[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 185 (Friday, September 25, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48950-48951]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-23227]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-8597-7]


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. 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. 20090188, ERP No. D-AFS-K65369-AZ, Pinaleno Ecosystem 
Restoration Project, Proposed On-the-Ground Treatments to Improve 
Forest Health and Improve or Protect Red Squirrel Habitat, Coronado 
National Forest, Graham County, AZ.

    Summary: EPA does not object to the proposed project, but did 
request clarification of Christmas tree removal and public firewood 
gathering issues. Rating LO.

EIS No. 20090227, ERP No. D-UAF-K10011-AZ, Barry M. Goldwater Ranger 
East Range Enhancements, Proposes to Take Ten Different Actions would 
Enhance Range Operations and Training, Yuma, Pima and Maricopa 
Counties, AZ.

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about impacts to 
surface water and air emissions from the sand and gravel excavation of 
washes. Rating EC2.

EIS No. 20090235, ERP No. D-AFS-K65374-CA, Sugar Pine Adaptive 
Management Project, Proposal to Create a Network of Strategically 
Placed Landscape Area Treatments (SPLATs) and Defensible Fuels Profiles 
near Key Transportation Corridors to Reduce the Intensity and Spread of 
Wildfires across the landscape and near Communities, Madera and 
Mariposa Counties, CA.

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about impacts to 
water and air quality, and requested for additional information on and 
commitments to mitigation measures to minimize those impacts. Rating 
EC2.

EIS No. 20090241, ERP No. D-IBR-H28002-KS, Aquifer Storage Recharge and 
Recovery Project, To Provide Municipal and Industrial (M&I) Water to 
City and Surrounding Region, Equus Beds Division, Wichita Project, 
Kansas, Harvey, Sedgwick, and Reno Counties, KS.

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

EIS No. 20090253, ERP No. D-AFS-L65575-OR, Deadlog Vegetation 
Management Project, To Implement Treatments that would Reduce the Risk 
of High Intensity, Stand Replacement Wildlife and the Risk of Heavy 
Tree Mortality from Insects and Disease, Deschutes National Forest 
Lands, Deschutes County, OR.

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about the project's 
potential to impact air quality. Rating EC2.

EIS No. 20090256, ERP No. D-BLM-K65378-NV, Round Mountain Expansion 
Project, Proposed to Construct and Operate and Expand the Existing 
Open-Pit Gold Mining and Processing Operations, north of the town of 
Tonopah in Nye County, NV.

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about impacts to 
groundwater and surface water quality and quantity, riparian areas, and 
air quality, and requested additional

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information on these issues, additional mitigation, financial assurance 
for reclamation and post-closure monitoring. Rating EC2.

Final EISs

EIS No. 20090206, ERP No. F-NOA-E91026-00, Programmatic EIS--Fishery 
Management Plan for Regulating Offshore Marine Aquaculture in the Gulf 
of Mexico, To Increase the Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) and Optimum 
Yield (OY), Implementation.

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concern about the potential 
for excess nutrients to cause organic loading within the water column.

EIS No. 20090228, ERP No. F-CGD-E03019-FL, Port Dolphin LLC Liquefied 
Natural Gas Deepwater Port License Application, Proposes to Own, 
Construct and Operate a Deepwater Port, Outer Continental Shelf, 
Manatee County, FL.

    Summary: EPA does not object to the proposed action.

    Dated: September 22, 2009.
Robert W. Hargrove,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
[FR Doc. E9-23227 Filed 9-24-09; 8:45 am]
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