Notice To Rescind a Notice of Intent and Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Highway 35, Between Norfolk and South Sioux City, NE

Topics:  Federal Highway Administration

Joseph A. Werning
Federal Register
July 14, 2011

[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 135 (Thursday, July 14, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 41554]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-17709]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Highway Administration


Notice To Rescind a Notice of Intent and Draft Environmental 
Impact Statement: Highway 35, Between Norfolk and South Sioux City, NE

AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice to rescind a Notice of Intent and Draft Environmental 
Impact Statement.

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SUMMARY: The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that we 
are rescinding the Notice of Intent (NOI) and Draft Environmental 
Impact Statement (DEIS) for improvements that were proposed for the 
Highway 35 Corridor from Norfolk to South Sioux City (N35) in Nebraska 
[DPS-35-4(119)]. The NOI was published in the Federal Register on March 
4, 2002, and the DEIS availability was published in the Federal 
Register on January 11, 2008. This rescission is based on a lack of 
available funding for the full corridor proposal, which led to a 
reduction in scope to focus on the area of more defined need within the 
Norfolk area. The reduction in scope has brought the proposed action 
below the threshold of an EIS.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Melissa Maiefski, Program Delivery 
Team Lead, FHWA, Nebraska Division, 100 Centennial Mall North, Room 
220, Lincoln, Nebraska 68508, Telephone: (402) 742-8473.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FHWA, in cooperation with the Nebraska 
Department of Roads (NDOR), is rescinding the NOI and DEIS for a 
proposal to improve N-35 between Norfolk and South Sioux City in 
Madison, Stanton, Wayne, Dixon, and Dakota Counties in Nebraska. The 
previous proposed action, described in the 2008 DEIS, was to upgrade 
the existing two lane, 70 mile rural highway to a four lane divided 
highway on partially new alignment. The NOI is being rescinded in large 
part due to funding constraints, which led to a reduction of scope to 
focus on the more imminent N-35 needs within the Norfolk area only. The 
current proposed actions would improve the capacity of N-35 within 
Norfolk, from the junction of N-35 with US 275 to Nucor Road, and would 
improve the intersection of N-35 with Norfolk Avenue and Victory Road. 
NDOR will be holding a public meeting to solicit community input on the 
new proposal, which will be advertised through the local media. Given 
the reduction in scope and the associated potential impacts of the 
proposed action, FHWA intends to prepare a lower-level NEPA document to 
determine if the project has the potential to significantly affect the 
quality of the human environment. If, at a future time, FHWA determines 
that the proposed action is likely to have a significant impact on the 
environment, a new NOI to prepare an EIS will be published.

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

    Dated: July 8, 2011.
Joseph A. Werning,
Division Administrator, Nebraska.
[FR Doc. 2011-17709 Filed 7-13-11; 8:45 am]
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