[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 3 (Friday, January 4, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 587]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-228]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-6625-3]


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 May 18, 2001 (66 FR 
27647).

Draft EISs

    ERP No. D-BIA-K39071-00 Rating EC2, Truckee River Water Quality 
Settlement Agreement and Federal Water Right Acquisition, 
Implementation, Truckee River, Placer County, CA and Washoe, Storey and 
Lyon Counties, NV.
    Summary: EPA recognized the WQSA signatories work to permanently 
improve Truckee River water quality and reduce violations of water 
quality standards. EPA encouraged them to continue to work with us in 
achieving full compliance with water quality standards. EPA expressed 
concerns with alternatives, monitoring and mitigation, and cumulative 
impacts.
    ERP No. D-BLM-K40248-AZ Rating EC2, Diamond Bar Road Improvement 
Project, Road Pavement and Realignment of sections through Grapevine 
Wash, Right-of-Way Permits Issuance, Mohave County, AZ.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns with potential 
cumulative impacts, particularly, those from reasonably foreseeable 
development scenarios. EPA suggested that alternatives further minimize 
adverse impacts to vegetation, wildlife and cultural resources.
    ERP No. D-COE-D36179-WV Rating EO2, Marlington Local Flood 
Protection, Flood Damage Reduction Measures Evaluation, Levee and 
Floodwall Construction for Knapp Creek Flood Management, Greenbrier 
River, Town of Marlington, Pocahontas County, WV.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns that non-structional 
alternatives, including relocation of residential and non-residential 
structures to a flood safe site, were not evaluated in detail. 
Insufficient information is provided for a reasonably available 
alternative (relocation) which could reduce the environmental impacts 
of the proposal.
    ERP No. D-NOA-L91016-AK Rating LO, American Fisheries Act 
Amendments 61/61/13/8: Amendment 61 Groundfish Fishery of the Bering 
Sea and Aleutian Islands Area; Amendment 61 Groundfish of the Gulf of 
Alaska; Amendment 13 Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands King and Tanner 
Crab, and Amendment 8 Scallop Fishery off Alaska, Fishery Management 
Plans, AK.
    Summary: EPA lacked objections to ending the traditional race for 
fish by implementing action alternatives associated with the American 
Fisheries Act (AFA) because it results in a safer, more efficient 
fishery that utilizes a higher percentage of pollock biomass harvested. 
EPA suggested that the fishing industry could exploit the temporal and 
spatial discretion afforded by AFA, and extract a greater percentage of 
biomass to further reduce impacts of process waste discharge to water 
quality.
    ERP No. DS-NRC-A00150-00 Rating EC2, Decommissioning of Nuclear 
Facilities, Updated Information on Dealing With Decommissioning of 
Nuclear Power Reactors (NUREG-0586).
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns with this supplement 
to a generic EIS and requested clarifications and supplementary 
information on: determining when a particular decommissioning activity 
or site or operating condition is covered by the generic analysis; 
explaining the differing impact levels and the assumptions used in 
setting them; updating the analysis of the site's environmental 
condition; and, providing a more robust discussion of impacts to ground 
water.

Final EISs

    ERP No. F-AFS-L65377-OR, South Fork Burnt River Ranger Planning 
Area, Development of Five New Allotment Management Plans (AMPS), 
Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, Unity Ranger District, Baker County, 
OR.
    Summary: While the FEIS added additional technical information on 
restoration actions, EPA continued to have some environmental concerns 
with the project. Principally, the FEIS did not include a no-graze or 
reduced graze restoration alternative.
    ERP No. F-COE-J64008-SD, Title VI Land Transfer South Dakota, 
Transfer of 91,178 Acres of Land at Lake Oahe, Lake Sharp, Lake 
Francise Case, and Lewis and Clark Lake, from the US Army Corps of 
Engineers (USACE) to the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and 
Parks (SDGFP), SD.
    Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
    ERP No. F-FHW-F50003-IL, Fox River Bridge Crossings, Construction 
of up to Five-Bridges across the Fox River, Funding and NPDES and US 
Army COE Section 10 and 404 Permits Issuance, Kane County, IL.
    SUMMARY: Based upon the highway agency's commitments (on travel-
related mitigation and wetland compensation), EPA had no significant 
environmental concerns with the preferred alternative. EPA believed 
that the preferred alternative can satisfy the project's purpose and 
need while adequately mitigating direct and indirect impacts.
    ERP No. F-FRC-L05221-WA, Cowlitz River Hydroelectric Project (No. 
2016-044), Relicensing of the Existing 462-Megawatt Cowlitz River 
Hydroelectric Project, City of Tacoma, WA.
    Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
    ERP No. FS-NPS-K61137-AZ, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument 
General Management Plan and Development Concept Plan, Updated 
Information concerning Re-Analysis of Cumulative Effects of the Sonoran 
Pronghorn Portion of the Sonoran Desert, Pima County, AZ.
    Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.

    Dated: December 28, 2001.
Anne Norton Miller,
Director, Office of Federal Activities.
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