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By Vianna Davila
Updated 1:13 am, Friday, February 15, 2013
Any possible expansion of Loop 1604 between Bandera Road and Interstate 35 will be on hold longer than expected because a federal environmental study could take another three years to finish, Alamo Regional Mobility Authority officials said Thursday.
The study, called an environmental impact statement, must be completed before any major construction on that part of the corridor can occur.
The Loop 1604 EIS was scheduled to be done this year but won't be finished until 2016.
The lengthy delay is based on estimates by Michael Baker Jr. Inc., the environmental consulting firm handling the study for the Alamo RMA and the Texas Department of Transportation.
Firm consultants readjusted the timeline after the Federal Highway Administration said late last month the study needed to be partly restarted because the scope of the project had changed.
The FHWA has the ultimate say over the study.
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