97-4463. Environmental Impact Statement Suspension; Santa Fe and San Miguel Counties, NM

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 36 (Monday, February 24, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8305-8306]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-4463]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration


Environmental Impact Statement Suspension; Santa Fe and San 
Miguel Counties, NM

SUMMARY: The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that we 
have suspended preparation of an environmental impact statement for a 
proposed transportation improvement project in Santa Fe and San Miguel 
Counties, New Mexico.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Reuben S. Thomas, Division Administrator, Federal Highway 
Administration, 604 W. San Mateo, Santa Fe, NM 87505. Telephone: (505) 
820-2022.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FHWA, in cooperation with the New Mexico 
State Highway and

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Transportation Department (NMSHTD), has decided to suspend preparation 
of an environmental impact statement (EIS) on three alternative 
alignments for connecting NM 50 to I-25 in the vicinity of the Glorieta 
Unit of the Pecos National Historical Park.
    In the late fall of 1996 the FHWA and NMSHTD concluded from the 
information prepared in the EIS study, from public and agency input 
received over the course of the study and from the lack of available 
funding, that an alternative outside the existing roadway corridor 
would not be in the best interest of the traveling public. Likewise, 
the FHWA/NMSHTD concluded that any improvements along the existing 
roadway corridor within the Pecos National Historical Park, Pigeon's 
Ranch Subunit, do not appear to be compatible with National Park 
Service preservation and interpretation commitments. Therefore this 
notice of EIS study suspension has been published in the Federal 
Register. Work to date is documented in an Environmental Data 
Investigation Report. This report is available for review in the Santa 
Fe offices of NMSHTD and FHWA.

    Issued on: February 4, 1996.
Reuben S. Thomas,
Division Administrator, Santa Fe, NM.
[FR Doc. 97-4463 Filed 2-21-97; 8:45 am]
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