[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 22 (Friday, February 2, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5048-5049]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-1728]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-6683-7]


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

Draft EISs

EIS No. 20060355, ERP No. D-MMS-A02244-00, Outer Continental Shelf Oil 
& Gas Leasing Program: 2007-2012, Exploration and Development Offshore 
Marine Environment and Coastal Counties of AL, AK, DE, FL, LA, MD, MS, 
NJ, NC, TX and VA. Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about 
cumulative impacts and mitigation. Rating EC2.
EIS No. 20060378, ERP No. D-NPS-A84030-00, Programmatic--Service-wide 
Benefits Sharing Project, To Clarify the Rights and Responsibilities of 
Researchers and National Park Service (NPS) Management in Connection 
with the Use of Valuable Discoveries, Inventions, and Other 
Developments, across the United States. Summary: EPA does not object to 
the preferred alternative. Rating LO.
EIS No. 20060413, ERP No. D-FTA-E59003-FL, Programmatic--South Florida 
East Coast Corridor Transit Analysis Study Tier 1, To Address 
Transportation Demand, Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties, FL. 
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about the impacts to 
aquatic resources (wetlands, streams, sole source aquifers, and aquatic 
preserves), communities, archeological and historic properties, and 
contaminated sites, and noise impacts. Rating EC2.
EIS No. 20060415, ERP No. D-USA-J11023-CO, Fort Carson Transformation 
Program, Implementation, Base Realignment and Closure Activities, Fort 
Carson, El Paso, Pueblo and Fremont Counties, CO. Summary: EPA 
expressed environmental concerns about impacts to water quality, air 
quality and biological resources, and requested additional information 
on these impacts and mitigation measures to reduced impacts. Rating 
EC2.
EIS No. 20060437, ERP No. D-NRS-D36122-WV, Dunloup Creek Watershed 
Plan, Voluntary Floodplain Buyout, Implementation, West Virginia Third 
Congressional District, Fayette and Raleigh Counties, WV. Summary: EPA 
does not object to the proposed action. Rating LO.
EIS No. 20060440, ERP No. D-GSA-D81037-VA, Federal Bureau of 
Investigation (FBI) Central Records Complex, Site Selection and 
Construction, Winchester, Frederick County, VA. Summary: EPA expressed 
environmental concern about potential water resource impacts. Rating 
EC1.
EIS No. 20060455, ERP No. D-WPA-K05063-AZ, San Luis Rio Colorado 
Project, Construct, Operate, Maintain, and Connect a Double-Circuited 
500,000-volt Electric Transmission Line, Right-of-Way Grant and 
Presidential Permit, (DOE/EIS-0395) Yuma County, AZ. Summary: EPA does 
not object to the proposed action. Rating LO.
EIS No. 20060475, ERP No. D-SFW-G64013-TX, Texas Chenier Plain

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National Wildlife Refuge Complex, Development of a 15-Year Management 
Plan (Comprehensive Conservation Plan) for Refuge Complex, and 
Expansion of the Approval Land Acquisition Boundaries (Land Protection 
Plan) for the Four Refuges: Moody, Anahuac, McFaddin and Texas Point 
National Wildlife Refuges, Chambers, Jefferson and Galveston Counties, 
TX. Summary: EPA does not object to the preferred alternative. Rating 
LO.
EIS No. 20060478, ERP No. D-COE-K39102-CA, Success Dam Seismic 
Remediation Dam Safety Project, Proposes To Remediate Deficiencies in 
the Dam's Foundation, Tulare River, Tulare County, CA. Summary: EPA 
expressed environmental concerns about impacts to air quality and 
aquatic resources, and requested additional information on the 
alternatives analysis and mitigation for impacts to water resources and 
fisheries. Rating EC2.
EIS No. 20060494, ERP No. D-DOE-D09801-WV, Western Greenbier Co-
Production Demonstration Project, Construction and Demonstration of a 
98 megawatt (MWe) Net Power Plant and Ash Byproduct Manufacturing 
Facility, Rainelle, WV. Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns 
about water resource impacts, coal refuse pile restoration activity, 
and ash management. Rating EC2.
EIS No. 20060247, ERP No. DS-FTA-E40775-FL, Miami North Corridor 
Project, Updated Information, Transit Improvement between NW 62 Street 
at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Station and NW 215th Street at the Dade/
Broward Counties Line, Funding, Dade County, FL. Summary: EPA expressed 
environmental concerns about noise and contamination impacts as well as 
impacts related to relocations. In addition, EPA recommends that 
mitigation measures be documented in the FEIS as project commitments. 
Rating EC2.

Final EIS's

EIS No. 20060491, ERP No. F1-FHW-L40194-WA, WA-167 Freeway Project, 
Construction, from 161 (Meridan Street North) in the City of Puyallup 
to the WA-509 Freeway in the City of Tacoma, Funding, U.S. Coast Guard, 
NPDES, U.S. Army COE Section 10 and 404 Permits, Cities of Puyallup, 
Fife, Edgewood, Milton, and Tacoma, Pierce County, WA. Summary: EPA 
continues to have environmental concerns about loss of prime farmland, 
and impacts to listed fish species, water quality, and wildlife habitat 
connectivity. EPA has further concerns about noise, air toxics, and 
environmental justice and tribal issues.
EIS No. 20060433, ERP No. F-NOA-L91027-00, Pacific Coast Groundfish 
Fishery Management Plan, Proposed Acceptable Biological Catch and 
Optimum Yield Specifications and Management Measures for the 2007-2008 
Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery and Amendment 16-4 Rebuilding Plans 
for Seven Depleted Pacific Coast Groundfish Species, WA, OR and CA. 
Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
EIS No. 20060487, ERP No. F-AFS-K65315-CA, South Yuba Canal Maintenance 
Project, Hazardous Trees Removal, Implementation, Tahoe National 
Forest, Nevada County, CA. Summary: No formal comment letter was sent 
to the preparing agency.
EIS No. 20060489, ERP No. F-COE-F32198-00, Lock and Dam 3 Mississippi 
River Navigation Safety and Embankments, To Reduce Related Navigation 
Safety and Embankment Problems, Upper Mississippi River, Goodhue 
County, MN and Pierce County, WI. Summary: EPA's original concerns 
about proposed mitigation monitoring, water quality, and conclusions 
with cumulative impact analysis have been adequately addressed; 
therefore, we do not object to the proposed project.
EIS No. 20060504, ERP No. F-IBR-K39095-CA, South Delta Improvements 
Program, To Improve Water Quality, Water Conveyance, and Fish Habitat 
Conditions, Central Valley Project, U.S. Army COE Section 404 Permit, 
South Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, Several Counties, CA. 
Summary: EPA supports the staged decision-making process between Stage 
1 physical construction and Stage 2 operational actions. EPA provided 
recommendations for Stage 2 analyses, and urged undertaking a public 
process to scope key issues for the Stage 2 document. EPA emphasized 
the need to evaluate, and avoid, water quality impacts of gate 
operations and analysis of alternatives that meet the basic project 
purpose as part of the continuing Clean Water Act permitting process.
EIS No. 20060511, ERP No. F-DOE-G03030-00, Strategic Petroleum Reserve 
Expansion, Site Selection of Five New Sites: Chacahoula and Clovelly, 
in Lafourche Parish, LA; Burinsburg, Claiborne County, MS; Richton, 
Perry County, MS; and Stratton Ridge, Brazoria County, TX and Existing 
Site Bayou Choctaw, Iberville Parish, LA, West Hackberry, Cameron and 
Calcasieu Parishes, LA; and Big Hill, Jefferson County, TX. Summary: No 
formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
EIS No. 20060527, ERP No. F-AFS-F65065-WI, Long Rail Vegetation and 
Transportation Management Project, Implementation, Eagle River-Florence 
Ranger District, Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Florence and 
Forest Counties, WI. Summary: The Final EIS addressed EPA's comments 
relating to consistency with the Forest Management Plan; we support 
continued monitoring of Regional Forester Sensitive Species as part of 
the Forest's environmental management system. EPA does not object to 
the proposed action.

    Dated: January 30, 2007.
Robert W. Hargrove,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
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