[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 182 (Friday, September 19, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 49222]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-24980]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[ER-FRL-5484-5]
Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of
EPA Comments
Availability of EPA comments prepared August 18, 1997 Through
August 22, 1997 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
04, 1997 (62 FR 16154).
Draft EISs
ERP No. D-AFS-J65269-MT Rating EC2, Poorman Project,
Implementation, Harvesting and Road Construction, Helena National
Forest, Lincoln Ranger District, Lewis and Clark County MT.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about inadequate
analysis and disclosure of potential adverse impacts to air quality and
wetlands, and identified the need for a project water monitoring
program, and for TMDL development for Poorman Creek. Additional
information is needed to fully assess and mitigate all potential
environmental impacts of the management actions.
ERP No. D-AFS-J65271-MT Rating EC2, Jericho Salvage Timber Sale,
Implementation, Salvage Treatments and Temporary Road Construction,
Helena National Forest, Helena Ranger District, Powell County, MT.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about sediment
transport to area streams and the proposed reduction of streamside
buffer zone widths below INFISH recommended widths. EPA also expressed
concerns about the limited range of alternatives analyzed in the draft
EIS, and about insufficient analysis and disclosure of potential
adverse impacts to air quality and wetlands; and identified the need
for a project water monitoring program, and for TMDL development for
Telegraph Creek. Additional information is needed to fully assess and
mitigate all potential environmental impacts of the management actions.
ERP No. D-AFS-J65274-MT Rating EC2, Beaver Creek Ecosystem
Management Project and Associate Timber Sale, Implementation, Little
and Big Beaver Creek Drainage, Kootenai National Forest, Cabinet Ranger
District, Sanders County, MT.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about potential
adverse water quality, fisheries, wetlands, and wildlife impacts, and
the lack of analysis and disclosure of the monitoring plan to evaluate
impacts to aquatic and air resources. Additional information is needed
to fully assess and mitigate all potential environmental impacts of the
management actions.
ERP No. D-AFS-L65291-ID Rating EC2, Paradise Integrated Resource
Management Project, Implementation, To Commercial Thin and Timber
Salvage Harvest Boise National Forest, Mountain Home Ranger District,
Elmore County, ID.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns on the potential
impacts to water quality, impacts to the Rainbow Roadless Area, the
need for information to support modeling methodologies, the lack of
grazing impact evaluation and monitoring needs.
Final EISs
ERP No. F-AFS-J65266-MT, Tansy Ragwort Control Project,
Implementation, Little Wolf Fire Area, Flathead National Forest, Tally
Lake Ranger District, Flathead County, MT.
Summary: EPA supported control of the tansy ragwort weed
infestation, and expressed lack of objections.
ERP No. F-AFS-K61141-CA, Snowcreek Golf Course Expansion,
Construction and Operation, Special Use Permit, Inyo National Forest
System Lands, Mono County, CA.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about the approval of
a special use permit to expand a golf course onto Forest Service land
may result in impacts to wetlands in violation of the Clean Water Act,
and requested that the Forest Service delay issuing the special use
permit pending the completion of a federally-acceptable jurisdiction
delineation of ``waters of the United States.''
ERP No. F-AFS-K65197-CA, Canyons Analysis Area, Implementation,
Tahoe National Forest, Trucker Ranger District, Sierra and Nevada
Counties, CA.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns regarding to
construction of 1 mile OHV trail without appropriate NEPA analysis, and
requested that the Forest Service modify the Canyons Record of Decision
to eliminate this new construction or prepare an addendum to the
Canyons Final EIS disclosing the impacts associated with this
construction.
ERP No. F-AFS-K65270-CA, Damon Fire Salvage and Restoration
Project, Implementation, Modoc National Forest, Modoc County, CA.
Summary: Review of the Final EIS has been completed and the project
found to be satisfactory. No formal comment letter was sent to the
preparing agency.
ERP No. F-AFS-L65137-AK, Tongass Land Management Plan,
Implementation, Tongass National Forest, AK.
Summary: EPA provided no formal written comments. EPA had no
objection to the preferred alternative as described in the EIS.
ERP No. F-AFS-L65282-OR, Robinson-Scott Landscape Management
Project, Timber Harvest and other Vegetation Management, Willamette
National Forest, McKenzie Ranger District, Lane and Linn Counties, OR.
Summary: Review of the Final EIS was not deemed necessary. No
formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
ERP No. F-FTA-G54005-LA, Canal Streetcar Line Reintroduction, Canal
Street from the Mississippi River to the Cemeteries, with a Spur
Line to City Park, Funding, City of New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA.
Summary: Review of the Final EIS has been completed and the project
found to be satisfactory. No formal comment letter was sent to the
preparing agency.
Other
ERP No. LF-AFS-L61187-WA, Legislative EIS--Upper White Salmon River
Wild and Scenic River Study, Possible Designation, National Wild and
Scenic Rivers System, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Yakima Indian
Nation, Klickitat County, WA.
Summary: Review of the Final EIS has been completed and the project
found to be satisfactory. No formal comment letter was sent to the
preparing agency.
Dated: September 16, 1997.
William D. Dickerson,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
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