WILDLIFE HABITAT EVALUATION/UPLAND MITIGATION: THE PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PERSPECTIVE
This paper provides an overview of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's (PennDOT's) approach to wildlife habitat assessment and the development of upland mitigation strategies for transportation projects in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Although there are no specific regulatory requirements for wildlife evaluations, it is inherent in PennDOT's transportation project development process to evaluate impacts to wildlife and their habitat and determine appropriate mitigation. There are a number of Federal regulatory or procedural requirements and guidelines that provide guidance to State Departments of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) for considering impacts of transportation programs and projects on wildlife and their habitat, developing mitigation measures to minimize such impacts, and coordinating with the appropriate Federal, state, and local agencies responsible for wildlife and their resources. These regulations and guidelines do not mandate that PennDOT evaluate and mitigate impacts to wildlife species and habitat from transportation projects, except for state and Federal threatened/endangered species. While PennDOT has not developed a formalized policy to evaluate and mitigate wildlife impacts, as part of the Department's internal scoping process, the requirements for impacts and mitigation are written into the scope of work for a particular project. PennDOT is currently coordinating with the Federal and state agencies to develop a policy for terrestrial mitigation.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Also published by Florida DOT as a paper in FL-ER-58-96, "Trends in Addressing Transportation related Wildlife Mortality: Proceedings of the Transportation Related Wildlife Mortality Seminar (June 1996).
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Corporate Authors:
Florida Department of Transportation
Haydon Burns Building, 605 Suwanee Street
Tallahassee, FL United States 32301Federal Highway Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Authors:
- Dodds, P J
- Maurer, M
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Conference:
- Transportation and Wildlife: Reducing Wildlife Mortality and Improving Wildlife Passageways Across Transportation Corridors
- Location: Orlando, Florida
- Date: 1996-4-30 to 1996-5-2
- Publication Date: 1996-8
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References;
- Pagination: p. 235-259
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Endangered species; Federal laws; Guidelines; Habitat (Ecology); Policy; Programming (Planning); State departments of transportation; State laws; Traffic mitigation; Wildlife
- Uncontrolled Terms: Mitigation
- Geographic Terms: Pennsylvania
- Old TRIS Terms: Federal regulations
- Subject Areas: Design; Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00745669
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-PD-96-041
- Files: TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Feb 3 1998 12:00AM