[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 192 (Friday, October 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51856-51857]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-26350]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[ER-FRL-5484-9]
Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of
EPA Comments
Availability of EPA comments prepared September 1, 1997 Through
September 5, 1997 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 (EISs) was published in FR dated April
11, 1997 (62 FR 16154).
DRAFT EISs
ERP No. D-AFS-J61098-MT Rating EC2, Lost Trail Ski Area Expansion
Project, Implementation, New Master Development Plan, Bitterroot
National Forest, Sula Ranger District, Ravalli County, MT.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about potential
increased wastewater pollutant loadings to area ground water, and lack
of analysis and disclosure of potential indirect effects of induced
development. Additional information is needed to fully assess and
mitigate all potential environmental impacts of the management actions.
ERP No. D-MMS-L02026-AK Rating LO, Beaufort Sea Planning Area Outer
Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sale 170 (1997) Lease Offering,
Offshore Marine, Beaufort Sea Coastal Plain, North Slope Borough of
Alaska.
Summary: EPA does not foresee having any environmental objections
to the proposed project.
Final EISs
ERP No. F-BLM-J60018-UT Price Coalbed Methane Gas Resources
Project, Construction, Federal and Non-Federal Lands, Permit-to-Drill
Application, Right-of-Way Grants and COE Section 404 Permits, Carbon
and Emery Counties, UT.
Summary: The Final EIS addresses most of EPA's air quality concerns
on the proposed project and EPA still recommend a cumulative effects
analysis in the Price area.
ERP No. F-BLM-J60019-WY Cave Gulch-Bullfrog-Waltman Natural Gas
Development Project, Implementation, Platte River Resource Area,
Natrona County, WY.
Summary: While the Final EIS addresses most concerns expressed in
our comment letter on the draft EIS. EPA still maintains environmental
concerns about the protectiveness of the proposed plans for ground
water and surface water.
ERP No. F-DOE-L36109-00 Watershed Management Program Standards and
Guidelines, Implementation, ID, NV, MT, OR, WA and WY.
Summary: Review of the Final EIS has been completed and the project
found to be satisfactory. No formal comment letter was sent to the
preparing agency.
ERP No. F-UAF-G11031-TX Programmatic EIS--Kelly Air Force Base
(AFB), Disposal and Reuse, Implementation, San Antonio County, TX.
Summary: EPA has reviewed the lead agency's responses to EPA
comments offered on the draft statement. EPA finds the FEIS has
reasonably addressed our concerns and therefore we have no further
comments.
ERP No. F-UAF-K11080-CA Programmatic EIS--McClellan Air Force Base
(AFB) Disposal and Reuse Including Rezoning of the Main Base,
Implementation, Federal Permits, Licenses or Entitlements, Sacramento
County, CA.
Summary: EPA was generally satisfied with the additional
information provided, but continues to express concerns about
groundwater overdraft.
ERP No. F-UMC-K11067-00 Yuma Training Range Complex Management,
Operation and Development, Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Goldwater
Range, Yuma and La Paz Cos., AZ and Chocolate Mountain Range, Imperial
and Riverside Counties, CA.
Summary: EPA commented that the Final EIS addresses the concerns
that were expressed in the Draft EIS.
ERP No. F-UMC-K24018-CA Sewage Effluent Compliance Project,
Implementation, Lower Santa Margarita Basin, Marine Corps Base Camp
Pendleton, San Diego County, CA.
Summary: EPA commented that while additional alternatives were not
developed or advanced in the Final EIS, the additional information
regarding Clean Water Act Section 404 requirements that EPA requested
was provided.
ERP No. F-USA-K11073-AZ Western Army National Guard Aviation
Training Site Expansion Project, Designation of an Expanded Tactical
Flight Training Area (TFTA), Development or Use of a Helicopter Gunnery
Range and Construction and Operation of various Facilities on the
Silver Bell Army Heliport (SBAH), Maricopa, Pima and Pinal Counties,
AZ.
Summary: EPA commented regarding analysis of water, noise,
biological resources and NEPA issues that the Army has addressed our
concerns.
ERP No. FR-USA-G11029-AR Disposal of Chemical Agents and Munitions
Stored at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Site-Specific Impacts Associated with On-
Site Disposal, Construction and Operation and Approval of Permits,
Jefferson County, AR.
Summary: EPA had no objection to the selection of the preferred
alternative described in the Revised Final EIS.
Other: ERP No. LD-AFS-J65268-CO Rating EO2, North Fork of the South
Platte and the South Platte Rivers, Wild and Scenic River Study, To
Determine their Suitability for Inclusion into the National Wild and
Scenic Rivers System, Pike and San Isabel National Forests, Comache and
Cimarron National Grasslands, Douglas, Jefferson, Park and Teller
Counties, CO.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental objections with the first
agency preferred alternative (local community protection) because the
DLEIS did not include how this would be accomplished or what the
impacts would be. EPA expressed environmental concerns with the second
agency preferred alternative (congressional
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recommendation) because it did not recommend equal protection to the
Outstandingly Remarkable Values of several river segments within the
study area and did not fully consider the broader implications of
designation on other, nearby wilderness and roadless areas.
Dated: September 30, 1997.
William D. Dickerson,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
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