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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

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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 

202–564–7167. 

An explanation of the ratings assigned 

to draft environmental impact 

statements (EISs) was published in FR 

dated April 6, 2007 (72 FR 17156). 

Draft EISs 

EIS No. 20070033, ERP No. D–FTA–

C54010–00, Access to the Region’s 

Core Project, To Increase TransHudson Commuter Rail Capacity, 

Improve System Safety and Reliability 

between Secaucus Junction Station in 

NJ and midtown Manhattan, Funding, 

Hudson County, NJ and New York 

County, NY. 

Summary: EPA expressed 

environmental concerns about impacts 

to wetlands and air quality. EPA 

recommends that FTA provides more 

information on cumulative impacts as 

well as a wetlands mitigation plan. 

Rating EC2. 

EIS No. 20070078, ERP No. D–NPS–

C61011–NY, Sagamore Hill National 

Historic Site, General Management 

Plan, Implementation, Oyster Bay, 

Nassau County, NY. 

Summary: EPA does not object to the 

proposed action. Rating LO. 

EIS No. 20070097, ERP No. D–NOA–

A91075–00, Programmatic—Marine 

Mammal Health and Stranding 

Response Program (MMHSRP), Dayto-Day Operation on Stranding, 

Response, Rehabilitation, Release, and 

Disentanglement Activities. 

Summary: EPA does not object to the 

proposed project. 

However, EPA did request that NMFS 

clarify questions pertaining to water 

quality, contaminants, and human 

health. Rating LO. 

Final EISs 

EIS No. 20070057, ERP No. F–FHW–

E40763–NC, Winston-Salem Northern 

Beltway, ( Eastern Section) U.S. 52 

south to I–40 Business and I–40 

Business south to U.S. 311, 

Improvements to the Surface 

Transportation Network, TIP Project 

Nos. U2579 and U–2579A, Forsyth 

County, NC ( This EIS #20070057 and 

EIS #20070058 are combined in a 

single document.) 

Summary: EPA continues to have 

environmental concerns about impacts 

to streams, terrestrial forest habitat, and 

impacts to migratory birds. EPA 

recommends that the Record of Decision 

disclose planned mitigation for these 

impacts. 

EIS No. 20070106, ERP No. F–FRC–

H03002–00, Rockies Express Western 

Phase Project, Construction and 

Operation for the Natural Gas Pipeline 

Facilities: Rockies Express (CP06–

354–000), TransColorado (CP06–401–

000) and Overthrust (CP06–423–000), 

CO, WY, NE, KS, MO and NM. 

Summary: EPA does not object to the 

proposed project, but recommends 

additional consideration be given to 

potential invasive species transfer via 

hydrostatic testing. 

Dated: May 8, 2007. 

Ken Mittelholtz, 

Environmental Protection Specialist, Office 

of Federal Activities. 

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Environmental Impacts Statements; 

Notice of Availability 

Responsible Agency: Office of Federal 

Activities, General Information, (202) 

564–7167 or http://www.epa.gov/ 

compliance/nepa/. 

Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact 

Statements Filed through pursuant to 

40 CFR 1506.9 

EIS No. 20070176, Draft EIS, AFS, CO, 

Spruce Creek Project, Proposed 

Timber Harvest, Temporary Road 

Construction, Thinning of SubMerchantable Trees, Enhancement of 

Asper and Whitebark Pine, Cascade 

Ranger District, Boise National Forest, 

Valley County, ID, Comment Period 

Ends: 6/25/2007, Contact: Keith 

Dimmett, 208–382–7400. 

EIS No. 20070177, Draft EIS, AFS, OR, 

Spears Vegetation Management 

Project, Proposal to Use Commercial 

Timber Harvest, Precommercial 

Thinning, Prescribed Fire, Grapple 

Piling and Hand Piling in the Mark 

Creek Watershed and Veaqie Creek 

Subwatershed, Lookout Mountain 

Ranger District, Ochoco National 

Forest, Crook and Wheeler Counties, 

OR, Comment Period Ends: 6/25/ 

2007, Contact: Katherine Farrell, 541–

416–6500. 

EIS No. 20070178, Final EIS, AFS, 00, 

Kootenai National Forest Invasive 

Plant Management, Proposes to 

Manage Noxious Weed and Invasive 

Plant Species, Lincoln Sanders, 

Flathead Counties, MT and Bonner 

and Boundary Counties, ID, Wait 

Period Ends: 6/11/2007, Contact: John 

Gubel, 406–283–7774. 

EIS No. 20070179, Final Supplement, 

AFS, WA, School Fire Salvage 

Recovery Project, To Clarify 

Definitions of Live and Dead Trees, 

Implementation, Pomeroy Ranger 

District, Umatilla National Forest, 

Columbia and Garfield Counties, WA, 

Wait Period Ends: 6/11/2007, Contact: 

Dean R. Millett, 509–843–1891. 

EIS No. 20070180, Final EIS, NOA, 00, 

Programmatic—Steller Sea Lion and 

Northern Fur Seal Research, Proposal 

to Disburse Funds and Issue Permit 

for Research, AK, WA, OR and CA, 

Wait Period Ends: 6/11/2007, Contact: 

P. Michael Payne, 301–713–2289. 

EIS No. 20070181, Draft EIS, FHW, VT, 

Middlebury Spur Project, 

Improvements to the Freight 

Transportation System in the Town of 

Middlebury in Addison County to the 

Town of Pittsford in Rutland County, 

VT, Comment Period Ends: 6/29/ 

2007, Contact: Kenneth Sikora, Jr., 

802–828–4423. 

EIS No. 20070182, Final EIS, COE, MD, 

Masonville Dredged Material 

Containment Facility, New 

Information, New Source of Dike 

Building Material from the Seagirt 

Dredging Project within the Patapsco 

River, Funding, Baltimore, MD, Wait 

Period Ends: 6/11/2007, Contact: Jon 

Romeo, 410–962–6079. 

Amended Notices 

EIS No. 20070080, Draft EIS, NIG, CA, 

Graton Rancheria Casino and Hotel 

Project, Transfer of Land into Trust, 

Implementation, Federated Indians of 

Graton Rancheria (Tribe), Sonoma 

County, CA, Comment Period Ends: 6/ 

4/2007, Contact: Brad Mehaffy, 202–

632–7003. Revision of FR Notice 

Published 3/9/2007: Extending 

Comment Period from 5/14/2007 to 6/ 

4/2007. 

EIS No. 20070103, Draft EIS, FHW, NY, 

Kosciuszko Bridge Project, Propose 

Rehabilitation or Replacement a 1.1 

mile Segment Brooklyn-Queens 

Expressway (¥278) from Morgan 

Avenue in Brooklyn and the Long 

Island Expressway (1495) in Queens, 

Kings and Queens Counties, NY, 

Comment Period Ends: 6/15/2007, 

Contact: Robert Arnold, 518–431–

4127. Revision of FR Notice Published 


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3/23/2007: Extending Comment 

Period from 5/25/2007 to 6/15/2007. 

Dated: May 8, 2007. 

Ken Mittelholtz, 

Environmental Protection Specialist, Office 

of Federal Activities. 

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Notice of Open Meeting, Environmental 

Financial Advisory Board (EFAB), 

Workshop on Environmental 

Management Systems 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The United States 

Environmental Protection Agency’s 

Environmental Financial Advisory 

Board will hold an open meeting of its 

Environmental Management Systems 

Project Workgroup. 

EFAB is chartered with providing 

analysis and advice to the EPA 

Administrator and EPA program offices 

on issues relating to environmental 

finance. The purpose of this meeting is 

for the EFAB to gather information and 

ideas with respect to how professionals 

in the areas of commercial banking/ 

debt, insurance, and equity investment 

view and/or use a corporation’s 

environmental information such as 

Environmental Management Systems 

(EMSs) in their work. The day will 

structured to address this issue via a 

series of panel discussions involving 

public and private experts in these 

areas. 

The meeting is open to the public 

with limited seating available on a first 

come first served basis. Due to building 

security requirements, all members of 

the public who wish to attend the 

meeting must register in advance no 

later than Wednesday, June 6, 2007. 

DATES: June 12, 2007 from 8:30 a.m.–5 

p.m. 

ADDRESSES: U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Potomac Yard 

Conference Center, One Potomac Yard, 

2777 S. Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA 

22202–3553. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

register for the workshop or to obtain 

further information, contact Vanessa 

Bowie, Director, Environmental Finance 

Staff, U.S. EPA, at 202–564–5186 or 

bowie.vanessa@epa.gov. 

For information on access or services 

for individuals with disabilities, please 

contact Vanessa Bowie at 202–564–5186 

or bowie.vanessa@epa.gov. To request 

accommodation of disability, please 

contact Vanessa Bowie, preferably at 

least 10 days prior to the meeting, to 

give EPA as much time as possible to 

process your request. 

Dated: May 7, 2007. 

Joseph Dillon, 

Director, Office of Enterprise Technology and 

Innovation. 

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Science Advisory Board Staff Office; 

Notification of a Public Teleconference 

of the Science Advisory Board; 

Environmental Economics Advisory 

Committee 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The EPA’s Science Advisory 

Board (SAB) Staff Office is announcing 

a public teleconference of the SAB 

Environmental Economics Advisory 

Committee (EEAC) to discuss its draft 

advisory report to EPA regarding issues 

in valuing mortality risk reduction. 

DATES: The teleconference will be held 

from 1 p.m.–4 p.m. Eastern time on June 

4, 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

member of the public wishing further 

information regarding the public 

teleconference and call-in number may 

contact Dr. Holly Stallworth, Designated 

Federal Officer (DFO), U.S. EPA Science 

Advisory Board Staff Office by 

telephone/voice mail at (202) 343–9867, 

or via e-mail at 

stallworth.holly@epa.gov. The SAB 

mailing address is: U.S. EPA, Science 

Advisory Board (1400F), 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. General 

information about the SAB, as well as 

any updates concerning the public 

teleconference announced in this notice, 

may be found in the SAB Web Site at: 

http://www.epa.gov/sab. The technical 

contact for EPA’s work on valuing 

mortality risk reduction is Dr. Chris 

Dockins who may be reached at (202) 

566–2286 or dockins.chris@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 

Public Law 92–463, notice is hereby 

given that the SAB Environmental 

Economics Advisory Committee will 

hold a public teleconference to discuss 

appropriate methods for valuing 

mortality risks. The SAB EEAC will be 

augmented by economists from the 

chartered Science Advisory Board as 

well as the Advisory Council on Clean 

Air Compliance Analysis. The SAB was 

established by 42 U.S.C. 4365 to provide 

independent scientific and technical 

advice to the Administrator on the 

technical basis for Agency positions and 

regulations. The SAB is a Federal 

Advisory Committee chartered under 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), as amended, 5 U.S.C., App. The 

SAB will comply with the provisions of 

FACA and all appropriate SAB Staff 

Office procedural policies. 

Background 

The SAB EEAC has been asked to 

review two papers related to EPA’s 

issues in valuing mortality risk 

reduction. The first paper entitled 

‘‘Report of the EPA Work Group on VSL 

Meta-Analyses’’ addresses the 

application of meta analysis techniques 

to the derivation of estimates for 

mortality risk reduction. A second 

paper, entitled ‘‘Willingness to Pay for 

Environmental Health Risk Reductions 

when there are Varying Degrees of Life 

Expectancy: A White Paper’’ discusses 

appropriate and available methods for 

valuing mortality risk reductions when 

affected populations have varying life 

expectancies. http://yosemite.epa.gov/ 

EE/epa/eerm.nsf/vwRepNumLookup/ 

EE–0495?OpenDocument. These papers 

are posted at: http://yosemite.epa.gov/ 

EE/epa/eerm.nsf/vwRepNumLookup/ 

EE–0494?OpenDocument and http:// 

yosemite.epa.gov/EE/epa/eerm.nsf/ 

vwRepNumLookup/EE–

0495?OpenDocument. The SAB EEAC 

met on September 14–15, 2006 (71 FR 

48546), and a teleconference was held 

on October 30, 2006 (71 FR 59779–

59780). During the June 4, 2007 

teleconference, the SAB EEAC members 

will discuss their draft advisory 

responding to EPA’s charge questions 

on the two papers cited above. 

Availability of Teleconference 

Materials: Materials in support of the 

teleconference, including the SAB 

EEAC’s draft response to the Agency’s 

charge, will be placed on the SAB Web 

Site at http://www.epa.gov/sab/panels/ 

eeac_adv_val_mortal_rick_reduc.htm 

prior to the teleconference. 

Procedures for Providing Public Input: 

Interested members of the public may 

submit relevant written or oral 

information for the SAB to consider 

during the advisory process. 

Oral Statements: In general, 

individuals or groups requesting an oral 

presentation at a public teleconference 

will be limited to five minutes per 


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