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Baltimore/Washington Parkway Maryland Route 198
Anne Arundel County, Maryland

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Baltimore-Washington Parkway

Williamsburg Environmental Group, Inc. (WEG) was selected by the National Park Service (NPS) and Ribera Development, LLC to conduct an Environmental Assessment (EA) for a utility crossing under the Baltimore-Washington Parkway (Parkway)/Maryland Route 198, located in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.  The NPS is undertaking the EA to evaluate the potential impacts associated with authorizing an extension of the utilities for Anne Arundel County, extending under the Parkway. Ribera volunteered to facilitate the EA process for the County.  The NPS is acutely sensitive to potential impacts to Parkway resources that could result from development on lands adjoining the parkway.  As such, the NPS sought avoidance, minimization, and mitigation measures to protect valuable parkway viewsheds as well as adjoining natural resources on the Patuxent Research Reserve. The Reserve is one of the largest forested areas in the mid-Atlantic region and provides critical breeding habitat and wintering habitat for a variety of native species.

WEG is performing a variety of services for the affected environment, including facilitation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process (scoping, document preparation, submission of a final EA for Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) determination) as well as an assessment of physical/biological resources, land-use and socio-economics, cultural resources, transportation systems, and utilities/ infrastructure. In addition, the firm is coordinating the project’s mitigation measures, which are significant in that they will set the standard for future development in the area by accommodating economic development while protecting valuable natural resources.

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