Rescinding the Notice of Intent for an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS): Harrison and Stone Counties, MS, 74128 [2010-30022]
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Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 229 / Tuesday, November 30, 2010 / Notices
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
Rescinding the Notice of Intent for an
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS):
Harrison and Stone Counties, MS
Federal Highway
Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Rescind Notice of Intent to
prepare an EIS.
AGENCY:
This notice rescinds the
Notice of Intent for preparing an
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
for a proposed highway to provide a
connection between U.S. Highway 49
near the town of Star to Interstate 20
near the Interchange with State Route
475 in the City of Pearl, Rankin County,
Mississippi. The original Notice of
Intent for this EIS process was
published in the Federal Register on
May 22, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Claiborne Barnwell, Project
Development Team Leader, Federal
Highway Administration, Mississippi
Division, 100 West Capitol Street, Suite
1026, Jackson, Mississippi 39269,
Telephone: (601) 965–4217.
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 May 22, 2009, to
provide a connector road, to be built to
interstate standards, between U.S.
Highway 49 and Interstate 20.
Due to funding constraints this Notice
of Intent is rescinded.
Andrew H. Hughes,
Division Administrator, Mississippi, Federal
Highway Administration, Jackson,
Mississippi.
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Manual on Uniform Traffic Control
Devices (MUTCD) Compliance Dates
Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice; Request for comments.
This notice requests
comments on compliance dates for
highway agencies to upgrade their
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Comments must be received on
or before January 14, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Mail or hand deliver
comments to the U.S. Department of
Transportation, Dockets Management
Facility, Room W12–140, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC
20590, or fax comments to (202) 493–
2251. Alternatively, comments may be
submitted to the Federal eRulemaking
portal at https://www.regulations.gov. All
comments must include the docket
number that appears in the heading of
this document. All comments received
will be available for examination and
copying at the above address from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m., e.t., Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays. Those
desiring notification of receipt of
comments must include a selfaddressed, stamped postcard or you
may print the acknowledgment page
that appears after submitting comments
electronically. Anyone is able to search
the electronic form of all comments in
any one of our dockets by the name of
the individual submitting the comment
(or signing the comment, if submitted
on behalf of an association, business, or
labor union). Anyone may review DOT’s
complete Privacy Act Statement in the
Federal Register published on April 11,
2000 (Volume 65, Number 70, Pages
19477–78), or you may visit https://
dms.dot.gov.
DATES:
SUMMARY:
AGENCY:
existing non-compliant traffic control
devices to comply with certain
requirements established in the Manual
on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
(MUTCD). This notice asks for
responses to a series of questions about
compliance dates, their benefits and
economic impacts, and other related
issues.
For
questions about the program discussed
herein, contact Mr. Hari Kalla, MUTCD
Team Leader, FHWA Office of
Operations, (202) 366–5915, or via email at hari.kalla@dot.gov. For legal
questions, please contact Mr. Raymond
Cuprill, Senior Attorney Advisor,
FHWA Office of the Chief Counsel,
(202) 366–1392, or via e-mail at
raymond.cuprill@dot.gov. Business
hours for the FHWA are from 8 a.m. to
4:30 p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Electronic Access and Filing
You may submit or retrieve comments
online through the Federal eRulemaking
portal at: https://www.regulations.gov.
The Web site is available 24 hours each
day, 365 days each year. Electronic
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may also be downloaded from Office of
the Federal Register’s home page at:
https://www.archives.gov/federal_register
and the Government Printing Office’s
Web page at: https://www.gpoaccess.gov.
Background
The MUTCD is incorporated by
reference within Federal regulations at
23 CFR Part 655, approved by FHWA,
and recognized as the national standard
for traffic control devices used on all
public roads. When new provisions are
adopted in a new edition or revision of
the MUTCD, any new or reconstructed
traffic control devices being installed
after adoption are generally required to
be in compliance with the new
provisions. Existing devices in the field
that do not meet the new MUTCD
provisions are expected to be upgraded
by highway agencies over time to meet
the new provisions via a systematic
upgrading process, but there are no
specific dates for required completion of
the upgrades. The Code of Federal
Regulations, at 23 CFR 655.603(d)(1),
authorizes FHWA to establish target
compliance dates for compliance of
particular existing devices. The FHWA
establishes such compliance dates via
the Federal rulemaking process.
The Final Rule for the 2009 edition of
the MUTCD 1 established 12 new
specific compliance dates in Table I–2
for upgrading existing devices to
comply with certain new provisions
adopted in that edition. Table I–2 in the
2009 MUTCD also included 46 other
compliance dates that had not been
reached by 2009 that were established
in previous Final Rules in 2000,2 2003,3
and 2007 4 for new provisions adopted
in those Final Rules. The FHWA is
aware of concerns on the part of some
State and local highway agencies about
the potential impacts of MUTCD
compliance dates in the current
economic downturn, which has
significantly reduced the resources
available to such agencies.
Purpose of This Notice
The FHWA is interested in examining
the issues of the safety benefits provided
by traffic control device uniformity and
the economic hardships to State and
local governments that might result
from specific compliance dates for
upgrading some non-compliant existing
devices.
1 74
FR 66732, December 16, 2009.
FR 78923, December 18, 2000.
3 68 FR 65496, November 20, 2003.
4 72 FR 72574, December 21, 2007.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
Rescinding the Notice of Intent for an Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS): Harrison and Stone Counties, MS
AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration, 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 a proposed highway to provide
a connection between U.S. Highway 49 near the town of Star to
Interstate 20 near the Interchange with State Route 475 in the City of
Pearl, Rankin County, Mississippi. The original Notice of Intent for
this EIS process was published in the Federal Register on May 22, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Claiborne Barnwell, Project
Development Team Leader, Federal Highway Administration, Mississippi
Division, 100 West Capitol Street, Suite 1026, Jackson, Mississippi
39269, Telephone: (601) 965-4217.
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 May 22,
2009, to provide a connector road, to be built to interstate standards,
between U.S. Highway 49 and Interstate 20.
Due to funding constraints this Notice of Intent is rescinded.
Andrew H. Hughes,
Division Administrator, Mississippi, Federal Highway Administration,
Jackson, Mississippi.
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