[Federal Register: May 20, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 97)]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. 05-002-1]
Interstate Movement of Garbage From Hawaii; Availability of an
Environmental Assessment
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of availability and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: We are advising the public that the Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service has prepared an environmental assessment relative to
a request to allow the interstate movement of garbage from Hawaii. The
document contains a general assessment of the potential environmental
effects associated with moving garbage interstate from Hawaii to the
mainland United States subject to certain pest risk mitigation
measures. The environmental assessment documents our review and
analysis of environmental impacts associated with, and alternatives to,
the proposed action. We are making this environmental assessment
available to the public for review and comment.
DATES: We will consider all comments that we receive on or before June
20, 2005.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either of the following methods:
EDOCKET: Go to http://www.epa.gov/feddocket to submit or
view public comments, access the index listing of the contents of the
official public docket, and to access those documents in the public
docket that are available electronically. Once you have entered
EDOCKET, click on the ``View Open APHIS Dockets'' link to locate this
document.
Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: Please send four copies
of your comment (an original and three copies) to Docket No. 05-002-1,
Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 3C71, 4700
River Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737-1238. Please state that your
comment refers to Docket No. 05-002-1.
Reading Room: You may read any comments that we receive on the
environmental assessment in our reading room. The reading room is
located in room 1141 of the USDA South Building, 14th Street and
Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC. Normal reading room hours are
8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays. To be sure
someone is there to help you, please call (202) 690-2817 before coming.
Other Information: You may view APHIS documents published in the
Federal Register and related information on the Internet at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppd/rad/webrepor.html
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Susan Dublinski, Import
Specialist, Permits, Registrations, and Imports, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River
Road, Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737-1236; (301) 734-8758.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The importation and interstate movement of garbage is regulated by
the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under 7 CFR
330.400 and 9 CFR 94.5 (referred to below as the regulations) in order
to protect against the introduction into and dissemination within the
United States of plant and animal pests and diseases.
APHIS is advising the public that we have prepared an environmental
assessment relative to a request to allow the interstate movement of
garbage from Hawaii to the mainland United States. The environmental
assessment, titled ``Movement of Plastic-Baled Municipal Solid Waste
from Hawaii to the Continental United States (May 2005)'' examines the
potential environmental effects associated with moving garbage
interstate from Hawaii to the continental United States subject to
certain pest risk mitigation measures. The environmental assessment
documents our review and analysis of environmental impacts associated
with, and alternatives to, the proposed action. We are making this
environmental assessment available to the public for review and
comment. We will consider all comments that we receive on or before the
date listed under the heading DATES at the beginning of this notice.
The environmental assessment may be viewed on the Internet on the
EDOCKET Web site (see ADDRESSES above for instructions for accessing
EDOCKET) or on the APHIS Web site at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/enviro_docs/index.html.
You may request paper copies of the
environmental assessment by calling or writing to the person listed
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Please refer to the title of the
environmental assessment when requesting copies. The environmental
assessment is also available for review in our reading room
(information on the location and hours of the reading room is listed
under the heading ADDRESSES at the beginning of this notice).
The environmental assessment has been prepared in accordance with:
(1) The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), as amended
(42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), (2) regulations of the Council on
Environmental Quality for implementing the procedural provisions of
NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500-1508), (3) USDA regulations implementing NEPA
(7 CFR part 1), and (4) APHIS' NEPA Implementing Procedures (7 CFR part
372).
Done in Washington, DC, this 16th day of May 2005.
Kevin Shea,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 05-10101 Filed 5-19-05; 8:45 am]
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