Metro - File #: 2022-0160

• File #: 2022-0160
• Type: Informational Report
• Status: Withdrawn
• File created: 3/10/2022
• In control: Planning and Programming Committee
• On agenda: 4/20/2022
• Final action: 4/20/2022
• Title: RECEIVE AND FILE the following updates on the Eastside Transit Corridor Phase 2 Project: A. Streamlining the Project's path forward on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA); B. Funding strategy for the Initial Operating Segments (IOS) and the full project to the City of Whittier; and C. Project delivery approaches and pre-construction activities.
• Sponsors: Planning and Programming Committee
• Indexes: Alignment, Board approved a Motion, Budgeting, C Line (Green) Extension to Torrance, California Environmental Quality Act, Capital Project, Commerce, Construction, Contractors, East Los Angeles, Environmental Impact Report, Environmental impact statements, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Transit Administration, Fixed Guideway, Funding plan, Gateway Cities (Southeast LA County) Service Sector, Gateway Cities subregion, Gold Line Eastside Transit Corridor Phase 2, Grant Aid, Informational Report, Link Union Station, Long Range Transportation Plan, Measure M, Measure M Multi-Year Subregional Program, Measure R, Metro Rail E Line, Metro Rail L Line, Metro Vision 2028 Plan, Montebello, National Environmental Policy Act Of 1969, New Starts Program, Plan, Professional Services, Program Management, Progressive Design/Build, Project, Project delivery, Project management, Rail transit, San Gabriel, San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments, Senate Bill 1, Strategic planning, Subregional Equity Program, Terminals (Communications), Transfers, Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 1998, Twenty-eight by '28 Initiative, Value capture, West Santa Ana Branch Transit Corridor, West Santa Ana Branch Transit Corridor (WSAB) Project, Whittier
• Related files: 2022-0274

Date	Action By	Action	Result
4/20/2022	Planning and Programming Committee

Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
APRIL 20, 2022
Subject
SUBJECT: EASTSIDE TRANSIT CORRIDOR PHASE 2 PROJECT

Action
ACTION: RECEIVE AND FILE

Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
RECEIVE AND FILE the following updates on the Eastside Transit Corridor Phase 2 Project:

A. Streamlining the Project's path forward on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA);

B. Funding strategy for the Initial Operating Segments (IOS) and the full project to the City of Whittier; and

C. Project delivery approaches and pre-construction activities.

Issue
ISSUE

At the February 2022 Board meeting, Metro staff provided an update on the Eastside Transit Corridor Phase 2 Project (Project), introducing the Initial Operating Segments and Preliminary Costs Estimates based on 15 percent conceptual engineering design. At this meeting, the Board requested a report back in April on the following:

A. Innovative ways to help streamline the preconstruction-related work,
including advancing engineering and utility-related work, among other
strategies.
B. Funding plans and assumptions for the two IOS alternatives being
proposed; the plans should focus on a local funding strategy and a
combined local and federal funding strategy.
C. Strategies to streamline environmental review, including seeking a NEPA
waiver, having NEPA authority delegated to the state, and seeking an
abbreviated NEPA.
D. An Alternative Delivery plan that will provide project schedule efficiencies
which will reduce the overall preconstruction timeline.
E. An accelerated project schedule for the two IOS alternatives and the entire
project segment.
F. Which specific grants and state and federal funding programs the Eastside Transit Corridor Project is applying for;
G. The competitiveness and priority of this project in relation to our other Metro projects also in the pipeline for these opportunities;
H. Any other Measure R and Measure M funding that might be available through future amendment or borro...