[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 147 (Tuesday, July 31, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 39499]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-18939]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers


Notice of Availability of Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact 
Statement for the Nationwide Permit Program

AGENCY: Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: In the March 22, 1999, issue of the Federal Register (64 FR 
13782) the Corps of Engineers (Corps) announced that it would prepare a 
programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) for the Corps 
Nationwide Permit (NWP) program. The overall purpose of the PEIS is to 
review and evaluate the NWP program as a whole to ensure that the NWP 
program authorizes only activities with minimal individual and 
cumulative adverse effects on the aquatic environment. The draft PEIS 
was prepared by the Corps' Institute for Water Resources (IWR).

DATES: Comments on the draft PEIS must be received by September 14, 
2001.

ADDRESSES: Mail comments to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Institute 
for Water Resources, CEIWR-PD, 7701 Telegraph Road, Casey Building, 
Alexandria, Virginia 22315-3868. Submit electronic comments to 
[email protected]. See

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For file formats and other information about 
filing electronic comments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Robert Brumbaugh, CEIWR-PD, at 
703-428-6370 or access the Institute for Water Resources Home Page at 
http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/iwr/Regulatory/regulintro.htm

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The draft PEIS can be downloaded from the 
Institute for Water Resources Home Page at http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/iwr/Regulatory/regulintro.htm For those 
interested parties that cannot download documents from the Internet, a 
limited number of copies of the draft PEIS can be obtained by 
contacting the Institute for Water Resources at the address or 
telephone number above.
    You may submit comments by sending electronic mail (e-mail) to: 
[email protected]
    Submit electronic comments as a text file and avoid the use of any 
special characters and any form of encryption. Comments sent as 
attachments to electronic mail messages must be in text format to 
ensure that those attachments can be read by IWR. Comments sent 
electronically as attachments in word processing program formats will 
not be accepted.

    Dated: 23 July 2001.
Lawrence A. Lang,
Deputy, Operations Division, Directorate of Civil Works.
[FR Doc. 01-18939 Filed 7-30-01; 8:45 am]
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