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EPA Provides Comments on Utah Legacy Parkway project
Release Date: 1/4/2001
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EPA 303/312-6308,
Release Date: 1/4/2001
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EPA 800/227-8917
- Denver -- In a letter sent today to the Sacramento Office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, EPA's Regional Administrator in Denver requested the Corps to review EPA’s continuing concerns outlined in the letter regarding the environmental impacts of the proposed Legacy Parkway in Utah. Once the Corps has reviewed EPA’s comments, Yellowtail encouraged the Corps to contact EPA’s Region 8 Office to discuss next steps toward resolution of those concerns.
The letter and detailed comments will be available to the public January 5 on the EPA Region 8 website at: https://www.epa.gov/region08
EPA’s concerns about the Project’s environmental impacts remain and EPA is confident those impacts can be reduced. The Agency urges the Corps to include several conditions in its permit, including commuter rail development simultaneously with Legacy Parkway construction and assurances that the wetlands developed to offset those destroyed will serve the same functions and will indefinitely endure. EPA Regional Administrator Bill Yellowtail yesterday received Utah Governor Leavitt’s personal assurances that these conditions will be met.
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