Notice of Availability of The Great Lakes and Mississippi River Interbasin Study-Brandon Road Draft Integrated Feasibility Study and Environmental Impact Statement-Will County, Illinois, 45008 [2017-20680]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army, Corps of
Engineers
Notice of Availability of The Great
Lakes and Mississippi River Interbasin
Study—Brandon Road Draft Integrated
Feasibility Study and Environmental
Impact Statement—Will County, Illinois
Department of the Army, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.
ACTION: Extension of public comment
period.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers (USACE) is extending the
comment period for the report ‘‘The
Great Lakes and Mississippi River
Interbasin Study—Brandon Road Draft
Integrated Feasibility Study and
Environmental Impact Statement—Will
County, Illinois’’ (GLMRIS-Brandon
Road) for 45 days in response to
stakeholder requests for an extension,
from October 2, 2017 to November 16,
2017.
DATES: The comment period is extended
for the draft GLMRIS-Brandon Road
report published in the Federal Register
on August 7, 2017 (82 FR 36760).
Comments must be received or
postmarked by November 16, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be
submitted in the following ways:
GLMRIS Project Web site: Use the
Web comment function found at https://
glmris.anl.gov.
Mail: Send comments to U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, Chicago District,
ATTN: GLMRIS-Brandon Road
Comments, 231 S. LaSalle St., Suite
1500, Chicago, IL 60604.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Contact Andrew Leichty, Program
Manager, by mail: U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Rock Island District, Clock
Tower Building (ATTN: Leichty), P.O.
Box 2004, Rock Island, IL 61204–2004,
by phone: 309–794–5399; or by email:
Andrew.L.Leichty@usace.army.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
GLMRIS authority directed USACE to
identify the range of options and
technologies available to prevent the
spread of aquatic nuisance species
between the Great Lakes and
Mississippi River Basins through the
Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal and
other aquatic pathways. The goal of the
GLMRIS-Brandon Road Study is to
prevent the upstream transfer of aquatic
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nuisance species while minimizing
impacts to existing waterways uses and
users.
Comments, including the names and
addresses of those who comment,
received during the comment period
will be posted on the GLMRIS project
Web site. Comments submitted
anonymously will be accepted,
considered, and posted. Commenters
may indicate that they do not wish to
have their name or other personal
information made available on the Web
site. However, USACE cannot guarantee
that information withheld from the Web
site will be maintained as confidential.
Persons requesting confidentiality
should be aware that, under the
Freedom of Information Act,
confidentiality may be granted in only
limited circumstances.
Dated: September 18, 2017.
Dennis W. Hamilton,
Chief, Programs and Project Management
Division.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army, Corps of
Engineers
Record of Decision for Final
Supplement I to the Final
Environmental Statement, Mississippi
River Between the Ohio and Missouri
Rivers (Regulating Works), Missouri
and Illinois
Department of the Army, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Record of Decision.
The U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers (USACE), St. Louis District, is
issuing this notice to advise Federal,
state, and local government agencies,
affected Tribes, and the public that
USACE has signed a Record of Decision
(ROD) for Final Supplement I to the
Final Environmental Statement,
Mississippi River between the Ohio and
Missouri Rivers (Regulating Works). The
ROD was rendered to declare that, after
careful consideration of the purpose of
and need for the Regulating Works
Project, the analysis contained in Final
Supplement I, input from the public,
affected Tribes, state and Federal
agencies, and other interested parties,
and based on the Regulating Works
Project’s Congressional authority and
continued benefit of remaining
construction, USACE has determined
that the public interest will best be
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Construction Alternative (hereafter, the
Selected Plan).
DATES: The USACE Mississippi Valley
Division Commander, Major General
Michael C. Wehr, signed the ROD on
August 31, 2017.
ADDRESSES: U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Regional Planning and
Environmental Division North, CEMVP–
PD–P (Attn: Mr. Kip Runyon), 1222
Spruce St., St. Louis, MO 63103–2833.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kip
Runyon, Environmental Planner,
Regional Planning and Environmental
Division North, at 314–331–8396 or by
email at RegWorksSEIS@
usace.army.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: USACE is
charged with obtaining and maintaining
a navigation channel on the Middle
Mississippi River (MMR) that is nine
feet deep and 300 feet wide with
additional width in bends as necessary
(commonly called the Regulating Works
Project). As authorized by Congress, the
Regulating Works Project is obtained by
construction of revetment, rock removal,
and river training structures to maintain
bank stability and ensure adequate,
reliable navigation depth and width.
The Regulating Works Project is
maintained through dredging and any
needed maintenance to constructed
features. The long-term goal of the
Regulating Works Project, as authorized
by Congress, is to obtain and maintain
a navigation channel at the authorized
dimensions and to reduce federal
expenditures by alleviating the amount
of annual maintenance dredging
through the construction of river
training structures. The Selected Plan
consists of continuing with construction
of new river training structures and
revetment for navigation purposes until
such time as the costs of placing more
structures, including costs for any
mitigation, are no longer justified by the
resultant reduction in repetitive
dredging quantities and associated
costs. The Selected Plan also involves
continuing to dredge as necessary,
completing known bankline
stabilization work to reduce the risk of
a channel cutoff, placing additional
revetment, and continuing to maintain
existing structures.
The remaining construction
associated with the Selected Plan is
currently estimated from programmatic
analysis to require approximately 4.4
million tons (2.9 million cubic yards) of
rock. Dredge quantities are expected to
decrease from their current average
annual quantity of approximately 4
million cubic yards to approximately
2.4 million cubic yards after
construction of new river training
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers
Notice of Availability of The Great Lakes and Mississippi River
Interbasin Study--Brandon Road Draft Integrated Feasibility Study and
Environmental Impact Statement--Will County, Illinois
AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.
ACTION: Extension of public comment period.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is extending the
comment period for the report ``The Great Lakes and Mississippi River
Interbasin Study--Brandon Road Draft Integrated Feasibility Study and
Environmental Impact Statement--Will County, Illinois'' (GLMRIS-Brandon
Road) for 45 days in response to stakeholder requests for an extension,
from October 2, 2017 to November 16, 2017.
DATES: The comment period is extended for the draft GLMRIS-Brandon Road
report published in the Federal Register on August 7, 2017 (82 FR
36760). Comments must be received or postmarked by November 16, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be submitted in the following ways:
GLMRIS Project Web site: Use the Web comment function found at
https://glmris.anl.gov.
Mail: Send comments to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chicago
District, ATTN: GLMRIS-Brandon Road Comments, 231 S. LaSalle St., Suite
1500, Chicago, IL 60604.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Contact Andrew Leichty, Program
Manager, by mail: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District,
Clock Tower Building (ATTN: Leichty), P.O. Box 2004, Rock Island, IL
61204-2004, by phone: 309-794-5399; or by email:
Andrew.L.Leichty@usace.army.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The GLMRIS authority directed USACE to
identify the range of options and technologies available to prevent the
spread of aquatic nuisance species between the Great Lakes and
Mississippi River Basins through the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
and other aquatic pathways. The goal of the GLMRIS-Brandon Road Study
is to prevent the upstream transfer of aquatic nuisance species while
minimizing impacts to existing waterways uses and users.
Comments, including the names and addresses of those who comment,
received during the comment period will be posted on the GLMRIS project
Web site. Comments submitted anonymously will be accepted, considered,
and posted. Commenters may indicate that they do not wish to have their
name or other personal information made available on the Web site.
However, USACE cannot guarantee that information withheld from the Web
site will be maintained as confidential. Persons requesting
confidentiality should be aware that, under the Freedom of Information
Act, confidentiality may be granted in only limited circumstances.
Dated: September 18, 2017.
Dennis W. Hamilton,
Chief, Programs and Project Management Division.
[FR Doc. 2017-20680 Filed 9-26-17; 8:45 am]
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