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Notice; request for comments.
The Corps of Engineers on behalf of the interagency Estuary Habitat Restoration Council is soliciting comments on the draft "Estuary Habitat Restoration Strategy."
Submit comments on or before June 17, 2002.
Send comments to Estuary Habitat Restoration Strategy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Institute for Water Resources, 7701 Telegraph Road, Casey Building, Alexandria, Virginia, 22315-3868. See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for electronic filing address.Start Further Info
Ms. Ellen Cummings, Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, DC 20314-1000, (202) 761-4558; or Ms. Cynthia Garman-Squier,Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works), Washington, DC, (703) 695-6791.End Further Info End Preamble Start Supplemental Information
The Estuary Restoration Act of 2000, Title I of Public Law 106-457 has four purposes: (1) Promotion of estuary habitat restoration; (2) development of a national strategy for creating and maintaining effective estuary habitat restoration partnerships; (3) provision of Federal assistance for estuary habitat restoration projects; and (4) development and enhancement of monitoring and research capabilities to ensure that estuary habitat restoration efforts are based on sound scientific understanding and innovative technologies. The Act authorizes an estuary habitat restoration program for implementation of Federal assistance through cost-shared estuary habitat restoration projects. The Act authorizes funds to be appropriated to Army for this program. Funds were also authorized for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to establish a database of restoration project information and to develop monitoring data standards. The Estuary Habitat Restoration Council consisting of representatives from Department of the Army, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Department of Agriculture was established to oversee these activities.
The Council is charged to develop an estuary habitat restoration strategy designed to ensure a comprehensive approach to maximize benefits and foster coordination of Federal and non-Federal activities. The goal of the strategy is restoration of 1,000,000 acres of estuary habitat by the year 2010. Elements of the draft strategy are discussed in section 106(d) of the Act. The intent of this notice is to obtain comments on the draft strategy prepared by the Estuary Habitat Restoration Council in accordance with these requirements.
While the authorized estuary habitat restoration program is discussed in this draft strategy, the implementation process for solicitation and review of project proposals and evaluation criteria will be the subject of a separate notice at a later date. The strategy is also not intended to be the forum for a detailed discussion of the monitoring data standards, but does include a discussion of the need for monitoring.
The Council is looking for comments on the entire strategy, including any omissions. The following questions have been developed to indicate areas where additional discussion may be beneficial. However, these questions are not intended to limit the nature and content of the comments you may wish to provide.
a. Introduction, Paragraph 3—Calls for supporting restoration activities that create self-sustaining systems integrated into the surrounding landscapes. What criteria should the Council use in evaluating whether a project is "self-sustaining"?
b. Introduction, Paragraph 5—Interprets the definition of "estuary" that is set forth in the Act. Is the definition of "estuary" contained in this paragraph consistent with how you would define estuary? If not, why not? What definition would you propose using, consistent with the intent of the Act? Should the Council provide more guidance on defining the boundaries of an estuary? If so, what would you propose?
c. Introduction, Paragraph 6—For measuring progress toward the one million acre goal, "restored area" is considered to be the area where monitoring can document restored function. Is this a realistic measurement of progress? What other means would you suggest be used to measure progress toward the goal and why?
d. Trends of Estuary Habitats, Paragraph 3—States that the Council will develop a habitat classification system based on Cowardin et al. to address habitat trends as required in the Act. The Federal Geographic Data Committee has adopted Cowardin as the Federal standard for wetland mapping, monitoring and data reporting. Does Cowardin address all components of estuary habitat for which status and trends data should be developed and for which monitoring data should be tracked? If not, what components are missing? What classification systems are currently being used by States and others who track status and trends information?
e. Trends of Estuary Habitats, Paragraph 6—Directs the Council, within two years, to review estuary habitat trends data and identify data gaps. What information should be included in the Council's review of trends data? What are the most significant gaps in habitat trends data, either geographically or in terms of habitat types, which should be addressed by the Council?Start Printed Page 22416
f. Trends of Estuary Habitats, Paragraph 6—States that trends data collected by the Council will be used to establish restoration priorities. Should the Council use trends data to establish national and regional restoration priorities? If yes, how should the data be used and which types of information are most critical? If no, how should national and regional priorities be identified?
g. Trends of Estuary Habitats, Paragraph 7—Encourages organizations preparing or updating estuary management and restoration plans to incorporate available trends data and use it to plan priorities. Are there good examples of trends data collection by local or regional groups?
h. Estuary Management or Habitat Restoration Plans, Paragraphs 2-5—Describes seven elements that are typically found in effective estuary habitat restoration plans. Should there be other minimum requirements used to identify effective restoration plans? If so, what do you think they are?
i. Ecosystem Level Approach, Paragraph 5—Directs the Council in its review of project proposals to support projects developed in an ecosystem context with multiple benefits. What do you believe would indicate that an ecosystem approach has been used in project planning?
j. Partnerships, Paragraph 3—Calls for collaboration among government and non-government entities involved in habitat restoration. How can collaboration among agencies, private organizations and individuals be improved to ensure that all interested parties are involved and in a position to contribute to the restoration effort?
k. Partnerships, Paragraph 4—Encourages the use of awards to encourage restoration partnerships and the involvement of volunteers. Would a national process be beneficial for granting awards or should the process be developed locally by project partners? Should such a process be run by a Federal agency?
l. Partnerships, Paragraph 7—Encourages Council members and private partners to use web sites to provide the public with information on funding for estuary restoration projects. Should a Federal agency develop a national Web site that would act as a clearinghouse to other Web sites?
m. Habitat Restoration Program, Paragraph 2—Describes habitat restoration activities that are eligible for funding under the Act. Are the categories of included activities (1) sufficient to achieve the Act's goal of restoring one 4million acres of estuary habitat by 2010 and (2) inclusive of all critical restoration activities that are not specifically excluded by the Act? If not, which additional activities should be considered?
n. Habitat Restoration Program, Paragraph 4—The Council and the Secretary may consider additional factors, other than those set forth in the Act, for project evaluation, ranking, and selection. What additional factors should the Secretary and the Council consider?
o. Habitat Restoration Program, Paragraph 6—Defines a small project as generally one with a Federal cost of $250,000 or less and that manipulates 50 acres or less. Is this definition adequate for balancing small and large projects in the program?
p. Ensuring Success, Paragraph 5—Encourages local, State and regional groups to monitor on an estuary or regional scale. How can restoration success be documented over estuary or regional scales (especially considering funding constraints and the level of effort that might be required)?
q. Ensuring Success, Paragraph 7—Directs NOAA to establish standard data formats for project monitoring and to maintain a database on restoration projects. What existing monitoring standards and guidance are available that should be considered in developing monitoring requirements under the Act? What existing restoration 5project databases already exist that could serve as a model for the database to be created for the Estuary Restoration Act?
Electronic Filing Address. You may submit comments by e-mail to: email@example.com. Comments should be in one of the following formats: Word, WordPerfect, or ASCII. The subject line for submission of comments should begin with "Estuary Habitat Restoration Strategy comments from [insert name of agency, organization, or individual]."
Draft Estuary Habitat Restoration Strategy
This draft Estuary Habitat Restoration Strategy (Strategy) has been developed in accordance with the requirements of the Estuary Restoration Act of 2000, Title I of Public Law 106-457 (the Act). The purpose of the Strategy is to ensure a comprehensive approach to maximize benefits derived from estuary habitat restoration projects, provide incentives for the creation of new partnerships between the public and private sectors, and foster coordination of Federal and non-Federal activities related to restoration of estuary habitat. The Act also provides Federal assistance, promotes efficient financing of technically sound and cost-effective estuary habitat restoration projects, and encourages the use of innovative technologies.
Congress enacted the Estuary Restoration Act to establish a collaborative process for addressing the pressures facing our Nation's estuaries. As part of the Act, an inter-agency Estuary Habitat Restoration Council (Council) was established to develop and submit the Strategy to Congress, solicit, review, and evaluate project proposals, and recommend projects to the Secretary of the Army. Much of the Council's work will involve soliciting and funding on-the-ground habitat restoration projects. The Strategy, however, is broader than site-specific restoration. It encourages coordinating, integrating, and capitalizing upon the broad spectrum of ongoing estuary restoration efforts throughout the country. Its goal is to bring together the collective expertise, technical, and financial resources of the Federal community, the practical experience of State, local and nongovernmental groups, and the vision of the corporate world to restore the integrity of our Nation's estuarine systems. The Federal investment will be used to leverage the financial and technical contribution of non-Federal partners, providing sound ecological and economic returns.
The Strategy calls for restoration activities that improve degraded estuaries or estuary habitat, or those that create estuary habitat with the goal of attaining a self-sustaining system integrated into the surrounding landscape. Restoration projects must improve or reestablish function to degraded or destroyed habitats, and be located to recapture regional ecological integrity. Successful restoration will protect native fish and wildlife in estuaries and their watersheds, while providing multiple additional benefits such as improved surface and ground water quality and quantity, flood control, outdoor recreation, and other services, valued by local stakeholders and consistent with the re-establishment and maintenance of healthy ecosystems.
The goal of the Strategy is to restore one million acres of estuary habitat by 2010. The Council will organize and support a task force to recommend methods for tracking progress toward the million-acre goal, including defining a baseline timeframe for comparison. The task force will consider regional and local perspectives on quantifying project successes. Subsequently, the Council will produce periodic reports on progress toward meeting the Strategy's million-acre goal, as well as other habitat trends.Start Printed Page 22417
The Act defines estuary as "a part of a river or stream or other body of water that has an unimpaired connection with the open sea and where the sea water is measurably diluted with fresh water from land drainage." Estuary also includes the "* * * near coastal waters and wetlands of the Great Lakes that are similar in form and function to estuaries. * * *" For the purposes of this Strategy, estuary is considered to extend from the head of tide to the boundary with the open sea (to downstream terminus features or structures such as barrier islands, reefs, sand bars, mud flats, or headlands in close proximity to the connection with the open sea). In the Great Lakes, riparian and nearshore areas will be considered to be estuaries. Estuary habitat includes the estuary and its associated ecosystems, such as: salt, brackish, and fresh water coastal marshes, coastal forested wetlands and other coastal wetlands, maritime forests, coastal grasslands, tidal flats, natural shoreline areas, shellfish beds, sea grass meadows, kelp beds, river deltas, and river and stream corridors under tidal influence.
Some restoration projects can easily measure success in terms of acreage (for example, projects that plant vegetation), but many cannot (for example, projects that alter hydrology). By manipulating a relatively small area, the function of a much larger habitat area can be improved. For the purposes of this Strategy, therefore, the restored area will be defined as that area over which appropriate monitoring can document restored function.
The Estuary Habitat Restoration Council developed this Strategy building on work done by Council member agencies, environmental professionals, and private conservation organizations, including Restore America's Estuaries (RAE). In consultation with restoration professionals, scientists, academics, and nonprofit organizations, RAE has developed A National Strategy for Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration. The document provides a framework for restoring function to estuarine and coastal habitats, which can aid in focusing restoration efforts to reach this Strategy's million-acre goal.
This Strategy is dynamic. It will evolve over time according to information collected through monitoring and research programs and feedback from restoration practitioners, scientists, and public agencies and private organizations. Reaching the one million acre goal will require further close coordination among the Federal partners, and state, local and private partners as habitat priorities, project efficiencies, and funding sources are identified.
Trends of Estuarine Habitats [This section covers 106(d)(4) and (5)]
Section 106(d) of the Estuaries and Clean Water Act of 2000 requires that the National Strategy include guidance on addressing trends of estuarine habitats. For each estuarine habitat type, the Strategy addresses historic losses, estimated current rate of loss, the extent of the threat of future loss or degradation, and a measurement of the rate of change.
Understanding trends as well as the structure, function and extent of various estuary habitats is key to an effective and efficient restoration program. Trends data provide a chronological and geographic picture of change in habitat types, thereby helping managers to recognize ecological stability or stress. They help to identify existing or potential habitat threats so that early action can be taken to avoid or rectify them. This information can be used to establish a baseline from which to quantify restoration success. By identifying both healthy and impaired ecosystems, trends information can help managers to target habitat restoration efforts in a cost-effective manner. For these reasons this Strategy will promote the development and use of trends data in designing restoration programs for estuary habitats.
Council member agencies use different terminology to describe estuarine habitat. The Council will use a classification system based on Cowardin et al. (1979). The Cowardin classification system is the national standard for wetland mapping, monitoring and data reporting as determined by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (http://www.fgdc.gov/). Examples of the relevant classes are: estuarine subtidal, including open water, bay bottoms, and reefs; estuarine intertidal emergents, such as salt marsh; estuarine intertidal forested/shrub, such as mangroves; estuarine intertidal unconsolidated shore, such as beaches, bars and mudflats; and estuarine aquatic bed, such as submerged or floating estuarine vegetation. Freshwater habitat categories to be included because they are estuarine-associated ecosystems or are found in the Great Lakes include: palustrine forested wetlands, such as forest swamps or riparian zones; palustrine shrub wetlands;and palustrine emergents, including inland marshes and wet meadows.
For purposes of this Strategy, estuary habitats will include the complex of physical and hydrologic features and living organisms within estuaries and their associated ecosystems, including salt and fresh water coastal marshes, coastal forested wetlands and other coastal wetlands, maritime forests, coastal grasslands, tidal flats, natural shoreline areas, shellfish beds, sea grass meadows, kelp bed, river deltas, and river and stream banks under tidal influence.
There are several studies that document estuary habitat trends on both a national and regional basis. For instance, Dahl (2000) summarized the status and trends of wetlands in the conterminous United States from 1986-1997. Three categories of estuarine and marine wetlands were included and together these comprise about five percent (5.3 million acres) of the total wetland acreage in the conterminous United States. During the study period, a net loss of 10,400 acres of estuarine and marine wetlands occurred. Filling or draining for urban and rural development accounted for 43 percent of estuarine and marine wetland losses, while saltwater intrusion accounted for an additional 12 percent of the loss.
Within two years, the Council will review information available for estuary habitats concerning historic losses, current rates of loss, the extent of the threat of future loss or degradation, and measures of the rate of change, and identify gaps in trends information that can be addressed by the Council members and/or its partners. Data collected will be used to identify regional and national restoration priorities based on this information.
Organizations and agencies preparing or updating estuary management or restoration plans should incorporate available information on estuary trends in their documents and consider this data when establishing project priorities. Among the sources of information to consult are historic maps and navigation charts, State and local agencies, available aerial photography and other remote sensing data, Federal agencies, such as the members of the Estuary Habitat Restoration Council and the United States Geological Survey, reports on Federal projects in estuaries, and universities conducting research in local estuaries.
It is also important to collect information relating to the causes of change in estuary habitat types, distribution, and quantity. This will help in defining the types of projects that may be needed, setting realistic goals, and influencing the design. For example, if the primary limiting factor is water quality and the source of the problem is upstream, success of anyStart Printed Page 22418estuary restoration project might be limited until the upstream problem is resolved.
Project proposals submitted to the Council for potential funding should contain information related to the trends for estuary habitat types in the project area and explain how this information was considered when developing the project proposal. The Council will give priority to projects that clearly address historic losses in areas where steps are being taken to address the causes of degradation and where there is a reasonable likelihood of success in the foreseeable future.
Estuary Management or Habitat Restoration Plans [This section covers 106(d)(2)]
This Strategy will be implemented in a manner consistent with estuary management or habitat restoration plans. An estuary habitat restoration plan is defined in the Act as "* * * any Federal or State plan for restoration of degraded estuary habitat that was developed with the substantial participation of appropriate public and private stakeholders." Included are the estuary habitat restoration components of comprehensive conservation and management plans approved under section 320 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA), lake wide management plans or remedial action plans developed under section 118 of the FWPCA, management plans approved under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, and the interstate management plan developed pursuant to the Chesapeake Bay program under section 117 of the FWPCA.
Effective estuary habitat restoration plans typically contain common elements such as focusing on the watershed as the basic management unit, integrating good science with sound decision-making, and emphasizing collaborative problem solving. Also essential is public and private stakeholder participation. This is crucial to the final success of any plan, because those individuals and private interests affected by measures to maintain and restore the estuary are ultimately responsible for implementing the plan. Providing them the opportunity to design and contribute during early planning stages promotes "buy-in" when the time comes to undertake restoration actions and activities.
Another component of successful restoration plans is clearly identifying a central goal or set of goals and describing means for measuring progress toward achieving these goals. Performance measures may be as simple as the number of acres of habitat directly restored or protected. Many federally approved estuary management and restoration plans track major milestones or other implementation activities to ensure progress is occurring, or if it is not, to identify what necessary steps to take to move forward.
Successful plans also include trend assessment, which is critical to watershed characterization, such as loss of historic estuarine habitat, land use, development, recreation, and fisheries pressures. This information is necessary to identify problems facing a given estuarine watershed and to select those actions necessary to return it to the desired state. Status and trend information can help to assess the condition of the highest priority resources and can forecast future conditions should current trends continue. It can also highlight data gaps.
Finally, plans should identify management and restoration priorities. Identifying regional or estuary-level restoration priorities will help projects address the most critical habitat needs. The Council will give priority to those projects that have the best potential to restore critical habitat functions successfully. Improved planning will also allow benefits to be accrued over a larger scale, enhancing the overall effectiveness of restoration efforts.
In accordance with the Act, every project considered for funding under this authority must address restoration needs identified in an estuary habitat restoration plan. Additionally, one of the factors for the Secretary of the Army (Secretary) to consider when selecting a project to fund is whether the project is part of an approved Federal estuary management or habitat restoration plan. This selection criterion will help ensure that the Strategy is implemented in a manner consistent with such plans.
Agency staff supporting the Council participated in and reviewed the results of a recent effort supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and led by Restore America's Estuaries (RAE), a nongovernmental organization, to review existing estuary restoration plans. Plans reviewed included those developed for Federal programs such as the National Estuary Program (Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plans), State Coastal Zone Management Plans, and other State plans and watershed or estuary plans, such as the Puget Sound Water Quality Management Plan and Ecoregional Plans developed by The Nature Conservancy. Review of these plans revealed that the level and sophistication of planning for estuarine and coastal habitat restoration varies significantly among the regions and watersheds of the United States. In some coastal areas, only broad, coastal management planning has been completed, while in other areas sophisticated planning efforts with strong community and stakeholder participation have determined specific habitat restoration goals and priorities.
By working with State and local agencies and nongovernmental organizations, the Council will help to identify gaps in planning, and encourage sharing of information and other collaborative efforts to improve restoration plans. The Council will also seek to promote coordination of planning activities associated with other State and Federal programs. For example, the Council will encourage regional planning workshops, bringing together resource managers, scientists, and other stakeholders to establish restoration goals and priorities. The Council could also identify and recommend the use of successful planning frameworks such as those developed by the National Estuary Program and other examples.
Ecosystem Level Approach [This section covers 106(d)(3)]
This Strategy recognizes that successful estuary restoration projects with multiple goals will improve ecosystem function. Restoration projects should be designed using an ecosystem or watershed approach to re-establish a self-sustaining area that provides the structure and function necessary to support the many interrelated physical, biological, and chemical components of healthy estuary habitats. An ecosystem or watershed approach will facilitate the development of projects with multiple benefits. Examining how actions fit into the surrounding area and considering economic, recreational, water quality, land use, and other parameters is necessary to achieve restoration goals. Estuarine habitats are a web of interrelated components, each supporting and depending on the other for healthy function.
Estuary restoration projects that include physical and functional restoration should provide healthy ecosystems to support wildlife, including endangered and threatened species, migratory birds, and resident species of an estuary watershed, as well as fish and shellfish, including commercial and recreational fisheries.
Restoration of healthy ecosystem function can provide improved water quality and flood control benefits. For example, healthy and intact tidal wetlands filter water flowing from riversStart Printed Page 22419and tributaries to the ocean, remove pollutants from runoff and trap and assimilate nutrients. Estuarine wetlands also have the capacity to store floodwater and can provide a critical physical buffer between land and water, protecting communities from flooding and storm surge.
Healthy estuaries also provide multiple opportunities for outdoor recreation, such as recreational fishing, boating, birding, and a variety of water sports. The recreation industry dependent on healthy estuaries provides significant income to coastal regions. Restoration projects completed under this Strategy may incorporate recreational features that are compatible with the primary goal of restoring healthy habitat function.
In its review of project proposals, the Council will support projects developed in an ecosystem context with multiple benefits. The Council will work with others to share examples of particularly effective projects that exemplify this process.
Partnerships [This section covers 106(d)(1)]
To achieve the goal of restoring one million acres of estuary habitat, it will be important to involve individuals and organizations from both the public and private sectors. Enhancing partnerships among agencies and establishing new public-private partnerships is a central theme of the Act and a critical part of this Strategy.
In order to meet the goals of the Act, the Council will improve coordination among existing restoration programs by reviewing and discussing programs administered by agencies represented on the Council, and developing shared goals and objectives for habitat restoration. Although agencies may differ in their implementation strategies, developing common goals will facilitate coordination. The Council will also coordinate with State habitat restoration programs to improve the effectiveness of restoration efforts.
In order to maximize public-private partnerships, the Council encourages collaboration among public agencies, private organizations, companies, and individuals (e.g., private landowners, hunters, birders, fishermen, etc.) in restoration efforts. This connectivity encourages private organizations, companies, landowners and others to bring their resources (financial or in-kind) to the table to assist in planning and implementing successful restoration projects. There are several existing programs that provide models for successful partnerships, including the Coastal America Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership, a voluntary public-private partnership in which corporations join with Federal and State agencies to restore wetlands and other aquatic habitats.
Private support can range from providing materials or funding to the use of volunteers for hands-on restoration or monitoring. One way to encourage resourceful, active partnerships, and especially to acknowledge the efforts of volunteers, is to establish annual awards recognizing successful restoration efforts. These awards may be given to a wide variety of groups, including nongovernmental organizations, individuals, businesses, and local, State and Federal agencies to reward efforts at all levels.
Private partnerships may also be critical for those projects involving demonstration or pilot testing of an innovative technology. The estuary habitat restoration program established in the Act requires a non-Federal interest to provide a minimum of 35 percent of the costs of a restoration project. However, when innovative technology is involved, the percentage required to be contributed by the non-Federal interest shall be reduced to 15 percent for the incremental cost of using the new technology. The Council will consider technology "innovative" if it involves a new process, technique, or material or uses existing processes, techniques, or materials in a new application.
The non-Federal interests must provide all of the lands, easements, rights-of-way and relocations. The non-Federal interest is also responsible for all costs associated with operation, maintenance, replacement, repair and rehabilitation of the project, including monitoring. This presents many opportunities for the involvement of a broad array of individuals and organizations to participate in the restoration effort.
To expand the base of support for restoration, the Council will encourage member Agencies and private partners to maintain and expand existing web sites that provide information on both public and private sources of funding for estuary projects. Web sites should include links to other web sites that emphasize accomplishments of completed restoration projects. Effective implementation of any restoration plan requires a well-developed funding strategy that identifies governmental, nonprofit, and private resources to provide support both in the near and long term.
The Council will work with other Federal, State and local agencies, nongovernmental organizations and private parties to identify and publicize funding sources, and will also identify examples of effective partnerships that have implemented estuary restoration projects. For example, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has established the Environmental Finance Program to assist communities in their search for creative approaches to funding their environmental projects. Environmental finance centers at universities provide publications, analyses of financing alternatives, training, and technical assistance, including workshops for local governments that discuss watershed-financing alternatives. In 2001, the National Estuary Program sponsored workshops on funding solutions for estuary programs and comprehensive conservation management plan implementation. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the Coastal America Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership(http://www.coastalamerica.gov/text/cwrp)are other examples of the resources available to help non-Federal interests obtain support for estuary projects.
Habitat Restoration Program [This section covers 106(d)(6) and (7)]
The Act establishes "an estuary habitat restoration program under which the Secretary may carry out estuary habitat restoration projects and provide technical assistance in accordance with the requirements of this title." This is one means for achieving the one million acre goal of the Strategy. The statute includes requirements for non-Federal origination of projects, selection criteria, cost-sharing, operation and maintenance, authority for nongovernmental agencies to be sponsors, a requirement for a written agreement between the non-Federal sponsor and the Secretary, and potential delegation of project implementation.
The Act defines the term estuary habitat restoration activity to mean "an activity that results in improving degraded estuaries or estuary habitat or creating estuary habitat (including both physical and functional restoration), with the goal of attaining a self-sustaining system integrated into the surrounding landscape." Projects funded under this program will be consistent with this definition. Eligible habitat restoration activities include re-establishment of chemical, physical, hydrologic, and biological features and components associated with an estuary. This may entail improvement of estuarine wetland tidal exchange or reestablishment of historic hydrology, providing fish passage, establishment of riparian buffer zones, construction ofStart Printed Page 22420reefs to promote fish and shellfish production, reintroduction of native species, and control of nonnative or invasive species. Cleanup of pollution for the benefit of estuary habitat may be considered, as long as it does not meet the definition of excluded activities in the Act. Excluded activities are those required for mitigation of adverse effects of a regulated activity or that constitutes restoration for natural resource damages.
Section 104(c) of the Act contains four required elements and seven listed selection factors to be considered by the Secretary of the Army when determining which projects to fund. Projects must address restoration needs identified in an estuary plan, be consistent with this Strategy, include a monitoring plan, and include satisfactory assurance that the non-Federal interest has adequate authority and resources. The listed selection factors are: inclusion in an approved Federal plan, technical feasibility, scientific merit, encouragement of increased cooperation among government agencies at all levels, fostering of public-private partnerships, cost effectiveness, and whether the State has a dedicated source of funding for acquisition or restoration of estuary habitat. If a project merits selection based on the above criteria, then priority consideration will be given to a project if it: (a) Occurs within a watershed where there is a program being implemented that addresses sources of pollution and other activities that otherwise would adversely affect the restored habitat water quality in the watershed; or (b) includes an innovative technology having the potential for improved cost-effectiveness.
The Council will consider the factors discussed above during its review and ranking of proposals for the Secretary's consideration. Additional criteria may also be developed by the Council to facilitate review and these will be included in the program guidance. The list of recommended projects will be provided in priority order. The Secretary may consider other factors when selecting projects to fund from the list provided by the Council.
In addition to considering the selection and priority factors in sections 104(c)(3) and (4), the Secretary will also select a balance of smaller and larger estuary habitat projects and ensure an equitable geographic distribution of the funded projects. The Council recognizes that the scope of a project is not always directly proportional to the cost and that projects are sometimes difficult to characterize adequately in terms of acreage to be restored. For purposes of selecting a balance of smaller and larger estuary habitat restoration projects, the Council will use a combination of cost and acreage to be manipulated as criteria to define small projects. In general, a small project would be one with a Federal cost of $250,000 or less and that manipulates 50 acres or less. The Council will discuss and classify projects that cannot be easily characterized as "small" because of conflicts between cost and acreage factors. The availability of funding, project costs, and the nature of the proposals will affect the ability to assure equitable geographic distribution of projects funded by this program. In any one year, the Council may recommend funding more projects in one region than another but will consider the number, scope and cost of funded projects in a region when making subsequent funding decisions.
The goal will be to select those projects of highest national priority while assuring that all regions of the country benefit from the program. The Council will explore various means for defining national priorities and consider those priorities in project selection.
Ensuring Success
The Act stipulates that monitoring is essential for evaluating and documenting our progress toward reaching the goal of restoring one million acres of estuary habitat. By closely tracking progress at the project level, we can determine whether individual projects contribute to meeting the goals of estuary and regional restoration plans, and tally habitat acreage restored over a national scale. In addition to monitoring at the project level, ecosystem-level monitoring may also be needed to judge restoration success. Monitoring information will allow restoration planners and practitioners to modify their efforts according to on-the-ground results, and can build long-term public support for habitat protection and restoration efforts.
Because monitoring is essential to both documenting success and adapting project and program approaches, it should be a central concern of those designing a restoration project or regional restoration plan. For each habitat type to be restored, the monitoring plan should define the desired structure and functions in the context of project goals, and identify attributes indicating those functions. Quantitative performance standards for projects should include functional and structural elements and be linked to appropriate, local reference habitats that represent "target conditions." It may also be useful to compare the project site to degraded, non-restored "control" sites to better document project-induced improvements in habitat condition.
Ideally, restoration goals should be quantitative, as well as spatially and temporally specific. Project goals should also be measurable and realistic. A realistic goal should consider causes of past decline of the habitat proposed for restoration and surrounding land cover and ecosystem conditions. Monitoring data should be used to guide project operations and maintenance.
Specific project goals will determine the appropriate complexity of each monitoring plan. The project must include monitoring on a regular basis and over a meaningful time period. The length of the ideal monitoring program will vary depending on the habitat type and project goals for restoring function, but should always include pre-construction measurements to establish baseline conditions, monitoring during project construction to determine whether to adjust techniques or goals, and post-construction monitoring to confirm success of the restoration and alert project managers to the need for adjustments. Project monitoring should document any changes to the original construction specifications, including what problems were encountered, the reasoning behind any changes, and any changes the project staff would recommend with the knowledge they now possess. Information on changes from baseline conditions and comparison to reference or control sites should be included as well.
Beyond monitoring individual restoration projects, local, State or regional groups should also conduct monitoring over the estuary or regional scale to allow a more complete evaluation of restoration successes. System-wide monitoring of water quality and other habitat parameters can gauge ecosystem improvements beyond those achieved at project sites. Additionally, remote sensing may be useful in documenting both baseline habitat information and large-scale changes in habitat coverage and conditions.
The restoration and maintenance of healthy coasts and estuaries will require the long-term support of a broad cross-section of the public. Including local communities in planning and implementing restoration projects will build interest in protecting and maintaining restored habitat. Increased awareness of the attributes needed to sustain healthy habitat will increase local stewardship of the environment and will help to ensure the long-term success of restoration projects.Start Printed Page 22421
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in consultation with the Council, will develop standard data formats for project monitoring, along with requirements for types of data collected and frequency of monitoring. These standards will build on existing inter-agency efforts to develop monitoring protocols and restoration databases. These standards are not intended to limit the types of information gathered by project managers, but rather to ensure that data will be useful to other parties, and to facilitate regional and national tracking of restoration success. Consistent data collection and reporting standards should clarify results, make selection and justification of restoration methods more straightforward, ensure that success is documented based on sufficient data, enhance the restoration knowledge base, and increase the comparability of data among restoration projects.
In addition to developing monitoring data standards, NOAA will also maintain a database of information concerning estuary habitat restoration projects carried out under the Act, including information on project techniques, project completion, monitoring data, and other relevant information. This database will be Internet-accessible, to allow widespread dissemination and use of restoration project and monitoring data.
The actions described in this Strategy facilitate reaching the goal of restoring one million acres of estuary habitat by 2010. There are many existing programs and organizations actively involved in estuary restoration whose efforts will also contribute significantly to estuary restoration. Examples include the National Estuary Program, the National Estuarine Research Reserve System, Restore America's Estuaries member organizations, and the program implementing the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act.
The Strategy is intended to be dynamic. Working with the organizations listed above and other interested stakeholders, the Council will review and refine this Strategy over time in an iterative process, as new information becomes available and progress toward meeting the goals of the Act is evaluated. Section 108(a) of the Act requires the Secretary to report to Congress at the end of the third and fifth fiscal years. As part of this process the Council will review the Strategy and update as necessary.
The Council will prepare additional documents and make them available for public comment regarding habitat restoration program implementation and the development of the monitoring standards. As indicated in this Strategy, the Council will promote a variety of efforts to facilitate promotion of partnerships and efficient, effective restoration of estuary habitats.
Cowardin, L.M. V. Carter, F.C. Golet, and E.T. LaRoe. 1979. "Classification of wetlands and deepwater habitats of the United States." U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Biological Services Program; FWS/OBS-79/31. 131 pp. Dahl, T.C. 2000. "Status and trends of wetlands in the contiguous United States, 1986-1997." US Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, DC.Start Signature
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Yair Zakovitch, Avigdor Shin'an. From Gods to God: How the Bible Debunked, Suppressed, or Changed Ancient Myths and Legends. Translated by Valerie Zakovitch. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012. xi + 301 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8276-0908-2.
Reviewed by Michael Carasik (University of Pennsylvania - NELC)
Published on H-Judaic (November, 2013)
Commissioned by Jason Kalman (Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion)
What the Bible Says—and What It Didn't Want to Say
It has long been understood by scholars, if not necessarily by the wider public, that biblical stories are not journalism, attempting to report on events detail by detail as they happened and conversations word for word as they actually took place. But this, of course, implies that the biblical stories were shaped with particular purposes in mind.
In their new book, biblicist Yair Zakovitch and his Hebrew University colleague Avigdor Shinan, a scholar of rabbinic literature, attempt to reveal the stories behind the stories--not the historical events (if any) that may lie behind a particular biblical tale, but the stories that were originally told about these events before the Bible froze them into one particular version. Their position is that many biblical stories are framed as they are in an attempt to eliminate or confute earlier, "unwanted" traditions. Their method for doing this is "literary archaeology" (p. 7), employing three strategies: identifying duplicate traditions within the Bible, considering traditions from the "pagan" world, and examining a story's subsequent renditions in post-biblical literature. (It is interesting that this procedure closely matches Avi Hurvitz' methodology for identifying Late Biblical Hebrew; perhaps it is simply a matter of parallel evolution.)
The book is divided into four sections, "The World of Myth," "Cult and Sacred Geography," "Biblical Heroes and Their Biographies" (the longest of them), and "Relations between Men and Women," but it really consists of thirty more or less independent chapters that have been grouped under these headings. In the original Hebrew publication, That's Not What the Good Book Says (2004), each chapter's heading is actually a question, e.g., "What Happened to the Sun at Gibeon?" The extremely readable translation by Valerie Zakovitch sometimes echoes these question-titles but sensibly does not insist on doing so; in this case, the title reads "The Hero Who Stopped the Sun." I looked in the original volume in vain for information about where in the popular press these chapters were originally published; they very much give the impression of magazine or more high-brow newspaper columns that have been collected here in a single volume.
But this structure should not be considered a flaw. The overall message of the book does not depend on a sustained argument, but rather on the treatment that the authors give it, building a mosaic that uses the details of each, or any, particular story to create the overall impression that "[b]eneath the biblical narrator's words … it seems that we still hear the rush of older currents, of more ancient belief systems" (p. 25). Nor should the book's readability and popular character keep it out of the hands of scholars, even biblical scholars, who will find details worth considering in almost every chapter.
It is all too easy to think of "Bible stories" rather than of the stories as they are actually told in the Bible. A case in point is chapter 5, already mentioned, about the sun stopping over Gibeon in Joshua 10. Zakovitch and Shinan's discussion of this story takes us through Ps 77:17-19 and a parallel text, Hab 3:10-11, on through Ben Sira and 4QapocrJosha, to the Babylonian Talmud and Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer, with a stop along the way in Judges 14. The argument of the chapter is that the original story of Joshua stopping the sun "was stifled in the book of Joshua because of its mythical character: the attribution of divine powers to a mortal being" (p. 62).
The reader benefits from this sort of closer look at a story in two ways. First, though some of the authors' side trips will be obvious to the knowledgeable reader, not all will be. I, for one, had not made a connection between Timnah of the Samson story in Judges 14 and Timnath-heres, where Joshua is buried in Jud 2:9. Yet Samson is of course Shimshon, "Sunman," and in Jud 14:18 the Philistines answer Samson's riddle just before "sunset," where "sun" is not shemesh but heres. Moreover, in chapter 21 Zakovitch and Shinan will remind us that Samson lived between Zorah and Eshtaol, where Beit Shemesh is located, though the stories never mention that name. This is just one example of how each chapter of the book magnetically aligns various biblical texts (here about the sun, elsewhere about snakes or some other topic) toward a particular story in ways that can offer a fresh perspective.
Secondly, with thirty opportunities, it is likely that everyone will find places in this book where the overall discussion of a biblical text will lead to a new understanding of it, or at the very least to new questions. Sticking with the story of Joshua 10, I found myself asking for the first time not only whether it was Joshua or God who had stopped the sun (the primary subject of Zakovitch and Shinan's chapter) but also how to understand the mention of the moon in Josh 10:13 and (most significantly) why the sun had to stop at all in this version of the story.
The overall message of the book--that some of the texts in the Bible are responding polemically to earlier versions of the same stories that were well known in Israelite times, and that rabbinic and other later texts sometimes move those earlier versions back into public view--has been presented elsewhere in the scholarly literature, notably in Michael Fishbane's Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking (2005). But it is still not generally realized among those who are not biblical scholars, and this book can potentially remedy that.
The reader who is so inclined will find plenty here to disagree with. Were the story of David and Bathsheba and the details of Esther's relationship with Ahasuerus really modeled on the three stories somewhat misleadingly known as "the matriarch of Israel in danger" in Genesis 12, 20, and 26, as chapter 25 of the book claims? And the larger perspectives of the various biblical books considered individually receive no attention here. Saying that "An early story about David and Abigail, a story about a passionate meeting between an impulsive warrior and a married, unfaithful woman, became transformed in the Bible into a story about a wise woman and a hero who conquers his impulsive passions" (p. 258) does not, to my mind, really come to grips with why 1 Samuel 25 is presenting the future founder of the Judahite royal dynasty as the head of an outlaw gang that runs a rural protection racket.
The overall perspective, too--at least as the authors sum it up in the epilogue--does not convince me. Their claim that the traditions that existed before the Bible came into being "needed to be adapted and refined in order to make them suit the lofty ideals of monotheism, to elevate them to the morals and value system that the Bible sought to instill in its readers" (p. 267), or that the "loftier aim" of the biblical writers was "to educate a nation, purify its beliefs, cleanse it of the dust of idolatry and myth, and wash it of vulgar expressions and faulty morality" (p. 268) describes just a small part of the Bible that I know. Perhaps this kind of moralistic overstatement is the spoonful of sugar that will make it palatable to the more religious lay readers of the book.
But the book's value does not, after all, lie in the accumulation of such claims, but rather in the places where Shinan the midrashist and Zakovitch the pashtan, chapter after chapter, deploy their intelligence and erudition to focus our attention on the details in every biblical story that demand further study. If you have never paid serious attention to the seemingly minor family drama in 1 Chr 7:20-24, this book will convince you that you must do so: "Anecdotes such as this one are proof that readers must listen not only to the forceful, central current of the biblical narrative but also to the smaller rivulets of traditions that ripple more quietly: it is these traditions that preserve divergent and even disparate points of view that escaped the stronger current's sweeping flood" (p. 162).
The Hebrew version has a sequel, Once Again: That's Not What the Good Book Says (2009), in which the authors turn their attention more fully to the afterlife of biblical stories. Here the most comparable volumes would most likely be James Kugel's The Bible As It Was (1999) and Traditions of the Bible: A Guide to the Bible As It Was at the Start of the Common Era (1999). The evidence of the volume we now have makes me eager to see this new volume in an English translation too. It will be a welcome reminder that you can get more out of the Bible when you read between the lines.
If there is additional discussion of this review, you may access it through the network, at: https://networks.h-net.org/h-judaic.
Michael Carasik. Review of Zakovitch, Yair; Shin'an, Avigdor, From Gods to God: How the Bible Debunked, Suppressed, or Changed Ancient Myths and Legends.
H-Judaic, H-Net Reviews.
November, 2013.
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Are less than fragrant fragrances emanating from your kitchen? Don't blame the chef. It could be your garbage disposer.
As the new year and a new quarter start, I thought I'd mention something I do at the beginning of every quarter…clean my Garbage Disposer. Many people don't ever think of cleaning the garbage disposer, and then wonder why that side of the sink often smells so sour. Before we talk about cleaning your disposer, I think you'll find it helpful, if not somewhat surprising, to understand how they are made
All garbage disposers are made essentially the same; they have an 'upper hopper chamber' that the food, debris and water from the dishwasher goes down into, and a 'lower hopper chamber' where the slurry and water collects, and is then pushed out into the drain.
The main thing to understand is that there are no blades or knives of any kind that 'chop things up', in any garbage disposer. Instead, the bottom of the 'upper hopper chamber' contains a kind of 'Plate' or 'Flywheel' with many holes or slits in it. Connected to the top of this 'Plate' are what people consider the 'teeth' or cutter blades, but they're actually little 'impeller blades'. Their job is to not only smash stuff up, but to force the resulting slurry down through the holes or slits in the Plate/Flywheel, acting like an impellor. ( A propeller pushes, an impellor pulls things through it.)
Once the stuff we put into the disposer is smashed up, liquefied, and shoved through the holes or slits in the Bottom Plate/Flywheel, it simply collects in the bottom hopper and drains out the drain, helped by the pull of gravity and the impeller 'teeth' working correctly. Consequently, it's important NEVER to put anything in the disposer that won't either break up into tiny pieces or totally dissolve. Fiberous things like banana peels and celery, or things that 'clump' badly like potato peels or lots of rice will not go through the Bottom Plate/Flywheel well, and should never be put into a disposer.
Cleaning the disposer is simple. Here are the steps.
- Turn the unit on and have the cold water running.
- Empty 2 to 4 trays of ice cubes into the sink, and feed into the disposer as quickly as it will take it. This will freeze all debris causing it to 'chunk off' the impeller blades and out of the holes in the plate/flywheel.
- Let the water run for a full minute after the last cube is broken up.
- If the unit has been smelling badly, you can chop up a lemon and feed it down the unit, but be sure to feed small chunks so the 'impeller blades' can deal with the tough peel without trouble.
- Better yet, use a safe, biodegradable drain cleaning product in the disposer like 'Bio-Clean'. Do not use cleansers (they are mainly fine sand and bleach) or caustics like 'Drain-O', they will corrode your units 'guts' very quickly and cut the life of it in half.
An additional note; if your disposer ever jams or clogs, first of all make sure it can spin freely. My Grandma use to do that with a broom stick deftly applied with just the right amount of 'twist'. A better option is to use the Allen wrench provided on the 'Flywheel Turning Wrench Hole' on the bottom of the unit, where the reset button is also located.
If the unit is spinning, and the disposer side of the sink is clogged, but the other side drains, then the clog is in the pipes immediately below the sink connected to the disposer, and they will likely need to be taken apart and cleaned manually.
One last thing, and probably the most important to remember with garbage disposers …whenever they are used, run water… lots of water. Run water before, during and after you put anything into it. Always! Over my last 3-plus decades as a plumber, my experience has taught me that garbage disposers rarely get clogged if used properly, and you can extend their life for years with a little periodic maintenance. Is there a bad smell coming from your kitchen? Before you point an accusing finger, poke your nose in the sink… it could be your garbage disposer!
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Construction Alert! Guest parking has moved to the south side of LHB's Minneapolis Office at 701 Washington Avenue North. Please park in the Loose-Wiles Building Visitor Spaces and sign in with the security guard. This is in effect as of August 30, 2017, and will continue until updated due to construction of the neighboring new building. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience.
Downtown Duluth will be undergoing a historic transformation with the reconstruction of Superior Street. 6th Avenue to 4th Avenue West will be closed the summer of 2018. 4th Avenue East to 1st Avenue East will be closed in 2019. 3rd Avenue West to Lake Avenue will be closed in 2020. For more construction updates, detours and parking, please visit www.superiorstreet.org
See here for LHB's role in this landmark project Superior Street Reconstruction
There will be a short press conference and ribbon cutting, followed by festivities, food and drink, giveaways, artwork, and fun!
3:00 Duluth Coffee Company, Zeitgeist Center for Arts & Community, LHB speakers
3:15 Ribbon Cutting
3:20 Festivities
Live Music by Merila Hill String Band
Artwork by Dave Moreira
Coffee provided by Duluth Coffee Company
Drinks provided by Blacklist Artisan Ales and The Red Herring Lounge
Snacks provided by Zenith Bread Project and Fannie Rose Candy Shop
Visit Facebook for more event details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1522706204458383/
LHB's Troy Miller and David Williams are presenters at the Minnesota Chief Engineers Guild Annual Conference on September 2, 2016. A copy of the presentation, "Building Performance: Three Areas You Can Manage to Control Costs" is available in the link below.
MN Chief Engineers Guild – Building Performance
LHB's Senior Vice President, Rick Carter, FAIA, LEED Fellow, will present at the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) 2016 Annual Meeting on "Net-zero Tools for Building and Operations" at the Palais des congrès de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec on Monday, July 18th at 8:30 a.m.
For more information on the 2016 NACUBO Annual Meeting visit http://www.nacuboannualmeeting.org/.
LHB's Rick Carter and Becky Alexander will present on "Building Carbon Neutrality in Minnesota and Beyond at the 2015 GreenBuild Conference this Thursday November 18th at 1:30pm in Washington, D.C.
An advocate of sustainable design for over 25 years, Rick leads many large scale initiatives to reduce energy, water, resource use, and greenhouse gas emissions from building to regional scales.
Rick leads LHB's Performance Metrics™ initiative to understand the environmental impacts of LHB-designed buildings. In addition, Rick co-founded LHB's Green Team in 1992, a multi-discipline team dedicated to incorporating sustainable design techniques into all projects. He helped develop the Hennepin County/Minnesota Sustainable Design Guidelines and currently manages the Buildings, Benchmarks and Beyond (B3) Project including execution of sustainable guidelines for the State of Minnesota and benchmarking actual energy use in all of Minnesota's public buildings. Rick is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Minnesota's College of Design in the Master of Science in Sustainable Design Program. Rick was a member of the Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group and a co-chair for the Minneapolis-St. Paul Mayor's Green Manufacturing Initiative.
Becky Alexander is a researcher and designer at LHB where she provides a combination of sustainable building research and architectural design services. Her sustainable building research involves collecting, analyzing, visualizing, and synthesizing data for building, organization, and city-wide scales. Becky holds a Master of Architecture Degree and a Master of Science, Architecture, Sustainable Design Degree from the University of Minnesota, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Carleton College.
Greenbuild is the world's largest conference and expo dedicated to green building. The green building community gathers to share ideals and mutual passion at Greenbuild, sparking a contagious buzz throughout the week. Greenbuild features three groundbreaking days of inspiring speakers, invaluable networking opportunities, industry showcases, LEED workshops and tours of the host city's green buildings. Join thousands of other people who agree that green building is a good idea and good for business. For more information on this years conference visit: http://www.greenbuildexpo.com/Attendee/ShowInfo
From noon – 3:30 pm on Tuesday, October 20th, LHB will be at the MPTA Conference Expo at the DECC and will give a Virtual Reality Experience of the new DTA Multimodal Transportation Facility.
A key component of the Multimodal Facility, the Northwest Passage Skyway, opened on October 8th. The time-lapse below was taken just before it opened.
Time-lapse courtesy of Dennis O'Hara
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Northwest Passage Skywalk Ribbon-Cutting Scheduled for Thursday, October 8th
DULUTH, MINNESOTA (October 5, 2015) – The Duluth Transit Authority (DTA), the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center (DECC) and the Greater Downtown Council (GDC) will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly reconstructed Northwest Passage Skywalk on Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 8:30 a.m. The event will take place in the pop-up section of the skywalk located closest to the DECC.
This ceremony marks the near completion of the reconstruction of the Northwest Passage Skywalk that began on Monday, June 22, 2015. The skywalk is a key component of the DTA's Duluth Transportation Center (DTC) construction project which is on schedule to be completed in January of 2016.
City Council President, Emily Larson, will make remarks along with DTA Board President, John Brostrom, DECC Executive Director, Dan Russell and the Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce President and DECC Board President, David Ross. Other elected officials and dignitaries will be on hand to celebrate the milestone.
To express appreciation for everyone who uses the Northwest Passage Skywalk on a daily basis, the DECC will provide light refreshments in the skywalk from 6:30 to 8:30 a.m. This event is free and open to the public.
If you would like more information on this press release or to schedule an interview with DTA General Manager, Dennis Jensen, please contact Heath Hickok, Director of Marketing, at 218-623-4314.
The DTA's mission is to provide a public transit service that is safe, convenient, efficient and affordable. It has been providing reliable service to the Duluth area for more than 130 years. The DTA has over 150 employees and 63 buses that provide service throughout the Twin Ports. The DTA Operating Center is located at 2402 West Michigan Street, Duluth, MN 55806.
WITC Renews Student Spaces with Focus on Student Experience
WITC-Superior Ceremony
When: Wednesday, September 30, 12:00 p.m.
Location: Superior Campus Atrium, 600 N. 21st St. Superior, WI
Reception: following the ceremony in the WITC-Superior Atrium.
WITC-Superior hosts ribbon cutting and reception for newly redesigned student spaces with a focus on student experience. Interview opportunities will be available. The expansive student atrium at Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College adds more color, fresh furniture and modern décor to the multi-use space, enhancing the overall student experience at WITC-Superior.
"The changes throughout the building represent WITC's philosophy that the student experience happens both inside and outside the classrooms and labs," said WITC-Superior Campus Administrator and Vice President of Academic Affairs Bonny Copenhaver.
The atrium renovations are just one project in a list of developments across campus including an enhanced classroom, the creation of two family bathrooms, and improvements to the Learning Commons Area on the second floor, a key area for student academic and technology support services.
The ribbon cutting ceremony will be attended by WITC President John Will, WITC-Superior Campus Administrator and Vice President of Academic Affairs Bonny Copenhaver, The Superior Chamber of Commerce, representatives from Immel Construction and LHB Architects. Interview opportunities and reception will follow the ceremony.
Ranked fourth best two-year college in the nation by Washington Monthly magazine, WITC serves the educational and career needs of more than 25,000 residents of Northwestern Wisconsin each year. With multiple campuses, WITC offers career-focused associate degree programs, technical diplomas, short-term certificates, customized business training, and a wide array of courses for personal or career enrichment. WITC is a member of Wisconsin Technical College System and is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. For more information, call 800.243.WITC or visit witc.edu. WITC is an Equal Opportunity/Access/Affirmative Action/Veterans/Disability Employer and Educator.
Jessica Hehir
Marketing & Public Relations Associate
Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College
600 North 21st Street
Superior, WI 54880
715.394.6677 ext. 6264
LHB Senior Vice President, Rick Carter will present at the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) Annual Meeting on "Leading with LEED: Why We Certify (Or Not)" at the Gaylord Opryland Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee on Sunday, July 19th at 10:30 a.m.
Rick's presentation focuses on the concerns campuses have with building and maintaining energy efficient buildings and how the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) guidelines compare to the Minnesota Sustainable Building Guidelines and SB 2030 Energy Program.
The National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) is a membership organization representing more than 2,500 colleges, universities, and higher education service providers across the country and around the world.
LHB's BIM Administrator, Dan Stine will be presenting twice at the Fifth North American Revit Technology Conference (RTC) at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Washington, DC. His first presentation on "Interior Design Workflows" takes place on Friday, July 24, 2015 at 2:30 p.m. This presentation will cover several concepts important to interior designers including keynoting, tagging materials, and program schedules. Dan's second presentation on "JavaScript in Revit: For the Non-Programmer (Like Me)" will occur on Saturday, July 25, 2015 at 1:00 pm and will take a look at an exciting new add-in for Revit; namely ParmJS by Lazcad Technology. Users are able to populate Revit parameters using JavaScript expressions.
The Fifth North American Revit Technology Conference provides professionals opportunities to learn from the world's top instructors and industry experts, and explore recent trends and technology.
LHB's Troy Miller, Architectural Group Leader, and David Williams, Mechanical Group Leader, will present "What are the latest building systems, material and energy design innovations?" at the Minnesota Educational Facilities Management Professionals (MASMS) Fall Conference 2015. The presentation on "What are the latest building systems, material and energy design innovations?" will take place on October 1, 2015 at 11:00 AM in the St. Cloud Room. The conference will take place at the Holiday Inn in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
LHB's Kevin Holm, Architectural Group Leader, and Phil Fisher, Project Coordinator of Communications, will present "The Maze of Managing and Verifying Building Operations and Performance" at the Minnesota Educational Facilities Management Professionals (MASMS) Fall Conference 2015. The Maze of Managing and Verifying Building Operations and Performance presentation will take place on October 2, 2015 at 9:00 AM in the Huskies Room. The conference will take place at the Holiday Inn in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
LHB's Kevin Holm, AIA, and Troy Miller, AIA, will present "What are the latest building systems, material and energy design innovations?" at the Midwest Facility Masters Conference. The conference will take place at the Kalahari Resort and Conference Center in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. The date and time of the presentation on "What are the latest building systems, material and energy design innovations?" is yet to be determined.
Session Description: You can't seem to find the time to study or research the current trends in facility design and management? No worries, we understand. Building systems and materials are constantly changing and evolving with lots of new technologies, applications and costs. What makes sense for one district may not be applicable to every district.
1. LED lighting and support system benefits
2. Solar arrays and other alternative energy system analysis
3. Window and roofing system performance parameters
4. Mechanical system performance analysis
5. Safety and security strategies
6. Building code changes
This presentation will provide a forum to see the opportunities and the challenges. We hope through the discussions that you will become aware of the various innovations and be able to ask questions that will help you prioritize which will provide the greatest benefit to your district.
LHB's Kevin Holm, AIA, and Troy Miller, AIA, will present "The Maze of Managing and Verifying Building Operations and Performance" at the Midwest Facility Masters Conference. The conference will take place at the Kalahari Resort & Conference Center in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. The date and time of the presentation on "The Maze of Managing and Verifying Building Operations and Performance" is yet to be determined.
Session Description: The programs and services seem to be endless: Retro Commissioning, Buildings Benchmarks and Beyond (B3), Seasonal Management Review Programs, Infrared Testing, Code Management Analysis, Safe Schools, Health and Safety, and the list will continue to grow. What are all these programs and how can they help you:
This presentation will consider how to evaluate your facility needs from a variety of methods and programs. What is important is not the program or service, but what will the information allow you to accomplish the needs of the district, staff, students and taxpayers.
LHB's Kevin Holm, AIA, and Troy Miller, AIA, and Kathy Miller will present "Organizational Collaboration: What are the Challenges to Stretching Every Dollar?" at the Midwest Facility Masters Conference. The conference will take place at the Kalahari Resort & Conference Center in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. The date and time of the presentation on "Organizational Collaboration: What are the Challenges to Stretching Every Dollar?" is yet to be determined.
Session Description: Each year there are discussions regarding school funding and the ongoing changes in education, but the needs continue to grow faster than funding. If districts are going to capitalize on each opportunity to stretch their available funding, they will need leaders who understand the importance of constant collaboration and coordination. Administrative teams to work together to:
How can a relighting project benefit student health and classroom performance? Can a security assessment benefit classroom design? Will the selection of furniture improve the success of project based learning initiatives? What are the new roles and expectations of media center design?
When there's passion to understand the pressures of your peer group and the challenges in the classroom, you will see the greatest potential for improvement: students, staff and facilities. This presentation will be a conversation between individuals that have experienced districts of sizes, locations, and conditions.
LHB's Rick Carter, FAIA, and Rebecca Alexander, Associate AIA, will present "Policy to Practice: Building carbon neutrality in Minnesota & Beyond" along with Janet Streff, Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, and Richard Graves, University of Minnesota College of Design, at the 2015 AIA Minnesota Convention. The convention will be held at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Exhibit Hall D from November 10-13, 2015.
The "Policy to Practice: Building carbon neutrality in Minnesota & Beyond" presentation date to be determined.
The 2015 Joint State Education Convention will be held at the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee, WI on January 20-23.
Stop by the LHB booth #712 to learn more about LHB's K-12 education projects – we look forward to meeting you!
Show Hours: Wednesday January 21, 2015 9:00AM – 4:00PM and Thursday January 22, 2015 9:00AM – 2:00PM
link to the Convention schedule
State Education Convention
Wisconsin Center
400 W. Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee WI 53203
The 2015 MSBA Leadership Conference will be held at the Minneapolis Convention Center on January 15-16.
Stop by the LHB booth #314 to learn more about LHB's K-12 education projects – we look forward to meeting you!
The exhibit hall is open from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Thursday and 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Friday.
link to the Leadership Conference Program
4:-8:00 pm, Dinner included
To register for this session, go to http://z.umn.edu/sb2030techsol. Registration will be limited to 70 people and the cost is $15.00.
Part One: 4:00-5:45 pm
Welcome: Pat Hamilton, Science Museum of Minnesota (5 minutes)
Introduction and Discussion of Xcel Energy Design Assistance Program: Kris Kohl, Xcel (10 minutes)
January 2015 – A new high efficiency standards for 2015 and Introduction to SB 2030 and review of the SB2030 Best Practices Curriculum: Richard Strong, CSBR (20 minutes)
Presentation of the Southgate Multi-Family Project and its energy efficiency characteristics: Billy Weber, CSBR (30 minutes)
Design, Construction, and Operation & Maintenance of Green, White and Blue Roofs: Peter MacDonagh, Kestrel Design (20 minutes)
Plug Loads Strategies to control/operate: Rick Carter, LHB Architects (20 minutes)
Break to be served dinner: (15 minutes) 5:45-6:00 pm
Part Two: 6:00-8:00 pm
Advance Lighting: Brian Wass, Weidt Group (20 minutes)
LED Lighting Retrofits: Blaine O'Brien, University of Minnesota (20 minutes)
Operating and Maintaining a High Efficiency SB2030 Building and continuous commissioning: Peter Herzog and/or Garrett Mosiman, CSBR (30 minutes)
Energy conservation work at the MN Science Museum: Pat Hamilton, Director, Global Change Initiatives at the Science Museum of Minnesota (20 minutes)
Tours of the energy efficiency design and implementation in the Science Museum:
1) Heat Pump/Chiller/Optimizes Pressure Balancing Advance Heat Recovery, Pat Hamilton (20 Minutes)
2) Solar PV installation and on a white roof and its role within the electric utility grid (including downtown networks), Scott Getty and Jim Giebel (20 minutes)
3) LED Lighting retrofit in the Parking Structure, Blaine O'Brien (20 minutes)
Session 1: Create Community-wide Sustainability with Individual Action
June 19 | 3:15 – 5:30 pm | 701 Washington Ave. N Suite 600, Minneapolis
Don't miss the kick-off program in our new speaker series: Revisioning Sustainability. Connect with like-minded sustainable professionals for a thought provoking presentation, great food and drink, and lively conversation.
Our speaker, Rick Carter, will look at how we can scale sustainability to a community-wide level in order to achieve greater impact in reaching greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental goals. In this session, you will understand your potential to take action whether you are a politician, business leader, technical professional or passionate individual.
Celebrating the School of Architecture's Centennial
April 4-June 29 Northrop Gallery
Open during building hours
Free Admission
There is a drawing exhibit up at Northrop Auditorium on the University of Minnesota Minneapolis Campus. It was curated for the School of Architecture's centennial last fall and showcases student drawings from the past 100 years. An exciting range of student designs (from a pavilion for electrocution to an elevator between two streets) show the past century's progression of drawing techniques (from stunning hand-drawings to rich computer renderings).
Details on the exhibit location and hours:
More info on the exhibit and artists can be found here:
Included in the exhibit is this rendering from Becky Alexander's Master of Architecture thesis (The Wandering Feast) as one of the two representatives from year 99 (2012).
Sign up to take a tour of a sustainable designed building at the Lake Superior College Health and Science Building, on Thursday, March 27th, from 5:00 P.M. to 6:30 P.M.
To register, please follow the link https://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/560/personal2.asp?formid=meetings&c=144244
Learn about the latest innovations in transportation from around Minnesota at this new three-day conference. Come network with stakeholders from all sectors of transportation and hear about new implementation and research efforts in a variety of modes at one of the state's largest transportation events.
Register now to attend the conference, or browse the final program for information on plenary and concurrent sessions.
Please, be sure to vote for video #11 'Searching for Morels' by LHB's Becky Alexander!
Dan Stine, CADD Administrator, will be presenting the following breakout sessions: Revit and Showcase; Amazing Design Validation and Animations / March 20th at 1:15-2:25 and Complex Power Distribution in Revit / March 21st at 10:15-11:45.
The $395 early bird registration ends Saturday, February 15, 2014.
The conference will be held at the Minneapolis Convention Center on Thursday, March 20th – Friday, March 21st.
Click on "Event Link" below to see full agenda and registration information.
Please join Metro Cities for this half day forum to help inform cities on emerging trends and issues around water, to hear from state agencies and the Met Council on agency responses and coordination, and to hear from cities on local water issues and best practices. The forum is intended as informative, and not for the advancement of specific agendas by any entity. Forum details are as follows:
8:00 Registration, Coffee & Pastries
8:30 Introduction: Patricia Nauman, Executive Director, Metro Cities
9:40 TABLE DISCUSSIONS: What issues around water are of greatest concern to your city?
10:00 Break
11:45 Lunch (provided)
12:45 TABLE DISCUSSION RESULTS AND WRAP UP (end at 1:00 pm)
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Thursday, January 30, 2014
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Rick Carter and DyAnn Andybur, City of Duluth Energy Coordinator, will present Regional Indicators Initiative and Climate Reality in Duluth, MN on February 26, 2014 at the Energy Design Conference.
Rick Carter will present "Regional Indicators Initiative: Utilizing City-Wide Metrics to Create Sustainable Cities", in Portland, OR, during June 1-5, 2014
Rick Carter will present "Measurable Outcomes: Tracking Actual Energy and Water Use at 54 College and University Campuses", in Portland, OR, during June 1-5, 2014
Rick Carter, John Carmody and Richard Strong (CSBR), and Tom McDougall (The Weidt Group) presented B3/SB2030 at the AIA MN State Convention, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 15, 2013
Elizabeth Turner will present "Planning for Carbon Neutrality through Data Analysis and Visualization" at the Upper Midwest Association for Campus Sustainability at Luther College, Decorah, IA on November 9, 2013.
Elizabeth Turner (LHB), Greg Ewig (MnSCU), and Tom McDougall (The Weidt Group) presented "Measurable Outcomes: Tracking Actual Energy and Water Use at 54 College and University Campuses" at the Upper Midwest Association for Campus Sustainability at Luther College, Decorah, IA on November 9, 2013.
Rick Carter will present Regional Indicators Initiative at the ULI Fall Meeting in Chicago, IL, November 6, 2013
Elizabeth Turner presented on "Planning for Carbon Neutrality through Data Analysis and Visualization," at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN.
Rick Carter and Mitzi Baker (City of Rochester) presented Regional Indicators Initiative / Land Use and Transportation Tools to Improve Outcomes at the APA Minnesota 2013 Conference: GreenStep Cities: Performance Metrics & Complete Green Streets in Rochester, Minnesota on September 18-20, 2013.
Rick Carter and Debbie Goettel (City of Richfield) presented Regional Indicators Initiative at the U.S. Green Building Council Heartland Regional Conference 2013 in Chicago, Illinois on September 9-10, 2013.
Rick Carter, Greg Ewig (MnSCU), and Tom McDougall (The Weidt Group) presented Regional Indicators Initiative at the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) 48th Annual, International Conference in San Diego, California on July 27–31, 2013.
Rick Carter and Bob Heller (Quality Bike Products) presented Sustainable Infrastructure at Quality Bike Products: Opportunities and Costs for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota – Sustainable Infrastructure: Costs, Returns, and Decision-Making Program at Eagan, Minnesota on June 5, 2013.
Rick Carter, FAIA, LEED-Fellow and Peter Lindstrom, Mayor of Falcon Heights, will present Regional Indicators Inititaive from 1:30 – 2:30 during Breakout Session 3b of the USGBC MN – 2013 Impact Conference.
Elizabeth Turner presented reflections on "City Dark" film and leading discussion for teh Bell Museum Presents: Sustainability Film Series at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Elizabeth Turner and Rick Carter provided the presentation, "The Basics of Sustainable Design" on March 5th, 2013. Elizabeth also presented, "Integrating Sustainability into College Planning | Benchmarking and Goal Setting" on March 4th, 2013
A press event to release the recently completed Charrette Report for the Duluth Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) will take place on Tuesday, November 13 at 10:30 AM in the Zeitgeist atrium.
Speakers will include Mayor Ness, Bill Payne, Kristi Stokes, and Bill Bennett. The Mayor will provide context and speak to the value of the Duluth Charrette, Bill Payne will speak to institutional partnership and the arts base, Kristi Stokes will give various examples of arts based development, and Bill Bennett will speak to the importance of the report and the visioning process to private businesses like LHB.
The American Indian Community Housing Organization hosts a grand opening of its 29-unit affordable supportive housing development in the former downtown YWCA at 1 p.m. Wednesday at 202 W. Second St. A free feast of "Indian Tacos" made with fry bread and wild rice salads and tours will follow the program. The program includes entertainment and recognition of donors, volunteers and community and tribal leaders.
Chris Gardner is going to run on a treadmill in the main level of the Duluth Y starting at 6:00 a.m. on Monday, April 9 and will run continuously until the Y closes at 10:00 p.m. to help raise funds for the Strong Kids Campaign.


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SOURCE: Sandoz Canada
February 04, 2016 14:13 ET
BOUCHERVILLE, QC--(Marketwired - February 04, 2016) -
Sandoz Canada Inc., a Novartis company, continues to expand its cancer medication portfolio with the recent launch of PrOxaliplatin Injection, which is given along with other medicines to treat advanced colon cancer.
PrOxaliplatin Injection is a generic equivalent to PrEloxatin*. It belongs to a group of medicines called antineoplastics that helps inhibit the replication process of cancer cells.
"This latest product launch demonstrates that Sandoz Canada is becoming an important player in the field of generic cancer medications," says Michel Robidoux, President and General Manager of Sandoz Canada.
In combination with infusional 5-fluorouracil/leucovorin (5-FU/LV), PrOxaliplatin Injection is indicated for adjuvant treatment of patients with stage III (Dukes' C) colon cancer after a complete resection of the primary tumour. In addition, it is also indicated for the treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.
Each vial contains 100 mg, 150 mg or 200 mg of oxaliplatin as a sterile, preservative free, aqueous solution at a concentration of 5 mg/mL.
The launch of PrOxaliplatin Injection is an integral part of our overall strategy for addressing global access challenges that combines our broad portfolio of off-patent, added value medicines with novel services and corporate responsibility programs to improve access to medicines, medical information and medical capacity building.
The company's other cancer drugs include methotrexate, cisplatin, topotecan, gemcitabine, paclitaxel, doxorubicin, etoposide, letrozole, anastrozole, 5-FU, and other related products such as ondansetron and zoledronic acid-Z.
*Eloxatin is a registered trademark of Sanofi.
The foregoing release contains forward-looking statements that can be identified by terminology such as "new", or similar expressions, or by express or implied discussions regarding potential new indications or labeling for Sandoz PrOxaliplatin Injection or regarding potential future revenues from Sandoz PrOxaliplatin Injection. You should not place undue reliance on these statements. Such forward-looking statements reflect the current views of management regarding future events, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results with Sandoz PrOxaliplatin Injection to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. There can be no guarantee that Sandoz PrOxaliplatin Injection will achieve any particular levels of revenue in the future. In particular, management's expectations regarding Sandoz PrOxaliplatin Injection could be affected by, among other things, new clinical data or additional analysis of existing data, unexpected regulatory actions or delays or government regulation generally; uncertainties regarding actual or potential legal proceedings, including, among others, intellectual property disputes or other legal efforts to prevent or limit Sandoz from selling Sandoz PrOxaliplatin Injection, and the uncertain outcome of any such litigation; the particular prescribing preferences of physicians and patients; competition in general; government, industry and general public pricing pressures; unexpected manufacturing difficulties or delays; the impact that the foregoing factors could have on the values attributed to the Novartis Group's assets and liabilities as recorded in the Group's consolidated balance sheet, and other risks and factors referred to in Novartis AG's current Form 20-F on file with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those anticipated, believed, estimated or expected. Sandoz is providing the information in this press release as of this date and does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this press release as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
About Sandoz
Sandoz, a Novartis company, is a global leader in generic pharmaceuticals and biosimilars, driving sustainable access to high-quality healthcare. Sandoz supplies a broad range of affordable, primarily off-patent products to patients and customers around the globe. The Sandoz portfolio comprises approximately 1,100 molecules, which accounted for 2015 sales of USD 9.2 billion. Sandoz is headquartered in Holzkirchen, in Germany's Greater Munich area. The company holds leading global positions in biosimilars as well as in generic anti-infectives, ophthalmics and transplantation medicines.
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