Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment and Conduct Public Scoping Meeting for the Crescent City Harbor Dredged Material Management Plan, City of Crescent and County of Del Norte, CA, 3568-3569 [2015-01030]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army, U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers
Dated: January 16, 2015.
Christopher J. Kirkpatrick,
Secretary of the Commission.
Notice of Intent To Prepare an
Environmental Assessment and
Conduct Public Scoping Meeting for
the Crescent City Harbor Dredged
Material Management Plan, City of
Crescent and County of Del Norte, CA
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Army Corps of Engineers, DOD.
ACTION: Notice of intent.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
SUMMARY:
Office of the Secretary
Defense Acquisition University Board
of Visitors; Notice of Federal Advisory
Committee Meeting; Cancellation
Defense Acquisition
University, DoD.
ACTION: Meeting notice; cancellation.
AGENCY:
On Tuesday, January 13, 2015
(80 FR 1627–1628), the Department of
Defense published a notice announcing
a meeting of the Defense Acquisition
University Board of Visitors. The
Department of Defense is publishing
this notice to announce the cancellation
of this meeting, which was scheduled
for Wednesday, January 28, 2015, from
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
DATES: The meeting scheduled for
Wednesday, January 28, 2015, from 9:00
a.m. to 12:00 p.m. has been cancelled.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Caren Hergenroeder, Protocol Director,
DAU. Phone: 703–805–5134. Fax: 703–
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Due to
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Department of Defense, the Designated
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The purpose of this notice is
to initiate the scoping process for the
preparation of a Dredged Material
Management Plan (DMMP) and
Environmental Assessment for
continued maintenance dredging at
Crescent City Harbor. The goal of the
plan will be to identify suitable sites for
placement of dredged material to
accommodate maintenance dredging
over the next twenty years.
DATES: A public scoping meeting will be
held on February 11, 2015 at 7:00 p.m.
(PST). Submit comments concerning
this notice on or before February 26,
2015.
The scoping meeting
location is the Meeting Room at the
Crescent City Harbor District Office, 101
Citizens Dock Road, Crescent City,
California 95531. Mail written
comments concerning this notice to:
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San
Francisco District, Project Management
Division, ATTN: 1455 Market Street,
San Francisco, CA 94103–1398.
Comment letters should include the
commenter’s physical mailing address
and the project title in the subject line.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mark Wiechmann, U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, San Francisco District,
Environmental Resources, 1455 Market
Street, San Francisco CA 94103–1398,
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In
accordance with the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the
Corps intends to prepare a Dredged
Material Management Plan (DMMP) and
accompanying Environmental
Assessment (EA). The primary Federal
actions under consideration are
dredging, dredged material placement,
and transport of dredged material for the
purpose of ocean placement and/or
upland beneficial reuse. The Crescent
City Harbor District is the Non-Federal
Sponsor (NFS). The Draft DMMP is
intended to be sufficient in scope to
address the Federal, state and local
requirements and environmental issues
concerning the proposed activities and
permit approvals.
Project Site and Background
Information: Crescent City Harbor is
located on the Northern California coast
about 280 nautical miles north of San
Francisco and about 17 miles south of
the Oregon border. The harbor is located
on the south edge of a broad marine
terrace bordered on the south and west
by the Pacific Ocean and on the north
and east by densely forested coastal
mountains. Crescent City Harbor is a
shallow-draft critical harbor of refuge,
supporting a U.S. Coast Guard search
and rescue station, commercial and
sport fishing, waterfront industry, and
recreational boating.
The harbor’s naturally crescentshaped beach is bound by a 4,700-foot
long rubble-mound outer breakwater to
the west, a 2,400-foot long sand barrier
to the east, and a 1,600-foot rubblemound inner breakwater to the south.
The harbor’s opening faces south and is
about 2,000 feet across.
There are currently three federally
constructed and maintained navigation
channels at Crescent City Harbor. The
Inner Harbor Basin Channel extends for
2,200 feet along the inside and around
the tip of the inner breakwater, where it
connects to the Entrance Channel, a 200
foot wide channel that extends 2,200
feet to the outer breakwater. The Marina
Access Channel is 140–210 feet wide
and extends 1,200 feet from the Inner
Harbor Basin Channel to the small boat
basin.
The Entrance Channel has a project
depth of 20 feet mean lower low water
(MLLW) while the interior channels,
Inner Harbor Basin and Marina Access,
have a project depth of 15 feet MLLW.
Proposed Action(S): This study report
will: (1) verify that continued federal
maintenance is justified; and (2) present
a viable 20-year plan for dredging and
disposal of materials associated with
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Crescent City Harbors’ continued
operations and maintenance work.
Four previously used disposal sites:
SF–1, Crescent City Harbor Dredge
Ponds, Beach Nourishment at Whaler
Island and Humboldt Ocean Disposal
Site (HOODS); and four previously
unused disposal sites: SFDODS, Chetco
River Disposal Site (Chetco), an
Offshore Berm area and a potential
Crescent City Harbor Waterfront
Development Plan site will be
evaluated. Figure 1 displays the eight
sites being considered.
Issues: Potentially significant issues
associated with the project may include:
aesthetics/visual impacts, air quality
emissions, biological resource impacts,
environmental justice, geologic impacts
related to seismicity, hazards and
hazardous materials, hydrology and
water quality, noise, traffic and
transportation, and cumulative impacts
from past, present and reasonably
foreseeable future projects.
Scoping Process: The U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers is seeking
participation and input of all interested
federal, state, and local agencies, Native
American groups, and other concerned
private organizations or individuals on
the scope of the draft DMMP and EA
through this public notice. The purpose
of the public scoping meeting is to
solicit comments regarding the potential
impacts, environmental issues, and
alternative placement sites associated
with the proposed action to be
considered in the study report. The
meeting place, date and time will be
advertised in advance in local
newspapers, and meeting
announcement letters will be sent to
interested parties. The final draft DMMP
is expected to be available for public
review and comment in the summer of
2015 and a public meeting will be held
after its publication.
John C. Morrow,
Lieutenant Colonel, US Army, District
Engineer.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army; Corps of
Engineers
Notice of Availability of the Draft
Environmental Impact Statement
(DEIS) for the Installation of a Terminal
Groin Structure at the Eastern End of
Ocean Isle Beach, Extending Into the
Atlantic Ocean, West of Shallotte Inlet
(Brunswick County, NC)
Department of the Army, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers (USACE), Wilmington
District, Wilmington Regulatory Field
Office has received a request for
Department of the Army authorization,
pursuant to Section 404 of the Clean
Water Act and Section 10 of the Rivers
and Harbor Act, from the Town of
Ocean Isle Beach to install a terminal
groin structure on the east side of Ocean
Isle Beach, extending into the Atlantic
Ocean, just west of Shallotte Inlet. The
structure will be designed to function in
concert with the Federal storm damage
reduction project.
DATES: The public is invited to attend,
and/or comment at, a public hearing to
be held at Union Elementary School,
180 Union School Rd., NW., Shallotte,
NC 28459, on February 24, at 6:00 p.m.
Written comments on the DEIS will be
received until 5 p.m., March 9, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Copies of comments and
questions regarding the DEIS may be
submitted to: U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers (Corps), Wilmington District,
Regulatory Division, c/o Mr. Tyler
Crumbley. ATTN: File Number SAW–
2011–01241, 69 Darlington Avenue,
Wilmington, NC 28403.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions about the proposed action
and DEIS can be directed to Mr. Tyler
Crumbley, Wilmington Regulatory Field
Office, telephone: (910) 251–4170,
facsimile (910) 251–4025, or email at
tyler.crumbley@usace.army.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
1. Project Description. The Town of
Ocean Isle Beach is seeking Federal and
State authorization for construction of a
terminal groin, and associated beach
fillet with required maintenance, to be
located at the eastern end of Ocean Isle
Beach. The proposed terminal groin and
beach fillet is the Town’s preferred
alternative (#5) of five alternatives
considered in this document. Under the
preferred alternative, the terminal groin
would have a seaward section extending
750-feet seaward of the April 2007 mean
high water shoreline and a 300-foot
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shore anchorage section extending
landward of the April 2007 mean high
water shoreline. The seaward section
would be constructed with loosely
placed armor stone to facilitate the
movement of sand past the structure.
The shore anchorage section would be
constructed with sheet pile which
would have a top elevation varying from
+4.9 feet NAVD to +4.5 feet NAVD.
The proposed terminal groin is one of
four such structures approved by the
General Assembly to be constructed in
North Carolina following passing of
Senate Bill (SB) 110. The U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers (USACE) determined
that there is sufficient information to
conclude that the project would result
in significant adverse impact on the
human environment, and has prepared
a DEIS pursuant to the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to
evaluate the environmental effects of the
alternatives considering the project’s
purpose and need. The purpose and
need of the proposed terminal groin and
beach fillet is to provide shoreline
protection that would mitigate chronic
erosion on the eastern portion on the
Town’s oceanfront shoreline so as to
preserve the integrity of its
infrastructure, provide protection to
existing development, and ensure the
continued use of the oceanfront beach
along this area.
2. Issues. There are several potential
environmental and public interest
issues that are addressed in the DEIS.
Public interest issues include, but are
not limited to, the following: Public
safety, aesthetics, recreation, navigation,
infrastructure, solid waste, economics,
and noise pollution. Additional issues
may be identified during the public
review process. Issues initially
identified as potentially significant
include:
a. Potential impacts to marine
biological resources (benthic organisms,
passageway for fish and other marine
life) and Essential Fish Habitat.
b. Potential impacts to threatened and
endangered marine mammals, reptiles,
birds, fish, and plants.
c. Potential for effects/changes to
Ocean Isle beach, Holden Beach, and
Shallotte inlet, respectively.
d. Potential impacts to navigation.
e. Potential effects on regional sand
sources and sand management practices,
including the Federal (Ocean Isle Beach
storm damage reduction) project.
f. Potential effects of shoreline
protection.
g. Potential impacts on public health
and safety.
h. Potential impacts to recreational
and commercial fishing.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment and
Conduct Public Scoping Meeting for the Crescent City Harbor Dredged
Material Management Plan, City of Crescent and County of Del Norte, CA
AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, DOD.
ACTION: Notice of intent.
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SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is to initiate the scoping process
for the preparation of a Dredged Material Management Plan (DMMP) and
Environmental Assessment for continued maintenance dredging at Crescent
City Harbor. The goal of the plan will be to identify suitable sites
for placement of dredged material to accommodate maintenance dredging
over the next twenty years.
DATES: A public scoping meeting will be held on February 11, 2015 at
7:00 p.m. (PST). Submit comments concerning this notice on or before
February 26, 2015.
ADDRESSES: The scoping meeting location is the Meeting Room at the
Crescent City Harbor District Office, 101 Citizens Dock Road, Crescent
City, California 95531. Mail written comments concerning this notice
to: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District, Project
Management Division, ATTN: 1455 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-
1398. Comment letters should include the commenter's physical mailing
address and the project title in the subject line.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Wiechmann, U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, San Francisco District, Environmental Resources, 1455 Market
Street, San Francisco CA 94103-1398, (415) 503-6846,
mark.j.wiechmann@usace.army.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Corps intends to prepare a Dredged
Material Management Plan (DMMP) and accompanying Environmental
Assessment (EA). The primary Federal actions under consideration are
dredging, dredged material placement, and transport of dredged material
for the purpose of ocean placement and/or upland beneficial reuse. The
Crescent City Harbor District is the Non-Federal Sponsor (NFS). The
Draft DMMP is intended to be sufficient in scope to address the
Federal, state and local requirements and environmental issues
concerning the proposed activities and permit approvals.
Project Site and Background Information: Crescent City Harbor is
located on the Northern California coast about 280 nautical miles north
of San Francisco and about 17 miles south of the Oregon border. The
harbor is located on the south edge of a broad marine terrace bordered
on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by
densely forested coastal mountains. Crescent City Harbor is a shallow-
draft critical harbor of refuge, supporting a U.S. Coast Guard search
and rescue station, commercial and sport fishing, waterfront industry,
and recreational boating.
The harbor's naturally crescent-shaped beach is bound by a 4,700-
foot long rubble-mound outer breakwater to the west, a 2,400-foot long
sand barrier to the east, and a 1,600-foot rubble-mound inner
breakwater to the south. The harbor's opening faces south and is about
2,000 feet across.
There are currently three federally constructed and maintained
navigation channels at Crescent City Harbor. The Inner Harbor Basin
Channel extends for 2,200 feet along the inside and around the tip of
the inner breakwater, where it connects to the Entrance Channel, a 200
foot wide channel that extends 2,200 feet to the outer breakwater. The
Marina Access Channel is 140-210 feet wide and extends 1,200 feet from
the Inner Harbor Basin Channel to the small boat basin.
The Entrance Channel has a project depth of 20 feet mean lower low
water (MLLW) while the interior channels, Inner Harbor Basin and Marina
Access, have a project depth of 15 feet MLLW.
Proposed Action(S): This study report will: (1) verify that
continued federal maintenance is justified; and (2) present a viable
20-year plan for dredging and disposal of materials associated with
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Crescent City Harbors' continued operations and maintenance work.
Four previously used disposal sites: SF-1, Crescent City Harbor
Dredge Ponds, Beach Nourishment at Whaler Island and Humboldt Ocean
Disposal Site (HOODS); and four previously unused disposal sites:
SFDODS, Chetco River Disposal Site (Chetco), an Offshore Berm area and
a potential Crescent City Harbor Waterfront Development Plan site will
be evaluated. Figure 1 displays the eight sites being considered.
Issues: Potentially significant issues associated with the project
may include: aesthetics/visual impacts, air quality emissions,
biological resource impacts, environmental justice, geologic impacts
related to seismicity, hazards and hazardous materials, hydrology and
water quality, noise, traffic and transportation, and cumulative
impacts from past, present and reasonably foreseeable future projects.
Scoping Process: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking
participation and input of all interested federal, state, and local
agencies, Native American groups, and other concerned private
organizations or individuals on the scope of the draft DMMP and EA
through this public notice. The purpose of the public scoping meeting
is to solicit comments regarding the potential impacts, environmental
issues, and alternative placement sites associated with the proposed
action to be considered in the study report. The meeting place, date
and time will be advertised in advance in local newspapers, and meeting
announcement letters will be sent to interested parties. The final
draft DMMP is expected to be available for public review and comment in
the summer of 2015 and a public meeting will be held after its
publication.
John C. Morrow,
Lieutenant Colonel, US Army, District Engineer.
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