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APPENDIX J Final EIS Distribution List The following entities received a copy of this Final EIS. Those recipients with an asterisk (*) before their names provided substantive comments on the Draft EIS. These comments and IDOT’s responses are described in Section 5 and included in Appendix D of this document. Federal Agencies *U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago District U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration *U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration *U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region V – Office of Environmental Review U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Headquarters State Agencies Illinois Department of Agriculture, Department of Environmental Programs *Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Division of Environment and Ecosystems *Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Director Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, State Historic Preservation Officer Illinois State Police Elected Officials—Federal Eighth Congressional District , Congresswoman Melissa Bean Fifth Congressional District, Congressmen Mike Quigley Fifty-Fifth Representative District, Representative Randy Ramey, Jr. Fifty-Fourth Representative District, Representative Suzanne Bassi Fifty-Sixth Representative District, Representative Paul Froehlich Forty-Fifth Representative District, Representative Franco Coladipietro Forty-First Representative District, Representative Bob Biggins Forty-Forth Representative District, Representative Fred Crespo Forty-Sixth Representative District, Representative Dennis Reboletti Ninth Congressional District, Congresswoman Janice Schakowsky Sixth Congressional District, Congressmen Peter Roskam U.S. Senator Richard Durbin U.S. Senator Roland Buris Elected Officials—State Seventy-Eighth Representative District, Representative Deborah Graham Seventy-Seventh Representative District, Representative Angelo Saviano Sixty-Fifth Representative District, Representative Rosemary Mulligan J-1 Sixty-Sixth Representative District, Representative Mark Walker Tenth Legislative District, Senator James DeLeo Thirty-Ninth Legislative District, Senator Don Harmon Thirty-Third Legislative District, Senator Dan Kotowski Twentieth Representative District, Representative Michael McAuliffe Twenty-Eighth Legislative District, Senator John Millner Twenty-First Legislative District, Senator Dan Cronin Twenty-Second Legislative District, Senator Michael Noland Twenty-Seventh Legislative District, Senator Matt Murphy Twenty-Third Legislative District, Senator Carole Pankau Local Units of Government Bloomingdale Township Chicago Transit Authority City of Chicago Department of Aviation City of Chicago Department of Aviation, O’Hare Modernization Program City of Chicago Department of Environment City of Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation City of Chicago, Department of Transportation *City of Des Plaines *City of Elmhurst City of Northlake City of Park Ridge City of Rolling Meadows City of Wood Dale Cook County President DuPage County Department of Economic Development and Planning DuPage County Division of Transportation DuPage County Transportation Planning Group Forest Preserve District of DuPage County Kane-DuPage County Soil and Water Conservation District *Metra *Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago Pace Suburban Bus Service Regional Transportation Authority Village of Addison Village of Arlington Heights Village of Bartlett Village of Bensenville Village of Berkeley Village of Bloomingdale *Village of Elk Grove *Village of Franklin Park *Village of Hanover Park Village of Hillside Village of Hoffman Estates J-2 Village of Itasca Village of Melrose Park Village of Mount Prospect Village of Norridge *Village of Roselle Village of Rosemont Village of Schaumburg Village of Schiller Park Village of Villa Park Interested Groups and Individuals Bensenville Chamber of Commerce *Brian Arquette *Brian Hatfield Canadian Pacific Railroad Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning Chicago Wilderness Consortium Chicagoland Bicycle Federation Conservation Foundation of DuPage County *DuPage Mayors & Managers Conference Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare Greater O'Hare Association of Industry and Commerce *Henrik Freitag Illinois State Toll Highway Authority *Janice Pasquale *Jeffrey Snyder *Jim Hornacek *Julie Seranko *Mitchell Wyczesany Northwest Municipal Conference Salt Creek Watershed Network *Terry LaPlante *Tony Spencer Union Pacific Railroad West Central Municipal Conference Wood Dale Chamber of Commerce Public Libraries Addison Public Library Arlington Heights Memorial Library Austin-Irving Chicago Public Library Bartlett Public Library Bensenville Community Library Berkeley Public Library Bloomingdale Public Library J-3 City of Des Plaines Library Elk Grove Village Public Library Elmhurst Library Franklin Park Public Library Hanover Park Branch Library Harold Washington Chicago Public Library Hillside Public Library Hoffman Estates Public Library Itasca Community Library Melrose Park Public Library Mount Prospect Public Library Northlake Public Library Oriole Park Chicago Public Library Park Ridge Library Roden Chicago Public Library Rolling Meadows Library Roselle Public Library Schaumburg Township Library Schiller Park Public Library Villa Park Public Library West Addison Chicago Public Library Wood Dale Public Library J-4 .
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