[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 42 (Friday, March 2, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13070-13071]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-5135]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-6616-0]


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) 564-7167. An explanation of the ratings 
assigned to draft environmental impact statements (EISs) was published 
in FR dated April 14, 2000 (65 FR 20157).

Draft EISs

    ERP No. D-AFS-F61020-WI Rating EC2, Boundary Waters Canoe Area 
Wilderness Fuel Treatment, Implementation, Superior National Forest, 
Cook County, WI.
    Summary: EPA expressed concerns over the use of fire retardants for 
control of prescribed burns and wildfire, air quality, and the threat 
to noxious weed invasion in the wake of burns and fire control 
activities. ERP No. D-AFS-F65028-MI Rating LO, Plantation Lakes 
Vegetation Management Project, Implementation, Ottawa National Forest, 
Kenton and Ontonagon Ranger Districts, Houghton County, MI.
    Summary: EPA has not identified any potential environmental impacts 
requiring substantive changes to the proposed action.
    ERP No. D-FAA-E51048-CA Rating EC2, Hartsfield Atlanta 
International Airport, Construction and Operation of the 9,000-Foot 
Fifth Runway and Associated Projects, Approval of Airport Layout Plan 
(ALP), City of Atlanta, Fulton and Clayton Counties, GA.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns with the proposed 
fifth runway regarding noise, air quality and environmental justice and 
their mitigation. EPA also encouraged the continuance of the ongoing 
noise mitigation program.
    ERP No. D-USN-E65055-FL Rating EC2, Renewal of Authorization to Use 
Pinecastle Range, Continue Use of the Range for a 20-Year Period, 
Special Use

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Permit Issuance, Ocala National Forest, Marion and Lake Counties, FL.
    Summary: Environmental impacts to range and its environs from 
continued training need to be analyzed in the final document.

Final EISs

    ERP No. F-FHW-K50013-00, US 93 Hoover Dam Bypass Project, 
Construction of a New Bridge and Highway, Funding, Right-of-Way 
Easement, US Coast Guard, NPDES and COE Section 404 Permits, Federal 
Lands--Lake Mead National Recreation Area and Hoover Dam Reservation, 
Clark County, NV and Mohave County, AZ.
    Summary: EPA reviewed the FEIS and found that the document 
adequately addressed the issues raised in EPA's previous comment 
letter.

    Dated: February 23, 2001.
Joseph C. Montgomery,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
[FR Doc. 01-5135 Filed 3-1-01; 8:45 am]
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