Notice of Intent to Begin Environmental Studies

FAST Intersection Improvements FFY2021

NFHWY00524

The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT&PF) proposes to improve intersections within the Fairbanks and North Pole FAST Planning Area. This will include work on alignment at Sheep Creek and Tanana Loop and Chena Pump Road and Chena Point Road, signs, clearing drainage ditches, reshaping drainage ditches, extending culverts, resurfacing highway, installing safety beacon at Tanana Middle School on Trainor Gate Road, installing a median on Farmers Loop at the Steese Highway.

This project involves construction encroachments within a mapped floodplain of the Chena River. The encroachments are anticipated to be minor, with no net changes to the base flood elevation, will not result in significant encroachments, and no longitudinal encroachments are anticipated.

The following Executive Orders (EO) apply:

EO 12898, Environmental Justice

EO 11593, Protection and Enhancement of the Cultural Environment

EO 11988, Floodplain Management

EO 13112, as amended by EO 13751, Invasive Species

EO 11990, Wetland Involvement

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

For further information regarding the project, or if you would like to submit

comments, you can contact John Netardus, P.E., Engineering Manager at

(907) 451-5448 or send an e-mail to john.netardus@alaska.gov.

Comments may be submitted until September 30, 2020.

DOT&PF operates all programs without regard to race, religion, color, gender, age, marital status, ability, or national origin.

Full Title VI Nondiscrimination Policy: dot.alaska.gov/tvi_statement.shtml