[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 109 (Wednesday, June 5, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 28568]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-14080]



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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Intent To Prepare a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact 
Statement for the Green Brook Flood Control Project Located in the 
Green Brook Sub-Basin of the Raritan River Basin, Middlesex, Somerset 
and Union Counties, NJ

agency: Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, DOD.

action: Notice.

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summary: A final impact statement was completed for this project and 
filed in 1981. This supplemental is being prepared to update 
environmental information and present new potentially significant 
impacts for review and comment.

for further information contact: Mr. William Richardson, New York 
District, Army Corps of Engineers, Att: CENAN-PL-ES, 26 Federal Plaza, 
New York, N.Y. 10278-0090 (212) 264-1275.

summary information: The Green Brook Flood Control Project was created 
in response to resolutions of the United States Senate Public Works 
Committee resolutions adopted September 14, 1955 and July 10, 1972 
published as H.D. No. 53, 71st Congress. The original notice of intent 
to prepare an environmental impact statement was published on April 6, 
1979 and notice of the final statement was published on June 12, 1981.
    The project will provide flood protection to the Green Brook sub-
basin to the Raritan River basin. The project area is located in the 
Counties of Middlesex, Somerset and Union, New Jersey. The protection 
will consist of a combination of levees, flood walls, channel 
modification, ponding areas (both excavated and natural) dry detention 
basins and non-structural flood proofing measures.
    The supplemental impact statement will assess potential impacts 
from the implementation of the New York District Corps of Engineers 
recommended flood control plan. The District will develop a Draft 
General Re-evaluation Report for the project that will be available in 
June 1996.
    This notice initiates scoping for this final study stage of this 
project. Information is requested for environmental concerns which may 
now exist in the project area and were not discussed in the original 
NEPA documentation. It is anticipated that public meetings will be on 
going throughout the re-evaluation process. There will be additional 
information presented to the public through the Green Brook Flood 
Control Commission. Agencies and the public are invited to present 
their environmental concerns to the New York District, Army Corps of 
Engineers directly.
    This supplemental impact statement will discuss the impacts of the 
recommended plan on wildlife habitat, aquatic resources and wetlands, 
mitigation for wetland impacts, cultural resource information, the 
impact of HTRW studies on the project, as well as any new issues which 
may arise as a result of this process.
    The need for scoping meetings specifically related to this process 
will be evaluated based on agency/public response to this notice and 
follow-up mailings.
    Estimated date of statement availability: June 1996.

    Dated: May 9, 1996.
Stuart Piken,
Chief, Planning Division.
[FR Doc. 96-14080 Filed 6-4-96; 8:45 am]
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