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permitting, TVA routinely has 

watershed water quality initiatives 

underway across the Valley. 

Additionally, TVA often plays a major 

role as stakeholder in overall watershed 

management through its participation in 

numerous local and regional 

organizations focusing on watershed 

and water quality issues. TVA continues 

to monitor water quality in its reservoirs 

and streams and systematically uses 

these data to target its management 

efforts. 

In other agency comments, the 

TNSHPO concurred that applying the 

existing programmatic agreement for 

Tennessee reservoir land management 

plans would address the mitigation of 

any adverse effects resulting from 

implementation of the WBRLMP. 

Consequently, the TNSHPO had no 

objection to the implementation of the 

alternatives in the WBRLMP. TVA will 

prepare a program and maintenance 

plan for WBRLMP within two years of 

its adoption. ETDD found no conflicts 

with its plans and programs or those of 

other agencies. 

Decision 

On November 19, 2009, the TVA 

Board decided to adopt the WBRLMP as 

described in Alternative B, excluding 

the 184 acres impacted by the December 

2008 coal ash spill at Kingston, 

Tennessee. Additionally, changes in 

allocation to recognize existing deeded 

landrights would be subject to approval 

by the TVA Board or its designee, 

pending the completion of an 

appropriate environmental review. 

TVA believes that implementation of 

Alternative B not only responds to 

community development and 

recreational development needs on 

Watts Bar Reservoir, but also recognizes 

and preserves the aesthetic and 

sensitive resources that make the 

reservoir unique. Under Alternative B, 

TVA would set aside parcels containing 

sensitive resources and habitats in the 

Sensitive Resource Management and 

Natural Resource Conservation 

categories. For lands where TVA 

proposes to consider development 

proposals, TVA adopts commitments 

that would further minimize the 

potential for adverse impacts to the 

environment. These commitments are 

listed below. 

Environmentally Preferable Alternative 

The preferred alternative is Modified 

Alternative B, which provides suitable 

opportunities for economic 

development and the conservation of 

natural resources. However, the 

environmentally preferred alternative is 

Alternative C, which has the least 

potential adverse impact on the 

environment of all the alternatives. 

Environmental Commitments 

TVA is adopting the following 

measures to minimize environmental 

impacts: 

• All activities would be conducted 

in accordance with the stipulations 

defined in the programmatic agreement 

between TVA, the TNSHPO, and the 

Advisory Council on Historic 

Preservation. 

• The construction of water use 

facilities and shoreline alterations 

within the marked limits of the safety 

landings and harbors would be 

prohibited. 

• Requests for water use facilities on 

shoreline immediately upstream and 

downstream of the safety landings and 

harbors would continue to be reviewed 

to ensure that barge tows would have 

sufficient room to maneuver in and out 

of the safety landings and harbors 

without the risk of damaging private 

property. 

• Because caves are extremely fragile 

and biologically significant, TVA has 

placed and would continue to maintain 

protective buffer zones around the 

known caves on TVA public land on 

Watts Bar Reservoir. 

• As necessary and as practicable, 

visual buffers, between 50 feet and 100 

feet wide, would be provided to screen 

timber harvest areas and commercial 

development from public thoroughfares 

and shorelines. 

• Best management practices would 

be used on all soil-disturbing activities. 

• Landscaping activities on 

developed properties would not include 

the use of plants listed as Rank 1, 

‘‘Severe Threat,’’ Rank 2, ‘‘Significant 

Threat,’’ and Rank 3, ‘‘Lesser Threat,’’ on 

the Tennessee Exotic Pest Plant 

Council’s list of Invasive Exotic Pest 

Plants in Tennessee (see Appendix D, 

Table D–7 of the FEIS). 

• Revegetation and erosion-control 

work would utilize seed mixes 

comprised of native species or 

noninvasive nonnative species 

(Appendix D, Table D–8 of the FEIS). 

• If TVA were to develop facilities at 

any Zone 5 (Industrial) or Zone 2 

(Project Operations) site, the following 

measures would be employed to 

minimize the potential for effects on 

federally listed species: 

1. TVA will consult with U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in order 

to determine if the proposed action 

could affect listed mussels present in 

the area. 

2. Preconstruction mussel surveys 

would be conducted in all areas of the 

Clinch River (Watts Bar Reservoir) that 

would be affected by construction and 

use of any future terminal-associated 

infrastructure (e.g., barge terminal, 

water intakes, or water outfalls). 

3. Any listed mussels found during 

these surveys would be dealt with 

according to terms and conditions 

imposed as a result of the USFWS 

consultation process. These could 

consist of minimization or avoidance 

measures implemented during 

construction and operation or relocation 

of the mussels encountered if effects are 

unavoidable. 

With the implementation of the above 

environmental protection measures, 

TVA has determined that adverse 

environmental impacts of future 

development proposals on the reservoir 

would be substantially reduced. Before 

taking actions that could result in 

adverse environmental effects or 

allowing such actions to occur on 

properties it controls, TVA would 

perform an appropriate site-specific 

environmental review to determine 

necessary mitigative measures or 

precautions. These protective measures 

represent all of the practicable measures 

to avoid or minimize environmental 

harm associated with the alternative 

adopted by the TVA Board. 

Dated: February 1, 2010. 

Anda A. Ray, 

Senior Vice President, Environment & 

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