[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 222 (Friday, November 18, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69385-69386]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-25204]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Transit Administration


Limitation on Claims Against a Proposed Public Transportation 
Project--Silver Line Project

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Department of 
Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces final environmental actions taken by the 
Federal Transit Administration (FTA) regarding the construction of the 
Silver Line Project, formerly known as the Cotton Belt Corridor 
Regional Rail Project. The purpose of this notice is to publicly 
announce FTA's environmental decisions on the subject project and to 
activate the limitation on any claims that may challenge these final 
environmental actions.

DATES: A claim seeking judicial review of FTA actions announced herein 
for the listed public transportation project will be barred unless the 
claim is filed on or before April 17, 2023.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kathryn Loster, Assistant Chief 
Counsel, Office of Chief Counsel, (312) 705-1269, or Saadat Khan, 
Environmental Protection Specialist, Office of Environmental Programs, 
(202) 366-9647. FTA is located at 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 
Washington, DC 20590. Office hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday 
through Friday, except Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that FTA has taken 
final agency actions subject to 23 U.S.C. 139(l) by issuing certain 
approvals for the public transportation project listed below. The 
actions on the project, 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 environmental project files 
for the project. Interested parties may contact either the project 
sponsor or the relevant FTA Regional Office for more information. 
Contact information for FTA's Regional Offices may be found at https://www.transit.dot.gov.
    This notice applies to all FTA decisions on the listed project 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) requirements (23 U.S.C. 138, 49 U.S.C. 303), 
section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (54 U.S.C. 
306108), Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C. 1531), Clean Water Act (33 
U.S.C. 1251), Uniform Relocation and Real Property Acquisition Policies 
Act (42 U.S.C. 4601), 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 project and actions that are the 
subject of this notice follow:
    Project name and location: Silver Line Project, Tarrant, Dallas, 
and Collin Counties, Texas. Project Sponsor: Dallas Area Rapid Transit 
(DART). Project description: The project consists of a 26-mile double-
track regional commuter rail line extending from Dallas-Fort Worth 
International (DFW) Airport to Shiloh Road in Plano. The alignment 
traverses seven cities: Grapevine, Coppell, Dallas, Carrollton, 
Addison, Richardson, and Plano. FTA issued a combined Final 
Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) and Record of Decision (ROD) on 
November 9, 2018 for the project. Subsequently, FTA published a notice 
of limitation on claims against the project on March 19, 2019, per 23 
U.S.C. 139(l). Since then, FTA has completed a series of re-evaluations 
of the project to address changes DART identified resulting from design 
modifications and stakeholder coordination. This notice only applies to 
the discrete actions taken by FTA under the re-evaluations, as 
described below.
    Final agency actions: FTA determined for each re-evaluation that 
neither a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement nor a 
Supplemental Environmental Assessment is necessary, and the November 
2018 FEIS/ROD remains valid. Supporting documentation: Memorandum to 
File Phase A, concerning the relocation of the Equipment Maintenance 
Facility, dated October 30, 2020; Memorandum to File Phase B, 
concerning the Elimination of DFW pocket track, Deferral of DFW North 
Through Platform, Elimination of Oncor Tower Relocation at Cypress 
Waters Station, and Addition of new at-grade crossing--Huntington Road, 
dated December 16, 2021; Memorandum to File Phase C, concerning the 
Elimination of Adaptive Reuse of White Rock Creek Bridge,

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dated April 5, 2022; Memorandum to File Phase D, concerning Freight 
Infrastructure Improvements, dated April 5, 2022; and Memorandum to 
File Phase E, concerning Hillcrest Road Design Advancement, dated 
October 6, 2022. All supporting documentation can be viewed and 
downloaded from: https://www.dart.org/about/expansion/silverline.asp.
    Authority: 23 U.S.C. 139(l)(1).

Mark A. Ferroni,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Planning and Environment.
[FR Doc. 2022-25204 Filed 11-17-22; 8:45 am]
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