Grand Rapids Limited Orphan Maintenance Area (LOMA) May Amendment and New Conformity Report for Public Comment (May 12th to May 19th)

Projects in limited orphan maintenance areas (LOMAs) and orphan maintenance areas (OMAs) are required to be evaluated by the Michigan Transportation Interagency Workgroup (MITC-IAWG), and a special meeting was required to amend the Air Quality Conformity report in May, as described below.

GVMC and committees will take action on the TIP as normal in May; however, there was a project needing an amendment triggering the need to have a new conformity report. JN211694 is now being reclassified correctly as non-exempt. To adhere to a tight timeline of getting Interagency Work Group (IAWG) concurrence for reclassification and to get FHWA & FTA support, we now have the new draft conformity report ready here for public review. Following a week of public comment for the attached report, ending on May 19th, we will bring a resolution to our Policy Committee to sign on May 20th.

Any questions can be directed to Mike Zonyk at 616-776-7669 or emailed at zonykm@gvmc.org.