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Dated: April 9, 2009. 

Andrew McGilvray, 

Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–8635 Filed 4–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

Site Renumbering Notice; ForeignTrade Zone 23—Buffalo, NY 

Foreign-Trade Zone 23 was approved 

by the FTZ Board on March 31, 1976 

(Board Order 110, 41 FR 14824, 4/7/76), 

and expanded on November 2, 1979 

(Board Order 148, 44 FR 65802, 11/15/ 

79), April 16, 1982 (Board Order 187, 47 

FR 18014, 4/27/82), February 7, 1985 

(Board Order 291, 50 FR 6372 2/15/85), 

October 30, 1989 (Board Order 445, 54 

FR 46431, 11/3/89), and June 25, 1993 

(Board Order 645, 58 FR 36390; 7/7/93). 

FTZ 23 currently consists of the 

following sites: Site 1: (225 acres) 

within the Gateway Trade Center, 

Buffalo; Site 2: (298 acres)—Wehrle 

International Business Park, Amherst, 

adjacent to the Greater Buffalo 

International Airport; and, Site 2— 

Parcel A: (189 acres)—Aero and Airport 

Business Parks, Cheektowaga, New 

York, immediately adjacent to the 

airport; Site 2—Parcel B (194 acres)— 

the airport’s air cargo facility and 

Airport Commerce Park, Cheektowaga; 

Site 3: (13 acres)—within the OakMichigan Industrial Corridor, Buffalo; 

Site 4: (22 acres)—at the former 

American Standard plant, Rano and 

Tonawanda Streets, Buffalo; Site 5: (55 

acres)—within the 80-acre Grand Island 

Industrial Park, Grand Island; Site 5— 

Parcel A: (5 acres) located at 3036 Alt 

Boulevard, Grand Island; Site 6: (11 

acres) located at 2299 Kenmore Avenue, 

Tonawanda, New York, operated by 

Speed Transportation. 

The current update does not alter the 

physical boundaries that have 

previously been approved, but instead 

involves an administrative renumbering 

of some of the zone sites for recordkeeping purposes. Under this revision, 

the site list for FTZ 23 will be as 

follows: Site 1: (225 acres) within the 

Gateway Trade Center, Buffalo; Site 2: 

(298 acres)—Wehrle International 

Business Park, Amherst, adjacent to the 

Greater Buffalo International Airport; 

Site 3: (13 acres)—within the OakMichigan Industrial Corridor, Buffalo; 

Site 4: (22 acres)—at the former 

American Standard plant, Rano and 

Tonawanda Streets, Buffalo; Site 5: (55 

acres)—within the 80-acre Grand Island 

Industrial Park, Grand Island; Site 6: (11 

acres) located at 2299 Kenmore Avenue, 

Tonawanda, New York, operated by 

Speed Transportation; Site 7: (189 

acres)—Aero and Airport Business 

Parks, Cheektowaga, New York, 

immediately adjacent to the Greater 

Buffalo International Airport; Site 8: 

(194 acres)—the Greater Buffalo 

International Airport’s air cargo facility 

and Airport Commerce Park, 

Cheektowaga; and, Site 9: (5 acres) 

located at 3036 Alt Boulevard, Grand 

Island. 

For further information, contact 

Elizabeth Whiteman at 

Elizabeth_Whiteman@ita.doc.gov or 

(202) 482–0473. 

Dated: April 7, 2009. 

Andrew McGilvray, 

Executive Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–8633 Filed 4–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army; Corps of 

Engineers 

Notice of Availability of a Final 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement/Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Report (SEIS/ 

SEIR), Draft Air Quality Conformity 

Determination (CD), and Section 404 

Clean Water Act for the Port of Los 

Angeles Channel Deepening Project, 

Los Angeles, CA 

AGENCY: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 

DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Los Angeles District (Corps) 

and the Los Angeles Harbor Department 

(LAHD) have prepared a joint Final 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement/Supplemental Environmental 

Impact Report (SEIS/SEIR) for the Port 

of Los Angeles Channel Deepening 

Project, Los Angeles County, California. 

The Corps and the LAHD have reviewed 

the written and oral comments received 

during the August 6, 2008 public 

hearing and during the public comment 

period for the Draft SEIS/SEIR. The 

Corps is publishing a Notice of 

Availability for the Final SEIS/EIR and 

Draft CD in the Federal Register for 

public review. The document will also 

be placed at public libraries in the 

vicinity of the project area and 

distributed to the concerned resource 

agencies and the public who has 

provided comment on the Draft SEIS/ 

SEIR. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

May 17, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Los Angeles District, CESPL– 

PD–RN, c/o Joy Jaiswal, P.O. Box 

532711, Los Angeles, CA 90053–2325. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Joy Jaiswal, Chief, Ecosystem Planning 

Section, at (213) 452–3851 (voice), (213) 

452–4204 (fax), or by e-mail at 

Jyotsna.I.Jaiswal@usace.army.mil. You 

may also contact Ms. Megan Wong, 

Project Environmental Coordinator, at 

(213) 452–3859 (voice) or by e-mail at 

Megan.T.Wong@usace.army.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Final 

SEIS/SEIR and the Draft CD have been 

filed with the Environmental Protection 

Agency to be published in the Federal 

Register and is available for a thirty-day 

(30) public review period. Review 

period for the Final SEIS/EIR and Draft 

CD will begin from the date of 

publishing the Notice of Availability in 

the Federal Register, which is on April 

17, 2009. Please forward your comments 

on the Final SEIS/SEIR and/or the Draft 

CD by mail, e-mail, or fax to the contacts 

listed below by May 17, 2009. 

(A) Notice for Final SEIS/EIR: The 

Corps and Port have reviewed all the 

comments received during 45-day 

public review period and Public 

Hearing on the Draft SEIS/EIR. Based on 

public comments, eelgrass habitat area 

has been eliminated as one of the 

disposal sites from Alternatives 1 and 2. 

Alternative 1, Port Development and 

Environmental Enhancement, was 

developed with a focus on beneficial 

use of dredge material for port 

development and environmental 

enhancement and disposal sites 

analyzed in the Final SEIS/EIR are: 

Berths 243–245, the Northwest Slip, 

CSWH Expansion, and LA–2. 

Alternative 2, Environmental 

Enhancement and Ocean Disposal, was 

developed with a focus on 

environmental enhancement related 

uses of the remaining material and does 

not include any disposal options 

associated with port development. 

Under Alternative 2, dredge material 

would be disposed at the CSWH 

Expansion, LA–2, LA–3 and the 

Anchorage Road Soil Storage Site. 

Under Alternative 3, the No Action 

Alternative, no further dredging would 

take place and the Channel Deepening 

Project would not be completed. 

(B) A Draft Conformity Determination 

(CD) has been prepared for the Proposed 

Action, which is located in Appendix M 

of the Final SEIS/EIR. This notice also 

serves as review of the Draft CD. The 

Corps is publishing a Notice of 

Availability for the Final SEIS/EIR and 


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Draft CD in the Federal Register for 

public review. The document will also 

be placed at public libraries in the 

vicinity of the project area and 

distributed to the concerned resource 

agencies and the public who has 

provided comment on the Draft SEIS/ 

SEIR. Revisions to the text made in the 

Final SEIS/SEIR are marked with 

underline and the deleted text is marked 

with strikeout. 

This Final SEIS/SEIR describes the 

affected resources and evaluates the 

potential impacts to those resources as 

a result of the Proposed Action and 

alternatives. The purpose of the 

Proposed Action is to dispose of up to 

3.0 million cubic yards of dredge 

material required to complete the 

Channel Deepening Project and to 

beneficially reuse the dredge material 

within the Port of Los Angeles (Port). 

(C) This announcement also serves as 

the Public Notice/Notice of Availability 

for the Section 404 Permit under the 

Clean Water Act (CWA). An application 

has been received for a Department of 

the Army permit for the activity 

described herein. The Corps is 

considering an application submitted by 

the LAHD for a permit, in accordance 

with Section 404 of the CWA, Section 

10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act, and 

Section 103 of the Marine Protection, 

Research, and Sanctuaries Act, to 

complete dredging activities outside of 

the Federal Channel and placement of 

the dredge material in waters of the 

United States in the Port of Los Angeles 

and at designated ocean disposal sites 

(LA–2 and LA–3). 

This SEIS/SEIR will be used by the 

Corps as part of their application review 

process. The Corps and the LAHD 

independently determined under the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) and the California 

Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), 

respectively, that there were potential 

significant environmental impacts 

associated with the proposed action, 

and an Environmental Impact Statement 

and Environmental Impact Report was 

required. 

1. Authorization 

By Water Resources Development Act 

of (WRDA) 2000, the Port of Los Angeles 

Channel Deepening Project was 

authorized for construction. The project 

is a continuation of the navigation 

channel optimization that began with 

the 1994 Deep Draft Navigation 

Improvement (DDNI) project. 

2. Background 

The proposed project area is located 

at the Port of Los Angeles, California. 

This SEIS/SEIR is a supplement to the 

2000 SEIS/SEIR that was prepared for 

the Channel Deepening Project, which 

was a supplement to the 1998 Channel 

Deepening Project EIR and the 1992 

Deep Draft Navigation Improvements 

Project EIS/EIR the modifications 

required to complete disposal of 

dredged material from the authorized 

project. This SEIS/SEIR addresses 

impacts associated with providing 

additional disposal capacity of 

approximately 3 mcy required to 

complete the Channel Deepening 

Project. Additional disposal capacity is 

required to complete the deepening of 

the navigation channel and berthing 

areas to –53 feet Mean Lower Low Water 

(MLLW) at container terminals along the 

deepened channel and the removal of 

dredge material that was temporarily 

used as surcharge at the Southwest Slip. 

This project meets a public need for safe 

and efficient commercial navigation. 

3. Availability of the Final SEIS/SEIR 

and Draft CD 

The Final SEIS/SEIR and the Draft CD 

for the Proposed Action are being 

distributed directly to agencies, 

organizations, and interested groups and 

persons for comment during the 30-day 

formal review period in accordance 

with Section 1506.10 of the Council on 

Environmental Quality NEPA 

Regulations and Section 176 of the 

Clean Air Act for CD, and Section 404 

of Clean Water Act. During the 30-day 

public review period, which begins on 

April 17, 2009 and ends on May 17, 

2009, the Final SEIS/SEIR is available 

for general public review at the 

following locations: 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los 

Angeles District, Environmental 

Resources Branch, 915 Wilshire Blvd., 

14th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90053 

Los Angeles Public Library, San Pedro 

Branch, 921 South Gaffey Street, San 

Pedro, CA 90731 

Los Angeles Public Library, Central 

Branch, 630 West 5th Street, Los 

Angeles, CA 90071 

Port of Los Angeles, Environmental 

Management Division, 425 South 

Palos Verdes Street, San Pedro, CA 

90731 

Los Angeles Public Library, Wilmington 

Branch, 1300 North Avalon 

Boulevard, Wilmington, CA 90744 

Dated: April 1, 2009. 

Thomas H. Magness, 

Colonel, U.S. Army, District Commander. 

[FR Doc. E9–8614 Filed 4–14–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army, Corps of 

Engineers 

Public Notice Concerning Nationwide 

Permit 46 

AGENCY: Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In response to a memorandum 

opinion issued on March 26, 2008, in 

litigation relating to Nationwide Permit 

(NWP) 46, the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers (Corps) is removing a 

sentence in the preamble that was 

published in the March 12, 2007, final 

notice for the reissuance of the 

Nationwide Permits and replacing that 

sentence and providing additional 

clarification. The preamble language at 

issue concerns when a pre-construction 

notification is required in connection 

with NWP 46, and we are soliciting 

comments on the removed sentence, the 

replacement sentences, and the 

additional clarification provided in this 

notice. The Corps is not proposing any 

changes to the terms and conditions of 

NWP 46. 

DATES: Submit comments by May 15, 

2009. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number COE– 

2009–0019, by any of the following 

methods: 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

E-mail: 

david.b.olson@usace.army.mil. Include 

the docket number, COE–2009–0019, in 

the subject line of the message. 

Mail: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 

ATTN: CECW–CO (David B. Olson), 441 

G Street, NW., Washington, D.C. 20314– 

1000. 

Hand Delivery/Courier: Due to 

security requirements, we cannot 

receive comments by hand delivery or 

courier. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

docket number COE–2009–0019. All 

comments received will be included in 

the public docket without change and 

may be made available online at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the commenter indicates that the 

comment includes information claimed 

to be Confidential Business Information 

(CBI) or other information whose 

disclosure is restricted by statute. Do 

not submit information that you 

consider to be CBI, or otherwise 

protected, through regulations.gov or email. The regulations.gov Web site is an 

anonymous access system, which means 


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