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16. Letter from Susan Frost, City of Livermore <br /> 16.1 To update references to the Regional Rail Plan, existing text under Regional Rail in the Draft <br /> Circulation Element is replaced in the following manner: <br /> The Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Caltrana, BART, and CalTrain, have <br /> and the California High -Speed Rail Authority, in <br /> collaboration with a coalition of rail passenger and freight operators, regional <br /> partners. and rail stakeholders. prepared a comprehensive Regional Rail Plan for the <br /> Bay Area. MTC adopted the Regional Rail Plan Final Report on September 26, <br /> 2007. This planning document updatc is to examines the future design of the <br /> regional rail system in the nine Bay Area counties and serves as the guiding <br /> document for this region's short and long -range rail transportation goals. The <br /> updatc -will-leok fer plan identifies opportunities to expand existing facilities such as <br /> BART, CalTrain, and ACE, as well as incorporate plans for a new high speed rail <br /> system into the existing regional rail network. In the Tri -Valley Area, the Plan <br /> recommends an extension of BART to Livermore, with a connection to improved <br /> rail service over the Altamont Corridor. Improved rail service will likely be <br /> connected to the California High -Speed Rail. The California High -Speed Rail <br /> Authority, with the Federal Rail Administration, has prepared a programmatic <br /> EIR /EIS that further examines the San Francisco Bay Area to Central Valley region. <br /> This EIR /EIS generally describes the environmental impacts of a proposed High <br /> Speed Train system within the broad corridor between and including the Altamont <br /> Pass. <br /> final response to comments with throw pages 65 <br />