[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 233 (Tuesday, December 4, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 71872]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-29230]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[Docket No. FD 30186]


Tongue River Railroad Company, Inc.--Rail Construction and 
Operation--in Custer, Powder River and Rosebud Counties, MT; Extension 
of Comment Period for the Draft Scope of Study

    The Surface Transportation Board's Office of Environmental Analysis 
(OEA) issued a Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare an Environmental 
Impact Statement (EIS), a Draft Scope of Study, and a notice of scoping 
meetings in the above-captioned proceeding on October 22, 2012 and 
published it in the Federal Register on the same day. In the NOI, OEA 
invited public comments on the Draft Scope of Study, potential 
alternative routes for the proposed rail line, and environmental issues 
and concerns by December 6, 2012. In response to a number of requests 
for an extension of the comment period, OEA is issuing this Notice to 
advise the public and all interested parties that the comment period 
will be extended until January 11, 2013.
    OEA will issue a Final Scope of Study for the EIS after the close 
of the scoping comment period. Any comments previously submitted on the 
NOI and Draft Scope of Study need not be resubmitted.
    Scoping comments submitted by mail should be addressed to: Ken 
Blodgett, Surface Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW., Washington, 
DC 20423-0001, Attention: Environmental filing, Docket No. FD 30186.
    Scoping comments may also be filed electronically on the Board's 
Web site, http://www.stb.dot.gov, by clicking on the ``E-FILING'' link.
    Please refer to Docket No. FD 30186 in all correspondence, 
including e-filings, addressed to the Board. Scoping comments are now 
due by January 11, 2013. For more information about the Board's 
environmental review process and this EIS, please call OEA's toll-free 
number for the project at 1-866-622-4355 or visit the Board-sponsored 
project Web site at www.tonguerivereis.com.

    By the Board, Victoria Rutson, Director, Office of Environmental 
Analysis.
Jeffrey Herzig,
Clearance Clerk.
[FR Doc. 2012-29230 Filed 12-3-12; 8:45 am]
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