[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 195 (Friday, October 9, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52230-52231]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-24468]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-8598-2]


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 202-564-7146 or http://www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/.
    An explanation of the ratings assigned to draft environmental 
impact statements (EISs) was published in FR dated July 17, 2009 (74 FR 
34754).

Draft EISs

EIS No. 20090038, ERP No. D-COE-K35045-CA, PROGRAMMATIC--Los Angeles 
Regional Dredge Material Management Plan, Develop a Long-

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Term Strategy for Managing Dredged Sediment for all Harbors within the 
Region, City of Long Beach and County of Los Angeles, CA.

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about the need for 
additional alternatives analysis; analysis of sediment management 
options; and better evaluation of dredging methods. Rating EC2.

EIS No. 20090134, ERP No. D-COE-K65363-CA, Newhall Ranch Resource 
Management and Development Plan (RMDP) and the Spineflower Conservation 
Plan (SCP), Implementation, Portion of Santa Clara River Valley, Los 
Angeles County, CA.

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental objections to water quality 
impacts to tributaries of the Santa Clara River, and expressed concerns 
about impacts to air quality, traffic, and water supply. EPA 
recommended the maximum avoidance alternative that reduces project 
footprint and impacts and provided additional green building resources. 
Rating EO2.

EIS No. 20090177, ERP No. D-AFS-K65366-CA, Lassen National Forest, 
Motorized Travel Management Plan, Implementation, Butte, Lassen, Modoc, 
Plumas, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama Counties, CA.

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about the scope of 
alternatives analysis, water resource impacts, decommissioning of 
unauthorized routes, and monitoring and enforcement of travel 
management requirements. Rating EC2.

EIS No. 20090232, ERP No. D-BIA-K60043-CA, Soboba Band of Luiseno 
Indians Horseshoe Grande Fee-to-Trust Project, Construction of a Hotel 
and Casino Project, City of San Jacinto, Riverside County, CA.

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about potential 
impacts to waters of the U.S. from the wastewater treatment percolation 
pond, and recommended mitigation measures for construction equipment 
emissions, pollution prevention measures to avoid soil contamination, 
and commitments to green building design. Rating EC2.

EIS No. 20090254, ERP No. D-AFS-K65377-00, Bridgeport Travel Management 
Project, To Provide the Primary Framework for Sustainable Management of 
Motor Vehicle Use on the Bridgeport Ranger District, Humboldt-Toiyabe 
National Forest, Mono County, CA and Lyon, Douglas, and Mineral 
Counties, NV.

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about the scope of 
alternatives analysis, water resources, wet weather and seasonal 
closures, erosion, decommissioning of unauthorized routes, climate 
change, and monitoring and enforcement of travel management 
requirements. Rating EC2.

EIS No. 20090266, ERP No. D-IBR-K39120-CA, Madera Irrigation District 
Water Supply Enhancement Project, Constructing and Operating a Water 
Bank on the Madera Property, Madera County, CA.

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about the long-term 
feasibility of this conjunctive use/water bank project given 
increasingly constrained source water supplies, and potential 
significant impacts to vernal pools, rare alkali rain pools, and 
threatened and endangered species. Rating EC2.

EIS No. 20090273, ERP No. D-FSA-A65177-00, PROGRAMMATIC--Biomass Crop 
Assistance Program (BCAP), To Establish and Administer the Program 
Areas Program Component of BCAP as mandated in Title IX of the 2008 
Farm Bill in the United States.

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about potential 
direct, indirect and cumulative impacts bioenergy crops will have on 
water quality and air quality to waters of the U.S., and recommended a 
monitoring program for the BCAP and subsequent individual projects. 
Rating EC2.

EIS No. 20090280, ERP No. DS-FHW-E40768-TN, Shelby Avenue/Demonbreun 
Street (Gateway Boulevard Corridor, from I-65 North [I-24 West] to I-40 
West in Downtown Nashville, To Address Transportation needs in the 
Study Area, Davidson County, TN.

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about air toxic 
impacts and requested that this issue be addressed. EPA also requested 
that the document include appropriate mitigation. Rating EC2.

Final EISs

EIS No. 20090236, ERP No. F-FHW-K53013-CA, Orange County Gateway 
Project, To Provide Grade Separation Alternative Along the Burlington 
Northern Santa Fe railroad tracks from west of Bradford Avenue to west 
of Imperial Highway (State Route 90), Cities of Placentia and Anaheim, 
Orange County, CA.

    Summary: EPA continues to have environmental concerns about impacts 
to air quality and jurisdictional waters, as well as, cumulative 
impacts and environmental justice impacts.

EIS No. 20090288, ERP No. F-COE-K39041-CA, Natomas Levee Improvement 
Program, Phase 3 Landside Improvements Project, Issuance of Section 408 
and 404 Permits, Sacramento and Sutter Counties, CA.

    Summary: EPA continues to have environmental concerns about the 
residual flood risk to development in a floodplain protected by levees, 
and indirect and cumulative environmental effects. EPA recommended 
Natomas Basin flood safety plan implementation prior to additional 
development.

EIS No. 20090300, ERP No. F-NPS-K61169-AZ, Fire Management Plan, 
Management of Wildland and Prescribed Fire, Protection of Human Life 
and Property Restoration and Maintenance of Fire Dependent Ecosystems, 
and Reduction of Hazardous Fuels, Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino 
County, AZ.

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

    Dated: October 6, 2009.
Robert W. Hargrove,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
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