Office of Mexican Affairs; Notice of Issuance of a Finding of No Significant Impact With Regard to the Issuance of a Presidential Permit for the Cox Communications Underground Fiber-Optic Link, San Diego, California

Résumé

Notice is hereby given that the Department of State has issued a Finding of No Significant Impact on the human environment within the United States for the underground fiber-optic link project sponsored by Cox Communications, Inc. of San Diego, California. A draft Environmental Assessment of the proposed underground fiber-optic link was prepared by Tetra Tech, Inc. for the sponsor, Cox Communications, Inc. of San Diego, California. The draft Final Environmental Assessment was then reviewed by numerous federal and state agencies. Each such ``cooperating agency'' has approved or accepted the draft Final Environmental Assessment. Based upon the Department's independent review of the draft Final Environmental Assessment, comments received during its preparation and comments received by the Department from federal and state agencies including measures which are proposed to be taken to prevent and/or mitigate potentially adverse environmental impacts which the Sponsors intend to take, the Department has concluded that issuance of a Presidential Permit authorizing construction of the proposed Cox Communications underground fiber-optic link would not have a significant impact on the qualit