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Purpose: Renovate the Robert E. Galovin Small Boat Harbor. Please contact Blake Romero at (907)
Purpose:Renovate the Robert E. Galovin Small Boat Harbor. Please contact Blake Romero at (907) 753-2735, toll free from within Alaska at (800) 478-2712, by fax at (907) 753-5567, or by email at Blake.A.Romero@usace.army.mil, if further information is desired concerning this notice.
POA-2012-951, Humboldt Harbor
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US Army Corps
of Engineers
Alaska District
ANCHORAGE
Regulatory Division (1145)
CEPOA-RD
Post Office Box 6898
JBER, Alaska 99506-0898
Public Notice
of Application
for Permit
PUBLIC NOTICE DATE:
JANUARY 16, 2013
EXPIRATION DATE:
FEBRUARY 14, 2013
REFERENCE NUMBER:
POA-2012-951
WATERWAY:
HUMBOLDT HARBOR
Interested parties are hereby notified that a Department of the Army permit application
has been received for work in waters of the United States as described below and shown on
the enclosed project drawings.
Comments on the described work, with the reference number, should reach this office no
later than the expiration date of this Public Notice to become part of the record and be
considered in the decision. Please contact Blake Romero at (907) 753-2735, toll free
from within Alaska at (800) 478-2712, by fax at (907) 753-5567, or by email at
Blake.A.Romero@usace.army.mil, if further information is desired concerning this notice.
APPLICANT: The City of Sand Point
LOCATION: The project site is located within Section 17, T. 56 S., R. 74 W., Seward
Meridian; USGS Quad Map Port Moller B-2; Latitude 55.3336º N., Longitude 160.498º W.; in
Sand Point, Alaska.
PURPOSE:
Harbor.
The applicant's stated purpose is to renovate the Robert E. Galovin Small Boat
PROPOSED WORK: The City of Sand Point proposes to renovate the Robert E. Galovin small
boat harbor by replacing all of the existing structures and replacing them with longer
aluminum gangways, high quality, heavy-duty timber mooring floats, and galvanized steel
pilings with sacrificial anodes. Specifically, this work would include the removal of
40,000-square feet of floating docks and 165 piles, and replacing them with approximately
76,500-square feet of new floating docks and 242 new piles. Five existing pile dolphins
on the western side of the harbor will also be removed but not replaced and approximately
7,000-square feet of existing timber dock and timber trestle will be removed along with
related support piling which will also not be replaced. All work would be performed in
accordance with the enclosed plan (sheets 1-9), dated January 10, 2013.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
APPLICANT PROPOSED MITIGATION: The applicant proposes the following mitigation measures
to avoid, minimize, and compensate for impacts to waters of the United States from
activities involving discharges of dredged or fill material.
a. Avoidance: No fill material is proposed.
least necessary to best meet the harbor needs.
The footprint of the structures is the
b. Minimization: No fill material is proposed. The footprint of the structures is
the least necessary to best meet the harbor needs. Steel piles would be used rather than
treated wood piles to minimize water quality impacts.
c. Compensatory Mitigation: No fill material is proposed with this project and no
compensatory mitigation has been proposed by the applicant.
CULTURAL RESOURCES: The latest published version of the Alaska Heritage Resources Survey
(AHRS) has been consulted for the presence or absence of historic properties, including
those listed in or eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.
There are no listed or eligible properties in the vicinity of the worksite. Consultation
of the AHRS constitutes the extent of cultural resource investigations by the District
Commander at this time, and he is otherwise unaware of the presence of such resources.
This application is being coordinated with the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO).
Any comments SHPO may have concerning presently unknown archeological or historic data
that may be lost or destroyed by work under the requested permit will be considered in
our final assessment of the described work.
ENDANGERED SPECIES: The project area is within the known or historic range of the
Stellar sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus), northern sea otter (Enhydra lutris kenyoni), blue
whale (Balaenoptera musculus), fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus), humpback whale
(Megaptera novaeangliae) north pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica), sperm whale
(Physeter macrocephalus), sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis), leatherback sea turtle
(Dermochelys coriacea), loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta), green sea turtle
(Chelonia mydas).
We are currently gathering information regarding these species and have yet to make a
determination of effect. Should we find that the described activity may affect the
species listed above, or their designated critical habitat, we will follow the
appropriate consultation procedures under section 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973
(87 Stat. 844). Any comments the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or the National Marine
Fisheries Service may have concerning endangered or threatened wildlife or plants or
their critical habitat will be considered in our final assessment of the described work.
ESSENTIAL FISH HABITAT: The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, as
amended by the Sustainable Fisheries Act of 1996, requires all Federal agencies to
consult with the NMFS on all actions, or proposed actions, permitted, funded, or
undertaken by the agency, that may adversely affect Essential Fish Habitat (EFH).
The project area is within the known range of the yellowfin sole (Pleuronectes asper),
arrowtooth flounder (Atheresthes stomias), rock sole (Lepidopsetta polyxystra and L.
bilineata), flathead sole (Hippoglossoides elassodon), sculpin, pacific cod (Gadus
macrocephalus), walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma), chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta),
pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha), coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), sockeye salmon
(Oncorhynchus nerka), and chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha).
We have determined the described activity would not adversely affect EFH in the project
area.
TRIBAL CONSULTATION: The Alaska District fully supports tribal self-governance and
government-to-government relations between Federally recognized Tribes and the Federal
government. Tribes with protected rights or resources that could be significantly
affected by a proposed Federal action (e.g., a permit decision) have the right to consult
with the Alaska District on a government-to-government basis. Views of each Tribe
regarding protected rights and resources will be accorded due consideration in this
process. This Public Notice serves as notification to the Tribes within the area
potentially affected by the proposed work and invites their participation in the Federal
decision-making process regarding the protected Tribal right or resource. Consultation
may be initiated by the affected Tribe upon written request to the District Commander
during the public comment period.
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PUBLIC HEARING: Any person may request, in writing, within the comment period specified
in this notice, that a public hearing be held to consider this application. Requests for
public hearings shall state, with particularity, reasons for holding a public hearing.
EVALUATION: The decision whether to issue a permit will be based on an evaluation of the
probable impacts, including cumulative impacts of the proposed activity and its intended
use on the public interest. Evaluation of the probable impacts, which the proposed
activity may have on the public interest, requires a careful weighing of all the factors
that become relevant in each particular case. The benefits, which reasonably may be
expected to accrue from the proposal, must be balanced against its reasonably foreseeable
detriments. The outcome of the general balancing process would determine whether to
authorize a proposal, and if so, the conditions under which it will be allowed to occur.
The decision should reflect the national concern for both protection and utilization of
important resources. All factors, which may be relevant to the proposal, must be
considered including the cumulative effects thereof. Among those are conservation,
economics, aesthetics, general environmental concerns, wetlands, cultural values, fish
and wildlife values, flood hazards, floodplain values, land use, navigation, shore
erosion and accretion, recreation, water supply and conservation, water quality, energy
needs, safety, food and fiber production, mineral needs, considerations of property
ownership, and, in general, the needs and welfare of the people. For activities
involving 404 discharges, a permit will be denied if the discharge that would be
authorized by such permit would not comply with the Environmental Protection Agency's
404(b)(l) guidelines. Subject to the preceding sentence and any other applicable
guidelines or criteria (see Sections 320.2 and 320.3), a permit will be granted unless
the District Commander determines that it would be contrary to the public interest.
The Corps of Engineers is soliciting comments from the public; Federal, State, and local
agencies and officials; Indian Tribes; and other interested parties in order to consider
and evaluate the impacts of this proposed activity. Any comments received will be
considered by the Corps of Engineers to determine whether to issue, modify, condition or
deny a permit for this proposal. To make this decision, comments are used to assess
impacts on endangered species, historic properties, water quality, general environmental
effects, and the other public interest factors listed above. Comments are used in the
preparation of an Environmental Assessment and/or an Environmental Impact Statement
pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act. Comments are also used to determine
the need for a public hearing and to determine the overall public interest of the
proposed activity.
AUTHORITY:
This permit will be issued or denied under the following authority:
(X) Perform work in or affecting navigable waters of the United States Section 10
Rivers and Harbors Act 1899 (33 U.S.C. 403).
Project drawings are enclosed with this Public Notice.
District Commander
U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers
Enclosures
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