[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 89 (Friday, May 8, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 25522]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-12241]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, Etc: Natchez Trace
Parkway, MS Southern Terminus
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability of the Draft Environmental Impact
Statement for the Southern Terminus of the Natchez Trace Parkway,
Mississippi.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the availability of a draft
environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Southern Terminus (Section
3X) of the Natchez Trace Parkway.This notice also announces the
intention to hold public meetings for the purpose of receiving comments
about the draft EIS.
DATES: Comments on the draft EIS should be received no later than July
7, 1998. Public meetings will be held in Natchez, MS, and Jackson, MS.
The dates and times of the public meetings will be announced in local
media in those cities, but they will be held no sooner than 30 days
following the publication of this announcement in the Fedeal Register.
ADDRESSES: Comments on the draft EIS shall be submitted to:
Superintendent Wendell A. Simpson, Natchez Trace Parkway, 2680 Natchez
Trace Parkway, Tupelo, MS 38801, (601) 680-4004.
The locations of the public meetings will be announced in the local
media in the cities where they will be held.
Public reading copies of the EIS will be available for review at
the following locations:
1. Natchez Trace Parkway Headquarters, 2680 Natchez Trace Parkway,
Tupelo, Mississippi 38801, (601) 680-4005
2. Natchez National Historical Park, 504 S. Canal Street, Natchez,
Mississippi 39120, (601) 442-7047
3. Judge George W. Armstrong Library, 220 South Commerce Street,
Natchez, Mississippi 39120, (601) 445-8862
4. Jackson/Hinds Library System, Eudora Wetly Library, 300 North State
Street, Jackson, Mississippi 39201, (601) 968-5809. (This is the
Headquarters or main library in Jackson.)
A limited number of copies of the draft EIS are also available from
the office of the Superintendent, Natchez Trace Parkway.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Draft Environmental Impact Statement
for the Southern Terminus (Section 3X) of the Natchez Trace Parkway
presents a proposal and two alternative locations for the Southern
Terminus of the Natchez Trace Parkway. The parkway in this region
currently ends at U.S. Highway 61, about 7.5 miles east of the city of
Natchez. An unopened section of the parkway has been partially
constructed from U.S. Highway 61 to U.S. Highway 84/98, about 3.6 miles
east of the Natchez city limits.
Alternative 1, the no action alternative, would construct an
interchange at U.S. 84/98 and make that point the southern terminus of
the parkway. The proposal, alternative 2, would extend the parkway
another 4.2 miles from U.S. 84/98 toward Natchez to terminate at
Liberty Road, where an interchange would be constructed. Alternative 3
would expend the parkway about 4.3 miles from U.S. 84/98 to terminate
with an interchange at Seargent Prentiss Drive. Alternative 3 is the
only alternative which would not require the acquisition of some
additional property. In every alternative, parkway users would exit the
parkway and utilizing existing city streets to reach the city center or
other locations in Natchez. The EIS evaluates the potential
environmental impacts associated with the three terminus locations and
their associated parkway routing alternatives.
Dated: April 29, 1998.
Daniel W. Brown,
Acting Regional Director, Southeast Region.
[FR Doc. 98-12241 Filed 5-7-98; 8:45 am]
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