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https://hdl.handle.net/11681/48231| Title: | Final Tiered Environmental Assessment & Finding of No Significant Impact (Tiered from the Programmatic Environmental Assessment Signed May 2020) : Public Law 84-99, Emergency Levee Rehabilitation Program & Advanced Measures Civil Emergency Management Program for L-536 Levee Rehabilitation and Large-Scale Levee Setback |
| Authors: | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Omaha District |
| Keywords: | Levees Flood control Environmental management Environmental protection Atchison County (Mo.) Holt County (Mo.) |
| Publisher: | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Omaha District. |
| Abstract: | The purpose of this project is to provide emergency assistance to Atchison County Levee District No. 1, per their written request in the form of levee repair and flood damage reduction as directed by Congress (33 U.S.C. 701n). This program is described in detail in Engineering Regulation 500-1-1. The specific purpose of the Federal action documented in this tiered EA is to rehabilitate the L-536 levee system that was damaged in the 2019 flooding. While significant habitat benefits can result from a large-scale levee setback, habitat restoration is not considered a project purpose when structural repair measures are taken as part of a PL 84-99 levee rehab action. Habitat benefits can more explicitly be part of a project purpose under PL 84-99 if a non-structural alternative plan is selected for implementation, but that was not the case with L-536. All habitat benefits that result from the L-536 project are considered incidental, but were pursed where they aligned with the least cost, most technically feasible structural repair alternative. The pursuit of such “natural and nature-based features” (NNBF) are consistent with statutes governing PL 84-99, including 33 U.S.C Sections 2289a and 2282. |
| Description: | Tiered Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact |
| URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/11681/48231 |
| Appears in Collections: | Environmental Documents |
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| PL 84-99 Emergency Levee Rehabilitation Program EA and FONSI_2023.pdf | 195.89 MB | Adobe PDF |  View/Open |