Federal Register / Vol. 64, No. 175 / Friday, September 10, 1999 / Notices 49271 provisions of the Aviation Safety and DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 1999 and Thursday, September 23, Capacity Expansion Act of 1990 (Title 1999, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. See IX of the Omnibus Budget Federal Transit Administration ADDRESSES below. Reconciliation Act of 1990 (Public Law Federal Highway Administration ADDRESSES: Written comments on the 101–508) and Part 158 of the Federal scope should be sent to Andrew Lenton, Aviation Regulations (14 CFR part 158). Environmental Impact Statement on Project Manager, Philadelphia City On August 17, 1999, the FAA Transportation Improvements Within Planning Commission, 1 Parkway determined that the application to the Roosevelt Boulevard Corridor in Building, 13th floor, 1515 Arch Street, impose and use the revenue from a PFC Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19102. Scoping meetings will be held at the following submitted by the City of St. Cloud was AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration locations: substantially complete within the and Federal Highway Administration, requirements of section 158.25 of Part USDOT. Public Scoping Meeting #1 158. The FAA will approve or ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an Wednesday, September 22, 1999, from disapprove the application, in whole or Environmental Impact Statement. 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Frankford in part, no later than December 11, SUMMARY: Group Ministries, Main Meeting 1999. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and the Federal Room, Orthodox & Griscom Streets, The following is a brief overview of Highway Administration (FHWA) as Philadelphia, PA 19124 the application. federal co-lead agencies, in cooperation Public Scoping Meeting #2 with the Pennsylvania Department of PFC application number: 99–01–C– Thursday, September 23, 1999, from 000–STC. Transportation, the City of Philadelphia and the Southeastern Pennsylvania 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Nazareth Level of the proposed PFC: $3.00. Transportation Authority (SEPTA) as Hospital, Physician’s Office Building Proposed charge effective date: local lead agencies, are issuing this (P.O.B.), 2601 Holme Avenue, February 1, 2000. notice to advise interested agencies and Philadelphia, PA 19152. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Proposed charge expiration date: the public that an environmental impact John T. Garrity, Federal Transit August 1, 2020. statement (EIS) may be prepared for transportation improvements in the Administration, or Carmine M. Fiscina, Total estimated PFC revenue: Roosevelt Boulevard Corridor in Federal Highway Administration, at $1,197,200.000. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The (215) 656–7070. Brief description of proposed projects: Philadelphia City Planning SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: electrical revisions, airline terminal Commission, the Mayor’s Office of I. Scoping design services, airport issues study, Transportation, and SEPTA are airline terminal building, electrical undertaking a Transportation Public scoping meetings will be improvements, snow removal Investment Study (TIS) to consider hosted by the Philadelphia City equipment building addition, aircraft solutions to the problems of capacity Planning Commission (PCPC), the rescue and firefighting vehicle and and quality of transportation in the Mayor’s Office of Transportation (MOT) braking meter, snow removal equipment Roosevelt Boulevard Corridor which is and the Southeast Pennsylvania Transit with radios, security fencing, airport marked by congestion and long travel Authority (SEPTA) on Wednesday, times, especially for public transit September 22, 1999, and Thursday, master plan update, and aircraft rescue riders. The TIS will include the NEPA September 23, 1999, between 7:00 p.m. and firefighting building construction, scoping process, the identification and and 9:00 p.m. See ADDRESSES above. PFC application administration costs. evaluation of design concept and scope FTA, FHWA, PCPC, MOT and SEPTA Class or classes of air carriers which alternatives, and the selection of a invite interested individuals, the public agency has requested not be preferred alternative or alternatives. organizations and public agencies to required to collect PFCs: Air Ambulance Subsequently, if an EIS is prepared, attend the scoping meetings and Operators. alternative alignments and designs that participate in establishing the purpose, Any person may inspect the are consistent with the selected design alternatives, time framework and application in person at the FAA office concept and scope will be addressed in analysis approach, as well as an active that document. Sponsorship of the EIS listed above under FOR FURTHER public involvement program. The public will depend on the outcome of the TIS is invited to comment on the INFORMATION CONTACT. and the alternatives remaining under alternatives currently proposed and to In addition, any person may, upon evaluation. It is important to note that suggest additional alternatives which request, inspect the application, notice a final decision to prepare an EIS has are more cost effective or which have and other documents germane to the not been made at this time. This less environmental impact while application in person at the St. Cloud decision will be made at the end of the achieving similar transportation Regional Airport Manager’s Office. TIS and will depend upon the nature of objectives. Comments should address Issued in Des Plaines, Illinois, on the selected concept and its expected the modes and technologies to be September 1, 1999. impacts. evaluated, the alignments and DATES: Comment Due Date: Written termination points to be considered, the Cameron Bryan, comments on the scope of the environmental, social and economic Acting Manager, Planning/Programming alternatives and impacts to be impacts to be analyzed, and the Branch, Airports Division, Great Lakes considered should be sent to Andrew evaluation approach to be used to select Region. Lenton, Project Manager, Philadelphia a locally preferred alternative. [FR Doc. 99–23518 Filed 9–9–99; 8:45 am] City Planning Commission, by October To ensure that a full range of issues BILLING CODE 4910±13±M 15, 1999. See ADDRESSES below. Scoping is addressed and all significant issues Meetings: Public scoping meetings will identified, comments and suggestions be held on Wednesday, September 22, are invited from all interested parties.

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Comments may be provided at the 200 feet wide in many sections. It is an • Light Metro. Under this concept, public scoping meetings, verbally and/ attractive parkway with three express rail vehicles would operate at street or in writing. Comments or questions lanes and three local lanes in each level along the Boulevard median as an can also be directed to the PCPC (See direction. Traffic may move between the extension of the Broad Street Subway, ADDRESSES above.), or via e-mail to local and express lanes via slip ramps. crossing intersections at grade along the [email protected] or via telephone to The Boulevard itself crosses most Boulevard. The vehicles would draw (215) 790–3140. People with special intersections at grade, but at Oxford electricity from a third rail while in the needs should call Andrew Lenton at Circle, Pennypack Circle and Cottman subway and from overhead wires while (215) 683–6429. The Nazareth Hospital Avenue, the express lanes are depressed on the Boulevard. site is accessible to people with below grade and continue through • Broad Street Extension. The Broad disabilities. without grade crossings. The Boulevard Street Line would extend up the An information packet is available serves as the main transportation spine Boulevard from Broad-Erie Station as which describes the purpose of the of Northeast Philadelphia. either a subway or a modern elevated project, the possible alternatives, the Travelers in the Boulevard Corridor line. impact areas to be evaluated, the citizen presently experience quite long travel • Broad Street Extension with involvement program, and the schedule. times, particularly by public Expressway. The Broad Street Line The packet will be available at the transportation. The capacity and quality would operate in the median of the public scoping meetings. It is also being of transportation have not increased in expressway described earlier. mailed to affected federal, state and proportion to the recent growth of • Market-Frankford Extension. The local agencies and to interested parties population and employment in the Market-Frankford Line would extend on record. Others may request the corridor. Motorist and pedestrian safety from Frankford Terminal along scoping materials by contacting Andrew also are primary concerns in the Bustleton Avenue, and from that point Lenton, Project Manager, Philadelphia Corridor. Air quality tops the list of follow the Boulevard alignment. The City Planning Commission. See general concerns, because of the line could operate as a subway or a ADDRESSES above. Philadelphia region’s non-attainment of modern elevated. • Market-Frankford Extension with II. Description of Study Area and its EPA air quality standards. Finally, the Expressway. From Bustleton Avenue Transportation Needs changing nature of land uses continues to further separate employment from northward, the Market-Frankford Line The Roosevelt Boulevard Corridor is residential locations, particularly for extension could operate in the median located in the Northeast portion of mobility-constrained households. The of the expressway described earlier. • Philadelphia, extending approximately Northeast spine therefore presents a Broad Street Extension with a One- 14 miles from Broad Street to the considerable need for transportation Station Market-Frankford Extension. In Philadelphia City Line. The Corridor is improvement. this suggested concept, the Broad Street approximately one mile wide (width Line would extend as a subway or varies according to impact under III. Alternatives elevated, as described above, and would consideration). It serves an area that It is expected that the scoping meeting meet a short extension of the Market- includes some 400,000 residents of and written comments will be a major Frankford Line. Northeast Philadelphia, including areas source of candidate alternatives for • New York Short Line. Either Broad adjacent to Bucks and Montgomery consideration in the study. The Street Subway service or the Regional Counties, and communities toward following briefly describes the general Rail network would be extended along Center City, such as Olney, Feltonville, alternatives that are suggested for the western portion of the study area, Hunting Park and Logan. Major consideration along the Corridor: sharing the right-of-way of an existing attractors in the corridor include One & • No Project. Certain transportation freight railroad. Olney Square, the Friends Hospital, improvement projects already slated for Based on public input received during Metropolitan Hospital, Northeast Tower construction, such as the Woodhaven scoping, variations of the above Center, Rising Sun Plaza, Frankford Expressway Extension and I–95 alternatives and additional alternatives Stadium, the future Frankford reconstruction, would proceed. suggested during scoping, as well as Transportation Center, Oxford Circle, However, no major improvements other transportation-related the Northeast Regional Library, would occur in the Boulevard Corridor. improvement options, both transit and Roosevelt Mall, Nazareth Hospital, • Transportation System non-transit, will be considered for the Evangelical and Baptist Homes, the Management (TSM). TSM would Roosevelt Boulevard Corridor. Northeast Shopping Center, Northeast involve making operational and low IV. Probable Effects Philadelphia Airport, the Red Lion cost capital improvements to existing Shopping Center, the Swenson Skills roadways and transit facilities. Pursuing Most of the Corridor runs through Center, the Northeast Industrial Park, this alternative could result in options densely populated residential Boulevard Plaza, Byberry East Industrial such as enhancing bus service in the neighborhoods, with row homes facing Park, Community College of corridor, changing the design and the Boulevard. Also, the Boulevard is an Philadelphia, and the Neshaminy operation of intersections, and attractive, tree-lined parkway. Issues Interplex Business Center. improving bus stop waiting areas. and impacts to be considered during the Environmental features include Hunting • Additional Grade Separations. study include potential changes to: the Park, Tacony Creek, Pennypack Creek, Additional underpasses—similar to the physical environment (air quality, noise Pennypack Park, and Poquessing Creek. one at Cottman Avenue—could address and vibration, water quality, aesthetics, The area is currently served or the Corridor’s transportation needs. etc.); the social environment (land use, crossed by taxicab services, 27 bus • Expressway. This concept would development, neighborhoods, job routes, the R8 Fox Chase Regional Rail lower the inner travel lanes below the accessibility, etc.); parklands and line and the termini of the Market- cross streets. historic resources; transportation system Frankford Subway-Elevated and the • Busway. An exclusive travel lane performance, including vehicular and Broad Street Subway lines. Roosevelt for limited stop express buses could be pedestrian circulation and parking; Boulevard itself is a right of way nearly implemented along the Boulevard. capital, operating and maintenance

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Attendance is open to the Designated Federal Official: William interested public but limited to space Sheldon A. Kinbar, McFadden Senior Policy Advisory, available. With the approval of the Office of International Monetary and Regional Administrator, FTA. Chair, members of the public may Carmine M. Fiscina, Financial Policy, Room 4444, present oral statements at the meeting. Department of the Treasury, 1500 Technology and Safety Engineer, FHWA. Noncommittee members wishing to Pennsylvania Avenue N.W., [FR Doc. 99–23615 Filed 9–9–99; 8:45 am] present oral statements, obtain Washington, D.c. 20220. Telephone BILLING CODE 4910±57±P information, or who plan to access the number 202–622–0343, fax number building to attend the meeting should (202) 622–7664. also contact Ms. Chapman. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Members of the public may present a Notice of written statement to the Council at any this meeting is given under the Federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics time. Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. Persons with a disability requiring 2. Advisory Council on Transportation special services, such as an interpreter Statistics Agenda of Meeting for the hearing impaired, should contact The agenda tentatively includes Ms. Chapman (202) 366–1270 at least AGENCY: Bureau of Transportation discussion of the following: seven days prior to the meeting. Statistics. • Sources of financial crises and ACTION: Notice of Meeting. Issued in Washington, DC, on September 3, instability; relation of instability to 1999. crises; size of bank failures and depth of SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 10(A)(2) Ashish Sen, crises. of the Federal Advisory Committee Act Director. • Role and evolving functions of the (Public law 72–363; 5 U.S.C. App.2) [FR Doc. 99–23516 Filed 9–9–99; 8:45 am] International Monetary Fund. notice is hereby given of a meeting of BILLING CODE 4910±FE±P Procedural the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) Advisory Council on This meeting is open to the public. Transportation Statistics (ACTS) to be DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Please note that the meeting may close held Friday, September 17, 1999, 10:00 early if all business is finished. to 4:00 p.m. The meeting will take place Departmental Offices; International Members of the public may submit at the U.S. Department of Financial Institution Advisory written comments. If you wish to Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, Commission furnish comments, please provide 16 SW., Washington, DC in conference copies of your written material to the AGENCY: Department of the Treasury. room 3328 of the Nassif Building. Designated Federal Official. If you wish ACTION: Notice of meeting. The Advisory Council, called for to have your comments distributed to under Section 6007 of Public law 102– SUMMARY: Under section 603 of the members of the Commission in advance 240, Intermodal Surface Transportation foreign Operations, Export Financing of the first meeting, 16 copies of any Efficiency Act of 1991, December 18, and Related Programs Appropriations written material should be provided to 1991, and chartered on June 19, 1995, Act, 1999, the International Financial the Designated Federal Official no later was created to advise the Director of Institution Advisory Commission (the than September 20, 1999. BTS on transportation statistics and ‘‘Commission’’) shall advise and report Dated: September 3, 1999. analyses, including whether or not the to the Congress on the future role and William McFadden, statistics and analysis disseminated by responsibilities of the international Designated Federal Official. the Bureau are of high quality and are financial institutions (defined as the [FR Doc. 99–23494 Filed 9–9–99; 8:45 am] based upon the best available objective International Monetary Fund, BILLING CODE 4810±25±M information. International Bank for Reconstruction The agenda for this meeting will and Development, European Bank for include an introduction of a new Reconstruction and Development, Advisory Council member, Director’s International Development Association, DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS programs update, BTS strategic plan, International Finance Corporation, AFFAIRS review of staffing, discussion of Multilateral Investment Guarantee Medical Research Service Merit Review customer service outreach and Agency, African Development Bank, Committee, Notice of Meetings marketing, report on focus groups held African Development Fund, Asian on BTS publications, update on safety Development Bank, Inter-American The Department of Veterans Affairs conferences, identification of Development Bank, and Inter-American gives notice under the Federal Advisory substantive issues, review of plans and Investment Corporation), the World Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App., of the schedule, other items of interest, Trade Organization, and the Bank for following meetings to be held from 8 discussion and agreement of date(s) for International Settlements. a.m. to 5 p.m. as indicated below:

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