[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 180 (Friday, September 16, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Page 63747]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-22321]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers


Record of Decision for the Remaining Balanced Vision Plan and 
Interior Drainage Plan Features Feasibility Report and Environmental 
Impact Statement, Dallas County, TX

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Fort Worth District, 
is issuing this notice to advise Federal, state, and local governmental 
agencies and the public that USACE has signed a Record of Decision 
(ROD) for the Remaining Balanced Vision Plan (BVP) and Interior 
Drainage Plan (IDP) Features Feasibility Report and Final Environmental 
Impact Statement, in Dallas County, TX. This ROD was rendered to 
declare that a USACE action, a Section 408 Permission for the City of 
Dallas to alter the Dallas Floodway, is in the public interest.

DATES: The USACE Fort Worth District Commander, Colonel Calvin C. 
Hudson II, signed the ROD and Section 408 Permission on July 28, 2016.

ADDRESSES: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Regional Planning and 
Environmental Center, CESWF-PEC-CC (Attn: Mr. Jason Story), P.O. Box 
17300, Room 3A12, Fort Worth, TX 76102-0300.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jason Story, Environmental Resources 
Specialist, Regional Planning and Environmental Center. Email address: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The City of Dallas has requested permission 
to construct the Dallas Floodway Project remaining BVP and IDP features 
in Dallas County, TX. These remaining BVP and IDP features will 
constitute an alteration of the existing Dallas Floodway, a USACE 
federally authorized civil works project that requires Title 33 United 
States Code, Section 408 (Section 408) compliance. The proposed 
alterations within the Dallas Floodway consist of ecosystem 
restoration, recreation, and interior drainage improvements. These 
alterations were analyzed in the Final Feasibility Report and disclosed 
in the Final Environmental Impact Statement dated December 2014, for 
the Dallas Floodway Project. This ROD addresses the USACE Section 408 
Permission.

Douglas C. Sims,
Chief, Environmental Compliance Branch, Regional Planning and 
Environmental Center.
[FR Doc. 2016-22321 Filed 9-15-16; 8:45 am]
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