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[FR Doc No: 94-23399]


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[Federal Register: September 22, 1994]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Corps of Engineers

 

Intent To Prepare a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) 
for the Proposed Buckhorn Reservoir Expansion Project in Wilson County, 
NC

AGENCY: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District, DOD.

ACTION: Notice of Intent.

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SUMMARY: The city of Wilson, North Carolina, has made application for a 
Clean Water Act, Department of the Army Section 404 permit, to 
discharge fill material for the construction of a dam to impound water 
on Contentnea Creek, Wilson County, North Carolina. The proposed dam 
would be located immediately downstream of the existing Buckhorn 
Reservoir dam and would inundate the existing reservoir site. The 
existing reservoir is no longer adequate to meet the water supply needs 
of the city of Wilson. The proposed reservoir would meet the projected 
water supply needs of the city for the next 50 years.

addresses: Wilmington District, Corps of Engineers, Environmental 
Resources Branch, P.O. Box 1890, Wilmington, North Carolina 28402-1890.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. William F. Adams, Environmental 
Resources Branch, (910) 251-4748 or Mr. David Franklin, Regulatory 
Branch, (910) 251-4952.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Construction of the proposed dam and 
reservoir requires a Clean Water Act, Department of the Army Section 
404 permit, from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
    1. The proposed dam and reservoir would expand the existing 
municipal water supply reservoir. The proposed reservoir would inundate 
a total of 2,303 acres, including the existing 740-acre Buckhorn Water 
Supply Reservoir, with a normal pool at elevation 148 feet mean sea 
level, and provide a 29.0-million gallons per day safe yield of raw 
water for the city water supply.
    2. The DEIS is being prepared in accordance with the requirements 
of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended, and will 
address the project's relationship to all other applicable Federal and 
State laws and Executive Orders. The DEIS will contain no designation 
of an alternative preferred by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The 
decision on the Department of the Army section 404 permit application 
will be made with full consideration of the public interest after the 
comment period on the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) and 
the Section 404 public notice has concluded.
    3. The scoping process has consisted of an interagency scoping 
meeting on November 6, 1990, to allow opportunity for agencies to 
identify issues, studies needed, and alternatives to be addressed. In 
addition, a Draft Environmental Assessment was sent to Federal and 
State agencies for review and comment on August 8, 1991.
    4. The significant issues that will be addressed in the DEIS are 
the impacts of the proposed project on wetlands, fish and wildlife 
habitat, endangered species, and the social and economic 
considerations.
    5. Fourteen alternatives to the proposed action are being evaluated 
including the no action alternative.
    6. The DEIS is currently scheduled for distribution to the public 
in November 1994 and the FEIS is scheduled for distribution in June 
1995.
Kenneth L. Denton,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 94-23399 Filed 9-21-94; 8:45am]
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