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Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of EPA Comments

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 [Federal Register: January 12, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 8)]
[Notices]
[Page 1512]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[ER-FRL-6683-1]

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. 20060292, ERP No. D-SFW-K99035-CA, Orange County Southern
Subregion Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP), Implementation, Application
for and Incidental Take Permit, Orange County, CA.

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about air quality
impacts and water-related issues.
    Rating EC2.

EIS No. 20060423, ERP No. D-MMS-L02033-AK, Chukchi Sea Planning Area
Oil and Gas Lease Sale 193 and Seismic Surveying Activities, Offshore
Marine Environment, Chukchi Sea Coastal Plain, and the North Slope
Borough of Alaska.

    Summary: EPA expressed concerns about environmental justice issues
due to adverse effects from multiple, overlapping and fast-tracked
development planning processes on local residents and tribes, and
requested additional information on human health impacts due to
increased oil and gas development. EPA also requested further
evaluation of oil spill risk to biological and subsistence resources.
    Rating EC2.

EIS No. 20060444, ERP No. D-COE-K36055-CA, San Luis Rey Flood Control
Project, Operation and Maintenance of the Vegetation and Sediment
Management, from College Blvd to the Pacific Ocean, San Diego County, CA.

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about the potential
impacts to waters of the U.S., including wetlands and riparian habitat.
EPA recommended evaluation of alternatives that do not propose fill in
waters of the U.S., and requested additional analysis to demonstrate
compliance with the Clean Water Act Section 404(b)(1) Guidelines.
    Rating EC2.

EIS No. 20060480, ERP No. D-BIA-C60006-NY, Oneida Nation of New York
Conveyance of Lands into Trust, Proposes to Transfer 17,370 Acre of Fee
Land into Federal Trust Status, Oneida, Madison and New York Counties, NY.

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about potential
impacts in alternative B associated with the phased acquisition of an
additional 17,630 acres.
    Rating EC2.

Final EISs

EIS No. 20060482, ERP No. F-FRC-L05234-WA, Priest Rapids Hydroelectric
Project, FERC Project #2114-116 Relicensing Application for New
License, Columbia River, Grant, Yakima, Kittitas, Douglas, Benton, and
Chelan Counties, WA.

    Summary: EPA continues to have concerns about the proposed
project's potential impacts to water quality due to total dissolved gas
and temperature exceedances, and recommended that accountability
measures be incorporated into the Clean Water Act Section 401
certification requirements and monitoring plan.

EIS No. 20060485, ERP No. F-NOA-A91072-00, PROGRAMMATIC--Codified
Regulations at 50 CFR 300 Subparts A and G Implementing Conservation
and Management Measures Adopted by the Commission for the Conservation
of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.
    Summary: EPA does not object to the proposed action as described in
the FEIS.

EIS No. 20060492, ERP No. F-BIA-L61230-OR, Coyote Business Park,
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Proposes to
Develop, Build and Manage a Light Industrial Commercial Business Park,
Umatilla County, OR.

    Summary: EPA's previous concerns have been addressed; therefore,
EPA does not object to the proposed action.

    Dated: January 9, 2007.
Robert W. Hargrove,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
[FR Doc. E7-345 Filed 1-11-07; 8:45 am]
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