Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 154 / Wednesday, August 10, 2011 / Notices 49527 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement; Cottonwood and Watonwan 

Counties, Minnesota 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: The FHWA is issuing this 

notice to advise the public that a 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) will be prepared to 

address operational and safety issues on 

three sections of Trunk Highway (TH) 

60. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Philip Forst, Environmental Specialist, 

Federal Highway Administration, 380 

Jackson Street, Suite 500, Saint Paul, 

Minnesota 55101, Telephone (651) 291– 

6110; or Peter Harff, Project Manager, 

Minnesota Department of 

Transportation (District 7), 2151 Bassett 

Drive, Mankato, Minnesota 56001–6888, 

Telephone: (507) 304–6165. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Minnesota Department of 

Transportation completed a Final 

Environmental Impact Statement for TH 

60 from Worthington to St. James in 

1983 (FHWA–MN–EIS–82–02–F). A 

Record of Decision (ROD) was issued by 

the Federal Highway Administration in 

1984. The preferred alternative outlined 

in the 1983 EIS and 1984 ROD consisted 

of constructing a four-lane facility on a 

mix of new and existing alignment for 

a distance of approximately 52 miles. 

Portions of the project have been 

constructed, however, there are three 

segments of the 1983 EIS preferred 

alternative that have not been 

constructed as a four-lane facility: (1) 

Just west of the City of St. James to the 

eastern edge of the City of Butterfield, 

(2) western edge of the City of 

Butterfield to just east of the city of 

Mountain Lake, and (3) just west of the 

City of Mountain Lake to the northeast 

edge of the City of Windom. These three 

segments are approximately 5.3 miles, 

4.2 miles, and 7.5 miles long, 

respectively. 

It has been more than three years 

since the last major Federal action on 

this project. Because the original NEPA 

process was completed in 1984, a 

Supplemental EIS will be prepared to 

address changes in the project area, 

proposed changes to the preferred 

alternative identified in the 1983 EIS, 

and changes to regulations and 

Minnesota Statutes since the ROD was 

issued in 1984. 

The Supplemental EIS will evaluate 

the social, economic, transportation and 

environmental impacts of alternatives, 

including (1) No-build, and (2) 

constructing a four-lane expressway. 

The draft Supplemental EIS is 

anticipated to be published in late 2011. 

A press release will be published to 

inform the public of the document’s 

availability. Copies of the draft 

Supplemental EIS will be posted on a 

MnDOT web site as well as distributed 

to agencies, interested persons and 

libraries for review to aid in identifying 

issues and analyses to be contained in 

the EIS. A thirty-day comment period 

for review of the document will be 

provided to afford an opportunity for all 

interested persons, agencies and groups 

to comment on the proposed action. A 

public hearing will also be held during 

the comment period. Public notice will 

be give for the time and place of the 

hearing. 

A final Supplemental EIS will be 

prepared based on the outcome of 

public and agency responses to the draft 

Supplemental EIS. The final 

Supplemental EIS will be available for 

agency and public review and comment. 

Coordination has been initiated and will 

continue with appropriate Federal, State 

and local agencies and private 

organizations and citizens who have 

previously expressed or are known to 

have an interest in the proposed action. 

The Federal Highway Administration 

is the lead Federal Agency for this 

NEPA effort. The United States Army 

Corps of Engineers and the United 

States Fish and Wildlife Service are 

Cooperating Agencies for this NEPA 

process. 

To ensure that the full range of issues 

related to this proposed action are 

addressed and all significant issues 

identified, comments and suggestions 

are invited from all interested parties. 

Comments or questions concerning the 

proposed action and the Supplemental 

EIS should be directed to the FHWA at 

the address provided above. 

(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.) 

Issued on: August 1, 2011. 

Philip Forst, 

Environmental Specialist, Federal Highway 

Administration, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101. 

[FR Doc. 2011–20347 Filed 8–9–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket Nos. FMCSA–2006–26367 and 

FMCSA–2011–0131] 

Joint Motor Carrier Safety Advisory 

Committee and Medical Review Board 

Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Joint Motor Carrier 

Safety Advisory Committee (MCSAC) 

and Medical Review Board (MRB) 

meeting. 

SUMMARY: FMCSA announces that the 

Agency’s MCSAC and MRB will hold a 

joint meeting on Monday, August 29, 

2011. The MCSAC will continue to meet 

on Tuesday, August 30–Wednesday, 

August 31, with the afternoon of August 

31 being used for a meeting of the CrossBorder Trucking Pilot Program 

subcommittee. All three days of the 

meeting will be open to the public for 

their duration. 

TIME AND DATES: The MCSAC–MRB 

meeting will be held on Monday, 

August 29, 2011, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 

p.m., Eastern Time (E.T.), and the 

MCSAC meeting will continue on 

Tuesday and Wednesday, August 30–31, 

from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., E.T. The last 

hour of each day of the full committee 

meeting will be reserved for public 

comment. At 1:30 p.m., E.T., on 

Wednesday, August 31, the MCSAC 

Cross Border Trucking Pilot Program 

subcommittee will meet until 5 p.m., 

E.T., with a public comment period 

from 4:30–5 p.m., E.T. The meeting will 

be held at the Hilton Alexandria Old 

Town, 1767 King Street, Alexandria, VA 

22314 in the Washington and Jefferson 

Rooms on the 2nd floor. 

Matters to be considered: The MCSAC 

and MRB will consider expert 

presentations on obstructive sleep apnea 

during the joint meeting on Monday. On 

Tuesday, the MCSAC will consider the 

report of its Electronic On-Board 

Recorder (EOBR) Implementation 

Subcommittee established in response 

to Task 11–04, with relevant expert 

presentations on the topic. On 

Wednesday, the MCSAC will return to 

its Task 11–02 regarding roadside 

violation severity weightings in the 

Carrier Safety Measurement System in 

FMCSA’s Compliance, Safety, 

Accountability (CSA) program. That 

afternoon, the MCSAC Subcommittee 

established in response to Task 11–03, 

regarding the Agency’s Cross Border 

Trucking Pilot Program, will meet. 

Copies of all MCSAC Task Statements 


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