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Dated: August 30, 2021. 

Aaron T. Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army, Corps of 

Engineers 

Notice of Availability of Record of 

Decision for the Final Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Allatoona Lake Water Supply 

Storage Reallocation Study and 

Updates to Weiss and Logan Martin 

Reservoir Project Water Control 

Manuals in the Alabama-CoosaTallapoosa River Basin, Alabama and 

Georgia 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of the 

record of decision. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers (USACE) announces the 

availability of the Record of Decision 

(ROD) for the Final Integrated 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement for the Allatoona Lake Water 

Supply Storage Reallocation Study and 

Updates to Weiss and Logan Martin 

Reservoir Project Water Control 

Manuals in the Alabama-CoosaTallapoosa River Basin, Alabama and 

Georgia (FR/SEIS), published in the 

Federal Register on Friday, November 

20, 2020. The Assistant Secretary of the 

Army for Civil Works signed the ROD 

on August 27, 2021. Copies of the ROD 

along with the FR/SEIS and other 

supporting documents are available for 

viewing at https://

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

Planning-Environmental/AllatoonaLake-Water-Supply-StorageReallocation-Study-and-Updates-toWeiss-and-Logan-Martin-ReservoirsProject-Water-Control-Manuals/ 

Document-Library/. 

ADDRESSES: U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Mobile District, Post Office 

Box 2288, Mobile, AL 36628–0001. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Mike Malsom, Inland Environment 

Team, Planning and Environmental 

Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineer 

District-Mobile, Post Office Box 2288, 

Mobile, AL 36628–0001; Telephone 

(251) 690–2023; delivered by electronic 

facsimile at (251) 694–3815; or by 

electronic mail: ACT-ACR@

usace.army.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FR/ 

SEIS includes a water supply storage 

reallocation study evaluating a March 

30, 2018, request by the State of Georgia 

and the Cobb County-Marietta Water 

Authority for increased water supply 

use at Allatoona Lake; a State of Georgia 

recommended storage accounting 

method; updated operating criteria and 

guidelines for managing the water 

storage and release actions of Federal 

water managers; Alabama Power 

Company’s (APC) proposed raising of 

winter pool levels for recreation and 

lowering the upper limit of the induced 

surcharge operational pools at Weiss 

Dam and Lake (Reservoir); and Logan 

Martin Dam and Lake (Reservoir). 

USACE will also update the Water 

Control Manuals (WCMs) for Allatoona 

Lake and APC’s Weiss and Logan Martin 

Reservoirs, and the Alabama-CoosaTallapoosa (ACT) River Basin Master 

Manual. 

A final array of alternatives was 

considered in detail during the plan 

formulation process. USACE identified 

Alternative 11 as the Recommended 

Plan in the FR/SEIS; however, 

Alternative 12 was chosen as the 

Selected Plan and will be implemented. 

Alternative 11 would have reallocated 

33,872 acre-feet (ac-ft) of storage in 

Allatoona Lake (11,670 ac-ft from flood 

storage and 22,202 ac-ft from 

conservation storage) and would have 

utilized the USACE storage accounting 

method. The USACE storage accounting 

method charges all water supply 

withdrawals to the respective water 

supply account and credits all inflows, 

including return flows directly to 

Allatoona Lake or additive flows 

released from Hickory Log Creek 

Reservoir, to all accounts according to 

their proportion of project yield. 

Alternative 11 would have also 

modified flood control storage to the 

APC projects Weiss Lake and Logan 

Martin Lake. The Selected Plan 

(Alternative 12) would reallocate 14,159 

ac-ft from conservation storage at 

Allatoona Lake for water supply storage 

and utilizes the Georgia preferred 

storage accounting method in which 100 

percent of return flows from Cobb 

County’s water treatment facilities at 

Allatoona Lake and releases from the 

upstream Hickory Log Creek Reservoir 

would be credited to water supply 

storage accounts. The Selected Plan also 

includes modified flood control storage 

to the APC projects’ Weiss and Logan 

Martin Reservoirs (unchanged from 

Alternative 11). 

A summary of environmental 

consequences for the final array of 

alternatives is provided in the FR/SEIS. 

Three of the alternatives (in addition to 

the no action alternative) were selected 

for detailed analysis of impacts in 

accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act; they are 

Alternative 11 (the Recommended Plan), 

Alternative 10, and Alternative 3. The 

other alternatives are variations of these 

three alternatives, and they would 

involve similar impacts as one of these 

three alternatives. The Selected Plan 

(Alternative 12) is similar to Alternative 

10, except that Alternative 12 includes 

the use of the Georgia preferred storage 

accounting method. The anticipated 

environmental consequences of the 

Selected Plan (Alternative 12) are not 

significantly different from those 

anticipated for Alternatives 10 or 11. 

The ROD documents why the USACE 

has chosen to implement Alternative 12 

instead of Alternative 11, as described 

in the FR/SEIS. 

Dated: September 1, 2021. 

Jason E. Kelly, 

Brigadier General, U.S. Army Commanding. 

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