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FONSI

FONSI
 n.— «ITD hopes to obtain a Finding of No Significant Impact, or FONSI in regulatory parlance, from the Federal Highway Administration.» —“Open house focuses on byway document” by Keith Kinnaird in Sandpoint, Idaho Bonner County Daily Bee (Idaho) June 2, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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