[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 171 (Friday, September 3, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53914-53915]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-20143]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[ER-FRL-6655-4]
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 2, 2004 (69 FR 17403).
Draft EISs
ERP No. D-FTA-J54001-UT Rating EC2, Weber County to Salt Lake City
Commuter Rail Project, Proposes a Commuter Rail Transit Service with
Nine Stations between Salt Lake City and Peasant View, Funding, Weber,
Davis and Salt Lake Counties, UT.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns because the draft
EIS: does not analyze a full range of alternatives; does not disclose
enough of the CWA Section 404 process, but defers the process until
later; does not disclose the effects of additional diesel emissions
from locomotives on air quality; and does not disclose mitigation for
the preferred alternative, particularly for wetlands, riparian woodland
and air quality impacts from construction.
ERP No. D-NOA-E91015-00 Rating LO, Reef Fish Fishery Management
Plan (FMP) Amendment 23, To Set Vermilion Snapper Sustainable Fisheries
Act Targets and Thresholds and to Establish a Plan to End Overfishing
and Rebuild the Stock, Implementation, Gulf of Mexico.
Summary: EPA has no objections to the proposed action.
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ERP No. DS-BLM-K60105-CA Rating EC2, U.S. Army National Training
Center, Proposed Addition of Maneuver Training Land at Fort Irwin,
Implementation, San Bernardino County, CA.
Summary: EPA raised environmental concerns regarding impacts and
mitigation for construction-related air emission, and properly
reporting the release of oil or a hazardous substance into the
environment.
ERP No. DS-NOA-A91063-00 Rating LO, Monkfish Fishery Management
Plan (FMP) Amendment 2, Implementation, Updated and Additional
Information, New England and Mid-Atlantic Coast.
Summary: EPA has no objections to the proposed action.
Final EISs
ERP No. F-AFS-J65414-UT, State of Utah School and Institutional
Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) Access Route on East Mountain,
National Forest System Lands Administered by Mantila Sal National
Forest, Ferron/Price Ranger District, Emery Counties, UT.
Summary: EPA continues to express environmental concerns with the
potential for adverse impacts to water quality, soils and fish and
wildlife, from the logging, exploratory wells and coal exploration as
proposed in the selected alternative.
ERP No. F-AFS-L65443-OR, Biscuit Fire Recovery Project, Various
Management Activities Alternatives, Implementation, The Rogue River and
Siskiyou National Forests, Josephine and Curry Counties, OR.
Summary: EPA continues to express the following environmental
concerns: (1) Potential adverse impacts to large-scale postfire logging
on sediment loads to impaired streams; (2) detrimental effects to key
watersheds; (3) loss of large woody debris to streams; and (4) adverse
effects on riparian habitat and inventoried roadless areas.
ERP No. F-BIA-J60021-UT, Tekoi Balefill Project on the Skull Valley
Band of Goshute Indians Reservation, Approval of Long-Term Lease of
Indian Land for a Commercial Solid Waste Disposal Facility, Salt Lake
City, Tooele County, UT.
Summary: EPA continues to have concerns regarding the Tribe's
oversight and regulation of the landfill to ensure that environmental
impacts are controlled and/or mitigated.
ERP No. F-DOE-L91018-OR, Northeast Oregon Hatchery Program, Grande
Ronde--Imnaha Spring Chinook Hatchery Modification and Modernization of
Two Existing Hatchery Facilities and Construction of Three New
Auxiliary Hatchery Facilities, Wallowa County, OR.
Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
ERP No. F-NOA-E91014-00, Generic Essential Fish Habitat Amendment
to the Fishery Management Plans of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) for Shrimp,
Red Drum, Reef Fish, Stone Crab, Coral and Coral Reef and Spiny Lobster
Fisheries, Implementation, GOM and South Atlantic Coastal Migratory
Pelagic Resources of the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic.
Summary: EPA supported the NOAA Fisheries designation of EFH for
the subject fisheries and suggested strategies to reduce the
administrative burden of consultations of EFH designation.
ERP No. F-NOA-L91017-00, Programmatic EIS--Pacific Salmon Fisheries
Management Plan, Off the Coasts of Southeast Alaska, Washington, Oregon
and California, and the Columbia River Basin, Implementation, Magnuson-
Stevens Act, AK, WA, OR and CA.
Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
ERP No. F-NOA-L91023-00, Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery
Management Plan, Amendment 16-3 Adopts Rebuild Plans for Bocaccio,
Cowcod, Widow Rockfish and Yelloweye Rockfish, Maximum Sustainable
Yield (MSY), Implementation, WA, OR, ID and CA.
Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
ERP No. FB-NOA-A91065-00, Final Rule to Implement Management
Measures for the Reduction of Sea Turtle Bycatch and Bycatch Mortality
in the Atlantic Pelagic Longline Fishery.
Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
Dated: August 31, 2004.
Robert W. Hargrove,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
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