LJA ENGINEERING TO OBTAIN PERMIT FROM THE CORP OF ENGINEERS TO CLEAN SPINDLETOP:

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LJA ENGINEERING TO OBTAIN PERMIT FROM THE CORP OF ENGINEERS TO CLEAN SPINDLETOP: General Manager Shadden — It starts out at highway 65 and goes to Highway 124, Cody can expand on it more, we feel like since we are not increasing the size, we are just re-sloping and taking the high spot out and bringing it back to its natural, he feels like we an get it under a Nationwide 3 Permit. I don’t think it would be that great big of deal, but we will have to have it to do anything on the South side correct? Cody Croley - Yes, 1 spoke to Lee Stroth from Horizon and we have been talking about this for over a year now. We worked with him on the North side of 65, which wasn’t Section 10 Jurisdictional which is highly influenced. Even though the salt-water barrier is back in place none of that upstream of 124 and the saltwater barrier should be highly influenced, but from the Core’s point of view, without that saltwater barrier it would be. When we looked at this before, North of 65 there were some 404 jurisdictional areas but the activities that we were talking about doing, like taking out the hump in the bottom, is not a regulated activity as long as you are depositing that dirt in a wetlands. If you deposit it in the uplands or haul it off, you can dig the bottom of that channel all you want. But South of 65, Lee said the Core may consider that highly influences, which we would fight it and say not with the saltwater barrier. And again, the cleaning out the channel there as far as tak

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