[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 242 (Friday, December 18, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67205-67206]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-30126]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-8986-7]


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 202-564-7146 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).
    Notice: In accordance with Section 309(a) of the Clean Air Act, EPA 
is required to make its comments on EISs issued by other Federal 
agencies public. Historically, EPA has met this mandate by publishing 
weekly notices of availability of EPA comments, which includes a brief 
summary of EPA's comment letters, in the Federal Register. Since 
February 2008, EPA has been including its comment letters on EISs on 
its Web site at: http://www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/eisdata.html. 
Including the entire EIS comment letters on the Web site satisfies the 
Section 309(a) requirement to make EPA's comments on EISs available to 
the public. Accordingly, after March 31, 2010, EPA will discontinue the 
publication of this notice of availability of EPA comments in the 
Federal Register.

Draft EISs

EIS No. 20090303, ERP No. D-AFS-L65520-OR, Upper Beaver Creek 
Vegetation Management Project, Proposes to Implement Multiple Resource 
Management Actions, Pauline Ranger District, Ochoco National Forest, 
Crook County, OR.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about riparian 
habitat impacts. Rating EC2.

EIS No. 20090320, ERP No. D-AFS-L65521-OR, EXF Thinning, Fuel 
Reduction, and Research Project, Proposal for Vegetation Management and 
Fuel Reduction within the Lookout Mountain Unit of the Pringle Falls 
Experimental Forest, Bend/Ft. Rock Ranger District, Deschutes National 
Forest, Deschutes County, OR

    Summary: EPA does not object to the proposed project. Rating LO.

EIS No. 20090332, ERP No. D-AFS-K65380-NV, Middle Kyle Canyon Complex 
Project, Construction and Operation of a Recreation Complex within the 
Spring Mountains National Recreation Area, Humboldt-Toiyabe National 
Forest, Clark County, NV

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about impacts to 
water quality, hydrology, aquatic resources, critical habitat, and air 
quality. EPA requested that these impacts be mitigated. Rating EC2.

EIS No. 20090373, ERP No. DS-BLM-K65352-NV, ON Line Project, 
(Previously Known as Ely Energy Center) Proposed 236-mile long 500 kV 
Electric Transmission Line from a new substation near Ely, Nevada 
approximately 236 mile south to the existing Harry Allen substation 
near Las Vegas, Clark, Lincoln, Nye and White Pine Counties, NV

    Summary: EPA does not object to the proposed project. Rating LO.

EIS No. 20090379, ERP No. DS-COE-E30037-FL, Brevard County, Florida

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Hurricane and Storm Damage Reduction Project, To Reduce the Damages 
Caused by Erosion and Coastal Storms to Shorefront Structures Along the 
Mid-Reach Segment, Implementation, Brevard County, FL

    Summary: EPA continues to have environmental concerns about the 
long-term impacts of inundating hard-bottom habitat. Rating EC2.

Final EISs

EIS No. 20090358, ERP No. F-AFS-J65541-MT, Marsh and Tarhead Allotment 
Management Plans, Proposes to Authorize Grazing of Livestock under 10-
year Permits, Lincoln Ranger District, Helena National Forest, Lewis 
and Clark Counties, MT

    Summary: EPA's previous issues have been resolved; therefore, EPA 
does not object to the proposed action.

EIS No. 20090387, ERP No. F-BLM-K65030-CA, Carrizo Plain National 
Monument, Draft Resource Management Plan, Implementation, San Luis 
Obispo County and Portion of western Kern County, CA

    Summary: EPA does not object to the proposed project.

    Dated: December 15, 2009.
Ken Mittelholtz,
Deputy Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal 
Activities.
[FR Doc. E9-30126 Filed 12-17-09; 8:45 am]
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