What Is The CRMF Environmental Process?

The Federal Transit Administration has directed RTD to prepare a Supplemental Environmental Assessment (Supplemental EA) for the commuter rail corridors that analyzes the Commuter Rail Maintenance Facility (CRMF) at the Fox North site and the tracks from Denver Union Station to Pecos Street.

The CRMF Supplemental EA will include a full environmental analysis of the CRMF and the tracks from Denver Union Station to Pecos Street. The document will identify the impacts attributed to the facility, the tracks that lead to/from it and the operations of the facility. It will also identify measures to avoid, minimize and/or mitigate those impacts.

The CRMF Supplemental EA will be published in Spring 2009 as a document for public review. There will be a 30-day comment period -- including a public meeting where verbal comments can be submitted -- for the document.

Following the public comment period, the information in the CRMF Supplemental EA will be integrated into the FasTracks Commuter Rail environmental approval documents. All CRMF Supplemental EA comments and responses will be included in the East Corridor and Gold Line Final Environmental Impact Statements that will be submitted to the Federal Transit Administration for the approval later this year.

The Federal Transit Administration will then ultimately approve the CRMF at the Fox North site when it issues a Record of Decision for either the Gold Line or East Corridor, whichever comes first. Both Records of Decision are anticipated in Fall 2009.