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(measures) along a 6.4-mile long reach 

between the barge canal downstream to 

the South Cross Levee. Primary 

deficiencies of the levee include 

through-seepage, under-seepage, and 

embankment instability (e.g., overly 

steepened slopes). As part of the project, 

an EIS/EIR is being prepared. USACE 

has authority under Section 14 of the 

Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 (as 

amended) (33 U.S.C. 408), over 

alterations to federal flood control 

project levees and any such alterations 

as proposed by WSAFCA are subject to 

approval by USACE. USACE also has 

authority under Section 404 of the Clean 

Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1344) over 

activities involving the discharge of 

dredged or fill material to waters of the 

United States, which are known to be in 

the project area. Under Section 10 of the 

Rives and Harbors Act, the District 

Engineer may permit activities which do 

not affect navigable waters. Due to these 

authorities, USACE is acting as the lead 

agency for the EIS pursuant to NEPA. 

WSAFCA will be acting as the lead 

agency for the EIR according to CEQA 

as the public agency that has the 

principal responsibility for carrying out 

and approving the project. 

2. Alternatives. The EIS/EIR will 

consider several alternatives for 

reducing flood damage. Each alternative 

analyzed during the investigation will 

consist of a combination of several 

measures to reduce the risk of flooding. 

These measures include, but are not 

limited to, installing slurry cutoff walls, 

constructing seepage or stability berms, 

relief wells, rock slope protection, slope 

flattening, and potential new levee 

alignments (setback or adjacent levees). 

3. Scoping Process. 

a. Public scoping meetings will be 

held on September 15, 2011, to present 

information to the public and to receive 

comments from the public on the 

project. These meetings are intended to 

initiate the process to involve concerned 

individuals, and local, State, and 

Federal agencies. 

b. Significant issues to be analyzed in 

depth in the environmental documents 

include effects on hydraulics, wetlands 

and other waters of the U.S., vegetation 

and wildlife resources, special-status 

species, aesthetics, cultural resources, 

recreation, land use, fisheries, 

agricultural resources, water quality, air 

quality, transportation, and 

socioeconomics; and cumulative effects 

of related projects in the study area. 

c. USACE is consulting with the State 

Historic Preservation Officer to comply 

with the National Historic Preservation 

Act and with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service and National Marine Fisheries 

Service to comply with the Endangered 

Species Act. USACE also is coordinating 

with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

to comply with the Fish and Wildlife 

Coordination Act. 

d. A 45-day public review period will 

be provided for individuals and 

agencies to review and comment on the 

draft environmental document. All 

interested parties are encouraged to 

respond to this notice and provide a 

current address if they wish to be 

notified of the draft EIS/EIR circulation. 

4. Availability. The draft EIS/EIR for 

the Southport Sacramento River EIP is 

scheduled to be available for public 

review and comment in mid-2012. 

Dated: August 17, 2011. 

William J. Leady, 

COL, EN, Commanding. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army; Corps of 

Engineers 

Intent To Prepare a Draft Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Larose to Golden Meadow 

Hurricane Protection Project, PostAuthorization Change Study, in 

Lafourche Parish, LA 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers (USACE) intends to prepare a 

supplemental environmental impact 

statement (SEIS) for the Larose to 

Golden Meadow Hurricane Protection 

Project, Post-Authorization Change 

(PAC) Study. This project was originally 

authorized in 1965. Construction began 

in 1972 and is still underway. The PAC 

Study was initiated to identify and 

evaluate modifications needed to ensure 

that completion of project features, 

designed and constructed before 

development of the post-Katrina 

Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk 

Reduction System (HSDRRS) Design 

Guidelines, are in compliance with 

these new guidelines. 

The subject SEIS will supplement the 

original environmental impact 

statement (EIS) prepared for the project 

as authorized in 1965. The Statement of 

Findings for the original EIS was signed 

on April 4, 1975. An SEIS was 

subsequently prepared to address 

proposed modifications to the 

authorized plan. The Record of Decision 

for this first SEIS was signed on May 20, 

1985. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions concerning the draft SEIS 

should be addressed to Charlene 

Carmack, Rock Island District, Corps of 

Engineers, CEMVP–PD–C, Clock Tower 

Building, P.O. Box 2004, Rock Island, IL 

61204–2004; telephone (309) 794–5570; 

fax (309) 794–5157; or be e-mail: 

Charlene.Carmack@usace.army.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. Authority. This SEIS will be the 

second supplement to the EIS originally 

prepared for the Larose to Golden 

Meadow Hurricane Protection Project. 

This project was authorized by the 

Flood Control Act of 27 October 1965, 

House Document No. 184, 89th 

Congress (Pub. L. 89–298), which 

authorized the project ‘‘hurricane-flood 

protection at Grand Isle and Vicinity, 

Louisiana’’ to provide protection in 

accordance with the recommendation of 

the Chief of Engineers in his report 

entitled ‘‘Grand Isle and Vicinity, La.’’, 

and contained in House Document No. 

184, Eighty-ninth Congress, 1st Session. 

The authorized project is a ring levee 

system with associated control 

structures that provides hurricane and 

storm damage risk reduction to 

communities located along both sides of 

Bayou Lafourche in Lafourche Parish, 

Louisiana. The overall levee system is 

approximately 43 miles long, extending 

from Larose to a point 2 miles south of 

Golden Meadow, Louisiana. Roughly 

25,000 people live in the communities 

of Larose, Galliano, Cutoff, and Golden 

Meadow, which are located within the 

ring levee system. 

2. Alternatives. Alternatives currently 

being evaluated in the PAC Study 

include: (1) Stabilize the existing levee 

using current criteria for still-water 

elevations, which would complete the 

project without exceeding the 1965 

authorized elevation listed in the Grand 

Isle, Louisiana, and Vicinity General 

Design Memorandum (with datum 

adjustments), and meet the current 

approved design guidelines excluding 

the Post-Hurricane Katrina hydrology 

and hydraulics design guidelines; (2) 

modify the 1965 design to complete the 

project providing a level of risk 

reduction based on the 1965 storm surge 

design elevations (with datum 

adjustments) using the current HSDRRS 

Design Guidelines to include the PostHurricane Katrina surge models; (3) 

complete the existing levee system in 

general conformance with the 

previously authorized design. These 

alternatives will be further formulated 

and developed during the scoping 

process and an appropriate range of 

alternatives will be considered in the 

new SEIS. These may include 


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alternatives that are in addition to those 

listed herein. 

3. Public Involvement. Public 

involvement, an essential part of the 

SEIS process, is integral to assessing the 

environmental consequences of the 

proposed action and improving the 

quality of the environmental 

decisionmaking. The public includes 

affected and interested Federal, State, 

and local agencies, Indian Tribes, 

concerned citizens, stakeholders, and 

other interested parties. Public 

participation in the SEIS process will be 

strongly encouraged, both formally and 

informally, to enhance the probability of 

a more technically accurate, 

economically feasible, and socially and 

politically acceptable SEIS. Public 

involvement will include but is not 

limited to: information dissemination; 

identification of problems, needs and 

opportunities; idea generation; public 

education; problem solving; providing 

feedback on proposals; evaluation of 

alternatives; conflict resolution by 

consensus; public and scoping notices 

and meetings; public, stakeholder and 

advisory groups consultation and 

meetings; and making the SEIS and 

supporting information readily available 

in conveniently located places, such as 

libraries and on the world wide Web. 

4. Scoping. Scoping, an early and 

open process for identifying the scope of 

significant issues related to the 

proposed action and alternatives to be 

addressed in the SEIS, will be used to: 

(a) Identify the affected public and 

agency concerns; (b) facilitate an 

efficient SEIS preparation process; (c) 

define the issues and alternatives that 

will be examined in detail in the SEIS; 

and (d) save time in the overall process 

by helping to ensure that the draft SEIS 

adequately addresses relevant issues. 

The USACE anticipates conducting a 

public scoping meeting for this SEIS in 

October 2011. The exact date, time, and 

location of this meeting, which will be 

held in the general project area, have 

not yet been determined. This 

information will be publicized once the 

meeting arrangements have been made. 

5. Coordination. The USACE and the 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) 

have formally committed to work 

together to conserve, protect, and restore 

fish and wildlife resources while 

ensuring environmental sustainability of 

our Nation’s water resources under the 

January 22, 2003, Partnership 

Agreement for Water Resources and 

Fish and Wildlife. The USFWS will 

provide a Fish and Wildlife 

Coordination Act Report. Coordination 

will be maintained with the USFWS and 

the National Marine Fisheries Service 

(NMFS) regarding threatened and 

endangered species under their 

respective jurisdictional 

responsibilities. Coordination will be 

maintained with the NMFS regarding 

essential fish habitat. Coordination will 

be maintained with the U.S. Coast 

Guard (USCG) regarding navigation 

issues. In addition, USFWS, NMFS, 

USCG and the U.S. Geological Survey 

will be invited to be cooperating 

agencies. Coordination will be 

maintained with the Natural Resources 

Conservation Service regarding prime 

and unique farmlands. The U.S. 

Department of Agriculture will be 

consulted regarding the ‘‘Swampbuster’’ 

provisions of the Food Security Act. 

Coordination will be maintained with 

the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency concerning compliance with 

Executive Order 12898, ‘‘Federal Action 

to Address Environmental Justice in 

Minority Populations and Low-Income 

Populations.’’ Coordination will be 

maintained with the Advisory Council 

on Historic Preservation and the State 

Historic Preservation Officer. The 

Federal Aviation Administration will be 

consulted regarding potential impacts to 

local airports. The Louisiana 

Department of Natural Resources will be 

consulted regarding consistency with 

the Coastal Zone Management Act. The 

Louisiana Department of Environmental 

Quality will be consulted concerning 

potential impacts to water quality. The 

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and 

Fisheries will be consulted concerning 

potential impacts to Natural and Scenic 

Rivers and to fish and wildlife 

resources. 

5. Availability of Draft SEIS. The 

earliest that the draft SEIS will be 

available for public review would be in 

the fall of 2012. The draft SEIS or a 

notice of availability will be distributed 

to affected Federal, State, and local 

agencies, Indian Tribes, and other 

interested parties. 

Dated: August 11, 2011. 

Edward R. Fleming, 

Colonel, U.S. Army District Commander. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

ACTION: Correction notice. 

SUMMARY: On August 19, 2011, the 

Department of Education published a 

60-day public comment period notice in 

the Federal Register (Page 51960, 

Column 1) for the information 

collection, ‘‘Consolidated State 

Performance Report’’. The title should 

be corrected to read ‘‘Consolidated State 

Application’’. The total estimated 

number of responses should read 30 

responses. The total estimated number 

of burden hours should read 2,400 

hours. All other information is correct 

and up to date. The Director, 

Information Collection Clearance 

Division, Privacy, Information and 

Records Management Services, Office of 

Management, hereby issues a correction 

notice as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

Dated: August 23, 2011. 

Darrin A. King, 

Director, Information Collection Clearance 

Division, Privacy, Information and Records 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

[FR Doc. 2011–21929 Filed 8–25–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP11–532–000] 

Pivotal LNG, Inc.; Notice of Application 

Take notice that on August 8, 2011, 

Pivotal LNG, Inc. (Pivotal), Ten 

Peachtree Place, Suite 1000, Atlanta, 

Georgia 30309, filed with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission 

(Commission) an application under 

section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act 

(NGA) and Parts 157 and 284 of the 

regulations of the FERC, requesting: (i) 

To the extent necessary, a limited 

jurisdiction blanket transportation 

certificate for the purpose of authorizing 

incidental transportation of natural gas 

as a by-product of the operation of nonjurisdictional liquefied natural gas 

(LNG) liquefaction and storage facility 

in support of its LNG vehicular and 

other end-use fuel business; (ii) a waiver 

of all regulatory, accounting, and 

reporting requirements applicable to 

natural gas companies under the NGA 

and Natural Gas Policy Act, and (iii) 

expedited consideration and action by 

the Commission as the requested 

approvals are a condition to closing on 

the proposed acquisition by Pivotal of 

the LNG facility, all as more fully 

described in the application. This filing 

is available for review at the 

Commission in the Public Reference 

Room or may be viewed on the 

Commission’s Web site at http:// 

www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. 

Enter the docket number excluding the 

last three digits in the docket number 


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