Environmental Defense, American Rivers National Wildlife Federation, Mississippi River Basin Alliance, Missouri Coalition for the Environment the Sierra Club

The revised draft follows release of an original draft supplemental EIS in 1999 and a final proposed EIS in 2000. Environmental Defense and other conservation organizations submitted extensive comments on each of these documents dated June 24, 1999 and October 10, 2000. Included with these comments were extensive expert reports and supplemental documents. Except for the minor revisions to these comments as explained below, we continue to consider them valid comments for the new draft revised supplemental EIS. We therefore reaffirm these comments and incorporate them by reference as comments on the new draft. In these comments, we reiterate some of the critical elements of the earlier comments and offer some additional information and views. Included in these comments are the following: