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BUILDING RAIL CAPACITY AND COMMUNITY William Penner Primary - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
BUILDING RAIL CAPACITY AND COMMUNITY William Penner Primary - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
THE ABO CANYON SECOND TRACK PROJECT: BUILDING RAIL CAPACITY AND COMMUNITY William Penner Primary Development of the AT&SF Railway in New Mexico Primary Development of the AT&SF Railway in New Mexico Primary Development of the
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Primary Development
- f the AT&SF Railway
in New Mexico
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Primary Development
- f the AT&SF Railway
in New Mexico
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Primary Development
- f the AT&SF Railway
in New Mexico
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Primary Development
- f the AT&SF Railway
in New Mexico
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Primary Development
- f the AT&SF Railway
in New Mexico
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Purpose & Need
- Economic growth
- BNSF & rail industry
efficiencies
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Designing a Second Track
- Route
selection
- Engineering
parameters
- Final refinements
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Designing our Final Alternative
- Cost and balancing
concerns
- Environmental
considerations
– What we thought early on
- Section 404, Clean Water Act
- Environmental stewardship
– What we actually encountered
- Individual 404 permit from the
Corps of Engineers
- BLM right-of-way grant
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NEPA & NHPA Processes
- Agencies and permitting (Corps, BLM,
SHPO, ACHP)
- Consulting parties (landowners, tribal
governments, NTHP)
- Controversy
- Environmental constraints
– Bighorn sheep – ESA Section 7 – Cultural resources
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Project Involvement
- Army Corps of Engineers
- Bureau of Land Management
- NM State Historic Preservation Officer
- NM Department of Cultural Affairs
- Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
- NM Department of Game and Fish
- US Fish and Wildlife Service
- NM Environment Department (NMED) Surface Water Quality
Bureau
- NMED Air Quality Bureau
- NM State Engineers Office
- US Department of Agriculture/NRCS
- Claunch-Pinto Soil and Water Conservation District
- Cities of Belen, Socorro, and Mountainair
- Socorro and Valencia Counties
- Acoma Pueblo
- Isleta Pueblo
- Laguna Pueblo
- The Navajo Nation
- Mescalero Apache
- Piro-Manso-Tiwa Tribe
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Local ranchers
- Surface Transportation Board
- Federal Railroad Administration
- Department of the Interior
- US Forest Service
- NM Department of Transportation
- Socorro Electric Coop
- Tierra Grande Land Improvement
Association
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Project Issues
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Project Issues
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Project Issues
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NHPA Section 106 Process
- Cultural resources
– Properties in the canyon – Involving the local communities
- 3 years of agency deliberation
– 11 consulting parties and federal and state agencies
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Prehistoric Resources
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Constructing the Belen Cutoff in Abo Canyon
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Achieving Consensus
- Permits and right-of-way grant
– Minimizing permanent impacts to waterways – Additional studies, reports, and compliance requirements
- NMDGF and the game fence
- 3 years of dialog with interested parties
- MOA and cultural resources
– Test Blast Protocol & rock art monitoring – Workforce education & mitigation efforts
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Test Blast Protocol: Avoiding vibratory impacts
- Blast design
- Monitoring
- Tribal engagement
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Mitigation: Telling the History of the Belen Cutoff
- Data recovery
- Oral histories
- NM school curricula
- Technical reports
- Popular history book
- Harvey House installation
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Wheeler’s 1877 NM Atlas
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Wheeler’s 1877 NM Atlas
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Project Successes
- Environmental stewardship during design
and construction
- Ongoing tribal dialog
- Significant community support &
involvement
- Property assessments for adjacent
landowners
- Completed mitigation
- Traffic improvement by 2011
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