In the FEIS, Louisiana set forth a schedule to build its section of SIU 14 over a fifteen year period from 2019 to 2033 (page 5-7 of FEIS; page 207/760 of pdf).
It looks like LaDOTD modified the state TIP earlier this month for SIU 14 (page 16/70 of pdf) ... It looks like the path is now clear for the SIU 14 ROD
NLCOG has posted its May 17 Agenda, which includes the following:
B. I-69 Update
a. SIU 14 Record of Decision
Louisiana has been issued its first ROD for a SIU of I-69 that is located there. I recently received an email update from NLCOG to that effect:
FHWA issued a ROD, for I-69 SIU-14, April 27th, 2012. NLCOG is in the process of transferring the SIU-14 website from URS Corp. to our domain, but it is a painful process to work with Network Solutions. I might go ahead and post the signed ROD document on our nlcog.org homepage.
Maybe the FEIS for SIU 15 will be announced in the near future, too.
EDIT
NLCOG has moved quickly and posted the
I-69 SIU 14 ROD on its website.
* The ROD indicates that Louisiana has revised its FEIS implementation schedule in order to make SIU 14 construction be contingent on the
completion of SIU 15 (page 10 of ROD; page 12/44 of pdf):
The implementation schedule, as presented in the Final EIS, was revised for inclusion in the Project Management Plan (PMP) for the Louisiana portion of SIU 14. The revisions are a result of updated FHWA regulations in addition to recommendations from LADOTD, FHWA, and Northwest Louisiana Council on Governments (NLCOG) to base the schedule start date contingent upon completion of SIU 15. The scheduled start date is 2025 and extends 15 years to 2039.
I guess it is fair to interpret the above as saying the expectation is that SIU 15 will be completed around 2025. Maybe the LA 3132 Inner Loop Extension mess will be cleared up by then, too.
It's also interesting that Bossier City is considered as being large enough in its own right to be separate from Shreveport (page 2 of ROD; page 4/44 of pdf):
Previous studies completed for the national I-69 Corridor have demonstrated that extending I-69 from Indianapolis, through Memphis, Bossier City and Houston to the Mexican border in the Lower Rio Grande Valley is a feasible project.
I wonder if one day Bossier City will be the control city instead of Shreveport?
* editLaDOTD also has an
I-69 SIU 14 Environmental Documents page.