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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Joan Gilsdorf, Patent Attorney, e-mail: 

joan.gilsdorf@smdc.army.mil, (256) 

955–3213 or Ms. Susan D. McRae, Office 

of Research and Technology 

Applications, e-mail: 

susan.mcrae@smdc.army.mil; (256) 

955–1501. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

invention pertains to detecting reflected 

energy and, more particularly, to radar 

and ladar systems with enhanced range. 

A reflected energy detecting device 

includes a transmitter for transmitting 

an electromagnetic signal and a receiver 

for receiving a reflected electromagnetic 

signal. An antenna connected with the 

transmitter and the receiver radiates the 

electromagnetic signal and captures the 

reflected electromagnetic signal. The 

antenna may be movable. A main 

controller controls operation of the 

transmitter and the receiver and the 

movement of the antenna. The reflected 

energy detecting device may further 

include at least one platform to support 

a remote reflector that is dimensioned 

and configured to redirect the 

transmitted electromagnetic signal in a 

desired direction, and a platform 

controller that communicates with the 

main controller and maintains 

alignment between the remote reflector 

and the antenna. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army; Corps of 

Engineers 

Availability of Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement for Center Hill Dam 

and Lake, Changes to Center Hill Lake 

Elevations, DeKalb County, TN 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The Corps of Engineers, 

Nashville District, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (Cooperating Agency), 

and the Tennessee Valley Authority 

(Cooperating Agency) have prepared a 

Draft Environmental Impact Statement 

(DEIS). The DEIS is necessary to provide 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) compliance to address changes 

that could include, but are not limited 

to water quality, aquatic, riparian, and 

terrestrial habitat, recreation, water 

supply, flood storage, economics, 

hydropower production, and safety as a 

result of operating Center Hill Lake 

significantly below normal pool 

elevations for extended periods of time. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received by the Corps of Engineers on or 

before October 19, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments on issues 

to be considered in the DEIS shall be 

mailed to: Joy Broach or Patty Coffey, 

Project Planning Branch, Nashville 

District Corps of Engineers, P.O. Box 

1070 (PM–P), Nashville, TN 37202–

1070. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information concerning the 

notice, please contact Joy Broach, 

Environmental Team, (615) 736–7956, 

or Patty Coffey, Environmental Team, 

(615) 736–7865. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. Center Hill Dam is currently 

suffering from severe dam seepage 

problems. A comprehensive plan for 

repairs has been approved; however, 

these repairs will take 7–10 years to 

implement. Until the repairs are 

sufficiently complete, the Corps has 

determined that it is in the public’s 

interest to operate Center Hill Lake at 

lower pool elevations. 

2. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

is a Cooperating Agency because of the 

potential to affect listed species. The 

Tennessee Valley Authority is a 

Cooperating Agency because of the 

potential to affect electrical power 

production. 

3. This notice serves to solicit 

comments from the public; Federal, 

state, and local agencies and officials; 

Indian tribes; and other interested 

parties in order to consider and evaluate 

the impacts of this proposed activity. 

Any comments received by us will be 

considered during the preparation of the 

Final Environmental Impact Statement 

(FEIS). 

4. Public Meetings: At present, no 

public meetings have been scheduled to 

scope for potential issues to be 

evaluated in the FEIS. Requests for 

public meetings should be directed to 

Mr. William Peoples, Chief, Public 

Affairs Office, U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Nashville District, Nashville, 

TN, 37202–1070. Mr. Peoples may be 

reached by telephone at (615) 736–7834. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army; Corps of 

Engineers 

Intent To Prepare a Draft Programmatic 

Environmental Impact Statement To 

Analyze a Long Island Sound Dredged 

Material Management Plan 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: The Draft Programmatic 

Environmental Impact Statement 

(DPEIS) will evaluate the overall 

impacts of various alternatives 

identified in a Long Island Sound 

Dredged Material Management Plan (LIS 

DMMP) for management of dredged 

material in the Long Island Sound (LIS) 

region. The overall goal of the LIS 

DMMP is to develop a comprehensive 

plan for dredged material management 

in Long Island Sound using a broadbased public process that protects the 

environment based on best scientific 

data and analysis, while meeting 

society’s need for safe and economically 

viable navigation for water-based 

commerce, transportation, national 

security, and other public purposes. The 

LIS DMMP will identify potential 

environmentally acceptable, practicable 

management plans that can be utilized 

by the Corps of Engineers (Corps) in 

maintaining Federal navigation projects, 

as well as various non-Corps dredging 

proponents in their analysis of options 

to manage non-Corps dredging projects. 

Some alternative disposal methods may 

be implemented on the basis of the 

PEIS, while others may require 

additional analysis at the project level. 

As specific alternatives are put in place 

to implement a given management 

option, more detailed National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 

documents may be prepared by the 

Corps and other Federal agencies, and 

such NEPA documents will evaluate 

specific impacts from implementing a 

particular management option. 

ADDRESSES: U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, New England District, 696 

Virginia Road, Concord, MA 01742–

2751. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions about the proposed action 

and DPEIS can be answered by: Mr. 

Mike Keegan, (978) 318–8657, e-mail: 

Michael.f.keegan@usace.army.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Governors of Connecticut and New 

York, in a joint letter dated February 8, 

2005, requested the Corps to develop a 

regional DMMP for the LIS region. In 


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June 2006, the Corps of Engineers, New 

England District completed a 

Preliminary Assessment (PA) to 

document the need for a comprehensive 

DMMP for the LIS region. The PA 

concluded that successful completion of 

a LIS DMMP is critical to the Corps’

ability to maintain the region’s civil 

works navigation projects, and to 

provide future navigation improvements 

to the system of Federal waterways in 

the LIS region. Appropriate future costeffective management methods and 

future dredged material capacities must 

be identified to serve both Federal and 

non-Federal project needs in this region 

for the long-term health of the region’s 

economy, including its navigationdependent industries and activities. The 

Corps prepares NEPA documents to 

evaluate the environmental impacts of 

the actions and alternatives analyzed in 

dredged material management plans. In 

preparing the current DPEIS, the Corps 

expects this document to be used as part 

of the NEPA analysis for both Corps and 

non-Corps future dredging projects 

through tiering and incorporation by 

reference. Issues to be analyzed in the 

DPEIS may include potential impacts to: 

shipping and navigation; commercial 

and recreational fisheries and 

shellfisheries; water quality; sediment 

quality; biological resources, including 

threatened and endangered species; 

bioavailability of contaminants; cultural 

resources; recreational activities such as 

use of beaches, refuges, and natural 

areas; wetlands; and other potential 

habitat restoration opportunities. The 

DPEIS will be prepared in coordination 

with other environmental review and 

consultation requirements under the 

Clean Water Act, National Historic 

Preservation Act, Endangered Species 

Act, Coastal Zone Management Act, and 

other relevant and appropriate statutes 

and Executive Orders. 

There are many harbors, channels and 

navigation-dependent facilities in 

Connecticut and New York within Long 

Island Sound that must undergo 

periodic maintenance dredging to 

ensure safe navigation. Some harbors 

occasionally must be deepened beyond 

historical depths to meet changing 

economic and safety needs. In order to 

manage all of the dredged material from 

harbors in the LIS region generated by 

both Federal and non-Federal interests 

in the next twenty years, the DMMP and 

DPEIS will be identifying the potential 

volume of material and identifying and 

evaluating alternatives that could be 

used to manage such a volume of 

dredged material. Thus, future Federal 

and non-Federal projects can use the 

DMMP and its associated PEIS to help 

satisfy legal requirements of NEPA, the 

Clean Water Act, and the Marine 

Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries 

Act (MPRSA). 

The LIS DMMP will include an indepth planning analysis of reasonable 

potential dredged material placement/ 

disposal alternatives, including openwater disposal, beneficial use, upland 

disposal, and treatment technologies, 

and this analysis will be used as a basis 

for future individual permit and project 

approval decisions related to 

alternatives analysis for dredging in the 

LIS region. To accomplish this, the LIS 

DMMP will examine dredging needs, 

sediment and water quality, disposal 

alternatives and environmental impacts 

on a harbor-by-harbor basis. Consistent 

with the Designation Rule for the 

Western and Central Long Island Sound 

Dredged Material Disposal Sites, 40 CFR 

228.14(b)(4), the DMMP will be 

identifying potential procedures and 

standards for the use of practicable 

alternatives for dredged material 

disposal in Long Island Sound. The 

various alternatives and the information 

associated with such plans will provide 

the Corps and other navigation users 

with an array of feasible options that 

will meet their dredged material 

management needs. 

The LIS DMMP and DPEIS will 

identify a practicable, comprehensive 

and coordinated regional practicable 

strategy for technically feasible and 

environmentally sound management of 

material dredged from Long Island 

Sound. These documents will identify 

potential environmentally acceptable, 

practicable management alternatives 

that can be utilized by various dredging 

proponents in their analysis of options 

to manage dredging projects. These 

alternatives will likely include, but not 

be limited to: 

∑ Open-water placement. 

∑ Alternative management strategies 

for treating or reusing dredged 

materials, including the use of 

decontamination and sediment 

processing technologies. 

∑ Beneficial reuse of dredged material 

such as: 

Æ Open and closed landfills; 

Æ Existing upland dredged material 

disposal areas; 

Æ Current or proposed 

transportation improvements; 

Æ Temporary dredged material 

storage; 

Æ Asphalt, cement and other 

aggregate use; 

Æ Large scale development use; 

Æ Brownfield remediation; 

Æ Use at closed mines and quarries; 

Æ Placement at beaches for 

beneficial use; 

Æ Agricultural use; 

Æ Habitat restoration projects. 

Full public participation of affected 

Federal, state, and local agencies, 

affected Indian tribes, and other 

interested private organizations and 

parties is invited. All interested parties 

are encouraged to submit their names 

and addresses to (see ADDRESSES), to be 

placed on the project mailing list to 

receive fact sheets, newsletters and 

related public notices. The Corps will 

hold public scoping meetings later this 

year or in 2008 at different locations 

around the LIS region. Topics and 

issues to be addressed in the DPEIS, 

identified in part from responses to this 

Notice of Intent, will be summarized. 

The public is invited to attend the 

scoping meetings and identify 

additional issues that should be 

addressed in the DPEIS. The actual date, 

place and time of the scoping meetings 

will be announced in respective local 

newspapers and on the Corps New 

England District Web page. 

It is estimated that the Draft PEIS will 

be made available to the public in the 

Fall of 2012. 

Dated: 22 August 2007. 

Lieutenant Colonel Andrew B. Nelson, 

Deputy District Commander, U.S. Army Corps 

of Engineers, New England. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Navy 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement/ 

Overseas Environmental Impact 

Statement for Navy Atlantic Fleet 

Training in the Gulf of Mexico Range 

Complex and To Announce Public 

Scoping Meetings 

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(c) 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act of 1969, as implemented by the 

Council on Environmental Quality 

regulations (40 CFR parts 1500–1508), 

and Executive Order 12114 

(Environmental Effects Abroad of Major 

Federal Actions), the Department of the 

Navy (Navy) announces its intent to 

prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement/Overseas Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS/OEIS) to evaluate 

the potential environmental effects 

associated with naval training in the 

Gulf of Mexico (GOMEX) Range 

Complex. The Navy proposes to support 

current and emerging training 


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