[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 52 (Wednesday, March 18, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13238-13239]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-7043]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army
Corps of Engineers
Intent To Prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS) for the San Juan Creek Watershed Feasibility Study; Orange
County, CA
AGENCY: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), Los Angeles District,
DoD.
ACTION: Notice of intent.
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SUMMARY: The San Juan Watershed encompasses a drainage area of
approximately 176 square miles in southern Orange County. Eight major
tributaries feed San Juan Creek along its twenty-seven mile course from
the Cleveland National Forest in the Santa Ana Mountains to the Pacific
Ocean at Doheny State Beach near Dana Point Harbor. Rapid development
since the early 1980s has produced a variety of environmental concerns
that threaten the overall functional integrity of the watershed. Issues
warranting concern identified in the Reconnaissance Study include
channel degradation, loss of habitat, decreased water quality and
supply, loss of recreational and aesthetic values, and increased
flooding. In response to these and other problems raised by various
federal and state offices, interest groups, and private parties the
Corps is developing an
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integrated watershed management plan to enhance positive trends in
maintaining the San Juan Creek Watershed system.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information contact Mr.
Timothy J. Smith, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Attn: CESPL-PD-RN, P.O.
Box 532711, Los Angeles, California 90053-2325; phone (213) 452-3854;
email tjsmith@spl.usace.army.mil
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To prepare for preparation of the EIS, the
Corps will be conducting a public scoping meeting on March 26, 1998, at
7 p.m., at the Del Obispo Community Center, located at 34052 Del Obispo
Road, Dana Point, California. This scoping meeting will be held to
solicit public input on significant environmental issues associated
with the proposed project. The public, as well as Federal, State, and
local agencies are encouraged to participate in the scoping process by
attending the Scoping Meeting and/or submitting data, information, and
comments identifying relevant environmental and socioeconomic issues to
be addressed in the environmental analysis. Useful information includes
other environmental studies, published and unpublished data,
alternatives that should be addressed in the analysis, and potential
environmental enhancement and restoration opportunities that exist in
the watershed. Individuals and agencies may offer information or data
relevant to the proposed study and provide comments suggestions by
attending the public scoping meeting, or by mailing the information to
Mr. Timothy J. Smith. Requests to be placed on the mailing list for
announcements and the Draft EIS should be sent to Mr. Timothy J. Smith.
Alternatives: The study will develop an integrated watershed
management plan as well as a list of potential environmental
enhancement and restoration opportunities throughout the San Juan
Watershed. Specific measures selected for implementation will be
analyzed in detail in supplementary National Environmental Policy Act/
California Environmental Quality Act documentation.
Gregory D. Showalter,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 98-7043 Filed 3-17-98; 8:45 am]
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