[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 29 (Friday, February 12, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7190-7191]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-3552]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[ER-FRL-5499-8]
Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of
EPA Comments
Availability of EPA comments prepared January 11, 1999 Through
January 15, 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 (62
FR 17856).
Draft EISs
ERP No. D-AFS-K08019-CA, Rating LO, Lucerne Valley to Big Bear
Valley Transmission Line/Substation Project, Construction and Operation
of Three Electrical Power Facilities: 115 kV Line between the
Cottonwood Substation in Lurcerne Valley; Goldhill Substation and a new
Bear Valley Substation, Special-Use-Permit and Right-of-Way Permit, San
Bernardino County, CA.
Summary: EPA review has not identified any potential environmental
impacts requiring changes to the proposal.
ERP No. D-BLM-J03013-UT, Rating EO2, Ferron Natural Gas Project,
Proposal to Construct, Maintain and Operate a Natural Gas Transmission
Pipeline, Application for Permit to Drill (APD), Special-Use-Permit and
Right-of-Way Grant, Carbon and Emery Counties, UT.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental objections with the DEIS
including the potential for significant visibility degradation in
adjacent Class I airsheds including Captal Reef and Canyonlands
National Park.
ERP No. D-NOA-B91027-00, Rating EC2, Spiny Dogfish (Squalus
acanthras) Fishery Management Plan, Implementation, Northwest Atlantic
Ocean, Labrador to Florida.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns. The description of
the spiny dogfish habitat and strategies to deal with the problem of
``ghost'' fishing from lost or abandoned gill net were inadequately
addressed in the document. The document provide a suite of management
alternatives to reduce fishing mortality and to ensure that overfishing
does not occur.
Final EISs
ERP No. F-AFS-L61220-OR, Christy Basin Planning Area,
Implementation, Regeneration Timber Harvesting, Willamette National
Forest, Oakridge Ranger District, Lane County, OR.
Summary: Review of the Final EIS was not deemed necessary. No
formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
ERP No. F-AFS-L65207-OR, Young'n Timber Sales, Implementation,
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Willamette National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan, Middle
Fork Ranger District, Lane County, OR.
Summary: Review of the Final EIS was not deemed necessary. No
formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
ERP No. F-AFS-L65302-WA, Green River Road Access Requests,
Easements Grant, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, North Bend
Ranger District, King County, WA.
Summary: Review of the Final EIS was not deemed necessary. No
formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
ERP No. F-AFS-L65304-OR, Moose Subwatershed Timber Harvest and
Other Vegetation Management Actions, Central Cascade Adaptive
Management (CCAMA), Willamette National Forest, Sweet Home Ranger
District, Linn County, OR.
Summary: Review of the Final EIS was not deemed necessary. No
formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
ERP No. F-AFS-L65305-WA Plum Creek Checkerboard Access Project,
Grant Permanent Easements, Cle Elum and Naches Ranger Districts,
Wenatchee National Forest, Kittitas County, WA.
Summary: Review of the Final EIS was not deemed necessary. No
formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
ERP No. F-AFS-L65307-WA Sand Ecosystem Restoration Project,
Implementation, Leavenworth Range District, Wenatchee National Forest,
Chelan County, WA.
Summary: Review of the Final EIS was not deemed necessary. No
formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
ERP No. F-COE-K39047-CA Santa Clara River and Major Tributaries
Project, Approval of 404 Permit and 1603 Streambed Alteration
Agreement, In portions of the City Santa Clarita, Los Angeles County,
CA.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns that the preferred
alternative did not represent the least environmentally damaging
practicable alternative and requested that the Record of Decision
contain commitments to permanently and systematically remove non-native
vegetation from the riparian zone.
Dated: February 8, 1999.
B. Katherine Biggs,
Associate Director, Office of Federal Activities.
[FR Doc. 99-3552 Filed 2-11-99; 8:45 am]
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