[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 168 (Wednesday, August 29, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 44035]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-18723]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers


Notice of Intent To Prepare Supplement II to the Final 
Environmental Impact Statement, Mississippi River and Tributaries 
(MR&T) Project, Mississippi River Mainline Levees and Channel 
Improvement

AGENCY: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.

ACTION: Notice of Intent; extension of public comment period.

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SUMMARY: USACE is announcing the public scoping meeting dates, times, 
and locations and extending the scoping comment period for the Notice 
of Intent (NOI) to prepare Supplement II (SEIS II) to the Final 
Environmental Impact Statement, Mississippi River and Tributaries 
(MR&T) Project, Mississippi River Mainline Levees and Channel 
Improvement of 1976 (1976 EIS), as updated and supplemented by 
Supplement No. 1, Mississippi River and Tributaries Project, 
Mississippi River Mainline Levee Enlargement and Seepage Control of 
1998 (SEIS I) to the 1976 EIS. The NOI was published in the Federal 
Register on July 13, 2018. The public comment period on the NOI was 
scheduled to end on October 1, 2018. USACE is extending the comment 
period by 14 days and will now consider comments received through 
October 15, 2018.

DATES: The deadline for receipt of scoping comments is extended to 
October 15, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should be submitted: (1) To USACE at public 
scoping meetings; (2) by regular U.S. Mail mailed to: U.S. Army Corps 
of Engineers, ATTN: CEMVN-PDC-UDC, 167 North Main Street, Room B-202, 
Memphis, Tennessee 38103-1894; or (3) by email to: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#014c534d2c524448522c334174726062642f60736c782f6c686d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="034e514f2e50464a502e314376706260662d62716e7a2d6e6a6f">[email protected]</span></a>. Please include your name and return address on the 
first page of your written comments. All personally identifiable 
information voluntarily submitted by a commenter may be publicly 
accessible. Do not submit confidential business information or 
otherwise sensitive or protected information.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For direct questions about the NEPA 
process and upcoming scoping meetings please contact: Mr. Mike Thron, 
by mail at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, ATTN: CEMVN-PDC-UDC, 167 North 
Main Street, Room B-202, Memphis, Tennessee 38103-1894; by telephone at 
(901) 544-0708; or by email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#bbf6e9f796e8fef2e89689fbcec8dad8de95dac9d6c295d6d2d7"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c08d928ced93858993edf280b5b3a1a3a5eea1b2adb9eeada9ac">[email protected]</span></a>. Additional 
project and meeting information is also available at the Project 
website at: http://www.mvk.usace.army.mil/MRLSEIS/.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The dates, locations, and times of the 
public scoping meetings are:
    1. September 10, 2018 at the Holiday Inn Blytheville, 1121 East 
Main Street, Blytheville, Arkansas 72315 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
    2. September 11, 2018 at the Vicksburg Convention Center, 1600 
Mulberry Street, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 39180 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
    3. September 12, 2018 at the Louisiana Department of Environmental 
Quality, Room C111, 602 North 5th Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70802 
from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
    4. September 13, 2018 at United States Army Corps of Engineers, New 
Orleans District Headquarters District Assembly Room, 7400 Leake 
Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

    Dated: August 22, 2018.
Edward P. Lambert,
Chief, Environmental Compliance Branch, Regional Planning and 
Environmental Division South.
[FR Doc. 2018-18723 Filed 8-28-18; 8:45 am]
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