[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 167 (Friday, August 28, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46015-46016]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-23245]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-5494-9]


Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of 
EPA Comments

    Availability of EPA comments prepared July 27, 1998 Through July 
31, 1998 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) 
260-5076. An explanation of the ratings assigned to draft environmental 
impact statements (EISs) was published in FR dated April 10, 1998 (62 
FR 17856).

Draft EISs

ERP No. D-AFS-J60017-CO

    Rating EO2, Fraser Valley Loop Transmission Line Project, 
Construction, Operation, Associated Operations and Maintenance 
Activities, Approval of Permits, Arapaho and Roosevelt National 
Forests, Grand County, CO.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental objections to the proposed 
action based on potential adverse impacts to wildlife and inadequate 
impact analysis.
    Summary: ERP No. D-AFS-J65251-CO Rating LO, Arapaho and Roosevelt 
National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland, Implementation, Land 
and Resource Management Plan, Boulder, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Grand, 
Larimer and Weld Counties, CO.
    Summary: EPA expressed a lack of objections to the proposed action 
as currently formulated in the DEIS.

ERP No. D-AFS-L61220-OR

    Rating EC2, Christy Basin Planning Area, Implementation, 
Regeneration Timber Harvesting, Willamette National Forest, Oakridge 
Ranger District, Lane County, OR.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns with the proposed 
action due to potential impact to water quality, habitat fragmentation 
(incidental take of spotted owl habitat) and air quality impacts. EPA 
suggests the final EIS address source water assessment and protection 
and air quality impacts.

ERP No. D-AFS-L65303-WA

    Rating EC1, I-90 Land Exchange between Forest Service and Plum 
Creek, within the Vicinity of the Wenatchee,

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Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie and Gifford Pinchot National Forests, Kittitas, 
King, Pierce, Lewis and Cowlitz and Skamania Counties, WA.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns relating to adverse 
cumulative impacts to the Green River watershed resulting in the 
reduction of old growth and loss of critical habitat for marbled 
murrelet.

ERP No. D-COE-C39011-NJ

    Rating EC2, Brigantine Inlet to Great Egg Harbor Inlet Feasibility 
Study, Storm Damage Reduction Project, New Jersey Shore Protection, 
City of Brigantine, Brigantine Island, Along the Atlantic Coast, NJ.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns with the potential 
cumulative impacts associated with this and the other erosion/storm 
damage protection projects in New Jersey. EPA recommended that 
additional information be presented in the final EIS to address this 
issue.

ERP No. DC-COE-E36013-MS

    Rating EC2, Mississippi River and Tributaries Flood Control Plan, 
To Construct the Remaining portion of Mississippi river Mainline Levees 
Enlargement and Seepage Control, Flood Protection and Damage Reduction, 
Lower Mississippi River Valley, Cape Girardeau, MO, Il, KY, TN, AR and 
MS.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns with the assumptions/
procedures used in determining overall project impacts and methods for 
mitigatiing unavoidable losses of wetlands.

    Dated: August 24, 1998.
William D. Dickerson,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
[FR Doc. 98-23245 Filed 8-27-98; 8:45 am]
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