Corps Sets Hearing on Route 92 Environmental Document.Business Editors/Political Writers/Environment Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 2004 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of District, will have a public hearing May 20 to receive comments on a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Route 92 project proposed by the New Jersey Turnpike
The hearing will begin at 2 p.m. in the Princeton Ballroom of the Radisson Hotel Princeton, 4355 Route 1 South at Ridge Road in Princeton, N.J. The hearing will break at 5 p.m. and reconvene reconvene Verb to gather together again after an interval: we reconvene tomorrow Verb 1. reconvene - meet again; "The bill will be considered when the Legislature reconvenes next Fall" at 7 p.m., then close at midnight. The DEIS has been prepared to assist the Corps in evaluating a permit application submitted by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. The application seeks authorization under the federal Clean Water Act to discharge fill into 12.03 acres of waters of the United States adjacent to Devil's Brook, Shallow Brook, and unnamed tributaries, Raritan River basin, in Middlesex County. The NJTA NJTA New Jersey Turnpike Authority NJTA New Jersey Theatre Alliance NJTA New Jersey Teachers Association has proposed creating 57 acres of wetlands with a hydrologic connection to a wetland bordering Devil's Brook and preserving 202 acres of wetlands and uplands in the vicinity of Friendship and Miller Roads. The objectives of the project proposed by the NJTA are to: -- Establish a road system that acts to reserve local streets for local traffic and circulation, while providing a separate high-speed route for traffic moving between US Route 1, US Route 130, and the New Jersey Turnpike; -- Provide a connection to alternative routes for north-south traffic that is currently using US Route 1 in order to relieve congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. and improve mobility while minimizing impacts on the abutting communities; and -- Reduce the presence of non-local truck traffic on the local roadway network and shift such traffic to a connector highway. The DEIS evaluates existing site conditions and potential impacts, including indirect and cumulative impacts of the applicant's proposed action, and of other alternative actions identified through the public scoping process and the Corps' analysis of the proposed activities. Determinations on the appropriateness of alternatives will be presented in the final Environmental Impact Statement after comments on the draft document are thoroughly reviewed and considered. Corps officials note that there has been a great deal of public interest in the project, and that interested parties have already offered many comments for and against the proposal. The Corps welcomes continued public participation in the process, and encourages the public to offer comments regarding the information included in the DEIS. The DEIS is available for public review at the following locations: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, Regulatory Branch, 26 Federal Plaza, Room 1937, New York, NY 10278, 212.264.6731 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. 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State St., Trenton, NJ 08625 (by appointment only), 609.633.2151 The Corps public notice announcing the availability of the DEIS and public hearing on the DEIS, including a map and directions to the hearing location, can be accessed on the District's website at http://www.nan.usace.army.mil/business/buslinks/regulat/pnotices/ 199900240.pdf (Due to the length of this URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. , it may be necessary to copy and paste To copy files from one location to another or to copy text and images from one document to another. All modern operating systems and applications have a copy and paste capability that is typically selected from an Edit menu. See cut and paste and Win Copy between windows. this hyperlink into your Internet browser's URL address field. You may also need to remove an extra space in the URL if one exists.) The hearing record will remain open until 5 p.m. June 14 for receipt of written comments. Comments should be sent to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, Regulatory Branch, ATTN: Route 92 DEIS, 26 Federal Plaza, Room 1937, New York, NY 10278-0090. Comments also may be sent electronically to Nan.Route92EIS (1) (Executive Information System) An information system that consolidates and summarizes ongoing transactions within the organization. It provides top management with all the information it requires at all times from internal and external sources. @usace.army.mil. |
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