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i 12 AIV -. .` The environmental, social, economic, and engineering The planning process is currently in the fourth of six impacts vary with each alternate. The following is a phases as indicated by the chart below. brief summary of the more substantial impacts associated with the three build alternates. More detailed PHASE I information on impacts is contained in the DEIS. Data Collection ist Citizens Informational Workshop Alternate 1 is the longest at 19.7 miles and most Inventory of Planning Issues g Document Community Concerns expensive at $143.9 million. Alternate 2 is the shortest Transportation Needs Study at 17.8 miles and would cost $126.4 million. PHASE 2 Alternate 3 is 18.7 miles long and is the least costly at Alternatives Identification $126.2 million. Initial Feld Studies Corridor Refinement 2nd.Citizens Informational.Workshop Relocations will be required for each of the alternates. selection of Corridors for Detailed Study Alternate 1 would require the relocation of 86 families, . PHASE 3 15 businesses, and four non-profit organizations. Of Engineering Studies these relocations' 25 minority amilies would be Detailed.Field Studies Y Environmental Analysis impacted. Alternate 2 would require the relocation of Technical Reports 100 families, 26 businesses, and two non-profit PHASE 4 organizations. Minority family relocations would be 41, Draft Environmental Impact Statement(DEIS) minority businesses would be seven, and one minority Pre-Hearing.Open House/Workshop non-profit organization relocation would be required. PEE Corridor Public Hearing Alternate 3 would require relocation of 95 families, eight PHASE"5 businesses, and two non-profit organizations. Minority Review Comments.an the DEIS relocations include 35 families, two businesses, and one Review Public Hearing Transcript Selection of Preferred Alternative non-profit organization. PHASE 6' Final Environmental'Impact.Statement(FEIS) In addition to relocations, right of way will need to be Record of Decision acquired for the roadway. Alternate 1 would affect 443 parcels of land with 558 acres- of new right of way. Alternate 2 would affect 539 parcels, but with less right The remainder of PHASE 4 includes the Pre-Hearing of way at 475 acres. Alternate 3 would affect 503 Workshops and the Public Hearing for the project. parcels and 505 acres of right of way. More detailed information on the workshops and hearing is available on the back of this newsletter. Wetlands will be impacted by the project. Alternate 1 will affect the greatest amount of wetlands at 15.9 acres. During PHASE 5, NCDOT will review the written Alternate 3 has least impact on wetlands at 9.7 acres. comments on the DEIS from citizens, public officials, Alternate 2 would impact 11.2 acres of wetlands. governmental review agencies, Citizens Advisory Committee members, Steering Committee members, Floodplains along existing streams and creeks will also neighborhood groups, and civic organizations. The be affected. Alternates I and 2 would impact 25.5. and official transcript from the Public Hearing also will be 24.5 acres of floodplain, respectively. Alternate 3 part of the review during this portion of the study. would impact 19.1 acres of floodplain. Based on these comments and the information contained in the DEIS, NCDOT will select a Preferred Alternative Noise levels would be altered in the vicinity of the in the spring of 1995. If this alternative involves new alternates. The most receptors adversely affected by roadway construction, NCDOT will select a corridor for noise increases would occur along Alternate 2 at 283. the road. The selected corridor may be a combination Alternates I and 3 would impact about the same number of segments from the alternates evaluated in the DEIS. of receptors at 189 and 190, respectively. The last phase of the study includes the production of the Parks would also be impacted by the alternates with Final Environmental Impact Statement and the Record of Alternate 1 affecting the most parkland at 5.3 acres. Decision for the Preferred Alternative. PHASE 6 will Alternates 2 and 3 would impact 0.4 and 0.9 acres of be completed towards the end of 1995. parkland, respectively.