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partment’s environmental impact studies.
IN THE past year the Highway Department “has been going through the motions,” Luke said, “to take the highway plans bact to the grass roots. “And a big thing is made of it, too. Hearings are held, studies are made and commissions and boards are asked to comment. But when the smoke of public accountability clears, the Highway Department does what it would have done in the beginning, anyhow.” The Highway Department’s Environmental Impact Statement on 1-66 between Gainesville and Front Royal includes assurances that what local governments want will be respected. But when the Highway Commission approved the inner belt-way portion of 1-66, in the wake of objection from Fairfax and Arlington counties, a regional transportation cohunission and four federal agencies, Highway Commissioner Douglass Fugate said: “If we would have re
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