[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 109 (Wednesday, June 5, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 28568]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-14080]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Intent To Prepare a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement for the Green Brook Flood Control Project Located in the
Green Brook Sub-Basin of the Raritan River Basin, Middlesex, Somerset
and Union Counties, NJ
agency: Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, DOD.
action: Notice.
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summary: A final impact statement was completed for this project and
filed in 1981. This supplemental is being prepared to update
environmental information and present new potentially significant
impacts for review and comment.
for further information contact: Mr. William Richardson, New York
District, Army Corps of Engineers, Att: CENAN-PL-ES, 26 Federal Plaza,
New York, N.Y. 10278-0090 (212) 264-1275.
summary information: The Green Brook Flood Control Project was created
in response to resolutions of the United States Senate Public Works
Committee resolutions adopted September 14, 1955 and July 10, 1972
published as H.D. No. 53, 71st Congress. The original notice of intent
to prepare an environmental impact statement was published on April 6,
1979 and notice of the final statement was published on June 12, 1981.
The project will provide flood protection to the Green Brook sub-
basin to the Raritan River basin. The project area is located in the
Counties of Middlesex, Somerset and Union, New Jersey. The protection
will consist of a combination of levees, flood walls, channel
modification, ponding areas (both excavated and natural) dry detention
basins and non-structural flood proofing measures.
The supplemental impact statement will assess potential impacts
from the implementation of the New York District Corps of Engineers
recommended flood control plan. The District will develop a Draft
General Re-evaluation Report for the project that will be available in
June 1996.
This notice initiates scoping for this final study stage of this
project. Information is requested for environmental concerns which may
now exist in the project area and were not discussed in the original
NEPA documentation. It is anticipated that public meetings will be on
going throughout the re-evaluation process. There will be additional
information presented to the public through the Green Brook Flood
Control Commission. Agencies and the public are invited to present
their environmental concerns to the New York District, Army Corps of
Engineers directly.
This supplemental impact statement will discuss the impacts of the
recommended plan on wildlife habitat, aquatic resources and wetlands,
mitigation for wetland impacts, cultural resource information, the
impact of HTRW studies on the project, as well as any new issues which
may arise as a result of this process.
The need for scoping meetings specifically related to this process
will be evaluated based on agency/public response to this notice and
follow-up mailings.
Estimated date of statement availability: June 1996.
Dated: May 9, 1996.
Stuart Piken,
Chief, Planning Division.
[FR Doc. 96-14080 Filed 6-4-96; 8:45 am]
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