[Federal Register: October 9, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 195)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[ER-FRL-8598-2]
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 202-564-7146 or http://www.epa.gov/compliance/
nepa/.
An explanation of the ratings assigned to draft environmental
impact statements (EISs) was published in FR dated July 17, 2009 (74 FR
34754).
Draft EISs
EIS No. 20090038, ERP No. D-COE-K35045-CA, PROGRAMMATIC--Los Angeles
Regional Dredge Material Management Plan, Develop a Long-
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Term Strategy for Managing Dredged Sediment for all Harbors within the
Region, City of Long Beach and County of Los Angeles, CA.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about the need for
additional alternatives analysis; analysis of sediment management
options; and better evaluation of dredging methods. Rating EC2.
EIS No. 20090134, ERP No. D-COE-K65363-CA, Newhall Ranch Resource
Management and Development Plan (RMDP) and the Spineflower Conservation
Plan (SCP), Implementation, Portion of Santa Clara River Valley, Los
Angeles County, CA.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental objections to water quality
impacts to tributaries of the Santa Clara River, and expressed concerns
about impacts to air quality, traffic, and water supply. EPA
recommended the maximum avoidance alternative that reduces project
footprint and impacts and provided additional green building resources.
Rating EO2.
EIS No. 20090177, ERP No. D-AFS-K65366-CA, Lassen National Forest,
Motorized Travel Management Plan, Implementation, Butte, Lassen, Modoc,
Plumas, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama Counties, CA.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about the scope of
alternatives analysis, water resource impacts, decommissioning of
unauthorized routes, and monitoring and enforcement of travel
management requirements. Rating EC2.
EIS No. 20090232, ERP No. D-BIA-K60043-CA, Soboba Band of Luiseno
Indians Horseshoe Grande Fee-to-Trust Project, Construction of a Hotel
and Casino Project, City of San Jacinto, Riverside County, CA.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about potential
impacts to waters of the U.S. from the wastewater treatment percolation
pond, and recommended mitigation measures for construction equipment
emissions, pollution prevention measures to avoid soil contamination,
and commitments to green building design. Rating EC2.
EIS No. 20090254, ERP No. D-AFS-K65377-00, Bridgeport Travel Management
Project, To Provide the Primary Framework for Sustainable Management of
Motor Vehicle Use on the Bridgeport Ranger District, Humboldt-Toiyabe
National Forest, Mono County, CA and Lyon, Douglas, and Mineral
Counties, NV.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about the scope of
alternatives analysis, water resources, wet weather and seasonal
closures, erosion, decommissioning of unauthorized routes, climate
change, and monitoring and enforcement of travel management
requirements. Rating EC2.
EIS No. 20090266, ERP No. D-IBR-K39120-CA, Madera Irrigation District
Water Supply Enhancement Project, Constructing and Operating a Water
Bank on the Madera Property, Madera County, CA.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about the long-term
feasibility of this conjunctive use/water bank project given
increasingly constrained source water supplies, and potential
significant impacts to vernal pools, rare alkali rain pools, and
threatened and endangered species. Rating EC2.
EIS No. 20090273, ERP No. D-FSA-A65177-00, PROGRAMMATIC--Biomass Crop
Assistance Program (BCAP), To Establish and Administer the Program
Areas Program Component of BCAP as mandated in Title IX of the 2008
Farm Bill in the United States.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about potential
direct, indirect and cumulative impacts bioenergy crops will have on
water quality and air quality to waters of the U.S., and recommended a
monitoring program for the BCAP and subsequent individual projects.
Rating EC2.
EIS No. 20090280, ERP No. DS-FHW-E40768-TN, Shelby Avenue/Demonbreun
Street (Gateway Boulevard Corridor, from I-65 North [I-24 West] to I-40
West in Downtown Nashville, To Address Transportation needs in the
Study Area, Davidson County, TN.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about air toxic
impacts and requested that this issue be addressed. EPA also requested
that the document include appropriate mitigation. Rating EC2.
Final EISs
EIS No. 20090236, ERP No. F-FHW-K53013-CA, Orange County Gateway
Project, To Provide Grade Separation Alternative Along the Burlington
Northern Santa Fe railroad tracks from west of Bradford Avenue to west
of Imperial Highway (State Route 90), Cities of Placentia and Anaheim,
Orange County, CA.
Summary: EPA continues to have environmental concerns about impacts
to air quality and jurisdictional waters, as well as, cumulative
impacts and environmental justice impacts.
EIS No. 20090288, ERP No. F-COE-K39041-CA, Natomas Levee Improvement
Program, Phase 3 Landside Improvements Project, Issuance of Section 408
and 404 Permits, Sacramento and Sutter Counties, CA.
Summary: EPA continues to have environmental concerns about the
residual flood risk to development in a floodplain protected by levees,
and indirect and cumulative environmental effects. EPA recommended
Natomas Basin flood safety plan implementation prior to additional
development.
EIS No. 20090300, ERP No. F-NPS-K61169-AZ, Fire Management Plan,
Management of Wildland and Prescribed Fire, Protection of Human Life
and Property Restoration and Maintenance of Fire Dependent Ecosystems,
and Reduction of Hazardous Fuels, Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino
County, AZ.
Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
Dated: October 6, 2009.
Robert W. Hargrove,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
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