COMMENT CATEGORY COMMENT

ƒƒƒƒChapter 8. Draft EIS Comment-Response 8.1 INTRODUCTION The Notice of Availability for the draft EIS was published on May 26, 2006. The comment period for the draft EIS ended on July 10, 2006, 45 days later. During the comment period, DOE held five public hearings between June 20, 2006, and June 28, 2006, in Pascagoula, MS; Richton, MS; Port Gibson, MS; Lake Jackson, TX; and Houma, LA. DOE received oral or written comments from the following: 9 elected officials; 15 government agencies; 8 companies or other organizations; and 76 individuals. These commenters submitted 93 written comment letters and 21 of them provided oral comments at the public hearings. This chapter contains the text of comments extracted from the comment letters and hearing transcripts, together with DOE responses to the extracted comments. The transcripts of the public hearings and comment letters are reproduced in appendix N. Section 8.2 describes DOE’s methodology for acquiring, categorizing, addressing, and documenting the comments. Section 8.3 provides guidance to help readers find comments and responses. Section 8.4 presents the comments and the corresponding responses. See section 1.4.4 for a summary of the major comments received on the draft EIS and the major changes to the EIS that resulted from the public comments. 8.2 METHODOLOGY In preparing the EIS, DOE considered all comments, including those submitted after the close of the ...