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certificates? Should foreign
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certificate?
IV. Details Regarding the Workshop
The workshop will be held from 9:30
a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday, December
10, 2009, and Friday, December 11,
2009 at the CPSC’s headquarters
building at 4330 East West Highway,
Bethesda, Maryland 20814, in the 4th
Floor Hearing Room.
The workshop will open with a
review of CPSC staff’s current work on
sections 14(a) and 14(d)(2) of the CPSA,
including a discussion of the factors
involved in sampling and an overview
of the economic issues, followed by
break-out sessions on the following
subjects:
• The Consumer Product Labeling
Program;
• Reasonable Testing Programs;
• Sampling Plans;
• Safeguarding Against Undue
Influence on Product Testing;
• Additional Third-Party Testing
Requirements for Children’s Products;
and
• Verification of Children’s Product
Testing Results.
The panels at the break-out sessions will
consist of Commission staff and invited
members from the public. If you would
like to make a presentation at the
workshop or be considered as a panel
member for a specific break-out session,
please send, via electronic mail (e-mail),
a note indicating your desire to
participate and/or indicating which of
the break-out sessions you wish to join.
We ask that you limit the number of
break-out sessions to no more than
three. We will select panelists and
persons who will make presentations at
the workshop, based on considerations
such as: The individual’s familiarity or
expertise with the topic to be discussed;
the practical utility of the information to
be presented (such as a discussion of
specific standards, methods, or other
regulatory approaches), and the
individual’s viewpoint or ability to
represent certain interests (such as large
manufacturers, small manufacturers,
consumer organizations, etc.). The email should be sent to Robert Howell at
rhowell@cpsc.gov no later than
November 20, 2009. In addition, please
inform Mr. Howell of any special
equipment needs required to make a
presentation. While an effort will be
made to accommodate all persons who
wish to make a presentation, the time
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speak on a given topic and the
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that individuals and organizations with
common interests consolidate or
coordinate their presentations and
request time for a joint presentation. If
you wish to make a presentation and
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presentation or other handouts
available, you should bring copies to the
workshop. We will notify those who are
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at least 3 weeks before the workshop.
Selections will be made in attempt to
ensure that a wide variety of interests
are represented.
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the CPSC, but please be aware that
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If you need special accommodations
because of disability, please contact Mr.
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workshop.
In addition, we encourage written or
electronic comments to the docket.
Written or electronic comments will be
accepted until January 11, 2010. Please
note that all comments should be
restricted to how the CPSC should
interpret and implement the
requirements found in sections 14(a)
and 14(d)(2) of the CPSA so as to
promote increased product safety while
minimizing possible adverse impacts or
unintentional consequences of the
implementing regulations to be
developed.
Dated: November 9, 2009.
Todd A. Stevenson,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army; Corps of
Engineers
Intent To Prepare an Environmental
Impact Statement for the Proposed
Construction of Lower Bois d’Arc
Creek Reservoir in Fannin County, TX
AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S.
Corps of Engineers, DoD.
ACTION: Notice of Intent.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Tulsa District (USACE) has
received an application for a
Department of the Army Permit under
Section 404 of the Clean Water Act
(CWA) from the North Texas Municipal
Water District (NTMWD) to construct
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Lower Bois d’Arc Creek Reservoir. In
accordance with the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of
1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), the
USACE has determined that issuance of
such a permit may have a significant
impact on the quality of the human
environment and, therefore, requires the
preparation of an Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS).
The USACE intends to prepare an EIS
to assess the direct, indirect, and
cumulative environmental, social, and
economic effects of issuance of a
Department of the Army permit under
Section 404 of the CWA for discharges
of dredged and fill material into waters
of the United States (U.S.) associated
with the construction of the proposed
water supply reservoir. In the EIS, the
USACE will assess potential impacts
associated with a range of alternatives.
The preparation of an EIS begins with
a scoping process to determine the
issues to be addressed in the EIS.
The NTMWD provides wholesale
treated water supply, wastewater
treatment, and regional solid waste
services to 45 member cities and
customers in a service area covering all
or parts of Collin, Dallas, Denton,
Fannin, Hunt, Kaufman, Rains, and
Rockwall Counties in north central
Texas. The Lower Bois d’Arc Creek
Reservoir, if constructed, would be a
non-federal project constructed, owned
and operated by NTMWD.
DATES: A Public Scoping Meeting will
be held December 8, 2009, from 3 p.m.
to 8 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The Public Scoping Meeting
location is Fannin County MultiPurpose Complex, 700 FM 87, Bonham,
Texas 75418, approximately 1.5 miles
west of Bonham off Highway 56.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information or questions about
the proposed action and EIS, please
contact Mr. Andrew R. Commer,
Supervisory Regulatory Project
Manager, by letter at Regulatory Office,
CESWT–RO, U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, 1645 South 101st East
Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74128–4609;
by telephone at 918–669–7400; by
electronic mail
Andrew.Commer@usace.army.mil. For
special needs (visual or hearing
impaired, Spanish translator, etc.)
requests during scoping meetings,
please contact Andrew Commer by
November 24, 2009.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
1. Description of Proposed Project:
The proposed reservoir dam would be
located in Bois d’Arc Creek, in the Red
River watershed, approximately 15
miles northeast of the town of Bonham,
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between Farm-to-Market (FM) Road
1396 and FM Road 409, in Fannin
County, TX. The proposed project site
consists of 17,068 acres. Approximately
38 percent of the project site is
cropland, 37 percent is bottomland
hardwoods and riparian woodlands.
The remaining 25 percent is mostly
upland deciduous forest.
The purpose of the proposed project
is to impound the waters of Bois d’Arc
Creek and its tributaries to create a new
16,641 acre water supply reservoir for
NTMWD. Approximately 427 acres
would be required for the construction
of the dam and spillways. NTMWD has
requested the right to impound up to
367,609 acre-feet of water, to produce an
estimated firm yield of 126,200 acre-feet
of water per year. State population
projections show the NTMWD service
population to increase from 1.6 million
to 3.3 million by 2060. The Lower Bois
d’Arc Creek Reservoir would provide a
new water supply to help meet this
increasing demand.
Lower Bois d’Arc Creek Reservoir
Dam would be about 10,400 feet in
length and would have a maximum
height of about 90 feet. The design top
elevation of the embankment would be
553.5′ msl with a conservation pool
elevation of 534.0′ msl controlled by a
service spillway at elevation 534.0′ msl
with a crest length of 150 feet. The
service spillway would be located at the
right (east) abutment of the dam.
Required low-flow releases would be
made through a 36-inch diameter lowflow outlet. An emergency spillway
would also be located in the right
abutment of the dam. The emergency
spillway would be a 1,400-foot wide
uncontrolled broad crested weir
structure with a crest elevation of 541′
msl. This elevation was selected to
contain the 100-year storm such that no
flow passes through the emergency
spillway during this event.
Raw water from the reservoir would
be transported by 29 miles of 90-inch
pipeline to a proposed water treatment
plant near the City of Leonard in
southwest Fannin County. To allow the
NTMWD the ability to treat water from
Lower Bois d’Arc Creek Reservoir at its
existing facilities in Wylie, TX, 14 miles
of 66-inch pipeline would also extend
from the water treatment plant to an
outfall on Pilot Grove Creek, a tributary
of the East Fork of the Trinity River, to
deliver raw water to Lake Lavon, in the
Trinity River basin.
Construction of the dam and
impoundment of the water within the
normal pool elevation of 534′ msl would
result in direct fill impact or inundation
of approximately 120 acres of perennial
streams, 99 acres of intermittent
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streams, 87 acres of open water, 4,602
acres of forested wetlands, 1,223 acres
of herbaceous wetlands, and 49 acres of
shrub wetlands.
2. Alternatives: Alternatives available
to the USACE are to: (1) Issue the
Department of the Army permit; (2)
issue the Department of the Army
permit with special conditions; or (3)
deny the Department of the Army
permit. Alternatives available to
NTMWD include: (1) Construct Lower
Bios d’Arc Creek Reservoir as proposed;
(2) construct Lower Bois d’Arc Creek
Reservoir as proposed by NTMWD, with
modifications; (3) developing or
acquiring other water supply sources; or
(4) no action. As part of the EIS process,
a full range of reasonable alternatives,
including the applicant’s preferred
alternative, will be evaluated.
3. Scoping and Public Involvement: A
public notice for the Section 404 CWA
permit application was issued on the
proposal on October 14, 2008 soliciting
comments from federal, state, and local
agencies and officials, interested
individuals and the general public. The
30-day comment period was extended
by 30 days until December 12, 2008 to
afford ample opportunity for public and
agency comment on this project. A
public Scoping Meeting will be held
regarding the proposed action to seek
public comments on the proposed
project and its potential effects to the
human environment (See DATES AND
ADDRESSES). The USACE will be
conducting the public scoping meeting
to describe the project, preliminary
alternatives, the NEPA compliance
process, and to solicit input on the
issues and alternatives to be evaluated
and other related matters. Written
comments for scoping will be accepted
until January 9, 2010.
4. Significant Issues: Issues to be
given analysis in the EIS are likely to
include, but will not be limited to: The
effects of the lake on the immediate and
adjacent property owners, nearby
communities, downstream hydraulics
and hydrology, wetlands, surface water
quality and quantity, groundwater
quality and quantity, geological
resources, vegetation, fish and wildlife,
federally-listed threatened and
endangered species, soils, prime
farmland, noise, light, aesthetics,
historic and pre-historic cultural
resources, socioeconomics, land use,
public lands, public roads, air quality,
and the effects of construction of related
facilities.
5. Cooperating Agencies: The USACE
has invited the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service,
Texas Commission on Environmental
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Quality, Texas Parks and Wildlife
Department, Texas Historical
Commission, and Texas Water
Development Board to be Cooperating
Agencies (CA) in the formulation of the
EIS. No decisions have been made on
CA status at this time. Regardless of
final CA status decisions, these
agencies, as well as other federal, tribal,
state, and local governmental entities
are expected to be involved in the
review and comment of the Draft EIS.
6. Additional Review and
Consultation: Compliance with other
Federal and State requirements that will
be addressed in the EIS include, but are
not limited to, state water quality
certification under Section 401 of the
CWA, protection of water quality under
the Texas Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System, protection of air
quality under the Texas Air Quality Act,
protection of endangered and threatened
species under Section 7 of the
Endangered Species Act, and protection
of cultural resources under Section 106
of the National Historic Preservation
Act.
7. Availability of Draft EIS: The Draft
EIS is projected to be available by
September 2010. There will be a public
comment cycle (a public meeting(s) and
opportunity for public hearing)
following the release of the Draft EIS.
David A. Manning,
Chief, Regulatory Office.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army
Record of Decision for Stationing and
Training of Increased Aviation Assets
Within U.S. Army Alaska
Department of the Army, DoD.
Notice of Availability (NOA).
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: The Department of the Army
announces the availability of its Record
of Decision (ROD) that documents and
summarizes the decision for
implementing actions to increase
numbers and types of aviation assets
and training within U.S. Army Alaska
(USARAK). The decision is based on the
analysis described in the Final
Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS)
for Stationing and Training of Increased
Aviation Assets within U.S. Army
Alaska (August 2009), supporting
studies, and comments provided during
formal comment and review periods.
ADDRESSES: Requests for copies of the
Army’s ROD may be made to Ms. Carrie
McEnteer, Directorate of Public Works,
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army; Corps of Engineers
Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the
Proposed Construction of Lower Bois d'Arc Creek Reservoir in Fannin
County, TX
AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. Corps of Engineers, DoD.
ACTION: Notice of Intent.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District (USACE) has
received an application for a Department of the Army Permit under
Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA) from the North Texas Municipal
Water District (NTMWD) to construct Lower Bois d'Arc Creek Reservoir.
In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969
(42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), the USACE has determined that issuance of
such a permit may have a significant impact on the quality of the human
environment and, therefore, requires the preparation of an
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
The USACE intends to prepare an EIS to assess the direct, indirect,
and cumulative environmental, social, and economic effects of issuance
of a Department of the Army permit under Section 404 of the CWA for
discharges of dredged and fill material into waters of the United
States (U.S.) associated with the construction of the proposed water
supply reservoir. In the EIS, the USACE will assess potential impacts
associated with a range of alternatives. The preparation of an EIS
begins with a scoping process to determine the issues to be addressed
in the EIS.
The NTMWD provides wholesale treated water supply, wastewater
treatment, and regional solid waste services to 45 member cities and
customers in a service area covering all or parts of Collin, Dallas,
Denton, Fannin, Hunt, Kaufman, Rains, and Rockwall Counties in north
central Texas. The Lower Bois d'Arc Creek Reservoir, if constructed,
would be a non-federal project constructed, owned and operated by
NTMWD.
DATES: A Public Scoping Meeting will be held December 8, 2009, from 3
p.m. to 8 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The Public Scoping Meeting location is Fannin County Multi-
Purpose Complex, 700 FM 87, Bonham, Texas 75418, approximately 1.5
miles west of Bonham off Highway 56.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information or questions
about the proposed action and EIS, please contact Mr. Andrew R. Commer,
Supervisory Regulatory Project Manager, by letter at Regulatory Office,
CESWT-RO, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1645 South 101st East Avenue,
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74128-4609; by telephone at 918-669-7400; by electronic
mail Andrew.Commer@usace.army.mil. For special needs (visual or hearing
impaired, Spanish translator, etc.) requests during scoping meetings,
please contact Andrew Commer by November 24, 2009.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
1. Description of Proposed Project: The proposed reservoir dam
would be located in Bois d'Arc Creek, in the Red River watershed,
approximately 15 miles northeast of the town of Bonham,
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between Farm-to-Market (FM) Road 1396 and FM Road 409, in Fannin
County, TX. The proposed project site consists of 17,068 acres.
Approximately 38 percent of the project site is cropland, 37 percent is
bottomland hardwoods and riparian woodlands. The remaining 25 percent
is mostly upland deciduous forest.
The purpose of the proposed project is to impound the waters of
Bois d'Arc Creek and its tributaries to create a new 16,641 acre water
supply reservoir for NTMWD. Approximately 427 acres would be required
for the construction of the dam and spillways. NTMWD has requested the
right to impound up to 367,609 acre-feet of water, to produce an
estimated firm yield of 126,200 acre-feet of water per year. State
population projections show the NTMWD service population to increase
from 1.6 million to 3.3 million by 2060. The Lower Bois d'Arc Creek
Reservoir would provide a new water supply to help meet this increasing
demand.
Lower Bois d'Arc Creek Reservoir Dam would be about 10,400 feet in
length and would have a maximum height of about 90 feet. The design top
elevation of the embankment would be 553.5' msl with a conservation
pool elevation of 534.0' msl controlled by a service spillway at
elevation 534.0' msl with a crest length of 150 feet. The service
spillway would be located at the right (east) abutment of the dam.
Required low-flow releases would be made through a 36-inch diameter
low-flow outlet. An emergency spillway would also be located in the
right abutment of the dam. The emergency spillway would be a 1,400-foot
wide uncontrolled broad crested weir structure with a crest elevation
of 541' msl. This elevation was selected to contain the 100-year storm
such that no flow passes through the emergency spillway during this
event.
Raw water from the reservoir would be transported by 29 miles of
90-inch pipeline to a proposed water treatment plant near the City of
Leonard in southwest Fannin County. To allow the NTMWD the ability to
treat water from Lower Bois d'Arc Creek Reservoir at its existing
facilities in Wylie, TX, 14 miles of 66-inch pipeline would also extend
from the water treatment plant to an outfall on Pilot Grove Creek, a
tributary of the East Fork of the Trinity River, to deliver raw water
to Lake Lavon, in the Trinity River basin.
Construction of the dam and impoundment of the water within the
normal pool elevation of 534' msl would result in direct fill impact or
inundation of approximately 120 acres of perennial streams, 99 acres of
intermittent streams, 87 acres of open water, 4,602 acres of forested
wetlands, 1,223 acres of herbaceous wetlands, and 49 acres of shrub
wetlands.
2. Alternatives: Alternatives available to the USACE are to: (1)
Issue the Department of the Army permit; (2) issue the Department of
the Army permit with special conditions; or (3) deny the Department of
the Army permit. Alternatives available to NTMWD include: (1) Construct
Lower Bios d'Arc Creek Reservoir as proposed; (2) construct Lower Bois
d'Arc Creek Reservoir as proposed by NTMWD, with modifications; (3)
developing or acquiring other water supply sources; or (4) no action.
As part of the EIS process, a full range of reasonable alternatives,
including the applicant's preferred alternative, will be evaluated.
3. Scoping and Public Involvement: A public notice for the Section
404 CWA permit application was issued on the proposal on October 14,
2008 soliciting comments from federal, state, and local agencies and
officials, interested individuals and the general public. The 30-day
comment period was extended by 30 days until December 12, 2008 to
afford ample opportunity for public and agency comment on this project.
A public Scoping Meeting will be held regarding the proposed action to
seek public comments on the proposed project and its potential effects
to the human environment (See DATES AND ADDRESSES). The USACE will be
conducting the public scoping meeting to describe the project,
preliminary alternatives, the NEPA compliance process, and to solicit
input on the issues and alternatives to be evaluated and other related
matters. Written comments for scoping will be accepted until January 9,
2010.
4. Significant Issues: Issues to be given analysis in the EIS are
likely to include, but will not be limited to: The effects of the lake
on the immediate and adjacent property owners, nearby communities,
downstream hydraulics and hydrology, wetlands, surface water quality
and quantity, groundwater quality and quantity, geological resources,
vegetation, fish and wildlife, federally-listed threatened and
endangered species, soils, prime farmland, noise, light, aesthetics,
historic and pre-historic cultural resources, socioeconomics, land use,
public lands, public roads, air quality, and the effects of
construction of related facilities.
5. Cooperating Agencies: The USACE has invited the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S.
Forest Service, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Texas Parks
and Wildlife Department, Texas Historical Commission, and Texas Water
Development Board to be Cooperating Agencies (CA) in the formulation of
the EIS. No decisions have been made on CA status at this time.
Regardless of final CA status decisions, these agencies, as well as
other federal, tribal, state, and local governmental entities are
expected to be involved in the review and comment of the Draft EIS.
6. Additional Review and Consultation: Compliance with other
Federal and State requirements that will be addressed in the EIS
include, but are not limited to, state water quality certification
under Section 401 of the CWA, protection of water quality under the
Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, protection of air quality
under the Texas Air Quality Act, protection of endangered and
threatened species under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act, and
protection of cultural resources under Section 106 of the National
Historic Preservation Act.
7. Availability of Draft EIS: The Draft EIS is projected to be
available by September 2010. There will be a public comment cycle (a
public meeting(s) and opportunity for public hearing) following the
release of the Draft EIS.
David A. Manning,
Chief, Regulatory Office.
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