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to the committee, in response to the 

stated agenda of the open meeting or in 

regard to the committee’s mission in 

general. Written comments or 

statements should be submitted to Mrs. 

Ghostlaw, the committee Designated 

Federal Officer, via electronic mail, the 

preferred mode of submission, at the 

address listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section. Each page 

of the comment or statement must 

include the author’s name, title or 

affiliation, address, and daytime phone 

number. Written comments or 

statements being submitted in response 

to the agenda set forth in this notice 

must be received by the Designated 

Federal Official at least seven business 

days prior to the meeting to be 

considered by the committee. The 

Designated Federal Official will review 

all timely submitted written comments 

or statements with the committee 

Chairperson, and ensure the comments 

are provided to all members of the 

committee before the meeting. Written 

comments or statements received after 

this date may not be provided to the 

committee until its next meeting. 

Pursuant to 41 CFR 102–3.140d, the 

committee is not obligated to allow a 

member of the public to speak or 

otherwise address the committee during 

the meeting. Members of the public will 

be permitted to make verbal comments 

during the committee meeting only at 

the time and in the manner described 

below. If a member of the public is 

interested in making a verbal comment 

at the open meeting, that individual 

must submit a request, with a brief 

statement of the subject matter, to be 

addressed by the comment, at least three 

(3) business days in advance to the 

committee’s Designated Federal Official, 

via electronic mail, the preferred mode 

of submission, at the address listed in 

the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section. The Designated Federal Official 

will log each request, in the order 

received, and in consultation with the 

committee Chairperson, determine 

whether the subject matter of each 

comment is relevant to the committee’s 

mission and/or the topics to be 

addressed in this public meeting. A 15- 

minute period near the end of the 

meeting will be available for verbal 

public comments. Members of the 

public who have requested to make a 

verbal comment and whose comments 

have been deemed relevant under the 

process described above will be allotted 

no more than three (3) minutes during 

this period, and will be invited to speak 

in the order in which their requests 

were received by the Designated Federal 

Official. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

Performance Review Board 

Membership 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Performance Review 

Board Membership list published in the 

Federal Register on Friday, October 17, 

2014 (79 FR 62432) is amended to 

include the following individual: Mr. 

Gabriel O. Camarillo, Principal Deputy 

Assistant Secretary of the Army 

(Acquisition, Logistics and Technology), 

Office of the Assistant Secretary of the 

Army (Acquisition, Logistics and 

Technology). 

The Department of the Army 

Performance Review Board will be 

composed of a subset of the individuals 

listed here and in the Federal Register 

on October 17, 2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Barbara Smith, Civilian Senior Leader 

Management Office, 111 Army 

Pentagon, Washington, DC 20310–0111. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army; Corps of 

Engineers 

Notice of Availability—Final 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

Revised Water Control Manuals for the 

Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River 

Basin 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 

Mobile District (USACE), has released a 

Final Environmental Impact Statement 

(FEIS) for the update of the AlabamaCoosa-Tallapoosa River Basin (ACT) 

Water Control Master Manual (Master 

Manual). USACE will accept comments 

during a public comment period that 

began with the Notice of Availability 

published by the Environmental 

Protection Agency on November 7, 2014 

and will end 30 days after that date. 

DATES: Comments on the FEIS are due 

by December 8, 2014 and should be 

submitted as indicated in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Lewis Sumner at telephone (251) 694– 

3857. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Master Manual includes appendices 

prepared for individual projects in the 

ACT Basin and is the guide used by 

USACE to operate a system of five 

federal reservoir projects in the basin— 

Allatoona Dam and Lake, Carters Dam 

and Lake and Carters Reregulation Dam, 

Robert F. Henry Lock and Dam and R.E. 

‘‘Bob’’ Woodruff Lake, Millers Ferry 

Lock and Dam and William ‘‘Bill’’ 

Dannelly Lake, and Claiborne Lock and 

Dam and Lake. Alabama Power 

Company (APC) regulates four nonfederal projects—Weiss Dam and Lake, 

Logan Martin Dam and Lake, Neely 

Henry Dam and Lake, and R.L. Harris 

Dam and Lake—in compliance with the 

projects’ Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission (FERC) licenses and in 

accordance with USACE water control 

plans for flood risk management 

regulation and navigation support. The 

updated ACT Master Manual includes 

appendices prepared for two of the four 

APC projects for which USACE has 

authority for flood risk management and 

navigation support—Neely Henry and 

R.L. Harris. Water Control Manuals for 

the remaining two APC projects—Weiss 

and Logan Martin—will be addressed 

later. 

USACE has updated the water control 

plans and manuals for the ACT Basin in 

order to improve operations for 

authorized purposes to reflect changed 

conditions since the manuals were last 

developed. The purpose and need for 

the updated Master Manual is to 

determine how operations in the federal 

projects in the ACT Basin should be 

adjusted to meet their authorized 

purposes, in light of current conditions 

and applicable law and to implement 

those operations through updated water 

control plans and manuals. The updated 

plans and manuals comply with existing 

USACE regulations and reflect 

operations under existing congressional 

authorizations, taking into account 

changes in basin hydrology and 

demands from years of growth and 

development, new/rehabilitated 

structural features, legal developments, 

and environmental issues. 

USACE regulations also provide 

specific policy and guidance for 

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as part of USACE’s overall water control 

management activities in the basin. To 

assure effectiveness, the drought plan 

incorporates a comprehensive, basinwide approach that considers the 

interrelationship of USACE projects and 

APC projects and the proposed drought 

plan was developed in collaboration 

with APC. 

USACE’s objectives for the Master 

Manual update were to develop a water 

control plan that meets the existing 

water resources needs of the basin, 

fulfills its responsibilities in operating 

for the authorized project purposes, and 

complies with all pertinent laws. The 

FEIS presents the results of USACE’s 

analysis of the environmental effects of 

the Proposed Action Alternative (PAA) 

that the USACE believes would most 

effectively accomplish these objectives. 

USACE evaluated an array of 

potential water management alternatives 

during the Master Manual update 

process, resulting in the selection of the 

PAA. One alternative available to 

USACE would be to continue with 

current operations. This approach is 

termed the No Action Alternative 

(NAA). Neither the PAA nor the NAA 

would alter existing water supply 

storage allocations or operations for 

flood risk management, fish spawning, 

or fish passage. 

The proposed action does not include 

the building, installing, or upgrading of 

any facilities. USACE will not modify 

any authorized project purpose via this 

action, although the extent to which 

some can be achieved may be affected. 

This action is limited to the way 

reservoir levels are managed and water 

is released from them. 

The Final EIS responds to, and 

incorporates agency and public 

comments received on the Draft EIS, 

which was available for public review 

from February 2013 through April 2013. 

Four public meetings were held on 

March 25th through 28th, 2013, and a 

cumulative total of 129 persons 

attended these workshops, either 

representing various agencies and 

organizations or as interested individual 

citizens. Seventy (70) comments on the 

draft EIS were submitted by agencies 

(Federal, state, and local), private 

organizations, and individuals. The 

USACE responses to substantive agency 

and public comments are provided in 

Appendix B of the FEIS. 

USACE incorporated pertinent 

revisions and updates to the EIS WCM 

based on input received during the 

public review process. The key 

revisions and updates to the draft 

documents included in the final EIS for 

the WCM update include: 

• The baseline condition for analysis 

of alternatives was revised to reflect 

actual withdrawals by Cobb CountyMarietta Water Authority (CCMWA) and 

city of Cartersville from Allatoona Lake 

as well as the City of Chatsworth from 

Carters Lake. As presented in the draft 

EIS, withdrawals from the reservoirs by 

these entities had been limited to the 

volume of water in the current water 

supply storage agreements. For purposes 

of the Hydrologic Engineering Center’s 

River Simulation (HEC-ResSim) model, 

‘‘actual withdrawals’’ are represented by 

actual water use reported throughout 

the basin in 2006, rather than the 

volume of water in the current storage 

agreements. The actual withdrawal 

amounts in 2006 are the highest levels 

of net water supply withdrawal reported 

basin-wide and represent the greatest 

stress placed on the system to date from 

withdrawals. 

• Based on further review of available 

data during and following the comment 

period for the draft EIS, USACE 

determined that revisions of the 

navigation ‘‘template’’ would be 

appropriate. The navigation template 

provides the technical information upon 

which flow requirements necessary to 

maintain navigable channel depths in 

the Alabama River are based. The HECResSim model for the ACT Basin was 

updated to incorporate these revisions. 

• Provisions for operation of the 

recently completed Hickory Log Creek 

reservoir, as permitted in the Section 

404 permit for the project (2004), were 

incorporated into the HEC-ResSim 

model. The Hickory Log Creek reservoir 

operation was not considered as part of 

the baseline condition but was included 

in the simulation of the WCM update 

alternatives. The final EIS includes an 

updated description of Hickory Log 

Creek reservoir and its relationship to 

the ACT WCM update. 

• The hydrologic period of record for 

HEC-ResSim model simulation for the 

ACT WCM update process was 

extended from 70 years (1939–2008) to 

73 years (1939–2011). 

• Based on the HEC-ResSim model 

updates described above, model 

simulations were re-run for the water 

management alternatives considered in 

the draft EIS (No Action, Alternative D, 

Alternative F, and Alternative G 

(Proposed Action), and the 

Environmental Consequences were 

updated accordingly. 

• In order to better understand the 

sensitivity of the Proposed Action 

Alternative to the potential implications 

of climate change and increased future 

water demands in the ACT Basin, model 

simulations were conducted to address 

(1) projected increases in long-range 

water supply demands in the basin, (2) 

potential for a long term reduction in 

rainfall in the basin due to climate 

change, and (3) potential for increased 

air temperature due to climate change. 

Both HEC-ResSim and HEC–5Q were 

run to compare the Proposed Action to 

these scenarios. These scenarios, the 

associated sensitivity analyses, and 

potential effects are discussed in the 

Final EIS. 

• The FERC license for Coosa River 

Projects was finalized and issued in 

June 2013, following the publication 

and review of the draft EIS for the ACT 

WCM update. The EIS document was 

updated accordingly, including 

discussion of the pertinent effects of the 

June 2013 FERC license on the ACT 

WCM update process. 

• The EIS was updated to include a 

description of the most recent activities 

by non-Federal hydropower interests 

and FERC related to potential 

development of non-Federal 

hydropower facilities at Carters 

Reregulation Dam and Claiborne Lock 

and Dam. 

• Other minor corrections and 

updates were incorporated into the final 

EIS based on public comments and new 

information. 

Document Availability 

The FEIS and appendices are 

available to the public for review in the 

following formats: 

• Online as PDF documents at 

www.sam.usace.army.mil/Missions/

PlanningEnvironmental/

ACTMasterWaterControlManual

Update/ACTDocumentLibrary.aspx. 

• As a CD when requested in writing 

to: Commander, U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Mobile District, Attn: PD–EI 

(ACT–DEIS), P.O. Box 2288, Mobile, AL 

36628. 

Public Review and Comment 

USACE recognizes that the decisions 

made concerning revisions to the water 

control operations at USACE projects 

within the ACT Basin will have wideranging effects and encourages the 

public to submit comments on the 

content of the DEIS. All persons and 

organizations that have a potential 

interest in the proposed action, 

including minority, low-income, 

disadvantaged, and Native American 

groups, are urged to participate in this 

NEPA environmental analysis process 

by reviewing the FEIS and submitting 

comments for consideration. 

Comments may be submitted via the 

following methods: 

• Online at 

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ACTMasterWaterControlManualUpdate. 

• By emailing act-wcm@

usace.army.mil. 

• By letter addressed to: Commander, 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile 

District, Attn: PD–EI (ACT–DEIS), P.O. 

Box 2288, Mobile, AL 36628. 

Further information regarding the 

update of the Master Manual, including 

all available documents, background 

and historical information, and updates 

is available online at the Web site given 

above. 

Next Steps 

No sooner than 30 days after filing the 

final EIS with USEPA and publication 

of the EPA Notice of Availability for the 

FEIS in the Federal Register, USACE 

will prepare a Record of Decision (ROD) 

which documents the final decision on 

the proposed action in regard to the 

update of the ACT Basin Master WCM 

and the individual project WCMs, 

summarize alternatives that were 

considered and relevant factors that 

were balanced in making the decision, 

and identify means that have been 

adopted to mitigate for adverse effects. 

USACE will notify the public of the 

ROD in a newsletter distribution to the 

project mailing list, press releases to 

local newspapers radio and television 

news, and on the project Web site. 

Landon M. Raby, 

Major, Deputy District Commander, Mobile 

District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army; Corps of 

Engineers 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement, 

Initiate the Public Scoping Period and 

Host Public Scoping Meetings for West 

Facilities Modernization, St. Louis, 

Missouri, Metropolitan Area 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

(NEPA), as amended, the National 

Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) 

announces its intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement (EIS) to 

analyze potential impacts to the quality 

of the human environment resulting 

from the proposed construction and 

operation of new, modern facilities in 

the St. Louis metropolitan area. The 

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

Kansas City District, will be the project 

manager for this EIS. This notice 

informs the public of the proposed 

action, announces the public scoping 

process, and solicits public comments to 

identify issues related to the proposed 

project. 

DATES: The public scoping period begins 

with the publication of this notice in the 

Federal Register and will continue until 

January 19, 2015. All comments 

submitted or postmarked by January 19, 

2015 will be considered in defining the 

scope of the EIS. Comments submitted 

or postmarked after that date will be 

considered to the extent practicable. For 

public scoping meetings, see 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

provide written comments on the EIS, 

request to be added to the project 

mailing list, or for further information or 

questions about the EIS process, please 

contact Ms. Amy Blair, U.S. Army Corps 

of Engineers, Kansas City District by 

telephone at (816) 389–3393, by mail at 

Room 529, 601 E. 12th Street, Kansas 

City, MO 64106, or by electronic mail at 

NextNGAWest@usace.army.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency 

delivers geospatial intelligence, or 

GEOINT, that provides a decisive 

advantage to warfighters, policymakers, 

intelligence professionals and first 

responders. Both an intelligence agency 

and combat support agency, NGA 

fulfills the president’s national security 

priorities in partnership with the 

intelligence community and the 

Department of Defense. NGA is 

headquartered in Springfield, Va., and 

has two major locations in St. Louis and 

Arnold, MO. 

NGA is pursuing construction and 

operation of a modern facility in the St. 

Louis metropolitan area to better 

support its mission to provide timely, 

relevant, and accurate geospatial 

intelligence in support of national 

security. The proposed new facility will 

support NGA’s current mission, 

improve its resiliency, and address 

challenges associated with its current 

facility located on Second Street in the 

city of St. Louis, including physical 

constraints and security requirements. 

The EIS will evaluate and disclose the 

impacts of constructing a new 

replacement facility and relocating NGA 

operations at alternative sites, in 

addition to a No Action Alternative. 

No Action Alternative: The EIS will 

analyze the No Action Alternative, 

under which no new construction or 

relocation will occur. 

The Proposed Action will be to 

construct a new, modern West Facility 

in the St. Louis metropolitan area. 

Alternatives will be developed during 

and following the public scoping 

period, and will consist of alternative 

sites for the new facility. The following 

six proposed site locations were initially 

identified through a site location study: 

• Fenton: 1050 Dodge Drive, Fenton, 

MO (southwest of St. Louis); 

• Mehlville: 13045 Tesson Ferry 

Road, St. Louis, MO (south of St. Louis); 

• NorthPark: 4800 N. Hanley Road, 

St. Louis (Ferguson), MO (northwest of 

St. Louis); 

• North St. Louis City: Near the 

intersections of Cass and North Jefferson 

Avenues; 

• St. Clair County: Along Interstate 

(I–64), adjacent to the northeast 

boundary of Scott Air Force Base (AFB), 

Illinois (east of St. Louis); and 

• Weldon Spring: 4700 Technology 

Drive, Weldon Spring, MO (northwest of 

St. Louis). 

Two of the six sites have since been 

removed from consideration. A portion 

of the NorthPark location has been sold 

and the remaining land does not meet 

NGA’s requirements. Additionally, the 

Weldon Spring location is no longer 

under consideration based on master 

planning review. 

Scoping: Public scoping is being 

conducted through January 19, 2015, to 

provide the public with an opportunity 

to offer input on the scope of issues to 

be addressed and to identify issues 

related to the proposed action and 

alternative sites. As part of public 

scoping, NGA and the Corps of 

Engineers plan to hold three public 

scoping meetings in early December 

2014. The dates and locations of the 

scoping meetings and other 

opportunities for public participation in 

the EIS process will be announced 

through news media in the St. Louis 

metropolitan area. 

In addition to complying with NEPA 

and DoD planning guidance, scoping 

will be used to partially fulfill the 

public participation requirements of 

Section 106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act (NHPA). Except where 

subject to the confidentiality provision 

of Section 304 of the NHPA, all 

comments received during scoping will 

become part of a project administrative 

record and may be included as an 

appendix to the EIS. A Draft EIS is 


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