[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 174 (Monday, September 9, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 73184-73185]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[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 https://www.transit.dot.gov/about/regional-offices/regional-offices.
    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: https://www.soundtransit.org/system-expansion/operations-maintenance-facility-south.
    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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