[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 49 (Friday, March 13, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12466-12467]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-6573]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[ER-FRL-5489-8]
Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of
EPA Comments
Availability of EPA comments prepared February 23, 1998 Through
February 27, 1998 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-E65050-MI Rating EC2, Porter Creek Recreational Lake
and Complex, Implementation, Homochitto National Forest, Homochitto
Ranger District, Franklin County, MI.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about loss of
floodplain resources and water quality problems from potential sewage
discharge.
ERP No. D-AFS-L65297-AK Rating EC2, Indian River Timber Sales(s)
Project, Implementation, Tongass National Forest, Chatham Area, Sitka
and Hoonah Ranger Districts, COE Section 10 and 404 Permit, NPDES and
Coast Guard Bridge Permit, Chichagof Island, AK.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns with mitigation
strategies and made recommendations for improving those strategies. EPA
recommended that all log transfer facilities be designed and operated
in a manner that allows for direct transfer of logs from land to barge.
EPA also recommended that the project area watershed analysis, dive
report and wetland delineation be included in the final EIS.
ERP No. D-FHW-C40142-NY Rating EC2, S-20/Broadway (Transit Road to
Lancaster East Village Line) Reconstruction, Funding, COE Section 10
and 404 Permit, in the Villages of Depew and Lancaster, Erie County,
NY.
Summary: EPA requested that the final EIS provide air quality
analysis which demonstrates that Phase II will conform to the state
implementation plan as well as a commitment to characterize and plan
for the disposal of contaminated waste. EPA also requests that the
final EIS address mitigation for adverse effects to historic or
cultural resources.
ERP No. D-FHW-K40229-HI Rating EO2, Saddle Road (HI-200)
Improvements between Mamalahoa Highway HI-190) to Milepost 6 near Hilo,
Funding, NPDES and COE Section 404 Permit, Hawaii County, HI.
Summary: EPA Region 9 raised environmental objections to the build
alternative. EPA suggested that other alternatives be examined and
raised concerns with the alternatives analysis, impacts to water
resources, and indirect and cumulative effects of the project.
ERP No. D-USA-C11014-NY Rating EC2, Seneca Army Depot Activity
Disposal and Reuse, Implementation, Seneca County and the City of
Geneva, Ontario County, NY.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about ground water
contamination remediation, and impacts to wetlands and cultural
resources.
ERP No. D-USA-E11042-AL Rating EC2, Fort McClellen (Main Post)
Disposal and Reuse, Implementation, Calhoun, Cleburne, Randolph, Clay,
Talledega, St. Clair, Etowah and Cherokee Counties, AL.
Summary: EPA has environmental concerns with the preferred
alternative based on the unknowns associated with its potential
environmental impacts. Additional information will need to be developed
to determine the actual long-term consequences of this more intensive
reuse option.
ERP No. D-USN-K11083-CA Rating EC2, Hunters Point (Former) Naval
Shipyard Disposal and Reuse, Implementation, City of San Francisco, San
Francisco County, CA.
SUMMARY: EPA requested additional information on project
description, alternatives land use compatibility, air quality
cumulative impacts, hazardous wastes and environmental justice
analysis. In particular, we are concerned by a general lack of
specificity in the draft EIS/EIR.
ERP No. D-USN-K11086-CA Rating EC2, US Pacific Fleet F/A 18 E/F
Aircraft for Development of Facilities to Support Basing on the West
Coast of the United States, Possible Installations are (1) Lemoore
Naval Air Station and (2) El Centro Naval Air Facility, Fresno, King
and Imperial Counties, CA.
SUMMARY: EPA expressed environmental concerns that the proposed
project and DEIS was developed without consideration of Executives
Orders that require pollution prevention, energy efficiency, water
conservation, hazardous waste minimization, and solid waste reduction
and recycling. EPA expressed concerns that air mitigation measures
required under EPA's general conformity rule are conceptual in nature
and lack definitiveness.
ERP No. DA-FHW-L40049-OR Rating EC2, West 11th Avenue--Garfield
Street (West Eugene Parkway) Highway Project, Florence--Eugene Highway
(OR-126) New Alignment, Comparison of the Originally Approved Design
and a New Modified Design, Funding, Lane County, OR.
SUMMARY: EPA expressed environmental concerns regarding alternative
analysis and their rejection since it appeared some had reduced
environmental impacts especially to rare wet prairie meadows. Also,
there is insufficient information to determine whether the design of
wildlife crossings proposed for mitigation will accommodate all species
frequenting the area.
Final EISs
ERP No. F-CGD-C50012-00 Staten Island Bridges Program--
Modernization and Capacity Enhancement Project, Construction and
Operation, Funding, Right-of-Way Grant, COE Section 404 Permit and
NPDES Permit, Staten Island, NY and Elizabeth, NJ.
SUMMARY: Based on EPA review of the final EIS, and with the
understanding that EPA will continue to provide input to the
interagency mitigation group regarding pending
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wetland mitigation issues, and that the stages IB cultural resource
survey will be completed. EPA's concerns have been adequately
addressed. EPA have concluded that the proposed project would not
result in significant adverse environmental impacts; therefore, EPA has
no objections to its implementation.
ERP No. F-DOE-C06013-NY Disposal of the Defueled S3G and D1G
Prototype Reactor Plants, Implementation, Located at the Knolls Atomic
Power Laboratory Kesselring Site near West Milton, Saratoga County, NY.
SUMMARY: EPA had no objections to the implementation of the
proposed project.
ERP No. F-USN-K11077-CA Novato, California Department of Defense
Housing Facility Disposal and Reuse, Implementation, City of Novato,
Marin County, CA.
SUMMARY: EPA express environmental concern about the draft EIS,
which include requests for information regarding project description,
cumulative impacts water and wetlands, air quality and cultural
resources protection, are generally addressed in the Final EIS. EPA
asks the Navy to better use the no-action baseline in its impacts
analysis.
Dated: March 10, 1998.
William D. Dickerson,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
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