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NEPA Notices from TVA Affecting the SAMAB Area
NOTICE TITLE: Draft Resource Management Plan and EA, Fullerton Bend
Management Unit, Norris Reservoir, Campbell and Union Counties, Tennessee
STATE: Tennessee
COMMENTS DUE DATE: September 25, 2000
NOTICE SUMMARY: TVA is seeking public comment on a proposed resource-management plan and an environmental assessment for 2,492 acres of public land known as the Fullerton Bend Unit. The land borders Norris Reservoir in Campbell and Union counties in East Tennessee and both sides of the Powell River from about mile 20 to mile 30. It is about 11 miles east of LaFollette and three miles south of Speedwell.
In accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, TVA also is seeking comment on the potential for planned uses of these lands to affect historic properties.
The proposed plan, which includes input from stakeholders, is intended to guide TVA's resource-management activities for 25 years or until the plan is amended or supplemented through subsequent planning.
In developing this management plan, TVA seeks to provide sustainable public-use benefits through the effective management of natural resources, protect sensitive resources in accordance with existing regulations and principles of good stewardship, and contribute to improved watershed health in the Powell River/Campbell County area.
The environmental assessment identifies alternatives for managing forest and wildlife resources and public-recreation opportunities, including hunting, fishing, hiking and wildlife observation. Potential environmental effects of each alternative are analyzed in the environmental assessment.
For a copy of the draft plan and environmental assessment, call Blake Bivens with TVA Resource Stewardship at 632-8095 or 1-800-TVA-LAND (882-5263). Copies also are available by writing or e-mailing Stanford Davis (sedavis2@tva.gov), 2611 West Andrew Johnson Highway, Morristown, TN 37814-3295.
KEYWORDS: forest, wildlife, recreation
CONTACT: Harold Draper, TVA, 400 West Summit Hill Drive, Knoxville, TN 37902; hmdraper@tva.gov; telephone 865-632-6889; fax 865-632-6855
NOTICE TITLE: Proposed Amendments to Section 26a of the TVA Act
STATES: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
COMMENTS DUE DATE: October 15, 2000
SUMMARY: Section 26a of the TVA Act provides that no dam, appurtenant works, or other obstruction affecting navigation, flood control, or public lands or reservations shall be constructed, and thereafter operated or
maintained across, along, or in the Tennessee River system or any of its tributaries until the plans for such construction, operation, or maintenance shall have been submitted to and approved by the TVA Board of Directors or its delegate. Commencement of construction, operation, or maintenance of such structures without such approval is prohibited.
In 1971, TVA established regulations, an approval process, and policies to carry out TVA's Section 26a authority. The newly proposed regulations would further amend the existing regulations to address:
- underground and aboveground storage tanks
- marina sewage pump-out stations and holding tanks
- wastewater outfalls and septic systems
- development within flood control storage zones of TVA reservoirs
- the handling of requests for waivers or variances
- the application process
- the handling of appeals
- additional criteria for residential-related use of TVA-controlled residential access shoreline and TVA floage easement shoreline
- implementation of the Shoreline Management Policy (SMP) adopted by TVA's Board of Directors in April 1999.
The environmental impacts of the rules that would implement the SMP were previously assessed in a 1998 EIS, Shoreline Management Initiative: An Assessment of Residential Shoreline Development Impacts in the Tennessee
Valley. The current EA available for review assesses those aspects of the proposed rule not addressed in the residential shoreline development EIS. This includes the establishment of specifications for flotation devices
associated with docks, boat mooring buoys, and other water use facilities; regulation of marine sanitation devices, wastewater outfalls, septic systems, marina sewage pump-out stations, and storage tanks; and floodplain
management.
KEYWORDS: reservoirs, rules, sewage
CONTACT: Comments should be submitted to Harold M. Draper, TVA, 400 West Summit Hill Drive, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902; telephone 865-632-6889; fax 865-632-6855; e-mail: hmdraper@tva.gov
LINK TO MORE INFORMATION: www.tva.gov/river/landandshore/amend.htm
NOTICE TITLE: Proposed Commercial Recreation License for Savannah Harbour Marina
STATE: Tennessee
COMMENTS DUE DATE: October 8, 2000
NOTICE SUMMARY: TVA proposes to issue a commercial recreation license affecting 22.5 acres of public land and a Section 26a approval for a marina on Watts Bar Reservoir, Roane County, Tennessee. The proposed marina would be part of the existing Southwest Point Golf Course in Kingston. The applicant currently leases 13.3 acres of the tract from TVA for a golf course and requests use of an additional 9.2 acres. The original proposal consisted of a restaurant, parking lot, septic system, aboveground fuel storage tanks, and support amenities on the applicant's land and up to 812 boatslips, a breakwater, ship store, fuel service, sewage pump-out facility, boat ramp, and riprap on TVA land. TVA has prepared an EA that analyzes the environmental effects of the original proposal and a modified proposal that would reduce the number of boatslips to 254. At this time, TVA prefers the
modified proposal.
KEYWORDS: reservoir land management, reservoir permitting
POINT OF CONTACT INFORMATION: Comments on the EA should be submitted to Harold M. Draper, NEPA Specialist, 400 West Summit Hill Drive, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902; telephone (865) 632-6889; fax (865) 632-6855; e-mail: hmdraper@tva.gov
LINK TO MORE INFORMATION: http://www.tva.gov/river/landandshore/landuse_action.htm
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