[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 222 (Friday, November 16, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57715-57716]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-28746]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-6623-7]


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 May 18, 2001 (66 FR 27164).

Draft EISs

    ERP No. D-AFS-J65342-00 Rating EC2, Wasatch-Cache National Forest 
Revised Land and Resource Management Plan, Implementation, several 
counties, UT and Uinta County, WY.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns associated with user-
created trails, and with inadequate protection of areas with wilderness 
values. These impacts, especially to water quality and biodiversity 
should be reduced, avoided or mitigated to meet the purpose and need 
and to protect ecosystem function.
    ERP No. D-AFS-L65381-ID Rating EC2, Caribou National Forest Land 
and Resource Management Plan, Implementation Revised Forest Plan, 
Bannock, Bear Lake. Bingham, Bonneville, Caribou, Franklin, Oneida and 
Power Counties, Cache and Rich Counties, UT, Lincoln County, WY.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about the 
inadequacies of the cumulative effects analysis and explanations of 
environmental consequences among the alternatives, and about the lack 
of discussion on further selenium impacts.
    ERP No. D-AFS-L65389-OR Rating EC2, Shore `Nuf Timber Sale, Timber 
Harvesting on the Detroit Ranger District, Willamette National Forest, 
Linn and Marion Counties, OR
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns with the lack of 
discussion on residual smoke expected to affect downwind communities as 
well as how the Forest Service (FS) will meet its obligations under the 
Safe Drinking Water Act. EPA requested that the FS identify a pre-burn 
action plan, collaborate with local and state agencies to protect water 
sources, and complete a survey for mollusks and the red tree vole.
    ERP No. D-BLM-K65231-CA Rating LO, Northern and Eastern Mojave 
Planning Area (NEMO), Implementation, California Desert Conservation 
Area Plan Amendments, Mojave Desert, CA.
    Summary: EPA had no objections to the proposed plan amendments, and 
recommended that BLM provide beneficial use designations for travel 
routes to be retained in the planning area.
    ERP No. D-FHW-B50013-RI Rating EC2, Sakonnet River Bridge 
Rehabilitation or Replacement Project, Portsmouth & Tiverton, Newport 
County, RI.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns and asked the FHWA/
RIDOT to expand the analysis of stormwater controls, to evaluate means 
to better control emissions from diesel construction equipment, to 
consider end of pipe pollution control retrofits for construction 
equipment and to make sure the project is designed to avoid precluding 
future commuter rail service to the area.
    ERP No. D-FHW-C40154-NY Rating EC2, Interstate 86/Route 15 
Interchange and Route 15/Gang Mills Interchange, New Roadway and Ramp 
Construction, Intersection Reconstruction, New Bridges and Bridge 
Rehabilitation, Town of Erwin, Steuben County, NY.
    Summary: EPA raised environmental concerns regarding indirect 
impacts to wetlands.
    ERP No. D-FHW-E40790-00 Rating EC2, Corridor 19/Interstate 69 
Proposed

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Improvements from the U.S. 412/U.S. 51 Interchange to the U.S. 51 
Fulton Bypass/Purchase Parkway Interchange, Dyer and Obion Counties, TN 
and Fulton County, KY.
    Summary: EPA had environmental concerns about potential water 
quality, environmental justice, and secondary and cumulative impacts in 
the study area, specifically related to connected roadway improvements 
and other segments of the proposed I-69.
    ERP No. D-FHW-K40247-CA Rating EC2, CA-22/West Orange County 
Connection Project, Transportation Improvements between Interstate 605 
and State Route 55, In the cities of Los Alamitos, Seal Beach, Garden 
Grove, Westminster, Santa Ana, and Orange, Orange County, CA.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns regarding a lack of 
air quality mitigation for criteria air pollutants, potential impacts 
due to hazardous air pollutants from project construction and 
operation, and environmental justice. EPA asked that the Final EIS 
provide additional information on these issues and include appropriate 
mitigation measures.
    ERP No. D-FRC-K03025-00 Rating EC2, North Baja Pipeline Project, 
Docket Nos. CP01-22-000 and CP01-23-000, Construction and Operation A 
New Natural Gas Transmission Pipeline, Land Use Plan Amendment, Right-
of-Way Grant, NPDES, COE Section 10 and 404 Permits, La Praz and Yuma 
Counties, AZ and Imperial, Kern, Riverside, Palo Verde, San Bernardino 
and San Diego Counties.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns regarding the need 
for more comprehensive disclosure of impacts from the proposed action, 
particularly impacts to air and water quality.
    ERP No. DA-COE-K36100-CA Rating EC2, American River Watershed Long-
Term Study, Updated Information, To Provide Flood Damage Reduction and 
Ecosystem Restoration, between Folson Dam and the Sacramento River, 
Sacramento, Placer and Sutter Counties, CA.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns regarding the 
feasibility and acceptability of a detention dam to effects on unique 
natural resources of national significance on the North and Middle 
Forks of the American River. EPA also stated concerns regarding the 
alternatives analysis, compliance with Clean Water Act Section 404, 
cumulative impacts analysis, water supply and safety.

Final EISs

    ERP No. F-COE-B32011-RI Providence River and Harbor Maintenance 
Dredging Project, To Restore the Navigation Efficiency, Providence 
River Shipping Channel, Narragansett Bay, RI.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns related to the 
impacts of the preferred disposal site, the CAD cell, the Clean Water 
Act Section 404(b)(1) evaluation, project sequencing and monitoring. 
EPA recommended that additional information should be provided before 
the conclusion of the NEPA process.
    ERP No. F-FAA-E51049-KY, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International 
Airport, Construction and Operation of a New 8,000-foot Runway 17/35 
(Future 18R/36L); 2,000-foot Extension of Runway 9/27, Funding and 
Airport Layout Plan,(ALP) Boone County, KY.
    Summary: EPA had remaining environmental concerns regarding noise, 
wetlands, cumulative impacts, induced impacts and other impacts, and 
recommended that these be addressed in the FAA ROD.
    ERP No. F-NPS-F61019-MN, Voyageurs National Park General 
Management, Visitor Use and Facilities Plans, Implementation, 
Koochiching and St. Louis Counties, MN.
    Summary: EPA continued to express environmental concerns over 
future management of the impacts to water quality from motorboat use, 
fueling stations and snowmobile use.
    ERP No. FA-FHW-F40347-IL, FAP Route 340 Transportation Project, 
Construction from I-55 to I-80, Funding, US Coast Guard Permit and COE 
Section 404 Permit, Cook, Dupage and Will Counties, IL.
    Summary: EPA continues to have environmental concerns with regard 
to indirect effects such as land use changes and with regard to 
cumulative effects to wetlands and other natural features. EPA 
recommended that the ROD discuss commitments that have been made at a 
local level to manage growth and its impacts on the environment.

    Dated: November 13, 2001.
Joseph C. Montgomery,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
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