[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 168 (Thursday, August 31, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60261-60262]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-18859]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Transit Administration


Limitation on Claims Against Proposed Public Transportation 
Project--Honolulu Rail Transit Project Modifications

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 Honolulu Rail 
Transit Project, City of Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii. 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 January 29, 2024.

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 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 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 (49 U.S.C. 303), Section 106 of 
the National Historic Preservation Act (54 U.S.C. 306108), Uniform 
Relocation and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act (42 U.S.C. 4601). 
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 modifications and 
actions that are the subject of this notice follow:
    Project name and location: Honolulu Rail Transit Project (Project), 
City of Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii. Project Sponsor: Honolulu 
Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART), Honolulu, Hawaii. Project 
description: The Project is a 20-mile, automated fixed-guideway rail 
system with 21 stations extending from East Kapolei to Ala Moana 
Transit. The Project is separated into three phases, two of which have 
been constructed. FTA issued the Honolulu High-Capacity Transit 
Corridor Project Final Environmental Impact Statement/Section 4(f) 
Evaluation in June 2010, and a Record of Decision (ROD) in January 
2011. Subsequent to the original ROD, FTA issued the Honolulu High-
Capacity Transit Corridor Project Final Supplemental Environmental 
Impact Statement (FSEIS)/Section 4(f) Evaluation and amended ROD in 
September 2013. FTA also published a notice of limitation on claims 
against the Project on November 1, 2013, per 23 U.S.C. 139(l). Since 
then, FTA has completed a re-evaluation of the Project to address 
changes that have been proposed by HART resulting from design 
modifications (e.g., reducing the number of stations to 19), temporary 
reduction in the length of the Project from 20 miles to 18.9 miles, and 
stakeholder coordination. This notice only applies to the discrete 
actions taken by FTA under the re-evaluation described below.
    Final agency actions: FTA determined as the result of the re-
evaluation that neither a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement 
nor a Supplemental Environmental Assessment is necessary, and the 2011 
ROD, and September 2013 FSEIS and amended ROD remain valid.
    Supporting documentation: Environmental Re-evaluation concerning 
the Project modifications dated August 24, 2023. All supporting 
documentation can be viewed and downloaded from: https://www.transit.dot.gov/regulations-and-guidance/environmental-programs/environmental-decision-documents.

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

Mark Ferroni,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Planning and Environment.
[FR Doc. 2023-18859 Filed 8-30-23; 8:45 am]
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