Final Environmental Impact Report - Whittier Bridge/I-95 ...

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As part of that program, approximately three billion
dollars was allocated for the repair, rehabilitation
and replacement of structurally deficient bridges of
structurally deficient bridges throughout the
Commonwealth.
The Whittier Bridge project is currently
programmed at about 285 million dollars. So just to
put that in perspective, out of three billion dollars,
we've got one project that's almost 10 percent of the
entire program. So this is a very significant project
for Mass. DOT and the Commonwealth. As of October
this also became a very significant project for the
federal government. The Obama administration selected
this project as one of 14 projects to be expedited
under the federal reviews for all of the federal
permits that are required under this project. Mass.
DOT is also going to be accelerating the permit
reviews at the state level to coincide with the
federal approvals.
So the purpose of tonight's meeting, as I
mentioned earlier, this is a meeting tonight to
solicit comment and answer questions on the
environmental documents. The document that was
published is an environmental assessment slash draft
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