[Federal Register: April 29, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 82)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[ER-FRL-6662-9]
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. 20050006, ERP No. D1-FHW-H40397-MO, Interstate 70 Corridor
Improvements, Section of Independent Utility 4, from Missouri
Route BB Interchange to Eastern Columbia, Funding, Boone County, MO.
Summary: EPA has no objections to the proposed project.
Rating LO
EIS No. 20040520, ERP No. D-DOE-J39033-UT, Moab Uranium Mill Trailings
Remediation, Proposal To Clean Up Surface Contamination and Implement a
Ground Water Strategy, Grand and San Juan Counties, UT.
Summary: EPA rated the on-site alternative environmentally
unsatisfactory because it would result in continuing exceedances of
water quality criteria and it may not provide long-term pile stability.
EPA has environmental objections to the White Mesa Mill site based on
potential inconsistency with Utah's ground water protection standards.
EPA has environmental concerns for the two other alternatives regarding
transportation of the tailings to the site and cap design.
Rating EU2
EIS No. 20040569, ERP No. D-NRC-D03004-VA, Early Site Permit (ESP at
the North Anna Power Station ESP Site (TAC No. MC1128), Construction
and Operation, NUREG-1811, Louisa County, VA.
Summary: EPA has environmental concerns based on the lack of
information on wetland and stream impacts, the impact on the water
resource and the affects on the downstream communities.
Rating EC2
EIS No. 20050018, ERP No. D-FAA-F51050-IL, O'Hare Modernization
Program, Proposes Major Development, Chicago O'Hare International
Airport, Airport Layout Plan (ALP), Federal Funding, U.S. Army COE
Section 404 Permit, City of Chicago, IL.
Summary: EPA expressed concerns related to air quality (criteria
pollutants and hazardous air pollutants), wetlands, stormwater, noise,
and environmental justice. EPA recommended additional analysis for air
(general conformity and fine particulate matter (PM2.5)), noise
mitigation options, and environmental justice. EPA recommended that the
final EIS contain mitigation commitments for: increased mitigation
ratios for wooded wetlands, noise mitigation, specific air mitigation
measures targeting diesel emissions during construction and operation
and hazardous air pollutants associated with aircraft idling and
taxiing.
Rating EC2
EIS No. 20050021, ERP No. D-NRC-F06025-WI, GENERIC--License Renewal for
Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, Supplement 23 to NUREG-1437
(TAC Nos. MC2049 and MC2050), Lake Michigan,Manitowoc County, WI.
Summary: EPA has environmental concerns regarding the adequacy and
presentation of the radiological impacts and risk estimates and
entrainment of fish and shellfish. In addition, impacts to ground
water, especially with respect to on-site drinking water wells, are not
discussed.
Rating EC2
EIS No. 20050050, ERP No. D-COE-D39028-00, TIER 1-DEIS Baltimore Harbor
and Channel Dredged Material Management Plan (DMMP), To Analyze Dredged
Material Placement, Port of Baltimore, Chesapeake Bay, MD, PA, DE, WV,
VA, DC, and NY.
Summary: EPA had no objections to the ``no action'' alternative
(i.e., the continued use of Open Water Placement in Virginia and the
optimized use of existing dredged material management sites) and the
new Alternative proposing
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beneficial uses of dredged materials (i.e., wetlands restoration in
Dorchester County, MD). EPA expressed environmental concerns over the
remaining three alternatives (i.e., the proposed multiple new Confined
Disposal Facilities in the Patapsco River, the Poplar Island
Environmental Restoration Project expansion and the Large Island
Restoration Middle Bay). EPA recommended that continued use of Open
Water Placement in Virginia include the already designated NorfolkOcean
Disposal Site given its available capacity.
Rating EC1
EIS No. 20050053, ERP No. D-CGD-E03013-00, Compass Port and Deepwater
Port License Application, To Construct a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
Receiving, Storage and Regasification Facility, Proposed Offshore
Pipeline and Fabrication Site, NPDES Permit, U.S. Army COE Section 10
and 404 Permits, Mobile County, AL and San Patricio and Nueces County,
TX.
Summary: EPA expressed objections to the open loop re-gasification
system due to immediate and cumulative adverse impacts to eastern Gulf
waters and habitat. EPA requested additional information that is
necessary for the federal Prevention of Significant Deterioration and
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits required for
this Deep Water Port.
Rating EO2
EIS No. 20050082, ERP No. D-FRC-J03001-CO, Entrega Pipeline Project,
Construction and Operation New Interstate Natural Gas Pipeline System,
Right-of-Way Grant Issue by BLM, Meeker Hub and Cheyenne Hub, Rio
Blanco and Weld Counties, CO, and Sweetwater County, WY.
Summary: EPA expressed concerns regarding the environmental impacts
of additional natural gas development in the Piceance and Uinta basins
to wildlife, water and air quality. EPA also recommended that other
connected actions to the project and other projects that will be
induced by the new pipeline be reviewed in the EIS.
Rating EC2
EIS No. 20050091, ERP No. D-FRC-G03026-00, Golden Pass Liquefied
Natural Gas (LNG) Import Terminal and Natural Gas Pipeline Facilities,
Construction and Operation, Jefferson, Orange, Newton Counties, TX and
Calcasieu Parish, LA.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns and requested
additional information regarding alternatives, invasive species, air
quality impacts and Clean Air Act conformity.
Rating EC2.Final EISs
EIS No. 20050071, ERP No. F-FHW-F40394-MI, I-94/Rehabilitation Project,
Transportation Improvements to a 6.7 mile portion of I-94 from east I-
96 west and to Conner Avenue on the east end, Funding and NPDES Permit,
City of Detroit, Wayne County, MI.
Summary: EPA has no objections to the preferred alternative.
EIS No. 20050085, ERP No. F-FRC-K05060-CA, Stanislaus Rivers Projects,
Relicensing of Hydroelectric Projects: Spring Gap-Stanislaus FERC No.
2130; Beardsley/Donnells FERC No. 2005; Tulloch FERC No. 2067; and
Donnells-Curtis Transmission Line FERC No. 2118, Tuolumne and Calaveras
Counties, CA.
Summary: EPA has no objections to the project as proposed. In
response to comments from EPA, FERC clarified and provided additional
information on impacts to water and air quality, efforts to involve
tribal governments, and evaluation of environmental justice issues.
Dated: April 26, 2005.
Ken Mittelholtz,
Environmental Protection Specialist, Office of Federal Activities.
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