The Cumulative Impacts Assessment of the DEIS, only looked at large federal projects in the Corpus Christi Bay system and did not address the real cumulative effects on the immediate Packery Channel area that have occurred as a result of development over time.
Representatives of TPWD and NMFS offered access to information from their databases to
be used in conjunction with information in the Corps' RAMs database to characterize the
cumulative effects of the proposed channel project on the resources of north Padre Island and Mustang Island.

The Biological Assessment (BA) was reviewed and comments and recommendations are
attached.

The DEIS does not characterize the long-term fate of Placement Areas 1 and 3 either as areas that will be privately developed or as areas containing sand reserves that could readily be
used for beach nourishment in the Packery Channel area or elsewhere.

Given that the proposed channel will establish a new, permanent access to the Gulf of
Mexico and adjacent State, Federal and International Waters, the DEIS does not indicate or
identify coordination efforts with other entities and agencies whose operations could be
affected by the channel opening. The Department of the Navy, U.S. Coast Guard,
Immigration and Naturalization Service, Drug Enforcement Agency, and Department of
Homeland Security are some agencies that may need to be contacted.