[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 214 (Friday, November 5, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 60440]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29080]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[ER-FRL-6247-8]
Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of
EPA Comments
Availability of EPA comments prepared October 18, 1999 Through
October 22, 1999 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 10, 1999 (63
FR 17856).
Draft EISs
ERP No. D-AFS-J65314-MT Rating EC2, Flathead National Forest, Swan
Lake Ranger District, Meadow Smith Project, Vegetative Treatments and
Other Activities to Maintain and Restore Large-Tree Old Grow Forest
Characteristics, Lake and Missoula Counties, MT.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns with potential
adverse impacts to the watershed from proposed road density.
EPA believes additional monitoring information is needed to fully
assess and mitigate all potential impacts of the management actions.
ERP No. D-BLM-G65069-NM Rating EC2, Rio Puerco Resource Management
Plan Amendment, Managing Land and Resource for EL Malpais National
Conservation Area and Chain of Craters Wilderness Study Area, Lies
South of the City of Grants, Cibola County, NM.
Summary: EPA has identified environmental concerns in the areas of
mitigation, livestock grazing, water quality, recreation,
transportation, cultural resources, wildlife habitat, and environmental
justice. EPA requested that these issues be clarified in the final
document.
ERP No. D-COE-C30010-NJ Rating EC2, Barnegat Inlet to Little Egg
Inlet Hurricane and Storm Damage Protection, Implementation, Long Beach
Island, Ocean County, NJ.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about the potential
cumulative impacts associated with this and other related erosion/storm
damage protection projects in the area. EPA requested that additional
information be presented in the final EIS to address this issue.
ERP No. D-FHW-E40780-NC Rating EC2, US-1 Transportation
Improvements, From Sandhill Road (SR-197) to North to Fox Road (SR-
1606), Funding and COE Section 404 Permit, City of Rockingham, Richmond
County, NC.
Summary: EPA expressed concern regarding purpose and need,
alternatives and wetland impacts. EPA requested that these issues be
clarified and mitigated as necessary.
ERP No. D-FHW-J40150-ND Rating LO, Interstate 29 Reconstruction
Project, Improvements from Rose Coulee to Cass County Road No. 20,
Funding, City of Fargo, ND.
Summary: EPA requested additional information and clarification
related to project alternatives. The review did not identify and
potential impacts requiring substantive changes to the proposal.
ERP No. D-USN-K11103-GU Rating EC2, Surplus Navy Property
Identified in the Guam Land Use Plan (GLUP '94) for Disposal and Reuse,
Implementation, GU.
Summary: EPA expressed concerns about the air modeling data and
cumulative impacts analysis. EPA requested that the air quality data be
corrected and that additional cumulative impacts analysis be provided
in the final document.
Final EISs
ERP No. F-AFS-L65308-ID, Eagle Bird Project Area, Timber Harvesting
and Road Construction, Idaho Panhandle National Forests, St. Joe Ranger
District, Shoshone County, ID.
Summary: EPA continues to be concerned that funding for road
improvements and obliteration are uncertain. Thus, impacts from the
project may not be completely mitigated.
ERP No. F-FHW-F40374-MN, MN-TH-14 Corridor Reconstruction, MN-TH-60
to I-35, Funding and COE Section 404 Permit Issuance, Blue Earth,
Waseca and Steele Counties, MN.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns with the completeness
of the traffic analysis used in the FEIS and a potential discrepancy in
the FEIS regarding the total amount of wetland impacts. EPA recommends
that these two issues be resolved in the Record of Decision and that
narrow construction limits be used to reduce wetland impacts.
ERP No. F-USN-K11094-00, Developing Home Port Facilities For Three
NIMITZ-Class Aircraft Carriers in Support of the U.S. Pacific Fleet,
Construction and Operation, Coronado, CA; Bremerton and Everett, WA,
Pearl Harbor, HI.
Summary: EPA expressed a continuing concern regarding sediment
quality, dredging and dredged material disposal issues at Pearl Harbor
Naval Shipyard and, to a lesser extent, at North Island Naval Air
Station, asking that the Navy address these issues in its NEPA Record
of Decision and/or in any subsequent permit application(s) to the Army
Corps of Engineers. On other issues the FEIS was generally responsive
to prior concerns EPA raised on the Draft EIS.
ERP No. FA-NIH-D81023-MD, National Institutes of Health Bethesda
Main Campus Comprehensive Master Plan, Updated and Additional
Information for the Revision to the Northwest Sector Plan, Montgomery
County, MD.
Summary: EPA has determined that the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services has adequately addressed its comments within the Final
Supplemental EIS.
ERP No. FS-NRC-A00164-00, Generic EIS--License Renewal of Nuclear
Power Plants Operating Licenses, NUREG-1437 Addendum 1.
Summary: No formal comment letter sent to preparing agency.
Dated: November 2, 1999.
B. Katherine Biggs,
Associate Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal
Activities.
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