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ARRA - Resurface 11 miles of road and parking areas and repair deteriorating culverts


Prince William Forest Park of the National Park Service (NPS), in cooperation with Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division (EFLHD) of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is proposing to improve visitor experience and park operations by addressing deficient transportation related facilities within Prince William Forest Park, including access roads and parking facilities. These roads and parking lots provide
visitor access to hiking and biking trails, picnic areas, the Visitor Center, and several other Park amenities. These improvements to the Park's transportation facilities are needed because the deterioration of the interior roadways and lack of adequate parking has created public safety concerns and diminished overall visitor enjoyment; and because the existing road signage, guardrails and culverts have been determined to be
insufficient.

This Environmental Assessment (EA)/Assessment of Effect (AE) analyzed an action alternative (the preferred alternative) and the no action alternative and their impacts on the environment in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The action alternative includes the resurfacing, restoration and rehabilitation of Park roadways and parking lots, replacement of signs, guardrails and culverts, reconditioning
of stone and asphalt paved waterways, along with the posible expansion of parking lots D and E and the reconfiguration of the Scenic Drive Intersection at mile marker two.

Impacts of the proposed alternatives were assessed in accordance with NEPA and the NPS's Director's Order 12: Conservation Planning, Environmental Impact Analysis, and Decision-making, which requires that impacts to park resources be analyzed in terms of their context, duration, and intensity. Several impact topics have been dismissed from further analysis because the proposed action alternatives would result in negligible to no effects to those resources. No major effects are anticipated as a result of this project.
 
Comment Period: Closed        Jun 26, 2009 - Jul 30, 2009
Document Content:
PRWI Road Repave EAPRWI Road Repave EA   (1.9 MB, PDF file)
PRWI Road Repave EA Appendix APRWI Road Repave EA Appendix A   (2.3 MB, PDF file)
PRWI Road Repave EA Appendix BPRWI Road Repave EA Appendix B   (754.3 KB, PDF file)
PRWI Road Repave EA Appendix CPRWI Road Repave EA Appendix C   (387.6 KB, PDF file)
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