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Corps extends public comment window on Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin planning documents

MOBILE, ALA - In response to requests from some stakeholders, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has extended the public comment period on the draft environmental impact statement and water control manual for the river system that includes Lake Lanier.
 
The Mobile District of the USACE announced the additional 45 days of comment Friday for the documents that pertain to the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee- Flint River Basin.
 
“We have received several requests from various stakeholders throughout the basin to extend the public comment period to allow them an opportunity to completely review the documents prior to providing comments,” E. Patrick Robbins, Chief, Public Affairs said.
 
Speaking at a public hearing on the documents last week, Joanna Cloud, Executive Director of the Lake Lanier Association, said her organization had hired an attorney to review the documents.
 
“I don’t think our members have had a chance to digest it; the draft is massive. I really think it’s too complicated and too complex in this short period of time for most of our general membership to really understand,” Cloud said.
 
The new comment deadline period is January 15, 2016.  It had been set to expire on December 1, 2015.
 
USACE has spent years working on new regulatory documents for the basin.  Disagreement over the water in the system has been the subject of a decades long water war between Georgia, Alabama and Florida.
 
A final EIS is scheduled to be completed and filed with the Environmental Protection Agency in the Fall of next year, according to the Corps.
 
WDUN's Marc Eggers contributed to this story.
 
  • A version of the DEIS can be found online.
  • CD’s of the documents can be requested by writing to Commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, Attn: PD-EI (ACF-DEIS), P.O. Box 2288, Mobile, AL 36628. 

source:  USACE

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