[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 167 (Friday, August 28, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46015-46016]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-23245]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[ER-FRL-5494-9]
Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of
EPA Comments
Availability of EPA comments prepared July 27, 1998 Through July
31, 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)
260-5076. An explanation of the ratings assigned to draft environmental
impact statements (EISs) was published in FR dated April 10, 1998 (62
FR 17856).
Draft EISs
ERP No. D-AFS-J60017-CO
Rating EO2, Fraser Valley Loop Transmission Line Project,
Construction, Operation, Associated Operations and Maintenance
Activities, Approval of Permits, Arapaho and Roosevelt National
Forests, Grand County, CO.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental objections to the proposed
action based on potential adverse impacts to wildlife and inadequate
impact analysis.
Summary: ERP No. D-AFS-J65251-CO Rating LO, Arapaho and Roosevelt
National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland, Implementation, Land
and Resource Management Plan, Boulder, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Grand,
Larimer and Weld Counties, CO.
Summary: EPA expressed a lack of objections to the proposed action
as currently formulated in the DEIS.
ERP No. D-AFS-L61220-OR
Rating EC2, Christy Basin Planning Area, Implementation,
Regeneration Timber Harvesting, Willamette National Forest, Oakridge
Ranger District, Lane County, OR.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns with the proposed
action due to potential impact to water quality, habitat fragmentation
(incidental take of spotted owl habitat) and air quality impacts. EPA
suggests the final EIS address source water assessment and protection
and air quality impacts.
ERP No. D-AFS-L65303-WA
Rating EC1, I-90 Land Exchange between Forest Service and Plum
Creek, within the Vicinity of the Wenatchee,
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Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie and Gifford Pinchot National Forests, Kittitas,
King, Pierce, Lewis and Cowlitz and Skamania Counties, WA.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns relating to adverse
cumulative impacts to the Green River watershed resulting in the
reduction of old growth and loss of critical habitat for marbled
murrelet.
ERP No. D-COE-C39011-NJ
Rating EC2, Brigantine Inlet to Great Egg Harbor Inlet Feasibility
Study, Storm Damage Reduction Project, New Jersey Shore Protection,
City of Brigantine, Brigantine Island, Along the Atlantic Coast, NJ.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns with the potential
cumulative impacts associated with this and the other erosion/storm
damage protection projects in New Jersey. EPA recommended that
additional information be presented in the final EIS to address this
issue.
ERP No. DC-COE-E36013-MS
Rating EC2, Mississippi River and Tributaries Flood Control Plan,
To Construct the Remaining portion of Mississippi river Mainline Levees
Enlargement and Seepage Control, Flood Protection and Damage Reduction,
Lower Mississippi River Valley, Cape Girardeau, MO, Il, KY, TN, AR and
MS.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns with the assumptions/
procedures used in determining overall project impacts and methods for
mitigatiing unavoidable losses of wetlands.
Dated: August 24, 1998.
William D. Dickerson,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
[FR Doc. 98-23245 Filed 8-27-98; 8:45 am]
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