[Federal Register: January 9, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 6)]
[Notices]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[ER-FRL-6647-3]
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 04, 2003 (68
FR 16511).
Draft EISs
ERP No. D-AFS-J65396-WY Rating EC2, Wyoming Range Allotment
Complex, To Determine Whether or not to Allow Domestic Sheep Grazing,
Bridger-Teton National Forest, Big Piney, Greys River and Jackson
Ranger Districts, Sublette, Lincoln and Teton Counties, WY.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns regarding adverse
impacts to water quality and aquatic habitat from mass erosion from
grazing. The final EIS should include information on sediment loading,
ground cover, native trout populations, percent fines in stream beds,
mass erosion sites and gullies.
ERP No. D-AFS-K65263-CA Rating EC2, Meteor Project, Proposal for
Harvesting Timber and Conducting Associated Activities on 744 Acres,
Implementation, Klamath National Forest, Salmon River Ranger District,
Siskiyou County, CA.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns regarding potential
impacts to air and water quality. The final EIS should include specific
information on project impacts related to air quality standards, types
of dewatering methods and impacts to the aquatic habitat and
consideration of reasonably foreseeable actions in the cumulative
impacts analysis.
ERP No. D-NPS-F65043-MI Rating LO, Pictured Rocks National
Lakeshore,
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General Management Plan and Wilderness Study, Implementation, Lake
Superior, Munising and Grand Marais, Alger County, MI.
Summary: EPA expressed lack of objections with the preferred
alternative.
Final EISs
ERP No. F-AFS-F65036-WI Hoffman-Sailor West Project, Timber
Harvest, Regeneration Activities, Connected Road Construction and
Decommissioning, Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Medford/Park
Falls Ranger District, Price County, WI.
Summary: EPA's concerns with beavers and forest tent caterpillars
were resolved in the FEIS. However, EPA continues to have environmental
concerns regarding the impact of white-tailed deer on forest ecosystem
health. EPA suggested additional monitoring focusing on the impacts of
deer browsing potentially sensitive vegetation in the project area.
ERP No. F-AFS-F65042-WI Sunken Moose Project, Proposal to Restore
and/or Maintain the Red and White Pine Communities, Washurn Ranger
District, Chequamegon-Nicolet Forest, Bayfield County, WI.
Summary: EPA continues to believe that the cumulative impacts
analysis should consider future thinning projects. EPA believes that a
comparative impacts analysis regarding Non-Native invasive Species
among the different alternatives would be helpful in determining future
Best Management Practices and should be considered in other similar
projects.
ERP No. F-AFS-K61157-CA Interface Recreation Trails Project,
Recreation Route System Development, Implementation, Stanislaus
National Forest, Calaveras Ranger District, Calaveras County, CA.
Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
ERP No. F-AFS-K65252-CA Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-
wave Astronomy (CARMA) Project, Construction, Reconstruction and
Operation of 23 Antennas at the Juniper Flat Site, Special-Use-Permit
Issuance, Inyo Mountain, Inyo National Forest, Inyo County, CA.
Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
ERP No. F-AFS-K65258-CA Emigrant Wilderness Dams Project,
Reconstruct, Repair, Maintain and Operate 12 Dams; Snow, Bigelow,
Huckleberry, Emigrant Meadow, Middle Emigrant, Emigrant, Leighton,
Long, Lower Buck, Y-Meadow and Bear, Stanislaus National Forest, Summer
Ranger District, Tuolumne County, CA.
Summary: The Final EIS adequately addressed EPA's major concerns
regarding the potential impacts to wilderness, air and water quality
and wildlife.
ERP No. F-AFS-L65434-WA Crupina Integrated Weed Management Project,
Control and Eradication of Crupina, Implementation, Okanogan and
Wenatchee National Forests, Chelan Ranger District, Chelan County, WA.
Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
ERP No. F-BOP-K80042-CA Lompoc United States Penitentiary (UPS)
Construction and Operation of a New High-Security Facility and
Ancillary Structures on One of Three Sites located in the City of
Lopmoc, Funding, Santa Barbara County, CA.
Summary: EPA's previous issues have been resolved, therefore, EPA
has no objections to the action as proposed.
ERP No. F-NPS-K65365-AZ Navajo National Monument, General
Management Plan and Development Concept Plan, Implementation, Navajo
Counties, AZ.
Summary: EPA expressed a lack of objections to this project.
Dated: January 6, 2004.
Ken Mittelholtz,
Environmental Specialist, Office of Federal Activities.
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