[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 18 (Friday, January 27, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4577-4578]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-1042]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER--FRL-6671-7]


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. 20050340, ERP No. D-AFS-J65451-UT, West Fork Blacks Fork 
Allotment Management Plan, Proposes to Authorize Continued Livestock 
Grazing, Township 1 North, Range 11 East, Salt Lake Principle Meridan, 
Evanston Ranger District, Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Summit County, 
UT

    Summary: EPA expressed concerns about adverse impacts from sheep 
grazing to soils and vegetation. Rating EC2.

EIS No. 20050400, ERP No. D-BLM-K65291-00, Lake Havasu Field Office 
Resource Management Plan, Implementation, Colorado River, Davis Dam in 
the north and south to Park Dam, CA and AZ

    Summary: EPA does not object to the proposed project. Rating LO.

EIS No. 20050405, ERP No. D-NPS-K39094-NV, Clean Water Coalition 
Systems Conveyance and Operations Program, Construction, Operation and 
Maintenance, City of Las Vegas, City County, NV

    Summary: EPA expressed concerns about potential impacts to water 
quality and requested additional information on wastewater discharge 
permit requirements, details on water and air quality mitigation, 
criteria for effluent allocation between Las Vegas Wash and Boulder 
Basin, measures to conserve, reuse, and recycle water, and measures to 
reduce wastewater production. Rating EC2.

EIS No. 20050424, ERP No. D-NPS-K39095-CA, Furnace Creek Water 
Collection System, Reconstruction, Death Valley National Park, 
Implementation, Inyo County, CA

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about the proposed 
discharge of more than 120,000 gallons per day of reverse osmosis brine 
into the Furnace Creek Wash alluvium, which could affect surface water 
and groundwater quality. EPA requested that other disposal alternatives 
be considered. Rating EC2.

EIS No. 20050436, ERP No. D-NPS-F61022-MI, Isle Royale National Park 
Wilderness and Backcounty Management Plan, Implementation, MI

    Summary: EPA does not object to the proposed project. Rating LO.

EIS No. 20050446, ERP No. D-USN-E11059-00, Undersea Warfare Training 
Range (USWTR), Installation and Operation, Preferred Site (in the 
Cherry Point Operating Area) and the Alternate Sites (within the 
Virginia Capes and Jacksonville Operating Areas), NC, VA and FL

    Summary: EPA does not object to the proposed project. Rating LO.

Final EISs

EIS No. 20050391, ERP No. F-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's previous concerns about the potential impacts to 
water and air quality, environmental justice and tribal consultation 
have been adequately addressed; therefore, EPA does not object to the 
proposed action.


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EIS No. 20050423, ERP No. F-BLM-K65439-NV, Sloan Canyon National 
Conservation Area, Resource Management Plan, Implementation, Cities of 
Las Vegas and Henderson, Clark County, NV

    Summary: EPA does not object to the proposed project.

EIS No. 20050479, ERP No. F-SFW-A65171-00, Resident Canada Goose 
Management Plan, Evaluate Alternatives Strategies to Reduce, Manage, 
and Resident Canada Goose Population, Implementation, within the 
Conterminous U.S.

    Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.

EIS No. 20050508, ERP No. F-NPS-F65057-IN, Lincoln Boyhood National 
Memorial General Management Plan, Implementation, Lincoln City Spencer 
County, IN

    Summary: EPA does not object to the proposed project.

EIS No. 20050522, ERP No. F-NPS-G02014-TX, Big Thicket National 
Preserve Oil and Gas Management Plan, Implementation, Hardin, 
Jefferson, Orange, Liberty, Tyler, Jasper and Polk Counties, TX

    Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.

    Dated: January 24, 2006.
Ken Mittelholtz,
Environmental Protection Specialist, Office of Federal Activities.
 [FR Doc. E6-1042 Filed 1-26-06; 8:45 am]
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