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News Release

Release Number: 03-109
Dated: 7/14/2003
Contact: Public Affairs Office, 503-808-4510

Corps reviews permit application from Douglas County

Portland, Ore.-The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is evaluating a permit application from Douglas County Public Works to fill about 1 acre of jurisdictional wetland to develop the Douglas County Campus in Roseburg, Ore.

The proposed development would include five buildings, parking lots, and a 24-foot wide access road that crosses Davis Creek. The road would require two arch-culverts placed side by side within the stream channel.

The applicant has proposed to mitigate for impacts by creating, enhancing, and restoring palustrine emergent and scrub/shrub wetlands on site. If a permit is issued, the Corps will decide on the appropriate and practicable compensatory mitigation.

As part of its permit evaluation process, the Corps is requesting public review and comment on the proposed project prior to making its permit decision.

For a copy of the Corps’ Public Notice 1997-00562, which describes the proposed project in detail, please write to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, ATTN: CENWP-OP-GP (Merina Christoffersen), 1600 Executive Parkway, Suite 210, Eugene, OR, or call (541) 465-6882. A copy of the public notice, including photocopies of supporting drawings, will be available on the Corps’ Internet site at https://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/op/g/notices/199700562.pdf.

Written comments must reach the Corps by July 27, 2003, and should be mailed to the above address. Send e-mail comments to Merina.E.Christoffersen@usace.army.mil. Comments must reference the public notice number.

The Corps also is soliciting input from 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 on endangered species, cultural resources, water quality, general environmental effects and other public interest factors.

The Corps will evaluate the permit request under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act for discharge of dredged or fill material into waters of the United States.

A permit will not be issued until the state has concurred with the applicant’s certification that the described activity complies with Section 401 of the Clean Water Act.

Also, because the proposed project may affect an endangered or threatened species or its critical habitat, the Corps will initiate consultation with the National Marine Fisheries Service, under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Preliminary determinations indicate that the proposed activity may also affect essential fish habitat for coho salmon and chinook salmon. Consultation under Section 305 of the Magnusson-Stevens Act will be initiated.

A permit for the proposed activity will not be issued or denied until these consultation processes are complete.

The proposed project is not located on property registered in the latest version of the National Register of Historic Places. This notice has been provided to the State Historic Preservation Office.

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