US Highway 93 Ninepipe/Ronan improvement project
Subtitle: final supplemental environmental impact statement and section 4(f) evaluation
By: Montana Department of Transportation, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration.
Contributors: Montana. Dept. of Transportation.; United States. Federal Highway Administration.; Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, Montana.
Publisher: Montana Dept. of Transportation
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Helena, Mont
Language: eng
Subjects: Roads -- Environmental aspects -- Montana -- Lake County; Highway planning -- Environmental aspects -- Montana -- Lake County; Environmental impact statements -- Montana -- Lake County
Other titles: Ninepipe/Ronan improvement project; US 93 Ninepipe/Ronan Final SEIS
Description: "The proposed action is the improvement of an 18-kilometer (11.2-mile) segment of US 93 from Dublin Gulch Road/Red Horn Road through the City of Ronan to Baptiste Road/Spring Creek Road in Lake County, Montana.  The improvements are proposed to provide a facility that meets current design standards in order to enhance the safety and operation of the facility.  A No-Action Alternative, and 10 widening alternatives are analyzed for the rural portion of the project, ranging from minor widening and improvement of the two-lane roadway with a cross-section of 12 meters (40 feet) to widening and improvement to a four-lane roadway cross section of 33.6 meters (112 feet).  This document also analyzes a No-Action Alternative and five action alternatives for the urban portion of the project through the City of Ronan.  These alternatives range from improving the roadway within the existing right-of-way to widening outside the existing roadway to a split couplet, with southbound lanes relocated to an adjacent street.  Alternatives Rural 3, a widened two-lane roadway with a single north bound climbing/passing lane on Post Creek Hill and a short four-lane divided section south of Ronan, and Ronan 4, a couplet with improved intersections and two lanes in each direction about a block a part, are the preferred alternatives.  In addition, a 3.0-meter (10-foot) wide separated pedestrian/bicycle path will be included for the entire length of the project as part of the preferred alternative."
Notes: Cover title.

"FHWA-MT-EIS-95-01-FS."

"NH-F 5-1(9) 6F, control number B744."

"Submitted persuant to 42 United States Code 4332 (2)(c); 49 United States Code 303; Section 2-3-104 and 75-1-201 Montana Code Annotated; and Executive Orders 11990, 11988, and 12898"--First page.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 7-1 - 7-15).

Also available online via the Montana Memory Project .pdf files.
Table of contents: title: Volume I; title: Volume II; title: Appendices:  Appendix A, MDT standards and modifications; title: Appendix B, Cooperating agency correspondence; title: Appendix C, Section 106, section 4(f), and section 6(f) documentation; title: Appendix D, Draft 404(b)1 analysis; title: Appendix E, Maps; title: Appendix F, Table of impacts on individual wetlands; title: Appendix G, Farmland conversion impact rating forms; title: Appendix H, Ronan regional air quality analysis; title: Appendix I, Duck Road correspondence; title: Appendix J, Public and agency comments on the Draft SEIS and responses; title: Appendix K, Bicycle/pedestrian pathway correspondence; title: Appendix L, City of Ronan preferred alternative correspondence; title: Appendix M, Biological opinions.