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[Federal Register: May 6, 1994]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

[Docket No. 92-190-4]

Animal Damage Control Program; Availability of the Final 
Environmental Impact Statement

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: We are advising the public that the Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service has prepared a final environmental impact statement 
for the Animal Damage Control program. The final environmental impact 
statement addresses the function, methods of operation, locations, and 
the biological, sociocultural, economic, and physical impacts of 
reasonable alternatives for the agency's Animal Damage Control program.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the final environmental impact statement are 
available for review between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through 
Friday, except holidays, at the following locations:

APHIS Reading Room, room 1141, South Building, 14th Street and 
Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250;
Operational Support Staff, Animal Damage Control, APHIS, USDA, room 
819, Federal Building, 6505 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782;
Eastern Regional Office, Animal Damage Control, APHIS, USDA, Suite 370, 
7000 Executive Center Drive, Brentwood, TN 37027;
Denver Wildlife Research Center, Building 16, Denver Federal Center, 
Denver, CO 80225;
Western Regional Office, Animal Damage Control, APHIS, USDA, 12345 W. 
Alameda Parkway, suite 313, Lakewood, CO 80228.

    Interested persons may obtain a copy of the final environmental 
impact statement by writing to Richard L. Wadleigh at the address 
listed below under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Richard L. Wadleigh, Environmental 
Management Staff Officer, Animal Damage Control, APHIS, USDA, room 819, 
Federal Building, 6505 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782, (301) 436-
8281.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    Animal Damage Control (ADC) of the Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in 
cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management of the U.S. Department 
of the Interior, and the Forest Service of the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture, has prepared a final environmental impact statement (EIS) 
for the ADC program. Copies of this document were filed with the 
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on April 26, 1994, pursuant to 
section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 
U.S.C. 4332(2)(c)), and the EPA Notice of Availability appeared in the 
Federal Register on May 6, 1994.
    On January 14, 1993 (58 FR 4404-4405, Docket No. 92-190-1), we 
published a notice of intent to make available a supplement to the 
draft EIS for the ADC program. The draft EIS, made available on June 
18, 1990 (55 FR 24597-24598, Docket No. 90-099), evaluated 
environmental impacts associated with wildlife damage control 
activities. On February 12, 1993, we
published in the Federal Register (58 FR 8252, Docket No. 92-190-2) a 
notice advising the public that the supplement to the draft EIS for the 
ADC program was available for public review and comment. Comments were 
due on or before March 29, 1993.
    Because of the size and complexity of the supplement to the draft 
EIS, and in response to a number of requests, on March 29, 1993, we 
published in the Federal Register (58 FR 16520, Docket No. 92-190-3) a 
notice advising the public that we were extending the comment period 
until April 28, 1993.
    By close of business April 28, 1993, we had received 1,493 comments 
on the draft EIS and its supplement. Based on suggestions and 
information offered in the comments, we have revised the draft EIS and 
its supplement, and have produced a final EIS.
    This notice is issued in accordance with: (1) The National 
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) (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 1b), and (4) APHIS Guidelines 
Implementing NEPA (44 FR 50381-50384, August 28, 1979, and 44 FR 51272-
51274, August 31, 1979).

    Done in Washington, DC, this 28th day of April 1994.
Lonnie J. King,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 94-10669 Filed 5-5-94; 8:45 am]
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