[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 33 (Friday, February 17, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9327-9328]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-3983]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Navy
Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement/
Environmental Impact Report for Treated Effluent Disposal from Marine
Corps Base Camp Pendleton to the City of Oceanside, California
Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act as implemented by
Council on Environmental Quality regulations (40 CFR Parts 1500-1508),
and pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CA Public
Resources Code Sec et. seq. 21000) the U.S. Marine Corps and City of
Oceanside intend to prepare a joint Environmental Impact Statement/
Environmental Impact Report (EIS/EIR) to evaluate the environmental
effects of the disposal of treated effluent from five existing sewage
treatment plants at Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Pendleton to the City
of Oceanside, California.
The proposed action would construct two new sewage pipelines to
connect five existing sewage treatment plants in the Santa Margarita
Basin in MCB Camp Pendleton to existing sewage outfalls in the City of
Oceanside. One proposed pipeline would transport treated effluent from
three existing sewage treatment plants at MCB Camp Pendleton to the
existing outfall serving the La Salina sewage treatment plant in the
City of Oceanside. A second proposed pipeline would transport treated
effluent from two existing sewage treatment plants at MCB Camp
Pendleton to the existing outfall serving the San Luis Rey sewage
treatment plant in the City of Oceanside. All effluent from these
pipelines at MCB Camp Pendleton would then be transported for ocean
disposal via existing City of Oceanside land and ocean outfalls. No
[[Page 9328]] additional treatment of MCB Camp Pendleton effluent would
be provided by City of Oceanside sewage treatment plants.
Alternatives currently under consideration that will be addressed
in the EIS/EIR include construction of a new tertiary sewage treatment
plant at MCB Camp Pendleton, upgrade and consolidation of existing
sewage treatment plants, injection wells, percolation ponds, and no
action. Alternative pipeline alignments will also be evaluated.
Major environmental issues that will be addressed in the EIS/EIR
include land use, hydrology, water quality, air quality, biological
resources, cultural resources, noise, traffic/circulation/access,
public services and utilities, human health and safety, and hazardous
materials and waste management.
The Department of the Navy published a Notice Of Intent in the
Federal Register on September 26, 1991, initiating a scoping process
for preparation of an EIS/EIR for a sewage effluent compliance project
at MCB Camp Pendleton for the San Onofre and Santa Margarita Basins. A
scoping meeting was held in the City of Oceanside on October 17, 1991,
and an EIS/EIR was begun. Since that time, the proposed action has been
revised as additional studies have been undertaken, and additional
alternatives have been identified that needed to be evaluated. While
the EIS/EIR for the San Onofre basin is continuing, the EIS/EIR for the
Santa Margarita basin is beginning. Therefore, the scoping process is
being reopened until March 6, 1995, in order to collect additional
comments on the scope of issues to be addressed in the EIS/EIR for the
Santa Margarita basin proposed action. However, no additional scoping
meetings will be held.
Agencies and the public are invited and encouraged to provide
written comment on scoping issues. To be most helpful, scoping comments
should clearly describe specific issues or topics which the commentor
believes the EIS/EIR should address. Written statements and or
questions regarding the scoping process should be mailed no later than
March 6, 1995 to Commanding Officer, Southwest Division, Naval
Facilities Engineering Command, 1220 Pacific Highway, San Diego,
California 92132-5190, (Attn: Ms. Sheila Donovan, Code 2032), telephone
(619) 532-3624.
Dated: February 13, 1995.
Robert Watkins,
Colonel, USMC, Head, Land Use and Military Construction Branch,
Facilities and Services Division, Installations and Logistics
Department.
[FR Doc. 95-3983 Filed 2-16-95; 8:45 am]
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