[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 106 (Friday, June 2, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32059-32060]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-5058]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army; Corps of Engineers


Availability of the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact 
Statement for the Boston Harbor Inner Harbor Maintenance Dredging 
Project

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

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District has 
prepared a Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement to 
maintenance dredge the following Federal navigation channels: The Main 
Ship Channel upstream of Spectacle Island to the Inner Confluence, the 
upper Reserved Channel, the approach to the Navy Dry Dock, a portion of 
the Mystic River, and a portion of the Chelsea River (previously 
permitted) in Boston Harbor, MA. Maintenance dredging of the navigation 
channels landward of Spectacle Island is needed to remove shoals and 
restore the Federal navigation channels to their authorized depths. 
Materials dredged from the Federal channels will either be disposed at 
the Massachusetts Bay Disposal Site (for the material suitable for 
unconfined open water disposal) or, for the material not suitable for 
unconfined open water

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disposal, in confined aquatic disposal (CAD) cell(s). Major navigation 
channel improvements (deepening) were made in 1999 through 2001 in the 
Reserved Channel, the Mystic River, Inner Confluence and the Chelsea 
River. A Final EIS prepared for this previous navigation improvement 
project in June of 1995 identified selected use of CAD cells in the 
Mystic River, Inner Confluence, and Chelsea River were investigated. A 
new CAD cell for the proposed maintenance project will be constructed 
in the Mystic River and in the Main Ship Channel just below the Inner 
Confluence.

DATES: Submit comments on or before July 1, 2006.

ADDRESSES: If you wish to receive a copy of the FSEIS, Executive 
Summary, or provide comments on the FSEIS, please contact Mr. Michael 
F. Keegan, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District, Programs 
& Civil Project Management Branch, 696 Virginia Road, Concord, MA 
01742.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Michael Keegan, (978) 318-8087.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is 
authorized by the various River and Harbor Acts and Water Resources 
Development Acts to conduct maintenance dredging of the Federal 
navigation channels and anchorage areas in Boston Harbor.

    Dated: May 23, 2006.
Curtis L. Thalken,
Colonel, Corps of Engineers, New England District.
[FR Doc. 06-5058 Filed 6-1-06; 8:45am]
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