[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 121 (Friday, June 22, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33538-33539]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-15776]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-6619-3]


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-B65009-NH Rating EC2, Loon Mountain Ski Resort 
Development and Expansion Project, Implementation, Special Use Permit, 
White Mountain National Forest, Pemigewasset Ranger District, Grafton 
County, NH.
    Summary: EPA offered comments and concerns about the project 
purpose and need, snowmaking targets, monitoring, water quality 
impacts, regional infrastructure, air quality, and secondary impacts.

    ERP No. D-GSA-K81011-CA Rating EC2, Los Angeles Federal Building--
U. S. Courthouse, Construction of a New Courthouse in the Civic Center, 
City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA.
    Summary: EPA expressed concerns, and requested additional 
information regarding: impacts to environmental justice communities; 
water and electricity demand and conservation measures for the proposed 
facility; cumulative impacts on water, air, cultural, and historic 
resources; and magnitude of short term air emission impacts.

Final EISs

    ERP No. F-AFS-J65320-MT Knox-Brooks Timber Sales and Road 
Rehabilitation, Implementation, Lola National Forest, Super Ranger 
District, Mineral County, MT.
    Summary: EPA continues to express environmental concerns regarding 
sediment production from timber

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harvest/road construction activities, and the level/type of aquatic/
hydrologic monitoring proposed to detect effects of management 
activities.

    ERP No. F-AFS-L65345-WA Deadman Creek Ecosystem Management 
Projects, Sediment Delivered to Streams, Roads in Key Habitat and 
Noxious Weeds Reduction and Forest Stands Treatment, Implementation, 
Kettle Falls Ranger District, Colville National Forest, Ferry County, 
WA.
    Summary: No formal comment letter sent to preparing agency.
    ERP No. F-AFS-L65361-ID Myrtle-Cascade Project Area, Implementation 
of Resource Management Activities, Idaho Panhandle National Forests, 
Bonners Ferry Ranger District, Boundary County, ID.
    Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.

    ERP No. F-USN-K39059-HI North Pacific Acoustic Laboratory Project, 
Reuse of Low Frequency Sound Source and Cable for Use in Acoustic 
Thermometry of Ocean Climate (ATOC) Research, Kauai, HI.
    Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.

    ERP No. FR-AFS-L65348-ID Idaho Panhandle National Forests, Revision 
to the Small Sales, Harvesting Dead and Damaged Timber, Coeur d'Alene 
River Range District, Kootenai and Shoshone Counties, ID.
    Summary: No formal comment letter sent to the preparing agency.

    ERP No. FS-COE-E32074-KY Lower Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers 
Navigation Improvements, Kentucky Lock Addition, Implementation, 
Nashville District, Marshall and Livingston Counties, KY.
    Summary: EPA has no objection to the proposed action since the 
original design was improved via construction/alignment modifications 
which reduced impacts to endangered mussels.

    Dated: June 19, 2001.
Joseph C. Montgomery,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
[FR Doc. 01-15776 Filed 6-21-01; 8:45 am]
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