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For
immediate release, April 10, 2007
Coalition issues action
alert
to cancel federal highway study
Stop I-3 Coalition has issued an action alert to its
thousands of members and supporters seeking the immediate
rescission of taxpayer funds earmarked for study of
proposed Interstate 3 corridors through the mountains
of Southern Appalachia.
Congress paved the way for this action by requesting
some $3.47 billion in transportation program reductions
from the Federal Highway Administration and the FHwA,
in turn, is asking each state to propose specific budget
cuts.
“This is a key opportunity for Georgia, in particular, to cancel the
$330,000 it had earmarked for study of the I-3 proposal, a truly unnecessary
and unwanted road,” said Holly Demuth, the coalition’s executive
director. “But citizens across the Peach State must act quickly to make
their voices heard.”
Friday, April 13, is the deadline for states to make
their cuts known to the federal government. Citizen
letters, faxes and calls should be addressed to Georgia’s
Transportation Commissioner, Harold Linnenkohl, either
by e-mail, at harold.linnenkohl@dot.state.ga.us, or
by fax at 404-463-6336 or by telephone at 404-656-5206.
(Tennessee and North Carolina had refused to pay their
share of the study.)
Demuth noted that Congress, in this case, is “providing
citizens a rare opportunity to correct blatant, pork-barrel
excess.” She urged coalition followers to work
hard to get the project canceled – now. The I-3
proposal would create a new interstate highway from
Savannah to Augusta to Oak Ridge, in effect creating
a new road link to some of the country’s key
nuclear weapons and nuclear processing depots.
For further information, and to see sample alert letters,
see: www.stopI-3.org
Contacts:
Lucy Bartlett, Chair
hlbartlett@windstream.net, 706.782.7262
Holly Demuth,
Executive Director
holly@stopi-3.org, 706.508.3711
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