National Historic Preservation Act Section 106 Consulting Parties Meeting #2
November 15, 2017 Meeting Agenda
• Purpose and Need
• Project Overview and Schedule
• Level 1 Concept Screening Results
• Draft Area of Potential Effect
• Identification of Historic Properties
• Next Steps
• Questions and Comments
2 Purpose and Need
Resiliency and Capacity Connectivity Redundancy
3 The Long Bridge
• Two-track steel truss railroad bridge (1904) • Contributing element to East and West Potomac Parks Historic District • Owned by CSXT • Only railroad bridge connecting Virginia to DC • Three tracks approaching the bridge from the north and south • Serves freight (CSXT), intercity passenger (Amtrak), and commuter rail (VRE) • Typically serves 76 weekday trains
4 Project Area Update
Previous Project Area Limits Updated Project Area Limits
5 Section 106 and NEPA Coordination
Consulting TODAY Consulting Consulting Consulting Party Party Party Party Meeting #1 Meeting #2 Meeting #3 Meeting #4 Project Draft APE, Overview Identify Resolve Preliminary Historic Determine Adverse historic Properties Effects Effects if properties ID Necessary
• Define • Identify and • Define Area • Determine • Draft • Execute Undertaking Invite of Potential Effects to Memorandum of Memorandum • Initiate Consulting Effects (APE) Historic Agreement or of Agreement or Consultation Parties • Identify & Properties Programmatic Programmatic Evaluate Agreement to Agreement if Historic Resolve Adverse necessary
Section 106 Properties Effects if necessary
Notice Purpose Environmental Project Draft FinalFinal EIS EIS/ / of Scoping Purposurandpos e EnvironmentalStudies and Alternatives DraftEIS RODROD Intent Scoping Needand Project StudiesEvaluation and NEPA Alternatives EIS Need Evaluation
Fall 2016 Winter – Fall 2017 Winter – Fall 2018 Winter – Summer 2019
6 Level 1 Concept Screening (Spring 2017)
1 No Build 2 2-Track Bridge (Replace) 3 3-Track Crossing 3A 3-Track Crossing with Bike-Ped Path 1 No Build 3B 3-Track Crossing with Streetcar 3C 3-Track Crossing with Vehicle Lanes 3 3-Track Crossing 4 3-Track Tunnel 3A 3-Track Crossing with Bike-Ped Path 5 4-Track Crossing 5A 4-Track Crossing with Bike-Ped Path 5 4-Track Crossing 5B 4-Track Crossing with Streetcar 5A 4-Track Crossing with Bike-Ped Path 5C 4-Track Crossing with Vehicle Lanes 6 4-Track Tunnel 8 5+- Track Crossing 7 2-Track Crossing; 2-Track Tunnel 5+-Track Crossing with Bike-Ped 8A 8 5+-Track Crossing or Tunnel Path 8A 5+-Track Crossing or Tunnel With Bike-Ped Path 8B 5+-Track Crossing or Tunnel with Streetcar 8C 5+-Track Crossing or Tunnel with Vehicle Lanes 9 New Corridor – Retain or Replace Existing 10 New Corridor – Remove Existing Preliminary Concepts Level 1 Screening Retained Concepts
7 Screening Process
Step 1 Step 2
Purpose and Need
Retained Preliminary Retained Alternatives 1 Concepts Concepts Concepts (conceptual CAPACITY (with alignment (without (without engineering to design) options) 2 design) allow assessment CONNECTIVITY of impacts)
3 RESILIENCY & REDUNDANCY
WE ARE HERE Level 1 Screening Level 2 Screening EIS
8 Draft Area of Potential Effects (APE) Methodology • The APE is defined as the geographic area within which effects to historic properties may reasonably occur. • Draft APE was developed based on the results of Level 1 Concept Screening and includes Bike-Pedestrian Bridge Options. • The APE considers both direct and indirect effects. • The APE also includes: – All locations where the project will cause ground disturbance; – All locations from which the project may be visible or audible; and – All locations where the project may result in changes to land use, public access, traffic patterns (e.g., trains, automobiles, airplanes), etc.
9 Draft APE Methodology
To delineate the Draft APE: • Field survey was conducted around the project area to determine the visibility of the project. • Field survey was based on height of existing Long Bridge steel trestle and component bridge, abutment, and track structures. • Considered lack of foliage during winter • Draft APE also documents viewsheds from buildings and viewing platforms to the extent they were accessible.
10 Draft APE
11 Field Survey Photograph Locations
Field survey photographs were taken primarily to test and establish the outer boundaries of the APE. Not all points shown on this slide are illustrated on the following slides.
12 Photograph Locations: Detail
Kennedy Center
2 Roosevelt Bridge
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Lincoln Memorial
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13 Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Bridge Photograph 1: Long Bridge from the west end of the Roosevelt Bridge, facing southeast.
Long Bridge
14 Kennedy Center Photograph 2: Long Bridge from the west section of the Kennedy Center upper terrace, facing southeast.
Long Bridge
15 Lincoln Memorial Photograph 3: Long Bridge from the Lincoln Memorial public viewing platform, facing southeast.
Long Bridge
16 Photograph Locations: Detail
Arlington National Cemetery
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17 Arlington House Photograph 4: Long Bridge from Arlington House, facing southeast.
Long Bridge
18 Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Photograph 5: Long Bridge from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, facing west.
Long Bridge
19 Photograph Location: Details
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Gravelly Point, George Washington Memorial Parkway and Mount Vernon Trail
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20 George Washington Memorial Parkway and Mount Vernon Trail Photograph 6: Long Bridge from Mount Vernon Trail to north of Arlington Memorial Bridge, facing southeast.
Long Bridge
21 George Washington Memorial Parkway and Mount Vernon Trail Photograph 7: Long Bridge from the Mount Vernon Trail to the north of I-395, facing southeast.
Long Bridge
22 George Washington Memorial Parkway and Mount Vernon Trail Photograph 8: Long Bridge from Gravelly Point, facing north.
Long Bridge
23 Photograph Location: Details
Reagan Airport 9
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24 Reagan National Airport Photograph 9: Long Bridge from north boundary of Reagan Airport at the Potomac River, facing north.
Long Bridge
25 Reagan National Airport Photograph 10: Long Bridge from the southern edge of the airport, facing north/northwest.
Long Bridge
26 Photograph Location: Details
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Joint Base Anacostia- Bolling 11
27 Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling Photograph 11: Long Bridge from Arnold Avenue SW, facing northwest.
Long Bridge
28 Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling Photograph 12: Long Bridge to the west of Boundary Drive at the Anacostia River, facing northwest.
Long Bridge
29 Photograph Location: Details
St. Elizabeths West Campus
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30 St. Elizabeths West Campus Photograph 13: Long Bridge from Saint Elizabeths West Campus, facing northwest.
Long Bridge
31 Photograph Location: Details
15 East Potomac Park and Hains Point Fort McNair
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32 East Potomac Park, Hains Point Photograph 14: Long Bridge from Hains Point, facing northwest.
Long Bridge
33 East Potomac Park Photograph 15: Long Bridge Corridor from East Potomac Park at the Washington Channel, facing northwest.
Long Bridge Corridor
34 Fort McNair Photograph 16: Long Bridge Corridor from Fort McNair at B Street SW, facing northwest.
Long Bridge Corridor
35 Photograph Location: Details
Independence Avenue SW, Independence and 14th Street SW Avenue SW, and 9th Street SW 17 18 19 Maryland Avenue SW, and 7th Street SW
36 Independence Avenue SW and 14th Street SW Photograph 17: Long Bridge Corridor from Independence Avenue SW, and 14th Street SW, facing south.
Long Bridge Corridor (train visible)
37 Independence Avenue SW, and 9th Street SW Photograph 18: Long Bridge Corridor from intersection of Independence Avenue SW, and 9th Street SW, facing south.
Long Bridge Corridor
38 Maryland Avenue SW, and 7th Street SW Photograph 19: Long Bridge Corridor from intersection of Maryland Avenue SW, and 7th Street SW, facing southwest.
Long Bridge Corridor (train visible)
39 Identification of Historic Properties
FRA and DDOT have identified historic properties based on: • National Register-listed properties and districts in the District and Arlington County, including pending and recently listed National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) properties; • Properties determined eligible for NRHP listing; • D.C. Inventory of Historic Sites listings; • Virginia Landmarks Register listings; • Arlington County local historic districts; • Feedback from SHPOs and Consulting Parties (May 2017); and • Properties greater than 45 years of age that have not been previously evaluated for NRHP eligibility.
40 Identification of Historic Properties
41 Designated Properties in Draft APE 1 National Mall Historic District 2 East and West Potomac Parks Historic District 3 Fort Leslie J. McNair Historic District 4 George Washington Memorial Parkway 5 Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway 6 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway 7 Arlington National Cemetery Historic District 8 Auditor’s Building Complex 9 Bureau of Engraving and Printing 10 USDA South Building 11 Central Heating Plant 12 USDA Cotton Annex 13 HUD Building 14 Thomas Jefferson Memorial 15 Lunch Room Building 16 Cuban Friendship Urn 17 Titanic Memorial 18 Roosevelt Island National Memorial 19 Arlington Memorial Bridge 20 Lyndon B. Johnson Memorial Grove * Parkways of the National Capital Region * L’Enfant Plan of the City of Washington, DC * Not shown on map
42 Properties Determined Eligible in Draft APE 21 Bureau of Engraving and Printing Annex Federal Office Building 10A (Orville Wright 22 Building) 23 L'Enfant Promenade 24 Benjamin Banneker Park (Overlook) 25 Washington Marina Building 26 Lady Bird Johnson Park Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac 27 Railroad Historic District
43 Properties > 45 Years of Age in Draft APE 28 Liberty Loan Federal Building 29 425 12th Street, SW 30 USPS Building (West Building, L’Enfant Plaza) 31 Astral Building (North Building, L'Enfant Plaza) Loew's L'Enfant Plaza Hotel (East Building, 32 L’Enfant Plaza) Comsat Building (South Building, L'Enfant 33 Plaza) 34 Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Bridge 35 398 Long Bridge Drive 36 550 Long Bridge Drive
44 Viewsheds 1 Kennedy Center 2 Washington Monument and Grounds 3 Lincoln Memorial 4 St. Elizabeths Hospital Historic District 5 Arlington National Cemetery Historic District 6 Arlington House Historic District
45 Planned Next Steps
Action Date Comments due on today’s meeting December 6, 2017 APE Submission to SHPO December 2017 Consulting Party Meeting #3 – Assess Spring 2018 Adverse Effects Consulting Party Meeting #4 – Summer 2018 Resolve Adverse Effects (if necessary)
46 Consulting Party Comments
• Comments can be provided in multiple ways: – At this meeting – Website: www.longbridgeproject.com – Email: [email protected] - ENCOURAGED! – Correspondence addressed to: Ms. Amanda Murphy Environmental Protection Specialist Federal Railroad Administration 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE Mail Stop-20 Washington, DC 20590
47 Questions?
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