Environmental Statements; Notice of Intent: Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail, Alabama

Résumé

In 1990, Congress directed the National Park Service (NPS) to study the route and events associated with the 1965 Voting Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, for potential designation as a National Historic Trail. Completed in 1993, the feasibility study recommended that the march route be designated as the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail, and be administered by NPS. ON November 12, 1996, Congress amended Section 5(a) of the National Trail System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244 (a) to establish the Selma to Montgomery NHT, and to designate 54 miles of city streets and U.S. Highway 80 from Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma to the State Capital building in Montgomery as the official trail corridor. In August 1995, at the request of Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT), Governor Fob James designated the U.S. Highway 80 corridor between Selma and Montgomery as a state scenic highway. The Federal Highway Administration approved the route as part of the National Scenic Byways Program in December of the same year. In 1996 the route was also designated as an All-American Road by the U.S. Department of Transportation. The ALDOT conducted a series of public meetings in 1