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Comment extension from 30 to 75 days on the soon to be released Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Bridges Project
10-21-02 Comment on Advocacy Proposal from Jim Segrest, Butchertown Neighborhood
10-16-02 Item Reviewed by Advocacy committee and Forwarded to General Membership for Consideration:
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That LCON support a comment extension from 30 to 75 days on the soon to be released Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Bridges Project. Sample letter:
Mr. Jose Sepulveda
Division Administrator
Federal Highway Administration
330 West Broadway
Frankfort, KY 40601
Re: Louisville - Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges Project; FEIS Comment Period
Dear Mr. Sepulveda:
After three years of environmental and historic property studies at a cost of approximately $22 million to the taxpayer, we believe a thirty-day public review and comment period on the upcoming Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for this proposed $2 billion highway project is completely inadequate. Please consider extending the period for public input to 75 days.
Thirty days will not be sufficient for the public to review and comment on a bi-state project of this immense scale. Many individuals, organizations and agencies have invested a great deal of time and energy in the factual review of this project. Certainly they will need more than 30 days to properly respond to the FEIS.
In addition, the FEIS will be the first time that the public has an opportunity to understand the FHWA's preferred alternative. An extension will not unduly harm the project schedule, but will allow public participation in a project with a high level of public interest. It is our understanding that the Federal Highway Administration may extend prescribed comment periods at its own discretion, and, in fact, has recently done so for the Guanella Pass project in Colorado.
Very truly yours,
Copies to: Governor Paul Patton, State of Kentucky
700 Capitol Ave.,Ste 100, Frankfort, KY 40601
Governor@mail.state.ky.us (502) 564-2511 Fax(502)564-2517
James C. Codell, III, Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Secretary
Secretary, KY Transportation Cabinet, 501 High St., Frankfort, Ky 40622
jcodell@kytc.state.kytc.ky.us (502) 564-4890 Fax (502) 564-4809
Mr. Heinz Mueller, Chief, Office of Environmental Assessment
U.S. EPA, Region 4, Office of Environmental Assessment, Atlanta
61 Forsyth St., SW, Atlanta GA 30303-3104
muelleer.heinz@epa.gov (404) 562-9611 Fax (502) 562-9598
Additional Addresses:
Mr Jose Sepulveda - above
Jose.Sepuveda@thwa.dot.gov
(502) 233-6720 Fax (502) 564-4809
10-21-02 Comment on Proposal from Jim Segrest, Butchertown Neighborhood
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Date: 10/21/02 09:21:23
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Subject: RE: 10/16 minutes
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Who inserted the Ohio River Bridges information. Butchertown is not in favor of stonewalling the project. It is likely that we will oppose any action by LCON.
Jim Segrest III
President
Butchertown Neighborhood Association
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