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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions concerning the Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS)
should be addressed to Mr. Alan W.
Bennett at: U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, PM–RS, P.O. Box 60267,
New Orleans, LA 70160–0267, phone
(504) 862–2516, fax number (504) 862–
2088 or by e-mail at
alan.w.bennett@mvn02.usace.army.mil.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
1. Proposed Action. The proposed
action would replace or modify and
incorporate certain non-Federal levees
on the west bank of the Mississippi
River in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
into the existing New Orleans to Venice
hurricane protection project. The
proposed project study area includes the
west bank of the Mississippi River,
starting near the community of Oakville
to the north and ending at St. Jude to the
south. The New Orleans to Venice
hurricane protection project was
authorized by Public Law 87–874, as
amended. Under this authority, the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers constructed a
hurricane protection levee system
extending along a protion of the west
bank of the Mississippi River. This SEIS
is being prepared as a third
supplemental to the July 1974 final EIS,
‘‘New Orleans to Venice, Louisiana,
Hurricane Protection Project’’, filed with
the Council on Environmental Quality
on January 6, 1975.
The existing federally authorized
hurricane protection system does not
provide continuous protection from
Belle Chasse to Venice. Specifically,
approximately 34 miles of existing nonFederal levees in Plaquemines Parish do
not provide hurricane and storm
damage reduction protection to the
authorized level of the New Orleans to
Venice hurricane protection project.
This condition exposes residents and
businesses in several west bank
communities and the hurricane
evacuation route, Louisiana Highway
23, to a higher potential for flooding in
the event of a storm or hurricane.
Engineering, economic, and
environmental analysis would be used
to determine the most cost effective
plan, which would provide for the
greatest overall public benefit.
2. Alternatives. Several levee
alignments are being investigated to
protect these communities, businesses,
the hurricane evacuation route, and to
avoid wetland impacts. In addition,
non-structural alternatives such as
relocations or raising homes and
businesses are also being developed and
evaluated. Incremental analysis of costs
and benefits for different reaches of the
levee alignments would also be
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conducted. Various protection levels for
the levee alignments would also be
investigated.
3. Scoping. Scoping is the process for
determining the scope of alternatives
and significant issues to be addressed in
the SEIS. A notice requesting scoping
comments will be sent to affected
Federal, State, and local agencies,
affected Indian tribes, and all interested
parties requesting their input on
alternatives and issues to be evaluated
in the SEIS. The notice will also notify
interested parties of public scoping
meetings that will be held in the local
area. Notices will also be sent to local
news media. All interested parties are
invited to comment at this time, and
anyone interested in this study should
request to be included in the study
mailing list.
Two public scoping meetings will be
held in March 2007. The meetings will
be held in the vicinity of Belle Chasse
and West Pointe a la Hache. Additional
meetings could be held, depending
upon interest and if it is determined that
further public coordination is
warranted.
4. Significant Issues. The tentative list
of resources and issues to be evaluated
in the SEIS includes tidal wetlands
(marshes and swamps), aquatic
resources, commercial and recreational
fisheries, wildlife resources, essential
fish habitat, water quality, air quality,
threatened and endangered species,
recreation resources, and cultural
resources. Socioeconomic items to be
evaluated in the SEIS include hurricane
and flood protection, business and
industrial activity, employment, land
use, property values, public/community
facilities and services, tax revenues,
population, community and regional
growth, transportation, housing,
community cohesion, and noise.
5. Environmental Consultation and
Review. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service (USFWS) will be assisting in the
documentation of existing conditions
and assessment of effects of project
alternatives through Fish and Wildlife
Coordination Act consultation
procedures. The USFWS will provide a
Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act
report. Consultation will be
accomplished with the USFWS and the
National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS) concerning threatened and
endangered species and their critical
habitat. The NMFS will be consulted on
the effects of this proposed action on
essential fish habitat. The draft SEIS or
a notice of its availability will be
distributed to all interested agencies,
organizations, and individuals.
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6. Estimated Date of Availability. The
earliest that the draft SEIS is expected
to be available is in spring 2008.
Dated: February 16, 2007.
Richard P. Wagenaar,
Colonel, U.S. Army, District Commander.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of International Regimes and
Agreements; Proposed Subsequent
Arrangement
AGENCY:
Department of Energy.
Notice of proposed subsequent
arrangement.
ACTION:
SUMMARY: This notice is being issued
under the authority of section 131 of the
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended
(42 U.S.C. 2160). The Department is
providing notice of a proposed
‘‘subsequent arrangement’’ under the
Agreement for Cooperation in the
Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy
between the United States and the
European Atomic Energy Community
(Euratom) and the Agreement for
Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of
Nuclear Energy between the United
States and Canada.
This subsequent arrangement
concerns the retransfer of 846,126 kg of
Natural UO3 (82.7% U), containing
700,000 kg of Uranium. This material
will be retransferred from Cameco
Corporation, Canada, to Springfields
Fuels Ltd., United Kingdom for ultimate
use as nuclear power reactor fuel by
Electric Power Development Company
Ltd., Japan. Springfields Fuels Ltd. is
authorized to receive nuclear material
pursuant to the U.S.-Euratom
Agreement for Cooperation.
In accordance with section 131 of the
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended,
we have determined that this
subsequent arrangement will not be
inimical to the common defense and
security.
This subsequent arrangement will
take effect no sooner than fifteen days
after the date of publication of this
notice.
Dated: February 20, 2007.
For the Department of Energy.
Anatoli Welihozkiy,
Acting Director, Office of International
Regimes and Agreements.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of International Regimes and Agreements; Proposed
Subsequent Arrangement
AGENCY: Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of proposed subsequent arrangement.
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SUMMARY: This notice is being issued under the authority of section 131
of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2160). The
Department is providing notice of a proposed ``subsequent arrangement''
under the Agreement for Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear
Energy between the United States and the European Atomic Energy
Community (Euratom) and the Agreement for Cooperation in the Peaceful
Uses of Nuclear Energy between the United States and Canada.
This subsequent arrangement concerns the retransfer of 846,126 kg
of Natural UO3 (82.7% U), containing 700,000 kg of Uranium.
This material will be retransferred from Cameco Corporation, Canada, to
Springfields Fuels Ltd., United Kingdom for ultimate use as nuclear
power reactor fuel by Electric Power Development Company Ltd., Japan.
Springfields Fuels Ltd. is authorized to receive nuclear material
pursuant to the U.S.-Euratom Agreement for Cooperation.
In accordance with section 131 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as
amended, we have determined that this subsequent arrangement will not
be inimical to the common defense and security.
This subsequent arrangement will take effect no sooner than fifteen
days after the date of publication of this notice.
Dated: February 20, 2007.
For the Department of Energy.
Anatoli Welihozkiy,
Acting Director, Office of International Regimes and Agreements.
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