[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 127 (Friday, July 2, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35998-35999]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-16936]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-6244-2]


Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of 
EPA Comments

    Availability of EPA comments prepared June 07, 1999 Through June 
11, 1999 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 09, 1999 (64 
FR 17362).

Draft EISs

    ERP No. D-AFS-L65322-AK Rating EC2, Luck Lake Timber Sales Project, 
Implementation, Tongass National Forest, Thorne Bay Ranger District, 
Prince of Wales Island, AK.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns related to the 
projects' potential environmental impacts and requested additional 
information on road construction, drinking water impacts, mitigation 
measures, and log transfer facility impacts.
    ERP No. D-AFS-L65323-OR Rating EC2, Wolfmann Projects, 
Implementation, Blue River Landscape Strategy, Central Cascades 
Adaptive Management Area, Blue River Ranger District, Willamette 
National Forest, Lane County, OR.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about the limited 
information provided in the Monitoring plan, and a need for a 
cumulative effects analysis.
    ERP No. D-AFS-L82017-ID Rating EC2, St. Joe Ranger District Noxious 
Weed Control Project, Implementation, Proposal from Control Noxious 
Weeds on 131 Sites, Idaho Panhandle National Forests, St. Joe Ranger 
District, Benewah, Latah and Shoshone Counties, Idaho.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about potential 
adverse water quality impacts from harvesting activities and related 
road construction. More detail on the noxious weed management plan 
should be included in the final EIS.
    ERP No. D-FAA-B51017-MA Rating EO2, Logan Airside Improvements 
Planning Project (EOEA #10458), Construction and Operation of a new 
Unidirectional Runway 14/32, Centerfield Taxiway and Additional Taxiway 
Improvements, Boston Logan International Airport, Federal Funding, 
Airport Layout Plan and NPDES Permit, Boston, MA.
    Summary: EPA expressed environment objections based on 
environmental justice issues and planning issues. EPA requested that 
the EIS look beyond airside improvements to resolve flight delay 
problems and consider the critical questions of whether the 
improvements will spur additional airport growth. EPA also suggested 
revisions to the noise impact modeling for the project.
    ERP No. D-FRC-K05055-CA Rating EC2, Potter Valley Project, 
Protection and Maintenance of Fishery Resources, (FERC No. 22-110), Eel 
River, Lake and Mendocino County, CA.
    Summary: EPA expressed concerns involving the long-term 
sustainability of the project, the range of alternatives analyzed, data 
gaps in the environmental impacts analysis, the scope and depth of the 
cumulative impacts analysis, and the relative weight given to various 
balancing factors used in the selection of a preferred alternative.
    ERP No. DA-AFS-L65099-ID Rating EC2, Grade-Dukes Timber Sale, 
Proposal to Harvest and Regenerate Timber, Implementation, Cuddy 
Mountain Roadless Area, Payette National Forest, Weiser Ranger 
District, Washington County, Idaho.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about adverse impacts 
to water quality, limited quantitative data on aquatic conditions, and 
analysis of cumulative impacts from private lands.

Final EISs

    ERP No. F-FRC-F03005-00, Vector Pipeline Project, Natural Gas 
Pipeline and Associated above ground Facilities Construction and 
Operation, Approval, Joliet, IL to Vector Canada at the International 
Border near St. Clair, MI, several counties, MI, IN, and IL.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns regarding impacts of 
the project to forested upland and wetland areas and recommended 
additional mitigation measures to offset these impacts.
    ERP No. F-NPS-B65007-VT, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National 
Historical Park, General Management Plan, Implementation, Woodstock, 
VT.
    Summary: EPA had no objections to the project as described.
    ERP No. FS-AFS-L67004-ID, Thompson Creek Molybdenum Project, Cyprus 
Mines Corporation, Custer County, ID.

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    Summary: EPA continues to have environmental concerns with the 
stability of the tailings impoundment, the potential for Acid mine 
drainage, adequacy of bonding and effectiveness of the reclamation 
plan.

    Dated: June 29, 1999.
William D. Dickerson,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
[FR Doc. 99-16936 Filed 7-1-99; 8:45 am]
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