45518 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 169 / Wednesday, September 2, 2009 / Notices 

Northwest Mountain Region, Airports 

Division, Denver Airports District 

Office, 26805 E. 68th Ave., Suite 224, 

Denver, Colorado 80249. 

The request to release property may 

be reviewed in person at this same 

location. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FAA 

invites public comment on the request 

to release property at the Brigham City 

Municipal Airport under the provisions 

of the AIR 21. 

On July 1, 2009, the FAA determined 

that the request to release property at 

the Brigham City Municipal Airport 

submitted by the City of Brigham, Utah 

met the procedural requirements of the 

Federal Aviation Regulations, Part 155. 

The FAA may approve the request, in 

whole or in part, no later than October 

1, 2009. 

The following is a brief overview of 

the request: 

The Brigham City Municipal Airport 

requests the release of 1.073 acres of 

non-aeronautical airport property to 

Brigham City, Utah. The purpose of this 

release is to allow the City to exchange 

the subject land that no longer serves 

any aeronautical purpose at the airport. 

The exchange will allow the airport to 

replace aircraft parking areas that were 

eliminated due to airport construction. 

Any person may inspect the request 

by appointment at the FAA office listed 

above under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

In addition, any person may inspect 

the application, notice, and other 

documents germane to the application 

in person at the Brigham City Municipal 

Airport, 20 North Main Street, Brigham 

City, Utah, 84302. 

Issued in Denver, Colorado on July 29, 

2009. 

Craig A. Sparks, 

Manager, Denver Airports District Office. 

[FR Doc. E9–21064 Filed 9–1–09; 8:45 am] 

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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 Downtown Boise Multimodal 

Center Project, Boise, Idaho; Ketchikan 

Shipyard Improvement Project, 

Ketchikan, Alaska; Colorado Springs 

Transportation Station, Colorado 

Springs, Colorado; and Central Corridor 

Light Rail Transit Project, MinneapolisSt. Paul, Minnesota. 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 March 1, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carl 

Bausch, Environmental Protection 

Director, Office of Planning and 

Environment, 202–366–1626, 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 the project to 

comply with the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and 

in other documents in the FTA 

administrative record for the project. 

The final agency environmental 

decision document—a Record of 

Decision (ROD) or Finding of No 

Significant Impact (FONSI)—for each 

listed project is available online at 

http:// 

www.fta.dot.gov/planning/environment/ 

planning_environment_documents.html 

or may be obtained by contacting the 

FTA Regional Office for the 

metropolitan area where the project is 

located. 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. 

The projects and actions that are the 

subject of this notice are: 

1. Project name and location: 

Downtown Boise Multimodal Center 

Project, Boise Idaho. Project sponsor: 

Valley Regional Transit. Project 

description: The multimodal center will 

be located on the c-block site east of 

North 11th Street, between West Idaho 

and West Bannock Streets in the 

western part of the Boise central 

business district. The multimodal center 

will include off- and on-street bus bays 

(12 bays total), a passenger plaza and 

sheltered waiting areas, transit 

information kiosks, public restrooms 

and operator break facilities, bicycle 

storage, public art, vanpool and carpool 

drop-off/pick-up areas, a taxi stand and 

auto drop-off/pick-up area, and retail 

space. In addition, a planned joint 

development component of the project 

would include air space development 

above the multimodal facility for 

parking. The parking structure would 

include approximately 500 parking 

spaces in a new five- to six-story 

parking structure. Final agency actions: 

Section 106 finding of no adverse effect; 

project-level air quality conformity 

determination; no use of section 4(f) 

properties; and a FONSI dated July 

2009. Supporting documentation: 

Downtown Boise Multimodal Center 

Environmental Assessment (EA) dated 

June 2009. 

2. Project name and location: 

Ketchikan Shipyard Improvement 

Project, Ketchikan, Alaska. Project 

sponsor: Alaska Industrial Development 

and Export Authority (AIDEA). Project 

description: The Ketchikan Shipyard 

Improvement Project (the Project) in 

Ketchikan, Alaska will implement 

planned improvements to the Ketchikan 

Shipyard, which is used to maintain the 

Alaska Marine Highway System fleet. 

These improvements include two new 

enclosed work halls; a production 

complex; a steel fabrication shop; 

improvements to the existing paint and 

blasting facilities; new operations and 

business buildings; installation of a new 

oily water separator and wastewater 

treatment facility; warehouse and 

hazardous material storage building 

expansions; installation of guard shacks, 

fencing and modifications to existing 

fencing for security purposes; utilities 

upgrades; and improvements to traffic 

flow in and around the facility. The 

Project would provide a broad mix of 

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construction and would enable the 

shipyard to meet the needs of the 

publicly owned marine transit system. 

Final agency actions: Section 106 

determination of no historic properties 

affected, March 27, 2009; no use of 

section 4(f) property; and FONSI dated 

July 16, 2009. Supporting 

documentation: EA for the Ketchikan 

Shipyard Improvement Project signed 

June 12, 2009. 

3. Project name and location: 

Colorado Springs Downtown 

Transportation Station, Colorado 

Springs, Colorado. Project sponsor: City 

of Colorado Springs Transit Services 

Division–Mountain Metropolitan 

Transit. Project description: The project 

involves the construction of a new 

downtown transportation station, 

located southwest of the existing station 

at South Sierra Madre Street and West 

Vermijo Avenue, to serve the City’s 

Mountain Metropolitan Transit fixedroute (Metro) service. It will provide 

access and serve as a convenient 

multimodal transfer point for the Front 

Range Express (FREX) commuter bus 

service, proposed streetcar, proposed 

Front Range Commuter Rail, and other 

travel modes. Final agency actions: 

Section 106 determination of no historic 

properties affected; project-level air 

quality conformity determination; and 

FONSI dated July 14, 2009. Supporting 

documentation: EA for the Colorado 

Springs Downtown Station dated June 1, 

2009. 

4. Project name and location: Central 

Corridor Light Rail Transit Project, 

Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. 

Project sponsor: Metropolitan Council. 

Project description: The project entails 

the construction of 10.9 miles of light 

rail transit (LRT) between St. Paul and 

Minneapolis with service to the 

University of Minnesota and the State 

Capitol complex, including 9.7 miles of 

newly constructed guideway and 1.2 

miles shared with the existing Hiawatha 

LRT. There will be twenty stations along 

the line including five shared with the 

existing Hiawatha LRT. The project will 

be primarily at-grade except for a new 

aerial structure over Interstate Highway 

I–35W, the use of existing bridges over 

Trunk Highway 280 (TH 280) and 

Interstate Highway I–94, and the 

existing Washington Avenue Bridge 

over the Mississippi River. Below grade 

infrastructure to allow for later 

construction of three future infill 

stations will be provided and an 

operations and maintenance facility will 

be constructed. The project will also 

include modifications to the 

Washington Avenue Bridge over the 

Mississippi River to improve current 

bridge conditions and to provide for 

LRT operations, and conversion of 

Washington Avenue on the University 

of Minnesota’s East Bank Campus to a 

transit/pedestrian mall extending from 

Walnut Street to Pleasant Street. Final 

agency actions: Section 106 

Programmatic Agreement dated June 15, 

2009; section 4(f) findings; project-level 

air quality conformity determination; 

and Record of Decision dated August 

18, 2009. Supporting documentation: 

Central Corridor Light Rail Transit 

Project Final Environmental Impact 

Statement dated June 18, 2009. 

Issued on August 27, 2009. 

Susan Borinsky, 

Associate Administrator for Planning and 

Environment, Washington, DC. 

[FR Doc. E9–21199 Filed 9–1–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Research, Engineering and 

Development Advisory Committee 

Pursuant to section 10(A)(2) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. 

L. 92–463; 5 U.S.C. App. 2), notice is 

hereby given of a meeting of the FAA 

Research, Engineering and Development 

(R,E&D) Advisory Committee. 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

Name: Research, Engineering & 

Development Advisory Committee. 

Time and Date: September 23, 2009– 

9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Place: Federal Aviation 

Administration, 800 Independence 

Avenue, SW., Round Room (10th Floor), 

Washington, DC 20591. 

Purpose: The meeting agenda will 

include receiving from the Committee 

guidance for FAA’s research and 

development investments in the areas of 

air traffic services, airports, aircraft 

safety, human factors and environment 

and energy. Attendance is open to the 

interested public but seating is limited. 

Persons wishing to attend the meeting 

or obtain information should contact 

Gloria Dunderman at (202) 267–8937 or 

gloria.dunderman@faa.gov. Attendees 

will have to present picture ID at the 

security desk and be escorted to the 

Round Room. 

Members of the public may present a 

written statement to the Committee at 

any time. 

Issued in Washington, DC on August 19, 

2009. 

Barry Scott, 

Director, Research & Technology 

Development. 

[FR Doc. E9–21071 Filed 9–1–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Government/Industry Aeronautical 

Charting Forum Meeting 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the hiannual meeting of the Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA) Aeronautical 

Charting Forum (ACF) to discuss 

informational content and design of 

aeronautical charts and related 

products, as well as instrument flight 

procedures development policy and 

design criteria. 

DATES: The ACF is separated into two 

distinct groups. The Instrument 

Procedures Group (IPG) will meet 

October 27, 2009 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 

p.m. The Charting Group will meet 

October 28 and 29, 2009 from 8:30 a.m. 

to 5 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be hosted 

by the FAA’s National Aeronautical 

Charting Office, NACO (soon to be 

changed to the National Aeronautical 

Navigation (AeroNav) Services), 1305 

East-West Highway. SSMC 4, Silver 

Spring. MD 20910. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information relating to the Instrument 

Procedures Group, contact Thomas F. 

Schneider, FAA, Flight Procedures 

Standards Branch, AFS–420. 6500 

South MacArthur Blvd, P.O. Box 25082, 

Oklahoma City, OK. 73125; telephone 

(405) 954–5852; fax: (405) 954–2528. 

For information relating to the 

Charting Group, contact John A. Moore, 

FAA, National Aeronautical Charting 

Office, Regulatory Support and 

Coordination Team, AJW–3521, 1305 

East-West Highway, SSMC4–Station 

5544, Silver Spring, MD. 20910; 

telephone: (301) 713–2631, fax: 

(301)713–1960. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to S10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463; 5 U.S.C. 

App. II), notice is hereby given of a 

meeting of the FAA Aeronautical 

Charting Forum to be held from October 

27 through October 29, 2009 from 8:30 

a.m. to 5 p.m. at the FAA’s National 

Aeronautical Charting Office, NACO, 


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