Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 29.09.1999

Nationwide Differential Global Positioning System; Programmatic Environmental Assessment

The Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) has been authorized by Congress, pursuant to section 346 of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998, to establish, operate, and manage a nationwide system to be known as the Nationwide Differential Global Positioning System (NDGPS) as soon as practicable, to integrate the NDGPS stations into the Continuously Operating Reference Station (CORS) system of the National Geodetic Survey of the Department of Commerce, and to investigate the use of the NDGPS reference stations for the Global Positioning System Integrated Precipitable Water Vapor System of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the Department of Commerce. A final PEA for the NDGPS program has been prepared to support this program. The FHWA envisions at this time that the NDGPS program will require the construction of at least 67 transmitter sites and maybe as many as 100, but no new sites will result in significant impacts to the environment.