ADVISORY/Media Alert: Authors of Landmark Streamlining Agreement to Discuss Impact on Future U.S. Transportation Projects.

Calendar Editors/Assignment Desks

ADVISORY...for Monday (Jan. 12)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

WHAT:     Overview of an historic agreement - signed by 18 federal and
          state agencies - that serves as the basis for an innovative
          environmental streamlining and stewardship initiative around
          an ambitious Philadelphia International Airport
          reconfiguration project. This initiative - widely recognized
          as a major milestone stemming from last year's Executive
          Order issued by President Bush to better streamline
          transportation projects - is expected to be the model for
          permitting process around future transportation projects.
          The presentation will include a review of the agreement and
          how it was possible to get so many government agencies to
          reach consensus.

WHO:      Marla Engel, AICP, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, project manager
          for the PHL streamlining agreement on a panel moderated by
          Lynne Sparks Pickard, Sr. Advisor for Environmental Policy,
          Federal Aviation Administration

WHEN:     10:15 a.m. - Noon, Monday, Jan. 12, 2004

WHERE:    Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
          Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington D.C.
          Environmental Provisions of FAA Reauthorization: "New
          Strategies for Environmental Streamlining" (P04-0436)
          Session 256