Notice2023-18859
Limitation on Claims Against Proposed Public Transportation Project-Honolulu Rail Transit Project Modifications
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Published
August 31, 2023
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentFederal Transit Administration
Abstract
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.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 168 (Thursday, August 31, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60261-60262]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[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 <a href="https://www.transit.dot.gov">https://www.transit.dot.gov</a>.
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: <a href="https://www.transit.dot.gov/regulations-and-guidance/environmental-programs/environmental-decision-documents">https://www.transit.dot.gov/regulations-and-guidance/environmental-programs/environmental-decision-documents</a>.
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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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