Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 22.10.1999

Intent To Prepare a Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for Proposed Hurricane and Wetland Protection in Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes, LA, a Component of the Morganza, LA, to the Gulf of Mexico Feasibility Study

Pursuant to Section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as amended, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE) will prepare a draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) to analyze the direct, indirect, and cumulative beneficial and adverse impacts of implementing a hurricane protection project in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. The purposes of the proposed action are to provide protection to existing development from tropical storm and hurricane-induced tidal flooding such as that which occurred during Hurricane Andrew and to protect coastal wetlands from hurricane surges in a portion of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. The proposed action would consist of: (1) Upgrading many existing forced drainage system levees; (2) using permitted and/or installed flood-control features (e.g., floodgates); (3) constructing some new levees and water-control structures; and, (4) closing the water-control structures and flood gates in a coordinated manner in the event of tropical storm or hurricane-induced tidal surges.