Record of Decision for the Trinity Parkway From IH-35/SH-183 to US-175/SH-310 Environmental Impact Statement, Dallas County, TX

Douglas C. Sims
Department of Defense
1 December 2016

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 231 (Thursday, December 1, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 86704]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-28844]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers


Record of Decision for the Trinity Parkway From IH-35/SH-183 to 
US-175/SH-310 Environmental Impact Statement, Dallas County, TX

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.

ACTION: Record of Decision.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Fort Worth District, 
is issuing this notice to advise Federal, state, and local governmental 
agencies and the public that USACE has signed a Record of Decision 
(ROD) for the Trinity Parkway from Interstate Highway (IH) 35/State 
Highway (SH) 183 to United States (US) 175/SH 310 Environmental Impact 
Statement, Dallas County, TX. This ROD was rendered to declare that a 
USACE action, a Section 408 Permission of the City of Dallas to alter 
the Dallas Floodway, is in the public interest.

DATES: The USACE Fort Worth District Commander, Colonel Calvin C. 
Hudson II, signed the ROD and Section 408 Permission on October 21, 
2016.

ADDRESSES: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Regional Planning and 
Environmental Center, CESWF-PEC-CI (Attn: Ms. Marcia Hackett), 819 
Taylor Street, Room 3A12, Fort Worth, TX 76102.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marcia Hackett, Senior Environmental 
Planner, Regional Planning and Environmental Center. Email address: 
marcia.r.hackett@usace.army.mil.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The City of Dallas has requested permission 
to construct the Trinity Parkway in Dallas County, Texas. The Parkway 
will constitute an alternation of the existing Dallas Floodway, a USACE 
federally authorized civil works project that requires Title 33 United 
States Code, Section 408 (Section 408) compliance. The proposed Parkway 
consists of a multi-lane transportation project constructed on earthen 
embankments generally aligned along the East Levee within the Dallas 
Floodway. The alterations were analyzed and disclosed in the Final 
Impact Statement dated March 2014, which was prepared by the Federal 
Highway Administration, as the lead agency; the Texas Department of 
Transportation (TxDOT); and the North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA). 
Those agencies in addition to the City of Dallas are the project's 
sponsors. This ROD addresses the USACE Section 408 Permission.

Douglas C. Sims,
RPA Chief, Environmental Compliance Branch, Regional Planning and 
Environmental Center.
[FR Doc. 2016-28844 Filed 11-30-16; 8:45 am]
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