Notice To Rescind Notice of Intent To Prepare Environmental Impact Statement, Interstate 64 Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Corridor, Virginia

Topics:  Interstate Highway System

Edward Sundra
Federal Highway Administration
August 20, 2015

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 161 (Thursday, August 20, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50710-50711]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-20515]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Highway Administration


Notice To Rescind Notice of Intent To Prepare Environmental 
Impact Statement, Interstate 64 Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Corridor, 
Virginia

AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice to rescind Notice of Intent to prepare an Environmental 
Impact Statement.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Highway Administration is issuing this notice to 
advise the public that FHWA is rescinding its Notice of Intent to 
prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for Interstate 64 Hampton 
Roads Bridge-Tunnel Corridor proposal in Virginia.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Edward Sundra, Director of Program 
Development, Federal Highway Administration, 400 North 8th Street, 
Suite 750, Richmond, VA 23219; email: Ed.Sundra@dot.gov; (804) 775-
3357.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A Notice of Intent to prepare an 
Environmental Impact Statement for the Interstate 64 Hampton Roads 
Bridge-Tunnel Corridor proposal was published in the Federal Register 
in 2011 (76 FR 29290, May 20, 2011). The Draft Environmental Impact 
Statement was issued in December 2012, and public hearings were held 
shortly thereafter. Public and agency comments and concerns over the 
magnitude of potential environmental impacts to a variety of resources, 
such as impacts to historic resources as well

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as communities and neighborhoods, led to a preferred alternative not 
being identified and work was not conducted to advance the study 
further. Accordingly, FHWA is rescinding the Notice of Intent to 
prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Interstate 64 Hampton 
Roads Bridge-Tunnel Corridor proposal in Virginia. The Interstate 64 
crossing of Hampton Roads is one alternative being studied as part of 
the Hampton Roads Crossing Study Supplemental Environmental Impact 
Statement, which is looking at alternatives over a much larger study 
area. A Notice of Intent to prepare that Supplemental Environmental 
Impact Statement was published in the Federal Register in June (80 FR 
36038, June 23, 2015).

    Authority:  23 U.S.C. 315; 23 CFR 771.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program Number 20.205, 
Highway Planning and Construction. The regulations implementing 
Executive Order 12372 regarding intergovernmental consultation on 
Federal programs and activities apply to this program.)

Edward Sundra,
Director of Program Development, Federal Highway Administration, 
Richmond, Virginia.
[FR Doc. 2015-20515 Filed 8-19-15; 8:45 am]
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