Intent To Prepare a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Potential Multipurpose Projects for Ecosystem Restoration, Flood Damage Reduction, and Recreation Development Within and Along the West and Elm Forks and Main Stem of the Trinity River in Dallas, Dallas County, TX, 71477-71478 [E5-6642]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army; Corps of
Engineers
Intent To Prepare a Draft
Environmental Impact Statement for
Potential Multipurpose Projects for
Ecosystem Restoration, Flood Damage
Reduction, and Recreation
Development Within and Along the
West and Elm Forks and Main Stem of
the Trinity River in Dallas, Dallas
County, TX
Department of the Army, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.
ACTION: Notice of intent.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The study is being conducted
in response to the authority contained
in the following United States Senate
Committee on Environment and Public
Works Resolution dated April 22, 1988,
as quoted below:
Resolved by the Committee on
Environment and Public Works of the United
States Senate, that the Board of Engineers for
Rivers and Harbors is hereby requested to
review the report of the Chief of Engineers on
the Trinity River and Tributaries, Texas,
House Document No. 276, Eighty-Ninth
Congress, and other pertinent reports, with a
view to determining the advisability of
modifying the recommendations contained
therein, with particular reference to
providing improvements in the interest of
flood protection, environmental
enhancement, water quality, recreation, and
other allied purposes in the Upper Trinity
River Basin with specific attention on the
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
An initial assessment based on the
resolution guidance indicates a Federal
interest in continuing with more
detailed studies for these purposes. In
accordance with the National
Environmental Policy Act, a Draft
Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS)
will be prepared to evaluate and
compare ecosystem restoration, flood
damage reduction, and recreation
alternatives within and along the Trinity
River in, within and adjacent to the
existing Dallas Floodway area of Dallas,
TX. The DEIS will also assess the
impacts to the quality of the human
environment associated with each
alternative. The study area will be
bound on the upstream by Loop 12
crossings of the West and Elm Forks and
at the downstream end by the existing
terminus of the Dallas Floodway
approximated by the abandoned Santa
Fe railroad on the Trinity River. The
construction and implementation of Joe
Pool Lake, Grapevine Lake, Lake
Lewisville and the Dallas Floodway
project along with urbanization and
development activities, have
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significantly degraded the terrestrial and
aquatic habitat along and within the
Trinity River. Consequently, ecosystem
restoration measures will be developed
and evaluated to address the degraded
habitats. In addition, recreation
measures will be developed and
evaluated as complements to proposed
ecosystem restoration measures.
Preliminary findings indicate that due
to major changes in runoff attributable
to upstream development, the originally
authorized flood damage reduction
benefits have diminished within the
study area and therefore opportunities
to restore those Floodway benefits and
explore options for improving flood
damage reduction benefits within the
interior drainages in the study area
should be investigated. Flood damage
reduction measures will address the loss
of the authorized level of flood
protection for the area.
DATES: A public scoping meeting will be
held on December 13, 2005 at 7 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Nash-Davis Recreation Center
Activity Room, 3710 North Hampton
Road, Dallas, TX 75212.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions pertaining to the proposed
action and DEIS can be answered by:
Mr. Gene T. Rice, CESWF–PM–C, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth
District, P.O. Box 17300, Fort Worth, TX
76102–0300, (817) 886–1734.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
original Dallas Floodway levees and
interior drainage improvements were
completed between 1928 and 1931 by
the City of Dallas and Dallas County
Levee Improvement District. The Trinity
River was rerouted by constructing a
channel within the leveed floodway.
The original channel was either filled or
used for sump storage.
In the mid-1940’s, major floods,
compounded with continued
urbanization in the watershed draining
into the Floodway system resulted in
severe flooding. The Dallas Floodway
was authorized by River and Harbor
Acts of March 2, 1945 and May 17,
1950. The project, which was completed
in April 1959, entailed the channel
improvement, clearing of the floodway,
strengthening of levees, installation and
modification of drainage structures,
construction of pressure sewers, pump
station and sump areas. The
improvements provided conveyance of
the Standard Project Flood within the
floodway plus 4 feet of freeboard.
Alternatives for ecosystem restoration,
flood damage reduction, and recreation
will be developed and evaluated based
on ongoing fieldwork and data
collection and past studies conducted
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by the Corps of Engineers, the City of
Dallas, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service. Ecosystem restoration
alternatives that will be evaluated
include creating meanders within the
Trinity River, restoring, protecting and
expanding the riparian corridor,
improving aquatic habitat, creating
riffle-pool complexes, and constructing
wetlands. It is anticipated that
ecosystem restoration measures would
aid in improving water quality,
optimizing aquatic and terrestrial
habitat, and minimizing erosion and
scouring along and within the river.
Alternatives for flood damage reduction
measures will be evaluated from both a
non-structural and structural aspect.
Non-structural measures that will be
evaluated include acquisition and
removal of structures or flood proofing
of structures for protection from
potential future flood damage.
Structural measures that will be
evaluated include levee height
modification by fill or addition of flood
walls, changes in interior drainage by
enlarging storage areas or increasing
widths and depths and/or a
combination of these measures.
Recreation measures that will be
evaluated for include multipurpose
trails and passive recreation features,
such as interpretive guidance and media
and picnic areas. Recreation measures
will be developed to a scope and scale
compatible with proposed ecosystem
restoration measures without
significantly diminishing ecosystem
benefits.
A Programmatic Environmental
Impact Statement (PEIS) for the Upper
Trinity River Basin Feasibility study
addressing the potential cumulative
effects of reasonably foreseeable
projects, including the Clear Fork West
Fork studies was completed in June
2000. The DEIS will be tiered to the
PEIS.
The public will be invited to
participate in the scoping process,
invited to attend public meetings, and
given the opportunity to review the
DEIS. The first public scoping meeting
will be on (see DATES & ADDRESSES).
Subsequent public meetings, if deemed
necessary, will be announced in the
local news media. Release of the DEIS
for public comment is scheduled for
March 2007. The exact release date,
once established, will be announced
through mailings to known interested
individuals, agencies and officials and
in the local news media.
Future coordination with other
agencies and public scoping will be
conducted to ensure full and open
participation and aid in the
development of the DEIS. All affected
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Federal, state, and local agencies,
affected Indian tribes, and other
interested private organizations and
parties are hereby invited to participate.
Future coordination will also be
conducted with the United States Fish
and Wildlife Service (USFWS). The
USFWS will furnish information on
threatened and endangered species in
accordance with the Endangered
Species Act. In addition, the USFWS
will also be requested to provide
support with planning aid and to
provide a Fish and Wildlife
Coordination Act Report. The State
Historic Preservation Office will be
consulted as required by Section 106 of
the National Historic Preservation Act.
John C. Dvoracek,
Lieutenant Colonel, Corps of Engineers,
Deputy District Engineer.
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Federal Advisory Committee Act (5
U.S.C. App. 2). The executive session of
the meeting will consist of discussions
of personnel issues at the Naval
Academy and internal Board of Visitors
matters. Discussion of such information
cannot be adequately segregated from
other topics, which precludes opening
the executive session of this meeting to
the public. Accordingly, the Secretary of
the Navy has determined in writing that
the meeting shall be partially closed to
the public because it will be concerned
with matters listed in section 552b(c)(2),
(5), (6), (7) and (9) of title 5, United
States Code.
Dated: November 22, 2005.
Eric McDonald,
Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate
General’s Corps, U.S. Navy, Federal Register
Liaison Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Department of the Navy
Notice of Proposed Information
Collection Requests
Meeting of the U.S. Naval Academy
Board of Visitors
AGENCY: Department of Education
SUMMARY: The Leader, Information
Department of the Navy, DoD.
ACTION: Notice of partially closed
meeting.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The U.S. Naval Academy
Board of Visitors will meet to make such
inquiry, as the Board shall deem
necessary into the state of morale and
discipline, the curriculum, instruction,
physical equipment, fiscal affairs, and
academic methods of the Naval
Academy. The meeting will include
discussions of personnel issues at the
Naval Academy, the disclosure of which
would constitute a clearly unwarranted
invasion of personal privacy. The
executive session of this meeting will be
closed to the public.
DATES: The open session of the meeting
will be held on Monday, December 12,
2005, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. The closed
Executive Session will be held on
Monday, December 12, 2005, from 10
a.m. to 1 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in
the U.S. Naval Academy in the Bo
Coppedge Room of Alumni Hall,
Annapolis, Maryland.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Lieutenant Commander, Marc D. Boran,
Executive Secretary to the Board of
Visitors, Office of the Superintendent,
U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
21402–5000, 410–293–1503.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice of meeting is provided per the
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Management Case Services Team,
Regulatory Information Management
Services, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, invites comments on the
proposed information collection
requests as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before January
30, 2006.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires
that the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) provide interested
Federal agencies and the public an early
opportunity to comment on information
collection requests. OMB may amend or
waive the requirement for public
consultation to the extent that public
participation in the approval process
would defeat the purpose of the
information collection, violate State or
Federal law, or substantially interfere
with any agency’s ability to perform its
statutory obligations. The Leader,
Information Management Case Services
Team, Regulatory Information
Management Services, Office of the
Chief Information Officer, publishes that
notice containing proposed information
collection requests prior to submission
of these requests to OMB. Each
proposed information collection,
grouped by office, contains the
following: (1) Type of review requested,
e.g. new, revision, extension, existing or
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reinstatement; (2) Title; (3) Summary of
the collection; (4) Description of the
need for, and proposed use of, the
information; (5) Respondents and
frequency of collection; and (6)
Reporting and/or Recordkeeping
burden. OMB invites public comment.
The Department of Education is
especially interested in public comment
addressing the following issues: (1) Is
this collection necessary to the proper
functions of the Department; (2) will
this information be processed and used
in a timely manner; (3) is the estimate
of burden accurate; (4) how might the
Department enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and (5) how might the
Department minimize the burden of this
collection on the respondents, including
through the use of information
technology.
Dated: November 22, 2005.
Angela C. Arrington,
Leader, Information Management Case
Services Team, Regulatory Information
Management Services, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
Federal Student Aid
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Title: Federal Direct PLUS Loan
Application and Master Promissory
Note, and Endorser Addendum (LO).
Frequency: On Occasion.
Affected Public: Individuals or
household (primary).
Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour
Burden:
Responses: 230,625.
Burden Hours: 115,313.
Abstract: The PLUS MPN is the means
by which an individual applies for and
agrees to repay a Federal Direct PLUS
Loan. If an applicant for a Federal Direct
PLUS Loan is determined to have an
adverse credit history and obtains an
endorser, the Endorser Addendum is the
means by which an endorser agrees to
repay the loan if the borrower does not
repay it.
Requests for copies of the proposed
information collection request may be
accessed from https://edicsweb.ed.gov,
by selecting the ‘‘Browse Pending
Collections’’ link and by clicking on
link number 02942. When you access
the information collection, click on
‘‘Download Attachments’’ to view.
Written requests for information should
be addressed to U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
Potomac Center, 9th Floor, Washington,
DC 20202–4700. Requests may also be
electronically mailed to the Internet
address OCIO_RIMG@ed.gov or faxed to
202–245–6621. Please specify the
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army; Corps of Engineers
Intent To Prepare a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for
Potential Multipurpose Projects for Ecosystem Restoration, Flood Damage
Reduction, and Recreation Development Within and Along the West and Elm
Forks and Main Stem of the Trinity River in Dallas, Dallas County, TX
AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.
ACTION: Notice of intent.
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SUMMARY: The study is being conducted in response to the authority
contained in the following United States Senate Committee on
Environment and Public Works Resolution dated April 22, 1988, as quoted
below:
Resolved by the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the
United States Senate, that the Board of Engineers for Rivers and
Harbors is hereby requested to review the report of the Chief of
Engineers on the Trinity River and Tributaries, Texas, House
Document No. 276, Eighty-Ninth Congress, and other pertinent
reports, with a view to determining the advisability of modifying
the recommendations contained therein, with particular reference to
providing improvements in the interest of flood protection,
environmental enhancement, water quality, recreation, and other
allied purposes in the Upper Trinity River Basin with specific
attention on the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
An initial assessment based on the resolution guidance indicates a
Federal interest in continuing with more detailed studies for these
purposes. In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act, a
Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) will be prepared to
evaluate and compare ecosystem restoration, flood damage reduction, and
recreation alternatives within and along the Trinity River in, within
and adjacent to the existing Dallas Floodway area of Dallas, TX. The
DEIS will also assess the impacts to the quality of the human
environment associated with each alternative. The study area will be
bound on the upstream by Loop 12 crossings of the West and Elm Forks
and at the downstream end by the existing terminus of the Dallas
Floodway approximated by the abandoned Santa Fe railroad on the Trinity
River. The construction and implementation of Joe Pool Lake, Grapevine
Lake, Lake Lewisville and the Dallas Floodway project along with
urbanization and development activities, have significantly degraded
the terrestrial and aquatic habitat along and within the Trinity River.
Consequently, ecosystem restoration measures will be developed and
evaluated to address the degraded habitats. In addition, recreation
measures will be developed and evaluated as complements to proposed
ecosystem restoration measures. Preliminary findings indicate that due
to major changes in runoff attributable to upstream development, the
originally authorized flood damage reduction benefits have diminished
within the study area and therefore opportunities to restore those
Floodway benefits and explore options for improving flood damage
reduction benefits within the interior drainages in the study area
should be investigated. Flood damage reduction measures will address
the loss of the authorized level of flood protection for the area.
DATES: A public scoping meeting will be held on December 13, 2005 at 7
p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Nash-Davis Recreation Center
Activity Room, 3710 North Hampton Road, Dallas, TX 75212.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions pertaining to the proposed
action and DEIS can be answered by: Mr. Gene T. Rice, CESWF-PM-C, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District, P.O. Box 17300, Fort
Worth, TX 76102-0300, (817) 886-1734.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The original Dallas Floodway levees and
interior drainage improvements were completed between 1928 and 1931 by
the City of Dallas and Dallas County Levee Improvement District. The
Trinity River was rerouted by constructing a channel within the leveed
floodway. The original channel was either filled or used for sump
storage.
In the mid-1940's, major floods, compounded with continued
urbanization in the watershed draining into the Floodway system
resulted in severe flooding. The Dallas Floodway was authorized by
River and Harbor Acts of March 2, 1945 and May 17, 1950. The project,
which was completed in April 1959, entailed the channel improvement,
clearing of the floodway, strengthening of levees, installation and
modification of drainage structures, construction of pressure sewers,
pump station and sump areas. The improvements provided conveyance of
the Standard Project Flood within the floodway plus 4 feet of
freeboard.
Alternatives for ecosystem restoration, flood damage reduction, and
recreation will be developed and evaluated based on ongoing fieldwork
and data collection and past studies conducted by the Corps of
Engineers, the City of Dallas, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Ecosystem restoration alternatives that will be evaluated include
creating meanders within the Trinity River, restoring, protecting and
expanding the riparian corridor, improving aquatic habitat, creating
riffle-pool complexes, and constructing wetlands. It is anticipated
that ecosystem restoration measures would aid in improving water
quality, optimizing aquatic and terrestrial habitat, and minimizing
erosion and scouring along and within the river. Alternatives for flood
damage reduction measures will be evaluated from both a non-structural
and structural aspect. Non-structural measures that will be evaluated
include acquisition and removal of structures or flood proofing of
structures for protection from potential future flood damage.
Structural measures that will be evaluated include levee height
modification by fill or addition of flood walls, changes in interior
drainage by enlarging storage areas or increasing widths and depths
and/or a combination of these measures. Recreation measures that will
be evaluated for include multipurpose trails and passive recreation
features, such as interpretive guidance and media and picnic areas.
Recreation measures will be developed to a scope and scale compatible
with proposed ecosystem restoration measures without significantly
diminishing ecosystem benefits.
A Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for the Upper
Trinity River Basin Feasibility study addressing the potential
cumulative effects of reasonably foreseeable projects, including the
Clear Fork West Fork studies was completed in June 2000. The DEIS will
be tiered to the PEIS.
The public will be invited to participate in the scoping process,
invited to attend public meetings, and given the opportunity to review
the DEIS. The first public scoping meeting will be on (see DATES &
ADDRESSES). Subsequent public meetings, if deemed necessary, will be
announced in the local news media. Release of the DEIS for public
comment is scheduled for March 2007. The exact release date, once
established, will be announced through mailings to known interested
individuals, agencies and officials and in the local news media.
Future coordination with other agencies and public scoping will be
conducted to ensure full and open participation and aid in the
development of the DEIS. All affected
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Federal, state, and local agencies, affected Indian tribes, and other
interested private organizations and parties are hereby invited to
participate. Future coordination will also be conducted with the United
States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). The USFWS will furnish
information on threatened and endangered species in accordance with the
Endangered Species Act. In addition, the USFWS will also be requested
to provide support with planning aid and to provide a Fish and Wildlife
Coordination Act Report. The State Historic Preservation Office will be
consulted as required by Section 106 of the National Historic
Preservation Act.
John C. Dvoracek,
Lieutenant Colonel, Corps of Engineers, Deputy District Engineer.
[FR Doc. E5-6642 Filed 11-28-05; 8:45 am]
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