[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 138 (Thursday, July 22, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38789-38790]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-15575]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

Federal Transit Administration


Notice of Limitation on Claims Against Proposed Public 
Transportation Project

AGENCY: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Federal Transit 
Administration (FTA), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces final environmental actions taken by FRA 
and FTA regarding the Hudson Tunnel Project (Project). The purpose of 
this notice is to announce publicly the 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 actions announced herein for 
the listed public transportation project will be barred unless the 
claim is filed on or before December 20, 2021.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
    For FRA: Kathryn Johnson, Attorney-Advisor, Office of Chief 
Counsel, telephone: (202) 493-0407, email: kathryn.johnson@dot.gov; or 
Amishi Castelli, Northeast Corridor Program Manager, Office of Railroad 
Policy and Development, telephone: (617) 431-0416, email: 
amishi.castelli@dot.gov.
    For FTA: John A. Sautter, Region 2 Counsel, Office of Chief 
Counsel, telephone: (202) 748-0700, email: john.sautter@dot.gov; or 
Donald Burns, Region 2 Supervisory Transportation Program Specialist, 
telephone: (212) 668-2203, email: donald.burns@dot.gov; or Saadat Khan, 
Environmental Protection Specialist, Office of Environmental Programs, 
telephone:

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(202) 366-9647, email: saadat.khan@dot.gov. FTA Region 2 is located at 
1 Bowling Green, Room 428, New York, NY 10004. FTA and FRA Headquarters 
are located at 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590. Office 
hours for both Regional and Headquarters Offices are from 9:00 a.m. to 
5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given that FRA and FTA have 
taken final agency action by issuing certain approvals for the public 
transportation project listed below. In accordance with 40 CFR 1506.3 
and 23 U.S.C. 139, FRA and FTA issued a final environmental impact 
statement (FEIS) and record of decision (ROD) on May 28, 2021. All 
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) as well as in documents in the FTA environmental project file. 
Interested parties may find more information on the Project website 
(http://www.hudsontunnelproject.com/) or FRA's website for the Project 
(https://railroads.dot.gov/environmental-reviews/hudson-tunnel-project/environmental-impact-statement).
    A summary of the Project that is the subject of this notice 
follows:
    Project name and location: Hudson Tunnel Project, Hudson River 
passenger rail crossing, Hudson County, New Jersey and New York County, 
New York.
    Project Sponsor: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New 
York, New York.
    Project description: The Project involves construction of a two-
track tunnel under the Hudson River (the Hudson River Tunnel) and 
railroad infrastructure in New Jersey and New York connecting the new 
rail tunnel to the existing Northeast Corridor (NEC), and 
rehabilitation of the existing North River Tunnel. The new Hudson River 
Tunnel will have two new tracks extending from the NEC in Secaucus, New 
Jersey, beneath the Palisades (North Bergen and Union City, New Jersey) 
and the Hoboken/Weehawken, New Jersey waterfront area, and beneath the 
Hudson River to connect to the existing tracks in Penn Station New York 
(PSNY). The new Hudson River Tunnel will be parallel to, and south of, 
the existing NEC between Secaucus, New Jersey and PSNY. This alignment 
will extend for a distance of approximately 4.5 miles. New ventilation 
shafts and associated fan plants will be located above the tunnel in 
New Jersey and New York for regular and emergency ventilation and 
emergency access and egress. The western terminus of the new tunnel and 
related tracks and infrastructure will be at Allied Interlocking, east 
of County Road in Secaucus, New Jersey and the eastern terminus will be 
at approximately Ninth Avenue in Manhattan, New York.
    This notice applies to all decisions on the 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 [23 U.S.C. 138, 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], Clean Water Act [33 U.S.C. 
1251], Clean Air Act [42 U.S.C. 7401-7671q], the Rivers and Harbors Act 
of 1899 (33 U.S.C. 403), and the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 
(16 U.S.C. 1451).
    Authority: 23 U.S.C. 139(l)(1).

Jamie P. Rennert,
Director, Office of Infrastructure Investment, Federal Railroad 
Administration.
Mark A. Ferroni,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Planning and Environment, Federal 
Transit Administration.
[FR Doc. 2021-15575 Filed 7-21-21; 8:45 am]
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