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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

Notice of Limitation on Claims Against 

Proposed Public Transportation 

Projects 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration 

(FTA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Limitation on Claims. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces final 

environmental actions taken by the 

Federal Transit Administration (FTA) 

for the following projects: (1) New 

Orleans Union Passenger Terminal 

(NOUPT)/Loyola Avenue Streetcar 

Project, New Orleans Regional Transit 

Authority, New Orleans, LA; (2) South 

Corridor: Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail 

Project, Tri-County Metropolitan 

Transportation District of Oregon 

(TriMet), Clackamas, and Portland, 

Oregon; and (3) Second Avenue Subway 

Project, Metropolitan Transportation 

Authority, New York, NY. The purpose 

of this notice is to announce publicly 

the environmental decisions by FTA on 

the subject projects and to activate the 

limitation on any claims that may 

challenge these final environmental 

actions. 

DATES: By this notice, FTA is advising 

the public of final agency actions 

subject to Section 139(l) of Title 23, 

United States Code (U.S.C.). A claim 

seeking judicial review of the FTA 

actions announced herein for the listed 

public transportation projects will be 

barred unless the claim is filed on or 

before July 18, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Katie Grasty, Environmental Protection 

Specialist, Office of Planning and 

Environment, 202–366–9139, or 

Christopher Van Wyk, AttorneyAdvisor, Office of Chief Counsel, 202– 

366–1733. FTA is located at 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 

20590. Office hours are from 9 a.m. to 

5:30 p.m., EST, Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given that FTA has taken final 

agency actions by issuing certain 

approvals for the public transportation 

projects listed below. The actions on 

these projects, as well as the laws under 

which such actions were taken, are 

described in the documentation issued 

in connection with each project to 

comply with the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and 

in other documents in the FTA 

administrative record for the project. 

Interested parties may contact either the 

project sponsor or the relevant FTA 

Regional Office for more information on 

these projects. Contact information for 

FTA’s Regional Offices may be found at 

http://www.fta.dot.gov. 

This notice applies to all FTA 

decisions on the listed projects 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) of the 

Department of Transportation Act of 

1966 [49 U.S.C. 303], Section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act [16 

U.S.C. 470f], and the Clean Air Act [42 

U.S.C. 7401–7671q]. This notice does 

not, however, alter or extend the 

limitation period of 180 days for 

challenges of project decisions subject 

to previous notices published in the 

Federal Register. For example, this 

notice does not extend the limitation on 

claims announced for earlier decisions 

on the Second Avenue Subway project. 

The projects and actions that are the 

subject of this notice are: 

1. Project name and location: New 

Orleans Union Passenger Terminal 

(NOUPT)/Loyola Avenue Streetcar 

Project, New Orleans, LA. Project 

sponsor: New Orleans Regional Transit 

Authority. Project description: The 

NOUPT/Loyola Avenue Streetcar 

Project is a 0.8-mile alignment running 

between the New Orleans Union 

Passenger Terminal and Canal Streetcar 

line. The alignment will travel mostly in 

the lanes adjacent to the median on 

Loyola Avenue to connect the Canal 

Streetcar line at Canal Street/North 

Rampart Street. 

Final agency actions: Section 106 

finding of no adverse effect; projectlevel air quality conformity 

determination; Section 4(f) de minimis 

impact determination; and a Finding of 

No Significant Impact (FONSI) dated 

November 2010. 

Supporting documentation: 

Environmental Assessment dated 

August 2010. 

2. Project name and location: South 

Corridor: Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail 

Project, Clackamas, and Portland, 

Oregon. Project sponsor: TriMet. Project 

description: The project is a 7.3-mile 

light rail alignment between downtown 

Portland and Milwaukie, generally 

parallel to and east of Southeast 

McLoughlin Boulevard, with 10 light 

rail stations. Final agency actions: 

Section 4(f) determination; project-level 

air quality conformity; a Section 106 

Memorandum of Agreement; and a 

Record of Decision dated November 

2010. Supporting documentation: Final 

Environmental Impact Statement dated 

October 2010. 

3. Project name and location: Second 

Avenue Subway, New York, NY. Project 

sponsor: Metropolitan Transportation 

Authority. Project description: The 

Second Avenue Subway project is the 

phased construction of a new 8.5-mile 

subway line under Second Avenue in 

Manhattan from 125th Street to Hanover 

Square in Lower Manhattan. It includes 

sixteen new stations which will be 

accessible by persons with disabilities. 

FTA has agreed to funding for the first 

phase of the project which will run 

between 105th Street and 62nd Street 

and will connect to the existing F line 

at 63rd Street, so that Phase 1 can be 

operated before the other phases are 

built. Various changes to Phase 1 have 

been evaluated in six technical 

memorandums. Final agency actions: 

FTA determination that neither a 

supplemental environmental impact 

statement nor a supplemental 

environmental assessment is necessary. 

Supporting documentation: Technical 

Memorandum No.7 assessing the final 

design of a combined station entrance 

and ancillary facility located at the 

northwest corner of 72nd Street and 

Second Avenue, dated December 2010. 

Issued on: January 11, 2011. 

Elizabeth S. Riklin, 

Deputy Associate Administrator for Planning 

and Environment Washington, DC. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 

Safety Administration 

Office of Hazardous Materials Safety; 

Notice of Applications for Modification 

of Special Permit 

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous 

Materials Safety Administration 

(PHMSA), DOT. 

ACTION: List of Applications for 

Modification of Special Permits. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

procedures governing the application 

for, and the processing of, special 

permits from the Department of 

Transportation’s Hazardous Material 

Regulations (49 CFR part 107, subpart 

B), notice is hereby given that the Office 

of Hazardous Materials Safety has 

received the applications described 

herein. This notice is abbreviated to 

expedite docketing and public notice. 

Because the sections affected, modes of 

transportation, and the nature of 

application have been shown in earlier 

Federal Register publications, they are 

not repeated here. Requests for 

modification of special permits (e.g. to 

provide for additional hazardous 

materials, packaging design changes, 

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additional mode of transportation, etc.) 

are described in footnotes to the 

application number. Application 

numbers with the suffix ‘‘M’’ denote a 

modification request. These 

applications have been separated from 

the new application for special permits 

to facilitate processing. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before February 2, 2011. 

Address Comments to: Record Center, 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Washington, DC 20590. 

Comments should refer to the 

application number and be submitted in 

triplicate. If confirmation of receipt of 

comments is desired, include a selfaddressed stamped postcard showing 

the special permit number. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Copies of the applications are available 

for inspection in the Records Center, 

East Building, PHH–30, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue, Southeast, Washington, 

DC or at http://regulations.gov. 

This notice of receipt of applications 

for modification of special permit is 

published in accordance with Part 107 

of the Federal hazardous materials 

transportation law (49 U.S.C. 5117(b); 

49 CFR 1.53(b)). 

Issued in Washington, DC on January 10, 

2011. 

Donald Burger, 

Chief, Special Permits and Approvals Branch. 

MODIFICATION SPECIAL PERMITS

Application No. Docket 

No. Applicant Regulation(s) affected Nature of special permit thereof 

7945–M ............. ................ Pacific Scientific, Duarte, CA 49 CFR 173.304(a)(1); 175.3 To modify the special permit to authorize additional 2.2 hazardous materials in non-DOT 

specification cylinders. 

14867–M ........... ................ GTM Manufacturing, LLC, 

Amarillo, TX.

49 CFR 173.302a, 173.304a To modify the special permit to authorize additional modes of transportation. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 

Safety Administration 

Office of Hazardous Materials Safety; 

Notice of Application for Special 

Permits 

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous 

Materials Safety Administration 

(PHMSA), DOT. 

ACTION: List of Applications for special 

permits. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

procedures governing the application 

for, and the processing of, special 

permits from the Department of 

Transportation’s Hazardous Material 

Regulations (49 CFR part 107, subpart 

B), notice is hereby given that the Office 

of Hazardous Materials Safety has 

received the application described 

herein. Each mode of transportation for 

which a particular special permit is 

requested is indicated by a number in 

the ‘‘Nature of Application’’ portion of 

the table below as follows: 1—Motor 

vehicle, 2—Rail freight, 3—Cargo vessel, 

4—Cargo aircraft only, 5—Passengercarrying aircraft. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before February 17, 2011. 

Address Comments to: Record Center, 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Washington, DC 20590. 

Comments should refer to the 

application number and be submitted in 

triplicate. If confirmation of receipt of 

comments is desired, include a selfaddressed stamped postcard showing 

the special permit number. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Copies of the applications are available 

for inspection in the Records Center, 

East Building, PHH–30, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, or 

at http://regulations.gov. 

This notice of receipt of applications 

for special permit is published in 

accordance with part 107 of the Federal 

hazardous materials transportation law 

(49 U.S.C. 5117(b); 49 CFR 1.53(b)). 

Issued in Washington, DC on January 10, 

2011. 

Donald Burger, 

Chief, Special Permits and Approvals Branch. 

NEW SPECIAL PERMITS

Application No. Docket 

No. Applicant Regulation(s) affected Nature of special permit thereof 

15206–N ........... ................ Maxwell Technologies, San 

Diego, CA.

49 CFR 171.101(c)(1) .......... To allow the transportation in commerce electric 

double layer capacitors with an energy storable 

capacity of not more than 10Wh (modes 1, 2, 3, 

4, 5, 6). 

15207–N ........... ................ Nippon Cargo Airlines, 

Chiba, JP.

49 CFR 173.302a(a)(1); 

173.304a(a)(2); 175.3.

To authorize the transportation in commerce of 

certain non-DOT specification containers containing certain Division 2.3 material to be used 

in connection with spacecraft containing heat 

pipes. 

15209–N ........... ................ Southern California Edison, 

San Clemente, CA.

49 CFR 173.427(b)(1); 

173.465(c); 173.465(d).

To authorize the transportation in commerce of 

steam generator lower assembles that exceed 

the surface contamination limits for surface contaminated objects. 

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