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It’s back to the drawing board for planners of a proposed Interstate 69 extension between Evansville and Bloomington.
The Environmental Protection Agency says highway planners didn’t look at viable economic alternatives and haven’t made clar why the $1 billion project is needed.
EPA regional administrator Valdas Adamkus said the main purpose of the $800 million highway appears to be economic development of rural southwest Indiana. Gibson, Pike, Daviess and Greene counties would see only about four extra jobs per year as their benefit for being along the highway, Adamkus said.
