Notice2025-04493
Withdrawal of Notice of Intent To Prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the San Clemente Shoreline Protection Project
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Published
March 19, 2025
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Abstract
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is issuing this notice to advise federal, state, and local government agencies and the public that USACE is withdrawing the notice of intent (NOI) for the preparation of a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the San Clemente Shoreline Protection Project (Project) which was published in the Federal Register on July 2, 2024. Since publication of the NOI, there has been a reduction in scope which involves less impacts than was anticipated at the time of the NOI, resulting in preparing a supplemental environmental assessment (SEA).
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 52 (Wednesday, March 19, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 12713]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-04493]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers
Withdrawal of Notice of Intent To Prepare a Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement for the San Clemente Shoreline
Protection Project
AGENCY: Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, DoD.
ACTION: Notice of intent; withdrawal.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is issuing this
notice to advise federal, state, and local government agencies and the
public that USACE is withdrawing the notice of intent (NOI) for the
preparation of a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for
the San Clemente Shoreline Protection Project (Project) which was
published in the Federal Register on July 2, 2024. Since publication of
the NOI, there has been a reduction in scope which involves less
impacts than was anticipated at the time of the NOI, resulting in
preparing a supplemental environmental assessment (SEA).
DATES: The NOI to prepare a SEIS published in the Federal Register on
July 2, 2024 (89 FR 54802), is withdrawn as of March 19, 2025.
ADDRESSES: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District,
Environmental Resources Branch, (CESPL-PDR), 915 Wilshire Blvd., Suite
1109, Los Angeles, CA 90017-3409.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions about the withdrawal of the
NOI can be directed to Kenneth Wong, Planning Division, USACE Los
Angeles District at (213) 361-2269 or <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#741f111a1a11001c5a031b1a133401071517115a1506190d5a191d18"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5d36383333382935732a32333a1d282e3c3e38733c2f302473303431">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The San Clemente Shoreline Protection
Project was authorized by the Water Resources Reform and Development
Act of 2014, Public Law 113-121, section 7002 for the purpose of
reducing coastal storm damages by constructing a beach fill/berm along
the San Clemente shoreline. The authorized project includes
construction of an approximate 50-footwide beach nourishment project
along a 3,412-foot-long stretch of shoreline using beach compatible
sediment, with renourishment on the average of every 6 years over a 50-
year period of federal participation. The project is further described
in the Final Feasibility Report dated February 2012 and Joint Final
Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report dated July
2011, SEA dated May 2023, and SEA dated March 2024. In October 2024,
the USACE finalized a SEA evaluating the continuation and completion of
the initial construction of the Project. The USACE determined the
reduced proposed action is not likely to result in significant impacts
requiring preparation of a SEIS.
Construction of the project was initiated in December 2023.
However, due in part to equipment damage and sediment compatibility
issues encountered at the Oceanside borrow area, construction was
temporarily paused. To allow for operational flexibility, the March
2024 SEA evaluated inclusion of the Surfside-Sunset borrow area, a 106-
acre borrow site offshore Surfside-Sunset beaches located 29 miles to
the north of San Clemente, in Orange County, as an alternate borrow
site for initial construction of the project. In April 2024, during the
construction window evaluated in the March 2024 SEA, the USACE
contractor placed 115,000 cubic yards of compatible sediment on San
Clemente Beach as part of the initial construction of the Project.
The proposed action, as described in the NOI, involved identifying
suitable location(s) containing enough beach compatible sediment
required to nourish San Clemente Beach and complete the project,
including future nourishment. Following monitoring of the beach
nourishment site, USACE will determine the appropriate frequency and
borrow material quantity for beach nourishment and whether a different
borrow site would be needed for those future renourishments. USACE will
evaluate the proposed impacts of future renourishment placements
following monitoring.
Joseph M. Savage,
Programs Director.
[FR Doc. 2025-04493 Filed 3-18-25; 8:45 am]
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