[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 82 (Friday, April 29, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22307-22308]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-8612]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-6662-9]


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 the Federal Register dated April 1, 2005 (70 FR 16815).

Draft EISs

EIS No. 20050006, ERP No. D1-FHW-H40397-MO, Interstate 70 Corridor 
Improvements, Section of Independent Utility 4, from Missouri 
Route BB Interchange to Eastern Columbia, Funding, Boone County, MO.

    Summary: EPA has no objections to the proposed project.

Rating LO

EIS No. 20040520, ERP No. D-DOE-J39033-UT, Moab Uranium Mill Trailings 
Remediation, Proposal To Clean Up Surface Contamination and Implement a 
Ground Water Strategy, Grand and San Juan Counties, UT.

    Summary: EPA rated the on-site alternative environmentally 
unsatisfactory because it would result in continuing exceedances of 
water quality criteria and it may not provide long-term pile stability. 
EPA has environmental objections to the White Mesa Mill site based on 
potential inconsistency with Utah's ground water protection standards. 
EPA has environmental concerns for the two other alternatives regarding 
transportation of the tailings to the site and cap design.

Rating EU2

EIS No. 20040569, ERP No. D-NRC-D03004-VA, Early Site Permit (ESP at 
the North Anna Power Station ESP Site (TAC No. MC1128), Construction 
and Operation, NUREG-1811, Louisa County, VA.

    Summary: EPA has environmental concerns based on the lack of 
information on wetland and stream impacts, the impact on the water 
resource and the affects on the downstream communities.

Rating EC2

EIS No. 20050018, ERP No. D-FAA-F51050-IL, O'Hare Modernization 
Program, Proposes Major Development, Chicago O'Hare International 
Airport, Airport Layout Plan (ALP), Federal Funding, U.S. Army COE 
Section 404 Permit, City of Chicago, IL.

    Summary: EPA expressed concerns related to air quality (criteria 
pollutants and hazardous air pollutants), wetlands, stormwater, noise, 
and environmental justice. EPA recommended additional analysis for air 
(general conformity and fine particulate matter (PM2.5)), noise 
mitigation options, and environmental justice. EPA recommended that the 
final EIS contain mitigation commitments for: increased mitigation 
ratios for wooded wetlands, noise mitigation, specific air mitigation 
measures targeting diesel emissions during construction and operation 
and hazardous air pollutants associated with aircraft idling and 
taxiing.

Rating EC2

EIS No. 20050021, ERP No. D-NRC-F06025-WI, GENERIC--License Renewal for 
Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2, Supplement 23 to NUREG-1437 
(TAC Nos. MC2049 and MC2050), Lake Michigan,Manitowoc County, WI.

    Summary: EPA has environmental concerns regarding the adequacy and 
presentation of the radiological impacts and risk estimates and 
entrainment of fish and shellfish. In addition, impacts to ground 
water, especially with respect to on-site drinking water wells, are not 
discussed.

Rating EC2

EIS No. 20050050, ERP No. D-COE-D39028-00, TIER 1-DEIS Baltimore Harbor 
and Channel Dredged Material Management Plan (DMMP), To Analyze Dredged 
Material Placement, Port of Baltimore, Chesapeake Bay, MD, PA, DE, WV, 
VA, DC, and NY.

    Summary: EPA had no objections to the ``no action'' alternative 
(i.e., the continued use of Open Water Placement in Virginia and the 
optimized use of existing dredged material management sites) and the 
new Alternative proposing

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beneficial uses of dredged materials (i.e., wetlands restoration in 
Dorchester County, MD). EPA expressed environmental concerns over the 
remaining three alternatives (i.e., the proposed multiple new Confined 
Disposal Facilities in the Patapsco River, the Poplar Island 
Environmental Restoration Project expansion and the Large Island 
Restoration Middle Bay). EPA recommended that continued use of Open 
Water Placement in Virginia include the already designated NorfolkOcean 
Disposal Site given its available capacity.

Rating EC1

EIS No. 20050053, ERP No. D-CGD-E03013-00, Compass Port and Deepwater 
Port License Application, To Construct a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) 
Receiving, Storage and Regasification Facility, Proposed Offshore 
Pipeline and Fabrication Site, NPDES Permit, U.S. Army COE Section 10 
and 404 Permits, Mobile County, AL and San Patricio and Nueces County, 
TX.

    Summary: EPA expressed objections to the open loop re-gasification 
system due to immediate and cumulative adverse impacts to eastern Gulf 
waters and habitat. EPA requested additional information that is 
necessary for the federal Prevention of Significant Deterioration and 
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits required for 
this Deep Water Port.

Rating EO2

EIS No. 20050082, ERP No. D-FRC-J03001-CO, Entrega Pipeline Project, 
Construction and Operation New Interstate Natural Gas Pipeline System, 
Right-of-Way Grant Issue by BLM, Meeker Hub and Cheyenne Hub, Rio 
Blanco and Weld Counties, CO, and Sweetwater County, WY.

    Summary: EPA expressed concerns regarding the environmental impacts 
of additional natural gas development in the Piceance and Uinta basins 
to wildlife, water and air quality. EPA also recommended that other 
connected actions to the project and other projects that will be 
induced by the new pipeline be reviewed in the EIS.

Rating EC2

EIS No. 20050091, ERP No. D-FRC-G03026-00, Golden Pass Liquefied 
Natural Gas (LNG) Import Terminal and Natural Gas Pipeline Facilities, 
Construction and Operation, Jefferson, Orange, Newton Counties, TX and 
Calcasieu Parish, LA.

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns and requested 
additional information regarding alternatives, invasive species, air 
quality impacts and Clean Air Act conformity.

Rating EC2.Final EISs

EIS No. 20050071, ERP No. F-FHW-F40394-MI, I-94/Rehabilitation Project, 
Transportation Improvements to a 6.7 mile portion of I-94 from east I-
96 west and to Conner Avenue on the east end, Funding and NPDES Permit, 
City of Detroit, Wayne County, MI.

    Summary: EPA has no objections to the preferred alternative.

EIS No. 20050085, ERP No. F-FRC-K05060-CA, Stanislaus Rivers Projects, 
Relicensing of Hydroelectric Projects: Spring Gap-Stanislaus FERC No. 
2130; Beardsley/Donnells FERC No. 2005; Tulloch FERC No. 2067; and 
Donnells-Curtis Transmission Line FERC No. 2118, Tuolumne and Calaveras 
Counties, CA.

    Summary: EPA has no objections to the project as proposed. In 
response to comments from EPA, FERC clarified and provided additional 
information on impacts to water and air quality, efforts to involve 
tribal governments, and evaluation of environmental justice issues.

    Dated: April 26, 2005.
Ken Mittelholtz,
Environmental Protection Specialist, Office of Federal Activities.
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