[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 245 (Friday, December 20, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 77981]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-32128]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-6636-1]


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 Federal Register dated April 
12, 2002 (67 FR 17992).

Draft EISs

    ERP No. D-FHW-J40175-UT Rating EC2, Reference Post (RP) 13 
Interchange and City Road Project, Construction of New Interchange at 
RP 13 to I-15 and City Road in Washington City, Funding, Washington 
County, UT.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns with water quality 
analysis and limiting the interchange analysis to only one build 
alternative. In addition, land use impacts were not quantified despite 
land use change expectation. EPA was pleased to see information on 
habitat fragmentation and impervious surface impacts documentation.
    ERP No. D-JUS-K80043-CA Rating EC2, Juvenile Justice Campus (JJC) 
Construction and Operation of a 1,400 Bed and Related Functions 
Facility, Conditional Use Permit, Fresno County, CA.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns regarding farmland 
protection and sole source aquifer issues.
    ERP No. D-NPS-E65060-NC Rating LO, Carl Sandburg Home National 
Historic Site, General Management Plan, Implementation, Located in the 
Village of Flat Rock, Henderson County, NC.
    Summary: EPA review did not identify any potential environmental 
impacts requiring substantive changes to the proposal.

Final EISs

    ERP No. F-DOE-L08061-00 McNary-John Day Transmission Line Project, 
Construction, Operation and Maintenance of a 79-mile-long 500-Kilovolt-
Transmission Line between McNary Substation and John Day Substation, 
Umatilla and Sherman Counites, OR and Benton and Klickitat Counties, 
WA.
    Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
    ERP No. F-EDA-B99003-CT Adriaen's Landing Project, Development from 
Columbus Boulevard south of the Founders Bridge and Riverfront Plaza, 
City of Hartford, CT.
    Summary: EPA had no objections to the proposed project and 
encouraged continued efforts to coordinate with impacted communities 
around the project site and to add pollution controls to construction 
equipment.
    ERP No. F-MMS-G02011-00 Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Oil 
and Gas Lease Sales: 2003-2007, Starting in 2002 the Proposed Central 
Planning Area Sales 185, 190, 194, 198, and 201 and Western Planning 
Area Sales 187, 192, 196, and 200, Offshore Marine Environment, Coastal 
Counties and Parishes of TX, LA, AL and MS.
    Summary: EPA had no further comments to offer. EPA has a lack of 
objections to the preferred alternative.
    ERP No. FS-AFS-G65049-00 Vegetation Management in the Ozark/
Quachita Mountains, Proposal to Clarify Direction for Conducting 
Project-Level Inventories for Biological Evaluations (BEs), Qzark, 
Quachita and St. Francis National Forests, AR and McCurtain and LeFLore 
Counties, OR.
    Summary: EPA has no objection to the selection of the preferred 
alternative. EPA has no further comments to offer.

    Dated: December 17, 2002.
Joseph C. Montgomery,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
[FR Doc. 02-32128 Filed 12-19-02; 8:45 am]
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