[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 150 (Monday, August 5, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 50658]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-19706]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army; Corps of Engineers


Cancellation of Notice of Intent To Prepare a Draft Environmental 
Impact Statement for the Mississippi River Diversion Near Benny's Bay, 
Mississippi River Delta, LA

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

ACTION: Notice of cancellation.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, is 
canceling a notice of intent to prepare a Draft Environmental Impact 
Statement (EIS) published in the Federal Register (66 FR 65681), 
December 20, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions concerning this notice 
should be addressed to Mr. Michael Salyer: U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers, PM-RS, P.O. Box 60267, New Orleans, LA 70160-0267, phone 
(504) 862-2037, fax number (504) 862-2572 or by E-mail at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As a result of additional information, a 
decision was reached that significant impacts are no longer anticipated 
at the outset of planning for the Mississippi River Diversion near 
Benny's Bay, Mississippi River Delta, LA. An environmental analysis 
will be accomplished through an Environmental Assessment (EA) and not 
an EIS. Upon completion of the EA, full disclosure to the public will 
be accomplished as mandated through Engineers Regulation 200-2. Should 
the EA indicate 1 significant impacts as a result of the diversion 
project, another notice of intent would be published at that time to 
specify the intent to prepare an EIS; formal procedures for the public 
scoping process would ensue at that time.

    Dated: July 19, 2002.
Peter J. Rowan,
Colonel, U.S. Army, District Engineer.
[FR Doc. 02-19706 Filed 8-2-02; 8:45 am]
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