(2) Local and State governments in the Na-
tional Capital Region have led efforts to extend Met-
rorail service, and any future Metrorail extension 
will be provided only with their collaboration, con-
sistent with local planning objectives. 
(3) In the most recent draft strategic plan, Mo-
mentum: The Next Generation of Metro, Metro iden-
tifies future expansion opportunities, including the 
Orange Line in Virginia from Vienna to Centreville 
and the Blue Line in Virginia from Franconia- 
Springfield to Prince William. 
(4) More than 120,000 Federal employees ride 
Metro to work, accounting for more than 40 percent 
of the morning rush-hour ridership. 
(5) More than half of Metro’s current stations 
are located on Federal property. 
(6) The Federal Government has partnered 
with the State and local governments to provide 
$300 million, consisting of $150 million in Federal 
funds to match $50 million each from Virginia, 
Maryland, and the District of Columbia (Public Law 
110–432), over a 10-year period for safety and other 
capital improvements throughout the Metro system. 
(7) Metro takes 580,000 cars off the road each 
day, eliminates the need for 1,400 lane miles of 
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highway, reduces gas consumption by 75 million gal-
lons annually, and eliminates more than 10,000 tons 
of greenhouse gas emissions annually. 
(8) Metrorail stations encourage transit-ori-
ented development, which is critical to protecting 
open space throughout the region. 
(9) Metro stimulates economic and job growth, 
and real estate near Metrorail stations is worth in 
excess of $25 billion. 
(10) The Virginia Department of Transpor-
tation (VDOT) and the Virginia Department of Rail 
and Public Transit (VDRPT) completed a Major In-
vestment Study that concluded that a multimodal 
transportation strategy is required to accommodate 
projected travel demand in Virginia along Interstate 
Route 66 from Interstate Route 495 to the Centre-
ville and Haymarket communities, areas which 
would be served by the proposed Orange Line exten-
sion. 
(11) The Route 1 Multimodal Alternatives 
Analysis, a partnership between VDOT, VDRPT, 
and Fairfax and Prince William counties, in October 
2014 endorsed recommendations for improving the 
corridor to include extending Metro’s Yellow Line to 
Hybla Valley ‘‘as expeditiously as possible’’. 
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(12) The population of the area to be served by 
the proposed Orange Line extension is expected to 
be 681,000 individuals by 2025, while employment 
in the area is projected to increase to 362,000 indi-
viduals. 
(13) The population of the area to be served by 
the proposed Blue and Yellow Line extensions grew 
by 120,000 people between 2000 and 2010, and con-
tinued growth of another 100,000 people is expected 
by 2020. 
(14) The Comprehensive Plans for both Fairfax 
and Prince William counties identify the need to de-
velop alternative transit concepts, including an ex-
tension of the existing Metrorail lines. 
(15) As a result of military base realignments 
and closures, thousands of national defense-related 
Federal and civilian jobs will shift from the area of 
Crystal City, Virginia, which is served by Metrorail, 
to Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and the Engineer Proving 
Ground in southern Fairfax, neither of which is cur-
rently served by Metro. 
(16) Department of Defense analysis shows 
many of those employees are coming from points 
south and west. 
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(17) Additional job growth along the Richmond 
Highway (Route 1) corridor and Interstate Route 95 
in both Fairfax and Prince William counties, includ-
ing communities like Mount Vernon, Woodbridge, 
and Potomac Mills, adds further urgency to the need 
to expand Metro service in Northern Virginia. 
(18) To ensure the regional transportation net-
work can accommodate projected growth, it is crit-
ical that extensions of transit service are coordinated 
with local land use planning, including the use of 
smart growth principles and transit-oriented develop-
ment. 
SEC. 3. NEW FIXED GUIDEWAY CAPITAL PROJECTS, NORTH-
ERN VIRGINIA. 
The following projects are deemed to have entered the 
project development phase under section 5309(d)(1) of 
title 49, United States Code: 
(1) Northern Virginia—Extension of Metrorail 
Blue Line to include the Engineer Proving Ground 
and the Interstate Route 95 corridor in Fairfax and 
Prince William counties. 
(2) Northern Virginia—Extension of Metrorail 
Orange Line to Centreville. 
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(3) Northern Virginia—Extension of Metrorail 
Yellow Line to the Richmond Highway (Route 1) 
corridor in Fairfax and Prince William counties. 
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