Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 31, Number 9, 1 September 2014 — Page 31 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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Hawai'i Island, STATE OF HAWAI'I Project No. DO-HI-0200(5) Tax Map Key: (3) 6-8-001:005,066, 067; 6-8-002:013, AND 014, 015; 7-1-003:001 Notice is hereby given that the Federal Highway Administration and the State of Hawai'i Department of Transportation, Highways Division propose the construction of a road to improve cross-island transportation. The proposed Saddle Road Extension will link the newly realigned Saddle Road at the Māmalahoa Highway to the Queen Ka'ahumanu Highway at Waikoloa Beach Drive. The project will improve the efficiency and operational level of traffic movement between East Hawai'i and West Hawai'i in general, and will support the unique modal needs along this corridor, such as eommercial and military transportation uses. The project involves grubbing, cutting, and grading to create a new road bed, the creation of shoulders, the construction of drainage culverts, widening of existing roadways at either end of the new road bed, and paving. The project will also involve regrassing/reinforcing any newly exposed cut slope to control erosion, providing best management practices during eonstruction, and providing adequate traffic control to ensure motorists ean safely pass during construction at either end of the new road. Three alternate 250-foot wide corridors were selected for study. The Area of Potential Effect (APE) for the three corridors includes 775 acres. Only one corridor will be selected for construction. The maximum length of the proposed road corridor, whieh traverses unimproved cattle pasture and open lava flows, is 10.7 miles. The proposed project will utilize federal funding and will be considered a federal action and undertaking, as defined by Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966, as amended (2006). Therefore, the FHWA will require eomplianee with the NHPA and other federal requirements. We would like to invite you