Environmental Assessment for Facility Planning & Control: New Orleans City Park Golf Complex, Orleans Parish, New Orleans, Louisiana (May 2013)

Hurricane Katrina made landfall on August 29, 2005 near the town of Buras, Louisiana with sustained winds of more than 125 mph. President George W. Bush declared a major disaster for the State of Louisiana (FEMA-1603-DR-LA) on August 29, 2005, authorizing the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide Federal assistance in designated areas of Louisiana.  The objective of FEMA’s Public Assistance Grant Program is to provide assistance to State, Tribal and local governments, and certain types of Private Nonprofit organizations, so that communities can quickly respond to, recover from, and mitigate major disasters and emergencies.  This Draft Environmental Assessment (DEA) was prepared in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the President’s Council on Environmental Quality regulations implementing NEPA (Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations [CFR] Parts 1500 to 1508), and FEMA’s regulations implementing NEPA (44 CFR Parts 9 and 10). 

FEMA published a Notice of Availability for the Draft EA and Draft FONSI on May 22, 24, and 26, 2013.  FEMA issued a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) dated June 20, 2013. This notice is provided to inform the public of the availability of a Memorandum to File dated July 8, 2016, and of the issuance of permits for action by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in compliance with the Clean Water Act.