PUBLIC NOTICE Willits Bypass ‘Route 101 (PM R43-1/52.3) in Mendocing County Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Notice of Availability and Opportunity for Public Hearing & VAT IS BEING PLANNED ‘e'Californta Departmedt of Te (Caltrans) and the Feder. Highway, Administration (FHWA) are:praposing construct a new segment of Route 101 that would bypass the town of Willits. Route 101 is important for interstate and er-regional travel and is considered the economic lifeline of California's Non Coast. It is the principal arterial route ar people and goods between the San Francisco Bay Area and the greater Eureka-Arcata area. Travel times and the costs f transporting goods to and from the communities along Route 101 are significant. These costs are exacerbated by ongestion-related delays whore Route:101 passes thrdugh developed areas on'surface-streets., The segment of Route 101 n Willits is an example of this type of facility. Route 101 serves as Main Stivet in Wilt ahd is the only continuous rorth-south strect traversing the sity. Route 101 must accommodate tearly all focal traffic traversing Willits, as well 2s iN) inter-regional traffic. The purpose of the project is to bypass the City of Willits to relieve congestion, reduce delays, ind improve safety for interregional traffic. NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY Caltrans has prepared o-Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (EIR) with new information about the project hat was not identified: in the 2006 Final Environmental: Impact Report. ‘The purpost of the Supplemental EIR is to liscloge and describe impacts to Narth Coast semaphore grass (Plouropogon hooverianus). Impacts to North Coast ‘emaphore grass will be considered less than significant after ion. A copy of the Draft Supplemental EIR is Walable for rview at Caltrans Distt 1, 1656 Union Suet, Eureka the Wilts Libary, 390 Commercial Steet, Wilts, ind he Ukiah ibrry. 105 Noth Main Steet, Ukiah, We welcome your comment. Please send your writen comments io California Deparment of Transportation, ‘Atm: Jeremy Ketchum, Office of Enviranmental Management, 2800 Gateway Saks Drive, Sacramento, CA 95833. In order for your comments to be included in the Final Supplemental EIR, they must 10 received by January 15, 2010. erent INFORMATION , the 2006. Final Environmental Impact Repor/Enyironmental Impact, Statement can be pected ur a .govIdiaL Al projects/wiliitureports.htm. If you wouild like additional information or ould” | ike to requeést:n public hearing, please contact either: Jeremy Ketchum, Senior Environmental Planner, at (916) 274-0621 1 josemy_ketchum@dot.ca.gav; or Dave Kelley, Project Manager, at(530) 741-5408 or dave_kelley@dot.ce.gov, SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS individual who reyiesapecia! accommodations should contact Phil Frshie Jr. Rablie Information Offcér at (707) 441- 4678, or TTY 711. joting at Fort Hood: that also injured more than 0 dozen soldiers and two civilian police officers, Map Nidal Hasan sorties alread, beer harged with n ch wit counts of premeditated murder after the Nov. 5 ting in a building at the Texas base where sol- rs must go before being deployed. Witnesses jumped on a desk and shouted “Allahu Akbar!” Arabic for “God is great!” Army officials have d he was armed with two pistols, one a semiauto- See of firing up to 20 rounds. awithout e. The additional charges come less than’ 24 | hours after Hasan’s civilian attorney was notified that the Army plans to évaliiate Hasan to test his competen- cy to stand trial as well as his mental'state at the time 6f the shooting. John Galligan, Hasan's attorney, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Army officials had not returned his calls so he did not know when of where the “mental responsibility” exam would take place. Galligan said he had filed an objection to the evaluation pointing out that Hasan was still in - intensive care at a San Antonio military hospital recovering ‘from gunshot wounds that left him para- lyzed.