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News Archive

  • August 25, 2020
  • August 25, 2020

    Draft Environmental Impact Statement

    All Aboard Florida – FRA Issued the Draft EIS on September 19, 2014.  FRA corrected several statements in the DEIS in an ...

  • August 25, 2020

    Final Environmental Impact Statement

    All Aboard Florida – Operations LLC (AAF) proposed to construct a privately owned and operated intercity passenger railroad system to connect Orlando and Miami, with intermediate stops in Fort Lauderdale...

  • August 25, 2020

    Record of Decision

    The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has issued a Record of Decision (ROD) for Phase 2 of the All Aboard Florida (AAF) (aka Brightline) Project (the Project) in accordance with the Council on Environmental Quality’s...

  • August 25, 2020

    Documents for download:

    The files are in Adobe Acrobat PDF Format which is available for download at no cost on the Internet. (Note: many of these files are very large and could take up to several minutes to download). Copies...

  • August 25, 2020

    Documents for download

    The Draft EIR/EIS presents the Project’s purpose and need, identifies all reasonable alternatives including track alignments, stations, and heavy maintenance facilities as well as the no action alternative, describes...

  • August 25, 2020

    Pursuant to the Clean Air Act Section 176(c) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s implementing regulations (40 C.F.R Part 93, subpart B), FRA is also publishing a ...

  • August 25, 2020

    Environmental Impact Statement

    FRA is the lead federal agency and the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) is the joint-lead state agency for the preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Chicago...

  • August 25, 2020

    Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NSR) proposes to construct, own, and operate a new intermodal facility (IMF) known as the Birmingham Regional Intermodal Facility (BRIMF) to increase freight transportation capacity for the Birmingham, Alabama, region...

  • August 25, 2020

    The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe), under the direction of DOT’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Office of Research, Development and Technology (RD&T), conducted a...