[Federal Register: August 5, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 150)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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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 the Federal Register dated
April 1, 2005 (70 FR 16815).
Draft EISs
EIS No. 20050072, ERP No. D-FHW-K40256-CA, 1st Street Viaduct and
Street Widening Project, To Replace Two Traffic Lanes on the 1st Street
Viaduct between Vignes Street and Mission Road, Funding, in the City
and County of Los Angeles, CA.
Summary: EPA has environmental concerns about the proposed project
is air quality impacts.
EPA is also concerned about the potential for similar
transportation projects in the project vicinity, and requests a broader
environmental justice analysis.
Rating EC2.
EIS No. 20050126, ERP No. D-COE-K36142-CA, Programmatic--San Luis
Obispo Creek Watershed, Waterway Management Plan, Stream Maintenance
and Management Plan, City of San Luis Obispo and County of San Luis
Obispo, Community of Avila Beach, San Luis Obispo County, CA.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about the project's
potential impacts to water quality, endangered species and habitat, and
possible presence of asbestos.
Rating EC2.
EIS No. 20050173, ERP No. D-NRC-E06024-MS, Grand Gulf Early Site
Permit (ESP) Site, Construction and Operation, Issuance of an Early
Site Permit (ESP), NUREG-1817, Claiborne County, MS.
Summary: EPA expressed concerns about wetlands and aquifer impacts,
environmental justice, and public health and requested clarification of
the regulatory limits for offsite releases of radio nuclides for the
current candidate repository site.
Rating EC2.
EIS No. 20050195, ERP No. D-BLM-K39093-NV, North Valleys Right-of-
Way Projects, Proposed Construction and Operation of Water Transmission
Pipelines, Washoe County, NV.
Summary: EPA expressed concerns about cumulative and indirect
impacts of the project on water, air, and biological resources. EPA
recommended the FEIS address the potential impacts of exporting as much
as 13,000 acre-feet/year from Fish Springs Ranch, the indirect impacts
of growth in the water service area, and mitigation measures to
minimize impacts.
Rating EC2.
EIS No. 20050200, ERP No. D-AFS-K65284-CA, Creeks Forest Health
Recovery Project, To Develop a Network of Defensible Fuel Profile Zones
(DFPZs), Group-Selection Timber Harvest, Individual Tree Selection,
Lassen National Forest, Almanor Ranger District, Plumas County, CA.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about water and air
quality impacts, environmental justice impacts, and consultation with
tribal governments.
Rating EC2.
EIS No. 20050231, ERP No. D-AFS-J65444-MT, Gallatin National
Forest, Proposed Travel Management Plan, Implementation, Forest Land
and Resource Management, Madison, Gallatin, Park, Meagher, Sweetgrass
and Carbon Counties, MT.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about potential
impacts to water quality, aquatic habitat and fisheries, and wildlife
from road erosion and motorized use, and suggested that the preferred
alternative consider further reducing sedimentation from roads, close
or restore poorly maintained roads and restrict new road construction.
Rating EC2.
Final EISs
EIS No. 20050132, ERP No. F-BLM-K70009-CA, West Mojave Plan, Habitat
Conservation Plan and Federal Land Use Plan Amendment, Implementation,
California Desert Conservation Area, Portion of San Bernardino, Kern,
Inyo, and Los Angeles Counties, CA.
Summary: While EPA has no objections to the proposed action, it
suggests the establishment of vehicle use quarantine areas to alleviate
stresses in high tortoise density areas during prolonged drought, and
the use of Level 1 best management practices in tortoise survey areas
outside of Desert Wildlife Management Areas.
EIS No. 20050156, ERP No. F-IBR-K39089-CA, Folsom Dam Road Access
Restriction Project, Control Access to Folsom Dam, City of Folsom, CA.
Summary: EPA expressed continued concerns that changes in traffic
patterns caused by the access restriction may indirectly result in
localized air quality and environmental justice impacts.
EIS No. 20050215, ERP No. F-AFS-K65265-AZ, Bar T Bar Anderson Springs
Allotment Management Plans to Authorize Permitted Livestock Grazing for
a 10-Year Period, Coconino National Forest, Mogollon Rim and Mormon
Lake Ranger District, Coconino County, AZ.
Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
EIS No. 20050241, ERP No. F-BLM-A65174-00, Programmatic--Proposed
Revision to Grazing Regulations for the Public Lands, 42 CFR part 4100,
in the Western Portion of the United States.
Summary: EPA continues to express environmental concerns about the
potential for adverse impacts to water quality, and recommended that
monitoring data be collected at both watershed and smaller unit levels
and that BLM further define range readiness.
EIS No. 20050242, ERP No. F-FRC-G03025-TX, Ingleside Energy Center
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Import Terminal and San Patricio Pipeline
Natural Gas Pipeline, Authorization to Construct, Install and Operate,
San Patricio and Nueces Counties, TX.
Summary: EPA's previous issues have been resolved; therefore, EPA
has no objection to the proposed action.
EIS No. 20050246, ERP No. F-COE-H11005-NE, Cornhusker Army Ammunition
Plant (CHAAP) Land Disposal Industrial Tracts, Proposed Disposal and
Reuse of Tracts 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 47, 61, 62, Hall County, NE.
Summary: EPA has no objection to the action as proposed.
EIS No. 20050265, ERP No. F-NPS-K65276-AZ, Chiricahua National Monument
Fire Management Plan (FMP), Implementation, AZ.
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Summary: EPA has no objections to the proposed project.
EIS No. 20050254, ERP No. FS-NOA-C91004-00, Amendment to the Fishery
Management Plans (FMPs), Amendment 2 for the Spiny Lobster Fishery;
Amendment 1 for the Queen Conch Resources; Amendment 3 for the Reef
Fish Fishery; Amendment 2 Corals and Reef Associated Invertebrates,
U.S. Caribbean to Address Required Provisions MSFCMA, Puerto Rico and
the U.S. Virgin Island.
Summary: EPA has no objections to the proposed project.
Dated: August 2, 2005.
Robert W. Hargrove,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
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