Action Alert

Dry cargo hearing

THIS ACTION ITEM HAS CLOSED

The United States Coast Guard has announced a public comment period as it prepares a new Environmental Impact Statement in preparation of potential changes to the rule, Dry Cargo Residues on the Great Lakes.

Great Lakes United will be preparing comments in the coming weeks. For more information on our position, contact Jennifer Nalbone at jen@glu.org.

On December 29, 2008, the U.S. Coast Guard published a Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare a new Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on our proposal to issue a final rule that may modify the Dry Cargo Residues on the Great Lakes interim rule and add new conditions for discharges. The EIS is being prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). As part of the scoping process under NEPA, the USCG invites you to participate in the following public meeting:

January 28, 2009 from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Hotel Blake
500 South Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL 60605

Further details on the EIS, the public meeting, and instructions on how to comment if you cannot attend the meeting can be found at Volume 73, page 79496 of the Federal Register published on December 29, 2008. We will consider all comments and related materials received by March 30, 2009. Further information about dry cargo residues, including a copy of the NOI, can be found on the Coast Guard’s Environmental Standards Division website at http://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg5/cg522/cg5224/dry_cargo.asp.

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