Commandant United States Coast Guard

COMMANDANT (CG-BRG)

US COAST GUARD, STOP 7418

2703 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR AVE, SE

WASHINGTON DC 20593-7418

Phone: (202) 372-1511 E-mail: allen.m.garneau@uscg.mil

January 8, 2016

PUBLIC NOTICE 09-01-16

All interested parties are notified that the U.S. Coast Guard has reinitiated the review of the

permit application for the Ambassador Bridge Enhancement Project (ABEP), a 6-lane cable

stayed bridge over the Detroit River, just west of the existing Ambassador Bridge across the

Detroit River between Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States and Windsor, Ontario,

Canada. The applicant and owner of the existing Ambassador Bridge, the Detroit International

Bridge Company (DIBC), has entered into an agreement with the City of Detroit allowing

DIBC to construct the project as originally proposed and evaluated in the 2009 Coast Guard

Final Environmental Assessment (EA) using portions of Riverside Park located in Detroit,

Michigan.

The Coast Guard, as lead federal agency under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

for the proposed project, announces the availability of the Final EA Reevaluation and Draft

Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for a 30-day review period. The documents are

available for review or downloading at the Coast Guard Bridge Program website:

http://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg5/cg551/default.asp under the Coast Guard Lead Projects tab.

The documents can also be viewed at the Detroit Public Library Main Branch, 5201 Woodward

Ave., Detroit, Michigan, 48216, (313) 481-1300, or at the Bowen Library Branch (Hubbard-

Richard Neighborhood), 3648 West Vernon Highway, Detroit, Michigan, 48216, (313) 481-

1540.

There have been no substantial changes or significant circumstances related to environmental

impacts of the proposed action since the Final EA was published in 2009. Therefore, we have

determined through the reevaluation that a supplemental environmental assessment and an

environmental impact statement are not required.

Interested parties are requested to express their views, in writing, on the proposed bridge project

giving sufficient detail to establish a clear understanding of their reasons for support of or

opposition to the proposed work. Comments should be submitted in writing via regular mail to

Commandant (CG-BRG-2), U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Stop 7418, 2703 Martin Luther

King Jr. Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20593-7418; or via email: allen.m.garneau@uscg.mil

through February 8, 2016. All comments received will be posted, without change, to the Coast

Guard website at http://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg5/cg551/default.asp and will include any personal

information you have provided. In accordance with the Privacy Act, anyone can search the

electronic form of comments received into the Coast Guard website by the name of the

individual submitting the comment (or signing the comment, if submitted on behalf of an

association, business, labor union, etc.). You may review a Privacy Act notice regarding our

public dockets in the January 17, 2008 issue of the Federal Register (73 FR 3316). These

comments will be made part of the case record.

Comments previously submitted are a matter of record and need not be resubmitted. Any

comments received are considered part of the case record for this project and may be considered

public record documents.

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BRIAN L. DUNN

Chief, Office of Bridge Programs

U.S. Coast Guard

By direction of the Commandant

Map of location and plans attached.

NOTICE TO POSTMASTER: It is requested the above notice be conspicuously and

continuously posted until February 8, 2016.