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and Section 106 Finding of No Adverse Environmental Impact Statement issued with the Americans with Disabilities Effect. Supporting documentation: March 6, 2001. Act. Final agency actions: FONSI issued Environmental Assessment issued April 9. Project name and location: South on November 29, 2004; Section 4(f) 4, 2005. County Commuter Rail, Providence, RI. Finding; and Section 106 Finding of No 5. Project name and location: Project sponsor: Rhode Island Adverse Effect. Supporting Lakewood-to-Tacoma Sounder Department of Transportation. Project documentation: Environmental Commuter Rail, Tacoma, WA. Project description: 20-mile commuter rail Assessment issued in July 2002. sponsor: Sound Transit. Project extension along Amtrak’s Northeast 14. Project name and location: description: Commuter rail facilities Corridor from Providence to North Brattleboro Multimodal Transit Facility, along an approximately 12-mile rail Kingston. Final agency actions: FONSI Brattleboro, VT. Project sponsor: Town corridor between the City of Lakewood issued on February 6, 2003; Section 4(f) of Brattleboro. Project description: and the City of Tacoma. Final agency Finding; and Section 106 Programmatic Construction of two transportation actions: ROD issued December 30, 2003; Agreement. Supporting documentation: facilities, the Brattleboro Transportation Section 4(f) Finding; and Section 106 Environmental Assessment issued on Center and the Brattleboro Union Finding of No Adverse Effect. August 3, 2002. Station. Final agency actions: FONSI Supporting documentation: Final 10. Project name and location: New issued on September 14, 2001; Section Environmental Impact Statement issued Britain-Hartford Busway, Hartford, CT. 4(f) Finding; and Section 106 Finding of July 5, 2002. Project sponsor: Connecticut No Adverse Effect. Supporting 6. Project name and location: Erie Department of Transportation. Project documentation: Environmental Canal Harbor Project, Buffalo, NY. description: 12-station, 9.4 mile Assessment issued on June 22, 2001. exclusive bus rapid transit system Project sponsors: Niagara Frontier 15. Project name and location: operating primarily in an existing and Transportation Authority and Empire Bridgeport Intermodal Transportation abandoned railroad right-of-way on a State Development Corporation. Project Center, Bridgeport, CT. Project sponsor: new roadway between downtown New description: Reconfiguration of a portion City of Bridgeport. Project description: Britain and downtown Hartford. Final of the Buffalo River bulkhead and Construction of a new multimodal agency actions: ROD issued on March redevelopment of a site within the City’s 13, 2002; Section 4(f) Finding; and transportation center in the downtown. Waterfront Development Project Urban Section 106 Finding of No Effect. Final agency actions: FONSI issued on Renewal Area into a new harbor with Supporting documentation: Final August 19, 2003; Section 4(f) Finding; series of landside improvements to Environmental Impact Statement issued and Section 106 Memorandum of facilitate and enhance public access to on December 21, 2001. Agreement. Supporting documentation: the waterfront, connect pedestrian and 11. Project name and location: Copley Environmental Assessment issued on bicycle paths, and provide opportunities Station Accessibility Improvements, June 17, 2003. for private development. Final agency Boston, MA. Project sponsor: Issued on: February 24, 2006. actions: Revised ROD issued March 2, Massachusetts Bay Transportation David J. Vozzolo, 2005; Section 4(f) Finding; and Section Authority (MBTA). Project description: 106 Programmatic Agreement. Acting Associate Administrator for Planning Reconstruction of Copley Station on and Environment, Washington, DC. Supporting documentation: MBTA’s Green Line to make it Supplemental Final Environmental [FR Doc. E6–2924 Filed 2–28–06; 8:45 am] compliant with the Americans with BILLING CODE 4910–57–P Impact Statement issued December 7, Disabilities Act. Final agency actions: 2004. FONSI issued on December 30, 2004; 7. Project name and location: Second Section 4(f) Finding; and Section 106 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Avenue Subway, New York, NY. Project Finding of No Adverse Effect. sponsors: Metropolitan Transportation Supporting documentation: Maritime Administration Authority and Transit. Environmental Assessment issued on Project description: A new subway line June 28, 2004. Relocation and Decommissioning of extending the length of Manhattan’s 12. Project name and location: NS Savannah East Side from 125th Street in East Arlington Street Station Accessibility AGENCY: Harlem to Hanover Square in the Improvements, Boston, MA. Project Maritime Administration, Financial District. Final agency actions: sponsor: Massachusetts Bay Department of Transportation. ROD issued July 8, 2004; Section 4(f) Transportation Authority (MBTA). ACTION: Notice and Request for Finding; and Section 106 Programmatic Project description: Reconstruction of Comments. Agreement. Supporting documentation: Arlington Street Station on MBTA’s Final Environmental Impact Statement Green Line to make it compliant with SUMMARY: The Maritime Administration issued April 8, 2004. the Americans with Disabilities Act. (MARAD) is considering transferring the 8. Project name and location: East Final agency actions: FONSI issued on Nuclear Ship NS Savannah from its Side Access Project, New York, NY. May 14, 2004; Section 4(f) Finding; and present location in the James River Project sponsors: Metropolitan Section 106 Finding of No Adverse Reserve Fleet in Virginia to either Transportation Authority and the Long Effect. Supporting documentation: Charleston, South Carolina; Island Railroad. Project description: Environmental Assessment issued on Wilmington, North Carolina; Hampton Construction of new tunnels in Queens July 21, 2003. Roads, Virginia; or , Maryland, and Manhattan that will bring Long 13. Project name and location: to complete decommissioning of the Island Railroad trains into a new Government Station Accessibility ship’s . Prior to making terminal beneath Grand Central Improvements, Boston, MA. Project this decision, MARAD requests public Terminal on the east side of Manhattan. sponsor: Massachusetts Bay comments and may hold several Final agency actions: ROD issued May Transportation Authority (MBTA). informational public meetings and/or 21, 2001; Section 4(f) Finding; and Project description: Reconstruction of teleconferences on the proposal. Section 106 Programmatic Agreement. Government Station on MBTA’s Blue DATES: Comments are due by March 31, Supporting documentation: Final and Green Lines to make it compliant 2006.

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ADDRESSES: You may submit comments MARAD is requesting public and model year Nissan GTS and GTR by mail to: Maritime Administration, comments on its proposal to relocate the passenger cars that are no longer eligible Office of Congressional and Public Savannah for decommissioning. After for importation, and will not affect the Affairs, 400 Seventh Street, SW., reviewing comments, MARAD may hold status of vehicles that have already been Washington, DC 20590; or by e-mail to: several informational public meetings lawfully imported under vehicle [email protected]. (and/or teleconferences) addressing this eligibility number VCP–17. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: proposal in Charleston, South Carolina; DATES: The decision is effective on Erhard Koehler, Manager, NS Savannah Wilmington, North Carolina; Hampton March 1, 2006. Programs, Maritime Administration, 400 Roads, Virginia (to include Norfolk, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC Portsmouth, Newport News); and Coleman Sachs, Office of Vehicle Safety 20590; phone: (202) 366–2631; fax: (202) Baltimore, Maryland. If such meetings Compliance, National Highway Traffic 366–3954; or e-mail are determined to be necessary, specific Safety Administration, 400 Seventh [email protected]. Information dates and times for the meetings will be Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590 regarding the NS Savannah is also announced in the Federal Register. (202–366–5291). available on MARAD’s Web site at (Authority 49 CFR 1.66) SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: http://www.marad.dot.gov. Dated: February 24, 2006. A. Statutory and Regulatory SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NS By order of the Maritime Administrator. Background Savannah, the world’s first nuclear- Joel C. Richard, Under 49 U.S.C. 30141(a)(1)(A), a powered commercial vessel, was Secretary, Maritime Administration motor vehicle that was not originally originally launched on July 21, 1959, [FR Doc. E6–2923 Filed 2–28–06; 8:45 am] manufactured to conform to all and served as a demonstration of the BILLING CODE 4910–81–P applicable Federal motor vehicle safety peaceful and productive use of atomic standards (FMVSS) shall be refused power. It was part of the admission into the unless Naval and Maritime Museum in Mount DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION NHTSA has decided that the motor Pleasant, SC from 1981 to 1994, and has vehicle is substantially similar to a spent the last 11 years moored at National Highway Traffic Safety motor vehicle originally manufactured MARAD’s James River Reserve Fleet in Administration for importation into and sale in the Virginia. [Docket No. NHTSA 2005–22654; Notice 2] United States, certified under 49 U.S.C. MARAD is considering transferring 30115, and of the same model year as the Savannah from its present location Final Decision To Partially Rescind the model of the motor vehicle to be to either Charleston, South Carolina; Decision That Nonconforming 1990– compared, and is capable of being Wilmington, North Carolina; Hampton 1999 Nissan GTS and GTR Passenger readily altered to conform to all Roads, Virginia; or Baltimore, Maryland, Cars Are Eligible for Importation applicable FMVSS. Where there is no to complete the decommissioning of its AGENCY: National Highway Traffic substantially similar U.S.-certified nuclear reactor. No nuclear fuel remains Safety Administration (NHTSA), DOT. motor vehicle, 49 U.S.C. 30141(a)(1)(B) on the Savannah (as all of the fuel was ACTION: Final decision to partially permits a nonconforming motor vehicle removed more than 30 years ago). to be admitted into the United States if MARAD has a five-year plan to remove rescind decision that nonconforming 1990–1999 Nissan GTS and GTR its safety features comply with, or are the rest of the irradiated components capable of being altered to comply with, from the ship—the reactor pressure passenger cars are eligible for importation. all applicable FMVSS based on crash vessel, steam generators, pumps and test data or other evidence (such as an piping systems. These components have SUMMARY: This document announces a engineering analysis) that NHTSA been tested and found to be Class A or final decision by NHTSA to partially decides is adequate. lower, which means they have the rescind a prior decision by the agency Petitions for eligibility decisions may lowest radiation levels they can have that 1990–1999 Nissan GTS and GTR be submitted by either manufacturers or and still be considered nuclear waste. passenger cars not originally importers who have registered with The waste would be disposed of in a manufactured to comply with all NHTSA pursuant to 49 CFR Part 592. As licensed facility. This collective process applicable Federal motor vehicle safety specified in 49 CFR 593.7, NHTSA is defined as ‘‘decommissioning.’’ standards (FMVSS) are eligible for publishes notice in the Federal Register The Savannah is licensed and importation into the United States. As a of each petition that it receives, and regulated by the U.S. Nuclear result of this decision, only Nissan R33 affords interested persons an Regulatory Commission (NRC)—just like model GTS and GTR passenger cars opportunity to comment on the petition. any other commercial utility that manufactured between January 1996 At the close of the comment period, operates a station. Under and June 1998 are eligible for NHTSA decides, on the basis of the NRC regulations, MARAD must move importation. All other model and model petition and any comments that it has the Savannah from its present location year vehicles admissible under the prior received, whether the vehicle is eligible in the James River Reserve Fleet to an decision are no longer eligible for for importation. Because NHTSA has East Coast port / industrial complex importation. As a consequence, the little or no direct knowledge of many where the decommissioning work can agency is rescinding vehicle eligibility vehicles for which import eligibility is be accomplished. NRC will then number VCP–17, which covered sought, the agency must rely on the consider an amendment to MARAD’s vehicles admissible under the prior petition and any comments that are Savannah license to authorize the decision, and issuing vehicle eligibility submitted in making this decision. The decommissioning work. This review is number VCP–32 to cover only those agency then publishes its decision in expected to take two years (2006–2008), model and model year Nissan GTS and the Federal Register. If NHTSA decides and it will include a series of formal GTR passenger cars that remain eligible that the vehicle is eligible for hearings chaired by the NRC in the for importation. The rescission will only importation, it will assign a vehicle decommissioning port. bar the future importation of the model eligibility number. The eligibility

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