[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 103 (Friday, May 30, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23107-23108]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-09811]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Transit Administration
Limitation on Claims Against Proposed Public Transportation
Project--West Seattle Link Extension Project, Seattle, King County,
Washington
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 West Seattle Link
Extension Project, Seattle, King County, Washington. 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 October 27, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kathryn Loster, Assistant Chief
Counsel, Office of Chief Counsel, (202) 360-2322, or Saadat Khan,
Environmental Protection Specialist, Office of Environmental Policy and
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/about/regional-offices/regional-offices.
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), Endangered
Species Act (16 U.S.C. 1531), Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1251), the
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 modifications and actions that are the
subject of this notice follow:
Project name and location: West Seattle Link Extension Project
(Project), Seattle, King County, Washington.
Project Sponsor: Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority
(Sound Transit), Seattle, King County Washington.
Project description: The Project would expand Link light rail
transit service from the South Downtown (SODO) neighborhood to West
Seattle within a 4.1-mile corridor and provide fast and frequent
service in the city of Seattle in King County, Washington. The light
rail would operate on a fixed guideway in exclusive right-of-way,
outside of traffic, to maintain reliable operations. The Project would
include four (4) stations at SODO, Delridge, Avalon, and Alaska
Junction. The stations would be elevated, at-grade, in a retained cut,
or in a tunnel, depending on the site conditions, guideway profile, and
the engineering requirements of the guideway. The stations would also
include ticket vending machines, closed-circuit television cameras, a
public address system, emergency phones, variable-message signage that
meets the applicable Americans with Disabilities Act requirements,
public access, and compliance with fire code and safety requirements.
Final agency action: Section 106 Programmatic Agreement, dated
February 25, 2025; Section 4(f) de minimis impact determination, dated
April 25, 2024. West Seattle Link Extension Record of Decision (ROD),
dated April 29, 2025.
Supporting documentation: West Seattle Link Extension Final
Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS), dated September 20, 2024; West
Seattle, and Ballard Link Extensions Project Draft Environmental Impact
(DEIS), dated January 28, 2022. The ROD, FEIS, DEIS and associated
documents can be viewed and downloaded from: https://www.soundtransit.org/system-expansion/west-seattle-link-extension.
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Authority: 23 U.S.C. 139(l)(1).
Megan Blum,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Planning and Environment.
[FR Doc. 2025-09811 Filed 5-29-25; 8:45 am]
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