The Army Corps of Engineers issued a public notice Thursday that could reactivate plans for a new cruise ship terminal at Union Pier in downtown Charleston.

The public can comment in writing and request a hearing on the State Ports Authority’s permit request until Aug. 24.

The SPA is proposing to build the $35 million terminal. It said this week that it has provided the Army Corps with about 40,000 pages of material to address concerns downtown residents and environmental groups have raised about pollution, noise and other quality-of-life issues.

The permit would allow five additional clusters of pilings beneath an old Union Pier warehouse that will be renovated as a new terminal north of the existing facility. A federal judge tossed out the SPA’s previous permit application in 2013, saying it did not consider the terminal’s impact on the city’s Historic District.

A separate lawsuit over a state-issued permit is pending.

First proposed five years ago, the new terminal would replace a 42-year-old building that handles cruises for Carnival Cruise Lines’ 2,056-passenger Fantasy ship, as well as other pleasure vessels. Carnival’s Ecstasy, which has newer amenities but the same passenger capacity, will call the Port of Charleston home beginning in February.