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address and telephone number, when 

and where the accident occurred, type 

of equipment involved in the accident, 

and signature. 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES: 

The Army’s rules for accessing 

records, and for contesting contents and 

appealing initial agency determinations 

are contained in Army Regulation 340–

21; 32 CFR part 505; or may be obtained 

from the system manager. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

Records and reports of accident, 

injury, fire, morbidity, law enforcement, 

traffic accident investigations, vehicle 

accident reports, and marine accident/

casualty reports, individual sick clips, 

and military aviation records/reports. 

EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

None.

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army; Corps of 

Engineers 

Intent To Prepare an Environmental 

Impact Statement for the Proposed 

Hackensack Meadowlands Ecosystem 

Restoration Project, Hackensack 

Meadowlands District, Bergen and 

Hudson Counties, NJ: Feasibility 

Phase

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.

ACTION: Notice of intent.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA), the New York District of the 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) is 

preparing an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) in accordance with 

Council on Environmental Quality 

regulations as defined and amended in 

40 CFR parts 1500–1508 (promulgated 

pursuant to NEPA); Corps’ principles 

and guidelines as defined in 

Engineering Regulations (ER) 1105–2–

100, Planning Guidance Notebook, and 

ER 200–2–2, Procedures for 

Implementing NEPA; and other 

applicable Federal and State 

environmental laws for the proposed 

ecosystem restoration project in the 

Hackensack Meadowlands District, 

Bergen and Hudson Counties, New 

Jersey. 

The study area, known as the 

Hackensack Meadowlands District, is 

located approximately five miles west of 

New York City in northern New Jersey, 

and comprises 30.4 square miles in 

portions of 14 municipalities in two 

counties; Carlstadt, East Rutherford, 

Little Ferry, Lyndhurst, Moonachie, 

North Arlington, Ridgefield, Rutherford, 

South Hackensack, and Teterboro in 

Bergen County and Jersey City, Kearny, 

North Bergen, and Secaucus in Hudson 

County. The District is bisected by the 

Hackensack River and the western spur 

of the NJ Turnpike (US Interstate 95) 

and approximately bordered to the 

north by State Route 46; to the east by 

US routes 1 and 9 (Tonnelle Avenue) 

and the freight railroad owned by 

Norfolk Southern and CSX Corporation 

(the former Conrail main line); to the 

south by the Port Authority Trans 

Hudson (PATH) railroad and the Pulaski 

Skyway; and to the west by the Pascack 

Valley and (former) Kingsland railroads 

and State Route 17.

ADDRESSES: U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, New York District, 26 

Federal Plaza, New York, NY, 10278–

0090.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Bill Shadel, Project Biologist and NEPA 

Coordinator, Planning Division, 

Environmental Analysis Branch; (212) 

264–0570; or 

William.P.Shadel@usace.army.mil.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 1. The 

Hackensack Meadowlands Ecosystem 

Restoration Study is being carried out 

under the Corps’ General Investigations 

Program. The study was authorized 

under the authorization of the HudsonRaritan Estuary Feasibility Study in a 

resolution of the Committee on 

Transportation and Infrastructure of the 

U.S. House of Representatives, dated 

April 15, 1999, which reads:

Resolved by the Committee on 

Transportation and Infrastructure of the 

United States House of Representatives, That, 

the Secretary of the Army is requested to 

review the reports of the Chief of Engineers 

on the New York and New Jersey Channels, 

published as House Document 133, 74th 

Congress, 1st Session; the New York and 

New Jersey Harbor Entrance Channels and 

Anchorage Areas, published as Senate 

Document 45, 84th Congress, 1st Session; 

and the New York Harbor, NY Anchorage 

Channel, published as House Document 18, 

71st Congress, 2nd Session, as well as other 

related reports with a view to determining 

the feasibility of environmental restoration 

and protection relating to water resources 

and sediment quality within the New York 

and New Jersey Port District, including but 

not limited to creation, enhancement, and 

restoration of aquatic, wetland, and adjacent 

upland habitats.

Section 324 of the Water Resources 

Development Act (WRDA) of 1992, as 

amended by Section 550 of the WRDA 

of 1996, authorized the Secretary of the 

Army to provide design and 

construction assistance to the New 

Jersey Meadowlands Commission of the 

State of New Jersey for the development 

of an environmental Improvement 

Program within the Hackensack 

Meadowlands District. 

2. To advance the restoration of 

specific sites during the preparation of 

the EIS, separate Environmental 

Assessments will be completed for 

Anderson Creek in Secaucus and other 

sites throughout the Hackensack 

Meadowlands District. 

3. Federal agencies interested in 

participating as a Cooperating Agency 

are requested to submit a letter of intent 

to Colonel Richard J. Polo, Jr., District 

Engineer (see ADDRESSES). 

4. It is estimated that a draft EIS will 

be completed by April 2007, subject to 

availability of funds.

Leonard Houston, 

Chief, Environmental Analysis Branch, 

Planning Division.

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army; Corps of 

Engineers 

Intent To Prepare an Environmental 

Impact Statement for the Proposed 

Lower Passaic River Ecosystem 

Restoration Project, Essex, Hudson, 

Passaic, and Bergen Counties, NJ: 

Feasibility Phase

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.

ACTION: Notice of intent.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA), the New York District of the 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) is 

preparing an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) in accordance with 

Council on Environmental Quality 

regulations as defined and amended in 

40 CFR parts 1500–1508 (promulgated 

pursuant to NEPA); Corps’ principles 

and guidelines as defined in 

Engineering Regulations (ER) 1105–2–

100, Planning Guidance Notebook, and 

ER 200–2–2, Procedures for 

Implementing NEPA; and other 

applicable Federal and State 

environmental laws for the proposed 

ecosystem restoration project in the 

Lower Passaic River Basin located in the 

counties of Essex, Hudson, Passaic, and 

Bergen in New Jersey. 

The study area is identified as the 

Lower Passaic River and its basin, 

which comprises the tidally influenced 

portion of the river from the Dundee