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• • <br />198. The new topographic information from Hams County is significant information <br />relevant to environmental concerns and bearing on the proposed action or its impacts because it <br />will increase the extent of jurisdictional wetlands and will increase the mitigation requirements <br />under NEPA and the §404 permit program. <br />199. USEPA's issuance of a guidance document regarding the classification of diesel <br />emissions as carcinogenic represents significant new information relevant to the environmental <br />impact of the proposed Bayport facility. <br />200. Although this diesel study was submitted to the Corps in December, 2002, this <br />information was ignored in the FEIS. <br />201. The new PM2.5 analysis contained in the Bayport FEIS, showing that the 24-hour <br />NAAQS for PM2.5 will be violated in 2010, is significant new information relevant to the <br />environmental impact of the proposed Bayport facility. <br />202. New information regarding significant noise and vibration impacts to the <br />residential communities surrounding the.Bayport site presented in the Bayport FEIS is significant <br />and relevant to the environmental impact of the proposed Bayport facility and was never <br />presented in the DEIS. <br />203. Information about the channel depths required by Post-Panamax vesssels and <br />wharf design is significant and relevant to the necessity for the future deepening of the Houston <br />Ship Channel and Bayport Channel. <br />204. The DEIS stated that the marine impacts of widening and deepening the Houston <br />Ship Channel to at least 50 feet would be presented and it was not. <br />205. Each of the above-mentioned issues represents significant changed conditions or <br />new information relevant to environmental concerns and bearing on the proposed action and its <br />26. <br />