[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 242 (Monday, December 17, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64962-64963]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-31004]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army; Corps of Engineers


Availability of Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement 
(DSEIS) For Proposed Changes to the Chickamauga Lock Project, Hamilton 
County, TN

AGENCY: Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The Corps of Engineers, Nashville District, and the Tennessee 
Valley Authority (Cooperating Agency) has prepared a Draft Supplemental 
Environmental Impact Statement (DSEIS) to the 1995 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 January 29, 2002.

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, PO Box 1070 (PM-P), 
Nashville, Tennessee 37202-1070.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information concerning 
the notice, 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 on issues 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 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

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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 Officer.
[FR Doc. 01-31004 Filed 12-14-01; 8:45 am]
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