MOBILE, Ala. – The Mobile District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced today they will be extending the public comment period for the Draft EIS and Water Control Manual of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee- Flint River Basin an additional 45 days until January 15, 2016.
“We have received several requests from various stakeholders throughout the basin to extend the public comment period to allow them an opportunity to completely review the documents prior to providing comments,” E. Patrick Robbins, Chief, Public Affairs said. “Therefore we have extended the comment period for an additional 45 days.”
The official notice of the time period extension will appear in the Federal Register on Friday, November 13, 2015 formally changing the date from December 1, 2015 to January 15, 2016.
An online version of the DEIS and appendices can be found at http://www.sam.usace.army.mil. CD’s of the documents can be requested by writing to Commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District, Attn: PD-EI (ACF-DEIS), P.O. Box 2288, Mobile, AL 36628.
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Release no. 15-032