Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of EPA Comments
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[Federal Register: September 8, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 174)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[ER-FRL-6679-1]
Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of
EPA Comments
Availability of EPA comments prepared 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 7, 2006 (71 FR 17845).
Draft EISs
EIS No. 20060138, ERP No. D-BLM-K65305-CA, United States Gypsum
Expansion/Modernization Project, Expand and Upgrade Plaster City Plant
to Increase Wallboard Production Capacity with Related Increases in
Water Supply, Right-of-Way Grant, Imperial County, CA.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about impacts to
watershed resources, including water quality and habitat, groundwater
quality and quantity, and air quality and that these impacts should be
avoided or mitigated. Rating EC2.
EIS No. 20060205, ERP No. D-AFS-D65036-PA, Allegheny National Forest,
Proposed Revised Land and Resource Management Plan, Implementation,
Elk, Forest, McKean, and Warren Counties, PA.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about potential
adverse impacts to water quality and aquatic and terrestrial resources.
Management activities of most concern include oil, gas, mineral
extraction, and associated infrastructure, especially roads. The final
EIS should further minimize impacts or include adequate mitigation
measures to reduce sedimentation, habitat loss and fragmentation.
Rating EC2.
EIS No. 20060258, ERP No. D-FRC-L05236-OR, Clackamas River
Hydroelectric Project, Application for Relicensing of a Existing 173
megawatt(MS) Project, (FERC No. 2195-011) Clackamas River Basin,
Clackamas County, OR.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about potential
exceedance of the temperature water quality standard and requested
additional information on dissolved oxygen in salmonid spawning and
rearing areas. Rating EC2.
Final EISs
EIS No. 20060254, ERP No. F-FHW-C40166-NY, Southtowns Connector/Buffalo
Outer Harbor Project, Improvements on the NY Route 5 Corridor from
Buffalo Skyway Bridge to NY Route 179, in the City of Buffalo, City of
Lackawanna and Town of Hamburg, Erie County, NY.
Summary: EPA does not object to the preferred alternative.
EIS No. 20060302, ERP No. F-NPS-E65077-FL, Fort King National Historic
Landmark, Special Resource Study, Implementation, Second Seminole War
Site, City of Ocala, Marion County, FL.
Summary: EPA does not object to the proposed project.
EIS No. 20060310, ERP No. F-IBR-G31003-NM, Long-Term Miscellaneous
Purposes Contract Abstract, To Use Carlsbad Project Water for Purposes
Other than Irrigation, Eddy County, NM.
Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
Dated: September 5, 2006.
Ken Mittelholtz,
Environmental Protection Specialist, Office of Federal Activities.
[FR Doc. E6-14887 Filed 9-7-06; 8:45 am]
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