EPA's Comments about the InterCounty Connector

Environmental Impacts

• "EPA believes the potential adverse impacts associated with the proposed Master Plan Alternative from the direct, indirect and cumulative impacts to aquatic and terrestrial resources and the human environmental are unacceptable." (From August 1, 1997 comments on the DEIS)
  
  
• "EPA raised the NA [Northern Alignment] Environmental Objections….based on adverse impacts to wetlands, almost 6 miles of direct impacts to streams, potential impacts to the Patuxent River drinking water supply, the 492 acres of forest land impacts…[and] 53 residential displacements." (From August 1, 1997 comments on the DEIS)
  

End-On Construction

• "EPA does not feel that this technique [end-on construction] would serve as a mitigative measure for the wide variety of long term environmental impacts identified in our comment letter on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS). These impacts would be realized regardless of the construction technique employed." (From a September 1997 letter from EPA Region 3 Administrator Michael McCabe to then Montgomery County Councilmember Gail Ewing)

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