[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 174 (Friday, September 8, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 53093]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-14887]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-6679-1]


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 FR dated April 7, 2006 (71 FR 17845).

Draft EISs

EIS No. 20060138, ERP No. D-BLM-K65305-CA, United States Gypsum 
Expansion/Modernization Project, Expand and Upgrade Plaster City Plant 
to Increase Wallboard Production Capacity with Related Increases in 
Water Supply, Right-of-Way Grant, Imperial County, CA.

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about impacts to 
watershed resources, including water quality and habitat, groundwater 
quality and quantity, and air quality and that these impacts should be 
avoided or mitigated. Rating EC2.

EIS No. 20060205, ERP No. D-AFS-D65036-PA, Allegheny National Forest, 
Proposed Revised Land and Resource Management Plan, Implementation, 
Elk, Forest, McKean, and Warren Counties, PA.

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about potential 
adverse impacts to water quality and aquatic and terrestrial resources. 
Management activities of most concern include oil, gas, mineral 
extraction, and associated infrastructure, especially roads. The final 
EIS should further minimize impacts or include adequate mitigation 
measures to reduce sedimentation, habitat loss and fragmentation. 
Rating EC2.

EIS No. 20060258, ERP No. D-FRC-L05236-OR, Clackamas River 
Hydroelectric Project, Application for Relicensing of a Existing 173 
megawatt(MS) Project, (FERC No. 2195-011) Clackamas River Basin, 
Clackamas County, OR.

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about potential 
exceedance of the temperature water quality standard and requested 
additional information on dissolved oxygen in salmonid spawning and 
rearing areas. Rating EC2.

Final EISs

EIS No. 20060254, ERP No. F-FHW-C40166-NY, Southtowns Connector/Buffalo 
Outer Harbor Project, Improvements on the NY Route 5 Corridor from 
Buffalo Skyway Bridge to NY Route 179, in the City of Buffalo, City of 
Lackawanna and Town of Hamburg, Erie County, NY.

    Summary: EPA does not object to the preferred alternative.

EIS No. 20060302, ERP No. F-NPS-E65077-FL, Fort King National Historic 
Landmark, Special Resource Study, Implementation, Second Seminole War 
Site, City of Ocala, Marion County, FL.

    Summary: EPA does not object to the proposed project.

EIS No. 20060310, ERP No. F-IBR-G31003-NM, Long-Term Miscellaneous 
Purposes Contract Abstract, To Use Carlsbad Project Water for Purposes 
Other than Irrigation, Eddy County, NM.

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

    Dated: September 5, 2006.
Ken Mittelholtz,
Environmental Protection Specialist, Office of Federal Activities.
 [FR Doc. E6-14887 Filed 9-7-06; 8:45 am]
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