[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 130 (Friday, July 6, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35617-35618]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-16940]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-6619-7]


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-J08025-CO Rating EC2, Nucla-Telluride Transmission 
Line Project, Permit Approval and Funding for Construction and 
Operation of a 115 kV Transmission Line between the Nucla Substation in 
Montrose County and either the Telluride or Sunshine Substations in San 
Miguel County, CO.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concern regarding impacts to 
wetlands and waters of the United States.
    ERP No. D-AFS-J65336-MT Rating EC2, Lolo National Forest, Big Game 
Winter Range and Burned Area Management, Restoration, Prevention and 
Cooperation, Implementation, Missoula, Lake, Mineral, Sanders, Granite, 
Powell, Lewis and Clark, Flathead and Ravalli Counties, MT.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns regarding potential 
herbicide transport to surface and ground waters. EPA recommended a 
monitoring plan for herbicides in sensitive waters to assess 
effectiveness of mitigation measures and that the FEIS include 
information regarding ground water depths in areas to be treated.
    ERP No. D-AFS-J65341-MT Rating EC2, Little Bear-Wilson Timber Sale 
and Road Decommission Project, Implementation, Gallatin Range, Gallatin 
National Forest, Bozeman Ranger District, Gallatin County, MT.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns regarding the 
inclusion of timber harvest units in the degraded Wilson Creek 
Drainage, and recommended that additional mitigation be provided for 
reduction in sediment production or that these harvest units be 
dropped. EPA also believes additional information should be presented 
regarding aquatic monitoring, and impacts to the threatened lynx to 
fully assess and mitigate all potential impacts of the management 
actions.
    ERP No. D-COE-G39033-LA Rating EC2, West Bay Sediment Diversion 
Channel Project, Construction, Funding, Plaquemines Parish, LA.
    Summary: EPA has expressed environmental concerns and has requested 
additional information on project site selection, water quality, CWA 
Section 404b1 assessment, cost, comparative impact analysis, cumulative 
benefits, and cost sharing requirements.
    ERP No. D-EDA-B99003-CT Rating EC2, Adriaen's Landing Project, 
Development from Columbus Boulevard south of the Founders Bridge and 
Riverfront Plaza, City of Hartford, CT.
    Summary: EPA expressed concerns about the air quality analysis, and 
suggested measures to control construction vehicle emissions, traffic, 
odor, and requested a more comprehensive analysis of neighborhood noise 
impacts.
    ERP No. D-FHW-F40391-IL Rating EC2, Illinois Route 3 (FAP-14) 
Relocation, Improved Transportation from Sauget to Venice, Funding, 
NPDES Permit and COE Section 404 Permit, Madison and St. Clair 
Counties, IL.
    Summary: EPA agreed with the project's purpose and need, range of 
alternatives, and selection of a preferred alternative. EPA expressed 
concerns that the existing wetlands compensation site falls 
approximately 20 acres short of providing the full amount of 
compensatory wetlands needed to account for the project's anticipated 
wetland impacts.
    ERP No. D-TVA-E65057-00 Rating EC2, Guntersville Reservoir Land 
Management Plan, Implementation, Proposal to Update a 1983 Land 
Allocation Plan, Jackson and Marshall Counties, AL and Marion County, 
TN.
    Summary: EPA expressed concerns regarding the potential use and 
effects of timber harvesting on TVA reservoir lands and the potential 
for TVA's selection of Alternative B1 as their preferred alternative. 
EPA environmentally prefers B2 since it proposes less reservoir 
development.

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Overall, we believe that TVA's economic stimulation and public benefits 
goals should still be contained within the context of environmental 
protection.
    ERP No. D-UAF-D11048-VA Rating EC2, Initial F-22 Operational Wing 
Beddown Replacing the Existing F-15C at Langley (AFB) or one of the 
Four Alternative Locations, VA.
    Summary: EPA expressed concern due to issues relating to noise, 
environmental justice, transportation, floodplains, and pollution 
prevention. EPA also recommended that the Air Force incorporate 
pollution prevention practices into the design of the proposed plan.
    ERP No. DS-SFW-B82009-00 Rating EC2, Lake Champlain Sea Lamprey 
Control Long-Term Program, Proposal is to Achieve Fish Population, 
Recreational Fishery and Economic Benefits Associated with Reduced Sea 
Lamprey Predation Implementation, Clinton, Essex and Washington 
Counties, NY and Addison and Chittenden Counties, Counties, VT.
    Summary: EPA expressed concerns about impacts to non-target 
species, requested information to describe how new waterbodies would be 
analyzed under NEPA, requested information to further explain the 
project purpose and need, suggested that the program include provisions 
for periodic re-evaluation, and highlighted the possibility that a 
NPDES permit may be required for lampricide applications.

Final EISs

ERP No. F-AFS-J65300-CO

    Upper Blue Stewardship Project, Implementation of Vegetation 
Management, Travel Management, Designation of Dispersed Camping Sites, 
White River National Forest, Dillon Ranger District, Summit County, CO.
    Summary: EPA's remaining concern is with development of three 
permanent clearings for ski runs in a lynz movement corridor.

ERP No. F-AFS-J65328-SD

    Jasper Fires Value Recovery Area Project, Implementation, Revised 
Forest Plan for the Black Hills National Forest, Hell Canyon and Mystic 
Ranger District, Custer and Pennington Counties, SD.
    Summary: EPA has remaining concerns about potential impacts to 
groundwater from activities in fractured limestone landscapes.

ERP No. F-AFS-J65329-MT

    Maudlow--Toston Post-Fire Salvage Sale, Harvesting Burnt Timber, 
Implementation, Helena National Forest, Townsend Ranger District, 
Broadway County, MT.
    Summary: EPA expressed concerns about the dropping of road 
decommissioning from the selected alternative and loss of the 
associated beneficial watershed effects, and the lack of Hydrologic/
aquatics monitoring for measurement to post-fire and post-salvage 
harvest aquatic conditions. EPA requested additional information to 
fully assess and mitigate potential impacts.

ERP No. F-USA-A10073-00

    Programmatic EIS--Transportable Treatment Systems for Non-Stockpile 
Chemical Warfare Material (CWM), To Destroy Non-Stockpile in order to 
Protect Human, Health, Safety and the Environment, To Comply with the 
International Treaty, Nationwide.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns regarding the risks 
and monitoring during the treatment of CWM. EPA recommended that DOD 
should address these issues at the site-specific level.

    Dated: July 2, 2001.
Ken Mittelholtz,
Environmental Protection Specialist, Office of Federal Activities.
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