25666 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 83 / Friday, April 29, 2016 / Notices 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[ER–FRL–9026–7] 

Environmental Impact Statements; 

Notice of Availability 

Responsible Agency: Office of Federal 

Activities, General Information (202) 

564–7146 or http://www2.epa.gov/nepa. 

Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact 

Statements 

Filed 04/18/2016 Through 04/22/2016 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9. 

Notice 

Section 309(a) of the Clean Air Act 

requires that EPA make public its 

comments on EISs issued by other 

Federal agencies. EPA’s comment letters 

on EISs are available at: http://

www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/

eisdata.html. 

EIS No. 20160082, Draft, NPS, CA, Vista 

Grande Drainage Basin Improvement 

Project, Comment Period Ends: 07/01/ 

2016, Contact: Steven Ortega 415– 

561–4955 

EIS No. 20160083, Final, USACE, TX, 

Surface Coal and Lignite Mining, 

Review Period Ends: 05/31/2016, 

Contact: Darvin Messer 817–886–1744 

EIS No. 20160084, Final, USACE, NC, 

Town of Ocean Isle Beach Shoreline 

Management Project, Review Period 

Ends: 05/31/2016, Contact: Tyler 

Crumbley 910–251–4170 

EIS No. 20160085, Draft, USFWS, WY, 

Eagle Take Permits for the 

Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Phase 

I Wind Energy Project, Comment 

Period Ends: 06/27/2016, Contact: 

Louise Galiher 303–236–8677 

EIS No. 20160086, Draft, Caltrans, CA, 

Interstate 10 Corridor Project, 

Comment Period Ends: 06/13/2016, 

Contact: Aaron Burton 909–383–2841 

EIS No. 20160087, Draft, USACE, SC, 

Navy Base Intermodal Container 

Transfer Facility, North Charleston, 

Comment Period Ends: 06/13/2016, 

Contact: Dr. Richard L. Darden 843– 

329–8043 

EIS No. 20160088, Final, USFS, CA, Rim 

Fire Reforestation, Review Period 

Ends: 06/13/2016, Contact: Maria 

Benech (209) 532–3671 

EIS No. 20160089, Draft, FERC, OH, 

Leach and Rayne Xpress Expansion 

Projects, Comment Period Ends: 06/

13/2016, Contact: Juan Polit 202–502– 

8652 

EIS No. 20160090, Final, NRC, PA, 

Combined License for the Bell Bend 

Nuclear Power Plant, Review Period 

Ends: 05/31/2016, Contact: Tomeka 

Terry 301–415–1488 

Amended Notices 

EIS No. 20160062, Draft, ARS, ID, U.S. 

Sheep Experiment Station Grazing 

and Associated Activities Project, 

Comment Period Ends: 06/16/2016, 

Contact: Christine Handler 559–920– 

2188, Revision to the FR Notice 

Published; Extending the Comment 

Period from 05/02/2016 to 06/16/2016 

Dated: April 26, 2016. 

Karin Leff, 

Acting Director, NEPA Compliance Division, 

Office of Federal Activities. 

[FR Doc. 2016–10078 Filed 4–28–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–ORD–2016–0196; FRL–9945–79–ORD] 

Updates to the Demographic and 

Spatial Allocation Models To Produce 

Integrated Climate and Land Use 

Scenarios Version 2 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of public comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is announcing a 30-day 

public comment period for the draft 

document titled, ‘‘Updates to the 

Demographic and Spatial Allocation 

Models to Produce Integrated Climate 

and Land Use Scenarios (ICLUS) 

Version 2’’ (EPA/600/R–14/324). EPA is 

also announcing that Versar, Inc., an 

EPA contractor for external scientific 

peer review, will select four 

independent experts from a pool of 

eight to conduct a letter peer review of 

the same draft document. The document 

was prepared by the National Center for 

Environmental Assessment within 

EPA’s Office of Research and 

Development. This document describes 

the development of version 2 of 

Integrated Climate and Land Use 

Scenarios (ICLUS), including updates to 

data sets and the demographic and 

spatial allocation models. 

EPA intends to forward the public 

comments that are submitted in 

accordance with this document to the 

external peer reviewers for their 

consideration during the letter peer 

review. When finalizing the draft 

documents, EPA intends to consider any 

public comments received in response 

to this document. EPA is releasing this 

draft document for the purposes of 

public comment and peer review. This 

draft document is not final as described 

in EPA’s information quality guidelines 

and does not represent and should not 

be construed to represent Agency policy 

or views. 

The draft document is available via 

the Internet on EPA’s Risk Web page 

under the Recent Additions at http://

www.epa.gov/risk. 

DATES: The document will be available 

on April 29, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: The draft report, ‘‘Updates 

to the Demographic and Spatial 

Allocation Models to Produce Integrated 

Climate and Land Use Scenarios 

(ICLUS) Version 2,’’ is available 

primarily via the Internet on the 

Ecological Risk Assessment Products 

and Publications Web page at http://

www.epa.gov/risk/ecological-riskassessment-products-and-publications. 

A limited number of paper copies are 

available from the Information 

Management Team, NCEA; telephone: 

703–347–8561; facsimile: 703–347– 

8691. If you are requesting a paper copy, 

please provide your name, mailing 

address, and the document title. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on the public comment 

period, contact the ORD Docket at the 

EPA Headquarters Docket Center; 

telephone: 202–566–1752; facsimile: 

202–566–9744; or email: Docket_ORD@

epa.gov. 

For technical information, contact 

Britta Bierwagen, NCEA; telephone: 

703–347–8613; facsimile: 703–347– 

8694; or email: bierwagen.britta@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Information About the Project/

Document 

The first version of the Integrated 

Climate and Land Use Scenarios 

(ICLUS) project modeled population, 

residential development, and 

impervious surface cover changes by 

decade to the year 2100 consistent with 

four global carbon emissions storylines 

and a baseline. The current report 

discusses improvements to the 

underlying models of ICLUS that result 

in version 2 (v2). ICLUS v2 is consistent 

with updated global socioeconomic 

scenarios (e.g., Shared Socioeconomic 

Pathways (SSPs)) and new global 

climate change model targets (e.g., 

Representative Concentration Pathways 

(RCPs)). Improvements include the use 

of updated population and land use/

cover data sets, integration of changing 

climate variables within the migration 

model, inclusion of transportation 

network capacity and its increase over 

time, growth in commercial and 

industrial land uses, and the use of 

population density-driven demands for 

growth of residential housing, 

commercial development, and industry. 


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