[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 94 (Thursday, May 15, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 26293]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-12156]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army; Corps of Engineers


Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Royal 
D'Iberville Hotel and Casino Development, City of D'Iberville, Harrison 
County, MS

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

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: This notice of availability announces the public release of 
the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Proposed Royal 
D'Iberville Hotel and Casino Development, City of D'Iberville, Harrison 
County, MS. On February 23, 1998, Royal D'Iberville, Inc. submitted a 
Joint Permit Application and Notification to the U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers (Corps), Mobile District, the Mississippi Department of 
Environmental Quality, Office of Pollution Control and the Mississippi 
Department of Marine Resources for the D'Iberville project. The 
proposed action involves the construction of a dockside casino adjacent 
to the west side of the I-110 bridge over the Back Bay of Biloxi in 
D'Iberville, Harrison County, Mississippi. Based on a review of the 
level of impacts associated with the proposed action, the Mobile 
District published in Federal Register, November 21, 2001 (66 FR 
58459), a notice of intent to prepare a DEIS for the proposed Royal 
D'Iberville Casino and Hotel, located in D'Iberville, Harrison County, 
MS. This DEIS has been developed by the Corps (lead agency) and 10 
cooperating Federal and state agencies. The DEIS provides a 
comprehensive environmental analysis to aid in the decision-making 
process to deny or approve the Department of the Army permit for the 
proposed D'Iberville Hotel and Casino Project.

DATES: The public comment period for the DEIS will extend through June 
30, 2003.

ADDRESSES: To receive a copy of the DEIS, or to submit comments, 
contact U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, Coastal 
Environment Team, Post Office Box 2288, Mobile, AL 36628-0001. A copy 
of the full document may also be viewed in the Gulfport Public Library, 
Gulfport, the Margaret Sherry Memorial Library in Biloxi, the 
D'Iberville Public Library in D'Iberville, or in the Mobile District.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan Ivester Rees, Ph.D., EIS 
Manager, (334) 694-4141, facsimile number (334) 690-2727 or e-mail 
address ([email protected]).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public comments can be submitted through a 
variety of methods. Written comments may be submitted to the Corps by 
mail, facsimile, or electronic methods, comments (written or oral) may 
be presented at a public meeting to be scheduled during the month of 
June in D'Iberville, MS. Additional information on these meetings will 
be mailed in a public notice to the agencies and public and announced 
in news releases.

    Dated: May 5, 2003.
Ronald A. Krizman,
Chief, Regulatory Branch.
[FR Doc. 03-12156 Filed 5-14-03; 8:45 am]
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