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Burdette, Jennifer a
From: Hughes, Emily B SAW <[e-mail]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2016 3:33 PM
To: Burdette, Jennifer a
Cc: Owens, Jennifer L SAW
Subject: Eagle Island PN and EA
Attachments: Public Notice -Eagle Island Draft EA -July 2016.pdf
Hi Jennifer,
Attached is the Public Notice that went out last Friday. Unknowingly, it was not yet uploaded to our website,
but I have that in the works now. What you see attached should be available at the following link by tomorrow
morning:
http://www.saw.usace.army.miI/Missions/Navigation/Dredging/Wilmington-Harbor/Eagle-Island/
The Draft EA document is located here as well. Please let me know if our PN will suffice for your needs. If not,
please indicate what is needed to facilitate that process.
The PCN application (3 copies) and check for $570 will be sent to Ms. Higgins in the next couple of days. Thank
you for your help!
Emily
Environmental Resources Planning Section Wilmington District US Army Corps of Engineers
69 Darlington Ave.
Wilmington, NC 28403
[phone]
[e-mail]
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US Army Carps
of Engineers,
Wilmington District
CESAW-ECP-PE
PUBLIC NOTICE ,& NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY
Draft Environmental Assessment (EA)
EaIlle Island Improvements
Bike Raise to Elevation 50 Feet
Brunswick and New Hanover Counties, NC
29 July 2016
PURPOSE OF PUBLIC NOTICE: This Notice is to inform you that the U.S. Array Corps of
Engineers (USA.CE), Wilmington District has prepared the Draft Environmental Assessment (EA),
Eagle Island Improvements, Dire Raise to Elevation 50 Feet NAVD88, dated July 2016, and it is
available for review. The purpose of this notice is also to solicit your comments and information
to better enable us to make a reasonable decision on factors affecting the public interest. That
decision will reflect the national concern for bath protection and utilization of important resources.
The benefits, which reasonably may be expected to accrue from the proposal, must be balanced
against its reasonably foreseeable detriments. All factors that may be relevant to the proposal will
be considered, including the cumulative effects thereof.
INFORMATION: The draft EA for the Eagle Island improvement project has been developed
to ensure adequate dredged material disposal capacity for the Wilmington Harbor Federal
Navigation Project for at least the next 16 years by recommending the construction of dike raises
to elevation 50 feet for Cells 1-3 on Eagle Island in the Cape Fear River. To ensure dike stability,
the 50 -foot dike raise will require a supportive outer toe berm. This toe berm is projected to impact
39 acres ofPhragmites-dominated coastal marsh.
The draft EA has been prepared in accordance with the requirements of ER 200-2-2 (33 CFR Part
230): Environmental Quality Procedures for Implementing the National Environmental Policy
Act (NEPA), of 1969, as amended, and 40 CFR Parts 1500 to 1508 the Council on Environmental
Quality (CEQ) Regulations for Implementing the NEPA.
AVAILABILITY OF THE DRAFT EA: The report can be accessed as follows:
1. Online, downloaded from the Wilmington District. Internet homepage at:
littp://www.sa v.usace.army.rail/MissionsrNavi-ation/Dreding/Wilmington-HarborlEa,(Yle-
Island/.

2. CD copies of the draft EA may be obtained by contacting:
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District
ATTR: Ms. Emily Hughes (CESAW-ECP-PE)
69 Darlington Avenue
Wilmington, North Carolina 28403
Telephone: [phone]
E-mail: emily.b.lilies c ,usace.aiiii it
3. The draft EA is also available for review and inspection (not for distribution) at:
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District
District Library
69 Darlington Avenue
Wilmington, North Carolina 2.8403
(Note: Please contact Ms. Hughes to make arrangements for reviewing the EA at the District
library. Her contact information is listed above.)
4. Copies of the draft EA have been mailed to federal, state, and local agencies, public interest
groups, and individuals.
SOLICITATION OF COMMENTS: The Wilmington District USACE is soliciting comments
from the public, federal, state, and local agencies and officials, and other interested parties to
consider and evaluate the impacts of the proposed activity. Comments received will be considered
in preparation of the final EA.
Written comments and requests for additional information should be submitted to Ms. Hughes at
the above address and/or telephone number.
COMMENT PEFJOD: Comments may be submitted no later than 30 days from the date of this
public notice, so they may be considered during the final evaluation and decision process.
Elden Gatwood
Chief, Planning and Environmental Branch
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