[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 67 (Friday, April 5, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15226-15227]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-8390]



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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Availability of Draft Master Plan and Supplement to the 
Environmental Impact Statement for the Lake Seminole Hydrilla Action 
Plan, Florida-Georgia-Alabama

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

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The Mobile District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has 
completed a draft report disclosing the environmental, engineering, and 
economic aspects of numerous hydrilla management options for Lake 
Seminole, Florida-Georgia-Alabama. The comment period for this draft 
document ends on May 28, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
For more information on this draft document, please contact Mr. Michael 
J. Eubanks, U.S. Army Engineer District, Mobile, ATTN: CESAM-PD-EI, 
P.O. Box 2288, Mobile, AL 36628-0001, (telephone (334) 694-3861 or 1-
800-421-7637).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Hydrilla, a non-native submersed aquatic 
plant, is causing significant water resource use problems on Lake 
Seminole, a 37,500 acre Corps reservoir. Hydrilla increased from 1 acre 
in 1967 to a maximum of 24,000 in 1992. The current (1995) acreage has 
been reduced to 18,200 acres as a result of repeated herbicidal 
treatments and significant flooding during 1994. Numerous hydrilla 
management options have been used in the past on Lake Seminole, with 
herbicidal applications having been the most effective technique 
demonstrated to date. Alternatives discussed in this evaluation 
include: no action (no hydrilla control); mechanical control 
(harvesters); biological control with insects or plant pathogens; 
sterile grass carp (confined and unconfined options); lake drawdown; 
traditional herbicide program; herbicide drip delivery system; and, 
combinations of these alternatives (integrated hydrilla management). An 
integrated hydrilla management alternative, with components from the 
confined grass carp, herbicide drip delivery system, and a reduced 
traditional herbicide program is the draft recommended plan. The 
average annual cost for this plan is $566,546; is economically 
justified based on recreation benefits; and results in control of 
hydrilla at the priority hydrilla management areas and would 
significantly reduce the total hydrilla acreage to from the maximum 
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acreage of 24,000 acres that occurred in 1992, to 14,000 acres.

Gregory D. Showalter,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 96-8390 Filed 4-4-96; 8:45 am]
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