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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 154 / Friday, August 13, 2021 / Notices
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers Notice of Intent To Prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement to the 2014 Final Integrated Feasibility Report and Environmental Impact Statement for the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction Study, St. Charles, St. James, and St. John the Baptist Parishes AGENCY:

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers USACE, Mississippi Valley Division, New Orleans District CEMVN, is announcing its intent to prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement SEIS to reevaluate alternatives to compensate for unavoidable impacts to swamp habitat associated with the construction of the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction Project hereafter WSLP
Project. Compensatory mitigation for impacts due to construction of the WSLP Project was described previously in the 2014 WSLP Environmental Impact Statement EIS and in Environmental Assessment EA 576, which addressed mitigation for habitat impacts associated with each of CEMVNs Bipartisan Budget Act BBA
of 2018 funded risk reduction projects i.e., the WSLP Project, Comite River Diversion Project, and the East Baton Rouge Parish Watershed Flood Risk Management Project. The Finding of No
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Significant Impact FONSI for EA 576
was signed by the CEMVN District Commander on April 4, 2020. Public comment on EA 576 included requests by the Louisianas Coastal Protection Restoration Authority CPRA and others that the Mississippi River Diversion into Maurepas Swamp Project hereafter MSP, a proposed ecological restoration project that shares construction features with the WSLP
Project, be considered as a mitigation alternative for impacts to swamp habitat associated with the construction of the WSLP Project. Anticipated impacts to swamp habitat as a result of the construction of the MSP, estimated to be approximately 55 Average Annual Habitat Units AAHU, would be selfmitigated by the operation of the diversion. Impacts to bottom land hardwood BLH habitat because of the MSP construction would be approximately 30 AAHU. These BLH
impacts would be mitigated in accordance with EA 576.
ADDRESSES: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, Attn:
CEMVNPDCC, 7400 Leake Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions and scoping comments regarding the proposed action should be directed to Mr. Landon Parr at U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, Attn: CEMVNPDCC, 7400
Leake Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, by phone 504 8621908, or by email at Landon.Parr@usace.army.mil.
For additional information, including but not limited to a copy of 2014 WSLP
EIS, and other associated documents, please visit the WSLP Project website at:
https www.mvn.usace.army.mil/
Missions/Environmental/NEPACompliance-Documents/BipartisanBudget-Act-2018-BBA-18/West-ShoreLake-Pontchartrain/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
1. Project Details. The WSLP Project is located in southeast Louisiana on the east-bank of the Mississippi River in St.
Charles, St. John the Baptist, and St.
James Parishes. Part of the Water Infrastructure Improvement for the Nation Act WIIN Act, Pub. L. 114322
in 2016 authorized construction of the WSLP Project. The BBA of 2018 BBA
2018, Pub. L. 115123 funded construction of the WSLP Project. The WSLP Project is described in the 2014
WSLP EIS; West Shore Lake Pontchartrain Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction Structural Alignment Surveys and Borings Investigations St. Charles and St. John the Baptist Parishes, Louisiana Supplemental Environmental
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Assessment SEA 570; and West Shore Lake Pontchartrain Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction Levee System, St. Charles and St. John the Baptist Parishes, Louisiana SEA 571. The WSLP
Project is approximately 19 miles in length and includes approximately 18
miles of levee, one mile of T-wall, six pumping stations with associated drainage structures, one gated road crossing, two gated railroad crossings, and approximately 35 utility relocations.
The Record of Decision ROD for the 2014 WSLP EIS was signed by the Assistant Secretary of the Army, Civil Works on September 14, 2016. SEA 570
investigated levee alignment shifts as well as the addition of five stockpile/
staging areas for construction related activities. The FONSI associated with SEA 570 was signed by the CEMVN
District Commander on May 13, 2019.
SEA 571 evaluated additional changes to the WSLP levee alignment, the addition of four borrow areas, widening of the levee alignment, minor modifications to previously assessed access roads, and the addition of three access roads. The FONSI associated with SEA 571 was signed by the CEMVN District Commander on June 29, 2020.
Based on the changes to date, the WSLP Project could impact approximately 10,895 acres of swamp and 4,880 acres of wetland bottomland hardwoods BLH-Wet in the Louisiana LA Coastal Zone CZ. This equates to a compensatory mitigation need of approximately 1,010 AAHU of CZ
swamp if the MSP is selected including direct impacts to swamp associated with construction of the MSP
55 AAHU, and direct 600 AAHU
and indirect 355 AAHU impacts to swamp associated with the construction of WSLP and approximately 295 AAHU
of CZ BLH-Wet BLH habitat impacted by the construction of the WSLP Project would be mitigated in accordance with EA 576.
This Supplemental EIS would provide an assessment of proposed alternative projects to compensate for the WSLP
Projects swamp impacts and it would identify the Tentatively Selected Alternative. When unavoidable impacts occur, the CEMVN is required to offset those impacts through compensatory mitigation by replacing the lost habitats functions and services equally and inkind. Compensatory mitigation is required by the Water Resources Development Act WRDA of 1986, Section 906, as amended, and by the Clean Water Act Section 404b1
Guidelines. The MSP is a freshwater diversion that would reconnect the
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