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Environmental Impact Statement; San Bernardino County, CA
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[Federal Register: July 5, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 128)]
[Notices]
[Page 38207-38208]
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; San Bernardino County, CA
AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of intent.
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SUMMARY: The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public of its
intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the
proposed U.S. 395 Realignment Freeway/Expressway project on U.S. 395
from the Interstate 15 (I-15)/U.S. 395 interchange to Farmington Road.
Part of the realignment would go through the cities of Oak Hills,
Hesperia, Victorville, Adelanto and incorporated areas of San
Bernardino County, California.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tay Dam, Senior Project Development
Engineer, Federal Highway Administration, 888 South Figueroa, Suite
1850, Los Angeles, CA, 90017. Telephone: (213) 202-3954. Boniface
Udotor, California Department of Transportation District 8, 464 W.
Fourth Street, San Bernardino, CA 92401. Telephone: (909) 383-1387.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FHWA, in cooperation with the California
Department of Transportation, District 8, will prepare an EIS to
realign U.S. 395 from the I-15/U.S. 395 interchange to Farmington Road.
The proposed U.S. 395 Realignment Freeway/Expressway corridor to be
evaluated is located either on existing U.S. 395 or west of existing
U.S. 395, through the cities of Oak Hills, Hesperia, Victorville,
Adelanto and incorporated areas of San Bernardino County. The entire
proposed project length is approximately 45.0 miles long. A preferred
alternative has not been selected at this point. All build alternatives
begin at the I-15 U.S. 395 interchange and would extend to Farmington Road.
The viable alternatives in the environmental analysis consist of an
existing alignment and two realignments upgrading U.S. 395 from a two-
lane highway to a six-lane freeway/four-lane expressway configuration.
The six-lane freeway portion of the proposed existing alignment/
realignments would start at the I-15/U.S. 395 junction and ends at
Purple Sage Street. The expressway portion for the proposed action
would continue from Purple Sage Street to Farmington Road. The build
alternatives will include construction of new interchanges. For
consideration in the EIS, the following four alternatives will be analyzed:
? Alternate A: No Build. This Alternative consists of no
change to existing facilities along the proposed project portion of the
U.S. 395 corridor.
? Alternative D: Existing Alignment. The Existing Alignment
Alternative follows the existing alignment or a slightly offset
alignment throughout the project limits.
? Alternative F: Realignment West of Existing Corridor. This
Alternative proposes to realign the corridor from the I-15/U.S. 395
interchange to Farmington Road. This realignment heads northwest in the
vicinity of the Oak Hills Community and the Union Pacific Railroad, and
then continues in a northerly direction just west of Caughlin Road
within San Bernardino County limits and traversing the western portions
of the City of Adelanto, where it converges back to paralleling the
existing U.S. 395 alignment for the remainder of the project limits.
? Alternative G: Realignment West of Existing Corridor along
Oro Grande Wash. This alternative consists of a realignment detaching
from existing the I-15/U.S. 395 interchange, where immediately crosses
the Union Pacific Railroad within the first 1\1/2\ miles heading
northeast along the Oro Grande Wash. the realignment continues
northeasterly throughout the western portions of the Cities of Hesperia
and Victorville and follows in a northerly
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direction just west of Cuaghlin Road within San Bernardino County
limits and traversing the western portions of the City of Adelanto
where it converges back to paralleling the existing U.S. 395 alignment
for the remainder of the project limits.
The alternatives described above will be further refined through
efforts conducted under the National Environmental Policy Act (40 CFR
parts 1500-1508, and 23 CFR part 771), the 1990 Clear Air Act
Amendments, section 404 of the Clean Water Act, Executive Order 12898
regarding environmental justice, the National Historic Preservation
Act, the Endangered Species Act, the section 4(f) of the U.S.
Department of Transportation Act, and other Federal environmental
protection laws, regulations, policies, and executive orders. The EIS
will incorporate comments from the public scoping process as well as
analysis in technical studies. Other alternatives suggested during
scoping process would be considered during the development of the EIS.
The EIS will consider any additional reasonable alternatives identified
during scoping process. Letters describing the proposed action and
soliciting comments will be sent to appropriate Federal, State,
regional and local agencies, and to private organizations and citizens
who previously have expressed, or are known to have, an interest in
this project. Location and details of the public scoping meeting for
the proposed project will be advertised in local newspapers and other
media and will be hosted by the California Department of
Transportation, District 8.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program Number 20.205,
Highway Research, Planning and Construction. The regulations
implementing Executive Order 12372 regarding intergovernmental
consultation Federal programs and activities apply to this program)
Dated: June 27, 2006.
Gene K. Fong,
Division Administrator, California Division, Federal Highway
Administration.
[FR Doc. 06-5987 Filed 7-3-06; 8:45 am]
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