Creation of an Electronic Docket for a Pending Environmental Impact Review on the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad's Powder River Basin Expansion Project Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing Program Loan Application, 65169-65170 [E6-18730]
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In the fall of 2005, a preliminary Draft
Environment Impact Statement (DEIS)
was completed and circulated to the
Federal cooperating agencies for review
and comment. As a result of this
coordination effort, the CBP requested
that another alternative be considered
for evaluation and inclusion in the
DEIS.
In an effort to continue to move
independent and critical road and
bridge portions of the project forward,
MDOT and FHWA have separated the
Blue Water Bridge Plaza Study into two
projects: (a) An EIS for the Blue Water
Bridge Plaza that will focus specifically
on plaza expansion and improvements,
and (b) An Environmental Assessment
that will address transportation
improvements along I–69/I–94 and the
creation of a new off-site welcome
center. The improvements covered in
the EA are independent of any of the
alternatives under consideration for the
plaza improvements. The FHWA has
reviewed and concluded that the
improvements that will be studied in
the EA have independent utility and
logical termini
The purposes of the I–69/I–94 EA
Corridor improvements are:
• Accommodate projected 2030 traffic
growth,
• Improve the safety on the Black
River Bridge and reduce weaving
movements at the Water Street
Interchange,
• Replace the aging Black River
Bridge spans,
• Improve vehicle access to the Port
Huron Area, and
• Create a more visible and accessible
Welcome Center.
The need for improvements to the I–
69/I–94 Corridor is supported by several
key issues:
• Traffic growth,
• Traffic backups,
• Traffic conflicts and crash history,
• The current condition of existing
roadways in the corridor, and
• The current condition of the Black
River Bridge.
The study boundaries for the I–69/I–
94 Environmental Assessment are
located along I–69/I–94 and the M–25
connector. The northern terminus for
the EA is the M–25 connector
intersection with Hancock Street and
the southern terminus is the I–69/I–94
bridge over Lapeer Road. The EA study
area includes the I–69/I–94 ramps to
and from the existing plaza, the Black
River Bridge, the Water Street
interchange and the Lapeer connector
interchange.
The purpose and need and study
boundaries for the plaza Environmental
Impact Statement remain the same as
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described earlier. The study area
includes a potential location for a
relocated plaza in Port Huron
Township.
A range of plaza and transportation
improvement alternatives for the plaza
EIS, will be analyzed. Reasonable
alternatives under consideration
include: taking no action, expanding the
existing plaza location in the City of
Port Huron (two alternatives), and
relocating the major plaza functions to
an off-site plaza location in Port Huron
Township. The EIS study area for the
off-site plaza, along with subsequent
improvements to I–94/I–69 and the EA
improvements to I–94/I–69, overlap for
this alternative, but only for this
alternative.
Agencies and citizen involvement
will continue to be solicited throughout
this process. A public meeting and a
public hearing will be held on the Draft
Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS).
Public notice will be given of the time
and place of the hearing. The DEIS will
be available for public and agency
review and comment prior to the public
hearing.
To ensure that the 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 and the EIS should be
directed to the FHWA at the address
provided above.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Program Number 20.205, Highway Planning
and Construction. The regulations
implementing Executive Order 12372
regarding intergovernmental consultation of
Federal programs and activities apply to this
program.)
Issued on: October 31, 2006.
James A. Kirschensteiner,
Assistant Division Administrator, Lansing,
Michigan.
[FR Doc. 06–9099 Filed 11–6–06; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
Sunshine Act Meetings; Unified Carrier
Registration Plan Board of Directors
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, DOT.
TIME AND DATE: November 7, 2006, 1
p.m. to 5 p.m. and November 8, 2006 8
a.m. to 12 p.m.
PLACE: Hilton Chicago O’Hare Airport,
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Open to the public.
An
overview of the Unified Carrier
Registration Plan and Agreement
requirements set forth under section
4305 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible,
Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A
Legacy for Users, and the administrative
functioning of the Board. In addition,
the Board will continue its work in
developing the Unified Carrier
Registration Agreement procedures and
toward recommending UCRA fees to the
Secretary.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
William Quade, (202)366–2172,
Director, Office of Safety Programs,
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, or Mr. Bryan Price,
(412) 395–4816, FMCSA Pennsylvania
Division Office.
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:
Dated: November 2, 2006.
Rose A. McMurray,
Associate Administrator, Policy and Program
Development.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
Creation of an Electronic Docket for a
Pending Environmental Impact Review
on the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern
Railroad’s Powder River Basin
Expansion Project Railroad
Rehabilitation and Improvement
Financing Program Loan Application
Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of the Creation of an
Electronic Docket for the Comments
Received on the FRA’s Adoption of the
Environmental Impact Statements
Issued by the Surface Transportation
Board and FRA’s Draft Section 4(f)/303
Statement and Participation as a
Concurring Party to a Section 106
Programmatic Agreement.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: FRA is announcing the
creation of an electronic docket
containing comments submitted to the
agency in connection with the agency’s
environmental and historic preservation
review of the Dakota, Minnesota and
Eastern Railroad’s application for loan
to carry out its Powder River Basin
Expansion Project.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David Valenstein, Environmental
Program Manager, 1120 Vermont
Avenue, NW., Mail Stop 20,
Washington, DC 20590; Phone (202)
493–6368.
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Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 215 / Tuesday, November 7, 2006 / Notices
In an
August 18, 2006 Federal Register
notice, FRA announced that it had
received an application from the Dakota,
Minnesota & Eastern Railroad
Corporation (DM&E) for a $2.3 billion
loan under the Railroad Rehabilitation
and Improvement Financing (RRIF)
program to fund the railroad’s Powder
River Basin Expansion Project (Project)
to construct approximately 280 miles of
new rail line to reach the coal mines of
Wyoming’s Powder River Basin and to
reconstruct another approximately 600
miles of DM&E’s existing rail line to
allow operation of unit coal trains along
the reconstructed route to and from the
new line. DM&E had received
permission to undertake the Project
from the Surface Transportation Board
(STB) in a February 15, 2006 decision
(see Finance Docket 33407). The STB
had prepared a detailed environmental
review of the Project pursuant to the
National Environmental Policy Act. As
authorized by Council on
Environmental Quality (CEC)
Regulations, FRA decided to adopt the
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
and Supplemental Environmental
Impact Statement (SEIS) issued by the
STB for Project. Consistent with the
CEQ regulations, FRA recirculated the
STB’s EIS and SEIS. EPA’s publication
in the Federal Register of the notice of
availability also occurred on August 18,
2006. FRA also announced the
availability of a draft section 4(f)/303
Statement prepared for the Project by
the FRA pursuant to section 4(f) of the
Department of Transportation Act (49
U.S.C. 303(c)) and that the FRA was
seeking to participate as a concurring
party in the existing section 106
Programmatic Agreement. FRA further
indicated in the Federal Register notice
that it would accept public comment on
its announced actions through October
10, 2006.
FRA is now announcing that in light
of the substantial volume of comments
received it is creating an electronic
docket containing the comments that
were submitted. The electronic docket is
available through the DOT Docket
Management System (DMS) and is
found at https://dms.dot.gov/. The docket
number for this environmental review is
FRA 2006–26099. For access to the
docket to read background documents
or comments received, go to https://
dms.dot.gov at any time or to PL–401 on
the plaza level of the Nassif Building,
400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington,
DC between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
The electronic docket will facilitate
public access to the comments and
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enhance FRA’s ability to evaluate and
address the comments. While creation
of an electronic docket is not the
agency’s normal practice for
environmental reviews, the special
circumstances present in this
proceeding made this an attractive
option for the agency. The DMS staff
will add the submitted comments as
expeditiously as possible and comments
will be available as they are added to
the system.
Note that comments received will be
posted without change to https://
dms.dot.gov including any personal
information. All commenters should be
aware that anyone is potentially able to
search the electronic form of comments
received into any agency docket
depending on how the comments are
entered into the docket system. You
may review DOT’s complete Privacy Act
Statement in the Federal Register
published on April 11, 2000 (Volume
65, Number 70; pages 19477–78) or you
may visit https://dms.dot.gov. If anyone
does not want their submitted comment
to be included in the Docket because
they would not have submitted the
comment had they been aware that it
would be included in an electronic
docket, please contact the DMS office at:
https://dms.dot.gov/Support/ or 1–800–
647–5527.
Issued in Washington, DC on October 31,
2006.
Joseph H. Boardman,
Federal Railroad Administrator.
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National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA–2006–23701; Notice 2]
Decision That Nonconforming 2005
Toyota RAV4 Multipurpose Passenger
Vehicles Are Eligible for Importation
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice of decision by the
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration that nonconforming
2005 Toyota RAV4 multipurpose
passenger vehicles are eligible for
importation.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This document announces a
decision by the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
that certain 2005 Toyota RAV4
multipurpose passenger vehicles
(MPVs) that were not originally
manufactured to comply with all
applicable Federal motor vehicle safety
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standards (FMVSS) are eligible for
importation into the United States
because they are substantially similar to
vehicles originally manufactured for
importation into and sale in the United
States and that were certified by their
manufacturer as complying with the
safety standards (the U.S. certified
version of the 2005 Toyota RAV4 MPV),
and they are capable of being readily
altered to conform to the standards.
DATES: This decision was effective April
17, 2006. The agency notified the
petitioner at that time that the subject
vehicles are eligible for importation.
This document provides public notice
of the eligibility decision.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Coleman Sachs, Office of Vehicle Safety
Compliance, NHTSA (202–366–3151).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Under 49 U.S.C. 30141(a)(1)(A), a
motor vehicle that was not originally
manufactured to conform to all
applicable FMVSS shall be refused
admission into the United States unless
NHTSA has decided that the motor
vehicle is substantially similar to a
motor vehicle originally manufactured
for importation into and sale in the
United States, certified as required
under 49 U.S.C. 30115, and of the same
model year as the model of the motor
vehicle to be compared, and is capable
of being readily altered to conform to all
applicable FMVSS.
Petitions for eligibility decisions may
be submitted by either manufacturers or
importers who have registered with
NHTSA pursuant to 49 CFR part 592. As
specified in 49 CFR 593.7, NHTSA
publishes notice in the Federal Register
of each petition that it receives, and
affords interested persons an
opportunity to comment on the petition.
At the close of the comment period,
NHTSA decides, on the basis of the
petition and any comments that it has
received, whether the vehicle is eligible
for importation. The agency then
publishes this decision in the Federal
Register.
J.K. Technologies, LLC (JK) of
Baltimore, Maryland (Registered
Importer 90–006), petitioned NHTSA to
decide whether 2005 Toyota RAV4
MPVs are eligible for importation into
the United States. NHTSA published
notice of the petition on January 31,
2006 (71 FR 5115) to afford an
opportunity for public comment. The
reader is referred to that notice for a
thorough description of the petition.
One comment was received in
response to the notice of petition, from
Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
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[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-18730]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
Creation of an Electronic Docket for a Pending Environmental
Impact Review on the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad's Powder
River Basin Expansion Project Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement
Financing Program Loan Application
AGENCY: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of the Creation of an Electronic Docket for the Comments
Received on the FRA's Adoption of the Environmental Impact Statements
Issued by the Surface Transportation Board and FRA's Draft Section
4(f)/303 Statement and Participation as a Concurring Party to a Section
106 Programmatic Agreement.
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SUMMARY: FRA is announcing the creation of an electronic docket
containing comments submitted to the agency in connection with the
agency's environmental and historic preservation review of the Dakota,
Minnesota and Eastern Railroad's application for loan to carry out its
Powder River Basin Expansion Project.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Valenstein, Environmental
Program Manager, 1120 Vermont Avenue, NW., Mail Stop 20, Washington, DC
20590; Phone (202) 493-6368.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
In an August 18, 2006 Federal Register notice, FRA announced that
it had received an application from the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern
Railroad Corporation (DM&E) for a $2.3 billion loan under the Railroad
Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) program to fund the
railroad's Powder River Basin Expansion Project (Project) to construct
approximately 280 miles of new rail line to reach the coal mines of
Wyoming's Powder River Basin and to reconstruct another approximately
600 miles of DM&E's existing rail line to allow operation of unit coal
trains along the reconstructed route to and from the new line. DM&E had
received permission to undertake the Project from the Surface
Transportation Board (STB) in a February 15, 2006 decision (see Finance
Docket 33407). The STB had prepared a detailed environmental review of
the Project pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act. As
authorized by Council on Environmental Quality (CEC) Regulations, FRA
decided to adopt the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and
Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) issued by the STB
for Project. Consistent with the CEQ regulations, FRA recirculated the
STB's EIS and SEIS. EPA's publication in the Federal Register of the
notice of availability also occurred on August 18, 2006. FRA also
announced the availability of a draft section 4(f)/303 Statement
prepared for the Project by the FRA pursuant to section 4(f) of the
Department of Transportation Act (49 U.S.C. 303(c)) and that the FRA
was seeking to participate as a concurring party in the existing
section 106 Programmatic Agreement. FRA further indicated in the
Federal Register notice that it would accept public comment on its
announced actions through October 10, 2006.
FRA is now announcing that in light of the substantial volume of
comments received it is creating an electronic docket containing the
comments that were submitted. The electronic docket is available
through the DOT Docket Management System (DMS) and is found at https://
dms.dot.gov/. The docket number for this environmental review is FRA
2006-26099. For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to https://dms.dot.gov at any time or to PL-401 on
the plaza level of the Nassif Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW.,
Washington, DC between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays. The electronic docket will facilitate public access
to the comments and enhance FRA's ability to evaluate and address the
comments. While creation of an electronic docket is not the agency's
normal practice for environmental reviews, the special circumstances
present in this proceeding made this an attractive option for the
agency. The DMS staff will add the submitted comments as expeditiously
as possible and comments will be available as they are added to the
system.
Note that comments received will be posted without change to http:/
/dms.dot.gov including any personal information. All commenters should
be aware that anyone is potentially able to search the electronic form
of comments received into any agency docket depending on how the
comments are entered into the docket system. You may review DOT's
complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register published on
April 11, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 70; pages 19477-78) or you may visit
https://dms.dot.gov. If anyone does not want their submitted comment to
be included in the Docket because they would not have submitted the
comment had they been aware that it would be included in an electronic
docket, please contact the DMS office at: https://dms.dot.gov/Support/ or 1-800-647-5527.
Issued in Washington, DC on October 31, 2006.
Joseph H. Boardman,
Federal Railroad Administrator.
[FR Doc. E6-18730 Filed 11-6-06; 8:45 am]
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