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SR 981, SECTION Y10

Bingham Road to the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport

About the Project

SR 981, Section Y10 is currently in Preliminary Design. This project extends about 2.5 miles from the intersection of SR 2023 and Bingham Road just south of the intersection of SR 2023/SR 130 to the southernmost limits of PennDOT's recently completed project near the Westmoreland County Airpark and Arnold Palmer Regional Airport.





Anticipated Schedule*

Preliminary Design:  2020 - 2022

Final Design and Right-of-Way Acquisition:  2022 - 2024

Construction: 2025 - 2026

*Schedule subject to change due to funding availability

Airpark

Evaluating the Section Y10 Alignment

Section Y10 will include the reconstruction of the SR130 intersection. Reconstructed SR 981 will continue along existing SR 2023 to a section of an offline alignment to the Westmoreland Airpark before connecting to the completed Section V10 Project near the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport.

The Project Team will use the following performance measures to evaluate the alignment:

  • Safety
  • Constructability
  • Property, environmental and utility impacts
  • Maintaining traffic during construction
  • Cost considerations

The Project Team will complete a Categorical Exclusion (CE) environmental document during Preliminary Design. The same level of environmental documentation was used for Section Q20. In June 2020, PennDOT mailed ‘Notice of Intent to Enter’ letters to property owners in the project area. If you received one of these letters, the project team may need to access your property to complete environmental studies or data collection. Please contact the project team using the contact information listed in the letter if you have any questions about this work.

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PennDOT is required to follow NEPA on any federally-funded project. NEPA compliance requires environmental resources to be evaluated using one of three types of environmental documentation. The level of documentation is determined based on the complexity of the project. Section Y10 of the LVTIP requires the completion of a Categorical Exclusion (CE) environmental document during Preliminary Design.

A CE is used by PennDOT when, due to the project type, complexity or area of impact, potential impacts are not expected to be significant in a project area.

    “The purpose of Preliminary Design is to set line, grade, and width of the alignment." This essentially means that the horizontal and vertical geometry and roadway typical section are approved during the Preliminary Design phase. Environmental review and findings also occur during this phase.