[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 144 (Thursday, July 26, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 43903]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-18268]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Transit Administration


Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for Proposed 
Transit Improvements to the North Red and Purple Lines, Cook County, IL

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration, U.S. Department of 
Transportation.

ACTION: Supplemental Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental 
Impact Statement.

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SUMMARY: On January 3, 2011, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), 
as the lead federal agency, and the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) 
published a Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare an Environmental Impact 
Statement (EIS) for the North Red and Purple Line Modernization (RPM) 
Project in Cook County, Illinois. The purpose of this supplemental NOI 
is to inform interested parties that the EIS will no longer be a Tier 1 
EIS as originally proposed. The methodology and format will now be a 
standard project-level EIS. All other aspects (Location, Purpose and 
Need, Alternatives, Scoping, and Possible Effects) of the original NOI 
remain unchanged. Activities conducted to date pursuant to the original 
NOI will not be impacted or reexamined. The proposed project, described 
more completely in the January 3, 2011 NOI, would bring the North Red 
and Purple lines up to a state of good repair from the track structure 
immediately north of Belmont Station in Chicago to the Linden terminal 
in Wilmette, Illinois. Materials describing the project purpose and 
need and the alternatives proposed for analysis are available on the 
CTA Web site www.transitchicago.com/rpmproject. The CTA operates the 
rapid transit system in metropolitan Chicago, Illinois.

ADDRESSES: Questions regarding this updated notice or the project may 
be sent to Mr. Steve Hands, Strategic Planning and Policy, Chicago 
Transit Authority, 567 W Lake Street, Chicago, IL 60661, or via email 
at [email protected]. The NOI of January 3, 2011 is available on 
the internet at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-01-03/pdf/2010-33065.pdf.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Reginald Arkell, Community 
Planner, Federal Transit Administration, Region V, 200 West Adams 
Street, Suite 320, Chicago, IL 60606, phone 312-886-3704, email 
[email protected].

    Issued on: July 17, 2012.
Rhonda Reed,
Deputy Regional Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2012-18268 Filed 7-25-12; 8:45 am]
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