[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 42 (Monday, March 3, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11431-11432]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-3987]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service


Notice of Availability, Draft Restoration Plan and Environmental 
Action Statement

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), on behalf of the 
Department of the Interior (DOI), as the natural resource trustee, 
announces the release for public review of the Draft Natural Resource 
Damage Restoration Plan and Environmental Action Statement (RP/EAS) for 
the Lakepoint Wetlands Site in Tooele County, Utah. The Draft RP/EAS 
presents a preferred alternative that compensates for impacts to 
natural resources caused by the release of hazardous substances from 
the Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation (KUCC) North Zone Wetlands 
National Priorities List Superfund Site.

DATES: Written comments must be submitted on or before April 2, 2008.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the RP/EAS are available for review during office 
hours at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Utah Ecological Services Field 
Office, 2369 West Orton Circle, Suite 50, West Valley City, Utah 84119, 
and online at http://mountain-prairie.fws.gov/nrda/LakepointWetlands. 
Requests for copies of the RP/EAS may be made to the same address. 
Interested members of the public are invited to review and comment on 
the RP/EAS. Written comments will be considered and addressed in the 
final RP/EAS at the conclusion of the 30-day public comment period. 
Written comments or materials regarding the RP/EAS should be sent to 
the Utah Ecological Services Field Office at the address given above.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chris Cline, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 
Service, Utah Ecological Services Field Office, 2369 West Orton Circle, 
Suite 50, West Valley City, Utah 84119. Interested parties also may 
call 801-975-3330 or e-mail [email protected] for further 
information.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    In December 2007, the DOI, acting as natural resource Trustee, 
reached a natural resource damages settlement for natural resource 
injuries associated with the discharge of hazardous substances at 
KUCC's North Zone Wetlands National Priorities List site, located on 
the south shore of the Great Salt Lake in Salt Lake County, Utah. The 
discharge of hazardous substances and the remedial activities injured 
Service trust resources (migratory birds). The terms of the natural 
resource damages settlement compensate for injuries at the North Zone 
Wetlands site by directing the restoration of comparable natural 
resources at the Lakepoint Wetlands Site in Tooele County, Utah.
    The RP/EAS is being released in accordance with the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 as 
amended, commonly known as Superfund, (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), the 
Natural Resource Damage Assessment Regulations found at 43 CFR, part 
11,

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and the National Environmental Policy Act. It is intended to describe 
and evaluate the Trustee's proposal to restore natural resources 
injured by the release of hazardous materials at the North Zone 
Wetlands National Priorities List Site.
    The RP/EAS describes a habitat restoration alternative agreed to in 
the natural resource damages settlement between KUCC and the Trustee, 
based on evaluation of several restoration alternatives. The preferred 
alternative consists of the restoration of a total of 249 hectares (616 
acres) of land at the Lakepoint Wetland site through acquisition and 
preservation into perpetuity of land and water rights, habitat and 
waterway improvement, and other actions described within the RP/EAS. 
These actions will compensate for injuries to natural resources, 
including migratory birds, and migratory bird habitat.

Author

    The primary author of this notice is Chris Cline, U.S. Fish and 
Wildlife Service, Utah Ecological Services Field Office, 2369 West 
Orton Circle, Suite 50, West Valley City, Utah 84119.

Authority

    The authority for this action is the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 as amended, commonly 
known as Superfund, (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), and the Natural Resource 
Damage Assessment Regulations found at 43 CFR part 11.

    Dated: December 21, 2007.
Gary G. Mowad,
Acting Deputy Regional Director, Denver, Colorado.
 [FR Doc. E8-3987 Filed 2-29-08; 8:45 am]
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