FIRST NOTICE AND PUBLIC REVIEW OF A PROPOSED
ACTIVITY IN A FLOODPLAIN
Date: November 10, 2021
To All Interested Agencies, Groups, and Persons:
This Notice is being published in accordance with Executive Order 11988, Floodplain Management, which requires that an opportunity for public review, and an explanation of the decision-making process, be provided when a federally funded action is proposed to located in a floodplain.
The Raleigh County Commission proposes to locate the following project in a floodplain:
Portions of the Raleigh County Memorial Airport Industrial Park Broadband Expansion Project may be located within areas that are designated as flood hazard areas. The improvements within these identified areas would consist of above grade aerial fiber and buried fiber.
The Raleigh County Commission will identify and evaluate practicable alternatives to locating the above project in the base floodplain. If it is determined that the only practicable alternative is locating in the base floodplain, then the impacts of the project will be identified. All efforts will be made to minimize harm to life and property and preserve and to restore the natural and beneficial values of the floodplain.
The facts and reasons for locating the above project in the floodplain are as follows:
The design of a cost-effective broadband expansion beginning north, along Industrial Park Road to the WV Southern Regional Jail, and along the entirety of Commerce Drive from the intersection with Industrial Park Road south to the bottom of the east-west runway at the Raleigh County Memorial Airport. This location is necessary to provide broadband service to existing businesses in the proposed project area.
Additional information regarding the project is on file at Region I Planning & Development Council, 1439 East Main Street, Suite 5, Princeton, WV 24740 and is available for public examination and copying upon request between the hours of 8:30 am and 4:30 pm.
All interested agencies, groups, and persons desiring to comment on the above-named project are invited to submit written comments for consideration by the Raleigh County Commission to the Region I Planning & Development Council, 1439 East Main Street, Suite 5, Princeton, WV 24740. Such written comments should be received at the address specified within fifteen (15) days after the receipt or publication of this notice. No action will be taken on the above-named project until after that period of time.
David Tolliver, President
County Commission of
Raleigh County, West Virginia