Contacts
Julie Morin,
USFWS, 612-713-5156
Martin Konrad,
Iowa DNR, 515-281-6976
The U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service is seeking public comment on a draft supplemental Environmental
Assessment (EA) to renovate and expand the City of Clinton, Iowa, marina,
located in Joyce’s Slough on the Mississippi River. The city-owned
marina proposes to expand by adding additional slips on the north and south
side of the slough. The proposed improvements to the north will be located
on the north side of the floodgate.
Activities
previously presented in a final EA include the construction of 50 slips for
transient boats greater than 26 feet long and associated facilities at the
marina.
The project
is proposed by the City of Clinton and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources
for funding through the Boating Infrastructure Grant Program (Federal Aid
in Sport Fish Restoration Act), administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Projects funded by the Service are required to comply with the National Environmental
Policy Act and other associated federal requirements, including the Historic
Preservation Act and the Endangered Species Act.
The draft
supplemental EA, final EA and associated appendices can be found on the Web
at http://www.veenstrakimm.com.
Printed copies of the supplemental EA documents are available at:
City of
Clinton, Iowa
City Clerk
611 South Third Street
Clinton, Iowa 52733-2958
Veenstra & Kimm,
Inc.
1530 46th Ave - Suite 2B
Moline, Illinois 61265-7019
Written comments
should be sent to Martin Konrad, via email: martin.konrad@dnr.state.ia.us or
at the following address: Assistant Federal Assistance Coordinator, Iowa
Department of Natural Resources, 502 E. 9th Street, Wallace State Office
Building, Des Moines, IA 50319, (515) 281-6976.
Comments are
due on or before October 24, 2005.
The U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service is the principal federal agency responsible for conserving,
protecting and enhancing fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for
the continuing benefit of the American people. The Service manages the 95-million-acre
National Wildlife Refuge System, which encompasses 545 national wildlife
refuges, thousands of small wetlands and other special management areas.
It also operates 69 national fish hatcheries, 63 Fish and Wildlife Management
offices and 81 ecological services field stations. The agency enforces federal
wildlife laws, administers the Endangered Species Act, manages migratory
bird populations, restores nationally significant fisheries, conserves and
restores wildlife habitat such as wetlands, and helps foreign governments
with their conservation efforts. It also oversees the Federal Assistance
program, which distributes hundreds of millions of dollars in excise taxes
on fishing and hunting equipment to state fish and wildlife agencies.
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