Please see Attachment A for Roger Nott's requested amendment to his comment

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19 A From: Roger Nott Sent: Wednesday, April 25, :10 PM To: Morgan, Richard W SAS Subject: Re: Glades EIS - USACE External Correspondence- Scoping Comments (UNCLASSIFIED) Thank you Mr. Morgan. It took me awhile to find a computer which could read your attachment, as I am traveling. My remarks, as transcribed mostly are understandable, but I would like to make some edits, sometimes when I start a sentence one way and then change my mind. Here are some desired edits: p. 10 line 8 - My address is P.O. Box p. 10 line 18 should read: "...beautiful, and Flat Creek also has lots of other nice rapids. P. 10 line 23 - eliminate "And one of the things that --" and begin the line: "It's lovely." p. 11 line 7 - change to: "As a Hall County resident, I agree it would be nice..." p. 11 line 9 - change to "in the future when there might be insufficient water to fully meet the needs of other municipalities and counties. But it would be..." p. 11 line 14 change to "...anticipate, the question will be, "Is that expense worth it?" p. 11 line 22 - change "seek" to "seep." p. 11 line 23 - change to "...surface, more impounded water would evaporate." p. 11 line 25 - change "...adding any water to the supply that is already available without additional expense directly from Lake Lanier. You're lowering..." p. 12, line 5 - begin paragraph: "I understand Hall County wanting to develop this plan when Judge Magnuson's ruling severely threatened Hall County's water supply, as provided by the City of Gainesville. However..." p. 12, line 12 - change to "And the act specifically..." p. 12, line 21 - change to "City water intakes, through which Hall County currently receives all it water, for free." p. 12 line 22 - change to "...for it? And the only way Hall County could recoup this expense is by increasing rates. The taxpayers and water users would be greatly hurt." (end of paragraph) p. 13, line 5-7- change to "...selling a large portion of the water to downstream governmental entities. This is not fair to those entities. The basic problem is that taxpayers somewhere are going to have pay higher rates to meet the very high, unnecessary expense of this project. And looking..." p. 13 line 10 - change to: "from Lake Lanier into the Chattahoochee River." and end the paragraph. p. 13 line 10 - begin the next paragraph: "Building the Glades project would only be justifiable if Lake Lanier had insufficient storage space for the water which flows into it. But that is not the case. In the last 20 years the Corps..." p. 13 line 17 - change to "...with current Lake Lanier water users' withdrawals increasing every year, additional storage space for the water available to Lake Lanier becomes less needed. The Glades reservoir is needed only in the sense..."

20 Attachment A p. 13 line 25ff - begin line: "It is not in the general public interest for Hall County to be approved to divert this amount of water from Lake Lanier when we haven't seen what the Corps...11th Circuit." p. 14 line - change to "...consideration will be future judicial rulings. It's unlikely..." p. 14 line 11 - change to "Gainesville are denied..." p. 14 line change to "...present time they are not. I know the Glades permit request was filed...decision was made. However, in light of that decision, the Glades plan doesn't make sense." p. 14 line - eliminate the first sentence. (I'll use it later.) p. 14 line 22 - change to: "...years, if Lanier is all silted up, additional storage space may be needed. But even siltation of..." p. 15 lines Shorten to "Dredged material can be sold. But it would be cheaper to dredge at the confluence or Flat Creek and Lake Lanier when Lanier is low than to have to empty Glades reservoir to dredge." (end of paragraph) p. 15 line 24 - Change to "Allowing Hall County to divert water from Lake Lanier sets a bad precedent." p. 16 line 3 - change to "Authorizing new reservoirs upstream of Lake Lanier would only make sense if Lanier had inadequate storage space." p. 16 line 7 - eliminate sentence beginning "Matter of fact". p. 16 line - change to: "It is asserted that the Glades reservoir would enhance the value of the land around it, which might be developed..." p. 16 line 25 - change to: "If the reservoir were kept full, then that would..." p. 17 line 5 - change "impounded" to "impaired with erosive material." p. 17 line 6 - eliminate "the Lake --". Thank you very much for you indulgence and help. I'll refrain from making further comments, though I could make many, not the least of which would talk about the expensive and destructive pipelines envisioned, Hall County's selling control of Cedar Creek reservoir to Gainesville, inter-basin transfers, and unsightly intakes on a State canoe trail. With good wishes, Roger E. Nott P. O. Box 2324 Gainesville, GA rogernott@att.net