[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 243 (Monday, December 20, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71149-71150]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-32926]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Cortina
Integrated Waste Management Project, Colusa County, CA
AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior
ACTION: Notice
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SUMMARY: This notice advises the public that the Bureau of Indian
Affairs (BIA) intends to submit a Draft Environmental Impact Statement
(DEIS) for a proposed lease of approximately 443 acres held in trust by
the federal government for the Cortina Band of Wintun Indians in Colusa
County, California, to the Environmental Protection Agency for public
review and comment. The purpose of the proposed action is to allow
Cortina Integrated Waste Management, Inc., to develop and operate
needed waste treatment facilities referred to as the Cortina Integrated
Waste Management Project. The BIA prepared the DEIS in cooperation with
the Cortina Band of Wintun Indians and the Band's environmental
consultants. A description of the proposed project location and of the
environmental issues addressed in the DEIS follow as supplementary
information. This notice also announces a public hearing to receive
public comments on the DEIS.
DATES: Written comments must arrive by February 15, 2000. The Public
hearing will be held on February 2, 2000, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
ADDRESSES: If you wish to comment, you may submit your comments by any
one of several methods. You may mail or hand carry written comments to
Ronald M. Jaeger, Regional Director, Pacific Region, Bureau of Indian
Affairs, 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, California, 95825-1846. You may
also comment via the Internet to billallan@bia.gov. Please submit
Internet comments as an ASCII file, avoiding the use of special
characters and any form of encryption. Include your name, return
address and the caption, ``DEIS Comments, Cortina Integrated Waste
Management Project, Cortina Indian Rancheria of Wintun Indians, Colusa
County, California,'' on the first page of your written comments or
Internet message. If you do not receive confirmation from the system
that your Internet message was received, contact us directly at (916)
978-6043.
Comments, including names and home addresses of respondents, will
be available for public review at the above address during regular
business hours, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except
holidays. Individual respondents may request confidentiality. If you
wish to withhold your name and/or address from public review or from
disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, you must state this
prominently at the beginning of your written comment. Such requests
will be honored to the extent allowed by law. We will not, however,
consider anonymous comments. All submissions from organizations or
businesses, and from individuals identifying themselves as
representatives or officials of organizations or businesses, will be
made available for public inspection in their entirety.
To obtain a copy of the DEIS, please write or call William Allan,
Environmental Protection Specialist, Pacific Region, Bureau of Indian
Affairs, 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, CA 95825-1846, telephone (916)
978-6043.
The public hearing will be held at Colusa Industrial Properties,
100 Sunrise Boulevard, Colusa, California. This hearing will be co-
hosted by the BIA and the Cortina Band of Wintun Indians.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William Allan, (916) 978-6043.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The proposed action is the approval of a 25
year lease of 443 acres of the 640 acre Cortina Rancheria to Cortina
Integrated Waste Management, Inc., for the development and operation of
a landfill, a materials recovery facility, a composting facility, a
bio-remediation facility, plus ancillary facilities. These would occupy
approximately 213 acres of the lease area. The proposed project site is
located in the rugged eastern foothills of the Coast Ranges, just above
the west side of the Sacramento Valley in northern California. It is
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approximately 50 miles northwest of Sacramento, in the southwest corner
of Colusa County.
The landfill is proposed as a Class III solid waste facility, which
may only accept non-hazardous, municipal solid waste. The disposal of
hazardous waste in a Class III landfill is prohibited. The landfill
would be operated as a balefill, designed to consist of four separate
phases that are operated sequentially. The active portion of the
landfill would typically be less than one quarter acre. The containment
system for the landfill would well exceed federal, California and
Wintun Environmental Protection Agency regulatory requirements for
Class III landfills.
The materials recovery facility proposed as part of the project
would separate and recover recyclable materials, thus producing revenue
for the Band and reducing the amount of material deposited in the
landfill. It would be an enclosed structure on a concrete/asphalt pad.
The proposed composting facility would accelerate natural
decomposition of organic waste by bacteria. Its operations would occur
within a lined portion of the landfill, utilizing the ``turned
windrow'' method.
The proposed bio-remediation facility for processing petroleum
contaminated soils would also be operated within a lined portion of the
landfill area. The process consists of adding oxygen, nutrients, and
microorganizms to the contaminated soils to enhance the breakdown of
the petroleum hydrocarbons.
Alternatives to the proposed project that are considered in the
DEIS include the no action alternative and two reduced project
alternatives. The environmental issues addressed in the DEIS include
land and water resources, air quality, living resources, cultural and
socioeconomic resources, land use, traffic, noise, public safety and
health, and visual resources.
This notice is published in accordance with Sec. 1503.1 of the
Council on Environmental Quality Regulations (40 CFR Parts 1500 through
1508) implementing the procedural requirements of the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.),
and the Department of the Interior Manual (516 DM 1-6), and is in the
exercise of the authority delegated to the Assistant Secretary--Indian
Affairs by 209 DM 8.
Dated: December 10, 1999.
Kevin Gover,
Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. 99-32926 Filed 12-17-99; 8:45 am]
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