TEA-21 TO HELP ACCELERATE HIGHWAY DEVELOPMENT

The Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) recognizes the time sensitivity of highway project development and planning. Two sections of the Act, Major Investment Study Integration (Sec.1308) and Environmental Streamlining (Sec. 1309), require integration of planning, project development, and agency coordination with the process established by the National Environmental Policy Act of 1970. Results of this integration should substantially reduce the time from project initiation to turning the first shovel of dirt. Procedures similar to those required by TEA-21 are currently being used to accelerate the development of a large highway project in Utah. The Legacy Parkway is a new 17-mi (27-km), four-lane, limited access highway in the Salt Lake City, Utah, metropolitan area, which completed the entire process including the final Environmental Impact Statement in 21 months, saving many months if not years. A sidebar details efforts by the American Road and Transportation Builders Association that contributed to the TEA-21 streamlining.

• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/19451392
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Page Range: pp 26, 28
• Corporate Authors:

  American Road & Transportation Builders Association

  ARTBA Building, 1219 28th Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20007-3389
• Authors:
  • Thomsen, A
• Publication Date: 1998-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 2 p.
• Serial:
  • Transportation Builder
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue Number: 8
  • Publisher: American Road & Transportation Builders Association
  • ISSN: 1043-4054

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Environmental impact analysis; Environmental impact statements; Highway engineering; Schedules; Streamlining
• Identifier Terms: American Road & Transportation Builders Association; National Environmental Policy Act of 1969; Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
• Geographic Terms: Utah
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00758641
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 27 1999 12:00AM