INDOT - US 231 Jasper-Huntingburg Bypass - Draft Environmental Statement

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INDOT - US 231 Jasper-Huntingburg Bypass - Draft Environmental Statement

US 231 Jasper-Huntingburg Bypass - Draft Environmental Impact Statement

Draft Environmental Impact Statement
Table of Contents
Summary
Signed Cover
List of Chapters:
Chapter 1	PROJECT BACKGROUND 1.1.1 Route Importance and System Linkage 1.1.2 Project Location 1.1.3 Project Termini 1.1.4 Existing Highway Characteristics 1.1.4.1 Typical Sections - Rural 1.1.4.2 Typical Sections - Urban 1.1.5 Transportation Planning History
Chapter 2	PURPOSE AND NEED FOR PROPOSED ACTION 2.1 STATEMENT OF PROJECT PURPOSE AND NEED 2.2 NEED FOR PROJECT 2.2.1 Capacity and Level of Service are Substandard 2.2.1.1 Existing and Future Traffic Volumes 2.2.1.2 Capacity and Level of Service 2.2.2 Crash and Injury Rates are High 2.2.2.1 Crashes and Safety 2.2.2.2 Access 2.2.2.3 Horizontal and Vertical Geometrics
Chapter 3	ALTERNATIVES 3.1 DEVELOPMENT AND SCREENING OF ALTERNATIVES 3.1.1 General 3.1.2 Scoping Process 3.1.2.1 Agency and Stakeholder Coordination 3.1.2.2 Public Involvement 3.1.3 Stages of Development 3.1.3.1 Concept Development Stage 3.1.3.2 Alternative Development Stage 3.1.3.3 Detailed Study Stage 3.1.4 Methodology 3.1.5 Description of Environmental and Geographical Constraints 3.2 ALTERNATIVES CONSIDERED 3.2.1 No-Build Alternative 3.2.2 Traffic System Management (TSM) 3.2.2.1 Huntingburg 3.2.2.2 Jasper 3.2.2.3 Summary 3.2.3 Mass Transit 3.2.4 Improve Existing U.S. 231 3.2.5 New Alignment Alternatives 3.2.5.1 Development 3.2.5.2 Design Criteria 3.2.5.3 Descriptions 3.3 ALTERNATIVES RETAINED FOR DETAILED STUDY 3.3.1 No-Build Alternative 3.3.2 Build Alternatives
Chapter 4	AFFECTED ENVIRONMENT 4.1 LAND USE AND RELATED CHARACTERISTICS 4.1.1 Geographical Setting 4.1.2 Land Use Planning and Zoning 4.1.3 Agricultural Land Use 4.1.4 Institutional Land Use 4.1.5 Commercial/Industrial Land Use 4.1.6 Residential Land Use 4.1.7 Cemeteries 4.1.8 Transportation 4.1.8.1 Highways 4.1.8.2 Public Transportation 4.1.8.3 Rail Service 4.1.8.4 General Aviation 4.1.8.5 Trails and Bicycle Routes 4.2 SOCIOECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS 4.2.1 Population Levels and Trends 4.2.2 Population Characteristics - Age and Racial Composition 4.2.3 Environmental Justice 4.2.4 Economic Setting 4.2.4.1 Overall Economy 4.2.4.2 Housing 4.2.5 Work Force 4.2.6 Community Services 4.3 ENVIRONMENTAL AND RELATED FEATURES 4.3.1 Surface Water Resources 4.3.1.1 Rivers and Streams 4.3.1.2 Lakes 4.3.1.3 Ponds 4.3.2 Wetlands 4.3.2.1 Classifications 4.3.2.2 Functions 4.3.3 Floodplains 4.3.4 Groundwater and Drinking Water Supply 4.3.5 Upland Plant Communities 4.3.6 Wildlife and Aquatic Species 4.3.7 Endangered and Threatened Species 4.3.8 Natural and Conservancy Areas 4.3.9 Public Use Lands 4.3.10 Wild and Scenic Rivers 4.3.11 Cultural Resources 4.3.11.1 Archaeological Resources 4.3.11.2 Historic Resources 4.3.12 Soils 4.3.13 Hazardous Materials 4.3.14 Noise 4.3.15 Visual and Aesthetic Resources 4.3.15.1 Viewer Groups
Chapter 5	ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES 5.1 LAND USE AND SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS 5.1.1 Consistency With Local Land Use Plans 5.1.2 Economic Impacts 5.1.2.1 Highway-Sensitive Businesses 5.1.2.2 Real Estate Tax Base 5.1.2.3 Sales Tax Losses 5.1.3 Displacement and Property Impacts 5.1.3.1 Right-of-Way Impacts 5.1.3.2 Residential, Business and Partial Relocations 5.1.3.3 Neighborhood Impacts 5.1.4 Available Replacement Housing 5.1.5 Available Replacement Businesses 5.1.7 Institutional Impacts 5.1.8 Agricultural Impacts 5.1.9 Transportation and Community Access 5.1.9.1 Highways 5.1.9.2 Airports 5.1.9.3 Community Access 5.1.10 Servicing of Industrial Sites 5.1.11 Environmental Justice 5.1.11.1 Racial and Ethnic Minority Impacts 5.1.11.2 Low-Income Household Impacts 5.2 NATURAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND RELATED RESOURCE IMPACTS 5.2.1 Surface Water Resources 5.2.1.1 Rivers and Streams 5.2.1.2 Lakes 5.2.1.3 Ponds 5.2.2 Wetlands 5.2.2.1 Methodology 5.2.2.2 Wetland Impacts 5.2.2.3 Summary 5.2.3 Floodplains 5.2.3.1 No-Build Alternative 5.2.3.2 Build Alternatives 5.2.4 Groundwater and Drinking Water Supply 5.2.5 Upland Forest and Wildlife Habitat 5.2.5.1 Wildlife Habitat 5.2.6 Threatened and Endangered Species 5.2.7 Natural and Conservancy Areas 5.2.8 Archaeological Resources/Section 106 Review 5.2.9 Historic Resources/Section 106 Review 5.2.10 Section 4(f) and Section 6(f) Impacts 5.2.11 Hazardous Materials 5.2.11.1 Alternative 27 5.2.11.2 Alternative 28 5.2.12 Air Quality 5.2.12.1 No-Build Alternative 5.2.12.2 Build Alternatives 5.2.13 Noise 5.2.13.1 No-Build Alternative 5.2.13.2 Build Alternatives 5.2.13.3 Construction Noise Impacts 5.2.13.4 Traffic Noise Abatement Analysis 5.2.14 Visual and Aesthetic Resources 5.2.14.1 No-Build Alternative 5.2.14.2 Build Alternatives 5.2.15 Energy Impacts 5.2.15.1 Methodology 5.2.15.2 Energy Impacts 5.2.15.3 Summary 5.2.16 Construction Impacts 5.3 CUMULATIVE IMPACTS 5.3.1 Introduction 5.3.2 Methodology 5.3.3 Analysis 5.3.4 Summary 5.4 RELATION OF LOCAL SHORT-TERM USES OF THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT AND THE MAINTENANCE AND ENHANCEMENT OF LONG-TERM PRODUCTIVITY 5.5 IRREVERSIBLE OR IRRETRIEVABLE COMMITMENTS OF RESOURCES 5.6 SUMMARY OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES 5.6.1 Comparison of Impacts of Alternatives
Chapter 6	MITIGATION MEASURES AND PERMITS 6.1 MEASURES TO MINIMIZE ADVERSE IMPACTS AND MITIGATION FOR UNAVOIDABLE IMPACTS 6.1.1 Traffic 6.1.2 Farmland 6.1.3 Acquisition/Relocation 6.1.4 Surface Water Resources 6.1.5 Wetlands 6.1.6 Floodplains 6.1.7 Threatened and Endangered species 6.1.8 Forests 6.1.9 Upland Habitat and Wildlife 6.1.10 Natural and Conservancy Areas 6.1.11 Archaeological Resources 6.1.12 Air Quality 6.1.13 Noise 6.1.13.1 Traffic Noise 6.1.13.2 Construction Noise 6.1.14 Context Sensitive Solutions 6.1.15 Borrow and Disposal 6.2 PERMITS 6.2.1 Section 404 and Section 10 Permit 6.2.2 Section 401 Water Quality Certification 6.2.3 Construction Within a Floodway Permit 6.2.4 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Permit 6.2.5 Erosion Control
Chapter 7	COMMENTS AND COORDINATION 7.1 PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT 7.1.1 Local Stakeholders Meetings 7.1.2 Public Information Meetings 7.1.2.1 Jasper High School Auditorium 7.1.2.2 Southridge High School Auditorium 7.2 AGENCY COORDINATION 7.2.1 Early Coordination 7.2.2 Interagency Review Meeting - June 2001 7.2.3 Interagency Review Meeting - April 2002 7.2.4 Threatened and Endangered Species Coordination 7.2.5 Section 106 - Consulting Parties Coordination
Chapter 8	List of Groups Receiving Copies of the EIS
Chapter 9	List of Preparers
Chapter 10	References
Chapter 11	Index
List of Figures:
Chapter 1	1.1.1 Project Location Map 1.1.2 Project Limits 1.1.4.2-1 Huntingburg Location Map 1.1.4.2-2 Jasper Location Map
Chapter 2	2.2.1.1 Existing (2000) and Projected (2030) Average Daily Traffic Volumes 2.2.1.2 Existing and Design Year Level of Service
Chapter 3	3.1.3.2-1 Preliminary New Alignment Alternatives Dismissed During Level I Screening 3.1.3.2-2 Preliminary New Alignment Alternatives Dismissed During Level II Screening 3.1.3.2-3 Final New Alignment Alternatives Dismissed During Level III Screening 3.2.2.1 TSM Alternative - Huntingburg 3.2.2.2 TSM Alternative - Jasper 3.3.2-1 Detailed Study Alternatives 3.3.2-2 Typical Roadway and Bridge Sections
Chapter 4 (7.1 Mb)	4.1.1 Bedrock Geology 4.1.2-1 City of Huntingburg Zoning and Existing Land Use Plan 4.1.2-2 City of Huntingburg Comprehensive Land Use Plan 4.1.2-3 City of Jasper Existing Land Use Plan 4.1.2-4 City of Jasper Proposed Land Use Plan 4.1.3 Prime Farmland 4.1.8.5 Suggested Bike Routes 4.2.2 2000 Census Tract Data 4.3.1.3 Constructed Pond 4.3.2.1-1 Emergent Wetland 4.3.2.1-2 Scrub/Shrub Wetland 4.3.2.1-3 Forested Wetland 4.3.4 Hydrogeological Settings 4.3.9-1 Public Use Lands 4.3.9-2 Public Use Lands 4.3.11.2-1 U.S. 231 Historic and Architectural Sites 4.3.11.2-2 U.S. 231 Historic and Architectural Sites 4.3.11.2-3 U.S. 231 Historic Architectural Sites
Chapter 5 (36.6 Mb)	5.1.1-1 City of Huntingburg Comprehensive Land Use Plan 5.1.1-2 City of Jasper Proposed Land Use Plan 5.1.9.2 Huntingburg Airport Layout Plan 5.2-1 Wetlands, Woodlands, Natural Areas and Hazardous Materials Sites 5.2-2 Wetlands, Woodlands, Natural Areas and Hazardous Materials Sites 5.2-3 Wetlands, Woodlands, Natural Areas and Hazardous Materials Sites 5.2-4 Wetlands, Woodlands, Natural Areas and Hazardous Materials Sites 5.2-5 Wetlands, Woodlands, Natural Areas and Hazardous Materials Sites 5.2-6 Wetlands, Woodlands, Natural Areas and Hazardous Materials Sites 5.2-7 Wetlands, Woodlands, Natural Areas and Hazardous Materials Sites 5.2.1-1 Surface Water Resources and Approximate Floodplain Boundaries 5.2.1-2 Surface Water Resources and Approximate Floodplain Boundaries 5.2.1-3 Surface Water Resources and Approximate Floodplain Boundaries 5.2.1-4 Surface Water Resources and Approximate Floodplain Boundaries 5.2.1-5 Surface Water Resources and Approximate Floodplain Boundaries 5.2.1-6 Surface Water Resources and Approximate Floodplain Boundaries 5.2.1-7 Surface Water Resources and Approximate Floodplain Boundaries 5.2.9-1 U.S. 231 Historic Architectural Sites 5.2.9-2 U.S. 231 Historic Architectural Sites 5.2.9-3 U.S. 231 Historic Architectural Sites 5.2.13.4 Impact Criteria for Determining Severity of Noise Impact for the Consideration of Noise Abatement 5.3.3-1 Dubois County Farmland 5.3.3-2 Dubois County Forest Lands APPENDICES
Appendices
Appendix A	Aerial Photographs (21.2 Mb) Alternative 27 (22.5 Mb) Alternative 28 (21.9 Mb)
Appendix B	Farmland Conversion Impact Rating Form
Appendix C	Wetlands Memorandum of Understanding
Appendix D	Comment Letters Early Coordination Response Letters Response Letters - June 2001 Response Letters - April 2002 Section 7 Coordination
Appendix E	Section 106 Consulting Parties Coordination Findings and Determination - Area of Potential Effect