Endangered bat to delay DOT projects - including 411 connector project
by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Mar 22, 2013 | 1431 views | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend | print
In May of last year one small endangered brown bat, unhappy with her eastern Tennessee cave, embarked on a very expensive trip to Georgia.

Her detection here in a tree in Ellijay has triggered federal rules that are now set to delay $459 million worth of Georgia road projects up to a year and a half, the state Department of Transportation’s staff announced to an incredulous DOT board this week, in order that the DOT can study the projects and determine whether they injure the species and its habitat.

The affected projects cover a swath of north Georgia reaching the borders of Cobb, Fulton and Gwinnett Counties, and the studies alone may cost $8 million or more.

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