[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 107 (Friday, June 4, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 31836]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-13428]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Highway Administration


Tennessee Division: Notice To Rescind a Notice of Intent (NOI) to 
Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS): State Route 91 
Improvements in Elizabethton, Carter County, TN

AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT.

ACTION: Rescind NOI to prepare an EIS.

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SUMMARY: The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that the 
NOI published on February 22, 2007, at 72 FR 8054, to prepare an EIS 
for the State Route 91 Improvements in Elizabethton, Carter County, 
Tennessee, is being rescinded.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Charles J. O'Neill, Planning and 
Program Management Team leader, FHWA-Tennessee Division Office, 404 BNA 
Drive, Suite 508, Nashville, TN 37217.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FHWA, in cooperation with the Tennessee 
Department of Transportation (TDOT) is rescinding the NOI to prepare an 
EIS for the State Route 91 Improvements in Elizabethton, Carter County, 
Tennessee.
    The proposed project calls for improving the State Route 91 
corridor from west of State Route 362 to just west of State Route-37 
(U.S. 19E), a distance of approximately four miles. The purpose of the 
project is to improve traffic flow, travel time, and mobility; reduce 
the conflicts between vehicles on State Route 91; and create an easily 
navigable route to area businesses along State Route 91. Since the NOI 
to prepare an EIS was published in the Federal Register on February 22, 
2007, TDOT has conducted public involvement and agency coordination, 
developed a purpose and need for the project, and developed preliminary 
alternatives to be examined in the EIS. The preliminary alternatives 
included No-Build, a Transportation System Management (TSM) 
alternative, build alternatives that would construct a roadway on new 
locations to the north and to the south of the existing roadway, and an 
upgrade to existing State Route 91. Preliminary screenings identified 
sensitive environmental features associated with new location 
alternatives that could result in potentially significant adverse 
impacts.
    FHWA and TDOT have determined that a combination of TSM and upgrade 
improvements along existing State Route 91 would meet the need and 
purpose of the project and could be accomplished without potentially 
significant adverse impacts to sensitive environmental features. FHWA 
and TDOT will evaluate these improvements of State Route 91 along the 
existing route as a Categorical Exclusion.
    Comments and questions concerning the proposed action should be 
directed to 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 proposed program.)

Charles J. O'Neill,
Planning and Program Management Team Leader, Nashville, TN.
[FR Doc. 2010-13428 Filed 6-3-10; 8:45 am]
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