Early Coordination Request for Projects FLF-540(16), FLF-540(17), and NH-16-1(91), Bibb County, Georgia, P.I. Nos. 310980, 363630, and 362695- Eisenhower Parkway Extension

The Georgia Department of Transportation is currently involved in project development for the above noted project. Please find enclosed a set of aerial photographs detailing the proposed projects' area of potential environmental effect. In addition, a copy of the draft archaeological resources survey and site evaluation report conducted in accordance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 and amendments thereto, is enclosed. The proposed project consists of a 6.8 kilometer (4.2 mile) extension of the Eisenhower Parkway. The proposed project would begin at the eastern end of the Eisenhower Parkway currently under construction at the relocated Lower Boundary Connector and extend east and northeast towards I-16, where a new interchange would be constructed. The proposed project would then proceed east and northeast of I-16 to the eastern project terminus at the intersection of U.S. 80/S.R. 19 and C.R. 147.

The current preferred alternate was selected in coordination with the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Federal Highway Administration. As indicated by the attached location map and enclosed aerial photography, this alternate is proposed within an area already bisected by interstate highway construction, railroad construction, utility construction, and previous kaolin mining activities. The area east of the Ocmulgee River between the two discontinuous units of Ocmulgee National Monument consists largely of wetlands which will be bridged. The enclosed archaeological survey and evaluation report will serve as the basis for any future archaeological investigations conducted within the proposed projects' area of environmental effect. If Native American human remains, associated funerary objects, sacred objects or objects of cultural patrimony are discovered during further investigations within the project corridor, appropriate Indian tribes will be notified pursuant to 36 CFR 800.4 (a) (1) (iii) and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA) 25 U.S.C. 3002; 104 Stat. 3048.