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• <br />o The Port also has committed to reducing diesel emissions through the use of clean <br />fuels and clean engine technologies. <br />2. Wetlands and Water Quality Matters <br />The FEIS includes a detailed analysis of the wetlands and other habitat at the Bayport <br />site. The Corps has determined that there are 19.71 acres of wetlands that aze subject to <br />federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act (CWA), of which 19.28 acres will be <br />impacted by the project. The lazge majority of those wetlands aze on old dredge material <br />disposal areas north of Port Road. <br />• The PHA will mitigate for the loss of these wetlands on a 173.5 acre tract located on <br />Red Bluff Road. The Port will create 66.8 acres of new wetlands, within the Taylor <br />Bayou/Bayport Channel watershed, a ratio of more than 3.4 acres of wetlands for each one <br />acre used to build the terminal. <br />• The PHA will compensate for other aquatic resources and habitat values. In addition to <br />the created wetlands, the Red Bluff Road site will include: <br />- enhancement of 12 acres of existing wetlands <br />- 23.7 acres of forested and shrub uplands <br />- 71 acres of restored coastal prairie <br />- a conservation easement will protect the entire 173.5 acre tract <br />• At least 200 acres of inter-tidal marsh will be created as a beneficial use of dredge <br />material. <br />• Critically, the water quality functions of the aquatic resources (both jurisdictional and <br />non-jurisdictional) will be adequately replaced. <br />• The storm water quality plan at Bayport will meet -and exceed -all environmental <br />standards. <br />• This program is being implemented even though sampling of storm water at the existing <br />Barbours Cut Terminal has never exceeded any regulatory limits. That record has been set <br />without the high level of protection Bayport will have. <br />o The Bayport Terminal will capture the first inch of rainfall at the terminal and divert <br />it to a holding pond. The first flush pond will trap suspended solids, thus decreasing <br />the discharge of sediments into the bay. <br />o The rate of storm water flow into Pine Gully will be limited to pre-project conditions. <br />The South Terminal Retention Pond will capture and hold storm water in excess of <br />BAYPORT POSITION PAPER <br />pale 3 of 7 <br />May 2003 <br />