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and recommend a risk management plan 

that addresses risk of life loss and 

significant economic, social, and 

environmental damages associated with 

a potential failure of Cherry Creek Dam. 

In addition to the No Action 

Alternative, Alternatives 2F (raise dam 

7.1 feet and spillway to elevation 5610.5 

from original design of 5599.8 feet 

NAVD88 to prevent overtopping) and 

3B (dam raise of 6.2 feet and no 

spillway raise) were evaluated in the 

final array of alternatives. 

Dam Raise Alternative 3B consists of 

the FWAC spillway and a dam raise to 

contain the PMF. A dam raise height for 

this alternative is 6.2 feet and the crest 

width was assumed to be approximately 

38 feet to allow reconstruction of the 

crest road using current road design 

standards. Various methods for raising 

the dam were considered, including an 

earth raise, reinforced concrete wall, 

and mechanically stabilized earth. The 

most efficient method of raise depends 

on several factors including the height 

of raise, crest width, availability of onsite materials, and steepness of 

embankment side slopes. Earth/rock fill 

raises compete well for raises below 4 

to 5 feet if the crest width can be 

minimized. Reinforced Concrete (RC) 

wall raises are clearly more cost 

effective for larger raises and when a 

wide crest is required to allow 

construction of a crest road that meets 

modern standards of construction, 

therefore, the dam would be raised 

using an RC wall if Alternative 3B is 

implemented. 

Dam Raise Alternative 2F consists of 

a RC wall dam raise of 7.1 feet and a 

spillway raise to crest elevation 5610.5 

feet NAVD88 to prevent overtopping 

during the PMF. This spillway crest 

elevation of 5610.5 feet was chosen to 

minimize non-breach flows in the 

spillway impact area. As with 

Alternative 3B the dam would be raised 

using an RC wall and the crest width 

would be approximately 38 feet to allow 

reconstruction of the crest road using 

current road design standards. 

The Draft EIS evaluates the potential 

effects on the human environment 

associated with each of the alternatives. 

Issues addressed include: Land use and 

vegetation, social and economic 

conditions, recreation, water resources, 

air quality, noise, and environmental 

justice. 

Schedule. The public comment period 

will begin December 12, 2018. 

Comments on the Draft EIS must be 

received by January 28, 2019. The Corps 

will consider and respond to all 

comments received on the Draft EIS 

when preparing the Final EIS. The 

Corps expects to issue the Final EIS in 

the summer of 2019, at which time a 

Notice of Availability will be published 

in the Federal Register. 

The public meeting date or location 

may change based on inclement weather 

or exceptional circumstances. If the 

meeting date or location is changed, the 

Corps will issue a press release and post 

it on the web at http://

www.nwo.usace.army.mil/Media/NewsReleases/ to announce the updated 

meeting details. 

Public Disclosure Statement. If you 

wish to comment, you may mail or 

email your comments as indicated 

under the ADDRESSES section of this 

notice. Before including your address, 

phone number, email address, or any 

other personal identifying information 

in your comment, you should be aware 

that your entire comment—including 

your personal identifying information— 

may be made available to the public at 

any time. While you can request in your 

comment for us to withhold your 

personal identifying information from 

public review, we cannot guarantee that 

we will be able to do so. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army, Corps of 

Engineers 

Availability of a Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement, Whittier Narrow 

Dam Safety Modification Study, Los 

Angeles County, California 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of availability; request 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers (Corps) announces the 

availability of a Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS) for the Whittier 

Narrows Dam Safety Modification 

Study, Los Angeles County, California 

for review and comment. Pursuant to 

the National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA). The Corps has prepared a Draft 

EIS for the Whittier Narrows Dam Safety 

Modification Study (DSMS). The Draft 

EIS evaluates risk management plans 

(alternatives) to remediate safety 

concerns such as overtopping and 

seepage. The Draft EIS describes and 

analyses the impacts of risk 

management plans (RMPs) that are 

formulated, evaluated and compared 

through the DSMS process in order to 

identify a recommended RMP that 

reduces risks to downstream life-safety 

and property associated with dam 

failure. Implementation of the 

recommended risk management plan 

would mitigate the intolerable Dam 

safety risk and allow the Dam to safely 

function as originally intended and 

authorized. Without this action, the 

Dam could fail resulting in lifethreatening floods to downstream 

communities. The Proposed Action is 

needed to provide life-safety to the 

communities downstream of the 

Whittier Narrows Dam. 

DATES: Written comments pursuant to 

the NEPA will be accepted until the 

close of business on January 28, 2019. 

ADDRESSES: The document is available 

for review at: 

(1) https://www.spl.usace.army.mil/ 

Missions/Civil-Works/Projects-Studies/ 

Whittier-Narrows-Dam-SafetyModification-Study/. 

(2) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los 

Angeles District, 915 Wilshire Blvd., Los 

Angeles, CA 90017–3401. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Deborah Lamb, U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Los Angeles District, phone 

number (213) 452–3798. Questions or 

comments regarding the Whittier 

Narrows Dam DSMS Draft EIS, contact 

Ms. Deborah Lamb by phone or by email 

to Deborah.L.Lamb@usace.army.mil. or 

Whittier Narrows DSMS EIS Whittier_

Narrows_DSMS@usace.army.mil. 

For further information regarding the 

Whittier Narrows DSMS, contact Mr. 

Doug Chitwood, (213) 452 3587, or by 

email to Douglas.E.Chitwood@

usace.army.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. Background Information. 

Construction of Whittier Narrows Dam 

was completed in 1957 as an integral 

component of the Los Angeles County 

Drainage Area (LACDA) system of dams 

and channelized rivers authorized by 

Congress in the Flood Control Act of 

1936. The Whittier Narrows Dam 

primary purpose is flood risk 

management with recreation added in 

the Flood Control Act of 1944 (Pub. L. 

78–534). Whittier Narrows Dam is 

located approximately 11 miles east of 

downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles 

County, CA. The dam protects over one 

million people and reduces economic 

damages to the communities 

downstream during flood events. The 

Corps has classified Whittier Narrows 

Dam as very high risk due to the 

potential for seepage and hydrologic 

issues during rare storms that could lead 

to failure. The DSMS and Draft EIS 

identify and evaluate alternatives to 

address these deficiencies and reduce 

the annual probability of failure and the 


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risk to life safety to within the Corps’ 

tolerable risk guidelines as presented in 

Engineering Regulation 1110–2–1156. 

A Notice of Intent to prepare the Draft 

EIS was published on July 22, 2013 in 

the Federal Register. A public scoping 

meeting was conducted on September 

11, 2013 in the City of Pico Rivera, 

California. The Draft EIS is available for 

a 45-day review period pursuant to the 

NEPA. 

2. Risk Management Plans 

(Alternatives). In addition to a No 

Action Alternative, the Draft EIS 

evaluates an array of remediation 

alternatives including: (1) Raising the 

crest elevation of the dam with a 12 foot 

high parapet wall on top of the crest, 

constructing an auxiliary labyrinth 

spillway adjacent to the existing 

spillway, and a trench drain and filter 

blanket; (2) placing a 10 foot wide roller 

compacted concrete series of steps on 

the downstream slope of the Dam 

embankments with trench drain and 

filter blanket. 

3. NEPA Scope of Analysis. The Draft 

EIS evaluates the impacts of risk 

management plans on environmental 

resources and the human environment. 

Resources initially identified in the 

NEPA scope of analysis as potentially 

significant without implementation of 

mitigation measures include noise and 

vibration and recreation. 

Resources initially identified in the 

NEPA scope of analysis as potentially 

significant without implementation of 

mitigation measures include, but are not 

limited to: Water quality, noise and 

vibration, air quality, socioeconomics 

and environmental justice, land use, 

recreation, visual and esthetic resources, 

traffic and transportation, historical and 

cultural resources, vegetation and 

wildlife, and special status species. 

Public Participation: As part of the 

public involvement process, the Corps’ 

Los Angeles District anticipates the 

public meeting will be held in January 

2019. The public review meeting will 

allow participants the opportunity to 

comment on the Draft EIS. Attendance 

at the public hearing is not necessary to 

provide comments. Written comments 

may also be given to the contact listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATON CONTACT

section. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket ID ED–2017–IES–0081] 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records 

AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences, 

Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice of a new system of 

records. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Privacy Act of 1974, as amended 

(Privacy Act), the Department of 

Education (the Department) publishes 

this notice of a new system of records 

entitled ‘‘Text Ed: A Study of Text 

Messaging to Improve College 

Enrollment Rates among Disadvantaged 

Adults (18–13–41).’’ This system 

contains individually identifying 

information voluntarily provided by 

grantees under the Department of 

Education’s (Department’) Educational 

Opportunity Centers (EOC) program 

which were selected to participate in 

the study and adult participants who 

receive services from those grantees. 

The EOC program is one of the 

Department’s TRIO programs and 

primarily focuses on disadvantaged 

adults. The information in this system 

will be used to conduct a rigorous study 

of the effectiveness of customized text 

messages as an enhancement to EOC 

services, examining whether the 

messages lead to increased college 

enrollment and Free Application for 

Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) 

completion rates among adults receiving 

support from EOCs. 

DATES: Submit your comments on this 

new system of records notice on or 

before January 14, 2019. 

This new system of records will 

become applicable upon publication in 

the Federal Register on December 14, 

2018, unless the new system of records 

notice needs to be changed as a result 

of public comment. All proposed 

routine uses in the paragraph entitled 

‘‘ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS 

MAINTAINED IN THE SYSTEM 

INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS 

AND PURPOSES OF SUCH USES’’ will 

become applicable on January 14, 2019, 

unless the new system of records notice 

needs to be changed as a result of public 

comment. The Department will publish 

any changes to the system of records or 

routine uses that result from public 

comment. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments 

through the Federal eRulemaking Portal 

or via postal mail, commercial delivery, 

or hand delivery. We will not accept 

comments submitted by fax or by email 

or those submitted after the comment 

period. To ensure that we do not receive 

duplicate copies, please submit your 

comments only once. In addition, please 

include the Docket ID at the top of your 

comments. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

www.regulations.gov to submit your 

comments electronically. Information 

on using Regulations.gov, including 

instructions for accessing agency 

documents, submitting comments, and 

viewing the docket, is available on the 

site under the ‘‘Help’’ tab. 

• Postal Mail, Commercial Delivery, 

or Hand Delivery: If you mail or deliver 

your comments about this modified 

system of records, address them to: 

SORN Coordinator, Institute of 

Education Sciences, U.S. Department of 

Education, Potomac Center Plaza, 550 

12th Street SW, Room 4126, 

Washington, DC 20202. 

Privacy Note: The Department’s policy is 

to make all comments received from 

members of the public available for public 

viewing in their entirety on the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at www.regulations.gov. 

Therefore, commenters should be careful to 

include in their comments only information 

that they wish to make publicly available. 

Assistance to Individuals with 

Disabilities in Reviewing the 

Rulemaking Record: On request, we will 

provide an appropriate accommodation 

or auxiliary aid to an individual with a 

disability who needs assistance to 

review the comments or other 

documents in the public rulemaking 

record for this notice. If you want to 

schedule an appointment for this type of 

accommodation or auxiliary aid, please 

contact the person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Teresa Cahalan, Institute of Education 

Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, 

Potomac Center Plaza, 550 12th Street 

SW, Room 4126, Washington, DC 20202, 

or by email at IES_SORN@ed.gov. 

If you use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD) or a text 

telephone (TTY), you may call the 

Federal Relay Service at 1–800–877– 

8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Introduction 

The information contained in the 

system will be used to conduct a study 

of the effectiveness of personalized text 

messaging in improving the college 

enrollment and FAFSA completion rates 

of disadvantaged adults. The messaging 

will be implemented as an enhancement 

to services provided by Educational 

Opportunity Centers. The information 

collected will be used to describe the 

implementation of the study’s text 


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