Metro - File #: 2019-0778

• File #: 2019-0778
• Type: Contract
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 10/9/2019
• In control: Construction Committee
• On agenda: 11/21/2019
• Title: CONSIDER: A. APPROVING AND ADOPTING minor changes to project definition and CEQA Addendum to the Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) for the Division 20 Portal Widening and Turnback Facility (Attachment A); and B. ESTABLISHING a Life-of-Project (LOP) Budget of $801,749,577 for the Division 20 Portal Widening Turnback Project.
• Sponsors: Construction Committee
• Indexes: Bids, Board approved Contract, Budget, Budgeting, California Environmental Quality Act, California High Speed Rail, Construction, Construction management, Contract administration, Contractors, Contracts, Div. 20 Portal Widening Turnback (Project), Division 20, Division 20 Portal Widening Turnback Facility Project, Environmental Impact Report, Federal Transit Administration, Full Funding Grant Agreement, Funding plan, Guidelines, High speed rail, Link Union Station, Long Range Transportation Plan, Maintenance of way, Metro Divisions, Metro Purple Line, Metro Rail B Line, Metro Rail D Line, Metro Red Line, Mitigation, Notice Of Determination, Plan, Procurement, Professional Services, Program management, Project, Project management, Short Range Transportation Plan, Strategic planning

Meeting_Body
CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE
NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Subject
SUBJECT: DIVISION 20 PORTAL WIDENING AND TURNBACK FACILITY

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
CONSIDER:

A. APPROVING AND ADOPTING minor changes to project definition and CEQA Addendum to the Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) for the Division 20 Portal Widening and Turnback Facility (Attachment A); and

B. ESTABLISHING a Life-of-Project (LOP) Budget of $801,749,577 for the Division 20 Portal Widening Turnback Project.

Issue
ISSUE

The Metro Board of Directors certified the Division 20 Portal Widening and Turnback Facility (Project) Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) on October 25, 2018. Since then, two components of the Project-a column to support the high-speed rail (HSR) and a ventilation shaft building-have been eliminated. Additionally, the Citizens Warehouse/Lysle Storage Company building (commonly known as the Pickle Works building) has been demolished due to a fire (unrelated to the Project). Therefore, mitigation measures previously adopted to minimize impacts to the Pickle Works building are no longer necessary. Pursuant to Public Resources Code section 21166 and California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines section 15164, Metro analyzed the potential environmental impacts of the changes in the Project definition and concluded that an addendum to the FEIR would be appropriate. As set forth in the analysis undertaken in the Addendum to the EIR the proposed refinements will not result in new or substantially more adverse impacts than those previously documented.

The establishment of the LOP Budget for the Division 20 Portal Widening and Turnback Project at the time of contract award is consistent with the recommendations in the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Construction Management Best Practices Study Report and lessons learned regarding establishing final budgets, when adequate information (such as the receipt of ha...