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to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given that FTA has taken final 

agency action by issuing a certain 

approval 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 administrative record for the 

project. Interested parties may contact 

either the project sponsor or the FTA 

Regional Office for more information. 

Contact information for FTA’s Regional 

Offices may be found at https://

www.fta.dot.gov. 

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 NEPA [42 U.S.C. 4321–4375], 

Section 4(f) requirements [23 U.S.C. 

138, 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 for challenges of 

project decisions subject to previous 

notices published in the Federal 

Register. The project and action that is 

the subject of this notice follow: 

Project name and location: The Geary 

Corridor Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) 

Project in San Francisco, California. 

Project Sponsor: The San Francisco 

Municipal Transportation Authority 

(SFMTA), in coordination with San 

Francisco County Transportation 

Authority (SFCTA). Project description: 

The purpose of the Geary Corridor BRT 

Project is to enhance the performance, 

viability, and comfort level of transit 

and pedestrian travel along a 6.5-mile 

BRT corridor that connects to the 

Transbay Transit Center in northern San 

Francisco, California. The Geary 

corridor is a major thoroughfare, 

accommodating more than 50,000 daily 

person trips via public transit; auto 

volumes up to 44,000 vehicles per day; 

and tens of thousands of daily 

pedestrian trips. The project will 

implement BRT service with a 

combination of side-running and centerrunning bus-only lanes as well as within 

mixed-flow travel lanes along different 

segments of the 6.5-mile corridor. The 

project will implement higher-frequency 

bus service, new BRT stations, 

improvements to pedestrian features, 

and upgrades to traffic signals, 

including fiber-based transit signal 

priority to optimize bus service. 

Physical roadway and lane changes 

would occur between Market Street and 

34th Avenue while bus service 

amenities and improvements would be 

provided along the Geary corridor from 

the Transbay Transit Center to 48th 

Avenue. The proposed project was the 

subject of the Geary Corridor Bus Rapid 

Transit Project Final Environmental 

Impact Statement (Final EIS)/Record of 

Decision (ROD), dated June 1, 2018. The 

project’s notice of availability for the 

Final EIS was published in the Federal 

Register on June 15, 2018. 

Final agency actions: Section 4(f) 

determination, dated June 1, 2018; 

Section 106 finding of no adverse effect 

on historic properties dated October 17, 

2017; project-level air quality 

conformity; and ROD, dated June 1, 

2018. Supporting documentation: The 

Geary Corridor Bus Rapid Transit 

Project Final Environmental Impact 

Statement (Final EIS) with Record of 

Decision, dated June 1, 2018. 

Elizabeth S. Riklin, 

Deputy Associate Administrator for Planning 

and Environment. 

[FR Doc. 2018–16684 Filed 8–2–18; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

Limitation on Claims Against Proposed 

Public Transportation Projects 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration 

(FTA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces final 

environmental actions taken by the 

Federal Transit Administration (FTA) 

for the Regional Transportation 

Commission of Washoe County’s 

(RTC’s) Virginia Street Bus RAPID 

Transit Extension project in Washoe 

County, Nevada. The project includes 

construction of a 1.8-mile extension to 

its existing bus rapid transit service (the 

RAPID) operating in the Virginia Street 

corridor from its existing northern 

terminus at the 4th Street Station 

transfer terminal in Downtown Reno to 

the University of Nevada, Reno campus. 

The purpose of the project is to increase 

transit ridership and connectivity, 

enhance pedestrian safety, and improve 

accessibility to transit in the Virginia 

Street corridor. The purpose of this 

notice is to announce publicly the 

environmental decisions by FTA on the 

subject project and to activate the 

limitation on any claims that may 

challenge this final environmental 

action. 

DATES: By this notice, FTA is advising 

the public of final agency actions 

subject to 23 U.S.C. 139(l). 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 

December 31, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nancy-Ellen Zusman, Assistant Chief 

Counsel, Office of Chief Counsel, (312) 

353–2577, or Alan Tabachnick, 

Environmental Protection Specialist, 

Office of Environmental Programs, (202) 

366–8541. 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 action by issuing a certain 

approval 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 administrative record for the 

project. Interested parties may contact 

either the project sponsor or the FTA 

Regional Office for more information. 

Contact information for FTA’s Regional 

Offices may be found at https://

www.fta.dot.gov. 

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 NEPA [42 U.S.C. 4321–4375], 

Section 4(f) requirements [23 U.S.C. 

138, 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 for challenges of 

project decisions subject to previous 

notices published in the Federal 

Register. The project and action that is 

the subject of this notice follow: 

Project name and location: The 

Regional Transportation Commission of 

Washoe County’s (RTC’s) Virginia Street 

Bus RAPID Transit Extension project in 

Washoe County, Nevada. 

Project Sponsor: The Regional 

Transportation Commission of Washoe 

County’s (RTC’s). Project description: 

The project includes construction of a 

1.8-mile extension to its existing bus 

rapid transit service (the RAPID) 

operating in the Virginia Street corridor 

from its existing northern terminus at 

the 4th Street Station transfer terminal 

in Downtown Reno to the University of 


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1 §§ 24321–22, Public Law 114–94. 

2 80 FR 78521, December 16, 2015. 

3The comments are available in Docket No. 

NHTSA–2015–0119 at www.regulations.gov. 

4The transcripts are available in Docket No. 

NHTSA–2015–0119 at www.regulations.gov. 

Nevada, Reno campus. The purpose of 

the project is to increase transit 

ridership and connectivity, enhance 

pedestrian safety, and improve 

accessibility to transit in the Virginia 

Street corridor. The project includes 

building five new RAPID stations and 

replacing three bus shelters with full 

RAPID stations; acquiring right-of-way; 

and creating exclusive bus lanes, traffic 

signal priority at five intersections, offboard fare collection, level boarding, 

and real-time bus arrival information at 

stations. The project also includes 

purchasing two electric buses, 

constructing two roundabouts at 

intersections to improve bus turning 

movements and enhance traffic 

operations and safety, and improving 

sidewalk and cross walk infrastructure 

to enhance the pedestrian and bicycle 

network and visibility in the corridor. 

Finally, the project includes parking 

and access management, utility 

relocations and drainage improvements. 

The project was the subject of the 

Virginia Street Bus RAPID Transit 

Extension Project Environmental 

Assessment, dated June 2018. 

Final agency actions: Section 4(f) 

determination, dated June 12, 2018; 

Section 106 of the NHPA finding of No 

Adverse Effect, dated March 17, 2017; 

project-level air quality conformity; and 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

(FONSI), dated June 15, 2018. 

Supporting documentation: The 

Virginia Street Bus RAPID Transit 

Extension Project Environmental 

Assessment in Washoe County, Nevada, 

dated June 2018. 

Elizabeth S. Riklin, 

Deputy Associate Administrator for Planning 

and Environment. 

[FR Doc. 2018–16682 Filed 8–2–18; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. NHTSA–2018–0055] 

New Car Assessment Program 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting; 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: NHTSA’s New Car 

Assessment Program (NCAP) provides 

comparative information on the safety of 

new vehicles to assist consumers with 

vehicle purchasing decisions. 

Significant changes to NCAP have been 

either suggested by NHTSA or 

mandated by Congress in recent years. 

In December 2015, Congress mandated 

that NHTSA conduct a rulemaking 

requiring that crash avoidance 

information be placed on the Monroney 

label of new vehicles. Later that same 

month, NHTSA published a ‘‘request for 

comments’’ (RFC) in which it sought 

public comments on planned changes to 

NCAP. This notice announces a public 

meeting to obtain up-to-date stakeholder 

input on the way forward for NCAP. 

DATES: NHTSA will hold the public 

meeting on September 14, 2018, from 9 

a.m. to 5 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time. 

Check-in will begin at 8 a.m. Attendees 

should arrive by 8 a.m. to allow 

sufficient time for security clearance. In 

addition to this meeting, the public will 

have the opportunity to submit written 

comments to the docket for this notice 

concerning matters addressed in this 

notice. 

ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be 

held at DOT Headquarters, located at 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001 (Green 

Line Metro station at Navy Yard) in the 

Oklahoma City Conference Room. This 

facility is accessible to individuals with 

disabilities. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You 

may contact Ms. Jennifer N. Dang, 

Division Chief, New Car Assessment 

Program, Office of Crashworthiness 

Standards (Telephone: 202–366–1810). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

This notice announces the holding of 

a public meeting on September 14, 

2018, to obtain up-to-date stakeholder 

input for use in planning the future of 

NCAP. The impetus for this meeting 

comes from developments relating to 

two events in December 2015. On 

December 4, 2015, the Fixing America’s 

Surface Transportation (FAST) 1 Act 

was signed into law, which includes a 

mandate that NHTSA conduct a 

rulemaking to require the incorporation 

of crash avoidance information on the 

vehicle price stickers (also known as the 

Monroney labels) placed on the 

windows of new vehicles. On December 

16, 2015, NHTSA announced in a 

Federal Register ‘‘request for 

comments’’ (RFC) 2 its plan to add new 

tools and techniques to NCAP. 

NHTSA received nearly 300 sets of 

written comments on its December 2015 

RFC.3 The commenters included vehicle 

manufacturers, automotive suppliers, 

associations of vehicle manufacturers 

and suppliers, consumer advocacy 

groups, universities, and other 

individuals and organizations interested 

in vehicle safety. NHTSA also received 

oral comments at two public hearings, 

the first in Detroit, Michigan on January 

14, 2016, and the second at DOT 

Headquarters in Washington, DC on 

January 29, 2016.4

Commenters across the spectrum 

raised a number of issues involving both 

data and procedures. Commenters stated 

the public comment period was 

inadequate for purposes of responding 

because of the complexity of the 

program upgrade, and that the technical 

information supporting the RFC was not 

sufficient to allow a full understanding 

of the contemplated changes. According 

to the commenters, this hindered their 

ability to prepare substantive public 

comments. 

In addition, most vehicle 

manufacturers stated that the significant 

cost burden due to fitment of the 

contemplated new technologies and the 

inclusion of a new crash test and new 

test devices would increase the price of 

new vehicles. Manufacturers, along with 

safety advocates, also expressed the 

need for data demonstrating that each 

proposed program change would 

provide enough safety benefits to 

warrant its inclusion in NCAP. Safety 

and consumer advocates recommended 

that NCAP award credit only if the 

technologies meet certain human 

machine interface requirements. In 

addition, several commenters suggested 

that NHTSA develop near-term and 

long-term roadmaps for NCAP and 

revise NCAP in a more gradual, 

‘‘phased’’ approach. 

Furthermore, commenters suggested 

that most of the planned NCAP 

upgrades, including the new rating 

system, should only be adopted through 

a process similar in rigor to that of a 

notice and comment rulemaking 

conducted under the Administrative 

Procedure Act. Lastly, certain vehicle 

manufacturers were concerned that 

changing future vehicle designs in order 

to respond to a NCAP upgrade would 

have an adverse effect on compliance 

with fuel economy and greenhouse gas 

emissions requirements. 

In light of the public comments and 

NHTSA’s FAST Act mandate, NHTSA is 

requesting oral and written comments 

from the public to help guide the 

Agency in planning its next steps for 

NCAP. The Agency continues to believe 

that NCAP needs to be modernized to 


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