Integrating Freight into NEPA Analysis
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1. Report No. FHWA-HOP-10-033 |
2. Government Accession No. |
3. Recipient’s Catalog No. |
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4. Title and Subtitle Integrating Freight into NEPA Analysis |
5. Report Date September 2010 |
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7. Author(s) Dike Ahanotu |
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9. Performing Organization Name and Address Cambridge Systematics, Inc. |
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11. Contract or Grant No. DTFH61-06-D-00004 |
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12. Sponsoring Agency Name and Address U.S. Department of Transportation |
13. Type of Report and Period Covered Final Report |
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14. Sponsoring Agency Code HOFM |
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15. Supplementary Notes FHWA COTM: Kate Quinn, Office of Freight Management and Operations, and Neel Vanikar, Office of Project Development and Environmental Review |
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16. Abstract The efficiency and effectiveness of freight transportation is critical for economic growth and development, ensuring livable communities, and creating a sustainable human and natural environment. It is increasingly important to integrate freight transportation issues and solutions throughout the transportation planning and project development process. This handbook is designed to provide information on freight transportation to: 1) professionals responsible for advancing transportation projects through the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process analysis; and 2) public and private sector freight stakeholders interested in advancing freight transportation projects utilizing public sector highway funds that require NEPA analysis. NEPA requires analysis of the impacts of proposed Federal activities on the natural and human environments. Therefore, the use of Federal-aid highway funds to implement a transportation project requires that the project be advanced through the NEPA process as defined in law and regulation. This handbook considers freight transportation from two perspectives: 1) a project that itself is designed to resolve a freight transportation issue or need; and 2) a project in which freight-related features (warehousing, access to intermodal facilities, loading docks, etc.) could be affected by the project’s design and location. |
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17. Key Words freight, NEPA, EIS, intermodal, goods movement, environmental review, project development |
18. Distribution Statement No restrictions. |
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19. Security Classif. (of this report) Unclassified |
20. Security Classif. Unclassified |
21. No of Pages 44 |
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