Herring River Restoration Project - Final EIS
National Park Service. 2016. Herring River Restoration Project - Final EIS. National Park Service
This Herring River Restoration Project, Final Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report (final EIS/EIR) has been prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations implementing NEPA (40 CFR 1500–1508) and the National Park Service (NPS) Director’s Order 12: Conservation Planning, Environmental Impact Analysis, and Decision-Making, the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA), and the Cape Cod Regional Policy Plan. This final EIS/EIR evaluates alternatives for tidal restoration of large portions of the Herring River flood plain in and adjacent to Cape Cod National Seashore (the Seashore) and addresses comments received in response to the draft EIS/EIR issued on October 12, 2012. The EIS/EIR assesses the impacts that could result from continuing current management (the no action alternative) or implementing any of the three action alternatives. Upon conclusion of this final EIS/EIR and subsequent decision-making process, the preferred alternative, with its various restoration components, will provide a strategy for long-term, systematic monitoring, management, and restoration of the Herring River estuary.
- Type
- Compliance Document
- Authors
- National Park Service
- Date of Issue
- 2016-09-15
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- CACO
- Keywords
- CACO, Cape Cod National Seashore, compliance, EIS, Herring River, NEPA, restoration, ROD, salt marsh