[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 230 (Friday, November 30, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67722-67723]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-23242]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-6693-6]


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 6, 2007 (72 FR 17156).

Draft EISs

EIS No. 20070359, ERP No. DS-BLM-L65462-AK, Northeast National 
Petroleum Reserve--Alaska Integrated Activity Plan, Updated 
Information, addressing the need for more Oil and Gas Production 
through Leasing Lands, Consideration of 4 Alternatives, North Slope 
Borough, AK.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental objections to each action 
alternative because of potential adverse impacts to wetlands, aquatic 
habitat and fish and wildlife. EPA suggests considering an alternative 
that will reduce the potential impacts, especially to water quality, by 
retaining the current leasing acreage, and surface activity 
restrictions, incorporating both performance based stipulations and 
Required Operating Procedures until data on effectiveness of these 
measures become available.
    Rating EO2.

Final EISs

EIS No. 20070398, ERP No. F-BLM-L65510-AK, Kobuk-Seward Peninsula 
Resource Management Plan, from Point Lay to the North Sound and from 
the Bering and Chukchi Seas East to the Kobuk River, AK.
    Summary: While the final EIS provides for the development of a 
habitat management plan, EPA continues to have environmental concerns 
about impacts to resources from the lack of specific requirements for 
the abandonment, removal, and reclamation of activities relating to 
resource exploration, development, and operation after leases have 
expired and operations have cease.

EIS No. 20070418, ERP No. F-NPS-E65078-NC, North Shore Road, Great 
Smoky Mountains National Park,

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General Management Plan, Implementation, Fontana Dam, Swain County, NC.
    Summary: EPA does not object to the selection of the preferred 
alternative.

EIS No. 20070433, ERP No. F-BIA-L65495-ID, PROGRAMMATIC--Coeur d' Alene 
Tribe Integrated Resource Management Plan, Implementation, Coeur d' 
Alene Reservation and Aboriginal Territory, ID.
    Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.

    Dated: November 27, 2007.
Ken Mittelholtz,
Environmental Protection Specialist, Office of Federal Activities.
[FR Doc. E7-23242 Filed 11-29-07; 8:45 am]
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