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TE-48 Raccoon Island Shore Protection/Marsh Creation Project Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

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 [Federal Register: April 4, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 63)]
[Notices]
[Page 17060-17061]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr04ap05-50]

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Natural Resources Conservation Service

TE-48 Raccoon Island Shore Protection/Marsh Creation Project
Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

AGENCY: Natural Resources Conservation Service, Agriculture.
ACTION: Notice of finding of no significant impact.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental
Policy

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Act of 1969; the Council on Environmental Quality Guidelines (40 CFR
part 1500); and the Natural Resources 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 Raccoon Island Shore
Protection/Marsh Creation Project (TE-48), Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Donald W. Gohmert, State
Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Service, 3737
Government Street, Alexandria, Louisiana 71302; telephone (318) 473-7751.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The environmental assessment of the
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, Donald W. Gohmert, State Conservationist,
has determined that preparation and review of an environmental impact
statement is not needed for this project.
    The project will protect the Raccoon Island rookery and seabird
colonies threatened by a retreating shoreline by reducing the rate of
erosion along the western end of the island and creating more land and
avian habitat along the northern shoreline. The proposed project
consists of installing eight segmented rock breakwaters immediately
west of the existing Raccoon Island Breakwater Demonstration Project
(TE-29); installing an eastern terminal groin structure extending to
existing breakwater 0; and creating approximately 60 acres of new
habitat for bird species on the northeast portion of the island by
backfilling open water areas with suitable dredged material.
    The Notice of Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) has been
forwarded to the Environmental Protection Agency and to various
federal, state, and local agencies and interested parties. A limited
number of copies of the FONSI are available to fill single copy
requests at the above address. Basic data collected during the
environmental assessment are on file and may be reviewed by contacting
Donald W. Gohmert.
    No administrative action on implementation of the proposal will be
taken until 30 days after the date of this publication in the Federal
Register.

Donald W. Gohmert,
State Conservationist.
[FR Doc. 05-6645 Filed 4-1-05; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3410-16-P

 
 

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