[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 251 (Thursday, December 31, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72310-72311]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-34714]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-5498-4]


Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of 
EPA Comments

    Availability of EPA comments prepared December 14, 1998 Through 
December 18, 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) 564-7167. An explanation of the ratings assigned to draft 
environmental impact statements (EISs) was published in FR dated April 
10, 1998 (62 FR 17856).

Final EISs

    ERP No. F-AFS-J65265-WY, Tie Camp Timber Sale, Harvesting Timber 
and Road Construction, Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest, Brush Creek/
Hayden Ranger District, Carbon County, WY and Jackson County, CO.
    Summary: EPA concerns were addressed in the Final EIS.
    ERP No. F-AFS-J65283-CO, North Fork Salvage Timber Analysis Area, 
Implementation, Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest, Routt County, CO.
    Summary: EPA concerns were addressed in the preferred alternative.
    ERP No. F-AFS-K61143-CA, Emigrant Wilderness Management Direction, 
Implementation, Stanislaus National Forest, Tuolume County, CA.
    Summary: Review of the Final EIS was not deemed necessary. No 
formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
    ERP No. F-AFS-L61216-WA, White Pass Ski Area Expansion, Special-
Use-Permit, Pigtail Basin and Hogback Basin, Wenatchee and Gifford, 
Pinchot National Forests, Yakima and Lewis Counties, WA.
    Summary: Review of the Final EIS was not deemed necessary. No 
formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
    ERP No. F-COE-K32050-CA, Oakland Harbor Inner and Outer Deep 
Navigation (-50 Foot) Improvement Project, Implementation, Feasibility 
Study, Port of Oakland, Alameda and San Francisco Counties, CA.
    Summary: EPA continued to have specific comments and concerns on 
several issues, although the FEIS generally responded to many issues 
raised by EPA on the DEIS. EPA provided comments on mitigation for air 
quality impacts, the need for a new general air quality conformity 
applicability analysis should dredged material be transported to 
different locations, the projected volumes of dredged material in 
future years from maintenance dredging of channel and berth areas, and 
adverse noise impacts in the City of Alameda.
    ERP No. F-COE-K36122-CA, Upper Guadalupe River Feasibility Study, 
Flood Control Protection, Construction, National Economic Development 
Plan (NED), Santa Clara Valley Water District, City of San Jose, Santa 
Clara County, CA.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns that the Corps' two 
separate EIS's for the project (one EIS for Federal funding, a second 
EIS on issuance of a Clean Water Act Section 404 permit) should have 
been addressed in a single consolidated FEIS.
    ERP No. F-COE-K39046-AZ, Rio Salado Environmental Restoration of 
two Sites along the Salt River; (1) Phoenix Reach and (2) Tempe Reach, 
Feasibility Report, in the Cities of Phoenix and Tempe, Maricopa 
County, AZ.
    Summary: EPA provided comments regarding the Clean Water Act 
Section 402 (NPDES) permits that would be required for the project's 
construction and operation, the location of groundwater production 
wells required by the project in connection with the 19th Avenue 
Landfill Federal Superfund site, and monitoring of groundwater derived 
from these production wells.
    ERP No. F-USN-K11086-CA, US Pacific Fleet F/A 18 E/F Aircraft for 
Development of Facilities to Support

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Basing on the West Coast of the United States, Possible Installations 
are (1) Lemoore Naval Air Station and (2) El Centro Naval Air Facility, 
Fresno, King and Imperial Counties, CA.
    Summary: EPA concerns were not addressed in the Navy's response to 
comments on the DEIS or in the FEIS text. EPA recommended that an 
addendum to the document be created to answer the comments that were 
overlooked, that the comments and the Navy's response be circulated to 
all interested parties, and the public comment be invited by means of 
extending the review period.

    Dated: December 28, 1998.
Ken Mittelholtz,
Environmental Protection Specialist, Office of Federal Activities.
[FR Doc. 98-34714 Filed 12-30-98; 8:45 am]
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