[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 11 (Friday, January 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2676-2677]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-1160]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[ER-FRL-5488-1]
Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of
EPA Comments
Availability of EPA comments prepared December 29, 1997 Through
January 02, 1998 pursuant to the Environmental Review Process (ERP),
under Section 309 of the Clean Air Act and Section 102(2)(c) of the
National Environmental Policy Act as amended. Requests for copies of
EPA comments can be directed to the Office of Federal Activities at
(202) 564-7167. An explanation of the ratings assigned to draft
environmental impact statements
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(EISs) was published in FR dated April 11, 1997 (62 FR 16154).
Draft EISs
ERP No. D-FHW-C40141-NY Rating EC2, Judd Road Connector
Transportation Improvements, Funding and COE Section 404 Permit,
Village of New York Mills, Towns of New Hartford and Whitestown, Oneida
County, NY.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about impacts to
wetlands and recommended the Southern alignment and the single point
interchange be chosen.
ERP No. D-FHW-G40146-NM Rating LO, New Mexico Highway 126 (NM-126),
Cuba-La Cueva Road (also Known as Forest Highway 12) Improvement, COE
Section 404 Permit and NPDES Permit, Sandoval and Rio Arriba Counties,
NM.
Summary: EPA had no objection to the selection of the lead agency's
preferred alternative as described in the DEIS.
ERP No. D-GSA-J81009-CO Rating EC2, Denver Federal Center Master
Site Plan, Implementation, City of Lakewood, Jefferson County, CO.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns regarding potential
water quality and wetland impacts. EPA requested that these issues be
fully addressed in the final EIS. EPA also requested that clarification
on how future development relate to the on going clean-up under RCRA
and CERCLA.
ERP No. DS-COE-G32054-00 Rating LO, Red River Waterway, Louisiana,
Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma and Related Projects, New and Updated
Information, Red River Below Denison Dam Levee Rehabilition,
Implementation, Hempstead, Lafayette and Miller Counties, AR.
Summary: EPA expressed no objection to the selection of the
mitigation measures as described in the EIS based on the Corp's
preferred alternative.
ERP No. DS-USA-E65040-MS Rating EC2, Camp Shelby Continued Military
Training Activities, Use of National Forest Lands, Updated Information,
Final Site Selection Authorization for Implementation of the Proposed
G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery Ranges, Special Use Permit, DeSoto National
Forest, Forrest, George and Perry Counties, MS.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns regarding potential
wetland, wildlife habitate loss/modification and noise impacts. EPA
requested that additional information on these issues be provided in
the final document.
ERP No. D1-FAA-C51020-NY Rating EC2, Terminal Doppler Weather Radar
(TDWR) Installation and Operation, Serve the John F. Kennedy
International Airports (JFK) and La Guardia (LFA), Site Specific, Air
Station Brooklyn, Borough of Queens, King County, NY.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns regarding potential
hazardous waste and carbon monoxide air quality impacts. EPA requested
that FAA commit to comprehensively characterize any contamination prior
to implementation and do carbon monoxide hot spot analysis.
Final EISs
ERP No. F-DOE-E09802-SC, Savannah River Site, Shutdown of the River
Water System (DOE/EIS-0268D), Implementation, Aiken, SC.
Summary: EPA continues to express concerns about the project's
ecological risks and impacts on endangered species. EPA encourages
completion of consultations with the Natural Resources Trustees before
issuing any CERCLA Record of Decision on the River Water Distribution
System.
ERP No. F-FHW-C40138-NY, NY-17 Highway Conversion from a Partial to
a Full Access Control Facility, Five-Mile Point to Occanum and NY-17
Rehabilitation or Reconstruction, Funding and COE Section 404 Permit
Issuance, Towns of Kirkwood and Windsor, Broome County, NY.
Summary: EPA's concerns were addressed in the final EIS and has no
objections to implementing the project as proposed.
ERP No. F-TVA-E06017-AL, Bellefonte Nuclear Plant Conversion
Project, Construction and Operation, NPDES Permit and COE Section 404
Permit, Tennessee River near Hollywood, AL.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns primarily involve the
EIS connected issue of impacts associated with the construction of a
natural gas pipeline (separate NEPA issue and federal lead agency)
logically needed to adequately supply the proposed conversion of
Bellefonte to natural gas. Proposed coordination with local residents
was also recommended.
Regulations
ERP No. R-ACH-A99216-00, 36 CFR part 800--Revised Regulation
Implementing Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation
Administration.
Summary: EPA's primary issue is the definition of ``undertaking''
EPA would like to resolve interpretation of this definition before the
regulations are adopted as final.
Dated: January 13, 1998.
William D. Dickerson,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
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