[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 6 (Friday, January 9, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1584-1585]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-456]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-6647-3]


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 04, 2003 (68 
FR 16511).

Draft EISs

    ERP No. D-AFS-J65396-WY Rating EC2, Wyoming Range Allotment 
Complex, To Determine Whether or not to Allow Domestic Sheep Grazing, 
Bridger-Teton National Forest, Big Piney, Greys River and Jackson 
Ranger Districts, Sublette, Lincoln and Teton Counties, WY.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns regarding adverse 
impacts to water quality and aquatic habitat from mass erosion from 
grazing. The final EIS should include information on sediment loading, 
ground cover, native trout populations, percent fines in stream beds, 
mass erosion sites and gullies.
    ERP No. D-AFS-K65263-CA Rating EC2, Meteor Project, Proposal for 
Harvesting Timber and Conducting Associated Activities on 744 Acres, 
Implementation, Klamath National Forest, Salmon River Ranger District, 
Siskiyou County, CA.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns regarding potential 
impacts to air and water quality. The final EIS should include specific 
information on project impacts related to air quality standards, types 
of dewatering methods and impacts to the aquatic habitat and 
consideration of reasonably foreseeable actions in the cumulative 
impacts analysis.
    ERP No. D-NPS-F65043-MI Rating LO, Pictured Rocks National 
Lakeshore,

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General Management Plan and Wilderness Study, Implementation, Lake 
Superior, Munising and Grand Marais, Alger County, MI.
    Summary: EPA expressed lack of objections with the preferred 
alternative.

Final EISs

    ERP No. F-AFS-F65036-WI Hoffman-Sailor West Project, Timber 
Harvest, Regeneration Activities, Connected Road Construction and 
Decommissioning, Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Medford/Park 
Falls Ranger District, Price County, WI.
    Summary: EPA's concerns with beavers and forest tent caterpillars 
were resolved in the FEIS. However, EPA continues to have environmental 
concerns regarding the impact of white-tailed deer on forest ecosystem 
health. EPA suggested additional monitoring focusing on the impacts of 
deer browsing potentially sensitive vegetation in the project area.
    ERP No. F-AFS-F65042-WI Sunken Moose Project, Proposal to Restore 
and/or Maintain the Red and White Pine Communities, Washurn Ranger 
District, Chequamegon-Nicolet Forest, Bayfield County, WI.
    Summary: EPA continues to believe that the cumulative impacts 
analysis should consider future thinning projects. EPA believes that a 
comparative impacts analysis regarding Non-Native invasive Species 
among the different alternatives would be helpful in determining future 
Best Management Practices and should be considered in other similar 
projects.
    ERP No. F-AFS-K61157-CA Interface Recreation Trails Project, 
Recreation Route System Development, Implementation, Stanislaus 
National Forest, Calaveras Ranger District, Calaveras County, CA.
    Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
    ERP No. F-AFS-K65252-CA Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-
wave Astronomy (CARMA) Project, Construction, Reconstruction and 
Operation of 23 Antennas at the Juniper Flat Site, Special-Use-Permit 
Issuance, Inyo Mountain, Inyo National Forest, Inyo County, CA.
    Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
    ERP No. F-AFS-K65258-CA Emigrant Wilderness Dams Project, 
Reconstruct, Repair, Maintain and Operate 12 Dams; Snow, Bigelow, 
Huckleberry, Emigrant Meadow, Middle Emigrant, Emigrant, Leighton, 
Long, Lower Buck, Y-Meadow and Bear, Stanislaus National Forest, Summer 
Ranger District, Tuolumne County, CA.
    Summary: The Final EIS adequately addressed EPA's major concerns 
regarding the potential impacts to wilderness, air and water quality 
and wildlife.
    ERP No. F-AFS-L65434-WA Crupina Integrated Weed Management Project, 
Control and Eradication of Crupina, Implementation, Okanogan and 
Wenatchee National Forests, Chelan Ranger District, Chelan County, WA.
    Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
    ERP No. F-BOP-K80042-CA Lompoc United States Penitentiary (UPS) 
Construction and Operation of a New High-Security Facility and 
Ancillary Structures on One of Three Sites located in the City of 
Lopmoc, Funding, Santa Barbara County, CA.
    Summary: EPA's previous issues have been resolved, therefore, EPA 
has no objections to the action as proposed.
    ERP No. F-NPS-K65365-AZ Navajo National Monument, General 
Management Plan and Development Concept Plan, Implementation, Navajo 
Counties, AZ.
    Summary: EPA expressed a lack of objections to this project.

    Dated: January 6, 2004.
Ken Mittelholtz,
Environmental Specialist, Office of Federal Activities.
[FR Doc. 04-456 Filed 1-8-04; 8:45 am]
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