The deadline to seek a boat dock permit on Lake Lanier is Tuesday.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had set a request period, beginning July 15, for lake residents to file an application.

About one week after the submission period ends, a final list will be published online representing those requests confirmed for an Oct. 28 lottery drawing.

The drawing will be shown on the Web and shown by video feed to a site in the Lake Lanier area.

Final decisions will be provided in writing.

Applicants will be vying for one of 174 permits.

Lanier’s shoreline plan and the Environmental Impact Statement completed in 2004 limit the number of boat docks on the lake to 10,615. The lake now has 10,441 docks.

An outside firm is collecting the request letters, entering them into a database and reviewing the list for errors and duplicates, corps officials have said.

Only one request will be accepted for each piece of property.

"We believed (the lottery) was the fairest way (to issue permits)," Chief Ranger Ernest Noe has said.

Until earlier this year, the corps had imposed a two-year moratorium on new dock permits because extreme drought had drained the lake.

A wet spring pushed levels back up, prompting corps officials to reconsider the ban.

The corps’ Mobile District decided in June to restart the process, but only after Lanier’s elevation had remained at or above 1,064 feet above sea level for 30 consecutive days and the five-week forecast showed "the level or rise is sustainable."

Now, Lanier is closing in on full pool, or 1,071 feet, as it stood at 1,069.79 feet as of Sunday night.