Notice2024-20190
Limitation on Claims Against Proposed Public Transportation Project-Operations and Maintenance Facility South, Federal Way, King County, Washington
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Published
September 9, 2024
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentFederal Transit Administration
Abstract
This notice announces final environmental actions taken by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) regarding the Operations and Maintenance Facility South, Federal Way, 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.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 174 (Monday, September 9, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 73184-73185]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-20190]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Transit Administration
Limitation on Claims Against Proposed Public Transportation
Project--Operations and Maintenance Facility South, Federal Way, 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 Operations and
Maintenance Facility South, Federal Way, 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 February 6, 2025.
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/about/regional-offices/regional-offices">https://www.transit.dot.gov/about/regional-offices/regional-offices</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), Endangered
Species Act (16 U.S.C. 1531), Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation
and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801), Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16
U.S.C. 703-712), Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1251), the Uniform
Relocation and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act (42 U.S.C. 4601),
Coastal Zone Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1451-1462) 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: Operations and Maintenance Facility
South (Project), Federal Way, King County, Washington.
Project sponsor: Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority
(Sound Transit), Seattle, King County, Washington.
Project description: The Project would construct and operate a
light rail operations and maintenance facility (OMF) in its South
Corridor. The OMF would be constructed on 66 acres and provide capacity
to receive, test, commission, store, maintain, and deploy an expanded
fleet of light rail vehicles (LRVs) to support the Link light rail
system expansion goal as part of Sound Transit 3: The Regional Transit
System Plan for Central Puget Sound (Sound Transit 3). The facility
will include the OMF building, Maintenance of Way (MOW) building, the
Link System-Wide Storage building, OMF tracks that provide staging for
LRVs, parking (480 spaces), training tracks, and yard areas. The
Project also involves construction of new mainline track (1.4 miles), a
0.9-mile test track running parallel to the mainline tracks, and a tail
track connecting the facility to the light rail system.
Final agency actions: Section 106 no adverse effect determination,
dated October 31, 2023; Section 4(f) de minimis impact determination,
dated October 31, 2023; and Operations and
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Maintenance Facility South Record of Decision (ROD), dated August 7,
2024.
Supporting documentation: Operations and Maintenance Facility South
Project Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS), dated June 7,
2024, and Operations and Maintenance Facility South Project Draft
Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) dated September 22, 2023. The
ROD, FEIS, DEIS and associated documents can be viewed and downloaded
from: <a href="https://www.soundtransit.org/system-expansion/operations-maintenance-facility-south">https://www.soundtransit.org/system-expansion/operations-maintenance-facility-south</a>.
Authority: 23 U.S.C. 139(l)(1).
Megan Blum,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Planning and Environment.
[FR Doc. 2024-20190 Filed 9-6-24; 8:45 am]
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