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Chairperson and ensure they are 

provided to members of the United 

States Air Force Scientific Advisory 

Board before the meeting that is the 

subject of this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

United States Air Force Scientific 

Advisory Board Executive Director and 

Designated Federal Officer, Lt. Col. 

Matthew E. Zuber, 240–612–5503, 

United States Air Force Scientific 

Advisory Board, 1500 West Perimeter 

Road, Ste. #3300, Joint Base Andrews, 

MD 20762, 

matthew.zuber@pentagon.af.mil. 

Henry Williams Jr., 

Acting Air Force Federal Register Liaison 

Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army; Corps of 

Engineers 

Notice of Availability for the Final 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Proposed Widening of the 

Pascagoula Lower Sound/Bayou 

Casotte Channel, Jackson County, MS 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: On April 6, 2011, the Jackson 

County Port Authority (JCPA) submitted 

a joint application to the U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers (Corps), Mobile 

District, Mississippi Department of 

Environmental Quality (MDEQ) and the 

Mississippi Department of Marine 

Resources (MDMR) for authorization to 

impact wetlands and other waters of the 

United States associated with the 

proposed widening of the Pascagoula 

Lower Sound/Bayou Casotte Channel 

(the proposed project). The proposed 

project is located in the Pascagoula 

Lower Sound/Bayou Casotte, 

Pascagoula, Jackson County, Mississippi 

(Latitude 30.365° North, Longitude 

88.556° West). The Corps prepared a 

Draft Environmental Impact Statement 

(DEIS) to assess the potential 

environmental impacts associated with 

the proposed project and to promote 

informed decision-making by 

appropriate agencies; the DEIS was 

released April 13, 2012. The Corps is 

now publishing a Final Environmental 

Impact Statement (FEIS) to assess the 

potential environmental impacts 

associated with the proposed project. 

The proposed project is the dredging of 

approximately 38,200 feet (7.2 miles) of 

the existing Pascagoula Lower Sound/ 

Bayou Casotte Channel segment to 

widen the channel from the Federally 

authorized width of 350 feet and depth 

of ¥42 feet mean lower low water 

(MLLW) (with 2 feet of allowable overdepth and 2 feet of advanced 

maintenance) to a width of 450 feet, 

parallel to the existing channel 

centerline and to the existing Federally 

authorized depth of ¥42 feet MLLW. 

The proposed project would include the 

placement of approximately 3.4 million 

cubic yards of dredged material 

resulting from the channel modification. 

DATES: The Corps invites the public to 

comment on the Final EIS during the 

public comment period, which ends 

September 25, 2012. The Corps will 

consider all comments postmarked or 

received during the public comment 

period in preparing the Record of 

Decision and will consider late 

comments to the extent practicable. 

Additional information on how to 

submit comments is included below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Written and emailed comments to the 

Corps will be received until September 

25, 2012. Correspondence concerning 

this Notice should refer to Public Notice 

Number SAM–2011–00389–PAH and 

should be directed to the U.S. Army 

Engineer District, RD–C–M Attention: 

Mr. Philip Hegji, Post Office Box 2288, 

Mobile, Alabama 36628–0001, via email 

at philip.a.hegji@usace.army.mil or by 

phone at (251) 690–3222. We encourage 

any additional comments from 

interested public, agencies and local 

officials. For additional information 

about our Regulatory Program, please 

visit our Web site at 

www.sam.usace.army.mil/rd/reg/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The JCPA 

requested a Department of the Army 

permit pursuant to Section 10 of the 

Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, Section 

103 of the Marine Protection, Research 

and Sanctuaries Act and Section 404 of 

the Clean Water Act, including a 

Section 404(b)(1) analysis to help ensure 

compliance. The Corps is the lead 

Federal agency for the preparation of 

this FEIS in compliance with the 

requirements of the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and 

the President’s Council on 

Environmental Quality regulations for 

implementing NEPA. The National 

Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. 

Coast Guard are cooperating agencies for 

the preparation of the EIS. 

Dated: August 15, 2012. 

Craig J. Litteken, 

Chief, Regulatory Division. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Navy 

Notice of Extension of Public 

Comment Period for the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Proposed Modernization and 

Expansion of Townsend Bombing 

Range, Georgia 

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy 

(DoN) is extending the public comment 

period for the Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS) for the Proposed 

Modernization and Expansion of 

Townsend Bombing Range (TBR), 

Georgia (GA) until September 27, 2012. 

A Notice of Availability (NOA) and a 

Notice of Public Meetings (NOPMs) for 

the Draft EIS were published in the 

Federal Register on Friday, July 13, 

2012 (Federal Register/Vol. 77, No. 135, 

Pages 41385–41387 (NOPMs) and Page 

41403 (NOA)). Those notices announced 

the initial public comment period, 

including public meetings that took 

place on Tuesday, August 7, 2012 and 

Thursday, August 9, 2012, and provided 

additional information on the 

background and scope of the Draft EIS. 

The initial public comment period 

requested the submission of all 

comments on the Draft EIS to the DoN 

by August 27, 2012. The DoN is 

extending the public comment period 

until September 27, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Contact Capt. Cochran, 596 Geiger Blvd. 

MCAS Beaufort, SC 29904 at 843–228– 

6123. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The DoN, 

as lead agency, has prepared and filed 

the Draft EIS for the Proposed 

Modernization and Expansion of TBR, 

GA in accordance with the requirements 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act of 1969 (42 United States Code 4321 

et seq.) and its implementing 

regulations (40 Code of Regulations 

parts 1500–1508). The Draft EIS 

evaluates the potential environmental 

impacts of acquiring additional property 

and constructing the necessary 

infrastructure to allow the use of inert 

precision-guided munitions (PGMs) at 

TBR, GA. 

The purpose of the Proposed Action 

is to provide an air-to-ground training 

range capable of providing a wider 

variety of air-to-ground operations, 

including the use of PGMs, to meet 

current training requirements. The 

Proposed Action is needed to more 

efficiently meet current training 

requirements for the United States 


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