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AK Department of Transportation & Public Facilities Southcoast Region Notice of Open House and Downtown Juneau Projects Update: JNU Egan Drive Resurfacing Main-10th St Project Z-69393-0000

DOT&PF & City and Borough of Juneau invite you to attend an open house to learn about current and upcoming construction projects in the downtown Juneau area.

CBJ will discuss its Downtown Streets Improvement Project and ideas for future street and sidewalk design. DOT&PF will discuss the Egan Drive Improvements Project 69393 Main to 10th Street.

Topics include scope of work, construction schedules, and traffic changes.
 
              Date:   Tuesday May 1, 2016       
              Time:   6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.       
              Place:  The Hangar on the Wharf Ballroom, 
                          2 Marine Way, Juneau, Alaska

About the Egan Drive Improvements Project 69393:

The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT&PF) is proposing to construct the Egan Drive Improvements Project Main to 10th Street.

The proposed project construction would
        • Resurface Egan Drive from 10th Street to Main Street
        • Improve and add pedestrian crossing opportunities by reducing the number and / or 
           width of driving lanes
        • Widen sidewalks
        • Construct bike lanes
        • Repair sections of retaining wall under the Merchant’s Wharf building
        • Rehabilitate the Gold Creek Bridge (incl. asphalt, rails and signs)
        • Slip-line some existing culverts
        • Widen Egan Drive seaward by constructing a new mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) 
           wall along approximately 1,200 linear feet between West Eighth Street and Whittier Street
        • Remove and replace storm drainage systems that drain into Gastineau Channel
        • Relocate/replace electrical conduit and luminaries, valve boxes, manholes, above ground
           power and telephone utility boxes
        • Replace signs and install new way-finding signs to direct pedestrian and bicycle traffic

Construction is anticipated to begin as early as Fall / Winter 2018 
and is expected to continue during the 2019 / 2020 seasons.

More information about this project can be obtained from the project website at

http://dot.alaska.gov/sereg/projects/jnu_egan_resurface/index.shtml

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The environmental review, consultation, and other actions required by applicable Federal environmental laws for this project are being, or have been, carried out by DOT&PF pursuant to 23 U.S.C. 327 and a Memorandum of Understanding dated November 3, 2017 and executed by FHWA and DOT&PF.

Development has followed a process required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

The proposed project would comply with all applicable authorities including:
    • National Historic Preservation Act - Section 106           • Endangered Species Act
    • U.S. Department of Transportation Act Section 4(f)      • Clean Air & Clean Water Acts
    • EO-13175 Consult & Coordinate w/ Indian Tribal Gov.   • EO-12898 Environmental Justice
    • EO-11593 Protect & Enhance Cultural Env.                   • EO-11988 Manage Floodplains
    • EO-13007 Indian Sacred Sites                                     • Bald & Gold Eagle Protection Act
    • EO-13112 Invasive Species                                         • EO-11990 Protect Wetlands 
    • Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation Act                 • U.S. Fish & Wildlife Coordination Act

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If you have questions on the proposed project, please contact:
          Christy Gentemann, Environmental Analyst
          DOT&PF, Southcoast Region      Phone: 907-465-4524
          P.O. Box 112506                          FAX: 907-465-4414
          Juneau AK 99811-2506             E-mail: christy.gentemann@alaska.gov

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It is the policy of the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) that no person shall be excluded from participation in, or be denied benefits of any and all programs or activities we provide based on race, religion, color, gender, age, marital status, ability, or national origin, regardless of the funding source including Federal Transit Administration, Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Highway Administration and State of Alaska Funds. The DOT&PF complies with Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

If you or someone you represent requires special accommodations in order to respond to this public notice, or attend the open house, please call or email the project coordinator listed above or call Alaska Relay at 711 or call

          (800) 770-8973 for TTY         (800) 770-8255 for voice

          (800) 770-3919 for ASCII      (866) 355-6198 for STS

Ask the communications assistant to call the project coordinator listed above so arrangements can be made to assist you.