[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 145 (Friday, July 29, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43866-43867]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-15049]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[ER-FRL-6665-8]
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
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in the Federal Register dated April 1, 2005 (70 FR 16815).
Draft EISs
EIS No. 20050192, ERP No. D-AFS-K65283-CA, Empire Vegetation Management
Project, Reducing Fire Hazards, Harvesting of Trees Using Group-
Selection (GS) and Individual Trees Selection (ITS) Methods, Mt. Hough
Ranger District, Plumas National Forest, Plumas County, CA.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about cumulative
impacts to air and water quality as a result of prescribed fire,
mechanical harvesting, and road construction, and requested the final
EIS include additional information on monitoring and maintenance of the
desired conditions.
Rating EC2.
EIS No. 20050206, ERP No. D-SFW-E65074-NC, Roanoke River National
Wildlife Refuge, Comprehensive Conservation Plan, To Determine and
Evaluate a Range of Reasonable Management Alternatives, Bertie County,
NC.
Summary: EPA supports the agency's Preferred Alternative 3, which
maximizes wildlife-dependent uses of Refuge resources.
Rating LO.
EIS No. 20050210, ERP No. D-AFS-J65443-CO, Rock Creek Integrated
Management Project, Propose Treatment to Address Mountain Beetle
Epidemics, and to Reduce Wildfires within the Rock Creek Analysis Area,
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests and Thunder Basin National
Grassland, Glenwood Springs Resource Area, Routt and Grand Counties,
CO.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about on the
potential for adverse impacts to impaired streams and already
significantly impacted watersheds, and requested that the final EIS
include a more definitive estimation of water quality impacts and
specific mitigation for measures for watershed impacts.
Rating EC2.
EIS No. 20050211, ERP No. D-SFW-H65024-IA, Driftless Area National
Wildlife Refuge Comprehensive Conservation Plan, To Recover and
Conserve the Northern Monkshood and Iowa Pleistocene Snail, IA.
Summary: EPA has no objections to the proposed project.
Rating LO.
EIS No. 20050213, ERP No. D-FHW-F40432-MN, Trunk Highway 23
Improvements Project, From 0.25 Miles West of CSAH 6 in Kandiyohi
County to 0.3 Miles Southwest of CSAH 123 Stearns County, City of
Paynesville, Kandiyohi and Stearns Counties, MN.
Summary: EPA has environmental concerns about the proposed
project's impacts to water quality and the drinking water supply,
aquatic resources, wildlife habitat, wetlands, and sensitive noise
receptors.
Rating EC2.
Final EISs
EIS No. 20050140, ERP No. F-FHW-K40250-NV, Boulder City/US 93 Corridor
Transportation Improvements, Study Limits are between a western
boundary on U.S. 95 in the City of Henderson and an eastern boundary on
U.S. 93 west of downtown Boulder City, NPDES and U.S. Army COE Section
404 Permits Issuance and Right-of-Way Grant, Clark County, NV.
Summary: EPA continues to have environmental concerns about the
proposed project's impacts to water, biological resources, and air
quality, as well as invasive species issues.
EIS No. 20050155, ERP No. F-AFS-L65114-00, Plentybob Ecosystem
Restoration Project, Restoration Activities Include: Prescribed Fire,
Timber Harvest, Road Obliteration, Hardwood Planting and Noxious Weed
Treatment, Implementation, Walla Walla Ranger District, Umatilla
National Forest, Umatilla County, OR.
Summary: The Final EIS addressed EPA's request for additional
information on air quality impacts from smoke. EPA has no objections to
the proposed project.
EIS No. 20050237, ERP No. F-NOA-K91012-00, Bottomfish and Seamount
Groundfish Fisheries Conservation and Management Plan, Implementation,
US Economic Zone (EEZ) around the State of Hawaii, Territories of Samoa
and Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana and various Islands and
Atolls known as the U.S. Pacific remove Island areas, HI, GU and AS.
Summary: EPA continues to have concerns about potential impacts to
the Hawaiian monk seal because the project no longer incorporate
voluntary mitigation measures into the Fishery Management Plan or
codified in regulations.
EIS No. 20050255, ERP No. F-BLM-A65175-00, Programmatic--Wind Energy
Development Program, To Address Stewardship, Conservation and Resource
Use on BLM-Administered Lands, Right-of-Way Grants, Western United
States.
Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
EIS No. 20050271, ERP No. F-AFS-J65021-MT, Gallatin National Forest
Noxious and Invasive Weed Control Project, To Prevent and Reduce Loss
of Native Plant, Bozeman, Carbon, Madison, Gallatin, Meagher, Park, and
Sweet Grass Counties, MT.
Summary: EPA has no objections to the proposed action and supports
the integrated weed management program, emphasizing the need for
adequate mitigation measures and monitoring to protect surface and
ground waters and public health.
Dated: July 26, 2005.
Robert W. Hargrove,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
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