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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army, Corps of 

Engineers; 

Notice of Availability of Supplemental 

Draft Environmental Impact Statement 

for the Proposed Rio del Oro Specific 

Plan Project, in the City of Rancho 

Cordova, Sacramento County, CA 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), 

Sacramento District published a notice 

in the Federal Register on December 8, 

2006 (71 FR 71142–71143), informing 

the public of the availability of the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) 

for the Rio del Oro Specific Plan Project. 

USACE, Sacramento District has 

prepared a Supplemental Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement 

(SDEIS) in response to new information. 

It is now available for review and 

comment. 

The SDEIS provides new information 

and additional analyses related to 

utilities and service systems 

(specifically, water supply) and 

biological resources. Like the 2006 

DEIS, the SDEIS analyzes the potential 

effects of implementing each of five 

alternative scenarios for a mixed-use 

development in the approximately 

3,828-acre Rio del Oro Specific Plan 

area, in the City of Rancho Cordova, 

Sacramento County, CA. The 

alternatives considered in detail in the 

SDEIS are: (1) Proposed Project/ 

Proposed Action (i.e., Proposed Project 

Alternative), the Applicants’ Preferred 

Alternative; (2) High Density (Increased 

Densities Consistent with Sacramento 

Area Council of Governments 

Blueprint); (3) Impact Minimization; (4) 

No Federal Action (No Section 404 of 

the Clean Water Act Permit); and (5) No 

Project/No Action (No development). 

DATES: All written comments must be 

postmarked on or before July 6, 2008. A 

public hearing will be held on May 22, 

2008 at 6 p.m. at the Rancho Cordova 

City Hall, located at 2729 Prospect Park 

Drive, Suite 220, Rancho Cordova, CA 

95670. Oral and written comments will 

be accepted at the public hearing. 

Written and oral comments will be 

given equal weight and all comments 

received or postmarked by the date of 

the hearing, or by the above date in the 

absence of a hearing, will be considered 

by the Corps in preparing the Final EIS. 

Comments received or postmarked after 

the date of the hearing, or after the 

above date in the absence of a hearing, 

will be considered to the extent 

practicable. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted in writing to: Kathleen 

Dadey, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 

Sacramento District, Regulatory Branch, 

1325 J Street, Room 1480, Sacramento, 

CA 95814–2922, or via e-mail to 

Kathleen.A.Dadey@usace.army.mil. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kathleen Dadey at (916) 557–7253. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

environmental effects of five 

alternatives were evaluated in detail in 

the 2006 DEIS. Under the Proposed 

Project/Proposed Action (Proposed 

Project Alternative), buildout of the 

project would occur in five phases over 

25–30 years. The project provides for 

construction of approximately 11,601 

residential dwelling units in three 

residential land use classifications on 

1,920 acres, along with commercial land 

uses, neighborhood parks, and other 

uses such as a landscape corridor and 

greenbelt, and several public schools. 

New utilities and communications 

infrastructure would be installed and 

new roadways and on- and off-site 

infrastructure improvements would be 

completed. The project designates a 

507-acre wetland preserve area and two 

elderberry preserve areas on the site. 

The four alternatives to the Proposed 

Project/Proposed Action described in 

the 2006 DEIS are as follows: 

(1) The High Density Alternative 

embraces the concept of ‘‘Smart 

Growth,’’ consistent with the 

Sacramento Area Council of 

Governments Regional Blueprint. Under 

Smart Growth principles, areas planned 

for development are developed at higher 

densities. Although these higher 

densities may result in greater localized 

impacts on resources, the overall area of 

disturbance is reduced by concentrating 

development in particular locations. 

(2) The Impact Minimization 

Alternative would reconfigure project 

components to reduce impacts to waters 

of the United States, including wetlands 

and high-quality biological habitat. 

(3) The No Federal Action Alternative 

was designed to allow some 

development of the project site while 

avoiding the placement of dredged or 

fill material into waters of the United 

States. 

(4) The No Project/No Action 

Alternative would preclude 

development of the project; under this 

alternative, the majority of the project 

site would remain under the jurisdiction 

of the City of Rancho Cordova. 

After the 2006 DEIS was issued, 

USACE, Sacramento District determined 

that the water supply and biological 

resources portions of the DEIS should be 

supplemented, as described below. 

The SDEIS includes a revised watersupply analysis that describes the 

various sources of water for the project, 

including short-term sources for 

development of Phase 1 and long-term 

water supplies for all phases of 

development, and impacts associated 

with providing water to the project. The 

analysis addresses the following 

elements set forth in the case of 

Vineyard Area Citizens for Responsible 

Growth, Inc. v. City of Rancho Cordova, 

40 Cal. 4th 412 (2007), which was 

decided after the 2006 DEIS was 

released: 

• Reasonable likelihood of the water 

sources proving available. 

• Identification and quantification of 

water demand from project and 

cumulative development. 

• Reasonable likelihood of identified 

water supply meeting the demands of 

project and cumulative development. 

• Analysis of alternative sources of 

water and project contingencies 

(including curtailment) if water-supply 

sources are not reasonably likely. 

• Impacts of water-supply 

infrastructure. 

The revised water-supply analysis in 

the SDEIS also includes consideration of 

potentially significant impacts that 

could result from constructing a new 

water conveyance pipeline and booster 

pump station, as well as potentially 

significant impacts that could occur 

from curtailment of development as a 

mitigation measure. These impacts were 

not discussed as part of the 2006 DEIS. 

The SDEIS also contains a revised 

biological resources section that 

incorporates information responding to 

comments raised during the DEIS 

public-review period to ensure that the 

analysis considers significant, relevant 

public comments. This section also 

contains new information related to 

additional biological resource studies 

that have been performed by the 

applicants since the DEIS was 

circulated, and some of the mitigation 

measures have been expanded or 

clarified. The expanded mitigation 

measures do not result in new 

significant impacts. The biological 

resources section also contains 

additional analysis of project 

consistency with the biological 

resources goals in the City of Rancho 

Cordova’s general plan. 

USACE invites full public 

participation to promote open 

communication and better decisionmaking. All persons and organizations 

that have an interest in the Rio del Oro 

Specific Plan Project are urged to 


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participate in the NEPA process. A 

public hearing will be held as described 

in the DATES section. This hearing will 

be announced in advance through 

notices, media news releases, and/or 

mailings. 

Copies of the SDEIS may be reviewed 

at the following locations: 1. U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District 

Web Site: http:// 

www.spk.usace.army.mil/; 2. City of 

Rancho Cordova City Hall, 2729 

Prospect Park Drive, Rancho Cordova, 

CA 95670; 3. City of Rancho Cordova 

Planning Department Web site: http:// 

www.cityofranchocordova.org/ 

Index.aspx?page=128. 

Dated: April 29, 2008. 

Christine Altendorf, 

Acting District Engineer. 

[FR Doc. E8–10216 Filed 5–6–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3710–EZ–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Elementary and Secondary 

Education; Overview Information; 

Advanced Placement Incentive 

Program; Notice Inviting Applications 

for New Awards for Fiscal Year (FY) 

2008 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA) Number: 84.330C. 

DATES: Applications Available: May 7, 

2008. 

Deadline for Notice of Intent To 

Apply: June 6, 2008. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: July 7, 2008. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: September 4, 2008. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Purpose of Program: The Advanced 

Placement Incentive (API) program 

awards competitive grants designed to 

increase the successful participation of 

low-income students in advanced 

placement courses and tests. The 

program expands opportunities for lowincome students to take college-level 

classes and earn college credit while 

still in high school. The program also 

supports efforts to raise the rigor of the 

academic curriculum for all students 

attending high-poverty high schools. 

Priority: In accordance with 34 CFR 

75.105(b)(2)(iv), this priority is from 

section 1705(c) of the ESEA (20 U.S.C 

6535(c)). 

Absolute Priority: For FY 2008 and 

any subsequent year in which we make 

awards from the list of unfunded 

applicants from this competition, this 

priority is an absolute priority. Under 34 

CFR 75.105(c)(3) we consider only 

applications that meet this priority. 

This priority is: 

Implementation of Advanced 

Placement Programs in High-Poverty 

Schools. 

This priority supports projects that 

expand access for low-income 

individuals to advanced placement 

programs by: 

(1) Developing, enhancing, or 

expanding advanced placement 

programs in English, mathematics, and 

science in high schools with a high 

concentration of low-income students 

and a pervasive need for access to 

advanced placement programs; 

(2) Involving business and community 

organizations in the activities to be 

assisted; and 

(3) Providing matching funds from 

State, local, or other sources to pay for 

the costs of activities to be assisted. 

Note: In order to meet this absolute 

priority, an application must identify the 

specific high schools that will receive project 

services, and provide evidence that those 

schools have a high concentration of lowincome students. 

Competitive Preference Priorities: 

Within this absolute priority, we give 

competitive preference to applications 

that address the following priorities. 

Competitive Preference Priority 1: 

This priority is from the notice of final 

priorities for discretionary grant 

programs published in the Federal 

Register on October 11, 2006 (71 FR 

60045). 

Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i) we 

award up to an additional 4 points to an 

application, depending on how well the 

application meets this priority. 

This priority is: 

Critical-Need Languages. 

This priority supports projects that 

support activities to enable students to 

achieve proficiency or advanced 

proficiency or to develop programs in 

one or more of the following less 

commonly taught languages: Arabic, 

Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, and 

languages in the Indic, Iranian, and 

Turkic language families. 

Competitive Preference Priority 2: In 

accordance with 34 CFR 

75.105(b)(2)(iv), this priority is from 

section 1705(c) of the ESEA (20 U.S.C. 

6535(c)). 

Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i) we 

award an additional 1 point to an 

application that meets this priority. 

This priority is: 

On-Line Advanced Placement 

Courses. 

This priority supports projects that 

demonstrate an intent to carry out 

activities to increase the availability of, 

and participation in, on-line advanced 

placement courses. 

Within this absolute priority, we are 

particularly interested in applications 

that address the following invitational 

priority. 

Invitational Priority: For FY 2008 and 

any subsequent year in which we make 

awards from the list of unfunded 

applicants from this competition, this 

priority is an invitational priority. 

Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(1), we do not 

give an application that meets this 

invitational priority a competitive or 

absolute preference over other 

applications. 

This priority is: 

Training and Incentives for Advanced 

Placement Teachers. 

This priority supports projects that 

seek to increase the successful 

participation of low-income individuals 

in advanced placement courses and 

tests by: 

(1) Compensating teachers of 

advanced placement courses for 

completing intensive professional 

development that enhances their 

knowledge of the advanced placement 

subjects they teach; and 

(2) Providing financial incentives that 

reward teachers of advanced placement 

courses for the successful performance 

of their students on advanced placement 

tests. 

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 6535–6537. 

Applicable Regulations: (a) The 

Education Department General 

Administrative Regulations (EDGAR) in 

34 CFR parts 74, 75, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 

84, 85, 97, 98, and 99. (b) The notice of 

final priorities for discretionary grant 

programs published in the Federal 

Register on October 11, 2006 (71 FR 

60045). 

II. Award Information 

Type of Award: Discretionary grants. 

Estimated Available Funds: 

$12,400,000. 

Contingent upon the availability of 

funds and the quality of applications, 

we may make additional awards in FY 

2009 from the list of unfunded 

applicants from this competition. 

Estimated Range of Awards: $93,040–

975,163. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

$590,476. 

Maximum Award: We will reject any 

application that proposes a budget 

exceeding $1,000,000 for a single budget 

period of 12 months. The Assistant 

Secretary for Elementary and Secondary 

Education may change the maximum 

amount through a notice published in 

the Federal Register . 

Estimated Number of Awards: 21. 


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