Indian reservation files lawsuit against FHWA, Arizona DOT over $1.9 billion highway extension

An Indian reservation in Arizona has dropped a lawsuit on the Federal Highway Administration and the state’s Department of Transportation over a massive highway extension project through what the reservation calls sacred land.

The Gila River Indian Community filed the lawsuit at the end of June to challenge the FHWA’s decision to approve the $1.7 billion Loop 202 extension. The extension, originally passed in the 1980s, was approved by Maricopa County voters in 2004, but it wasn’t approved by the FHWA until this year.

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