On November 14, 2005, Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. signed legislation approving a landmark settlement to the longstanding controversy over the Legacy Parkway. The Legacy Parkway is the first, fourteen-mile segment of a much longer proposed road extending along Utah's Wasatch Front from Brigham City (north of Salt Lake City) to Lehi (south of Provo). The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit had vacated and remanded permits issued for the project by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) in 2002, based on deficiencies in the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) prepared under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), and failure to fully comply with section 404 of the Clean Water Act.
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