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effects on air quality, water quality, 

recreation, fisheries, and transportation. 

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 is also 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 all interested parties, 

individuals, and agencies to review and 

comment on the draft EIS/EIR. 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 is 

currently scheduled to be available for 

public review and comment in Spring 

2012. 

Dated: April 25, 2011. 

William J. Leady, 

Colonel, U.S. Army, District Commander. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army, Corps of 

Engineers 

Intent to Prepare a Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement for the Proposed 

Cordova Hills Project in Sacramento 

County, CA, Corps Permit Application 

Number SPK–2004–00116 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DOD. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent. 

SUMMARY: In 2008, the Cordova Hills 

Ownership Group (applicant) submitted 

a Department of the Army permit 

application for the proposed Cordova 

Hills project. On June 18, 2008, the U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento 

District (Corps) determined that the 

proposed project may result in 

significant impacts to the environment, 

and that the preparation of an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

is necessary. A revised permit 

application was submitted by the 

applicant on March 15, 2011. 

The applicant proposes to implement 

a large-scale, mixed-use, mixed-density 

master planned community with an 

integrated university, neighborhood and 

regional commercial and residential 

uses and associated infrastructure. The 

proposed project consists of 

approximately: 1,000 acres of residential 

uses ranging from one dwelling unit per 

acre to 40 dwelling units per acres; 

1,380,000 square feet of retail and 

commercial uses; 240 acres of private 

university campus; 635 acres of 

recreation areas, parks, natural avoided 

areas and open space corridors; 538 

acres for on-site wetland and habitat 

avoidance, and; 18 miles of off-street/ 

multi-use trails. 

The project site is approximately 

2,688 acres and contains 89.106 acres of 

waters of the United States. The 

proposed project would involve the 

discharge of fill material into 

approximately 39.630 acres of waters of 

the United States, including vernal 

pools, seasonal wetlands, seeps, 

intermittent drainages, and stock ponds. 

The proposed project may also have 

have indirect impacts on other waters of 

the U.S. 

DATES: The Corps will conduct a public 

scoping meeting that will be held on 

Tuesday, September 13, 2011 from 5 

p.m. to 7 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The scoping meeting will be 

held at Rancho Cordova City Hall, 

located at 2729 Prospect Park Drive, 

Rancho Cordova, CA 95670. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Lisa Gibson, (916) 557–5288, e-mail: 

lisa.m.gibson2@usace.army.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Interested 

parties are invited to submit written 

comments on the permit application on 

or before October 26, 2011. Scoping 

comments should be submitted within 

the next 60 days, but may be submitted 

at any time prior to publication of the 

Draft EIS. To submit comments on this 

notice or for questions about the 

proposed action and the Draft EIS, 

please contact Lisa Gibson, 650 Capitol 

Mall, Suite 5–200, Sacramento, CA 

95814–4708. Parties interested in being 

added to the Corps’ electronic mail 

notification list for the proposed project 

can e-mail a request to spk-regulatoryinfo@usace.army.mil and indicate 

which list you would like your e-mail 

address to be added. Please refer to 

Identification Number SPK–2004–00116 

in any correspondence. 

The proposed Cordova Hills Project 

site is located in unincorporated eastern 

Sacramento County. The site is bordered 

on the west by Grant Line Road, and on 

the north by Glory Lane. The proposed 

project site is north of Kiefer Road and 

west of the Carson Creek drainage, in 

portions of Sections 13, 14, 23 and 24, 

Township 8 North, Range 7 East, and 

Section 18, Township 8 North, Range 8 

East, Mount Diablo Meridian. 

A wetland delineation of the project 

site, which has been approved by the 

Corps, indicates that a total of 

approximately 89 acres of waters of the 

United States are present within the 

proposed project area, including: 47.5 

acres of vernal pools; 22.9 acres of 

seasonal wetlands; 0.01 acres of seeps; 

16.9 acres of intermittent drainage; 0.17 

acres of Carson Creek, and; 1.5 acres of 

man-made stock ponds. 

The EIS will include alternatives to 

the Proposed Action that will meet 

NEPA requirements for a reasonable 

range of alternatives, and will also meet 

the requirements of CWA Section 

404(b)(1) Guidelines. The alternatives to 

be evaluated within the EIS have not yet 

been developed, but will, at a minimum, 

include the No Action Alternative, the 

Proposed Project Alternative, additional 

on-site alternatives, and off-site 

alternatives. 

Sacramento County, as the lead 

agency responsible for compliance with 

the California Environmental Quality 

Act, is currently preparing a Draft 

Environmental Impact Report (DEIR). 

The DEIR is expected to be released in 

the fall of 2011. 

The Corps’ public involvement 

program includes several opportunities 

to provide verbal and written comments 

on the proposed Cordova Hills Project 

through the EIS process. Affected 

federal, state, and local agencies, Native 

American tribes, and other interested 

private organizations and parties are 

invited to participate. Potentially 

significant issues to be analyzed in 

depth in the EIS include loss of waters 

of the United States (including 

wetlands), and impacts related to 

cultural resources, biological resources, 

air quality, hydrology and water quality, 

noise, traffic, aesthetics, utilities and 

service systems, and socioeconomic 

effects. 

The Corps will initiate formal 

consultation with the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (USFWS) under 

Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act 

for impacts to listed species that may 

result from the proposed project. The 

Corps will also consult with the State 

Historic Preservation Office under 

Section 106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act for properties listed or 

potentially eligible for listing on the 

National Register of Historic Places, as 

appropriate. 

The Draft EIS is expected to be made 

available to the public in the summer of 

2012. 

Dated: August 15, 2011. 

William J. Leady, 

Colonel, U.S. Army District Engineer. 

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