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and providing information; adjust the

existing ways to comply with any

previously applicable instructions and

requirements; train personnel to be able

to respond to a collection of

information; search data sources;

complete and review the collection of

information; and transmit or otherwise

disclose the information.

Respondents/Affected Entities:

Magnetic Tape Manufacturing

Operations.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

13.

Frequency of Response: 2.

Estimated Number of Responses: 26.

Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:

7042 person hours.

Estimated Total Annualized Cost

Burden: $89,400.

Send comments on the Agency’s need

for this information, the accuracy of the

provided burden estimates, and any

suggested methods for minimizing

respondent burden, including through

the use of automated collection

techniques to the following addresses.

Please refer to EPA ICR No. 1678.03 and

OMB Control No. 2060–0326 in any

correspondence.

Ms. Sandy Farmer, U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, OPPE Regulatory

Information Division (2137), 401 M

Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460

and

Office of Information and Regulatory

Affairs, Office of Management and

Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for

EPA, 725 17th Street, NW,

Washington, DC 20503

Dated: October 6, 1997.

Joseph Retzer,

Director, Regulatory Information Division.

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Environmental Impact Statements and

Regulations; Availability of EPA

Comments

Availability of EPA comments

prepared September 08, 1997 Through

September 12, 1997 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–

71653.

An explanation of the ratings assigned

to draft environmental impact

statements (EISs) was published in FR

dated April 11, 1997 (62 FR 16154).

Draft EISs

ERP No. D–BLM–K67044–CA Rating

EC2, Soledad Mountain Open Pit Leap

Leach Gold Mine Project, Construction

and Operation, Plan-of-Operations

Approval, Mojave, Kern County, CA.

Summary: EPA expressed

environmental concerns with the lack of

full disclosure of environmental impacts

from proposed or possible future sale of

aggregate, underground mining, and

impacts to local water and air quality

from mining and processing operations.

ERP No. D–FAA–G12002–NM Rating

EC2, Southwest Regional Spaceport

(SRS) Development and Operation

Project, Commercial Space Vehicles

Launching Facility, Licensing, Sierra

and Dona Ana Counties, NM.

Summary: EPA expressed

environmental concerns and requested

additional information on land use

change, policy, and management

conflict.

ERP No. D–NPS–K61144–HI Rating

LO, Ala Kahakai ‘‘Trail By the Sea’’

National Trail Study, Implementation,

Hawaii Island, Hawaii County, HI.

Summary: EPA expressed lack of

objection on the proposed project.

ERP No. D–SFW–L64045–00 Rating

LO, Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos

horribilus) Recovery Plan in the

Bitterroot Ecosystem, Implementation,

Endangered Species Act, Proposed

Special Rule 10(j) Establishment of a

Nonessential Experimental Population

of Grizzly Bears in the Bitterroot Area,

Rocky Mountain, Blaine, Camas, Boise,

Clearwater, Custer, Elmore, Idaho,

Lemhi, Shoshone.

Summary: Based on an abbreviated

review EPA does not foresee having any

environmental objections to the

proposed project.

ERP No. DA–DOE–K03007–CA Rating

EC2, Petroleum Production at Maximum

Efficient Rate, Updated Information for

the Sale of Naval Petroleum Reserve No.

1 (NPR–1 also called ‘‘Elk Hills’’)

Amendment of Kern County General

Plan, Elk Hills, Kern County, CA.

Summary: EPA expressed

environmental concerns regarding

projected air quality impacts with the

disposition of EPA-regulated

polychlorinated biphenyls in storage or

in use at the facility, and projected

impacts to biological resources. EPA

asked to be notified of the final

disposition of regulated PCB materials

at the facility and encouraged the

Department of Energy to work with the

US Fish and Wildlife Service on

mitigation recommendations in the EIS

to reduce projected impacts to biological

resources, particularly Federally-listed

species.

Final EISs

ERP No. F–AFS–L65287–OR, Little

River (DEMO) Demonstration of

Ecosystem Management Options Timber

Sale, Implementation Umpqua National

Forest, North Umpqua Ranger District,

Douglas County, OR.

Summary: Review of the Final EIS

was not deemed necessary. No formal

comment letter was sent to the

preparing agency.

ERP No. F–NAS–E12005–00, Engine

Technology Support, Implementation,

With Emphases on Liquid Oxygen and

Kerosene, Advanced Space

Transportation Program, Test Sites:

Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in

Huntsville, AL; Stennis Space Center

(SSC) near Bay St. Louis, MS and

Phillips Laboratory, Edward Air Force

Base, CA.

Summary: EPA continues to prefer the

SSC for rocket motor testing based on

the lesser noise impacts affecting private

property.

ERP No. FS–AFS–L65202–ID, Katka

Peak Timber Sale and Road

Construction, Implementation, New

Information from Interior Columbia

Basin Ecosystem Management Project,

to implement Ecosystem Restoration

Treatment, Bonners Ferry Ranger

District, Idaho Panhandle National

Forests, Boundary County, ID.

Summary: Review of the Final EIS

was not deemed necessary. No formal

comment letter was sent to the

preparing agency.

Dated: October 7, 1997.

B. Katherine Biggs,

Associate Director, NEPA Compliance

Division, Office of Federal Activities.

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Environmental Impact Statements;

Notice of Availability

Responsible Agency: Office of Federal

Activities, General Information (202)

564–7167 or (202) 564–7153.

Weekly receipt of Environmental

Impact Statements Filed September 29,

1997 Through October 03, 1997

Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9.

EIS No. 970378, FINAL EIS, AFS, MT,

Beaverhead Forest Plan Riparian

Amendment, Implementation,

Beaverhead—Deerlodge National

Forest, Beaverhead, Madison, Silver