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		<title>PEAC Comments on Final Environmental Impact Statement for I-5 Columbia River Crossing Project</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center (“PEAC”), the Environmental Legal Clinic of Lewis &#38; Clark Law School, has submitted comments on behalf of a coalition of environmental groups on the Columbia River Crossing Project (&#8220;CRC&#8221;) Final Environmental Impact Statement. PEAC clients include Rosemere Neighborhood Association, Coalition for a Livable Future, the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods, Northwest Environmental Defense Center, Columbia Riverkeeper, the Portland Audubon Society, Oregon Public Health Institute, Upstream Public Health, and Association of Oregon Rail and Trail Advocates. PEAC also states that although it specifically represents these groups, it is &#8220;in fact representing the concerns and views of a broad and diverse coalition of groups.&#8221; To date, CRC has established a pattern of ignoring input from these environmental and stakeholder groups concerned about the proposed bridge design impacts to our sole source aquifer, surface and groundwater resources, salmon, air quality, general public health concerns and other environmental impacts. In this document PEAC details all these concerns and the various technical reports behind them, finding, Overall it is remarkable how much incomplete and missing analysis is found when the public reviews this FEIS, which has already cost Oregon and Washington taxpayers more than $130 million. This would be Oregon’s largest public works project, and its taxpayers and the taxpayers of Washington are entitled to a much more thorough and complete analysis, a true comparison of all reasonable alternatives that “sharply defines the issues and provide[s] a clear basis of choice among options” (40 C.F.R. § 1502.14), and a meaningful opportunity to review and comment on all of those things in a supplemental DEIS. While the coalition is not &#8220;anti-bridge&#8221;, it does charge CRC with the responsibility to not harm our environment, destroy our resources or our community and to be fiscally responsible. PEAC concludes with, For all the reasons set forth<a class="more-link" href="http://www.rosemerena.org/home/2011/10/25/peac-comments-on-final-environmental-impact-statement-for-i-5-columbia-river-crossing-project/">[Read More...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to Oregon Legislators Outlines RNA Concerns Over Columbia River Crossing Environmental Impact</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 04:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I-5 Interstate Bridge Over Columbia River
Columbia River Crossing (CRC) has spent more than 5 years and $100 million dollars on the proposed Interstate 5 Bridge crossing. Rosemere Neighborhood Association has been monitoring CRC progress,  raising numerous concerns over CRC environmental impact statements (“EIS”) and CRC adherence to National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) rules.

Attorney Tom Buchele, Managing Attorney &#038; Clinical Professor for the Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center (PEAC) at Lewis and Clark Law School, on behalf of RNA, Coalition for a Livable Future and Upstream Public Health, has sent a letter to the Oregon House Transportation and Economic Committee regarding the upcoming consideration and hearings on Oregon House Joint Memorial 22 (HJM 22). Oregon's HJM 22 urges the federal government to fund the Columbia River Crossing Project.

Mr. Buchele's letter details his concerns about the legality of the CRC’s NEPA analysis to date:

The CRC staff, and the state and federal agencies supporting this project, have already made a serious error regarding the bridge design. My letter highlights their multiple serious legal errors regarding compliance with NEPA. It would be an equally serious error, and a waste of even more taxpayer money, for this committee to simply rubberstamp the CRC’s mistakes by passing HJM 22 and thereby endorsing this project before those mistakes have been fully corrected.

To read Mr. Buchele's letter to Oregon House Transportation and Economic Committee in full, click here: http://www.rosemerena.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/TomBuchele_PEAC_CRC_letter_to_Oregon_House_Transp_Comm.pdf

To read Mr. Buchele's Executive Summary of CRC DEIS Comments: http://www.rosemerena.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/TomBuchele_PEAC_Exec_Summ_DEIS_Comm.pdf

To read Mr. Buchele's Testimony Before CRC “Independent” Review Panel, July 2010: http://www.rosemerena.org/home/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/TomBuchele_PEAC_IRP_testimony.pdf]]></description>
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