An independent panel reviewing the Columbia River Crossing project will convene again next week, probably for the last time.
The eight-member Independent Review Panel will convene a public meeting from 8:30 a.m. to noon at Clark College on July 7 to discuss tribal consultations and freight transport. The meeting will take place in the T Building at the college, 1933 Fort Vancouver Way.
The panel will then meet privately the next day, July 8, in a work session at the Vancouver Center office, tower where the bistate CRC office is headquartered.
The group, chaired by former Utah Department of Transportation director Tom Warne, is due to deliver a report to Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire and Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski by the end of July. For more information, go to http://www.crcreview.org.
The governors agreed to the independent review, at an estimated cost of $750,000, after Portland and Vancouver elected officials raised concern that the project poses “unacceptable” impacts as currently designed and financed.
