98-12241. Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, Etc: Natchez Trace Parkway, MS Southern Terminus

[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, [phone].
    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, [phone]
2. Natchez National Historical Park, 504 S. Canal Street, Natchez, 
Mississippi 39120, [phone]
3. Judge George W. Armstrong Library, 220 South Commerce Street, 
Natchez, Mississippi 39120, [phone]
4. Jackson/Hinds Library System, Eudora Wetly Library, 300 North State 
Street, Jackson, Mississippi 39201, [phone]. (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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