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Red-White Clay Creeks Watershed, Pennsylvania and Delaware

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Red-White Clay Creeks Watershed, Pennsylvania and Delaware

[Federal Register: July 8, 1996 (Volume 61, Number 131)] [Notices]
[Page 35708]
>From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]


DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Natural Resources Conservation Service

Red-White Clay Creeks Watershed, Pennsylvania and Delaware

AGENCY: USDA--Natural Resources Conservation Service.

ACTION: ``Notice of a Finding of No Significant Impact''.


SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969; the Council on Environmental Quality Guidelines (40 CFR, Part 1500); and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (formerly the Soil Conservation Service) Guidelines (7 CFR, Part 650); the Natural Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, gives notice that an environmental impact statement is not being prepared for the Red-White Clay Creeks Watershed, Chester County, Pennsylvania and New Castle County, Delaware.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Janet L. Oertly, State Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Suite 340, One Credit Union Place, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17110-2993, telephone (717) 782-2202.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The environmental assessment of this federally-assisted action indicates that the project will not cause significant local, regional, or national impacts on the environment. As a result of these findings, Janet L. Oertly, State Conservationist, has determined that the preparation and review of an environmental impact statement are not needed for this project. The project concerns a plan for water quality improvement. The planned works of improvement involve extensive accelerated land treatment and the acquisition of conservation easements. Land treatment measures include agricultural waste management systems; erosion and sediment control on cropland; restoration of wetlands; establishment of riparian forest buffers; and stabilization of severely eroding streambanks. Conservation easements included perpetual floodplain and wetland easements.
The ``Notice of a Finding of No Significant Impact'' (FONSI) has been forwarded to the Environmental Protection Agency. A limited number of copies of the FONSI are available to fill single copy requests at the above address. The environmental assessment and basic data may be reviewed by contacting Janet L. Oertly. No administrative action on implementation of the proposal will be taken until thirty (30) days after the date of this publication in the Federal Register.
Janet L. Oertly,
State Conservationist.

``(This activity is listed in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program No. 10.904--Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention and is subject to the provisions of Executive Order 12372 which requires intergovernmental consultation with State and local officials.)''

[FR Doc. 96-17184 Filed 7-5-96; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410-16-M

 
 


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