[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 108 (Wednesday, June 5, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33890-33891]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-13304]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Transit Administration


Limitation on Claims Against Proposed Public Transportation 
Projects

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration (FTA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces final environmental actions taken by the 
Federal Transit Administration (FTA) for projects in the following 
locations: Cleveland, OH and San Francisco, CA. The purpose of this 
notice is to announce publicly the environmental decisions by FTA on 
the subject projects and to activate the limitation on any claims that 
may challenge these final environmental actions.

DATES: By this notice, FTA is advising the public of final agency 
actions subject to Section 139(l) of Title 23, United States Code 
(U.S.C.). A claim seeking judicial review of the FTA actions announced 
herein for the listed public transportation project will be barred 
unless the claim is filed on or before November 1, 2013.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nancy-Ellen Zusman, Assistant Chief 
Counsel, Office of Chief Counsel, (312) 353-2577 or Terence Plaskon, 
Environmental Protection Specialist, Office of Human and Natural 
Environment, (202) 366-0442. FTA is located at 1200 New Jersey Avenue 
SE., Washington, DC 20590. Office hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 
p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that FTA has taken 
final agency actions by issuing certain approvals for the public 
transportation projects listed below. The actions on the projects, as 
well as the laws under which such actions were taken, are described in 
the documentation issued in connection with the project to comply with 
the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and in other documents in 
the FTA administrative record for the projects. Interested parties may 
contact either the project sponsor or the relevant FTA Regional Office 
for more information on the project. Contact information for FTA's 
Regional Offices may be found at http://www.fta.dot.gov.
    This notice applies to all FTA decisions on the listed projects as 
of the issuance date of this notice and all laws under which such 
actions were taken, including, but not limited to, NEPA [42 U.S.C. 
4321-4375], Section 4(f) of the Department of Transportation Act of 
1966 [49 U.S.C. 303], Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation 
Act [16 U.S.C. 470f], and the Clean Air Act [42 U.S.C. 7401-7671q]. 
This notice does not, however, alter or extend the limitation period 
for challenges of project decisions subject to previous notices 
published in the Federal Register. The projects and actions that are 
the subject of this notice are:
    1. Project name and location: Little Italy--University Circle Rapid 
Transit Station; Cleveland, OH. Project sponsor: Greater Cleveland 
Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA). Project description: The project 
consists of a new Little Italy--University Circle Rapid Transit Station 
with associated reconstruction of the Mayfield Road Rapid Transit 
Bridges. The station will be located on GCRTA's Red Line and will 
replace the current center platform station at East 120th/Euclid 
Avenue. Final agency actions: No use determination of Section 4(f) 
resources; Section 106 finding of no adverse effect; project-level air 
quality conformity, and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI), dated 
April 4, 2013. Supporting documentation: Environmental Assessment, 
dated February 2013.
    2. Project name and location: Central Subway Project, San 
Francisco, CA. Project sponsor: San Francisco Municipal Transportation 
Authority (SFMTA). Project description: The Central Subway Project is a 
1.7-mile light-rail line connecting the existing Third Street Light 
Rail Station at Fourth and King Streets north to an underground subway 
station in Chinatown at Stockton and Jackson Streets. SFMTA proposes to 
relocate the Tunnel Boring Machine retrieval and extraction site from 
Columbus Avenue in North Beach to 1731-1741 Powell Street (the Pagoda 
Theater). The Central Subway Project was previously the subject of a 
Record of Decision dated November 26, 2008. This notice only applies to 
the discrete actions taken by FTA at this time, as described below. 
Nothing in this notice affects FTA's previous decisions, or notice 
thereof, for this project. Final agency actions: FTA determination that 
neither a supplemental environmental impact statement nor a 
supplemental environmental assessment is necessary. Supporting 
documentation: Addendum to the Final Supplemental

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Environmental Impact Report/Supplemental Environmental Impact 
Statement, dated January 31, 2013, prepared by the City and County of 
San Francisco Planning Department pursuant to the California 
Environmental Quality Act and the environmental re-evaluation letter by 
SFMTA, dated April 17, 2013, and related documents evaluating any 
potential impacts.

    Issued on: May 30, 2013.
Lucy Garliauskas,
Associate Administrator for Planning and Environment.
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