Intent To Prepare a Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement To Analyze a Long Island Sound Dredged Material Management Plan, 50332-50333 [07-4274]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army; Corps of
Engineers
Availability of Draft Environmental
Impact Statement for Center Hill Dam
and Lake, Changes to Center Hill Lake
Elevations, DeKalb County, TN
Department of the Army, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Corps of Engineers,
Nashville District, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service (Cooperating Agency),
and the Tennessee Valley Authority
(Cooperating Agency) have prepared a
Draft Environmental Impact Statement
(DEIS). The DEIS is necessary to provide
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) compliance to address changes
that could include, but are not limited
to water quality, aquatic, riparian, and
terrestrial habitat, recreation, water
supply, flood storage, economics,
hydropower production, and safety as a
result of operating Center Hill Lake
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significantly below normal pool
elevations for extended periods of time.
Written comments must be
received by the Corps of Engineers on or
before October 19, 2007.
DATES:
Written comments on issues
to be considered in the DEIS shall be
mailed to: Joy Broach or Patty Coffey,
Project Planning Branch, Nashville
District Corps of Engineers, P.O. Box
1070 (PM–P), Nashville, TN 37202–
1070.
ADDRESSES:
For
additional information concerning the
notice, please contact Joy Broach,
Environmental Team, (615) 736–7956,
or Patty Coffey, Environmental Team,
(615) 736–7865.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
1. Center Hill Dam is currently
suffering from severe dam seepage
problems. A comprehensive plan for
repairs has been approved; however,
these repairs will take 7–10 years to
implement. Until the repairs are
sufficiently complete, the Corps has
determined that it is in the public’s
interest to operate Center Hill Lake at
lower pool elevations.
2. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
is a Cooperating Agency because of the
potential to affect listed species. The
Tennessee Valley Authority is a
Cooperating Agency because of the
potential to affect electrical power
production.
3. This notice serves to solicit
comments from the public; Federal,
state, and local agencies and officials;
Indian tribes; and other interested
parties in order to consider and evaluate
the impacts of this proposed activity.
Any comments received by us will be
considered during the preparation of the
Final Environmental Impact Statement
(FEIS).
4. Public Meetings: At present, no
public meetings have been scheduled to
scope for potential issues to be
evaluated in the FEIS. Requests for
public meetings should be directed to
Mr. William Peoples, Chief, Public
Affairs Office, U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Nashville District, Nashville,
TN, 37202–1070. Mr. Peoples may be
reached by telephone at (615) 736–7834.
Brenda S. Bowen,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army; Corps of
Engineers
Intent To Prepare a Draft Programmatic
Environmental Impact Statement To
Analyze a Long Island Sound Dredged
Material Management Plan
Department of the Army, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.
ACTION: Notice of intent.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Draft Programmatic
Environmental Impact Statement
(DPEIS) will evaluate the overall
impacts of various alternatives
identified in a Long Island Sound
Dredged Material Management Plan (LIS
DMMP) for management of dredged
material in the Long Island Sound (LIS)
region. The overall goal of the LIS
DMMP is to develop a comprehensive
plan for dredged material management
in Long Island Sound using a broadbased public process that protects the
environment based on best scientific
data and analysis, while meeting
society’s need for safe and economically
viable navigation for water-based
commerce, transportation, national
security, and other public purposes. The
LIS DMMP will identify potential
environmentally acceptable, practicable
management plans that can be utilized
by the Corps of Engineers (Corps) in
maintaining Federal navigation projects,
as well as various non-Corps dredging
proponents in their analysis of options
to manage non-Corps dredging projects.
Some alternative disposal methods may
be implemented on the basis of the
PEIS, while others may require
additional analysis at the project level.
As specific alternatives are put in place
to implement a given management
option, more detailed National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
documents may be prepared by the
Corps and other Federal agencies, and
such NEPA documents will evaluate
specific impacts from implementing a
particular management option.
ADDRESSES: U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, New England District, 696
Virginia Road, Concord, MA 01742–
2751.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions about the proposed action
and DPEIS can be answered by: Mr.
Mike Keegan, (978) 318–8657, e-mail:
Michael.f.keegan@usace.army.mil.
The
Governors of Connecticut and New
York, in a joint letter dated February 8,
2005, requested the Corps to develop a
regional DMMP for the LIS region. In
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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June 2006, the Corps of Engineers, New
England District completed a
Preliminary Assessment (PA) to
document the need for a comprehensive
DMMP for the LIS region. The PA
concluded that successful completion of
a LIS DMMP is critical to the Corps’
ability to maintain the region’s civil
works navigation projects, and to
provide future navigation improvements
to the system of Federal waterways in
the LIS region. Appropriate future costeffective management methods and
future dredged material capacities must
be identified to serve both Federal and
non-Federal project needs in this region
for the long-term health of the region’s
economy, including its navigationdependent industries and activities. The
Corps prepares NEPA documents to
evaluate the environmental impacts of
the actions and alternatives analyzed in
dredged material management plans. In
preparing the current DPEIS, the Corps
expects this document to be used as part
of the NEPA analysis for both Corps and
non-Corps future dredging projects
through tiering and incorporation by
reference. Issues to be analyzed in the
DPEIS may include potential impacts to:
shipping and navigation; commercial
and recreational fisheries and
shellfisheries; water quality; sediment
quality; biological resources, including
threatened and endangered species;
bioavailability of contaminants; cultural
resources; recreational activities such as
use of beaches, refuges, and natural
areas; wetlands; and other potential
habitat restoration opportunities. The
DPEIS will be prepared in coordination
with other environmental review and
consultation requirements under the
Clean Water Act, National Historic
Preservation Act, Endangered Species
Act, Coastal Zone Management Act, and
other relevant and appropriate statutes
and Executive Orders.
There are many harbors, channels and
navigation-dependent facilities in
Connecticut and New York within Long
Island Sound that must undergo
periodic maintenance dredging to
ensure safe navigation. Some harbors
occasionally must be deepened beyond
historical depths to meet changing
economic and safety needs. In order to
manage all of the dredged material from
harbors in the LIS region generated by
both Federal and non-Federal interests
in the next twenty years, the DMMP and
DPEIS will be identifying the potential
volume of material and identifying and
evaluating alternatives that could be
used to manage such a volume of
dredged material. Thus, future Federal
and non-Federal projects can use the
DMMP and its associated PEIS to help
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satisfy legal requirements of NEPA, the
Clean Water Act, and the Marine
Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries
Act (MPRSA).
The LIS DMMP will include an indepth planning analysis of reasonable
potential dredged material placement/
disposal alternatives, including openwater disposal, beneficial use, upland
disposal, and treatment technologies,
and this analysis will be used as a basis
for future individual permit and project
approval decisions related to
alternatives analysis for dredging in the
LIS region. To accomplish this, the LIS
DMMP will examine dredging needs,
sediment and water quality, disposal
alternatives and environmental impacts
on a harbor-by-harbor basis. Consistent
with the Designation Rule for the
Western and Central Long Island Sound
Dredged Material Disposal Sites, 40 CFR
228.14(b)(4), the DMMP will be
identifying potential procedures and
standards for the use of practicable
alternatives for dredged material
disposal in Long Island Sound. The
various alternatives and the information
associated with such plans will provide
the Corps and other navigation users
with an array of feasible options that
will meet their dredged material
management needs.
The LIS DMMP and DPEIS will
identify a practicable, comprehensive
and coordinated regional practicable
strategy for technically feasible and
environmentally sound management of
material dredged from Long Island
Sound. These documents will identify
potential environmentally acceptable,
practicable management alternatives
that can be utilized by various dredging
proponents in their analysis of options
to manage dredging projects. These
alternatives will likely include, but not
be limited to:
∑ Open-water placement.
∑ Alternative management strategies
for treating or reusing dredged
materials, including the use of
decontamination and sediment
processing technologies.
∑ Beneficial reuse of dredged material
such as:
Æ Open and closed landfills;
Æ Existing upland dredged material
disposal areas;
Æ Current or proposed
transportation improvements;
Æ Temporary dredged material
storage;
Æ Asphalt, cement and other
aggregate use;
Æ Large scale development use;
Æ Brownfield remediation;
Æ Use at closed mines and quarries;
Æ Placement at beaches for
beneficial use;
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Æ Agricultural use;
Æ Habitat restoration projects.
Full public participation of affected
Federal, state, and local agencies,
affected Indian tribes, and other
interested private organizations and
parties is invited. All interested parties
are encouraged to submit their names
and addresses to (see ADDRESSES), to be
placed on the project mailing list to
receive fact sheets, newsletters and
related public notices. The Corps will
hold public scoping meetings later this
year or in 2008 at different locations
around the LIS region. Topics and
issues to be addressed in the DPEIS,
identified in part from responses to this
Notice of Intent, will be summarized.
The public is invited to attend the
scoping meetings and identify
additional issues that should be
addressed in the DPEIS. The actual date,
place and time of the scoping meetings
will be announced in respective local
newspapers and on the Corps New
England District Web page.
It is estimated that the Draft PEIS will
be made available to the public in the
Fall of 2012.
Dated: 22 August 2007.
Lieutenant Colonel Andrew B. Nelson,
Deputy District Commander, U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers, New England.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Navy
Notice of Intent To Prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement/
Overseas Environmental Impact
Statement for Navy Atlantic Fleet
Training in the Gulf of Mexico Range
Complex and To Announce Public
Scoping Meetings
Department of the Navy, DoD.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(c)
of the National Environmental Policy
Act of 1969, as implemented by the
Council on Environmental Quality
regulations (40 CFR parts 1500–1508),
and Executive Order 12114
(Environmental Effects Abroad of Major
Federal Actions), the Department of the
Navy (Navy) announces its intent to
prepare an Environmental Impact
Statement/Overseas Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS/OEIS) to evaluate
the potential environmental effects
associated with naval training in the
Gulf of Mexico (GOMEX) Range
Complex. The Navy proposes to support
current and emerging training
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army; Corps of Engineers
Intent To Prepare a Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact
Statement To Analyze a Long Island Sound Dredged Material Management
Plan
AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.
ACTION: Notice of intent.
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SUMMARY: The Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (DPEIS)
will evaluate the overall impacts of various alternatives identified in
a Long Island Sound Dredged Material Management Plan (LIS DMMP) for
management of dredged material in the Long Island Sound (LIS) region.
The overall goal of the LIS DMMP is to develop a comprehensive plan for
dredged material management in Long Island Sound using a broad-based
public process that protects the environment based on best scientific
data and analysis, while meeting society's need for safe and
economically viable navigation for water-based commerce,
transportation, national security, and other public purposes. The LIS
DMMP will identify potential environmentally acceptable, practicable
management plans that can be utilized by the Corps of Engineers (Corps)
in maintaining Federal navigation projects, as well as various non-
Corps dredging proponents in their analysis of options to manage non-
Corps dredging projects. Some alternative disposal methods may be
implemented on the basis of the PEIS, while others may require
additional analysis at the project level. As specific alternatives are
put in place to implement a given management option, more detailed
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documents may be prepared by
the Corps and other Federal agencies, and such NEPA documents will
evaluate specific impacts from implementing a particular management
option.
ADDRESSES: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District, 696
Virginia Road, Concord, MA 01742-2751.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions about the proposed action
and DPEIS can be answered by: Mr. Mike Keegan, (978) 318-8657, e-mail:
Michael.f.keegan@usace.army.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Governors of Connecticut and New York,
in a joint letter dated February 8, 2005, requested the Corps to
develop a regional DMMP for the LIS region. In
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June 2006, the Corps of Engineers, New England District completed a
Preliminary Assessment (PA) to document the need for a comprehensive
DMMP for the LIS region. The PA concluded that successful completion of
a LIS DMMP is critical to the Corps' ability to maintain the region's
civil works navigation projects, and to provide future navigation
improvements to the system of Federal waterways in the LIS region.
Appropriate future cost-effective management methods and future dredged
material capacities must be identified to serve both Federal and non-
Federal project needs in this region for the long-term health of the
region's economy, including its navigation-dependent industries and
activities. The Corps prepares NEPA documents to evaluate the
environmental impacts of the actions and alternatives analyzed in
dredged material management plans. In preparing the current DPEIS, the
Corps expects this document to be used as part of the NEPA analysis for
both Corps and non-Corps future dredging projects through tiering and
incorporation by reference. Issues to be analyzed in the DPEIS may
include potential impacts to: shipping and navigation; commercial and
recreational fisheries and shellfisheries; water quality; sediment
quality; biological resources, including threatened and endangered
species; bioavailability of contaminants; cultural resources;
recreational activities such as use of beaches, refuges, and natural
areas; wetlands; and other potential habitat restoration opportunities.
The DPEIS will be prepared in coordination with other environmental
review and consultation requirements under the Clean Water Act,
National Historic Preservation Act, Endangered Species Act, Coastal
Zone Management Act, and other relevant and appropriate statutes and
Executive Orders.
There are many harbors, channels and navigation-dependent
facilities in Connecticut and New York within Long Island Sound that
must undergo periodic maintenance dredging to ensure safe navigation.
Some harbors occasionally must be deepened beyond historical depths to
meet changing economic and safety needs. In order to manage all of the
dredged material from harbors in the LIS region generated by both
Federal and non-Federal interests in the next twenty years, the DMMP
and DPEIS will be identifying the potential volume of material and
identifying and evaluating alternatives that could be used to manage
such a volume of dredged material. Thus, future Federal and non-Federal
projects can use the DMMP and its associated PEIS to help satisfy legal
requirements of NEPA, the Clean Water Act, and the Marine Protection,
Research, and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA).
The LIS DMMP will include an in-depth planning analysis of
reasonable potential dredged material placement/disposal alternatives,
including open-water disposal, beneficial use, upland disposal, and
treatment technologies, and this analysis will be used as a basis for
future individual permit and project approval decisions related to
alternatives analysis for dredging in the LIS region. To accomplish
this, the LIS DMMP will examine dredging needs, sediment and water
quality, disposal alternatives and environmental impacts on a harbor-
by-harbor basis. Consistent with the Designation Rule for the Western
and Central Long Island Sound Dredged Material Disposal Sites, 40 CFR
228.14(b)(4), the DMMP will be identifying potential procedures and
standards for the use of practicable alternatives for dredged material
disposal in Long Island Sound. The various alternatives and the
information associated with such plans will provide the Corps and other
navigation users with an array of feasible options that will meet their
dredged material management needs.
The LIS DMMP and DPEIS will identify a practicable, comprehensive
and coordinated regional practicable strategy for technically feasible
and environmentally sound management of material dredged from Long
Island Sound. These documents will identify potential environmentally
acceptable, practicable management alternatives that can be utilized by
various dredging proponents in their analysis of options to manage
dredging projects. These alternatives will likely include, but not be
limited to:
Open-water placement.
Alternative management strategies for treating or reusing
dredged materials, including the use of decontamination and sediment
processing technologies.
Beneficial reuse of dredged material such as:
[cir] Open and closed landfills;
[cir] Existing upland dredged material disposal areas;
[cir] Current or proposed transportation improvements;
[cir] Temporary dredged material storage;
[cir] Asphalt, cement and other aggregate use;
[cir] Large scale development use;
[cir] Brownfield remediation;
[cir] Use at closed mines and quarries;
[cir] Placement at beaches for beneficial use;
[cir] Agricultural use;
[cir] Habitat restoration projects.
Full public participation of affected Federal, state, and local
agencies, affected Indian tribes, and other interested private
organizations and parties is invited. All interested parties are
encouraged to submit their names and addresses to (see ADDRESSES), to
be placed on the project mailing list to receive fact sheets,
newsletters and related public notices. The Corps will hold public
scoping meetings later this year or in 2008 at different locations
around the LIS region. Topics and issues to be addressed in the DPEIS,
identified in part from responses to this Notice of Intent, will be
summarized. The public is invited to attend the scoping meetings and
identify additional issues that should be addressed in the DPEIS. The
actual date, place and time of the scoping meetings will be announced
in respective local newspapers and on the Corps New England District
Web page.
It is estimated that the Draft PEIS will be made available to the
public in the Fall of 2012.
Dated: 22 August 2007.
Lieutenant Colonel Andrew B. Nelson,
Deputy District Commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England.
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