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Instructions: You must include the 

agency name (Federal Transit 

Administration) and the docket number 

(FTA–2009–0005). You should submit 

two copies of your comments if you 

submit them by mail. If you wish to 

receive confirmation that FTA received 

your comments, you must include a 

self-addressed stamped postcard. Note 

that all comments received will be 

posted without change to the federal 

government Web site located at http:// 

regulations.gov. This means that if your 

comment includes any personal 

identifying information, such 

information will be made available to 

users of Web site. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ron 

Fisher, Office of Planning and 

Environment, telephone (202) 366– 

4033. FTA is located at 1200 New Jersey 

Ave., SE., East Building, Washington, 

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

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

except Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Although 

the discussion paper is reasonably 

detailed, FTA invites comments that 

may address broader areas of the 

evaluation of economic development as 

well as comments that address the level 

of detail described. Comments made on 

the discussion paper will be considered 

by FTA in its development of proposed 

policy guidance some time in the future 

on the approach for evaluation of 

economic development. That proposed 

policy guidance will also be published 

for notice and comment prior to being 

finalized. 

FTA is departing from its usual 

approach of simply issuing proposed 

guidance and then final because no 

formal FTA approach to evaluation of 

this criterion exists, there is a broad 

diversity of views on the definition of 

economic development, and the state-ofthe-practice for its evaluation is far 

behind that for more traditional 

measures of mobility improvements. 

FTA requests comments on the 

evaluation of economic development 

and specifically on the discussion 

paper, which is available in DOT’s 

electronic docket at http:// 

regulations.gov and on FTA’s Web site 

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

newstarts/ 

planning_environment_5615.html. 

Issued on: January 16, 2009. 

Sherry E. Little, 

Acting Administrator. 

[FR Doc. E9–1545 Filed 1–23–09; 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 public transportation projects in the 

following areas: San Francisco, 

California; Miami, Florida; Sacramento, 

California; and Hudson County, New 

Jersey and New York, New York. 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 Title 23, United States Code 

(U.S.C.), section 139(l). 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 27, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elizabeth Zelasko, Environmental 

Protection Specialist, Office of Planning 

and Environment, 202–366–0244, 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 

corresponding project. The final agency 

environmental decision documents— 

Records of Decision (ROD) or Findings 

of No Significant Impact (FONSI)—for 

the listed projects are available online at 

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

environment/ 

planning_environment_documents.html 

or may be obtained by contacting the 

corresponding FTA Regional Office for 

the metropolitan area where the project 

is located. Contact information for the 

FTA 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, the 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 (e.g., this notice does 

not extend the limitation on claims 

announced in the Federal Register on 

November 2, 2007, for the ROD issued 

for the Miami-Dade Orange Line Phase 

2 Project). 

The projects and actions that are the 

subject of this notice are: 

1. Project name and location: Central 

Subway Project, San Francisco, 

California. 

Project sponsor: San Francisco 

Municipal Transportation Authority 

(SFMTA). 

Project description: The FTA and 

SFMTA have completed a Final 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement (FSEIS) and Final 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Report (FSEIR) for the Central Subway 

Project, an extension of the Third Street 

Light Rail Project. SFMTA will build a 

1.7-mile extension along Fourth and 

Stockton Streets from the existing Third 

Street Light Rail Station at Fourth and 

King Streets to a new terminus in 

Chinatown at Stockton and Jackson 

Streets. The light rail transit will 

transition to subway operation at a 

portal under the I–80 Freeway and 

continue along Fourth Street in a twintunnel configuration. The Central 

Subway project includes one surface 

station between Brannan and Bryant 

Streets and three subway stations: 

Moscone, Union Square/Market Street, 

and Chinatown. A temporary 

construction tunnel would extend 

beyond the Chinatown Station under 

Stockton Street to Columbus Avenue 

near Washington Square. Final Agency 

Actions: ROD signed on November 26, 

2008; Section 106 Memorandum of 

Agreement signed on November 5, 2008; 

Project-level Air Quality Conformity 

determination; and Section 4(f) de 

minimis impact finding. Supporting 

documentation: Central Subway Project 

Supplemental Final Environmental 

Impact Statement/Environmental 

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Impact Report published on October 3, 

2008. 

2. Project name and location: MiamiDade Orange Line Phase 2: North 

Corridor Metrorail Extension, Miami, 

Florida (the ‘‘Project’’). Project sponsor: 

Miami-Dade Transit Project description: 

The FTA and Miami-Dade Transit 

prepared a Supplemental 

Environmental Assessment on changes 

made to the Project after FTA signed a 

Record of Decision on April 26, 2007. 

The Project involves a 9.2-mile heavy 

rail transit extension of the existing 

Metrorail system that would run along 

NW. 27th Avenue from NW. 76th Street 

to NW. 215th Street. Changes to the 

Project introduced since the ROD 

include modifying the location and 

layout of the NW. 82nd Street Station, 

identifying a new relocation site for the 

North Central Branch Library, shifting 

the alignment and station configuration 

at NW. 103rd Street Station, identifying 

a new location for the NW. 119th Street 

Station, and proposing new locations for 

the Park and Ride facilities at NW. 

199th Street and NW. 215th Street 

Station Park and Ride Facilities. Final 

agency actions: FONSI signed on 

November 7, 2008; Section 106 Finding 

of No Historic Properties Affected. 

Supporting documentation: Miami-Dade 

Orange Line Phase 2: North Corridor 

Metrorail Extension Supplemental 

Environmental Assessment published in 

August 2008. 

3. Project name and location: South 

Sacramento Corridor Phase 2 Extension 

Project, Sacramento, California. Project 

sponsor: Sacramento Regional Transit 

District (RT). Project description: FTA 

and RT have prepared a Supplemental 

Final Environmental Impact Statement/ 

Subsequent Final Environmental Impact 

Report for a 4.3-mile Light Rail Transit 

(LRT) extension from the South Line at 

Meadowview Road to Cosumnes River 

College. The LRT project includes the 

construction of four stations at Morrison 

Creek, Franklin, Center Parkway, and 

the Cosumnes River College. Final 

agency actions: ROD signed on 

December 18, 2008; Project-level Air 

Quality Conformity determination; 

Consultation with U.S. Department of 

Interior (DOI) under Section 7 of the 

Endangered Species Act resulting in 

DOI’s issuance of a Biological Opinion; 

Section 106 Finding of No Historic 

Properties Affected. Supporting 

documentation: Supplemental Final 

Environmental Impact Statement/ 

Subsequent Final Environmental Impact 

Report for the South Sacramento 

Corridor Phase 2 Extension Project 

published on October 17, 2008. 

4. Project name and location: Access 

to the Region’s Core Project (ARC), 

Hudson County, New Jersey and New 

York City, New York. Project sponsor: 

New Jersey Transit (NJ Transit). Project 

description: FTA and NJ Transit have 

completed a Final Environmental 

Impact Statement for a 7.6 mile 

commuter rail project that includes a 

new commuter rail tunnel under the 

Hudson River from New Jersey into 

Manhattan, a new commuter rail station 

near the existing Penn Station New 

York, and the track capacity expansion 

of the Northeast Corridor in New Jersey 

from the Koppers Coke site in Kearny 

through the Frank R. Lautenberg Station 

in Secaucusto the portal of the new 

Hudson River tunnel near Tonnelle 

Avenue. Key components of the project 

include a new direct connection at 

Secaucus between the Northeast 

Corridor and the Main, Bergen County, 

and Pascack Valley lines; two new 

single track tunnels under the Palisades 

in New Jersey and the Hudson River and 

through the west side of Manhattan to 

the new underground 6-track station 

that will end at Fifth Avenue and West 

34th Street in Manhattan; and a mid-day 

train storage yard on the Koppers Coke 

site, two fan plants/construction access 

shafts in New Jersey, and four fan 

plants/construction access shafts in 

Manhattan. Final agency actions: ROD 

signed on January 14, 2009, Project-level 

Air Quality Conformity Determination, 

Section 4(f) finding, Section 106 

Programmatic Agreement dated October 

13, 2008, Finding of no practicable 

alternative to significant encroachment 

into floodplains in accordance with 

Executive Order 11988, and Finding of 

no practicable alternative to new 

construction in wetlands in accordance 

with Executive Order 11990. Supporting 

documentation: Access to the Region’s 

Core Project Final Environmental 

Impact Statement published on 

November 7, 2008. 

Issued on: January 15, 2009. 

Susan Borinsky, 

Associate Administrator for Planning and 

Environment, Washington, DC. 

[FR Doc. E9–1408 Filed 1–23–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of Foreign Assets Control 

Additional Designation of Four 

Individuals Pursuant to Executive 

Order 13224 

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets 

Control, Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Treasury Department’s 

Office of Foreign Assets Control 

(‘‘OFAC’’) is publishing the name of 

four newly-designated individuals 

whose property and interests in 

property are blocked pursuant to 

Executive Order 13224 of September 23, 

2001, ‘‘Blocking Property and 

Prohibiting Transactions With Persons 

Who Commit, Threaten To Commit, or 

Support Terrorism.’’ 

DATES: The designation by the Director 

of OFAC of the four individuals 

identified in this notice, pursuant to 

Executive Order 13224, is effective on 

January 16, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Assistant Director, Compliance 

Outreach & Implementation, Office of 

Foreign Assets Control, Department of 

the Treasury, Washington, DC 20220, 

tel.: 202/622–2490. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Electronic and Facsimile Availability 

This document and additional 

information concerning OFAC are 

available from OFAC’s Web site 

(http://www.treas.gov/ofac) or via 

facsimile through a 24-hour fax-ondemand service, tel.: 202/622–0077. 

Background 

On September 23, 2001, the President 

issued Executive Order 13224 (the 

‘‘Order’’) pursuant to the International 

Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50 

U.S.C. 1701–1706, and the United 

Nations Participation Act of 1945, 22 

U.S.C. 287c. In the Order, the President 

declared a national emergency to 

address grave acts of terrorism and 

threats of terrorism committed by 

foreign terrorists, including the 

September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in 

New York, Pennsylvania, and at the 

Pentagon. The Order imposes economic 

sanctions on persons who have 

committed, pose a significant risk of 

committing, or support acts of terrorism. 

The President identified in the Annex to 

the Order, as amended by Executive 

Order 13268 of July 2, 2002, 13 

individuals and 16 entities as subject to 

the economic sanctions. The Order was 

further amended by Executive Order 

13284 of January 23, 2003, to reflect the 

creation of the Department of Homeland 

Security. 

Section 1 of the Order blocks, with 

certain exceptions, all property and 

interests in property that are in or 

hereafter come within the United States 

or the possession or control of United 

States persons, of: (1) Foreign persons 

listed in the Annex to the Order; (2) 

foreign persons determined by the 

Secretary of State, in consultation with