The Eastern Corridor project is currently in the Preliminary Engineering/Environmental Impact Statement (PE/EIS) phase. This work will be conducted under the administration of the Hamilton County Transportation Improvement District on behalf of Hamilton County, Clermont County, City of Cincinnati, Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority, Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments and the Ohio Department of Transportation.

The PE/EIS take a closer look at the many solution options considered in the MIS phase and helps lay the groundwork for refining and prioritizing for future implementation.

The PE/EIS phase develops more detailed information for the different transportation improvements to assess performance and benefits as well as estimate the social, environmental and economical impacts. The final Environmental Impact Statement for the Eastern Corridor will address the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) requirements of:

1) Identification of a preferred alternative(s)
2) Responses to comments made during the study period
3) Commitments to mitigate adverse impacts of the project
4) Evidence of compliance with related environmental statutes.

The Eastern Corridor project will utilize a tiered EIS approach for transportation planning. This allows individual projects within the comprehensive plan to be evaluated and advanced independently of each other based on a comprehensive evaluation of feasibility.