[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 150 (Friday, August 5, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45390-45391]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-15521]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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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. 20050072, ERP No. D-FHW-K40256-CA, 1st Street Viaduct and 
Street Widening Project, To Replace Two Traffic Lanes on the 1st Street 
Viaduct between Vignes Street and Mission Road, Funding, in the City 
and County of Los Angeles, CA.
    Summary: EPA has environmental concerns about the proposed project 
is air quality impacts.
    EPA is also concerned about the potential for similar 
transportation projects in the project vicinity, and requests a broader 
environmental justice analysis.
    Rating EC2.
    EIS No. 20050126, ERP No. D-COE-K36142-CA, Programmatic--San Luis 
Obispo Creek Watershed, Waterway Management Plan, Stream Maintenance 
and Management Plan, City of San Luis Obispo and County of San Luis 
Obispo, Community of Avila Beach, San Luis Obispo County, CA.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about the project's 
potential impacts to water quality, endangered species and habitat, and 
possible presence of asbestos.
    Rating EC2.
    EIS No. 20050173, ERP No. D-NRC-E06024-MS, Grand Gulf Early Site 
Permit (ESP) Site, Construction and Operation, Issuance of an Early 
Site Permit (ESP), NUREG-1817, Claiborne County, MS.
    Summary: EPA expressed concerns about wetlands and aquifer impacts, 
environmental justice, and public health and requested clarification of 
the regulatory limits for offsite releases of radio nuclides for the 
current candidate repository site.
    Rating EC2.
    EIS No. 20050195, ERP No. D-BLM-K39093-NV, North Valleys Right-of-
Way Projects, Proposed Construction and Operation of Water Transmission 
Pipelines, Washoe County, NV.
    Summary: EPA expressed concerns about cumulative and indirect 
impacts of the project on water, air, and biological resources. EPA 
recommended the FEIS address the potential impacts of exporting as much 
as 13,000 acre-feet/year from Fish Springs Ranch, the indirect impacts 
of growth in the water service area, and mitigation measures to 
minimize impacts.
    Rating EC2.
    EIS No. 20050200, ERP No. D-AFS-K65284-CA, Creeks Forest Health 
Recovery Project, To Develop a Network of Defensible Fuel Profile Zones 
(DFPZs), Group-Selection Timber Harvest, Individual Tree Selection, 
Lassen National Forest, Almanor Ranger District, Plumas County, CA.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about water and air 
quality impacts, environmental justice impacts, and consultation with 
tribal governments.
    Rating EC2.
    EIS No. 20050231, ERP No. D-AFS-J65444-MT, Gallatin National 
Forest, Proposed Travel Management Plan, Implementation, Forest Land 
and Resource Management, Madison, Gallatin, Park, Meagher, Sweetgrass 
and Carbon Counties, MT.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about potential 
impacts to water quality, aquatic habitat and fisheries, and wildlife 
from road erosion and motorized use, and suggested that the preferred 
alternative consider further reducing sedimentation from roads, close 
or restore poorly maintained roads and restrict new road construction.
    Rating EC2.

Final EISs

EIS No. 20050132, ERP No. F-BLM-K70009-CA, West Mojave Plan, Habitat 
Conservation Plan and Federal Land Use Plan Amendment, Implementation, 
California Desert Conservation Area, Portion of San Bernardino, Kern, 
Inyo, and Los Angeles Counties, CA.
    Summary: While EPA has no objections to the proposed action, it 
suggests the establishment of vehicle use quarantine areas to alleviate 
stresses in high tortoise density areas during prolonged drought, and 
the use of Level 1 best management practices in tortoise survey areas 
outside of Desert Wildlife Management Areas.
EIS No. 20050156, ERP No. F-IBR-K39089-CA, Folsom Dam Road Access 
Restriction Project, Control Access to Folsom Dam, City of Folsom, CA.
    Summary: EPA expressed continued concerns that changes in traffic 
patterns caused by the access restriction may indirectly result in 
localized air quality and environmental justice impacts.
EIS No. 20050215, ERP No. F-AFS-K65265-AZ, Bar T Bar Anderson Springs 
Allotment Management Plans to Authorize Permitted Livestock Grazing for 
a 10-Year Period, Coconino National Forest, Mogollon Rim and Mormon 
Lake Ranger District, Coconino County, AZ.
    Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
EIS No. 20050241, ERP No. F-BLM-A65174-00, Programmatic--Proposed 
Revision to Grazing Regulations for the Public Lands, 42 CFR part 4100, 
in the Western Portion of the United States.
    Summary: EPA continues to express environmental concerns about the 
potential for adverse impacts to water quality, and recommended that 
monitoring data be collected at both watershed and smaller unit levels 
and that BLM further define range readiness.
EIS No. 20050242, ERP No. F-FRC-G03025-TX, Ingleside Energy Center 
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Import Terminal and San Patricio Pipeline 
Natural Gas Pipeline, Authorization to Construct, Install and Operate, 
San Patricio and Nueces Counties, TX.
    Summary: EPA's previous issues have been resolved; therefore, EPA 
has no objection to the proposed action.
EIS No. 20050246, ERP No. F-COE-H11005-NE, Cornhusker Army Ammunition 
Plant (CHAAP) Land Disposal Industrial Tracts, Proposed Disposal and 
Reuse of Tracts 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 47, 61, 62, Hall County, NE.
    Summary: EPA has no objection to the action as proposed.
EIS No. 20050265, ERP No. F-NPS-K65276-AZ, Chiricahua National Monument 
Fire Management Plan (FMP), Implementation, AZ.

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    Summary: EPA has no objections to the proposed project.
EIS No. 20050254, ERP No. FS-NOA-C91004-00, Amendment to the Fishery 
Management Plans (FMPs), Amendment 2 for the Spiny Lobster Fishery; 
Amendment 1 for the Queen Conch Resources; Amendment 3 for the Reef 
Fish Fishery; Amendment 2 Corals and Reef Associated Invertebrates, 
U.S. Caribbean to Address Required Provisions MSFCMA, Puerto Rico and 
the U.S. Virgin Island.
    Summary: EPA has no objections to the proposed project.

    Dated: August 2, 2005.
Robert W. Hargrove,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
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