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Section 9 Summary of Coordination and Environmental Compliance

EAA Storage Reservoirs Revised Draft PIR and EIS February 2006

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construction and operation would protect any marine mammals in the area;

therefore, we do not anticipate that the project will result in take as defined by

Marine Mammal Protection Act. Manatee protection is managed by the USFWS.

The CERP Interagency Manatee Task Force, a subteam of the Manatee Recovery

Team headed by the USFWS, recommended in a letter dated April 21, 2005, that

due to the risk of manatee entrapment within the EAA canal system resulting in

manatee rescues and mortality, the USACE and SFWMD should install manatee

barriers at the three main outlet structures (S-351, S-352, and S-354) from Lake

Okeechobee into the EAA. Coordination will continue with the USFWS.

9.6.10 Estuary Protection Act of 1968

The project will reduce the freshwater-pulsed flows to the downstream estuaries.

Fresh water flows are damaging to the estuaries, as salinity regimes are

constantly fluctuating and harming the health of vegetation, fish, and other

biota. This project is anticipated to benefit the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee

Estuaries by capturing the freshwater in the storage reservoir; therefore

reducing the fresh water flows to the estuaries. This project is in full compliance

with the Act.

9.6.11 National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Inter Alia)(PL 89-665, the

Archeology and Historic Preservation Act (PL 93-291), and executive order

11593)

In accordance with procedures contained in Section 106 of the National Historic

Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 96-665) as amended in 1992 and 36

C.F.R., Part 800: Protection of Historic Properties; the National Environmental

Policy Act of 1969 as amended; Chapter 267, Florida Statutes; Florida’s Coastal

Management Program, and other implementing state regulations, in order to

evaluate the impact and adverse effects or potential adverse effects to historic

properties listed, or eligible for listing, to the National Register of Historic

Places, a cultural resources assessment has been conducted for the EAA Storage

Reservoir Project Area, Palm Beach and Hendry Counties, Florida.

The State Historic Preservation Officer’s (SHPO) initial response to the scoping

letter (DHR No. 2002-7052) stated that the potential exists for project activities

to have an effect on cultural resources listed or eligible for listing in the National

2002, indicated no recorded archaeological or historic sites within Compartment

A. A site visit in August 2002 showed extensive agricultural disturbance.

Subsequent USACE correspondence with the SHPO, dated September 23, 2002,

recommended that a cultural resources survey would not be necessary for

Compartment A. The SHPO concurred in a letter (DHR No 2002-09656) dated

December 13, 2002, that due to a previous Phase I level investigation in 1996,

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