[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 22 (Thursday, February 1, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8573-8574]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-2777]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers


Intent To Prepare a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) 
for the South Shore, Staten Island, New York, Beach Erosion Control and 
Storm Damage Protection Study: Feasibility Phase

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

ACTION: Notice of Intent.

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SUMMARY: The New York District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is 
preparing a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) to ascertain 
compliance with and to lead to the production of a National 
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) document in accordance with the 
President's Council of Environmental Quality (CEQ) Rules and 
Regulations, as defined and amended in 40 Code Federal Regulations 
(CFR) Parts 1500-1508, Corps' Principals and Guidelines as defined in 
Engineering Regulation (ER) 1105-2-100 and (ER) 1105-1-200 and other 
applicable Federal and State environmental laws for the proposed beach 
erosion control and storm damage protection improvements to the south 
shore of Staten Island, New York.
    The study area includes New York Harbor (Lower Bay), western 
Atlantic Ocean, southern Staten Island shoreline consisting of 
approximately 13 miles of coast in the Borough of Staten Island from 
Ft. Wadsworth to Tottenville.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request additional information, 
please contact Jenine Gallo, Project Biologist at (212) 264-0912, 
Planning Division, Corps of Engineers, New York District, 26 Federal 
Plaza, New York, New York 10278-0090.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This study is authorized by a resolution of 
the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Public Works and 
Transportation and adopted May 13, 1993 which reads:
    ``The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, 
is requested to review the report of the Chief of Engineers on the 
Staten Island Coast from Fort Wadsworth to Arthur Kill, New York, 
published as House Document 181, Eighty-ninth Congress, First Session, 
and other pertinent reports, to determine whether modifications of the 
recommendations contained therein are advisable at the present time, in 
the interest of beach erosion control and storm damage reduction and 
related purposes on the South Shore of Staten Island, New York,

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particularly in and adjacent to the communities of New Dorp Beach, 
Oakwood Beach and Annandale Beach, New York.
    1. Description of the Previously Authorized Project: The Federal 
project authorized in House Document 181, 89th Congress (October 27, 
1965), 1st Session provided combined shore and hurricane protection 
between Ft. Wadsworth and Tottenville Beach; shore protection at Great 
Kills Park and between Arbutus Lake and Sequine Point. The recommended 
protective works included beach fill with dunes, groins, levees, 
floodwalls, interior drainage facilities including pumping stations and 
relocations. The authorized project was not constructed due to a lack 
of non-Federal support. The current study is based upon renewed local 
interest expressed by the New York State Department of Environmental 
Conservation and the New York City Department of Environmental 
Protection.
    2. Two types of environmental analysis will be conducted; impacts 
associated with structural and non-structural storm damage reduction 
improvements and non-structural shore protection improvements, 
including sand borrow area investigations and analyses required for 
mitigation planning purposes.
    3. Public scoping meeting(s) are expected to be scheduled in April 
2001. Meeting(s) will be held in Staten Island at locations not yet 
determined. Results from the public scoping meeting(s) with the 
District and Federal, state and local agency coordination will be 
addressed in the DEIS. Parties interested in receiving notices of 
public scoping meeting(s) or copies of the Scoping Document should 
contact Jenine Gallo at the above address.
    4. Federal agencies interested in participating as a Cooperating 
Agency are requested to submit a letter of intent to Colonel William H. 
Pearce, District Engineer at the above address.
    5. Estimated Date of DEIS availability: December 2003.

Frank Santomauro,
Chief, Planning Division.
[FR Doc. 01-2777 Filed 1-31-01; 8:45 am]
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