[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 157 (Tuesday, August 14, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42639-42640]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-20380]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army; Corps of Engineers


Intent To Prepare a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact 
Statement (DSEIS) for Proposed Changes to the Chickamauga Lock Project, 
Hamilton County, TN

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

ACTION: Notice of intent.

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SUMMARY: The Corps of Engineers, Nashville District, and the Tennessee 
Valley Authority (Cooperating Agency) will prepare a Draft Supplemental 
Environmental Impact Statement (DSEIS) to the 1996 Environmental Impact 
Statement titled Chickamauga Dam--Navigation Lock Project Final 
Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS). This supplement is necessary to 
provide information unknown and not required at the time the FEIS was 
completed.

DATES: Written comments must be received by the Corps of Engineers on 
or before September 10, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Written comments on issues to be considered in the SEIS 
shall be mailed to: Wayne Easterling or Patty Coffey, Project Planning 
Branch, Nashville District Corps of Engineers, P.O. Box 1070 (PM-P), 
Nashville, Tennessee 37202-1070.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information concerning 
the notice and meeting announcement, please contact Wayne Easterling, 
Environmental Team, (615) 736-7847, or Patty Coffey, Environmental 
Team, (615) 736-7865.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:   
    1. The intent of the Supplemental EIS is to provide National 
Environmental Policy Act coverage for the Chickamauga Lock project that 
were unknown or not required when the original EIS was prepared. The 
original EIS for Chickamauga Lock was completed in 1995 and a Record of 
Decision signed in 1996. The original EIS considered four alternatives 
including no action (closing the existing lock), constructing a new 110 
x 600 foot lock (preferred alternative), constructing a new 60 x 360 
foot lock (replacement in kind) and constructing a new 75 x 400 foot 
lock. The SEIS now proposed

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will cover cumulative effects and compliance with Section 106 of the 
Historic Preservation Act. Coordination with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 
Service will include a Biological Assessment/Opinion for Endangered 
Species Act and a Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act Report.
    2. This notice serves to solicit comments from the public; federal, 
state and local agencies and officials; Indian Tribes; and other 
interested parties in order to consider and evaluate the impacts of 
this proposed activity. Any comments received by us will be considered 
during the preparation of this Supplemental Environmental Impact 
Statement.

Luz D. Ortiz,
Army Federal Register Liaison.
[FR Doc. 01-20380 Filed 8-13-01; 8:45 am]
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