meaning of 23 U.S.C. 139(l)(1) by issuing permits and approvals for the 
bridge project. The actions by the USACE and USCG, related final 
actions by other Federal agencies, and the laws under which such 
actions were taken, are described in the USACE and USCG decisions and 
its administrative record for the project, referenced as USACE Permit 
Numbers NAE-2009-360A and NAE-2009-360B, and USCG Bridge Permit number 
1-12-1. That information is available by contacting the Massachusetts 
Department of Transportation at the address provided above.
    Information about the project also is available from the FHWA at 
the address provided above. The FHWA FONSI, and the USACE and USCG 
decisions can also be viewed and downloaded from the project Web site 
at: http://www.massdotprojectsforeriverbridge.info/.
    This notice applies to all USACE, USCG and other Federal agency 
final actions taken after the issuance date of the FHWA Federal 
Register notice described above. The laws under which actions were 
taken include, but are not limited to:
    (1) The General Bridge Act of 1946.
    (2) Section 404 of the Clean Water Act of 1972.
    (3) Section 9 & 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, as 
applicable.

    Authority: 23 U.S.C. 139(l)(1).

    Issued on: June 14, 2012.
Pamela S. Stephenson,
Division Administrator, Cambridge, MA.
[FR Doc. 2012-15243 Filed 6-22-12; 8:45 am]
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