The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), in cooperation with Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) released a service level (Tier 1) Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Texas-Oklahoma Passenger Rail study, encompassing route and service alternatives for passenger rail between Oklahoma City to Fort Worth and Dallas (northern section), and south to San Antonio via Austin (central section), and south to Laredo, Corpus Christi and Brownsville (southern section).&nbsp; The Tier 1 Draft EIS addresses the first tier of broad corridor issues and alternatives. Subsequent project level second tier (Tier 2) NEPA evaluations will analyze site-specific projects based on the decisions made at the Service Level.FRA published a Notice of Intent to produce the EIS on March 13, 2013 officially starting the EIS process for the Tier 1 analysis and held public scoping meetings in the summer of 2013.&nbsp; The Draft EIS is available for public review and comment through August 29, 2016. Three Draft EIS hearings will be held in Laredo, Austin and Arlington. Hearing times and locations are listed below. Additional opportunities for public review and comment will be provided by FRA and TxDOT when the Final EIS is completed.Hearing ScheduleDateTimeCityVenueAugust 95:30pm Open House6pm: PresentationLaredoTxDOT Laredo District OfficeAugust 105:30pm Open House6pm: PresentationAustinTxDOT Austin District OfficeAugust 115:30pm Open House6pm: PresentationArlingtonNorth Central Texas Council of Governments&nbsp;Draft Environmental Impact Statement:Texas-Oklahoma Passenger Rail Study Service-Level DEIS-MAIN TEXTTexas-Oklahoma Passenger Rail Study Service-Level DEIS Appendix A Final Scoping ReportTexas-Oklahoma Passenger Rail Study Service-Level DEIS Appendix B Alternatives Criteria MemoTexas-Oklahoma Passenger Rail Study Service-Level DEIS Appendix C Route Alternatives AnalysisTexas-Oklahoma Passenger Rail Study Service-Level DEIS Appendix D Draft Alternatives AnalysisTexas-Oklahoma Passenger Rail Study Service-Level DEIS Appendix E Air Quality Technical StudyTexas-Oklahoma Passenger Rail Study Service-Level DEIS Appendix F Water Quality StudyTexas-Oklahoma Passenger Rail Study Service-Level DEIS Appendix G Natural Eco Systems Technical StudyTexas-Oklahoma Passenger Rail Study Service-Level DEIS Appendix H T-E Species Technical Study Texas-Oklahoma Passenger Rail Study Service-Level DEIS Appendix I Aesthetics Visual Technical StudyTexas-Oklahoma Passenger Rail Study Service-Level DEIS Appendix J Historic Architectural Technical StudyTexas-Oklahoma Passenger Rail Study Service-Level DEIS Appendix K Archaeological Sites Technical StudyTexas-Oklahoma Passenger Rail Study Service-Level DEIS Appendix L Transportation Technical StudyTexas-Oklahoma Passenger Rail Study Service-Level DEIS Appendix M Demographics Population DataTxDOT has additional information about the project on their Texas-Oklahoma Passenger Rail Study website.