[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 62 (Friday, March 31, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16301-16302]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-4726]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-6673-8]


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

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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 1, 2005 (70 FR 16815).

Draft EISs

EIS No. 20050342, ERP No. D-NOA-E91016-00, Consolidated Atlantic Highly 
Migratory Species Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic Tunas, 
Swordfish, and Shark and the Atlantic Billfish Fishery Management Plan, 
Implementation, Atlantic Coast, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.

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

EIS No. 20050523, ERP No. D-AFS-D65033-PA, West Branch of Tionesta 
Project, Road Construction and Vegetation Management, State Game Lands 
No 29 and Chapman Dam State Park, Sheffield, Warren County, PA.

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

EIS No. 20060024, ERP No. DS-AFS-F65039-WI, McCaslin Project, 
Vegetation Management Activities that are Consistent with Direction in 
the Nicolet Forest Plan, New Information to Address Inadequate 
Disclosure of the Cumulative Effect Analysis for Six Animal and Eight 
Plant Species, Lakewood/Lasna District, Chequamegaon-Nicolet National 
Forest, Oconto and Forest Counties, WI.

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns because the 
cumulative impact analysis does not include all reasonably foreseeable 
actions, and requested that the analysis be expanded to include all 
reasonable cumulative impacts, including non-USFS actions. Rating EC2.

Final EISs

EIS No. 20050537, ERP No. F-AFS-K61162-CA, Ansel Adams and John Muir 
Wildernesses, Trail and Commercial Pack Stock Management, 
Implementation, Inyo, Mono, Madera and Fresno Counties, CA.

    Summary: EPA continues to have concerns about impacts relating to 
streams, meadows and trails and recommended destination quotas and 
maximum stock nights be aligned with the recovery needs of the 
resource. EPA also requested that the ROD describe public involvement 
and environmental analysis requirements for adaptive management 
decisions and clearly commit to the site-specific analysis of pack 
station locations and their impacts.

EIS No. 20050550, ERP No. F-AFS-K65287-CA, North Fork Eel Grazing 
Allotment Management Project, Proposing to Authorize Cattle Grazing on 
Four Allotment, Six Rivers National Forest, Mad River Ranger District, 
North Fork Eel river and Upper Mad River, Trinity County, CA.

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

EIS No. 20060019, ERP No. F-FHW-C50014-NY, Willis Avenue Bridge 
Reconstruction, Proposing Reconstruction of 100-year Old Willis Avenue 
Bridge over the Harem River between Manhattan and the Bronx, New York 
and Bronx Counties, NY.

    Summary: EPA does not object to the proposed project.

EIS No. 20060044, ERP No. F-SFW-H65024-IA, Driftless Area National 
Wildlife Refuge Comprehensive Conservation Plan, to Recover and 
Conserve the Northern Monkshood and Iowa Pleistocene Snail, IA.

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

EIS No. 20060059, ERP No. F-USA-D11038-PA, Pennsylvania Army National 
Guard's 56th Brigade Transformation into a Stryker Brigade Combat Team 
(SBCT), Proposal to Comply with this Directive, near Annville, PA.

    Summary: EPA's previous comments have been adequately addressed; 
therefore, EPA does not object to the proposed action.

    Dated: March 28, 2006.
Robert W. Hargrove,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
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