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Environmental Impact Statement: Skowhegan and Madison, Somerset County, ME


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Environmental Impact Statement: Skowhegan and Madison, Somerset County, ME

Cheryl B. Martin
Federal Highway Administration
September 3, 2010

[Federal Register: September 3, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 171)]
[Notices]               
[Page 54220-54221]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Highway Administration

 
Environmental Impact Statement: Skowhegan and Madison, Somerset 
County, ME

AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Terminate (Withdraw) EIS.

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SUMMARY: The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that the 
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) process for a proposed highway 
project examining both new highway alignments and infrastructure 
improvements to enhance transportation mobility and accessibility 
through and around Skowhegan in the Towns of Skowhegan and Madison, 
Maine is terminated (withdrawn). The original Notice of Intent for this 
EIS process was published in the Federal Register on November 29, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Hasselmann, Right of Way and 
Environmental Programs Manager, Federal Highway Administration, Maine 
Division, 40 Western Avenue, Augusta, Maine 04330, Telephone (207) 622-
8350, extension 103; or Judy Lindsey, Project Manager, Maine Department 
of Transportation, State House Station 16, Augusta, Maine 04333-0016, 
Telephone (207) 624-3291.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FHWA, in cooperation with the Maine 
Department of Transportation (MaineDOT), has terminated the EIS process 
begun in 2005 to address mobility and accessibility needs through and 
around Skowhegan, Somerset County, Maine. Work on the EIS is being 
discontinued due to adverse economic and environmental impacts, lack of 
community support, and a lack of design and construction funds. 
Therefore, the EIS for this project has been terminated. (Catalog of 
Federal Domestic Assistance Program Number 20.205, Highway Planning and 
Construction. The regulations

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implementing Executive Order 12372 regarding intergovernmental 
consultation on Federal programs and activities apply to this program.)

    Authority:  23 U.S.C. 315; 49 CFR 1.48

    Issued on: August 25, 2010.
Cheryl B. Martin,
Assistant Division Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, 
Augusta, Maine.
[FR Doc. 2010-21811 Filed 9-2-10; 8:45 am]
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