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Focused Public and Stakeholder Engagement: Fall 2018 – Winter 2019
In Fall 2018, FRA and the Project Proponents initiated a public and stakeholder engagement action plan to help ensure that stakeholders remained well-informed and engaged from Public Meeting #4 to the DEIS public hearing. The public and stakeholders were engaged through briefings or having a presence at various events listed in the table below. Depending on the event, representatives of FRA or the Project Proponents were available to talk about the Project or answer questions.
Reduced-Scale Rail Car Floor Fire Test Specimen Feasibility Study
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) contracted with Jensen Hughes (JH) to conduct ongoing research on the feasibility of reducing the size of the test article for floor fire resistance testing. This computational study was conducted to determine the conditions necessary to demonstrate that...