[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 171 (Friday, September 3, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53914-53915]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-20143]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-6655-4]


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 2, 2004 (69 FR 17403).

Draft EISs

    ERP No. D-FTA-J54001-UT Rating EC2, Weber County to Salt Lake City 
Commuter Rail Project, Proposes a Commuter Rail Transit Service with 
Nine Stations between Salt Lake City and Peasant View, Funding, Weber, 
Davis and Salt Lake Counties, UT.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns because the draft 
EIS: does not analyze a full range of alternatives; does not disclose 
enough of the CWA Section 404 process, but defers the process until 
later; does not disclose the effects of additional diesel emissions 
from locomotives on air quality; and does not disclose mitigation for 
the preferred alternative, particularly for wetlands, riparian woodland 
and air quality impacts from construction.
    ERP No. D-NOA-E91015-00 Rating LO, Reef Fish Fishery Management 
Plan (FMP) Amendment 23, To Set Vermilion Snapper Sustainable Fisheries 
Act Targets and Thresholds and to Establish a Plan to End Overfishing 
and Rebuild the Stock, Implementation, Gulf of Mexico.
    Summary: EPA has no objections to the proposed action.

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    ERP No. DS-BLM-K60105-CA Rating EC2, U.S. Army National Training 
Center, Proposed Addition of Maneuver Training Land at Fort Irwin, 
Implementation, San Bernardino County, CA.
    Summary: EPA raised environmental concerns regarding impacts and 
mitigation for construction-related air emission, and properly 
reporting the release of oil or a hazardous substance into the 
environment.
    ERP No. DS-NOA-A91063-00 Rating LO, Monkfish Fishery Management 
Plan (FMP) Amendment 2, Implementation, Updated and Additional 
Information, New England and Mid-Atlantic Coast.
    Summary: EPA has no objections to the proposed action.

Final EISs

    ERP No. F-AFS-J65414-UT, State of Utah School and Institutional 
Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) Access Route on East Mountain, 
National Forest System Lands Administered by Mantila Sal National 
Forest, Ferron/Price Ranger District, Emery Counties, UT.
    Summary: EPA continues to express environmental concerns with the 
potential for adverse impacts to water quality, soils and fish and 
wildlife, from the logging, exploratory wells and coal exploration as 
proposed in the selected alternative.
    ERP No. F-AFS-L65443-OR, Biscuit Fire Recovery Project, Various 
Management Activities Alternatives, Implementation, The Rogue River and 
Siskiyou National Forests, Josephine and Curry Counties, OR.
    Summary: EPA continues to express the following environmental 
concerns: (1) Potential adverse impacts to large-scale postfire logging 
on sediment loads to impaired streams; (2) detrimental effects to key 
watersheds; (3) loss of large woody debris to streams; and (4) adverse 
effects on riparian habitat and inventoried roadless areas.
    ERP No. F-BIA-J60021-UT, Tekoi Balefill Project on the Skull Valley 
Band of Goshute Indians Reservation, Approval of Long-Term Lease of 
Indian Land for a Commercial Solid Waste Disposal Facility, Salt Lake 
City, Tooele County, UT.
    Summary: EPA continues to have concerns regarding the Tribe's 
oversight and regulation of the landfill to ensure that environmental 
impacts are controlled and/or mitigated.
    ERP No. F-DOE-L91018-OR, Northeast Oregon Hatchery Program, Grande 
Ronde--Imnaha Spring Chinook Hatchery Modification and Modernization of 
Two Existing Hatchery Facilities and Construction of Three New 
Auxiliary Hatchery Facilities, Wallowa County, OR.
    Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
    ERP No. F-NOA-E91014-00, Generic Essential Fish Habitat Amendment 
to the Fishery Management Plans of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) for Shrimp, 
Red Drum, Reef Fish, Stone Crab, Coral and Coral Reef and Spiny Lobster 
Fisheries, Implementation, GOM and South Atlantic Coastal Migratory 
Pelagic Resources of the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic.
    Summary: EPA supported the NOAA Fisheries designation of EFH for 
the subject fisheries and suggested strategies to reduce the 
administrative burden of consultations of EFH designation.
    ERP No. F-NOA-L91017-00, Programmatic EIS--Pacific Salmon Fisheries 
Management Plan, Off the Coasts of Southeast Alaska, Washington, Oregon 
and California, and the Columbia River Basin, Implementation, Magnuson-
Stevens Act, AK, WA, OR and CA.
    Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
    ERP No. F-NOA-L91023-00, Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery 
Management Plan, Amendment 16-3 Adopts Rebuild Plans for Bocaccio, 
Cowcod, Widow Rockfish and Yelloweye Rockfish, Maximum Sustainable 
Yield (MSY), Implementation, WA, OR, ID and CA.
    Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
    ERP No. FB-NOA-A91065-00, Final Rule to Implement Management 
Measures for the Reduction of Sea Turtle Bycatch and Bycatch Mortality 
in the Atlantic Pelagic Longline Fishery.
    Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.

    Dated: August 31, 2004.
Robert W. Hargrove,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
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