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Dated: April 11, 2008.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Availability of the Draft Feasibility
Report and Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement and
Draft State Environmental Impact
Report for the Boston Harbor Deep
Draft Navigation Improvement Project
Department of the Army
Availability of the Record of Decision
(ROD) for the Permanent Stationing of
the 2/25th Stryker Brigade Combat
Team (SBCT)
Department of the Army, DoD.
Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Deputy Chief of Staff of
the Army, G–3/5/7 has reviewed the
Final Environmental Impact Statement
(FEIS) for the Permanent Stationing of
the 2/25th SBCT and has made the
decision to proceed with all facets of
Alternative A. Alternative A
permanently stations the 2/25th SBCT at
Schofield Barracks Military Reservation
(SBMR) while conducting the required
training at military training sites in
Hawaii. This alternative is summarized
in the Army’s ROD and described fully
in Chapter 2 of the FEIS.
ADDRESSES: The ROD can be accessed at
https://www.aec.army.mil.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Public Affairs Office, U.S. Army
Environmental Command, Building
E4460, 5179 Hoadley Road, Attention:
IMAE–PA, Aberdeen Proving Ground,
MD 21010–5401; telephone: 410–436–
2556; facsimile: (410) 436–1693. The
Public Affairs Office is open during
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FEIS
assessed the potential environmental
consequences of the alternatives on the
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Department of the Army, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, DOD.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, New England District in
partnership with the Massachusetts Port
Authority (Massport) has prepared a
joint Draft Supplemental Environmental
Impact Statement and State Draft
Environmental Impact Report (DSEIS/
DEIR) examining improvements to deepdraft navigation channels in Boston
Harbor, Boston, MA. Four separate
improvements were developed. The first
examined deepening the outer and
lower harbor’s existing 40-foot channel
system to provide deeper access to
Massport’s Conley Terminal in South
Boston for containership traffic. All
depths are referenced to minus mean
lower low water (MLLW). Navigation
channel depths of between 45 to 50 feet
were examined, with a depth of 48 feet
recommended, with an additional two
feet in the entrance channel. Under this
plan the following project features
would be improved: the 40-foot lane of
the Broad Sound North Entrance
Channel would be deepened to 50 feet
and widened through the bend at Finn’s
Ledge. The 40-foot lane of the Main
Ship Channel from the Broad Sound
North Entrance Channel upstream
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through President Roads to the Reserved
Channel would be deepened to 48 feet
and its 600-foot-wide reaches widened
to between 800 and 900 feet, with
additional width in the bends. The 40foot lower reach of Reserved Channel
and its turning area would be deepened
to 48 feet, with the turning area also
widened to 1600 feet. The 40-foot
President Roads Anchorage would be
deepened to 48 feet. The second
improvement would deepen the existing
40-foot lane of the Main Ship Channel
from the Reserved Channel Turning
Area upstream to just below the Third
Harbor Tunnel to a depth of 45 feet, to
improve access to the Massport Marine
Terminal in South Boston. The third
improvement would deepen a portion of
the 35-foot Mystic River Channel lane to
40 feet to improve access to Massport’s
Medford Street Terminal. The fourth
and final improvement would deepen
the 38-foot Chelsea River Channel to 40
feet, with minor widening in the bridge
approaches and the bend between the
bridges. In conjunction with work in the
Federal channels, the Massachusetts
Port Authority would deepen vessel
berths at the Conley Terminal and
Marine Terminal. Terminals on the
Chelsea River would also deepen their
berths to match the new channel depth.
A total of about 12.1 million cubic yards
(cy) of parent material, and 1.2 million
cy of rock, would be removed by
dredging and placed at the
Massachusetts Bay Disposal Site
(MBDS). Beneficial use opportunities for
the dredged material have been
identified and would be considered
further during final design of the
project. Those beneficial use
opportunities include: creation of rock
reefs in Massachusetts Bay and Broad
Sound, and using the non-rock material
as cover at the former Industrial Waste
Site, which overlaps the MBDS. This
joint Federal and State document builds
on the lessons learned from the final
EIR/S prepared in June of 1995 for the
previous navigation improvement
project in Boston Harbor.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
June 2, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be
submitted to Colonel Curtis L. Thalken,
District Engineer, U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, New England District, 696
Virginia Road, Concord, MA 01742.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Catherine Rogers, (978) 318–8231.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers is authorized
to conduct this Feasibility Study by a
Senate Subcommittee on Public Works
Resolution dated September 11, 1969.
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The DSEIS/DEIR is available on-line
on the New England District’s Web page
at https://www.nae.usace.army.mil/
projects/ma/BHNIP/
BostonHarbor_draft_FeasibilitySEIS.zip
and at the following local libraries:
Boston Libraries—25 Parameter Street,
20 City Hall Avenue, 18 Barnes Avenue,
666 Boylston Street, Boston City Hall,
179 Main Street, 646 West Broadway,
276 Meridan Street; Chelsea Library—
569 Broadway; Revere Library—179
Beach Street; and the Winthrop
Library—2 Metcalf Square. If you wish
to receive a copy of the Executive
Summary or an electronic copy of the
DSEIS/DEIR, please contact Ms.
Catherine Rogers, Ecologist, U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, New England
District, Evaluation Branch, 696 Virginia
Road, Concord, MA 01742.
A public meeting to solicit comments
has been scheduled for 1 p.m. on
Tuesday, May 20, 2008, on the second
floor of the Black Falcon Cruise
Terminal, One Black Falcon Avenue,
Boston, MA.
Dated: April 8, 2008.
Curtis L. Thalken,
Colonel, Corps of Engineers, New England
District.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
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Engineers
Notice of Availability for the Final
Environmental Impact Report/
Environmental Impact Statement for
the Carryover Storage and San Vicente
Dam Raise Project (CSP), San Diego
County, CA
Department of the Army, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(c)
of the National Environmental Policy
Act (NEPA) of 1969 (as amended), the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los
Angeles District (Corps) Regulatory
Branch, in coordination with the San
Diego County Water Authority (Water
Authority), has completed a Final
Environmental Impact Report/
Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/
EIS) for the Carryover Storage and San
Vicente Dam Raise Project (CSP). Four
alternatives were co-equally analyzed in
the EIR/EIS, including Alternative 1
(100,000 acre-feet of carryover storage at
San Vicente), Alternative 2 (100,000
acre-feet of carryover storage at Moosa
Canyon), Alternative 3 (50,000 acre-feet
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions or comments concerning the
Final EIR/EIS should be directed to Mr.
Robert R. Smith, Jr., Regulatory Project
Manager/Team Leader San Diego Field
Office, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Los Angeles District, 16885 W. Bernardo
Drive, Suite 300A, San Diego, CA 92127,
(858) 674–6784. Alternatively,
comments can be submitted
electronically to:
robert.r.smith@usace.army.mil.
Paper
copies of the Final EIR/EIS will be made
available to the public for review at the
following: the San Diego County Water
Authority offices at 4677 Overland
Avenue, San Diego, CA 92123; the
Lakeside Public Library, 9839 Vine
Street, Lakeside, CA 92040; and the
Valley Center Public Library, 29200
Cole Grade Road, Valley Center, CA
92082. A CD copy of the document may
be obtained by contacting Ms. Kelley
Gage at the San Diego County Water
Authority at the address above, or by emailing Ms. Gage at kgage@sdcwa.org. A
copy of the Final EIR/EIS is also
available online at the Water Authority’s
Web site: https://www.sdcwa.org/.
Interested parties are invited to provide
their comments on the Final EIR/EIS,
which will become a part of the official
record and will be considered in the
final decision. Written comments must
be received on or before May 19, 2008
and should be submitted to the contact
listed above. A Record of Decision
(ROD) will be issued by the Corps no
earlier than 30 days after the Notice of
Receipt for the Final EIR/EIS is
published in the Federal Register.
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of carryover storage at San Vicente and
50,000 acre-feet of carryover storage at
Moosa Canyon) and the No Action
Alternative, as required by NEPA. As
the project proponent and applicant, the
Water Authority selected Alternative 1
as its preferred alternative. The
proposed CSP requires authorization
pursuant to section 404 of the Clean
Water Act for approximately 0.34 acre of
fill placement in jurisdictional waters of
the United States, including wetlands,
to construct an expansion of the existing
San Vicente Dam to store approximately
100,000 acre-feet of carryover storage
water.
Dated: April 8, 2008.
Mark Durham,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Branch.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Navy
Notice of Availability of Finding
Department of the Navy, DoD.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(C)
of the National Environmental Policy
Act (NEPA) of 1969 and the Council on
Environmental Quality regulations (40
CFR parts 1500–1508), implementing
procedural provisions of NEPA, and
Executive Order (EO) 12114,
Environmental Effects Abroad of Major
Federal Actions, the Department of the
Navy (DON) gives notice that a
combined Finding of No Significant
Impact (FONSI)/Finding of No
Significant Harm (FONSH) has been
issued and is available for Carrier Strike
Group Composite Training Unit
Exercise (CSG COMPTUEX) April/May
2008.
The effective date of the finding
is April 14, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Electronic copies of the
combined FONSI/FONSH are available
for public viewing or downloading at
https://www.navydocuments.com.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Commander, Second Fleet Public
Affairs, Commander Phillips, telephone:
757–443–9822 or visit https://
www.navydocuments.com.
DATES:
CSG
COMPTUEX (April–May 2008) is a
major Navy Atlantic Fleet training
exercise proposed to occur in April and
May 2008 in the offshore Jacksonville
Operating Area (OPAREA) and adjacent
military installations. The purpose of
this exercise is to certify naval forces as
combat-ready. Activities conducted
during the exercise include air-toground (ATG) bombing at land ranges,
Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR),
Maritime Interdiction Operations (MIO),
Naval Gunfire, Fast Attack Craft/Fast
Inshore Attack Craft (FAC/FIAC), and
Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW),
including use of mid-frequency active
(MFA) sonar.
The FONSI is based on analysis
contained in a Comprehensive
Environmental Assessment (EA)
addressing environmental impacts
associated with land-based training for
Major Atlantic Fleet Training Exercises
on the East and Gulf Coasts of the U.S.
The FONSH is based on analysis
contained in a Comprehensive Overseas
Environmental Assessment (OEA) and
Supplement to the Comprehensive OEA
(SOEA) for environmental impacts
associated with Navy’s conduct of major
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army; Corps of Engineers
Availability of the Draft Feasibility Report and Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement and Draft State Environmental Impact
Report for the Boston Harbor Deep Draft Navigation Improvement Project
AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, DOD.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District in
partnership with the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) has
prepared a joint Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement and
State Draft Environmental Impact Report (DSEIS/DEIR) examining
improvements to deep-draft navigation channels in Boston Harbor,
Boston, MA. Four separate improvements were developed. The first
examined deepening the outer and lower harbor's existing 40-foot
channel system to provide deeper access to Massport's Conley Terminal
in South Boston for containership traffic. All depths are referenced to
minus mean lower low water (MLLW). Navigation channel depths of between
45 to 50 feet were examined, with a depth of 48 feet recommended, with
an additional two feet in the entrance channel. Under this plan the
following project features would be improved: the 40-foot lane of the
Broad Sound North Entrance Channel would be deepened to 50 feet and
widened through the bend at Finn's Ledge. The 40-foot lane of the Main
Ship Channel from the Broad Sound North Entrance Channel upstream
through President Roads to the Reserved Channel would be deepened to 48
feet and its 600-foot-wide reaches widened to between 800 and 900 feet,
with additional width in the bends. The 40-foot lower reach of Reserved
Channel and its turning area would be deepened to 48 feet, with the
turning area also widened to 1600 feet. The 40-foot President Roads
Anchorage would be deepened to 48 feet. The second improvement would
deepen the existing 40-foot lane of the Main Ship Channel from the
Reserved Channel Turning Area upstream to just below the Third Harbor
Tunnel to a depth of 45 feet, to improve access to the Massport Marine
Terminal in South Boston. The third improvement would deepen a portion
of the 35-foot Mystic River Channel lane to 40 feet to improve access
to Massport's Medford Street Terminal. The fourth and final improvement
would deepen the 38-foot Chelsea River Channel to 40 feet, with minor
widening in the bridge approaches and the bend between the bridges. In
conjunction with work in the Federal channels, the Massachusetts Port
Authority would deepen vessel berths at the Conley Terminal and Marine
Terminal. Terminals on the Chelsea River would also deepen their berths
to match the new channel depth. A total of about 12.1 million cubic
yards (cy) of parent material, and 1.2 million cy of rock, would be
removed by dredging and placed at the Massachusetts Bay Disposal Site
(MBDS). Beneficial use opportunities for the dredged material have been
identified and would be considered further during final design of the
project. Those beneficial use opportunities include: creation of rock
reefs in Massachusetts Bay and Broad Sound, and using the non-rock
material as cover at the former Industrial Waste Site, which overlaps
the MBDS. This joint Federal and State document builds on the lessons
learned from the final EIR/S prepared in June of 1995 for the previous
navigation improvement project in Boston Harbor.
DATES: Submit comments on or before June 2, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be submitted to Colonel Curtis L. Thalken,
District Engineer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District,
696 Virginia Road, Concord, MA 01742.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Catherine Rogers, (978) 318-8231.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is
authorized to conduct this Feasibility Study by a Senate Subcommittee
on Public Works Resolution dated September 11, 1969.
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The DSEIS/DEIR is available on-line on the New England District's
Web page at https://www.nae.usace.army.mil/projects/ma/BHNIP/
BostonHarbor_draft_FeasibilitySEIS.zip and at the following local
libraries: Boston Libraries--25 Parameter Street, 20 City Hall Avenue,
18 Barnes Avenue, 666 Boylston Street, Boston City Hall, 179 Main
Street, 646 West Broadway, 276 Meridan Street; Chelsea Library--569
Broadway; Revere Library--179 Beach Street; and the Winthrop Library--2
Metcalf Square. If you wish to receive a copy of the Executive Summary
or an electronic copy of the DSEIS/DEIR, please contact Ms. Catherine
Rogers, Ecologist, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District,
Evaluation Branch, 696 Virginia Road, Concord, MA 01742.
A public meeting to solicit comments has been scheduled for 1 p.m.
on Tuesday, May 20, 2008, on the second floor of the Black Falcon
Cruise Terminal, One Black Falcon Avenue, Boston, MA.
Dated: April 8, 2008.
Curtis L. Thalken,
Colonel, Corps of Engineers, New England District.
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