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Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of EPA Comments

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 [Federal Register: February 2, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 22)]
[Notices]
[Page 5048-5049]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[ER-FRL-6683-7]

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. 20060355, ERP No. D-MMS-A02244-00, Outer Continental Shelf Oil
& Gas Leasing Program: 2007-2012, Exploration and Development Offshore
Marine Environment and Coastal Counties of AL, AK, DE, FL, LA, MD, MS,
NJ, NC, TX and VA. Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about
cumulative impacts and mitigation. Rating EC2.
EIS No. 20060378, ERP No. D-NPS-A84030-00, Programmatic--Service-wide
Benefits Sharing Project, To Clarify the Rights and Responsibilities of
Researchers and National Park Service (NPS) Management in Connection
with the Use of Valuable Discoveries, Inventions, and Other
Developments, across the United States. Summary: EPA does not object to
the preferred alternative. Rating LO.
EIS No. 20060413, ERP No. D-FTA-E59003-FL, Programmatic--South Florida
East Coast Corridor Transit Analysis Study Tier 1, To Address
Transportation Demand, Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties, FL.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about the impacts to
aquatic resources (wetlands, streams, sole source aquifers, and aquatic
preserves), communities, archeological and historic properties, and
contaminated sites, and noise impacts. Rating EC2.
EIS No. 20060415, ERP No. D-USA-J11023-CO, Fort Carson Transformation
Program, Implementation, Base Realignment and Closure Activities, Fort
Carson, El Paso, Pueblo and Fremont Counties, CO. Summary: EPA
expressed environmental concerns about impacts to water quality, air
quality and biological resources, and requested additional information
on these impacts and mitigation measures to reduced impacts. Rating EC2.
EIS No. 20060437, ERP No. D-NRS-D36122-WV, Dunloup Creek Watershed
Plan, Voluntary Floodplain Buyout, Implementation, West Virginia Third
Congressional District, Fayette and Raleigh Counties, WV. Summary: EPA
does not object to the proposed action. Rating LO.
EIS No. 20060440, ERP No. D-GSA-D81037-VA, Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) Central Records Complex, Site Selection and
Construction, Winchester, Frederick County, VA. Summary: EPA expressed
environmental concern about potential water resource impacts. Rating EC1.
EIS No. 20060455, ERP No. D-WPA-K05063-AZ, San Luis Rio Colorado
Project, Construct, Operate, Maintain, and Connect a Double-Circuited
500,000-volt Electric Transmission Line, Right-of-Way Grant and
Presidential Permit, (DOE/EIS-0395) Yuma County, AZ. Summary: EPA does
not object to the proposed action. Rating LO.
EIS No. 20060475, ERP No. D-SFW-G64013-TX, Texas Chenier Plain

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National Wildlife Refuge Complex, Development of a 15-Year Management
Plan (Comprehensive Conservation Plan) for Refuge Complex, and
Expansion of the Approval Land Acquisition Boundaries (Land Protection
Plan) for the Four Refuges: Moody, Anahuac, McFaddin and Texas Point
National Wildlife Refuges, Chambers, Jefferson and Galveston Counties,
TX. Summary: EPA does not object to the preferred alternative. Rating LO.
EIS No. 20060478, ERP No. D-COE-K39102-CA, Success Dam Seismic
Remediation Dam Safety Project, Proposes To Remediate Deficiencies in
the Dam's Foundation, Tulare River, Tulare County, CA. Summary: EPA
expressed environmental concerns about impacts to air quality and
aquatic resources, and requested additional information on the
alternatives analysis and mitigation for impacts to water resources and
fisheries. Rating EC2.
EIS No. 20060494, ERP No. D-DOE-D09801-WV, Western Greenbier Co-
Production Demonstration Project, Construction and Demonstration of a
98 megawatt (MWe) Net Power Plant and Ash Byproduct Manufacturing
Facility, Rainelle, WV. Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns
about water resource impacts, coal refuse pile restoration activity,
and ash management. Rating EC2.
EIS No. 20060247, ERP No. DS-FTA-E40775-FL, Miami North Corridor
Project, Updated Information, Transit Improvement between NW 62 Street
at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Station and NW 215th Street at the Dade/
Broward Counties Line, Funding, Dade County, FL. Summary: EPA expressed
environmental concerns about noise and contamination impacts as well as
impacts related to relocations. In addition, EPA recommends that
mitigation measures be documented in the FEIS as project commitments.
Rating EC2.

Final EIS's

EIS No. 20060491, ERP No. F1-FHW-L40194-WA, WA-167 Freeway Project,
Construction, from 161 (Meridan Street North) in the City of Puyallup
to the WA-509 Freeway in the City of Tacoma, Funding, U.S. Coast Guard,
NPDES, U.S. Army COE Section 10 and 404 Permits, Cities of Puyallup,
Fife, Edgewood, Milton, and Tacoma, Pierce County, WA. Summary: EPA
continues to have environmental concerns about loss of prime farmland,
and impacts to listed fish species, water quality, and wildlife habitat
connectivity. EPA has further concerns about noise, air toxics, and
environmental justice and tribal issues.
EIS No. 20060433, ERP No. F-NOA-L91027-00, Pacific Coast Groundfish
Fishery Management Plan, Proposed Acceptable Biological Catch and
Optimum Yield Specifications and Management Measures for the 2007-2008
Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery and Amendment 16-4 Rebuilding Plans
for Seven Depleted Pacific Coast Groundfish Species, WA, OR and CA.
Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
EIS No. 20060487, ERP No. F-AFS-K65315-CA, South Yuba Canal Maintenance
Project, Hazardous Trees Removal, Implementation, Tahoe National
Forest, Nevada County, CA. Summary: No formal comment letter was sent
to the preparing agency.
EIS No. 20060489, ERP No. F-COE-F32198-00, Lock and Dam 3 Mississippi
River Navigation Safety and Embankments, To Reduce Related Navigation
Safety and Embankment Problems, Upper Mississippi River, Goodhue
County, MN and Pierce County, WI. Summary: EPA's original concerns
about proposed mitigation monitoring, water quality, and conclusions
with cumulative impact analysis have been adequately addressed;
therefore, we do not object to the proposed project.
EIS No. 20060504, ERP No. F-IBR-K39095-CA, South Delta Improvements
Program, To Improve Water Quality, Water Conveyance, and Fish Habitat
Conditions, Central Valley Project, U.S. Army COE Section 404 Permit,
South Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, Several Counties, CA.
Summary: EPA supports the staged decision-making process between Stage
1 physical construction and Stage 2 operational actions. EPA provided
recommendations for Stage 2 analyses, and urged undertaking a public
process to scope key issues for the Stage 2 document. EPA emphasized
the need to evaluate, and avoid, water quality impacts of gate
operations and analysis of alternatives that meet the basic project
purpose as part of the continuing Clean Water Act permitting process.
EIS No. 20060511, ERP No. F-DOE-G03030-00, Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Expansion, Site Selection of Five New Sites: Chacahoula and Clovelly,
in Lafourche Parish, LA; Burinsburg, Claiborne County, MS; Richton,
Perry County, MS; and Stratton Ridge, Brazoria County, TX and Existing
Site Bayou Choctaw, Iberville Parish, LA, West Hackberry, Cameron and
Calcasieu Parishes, LA; and Big Hill, Jefferson County, TX. Summary: No
formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
EIS No. 20060527, ERP No. F-AFS-F65065-WI, Long Rail Vegetation and
Transportation Management Project, Implementation, Eagle River-Florence
Ranger District, Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Florence and
Forest Counties, WI. Summary: The Final EIS addressed EPA's comments
relating to consistency with the Forest Management Plan; we support
continued monitoring of Regional Forester Sensitive Species as part of
the Forest's environmental management system. EPA does not object to
the proposed action.

    Dated: January 30, 2007.
Robert W. Hargrove,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
[FR Doc. E7-1728 Filed 2-1-07; 8:45 am]
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