Potentially significant issues to be evaluated in the DEIS include:

• displacement of residential, commercial, or industrial properties;
• disruption of contaminated properties that may be located within the proposed project right-of-way;
• existing and future land use patterns;
• threatened and endangered species, and critical habitat;
• historic and archeological resources, including the existing Goethals Bridge, which has been identified as potentially eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places;
• wetlands;
• water quality;
• existing and future traffic patterns and volumes;
• noise;
• air quality;
• navigation;
• construction impacts; and
• cumulative impacts.