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Sacramento District, Regulatory 

Division; 1325 J Street, Room 1480, 

Sacramento, California 95814–2922, or 

via e-mail to 

Lisa.M.Gibson2@usace.army.mil. Oral 

and written comments may also be 

submitted at the public meeting 

described in the DATES section. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lisa 

M. Gibson, (916) 557–5288, or via e-mail 

at Lisa.M.Gibson2@usace.army.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The South 

Folsom Property Owners Group, the 

project applicants, are seeking adoption 

by the City of the proposed SPA project 

and associated entitlements. The City 

and the South Folsom Property Owners 

Group are also seeking authorization 

from USACE for the placement of 

dredged or fill material into waters of 

the United States pursuant to Section 

404 of the Clean Water Act. The 

Proposed Project includes 10,210 

residential units at various densities on 

a total of 1,477.2 acres; 362.8 acres 

designated for commercial and 

industrial use, including a regional 

shopping center; public/quasi-public 

uses; elementary, middle, and high 

schools on 179.3 acres; 121.7 acres of 

community and neighborhood parks; 

stormwater detention basins; 1,053.1 

acres of open-space areas and openspace preserves; and major roads with 

landscaping. In addition, the proposed 

project includes the construction of 

several off-site infrastructure facilities, 

including intersection expansions to 

allow access to and from U.S. 50 and the 

SPA, an overpass of U.S. 50, two 

roadway connections and sewer 

pipelines from the SPA into El Dorado 

Hills, a sewer force main connection to 

the existing City system, a detention 

basin and water pipelines and facilities. 

The SPA contains approximately 84.94 

acres of waters of the U.S. The proposed 

land-use plan would involve the 

discharge of fill material into 

approximately 39.50 acres of waters of 

the U.S., and indirect impacts to 0.29 

acres of waters of the U.S. resulting from 

fragmentation of existing waters. In 

addition, the proposed land-use plan 

involves the preservation of 

approximately 44.19 acres of waters of 

the U.S., concentrated primarily on the 

Alder Creek corridor and adjacent 

tributaries and wetlands. 

For the proposed off-site water 

supply/alignment for the SPA, the City 

is proposing off-site water facilities that 

would involve the permanent 

assignment to the City of the contractual 

entitlements to Central Valley Project 

(CVP) contract entitlement water, 

totaling not more than 8,000 acre-feet 

per year (AFY) from the Natomas 

Central Mutual Water Company 

(NCMWC), diverting the water supply 

from the Sacramento River and 

conveying the water to the SPA. The 

proposed water supply would also 

involve the City purchasing dedicated 

capacity within the Freeport Regional 

Water Project (Freeport Project) from 

Sacramento County Water Agency 

(SCWA), which would serve as the 

point of diversion (POD) on the 

Sacramento River and partial 

conveyance pathway for not more than 

6,000 AFY purchased from NCMWC. 

The City proposes to add the Freeport 

POD to the assigned CVP water to 

facilitate the diversion of these supplies 

at the existing Freeport Project 

diversion. The City proposes to pump 

and convey the assigned NCMWC CVP 

water supply through the Freeport 

Project diversion facility and 

conveyance pipeline to the point where 

SCWA and East Bay Municipal Utility 

District pipelines split. The City would 

then construct new water supply 

conveyance infrastructure from the 

bifurcation point to the SPA within an 

approximately 200-foot corridor. The 

corridor for the proposed construction 

of the water line and the proposed 

location for water treatment plants 

contains approximately 50.7 acres of 

waters of the U.S. The estimate of 

waters of the U.S. within the proposed 

water supply corridor was determined 

based on aerial photographs and 

National Wetland Inventory maps, and 

has not been field delineated or verified 

by USACE. Because the City has not yet 

completed project specific engineering 

details for the proposed off-site water 

supply/alignment, the exact impacts to 

waters of the U.S. cannot be determined. 

However, construction of the water 

supply infrastructure is expected to 

occur within an area of less than 100- 

feet in width, and, depending on which 

side of the corridor construction would 

occur, would impact an estimated 5.7 

acres or 6.8 acres of waters of the U.S. 

USACE invites full public 

participation to promote open 

communication and better decisionmaking. All persons and organizations 

that have an interest in the SPA are 

urged to participate in the NEPA 

process. 

An electronic version of the DEIS may 

be viewed at the USACE, Sacramento 

District Web site: http://www.spk.usace.

army.mil/organizations/cespk-co/ 

regulatory/EISs/EIS-index.html: In 

addition, a hardcopy of the DEIS may 

also be reviewed at the following 

locations: 

(1) City of Folsom City Hall, 

Community Development Department, 

50 Natoma Street, Folsom, California 

95630. 

(2) Folsom Public Library, Georgia 

Murray Building, 411 Stafford Street, 

Folsom, California 95630. 

June 23, 2010. 

Thomas C. Chapman, 

Colonel, U.S. Army, District Engineer. 

[FR Doc. 2010–16135 Filed 7–1–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3720–58–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

Corps of Engineers 

The Release of the Final Environmental 

Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Town 

of Nags Head Proposed Beach 

Nourishment Project in Dare County, 

NC 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers (COE), Wilmington District, 

Regulatory Division, has been reviewing 

a request for Department of the Army 

authorization, pursuant to Section 404 

of the Clean Water Act and Section 10 

of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, 

from the Town of Nags Head to dredge 

up to 4.6 million cubic yards of beachquality sediment from an offshore 

borrow source, and deposit the material 

along approximately 10 miles of ocean 

shoreline in the Town of Nags Head. 

The applicant proposes to utilize a 

self-contained hopper dredge during a 

proposed construction window from 

April through September to undertake 

the dredging operations and discharge 

the sand on the beach via submerged 

pipeline. The applicant’s proposed 

borrow areas include sites identified as 

having beach quality material in the 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 

Wilmington District’s EIS, entitled Final 

Feasibility Report and Environmental 

Impact Statement on Hurricane 

Protection and Beach Erosion Control, 

dated September 2000 (USACE 2000). 

DATES: Written comments on the Final 

EIS will be received until July 26, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of comments and 

questions regarding the Final EIS may 

be addressed to: U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Wilmington District, 

Washington Regulatory Field Office. 

ATTN: File Number 200640282, 2407 

W. Fifth Street, Washington, NC 27889. 

Copies of the Draft EIS can be reviewed 

on the Wilmington District Regulatory 

homepage at, http:// 

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regtour.htm, or contact Ms. Sharon 

Barnett, at (910) 251–4555, to receive 

written or CD copies of the Final EIS. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions about the proposed action 

and FEIS can be directed to Mr. Raleigh 

Bland, Project Manager, Regulatory 

Division, telephone: (910) 251–4564. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. Project Description. The project site 

is located off NC Highway 12, adjacent 

to the Atlantic Ocean, in the Town of 

Nags Head, Dare County, NC. The 

proposed project totals approximately 

10 miles of ocean shoreline beginning 

approximately 1 mile from the town’s 

northern limit and extending south to 

the town line adjacent to the Cape 

Hatteras National Seashore. The 

proposed borrow area is located in the 

Atlantic Ocean approximately 2–3 miles 

offshore of the project site. The Town of 

Nags Head encompasses approximately 

11 miles of ocean shoreline on a barrier 

island located at the northern end of 

North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The 

width of the berm of the island’s dune 

system varies considerably with 

location along the town’s beach and 

with the season. Along most of the 

project area, the winter berm is nonexistent due to continuing erosion 

processes. Dune habitat is currently 

decreasing due to excessive erosion of 

the base or toe of the dunes by waves 

that travel unimpeded over eroded wet 

beach to directly impact dunes. The 

Town of Nags Head proposes to 

excavate 4.6 million cubic yards of 

beach-quality sediment from an offshore 

borrow source, and deposit the material 

along approximately 10 miles of ocean 

shoreline owned by the Town of Nags 

Head. 

2. Proposed Action. The purpose of 

the proposed action is to nourish the 

Town of Nags Head’s ocean shoreline to 

restore a protective beach, replace sand 

lost during the period of delay in the 

implementation of the federal Dare 

County Hurricane Protection and Beach 

Erosion Control Project (USACE 2000), 

and to help preserve property values 

and the tax base of Dare County. 

The proposed borrow area includes 

portions of offshore areas identified by 

the Corps of Engineers in the 2000 

Federal Dare County Project. The 

anticipated optimal equipment for 

excavations will include ocean-certified, 

self-contained hopper dredges. Such 

equipment typically excavates shallow 

trenches (approximately 2–3 foot 

sections) in each pass (leaving narrow 

undisturbed areas at the margin of each 

cut), then travels to a buoyed pipeline 

anchored close to shore. Discharge to 

the beach is via submerged pipeline 

across the surf zone, then by way of 

shore-based pipe positioned along the 

dry beach. Only a small area of the 

Corps borrow area will be required to 

provide up to 4.6 million cubic yards of 

beach quality material. The applicant is 

coordinating the specific area for use in 

the proposed project with the Corps 

with the following understanding: (1) 

The final borrow area required for the 

emergency beach nourishment project 

can be limited to the equivalent of a 0.9 

square-mile (approximately 575 acres) 

area, (2) the borrow area used will be 

contiguous rather than a series of small 

impact areas, (3) once used, the borrow 

area will no longer be available for use, 

consistent with the Dare County Project, 

and (4) the borrow area will be 

delineated so as to avoid ongoing 

biological monitoring stations 

established by the Corps in connection 

with the Dare County Project. The 

project will be built in approximate 1– 

2 mile sections, optimizing the 

disposition of pipeline. Sections will be 

pumped into place with the aid of 

temporary dikes pushed up by 

bulldozers in the surf zone. Daily 

operations will impact approximately 

500–1,000 linear feet of shoreline as 

work progresses in either direction from 

the submerged pipeline. Upon 

completion of a section, the submerged 

pipe and beach-building equipment will 

be shifted to the next section. As 

construction progresses, sections will be 

graded to final contours, dressed to 

eliminate low areas, and opened for use 

by the public. Support equipment will 

be shifted out of completed sections as 

soon as practicable, so that construction 

activities in a particular reach will not 

disrupt normal beach use for only a 

month or so at any locality. The finished 

sections will be allowed to adjust to 

natural processes for several months. 

The final process will include the 

placement of dune fencing and/or dune 

plantings as needed or required. 

4. Alternatives. An extensive 

alternatives analysis was performed and 

reviewed for this project. This included 

the evaluation of a no action alternative; 

a retreat and relocate alternative; and 

the preferred alternative. Many 

alternatives were identified and 

evaluated through the scoping process, 

and further detailed descriptions of all 

alternatives is disclosed in Section 5.0 

of the Final EIS. 

5. Scoping Process. A public scoping 

meeting was held on April 28, 2009 and 

public and agency comments were 

solicited for input in the preparation of 

the Draft and Final EIS. The scoping 

meeting was well attended by the 

public, as well as representatives from 

local, state, and federal governmental 

agencies. 

The COE coordinated closely with the 

North Carolina Division of Coastal 

Management, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, and the National Marine 

Fisheries Service in the development of 

the Final EIS to ensure the process 

complies with State Environmental 

Policy Act (SEPA) requirements, as well 

as the NEPA requirements. The Final 

EIS has been designed to consolidate 

both NEPA and SEPA processes. The 

State of North Carolina has issued a 401 

Water Quality Certification Permit and a 

Coastal Zone Consistency Determination 

in the form of a Coastal Area 

Management Act Permit. 

Dated: June 17, 2010. 

Jefferson M. Ryscavage, 

Colonel, U.S. Army, District Commander. 

[FR Doc. 2010–16137 Filed 7–1–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3720–58–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

Corps of Engineers 

[ID SPK–2009–00511] 

Notice of Availability of Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Sunridge Properties in the 

Sunridge Specific Plan Area, in 

Rancho Cordova, Sacramento County, 

CA 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DOD. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Sacramento District, (Corps) 

has prepared a Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS) to analyze 

programmatically the direct, indirect 

and cumulative effects associated with 

six residential development projects in 

the Sunridge Specific Plan area in 

Rancho Cordova, Sacramento County, 

CA. 

The purpose of the Draft EIS is to 

provide decision-makers and the public 

with information pertaining to the 

Proposed Action and alternatives, and 

to disclose environmental impacts and 

identify mitigation measures to reduce 

impacts. The Proposed Action is the 

construction of the six projects 

(collectively, the ‘‘Sunridge Properties’’) 

which would require the filling of 

approximately 29.7 acres of waters of 

the United States, including wetlands. 

The EIS is being prepared as part of 

ongoing litigation concerning 

Department of the Army permits issued 


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