14 Jan 2014

P-2860

Expiration date: 2/14/2014

The Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation – Stream Stewardship Trust Fund (Sponsor) has requested under their In-Lieu Fee (ILF) Program Instrument and corresponding amendment; approval for an ILF mitigation project (SSTF1001) pursuant to 33 CFR 332 and 40 CFR 230 Compensatory Mitigation for Losses of Aquatic Resource; Final Rule (Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 70 Pages 19594-19705, April 10, 2008). The mitigation project consists of enhancing 475 linear feet of instream channel bank and restoring approximately 10.6 acres of riparian corridor. If approved by the Corps, the ILF project will have a total potential credit release of 9,100 stream credits that can be debited by Department of the Army permit recipients. The project is located within the Upper St. Francis/Castor River Ecological Drainage Unit, along Little Whitewater Creek, in Bollinger County, Missouri. The Public Notice opens January 15, 2014 and closes February 14, 2014.

14 Jan 2014

P-2861

Expiration date: 1/29/2014

The applicant seeks authorization to establish a new surface coal mining facility 4 miles southwest of Pinckneyville, Illinois. The project has 231.9 acres of mining area and 65.5 acres of support area. Two ephemeral stream comprising 1893lf, one 8.24 acre jurisdictional emergent wetland and four non jurisdictional wetlands comprising 1.98 acres will be impacted by the activities. Mitigation will be done onsite with stream mitigation occuring during the reclamation phase and wetland mitigation occuring after the NPDES pond is no longer needed. The project is located on a tributary to Little Galum Creek, in Perry County, Illinois. The Public Notice opens January 15, 2014 and closes January 29, 2014.

20 Dec 2013

P-2856

Expiration date: 1/20/2014

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District (USACE) proposes to construct the Grand Tower Phase 5 Project as part of its Regulating Works Project. The Proposed Action includes the construction of two chevrons and the extension of one dike in the Crawford Towhead between RM 72 and 74. The Vancill Towhead project is located between RM 67.0 and 70.0 and includes construction of 3 weirs, 3 diverter dikes (S-dikes), repair of dike 67.8, revetment at 67.3 and shortening of dikes 67.3 and 67.1. Placement of rock training structures would provide a sustainable alternative to repetitive maintenance dredging. Fill material would include approximately 35,000 tons of quarry run limestone consisting of graded “A” stone. The Grand Tower Phase 5 Regulating Works Project is located in the Middle Mississippi River (MMR) between River Miles (RM) 67.0 and 74.0 in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri and Union County, Illinois near the town of Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

20 Dec 2013

P-2857

Expiration date: 1/20/2014

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District (USACE) proposes to construct the Dogtooth Bend Phase 5 Project as part of its Regulating Works Project. The Proposed Action consists of construction of two weirs near RM 34.00, four weirs near RM 32.00, a dike at RM 31.60 and two weirs near RM 31.00. Placement of rock training structures would provide a sustainable alternative to repetitive maintenance dredging. Fill material would include approximately 35,000 tons of quarry run limestone consisting of graded “A” stone. The Dogtooth Bend Phase 5 Regulating Works Project is located in the Middle Mississippi River (MMR) between river miles 20.0 and 40.0 in Scott and Mississippi Counties, Missouri and Alexander County, Illinois, roughly 3.5 miles downstream of Commerce, Missouri.

20 Dec 2013

Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

Expiration date: 2/15/2014

nterested parties are hereby notified that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) intends to prepare a draft supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) for the Middle Mississippi River Regulating Works Project. The Middle Mississippi River is defined as that portion of the Mississippi River that lies between the confluences of the Ohio and Missouri rivers. The original environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Project was finalized in 1976. USACE has determined that there is sufficient significant new information regarding the potential impacts of the project on the human environment to warrant the preparation of a SEIS. Public Scoping Open Workshops will be held to obtain comments and to receive feed-back from the public on the Draft SEIS and are identified in the Public Notice.