[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 166 (Friday, August 26, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53531-53532]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-21746]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Highway Administration


Rescinding the Notice of Intent for an Environmental Impact 
Statement (EIS): Hancock and Pearl River Counties, MS

AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT.

ACTION: Rescind Notice of Intent to prepare an EIS.

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SUMMARY: This notice rescinds the Notice of Intent for preparing an 
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for proposed highway, State Route 
603/43, to provide a connection between Interstate 10 south of Kiln and 
Interstate 59 in the City of Picayune, Hancock and Pearl River 
Counties, Mississippi. The original Notice of Intent for this EIS 
process was published in the Federal Register on October 26, 2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Claiborne Barnwell, Project 
Development Team Leader, Federal Highway Administration, Mississippi 
Division, 100 West Capitol Street, Suite

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1026, Jackson, Mississippi 39269, Telephone: (601) 965-4217 (e-mail: 
[email protected]).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in cooperation with the 
Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) initiated an 
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) with a Notice of Intent October 
26, 2009, to provide a connector road, to be built to interstate 
standards, between Interstate 10 and Interstate 59, a distance of 
approximately 30-miles.
    Due to funding constraints the Notice of Intent is rescinded.

Andrew H. Hughes,
Division Administrator, Mississippi, Federal Highway Administration, 
Jackson, Mississippi.
[FR Doc. 2011-21746 Filed 8-25-11; 8:45 am]
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