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listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section. 

Members of the public may present a 

written statement to the committee at 

any time. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 22, 

2009. 

Francisco Estrada C., 

RTCA Advisory Committee. 

[FR Doc. E9–1976 Filed 1–29–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

Placer Parkway Partially Revised Draft 

Tier I Environmental Impact Statement 

DATE: January 2009. 

AGENCY: United States Department of 

Transportation, Federal Highway 

Administration. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability (NOA) of 

the Placer Parkway Partially Revised 

Draft Tier I Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS). 

SUMMARY: The Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA) is issuing this 

notice to advise the public of the 

availability of a Partially Revised Draft 

Tier 1 EIS for the Placer Parkway 

Corridor Preservation Project, a 

proposed transportation corridor in 

western Placer and eastern Sutter 

Counties, California. Specifically, the 

action being considered and evaluated 

is to select and preserve a 500- to 1,000- 

foot-wide corridor in the project study 

area, within which the future four- or 

six-lane Placer Parkway may be 

constructed. Placer Parkway is intended 

to reduce anticipated congestion on 

both the local and regional 

transportation system and to advance 

economic development goals in south 

Sutter County and southwestern Placer 

County. 

Five corridor build alternatives and a 

no-build alternative are evaluated in the 

Draft Tier 1 EIS. Although the Parkway 

would be designed and constructionlevel impacts analyzed during Tier 2, for 

the purpose of the Draft Tier 1 EIS, 

several assumptions have been made 

about potential design and configuration 

concepts. These assumptions would be 

subject to further development and 

refinement, and specific decisions about 

design of the roadway would be made 

during the Tier 2 process. The Parkway 

would be a high-speed, limited access 

roadway. Conceptually, interchanges 

would be located at SR 70/99 (at onehalf mile north of Riego Road or at 

Sankey Road), one or two locations to be 

determined in southern Sutter County, 

Fiddyment Road, Foothills Boulevard, 

and SR 65 at Whitney Ranch Parkway. 

Access would be restricted for the 7- 

mile segment between Pleasant Grove 

Road and Fiddyment Road. The Draft 

Tier 1 EIS assumes no interchanges in 

this segment. 

Revisions to the Draft Tier 1 EIS and 

Additional Analyses in the Partially 

Revised Draft Tier 1 EIS: The Partially 

Revised Draft Tier 1 EIS serves as a 

supplement to the Draft Tier 1 EIS 

issued in June 2007, to reflect additional 

analyses developed since the 

publication of the prior draft. The 

Partially Revised Draft Tier 1 EIS 

provides revisions to the Draft Tier 1 

EIS, including updates to farmland 

classification data and greenhouse gas 

emissions. It also includes additional 

analyses of growth inducement, 

secondary and indirect impacts and 

cumulative impacts based on 

hypothetical future scenarios prepared 

for the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers. 

Public Review and Comment Period: 

Comments regarding the Partially 

Revised Draft Tier 1 EIS shall be 

accepted beginning on January 30, 2009 

and must be submitted in writing by 5 

p.m. on March 15, 2009 to Placer 

County Transportation Planning Agency 

(PCTPA) via regular mail to PCTPA, 

Attention: Celia McAdam, Executive 

Director, 299 Nevada St., Auburn, 

California 95603, or via e-mail to 

pctpa@pctpa.net. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Celia McAdam, Executive Director, 299 

Nevada St., Auburn, California 95603, 

or via e-mail to pctpa@pctpa.net. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Electronic Access 

An electronic copy of this document 

may be downloaded by using a 

computer, modem and suitable 

communications software from the 

Government Printing Office’s Electronic 

Bulletin Board Service at (202) 512– 

1661. Internet users may reach the 

Office of Federal Register’s home page at 

http://www.nara.gov/fedreg and the 

Government Printing Office’s Web page 

at http://www.access.gpo.gov.nara. 

Background: The FHWA, in 

cooperation with the California 

Department of Transportation (Caltrans), 

Sutter County, and the South Placer 

Regional Transportation Authority 

(SPRTA), prepared a Partially Revised 

Draft Tier 1 EIS on a proposal to select 

and preserve a corridor for the future 

construction of Placer Parkway, a new 

east-west roadway linking State Route 

(SR) 70/99 in Sutter County east to SR 

65 in Placer County. Placer Parkway is 

intended to reduce anticipated 

congestion on both the local and 

regional transportation system and to 

advance economic development goals in 

south Sutter County and southwestern 

Placer County. 

Specifically, the action being 

considered and evaluated by FHWA, 

Caltrans and SPRTA is to select and 

preserve a 500- to 1,000-foot-wide 

corridor in the project study area, 

within which the future four- or six-lane 

Placer Parkway may be constructed. 

Five or six interchanges are proposed, 

depending on the corridor alignment 

alternative. 

The proposed Parkway project is 

identified in the Sacramento Council of 

Government’s (SACOG) 2025 

Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) 

and the 2022 Placer County Regional 

Transportation Plan. The planning for 

Placer Parkway involves two phases: (1) 

The present action, selection of a 

corridor (titled the Placer Parkway 

Corridor Preservation Project), and (2) 

the future selection of a precise 

alignment within the corridor and a 

decision whether or not to build the 

Parkway. If a build alternative is 

selected and pursued after the second 

phase, the ultimate Placer Parkway 

project would be constructed and 

operated. Each phase will be subject to 

its own environmental review, a process 

known as ‘‘tiered’’ environmental 

review under both state and federal law. 

The selection of a corridor is the subject 

of the Tier 1 EIS. 

The Placer Parkway Corridor 

Preservation Draft Tier 1 EIS was 

completed on June 29, 2007. It was 

circulated for public comment on July 2, 

2007. The comment period ended on 

September 10, 2007. To the degree 

feasible, the Draft Tier 1 EIS reviewed 

the reasonably foreseeable 

environmental effects of the 

construction and operation of the 

Parkway. Selection of a more precise 

alignment within the corridor, and 

construction and operation of the 

Parkway, will be the subject of a later 

Tier 2 environmental document. 

The Revised Draft Tier 1 EIS serves as 

a supplement to the Draft Tier 1 EIS 

issued in June 2007, to reflect additional 

analyses developed since the 

publication of the prior draft. The 

Revised Draft Tier 1 EIS provides 

revisions to the Draft Tier 1 EIS, 

including updates to farmland 

classification data, and greenhouse gas 

emissions. It also includes additional 

analyses of growth inducement, 

secondary and indirect impacts and 

cumulative impacts based on 

hypothetical future scenarios prepared 

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for the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers. 

To ensure that a full range of issues 

related to this proposed action are 

addressed and all significant issues 

identified, comments and suggestions 

are invited from all interested parties. 

Comments or questions concerning this 

proposed action should be directed to 

the FHWA at the address provided 

above or to Celia McAdam, Executive 

Director, PCTPA, 299 Nevada Street, 

Auburn, CA 95603, no later than March 

8, 2009. 

The public, as well as agencies and 

local jurisdictions, are also invited to 

comment on the Partially Revised Draft 

Tier 1 EIS at either of two public 

hearings: 

• February 23, 2009—6 p.m. at the 

Veterans Memorial Community 

Building, 1425 Veterans Memorial 

Circle in Yuba City, California. 

• February 25, 2009—10:45 a.m. at 

the Placer County Board of Supervisors 

Chambers (The Domes), 175 Fulweiler 

Avenue, Auburn, CA 95603. 

Availability of the Partially Revised 

Draft Tier 1 EIS for Public Review: 

Copies are available for review at the 

following locations: 

Placer County Transportation Planning 

Agency, 299 Nevada Street, Auburn, 

CA 

Placer County Planning Department, 

3091 County Center Drive, Auburn, 

CA 

Placer County Public Works 

Department, 3091 County Center 

Drive, Auburn, CA 

Placer County Library, 350 Nevada 

Street, Auburn, CA 

Placer County Library, Loomis, 6050 

Library Drive, Loomis, CA 

Sutter County Library, Main Branch, 

7504 Forbes Avenue, Yuba City, CA 

Sutter County Library, Pleasant Grove 

Branch, 3093 Howsley Road, Pleasant 

Grove, CA 

Sutter County Library, Browns Branch, 

1248 Pacific Avenue, Rio Oso, CA 

Sacramento County Public Library, 828 

I Street, Sacramento, CA 

California State University, 6000 J 

Street, Sacramento, CA 

Sutter County Planning Department, 

1130 Civic Center Blvd., Yuba City, 

CA 

Sacramento County Planning 

Department, 827 7th Street, Room 

230, Sacramento, CA 

Roseville Public Library—Downtown, 

225 Taylor Street, Roseville, CA 

Roseville Public Library—Maidu 1530 

Maidu Drive, Roseville, CA 

Rocklin Library, 5400 Fifth Street, 

Rocklin, CA 

Lincoln Library, 590 Fifth Street, 

Lincoln, CA 

Sierra College Library, 5000 Rocklin 

Road, Rocklin, CA 

Sacramento County Library, North 

Natomas, 2500 New Market Drive, 

Sacramento, CA 

Sacramento County Library, North 

Highlands—Antelope, 4235 Antelope 

Road, Antelope, CA 

Copies can also be obtained 

electronically from PCTPA’s project 

Web site at http://www.pctpa.net. 

Additional information, including 

documents referenced in the Partially 

Revised Draft Tier 1 EIS, may be 

obtained by contacting Celia McAdam at 

the Placer County Transportation 

Planning Agency at 530–823–4030, 

Monday through Friday between the 

hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. 

Issued on: January 22, 2009. 

Sandra Garcia-Aline, 

Director, Local Agency Programs, Federal 

Highway Administration, Sacramento, CA. 

[FR Doc. E9–1797 Filed 1–29–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Railroad Administration 

[Docket No. FRA–2009–0009] 

Establishment of an Emergency Relief 

Docket for Calendar Year 2009 

AGENCY: Federal Railroad 

Administration (FRA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of establishment of 

public docket. 

SUMMARY: This Notice announces the 

establishment of FRA’s emergency relief 

docket (ERD) for calendar year 2009. 

The designated ERD for calendar year 

2009 is docket number FRA–2009–0009. 

ADDRESSES: See SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section for further 

information regarding submitting 

petitions and/or comments to Docket 

No. FRA–2009–0009. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 

9, 2007, FRA published a final rule 

addressing the establishment of ERDs 

and the procedures for handling 

petitions for emergency waivers of 

safety rules, regulations, or standards 

during an emergency situation or event. 

72 FR 17433. That final rule added 

§ 211.45 to the FRA’s Rules of Practice 

published at 49 CFR Part 211. Paragraph 

(b) of § 211.45 provides that each 

calendar year FRA will establish an ERD 

in the publicly accessible DOT docket 

system (available on the internet at 

http://www.regulations.gov). Paragraph 

(b) of § 211.45 further provides that FRA 

will publish a notice in the Federal 

Register identifying by docket number 

the ERD for that year. As noted in the 

final rule, FRA’s purpose for 

establishing the ERD and emergency 

waiver procedures is to provide an 

expedited process for FRA to address 

the needs of the public and the railroad 

industry during emergency situations or 

events. This Notice announces that the 

designated ERD for calendar year 2009 

is docket number FRA–2009–0009. 

As detailed § 211.45, if the FRA 

Administrator determines that an 

emergency event as defined in 49 CFR 

211.45(a) has occurred, or that an 

imminent threat of such an emergency 

occurring exists, and public safety 

would benefit from providing the 

railroad industry with operational relief, 

the emergency waiver procedures of 49 

CFR 211.45 will go into effect. In such 

an event, the FRA Administrator will 

issue a statement in the ERD indicating 

that the emergency waiver procedures 

are in effect and FRA will make every 

effort to post the statement on its Web 

site http://www.fra.dot.gov/. Any party 

desiring relief from FRA regulatory 

requirements as a result of the 

emergency situation should submit a 

petition for emergency waiver in 

accordance with 49 CFR 211.45(e) and 

(f). Specific instructions for filing 

petitions for emergency waivers in 

accordance with 49 CFR 211.45 are 

found at 49 CFR 211.45(f). Specific 

instructions for filing comments in 

response to petitions for emergency 

waivers are found at 49 CFR 211.45(h). 

Privacy 

Anyone is able to search all comments 

received into any of our dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register 

published on April 11, 2000 (Volume 

665, Number 7, Pages 19477–78). The 

statement may also be found at http:// 

www.dot.gov/privacy.html. 

Issued in Washington, DC on January 23, 

2009. 

Grady C. Cothen, Jr., 

Deputy Associate Administrator, for Safety 

Standards and Program Development. 

[FR Doc. E9–1969 Filed 1–29–09; 8:45 am] 

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