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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

Federal Register dated April 14, 2000

(65 FR 20157).

Draft EISs

ERP No. D–FTA–K40241–HI, Rating

LO, Oahu Primary Corridor

Transportation Project, Improvements

from Kapolei in the west to the

University of Hawaii-Manoa and

Waikiki in the east, Major Investment

Study, In the City and County of

Honolulu, HI.

Summary: EPA has no objection to the

proposed action.

ERP No. D–NOA–L91011–AK, Rating

NS, Cook Inlet Beluga Whale Stock,

Federal Actions Associated with the

Management and Recovery,

Implementation, Cook Inlet, AK.

Summary: EPA Region 10 used a

screening tool to conduct a limited

review of this action. Based upon this

screen, EPA does not foresee having any

environmental objections to the

proposed project. Therefore EPA will

not be conducting a detailed review.

Final EISs

ERP No. F–AFS–L65349–ID, Warm

Springs Ridge Vegetation Management

Project, Improve Forest Condition, Boise

National Forest, Cascade Resource Area,

Boise County, ID.

Summary: The final EIS responded to

EPA’s previous comments on the draft

EIS. Therefore, EPA has no objection to

the action as proposed.

ERP No. FS–FHW–L40198–WA,

North Spokane Corridor (formerly

known as the North Spokane Freeway)

New Information Concerning

Transportation Improvements through

the City of Spokane and Spokane

County and between I–90, Funding,

Spokane County, WA.

Summary: EPA still has concerns

regarding two issues. The FSEIS does

not adequately describe relevant Best

Management Practices for potential

impacts to surface and groundwater

resources in the area. Secondly, the EIS

should contain information identifying

the contents of the drums associated

with the fertilizer plant located in the

alignment right-of-way and describe

how the drums will be disposed.

Dated: November 28, 2000.

Joseph C. Montgomery,

Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office

of Federal Activities.

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AGENCY

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Environmental Impact Statements;

Notice of Availability

Responsible Agency: Office of Federal

Activities, General Information (202)

564–7167 or hHp://www.epa.gov/oeca/

ofa.

Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact

Statements

Filed November 20, 2000 Through

November 24, 2000

Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9.

EIS No. 000407, FINAL EIS, AFS, WA,

Stimson Alaska National Interest

Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA)

Access Easement Project, Easement

Authorization Grant for Construction,

Reconstruction and Use of Seven

Road Segments for Hauling Logs and

Resource Management, Colville

National Forest, Sullivan Ranger

District, Pend Oreille County, WA,

Due: January 05, 2001, Contact: Fred

C. Gonzalez (509) 446–7500.

EIS No. 000408, DRAFT EIS, AFS, CA,

Mammoth Creek Revised Instream

Flow Requirements, Implementation

for Point of Measurement and Place of

Use, Mammoth Lakes, Mono County,

CA , Due: January 31, 2001, Contact:

Jeff Bailey (760) 873–2400.

EIS No. 000409, FINAL SUPPLEMENT,

NOA, FL, Florida Keys National

Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS)

Comprehensive Management Plan,

Updated Information concerning a

Proposal to Establish a No-Take

Ecological Reserve in the Tortugas

Region, FL , Due: January 02, 2001,

Contact: Bill Causey (305) 743–2437.

EIS No. 000410, DRAFT EIS, HUD, NY,

1105–1135 Warburton Avenue, River

Club Apartment Complex

Development and Operation,

Funding, City of Yonkers, Westchester

County, NY , Due: January 16, 2001,

Contact: Lee Ellman (914) 377–6557.

EIS No. 000411, DRAFT EIS, FHW, OH,

OH–7 (LAW–7) Relocation, OH–7 and

OH–527 to a point Northeast of Rome

Township and OH–607 from East

Huntington Bridge to an Interchange

with proposed OH–7 and OH–775,

Funding, Lawrence County, OH , Due:

January 16, 2001, Contact: Andy

Garnes (614) 280–6856.

EIS No. 000412, FINAL SUPPLEMENT,

FHW, NB, US Highway 75 Roadway

Improvement, Murray, Nebraska

(Highway N–1) to Bellevue, Nebraska

(Fairview Road), Updated Information

concerning Project Changes and

Changes to the Existing

Environmental Setting, Funding, Cass

and Sarpy Counties, NB, Due: January

02, 2001, Contact: Edward W. Kosola

(402) 437–5521.

EIS No. 000413, DRAFT EIS, JUS, TX,

Immigration and Naturalization

Service (INS) Detention Facility

Construction in the Houston Area,

TX, Due: January 16, 2001, Contact:

Kevin Feeney (202) 353–9412.

EIS No. 000414, DRAFT EIS, BLM, NM,

Santo Domingo Pueblo and Bureau of

Land Management Proposed Land

Exchange Project, Sandoval and Santa

Fe Counties, NM , Due: January 16,

2001, Contact: Debby Lucero (505)

761–8787.

EIS No. 000415, FINAL EIS, SFW, CA,

San Joaquin County Multi-Species

Habitat Conservation and Open Space

Plan, Issuance of Incidental Take

Permit, San Joaquin County, CA , Due:

January 02, 2001, Contact: Ben

Harrison (503) 231–2068.

Dated: November 28, 2000.

Joseph C. Montgomery,

Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office

of Federal Activities

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AGENCY

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Sole Source Aquifer Determination for

Western Uinta Arch Paleozoic Aquifer

System, Oakley, UT

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of final determination.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 1424(e) of

the Safe Drinking Water Act, the

Regional Administrator of the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

in Region VIII has determined that the

Western Uinta Arch Paleozoic Aquifer

System at Oakley, Utah and the

immediately adjacent recharge area is

the sole or principal source of drinking

water for the region. The region is

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located in central Utah extending from

near the City of Oakley, Utah east

encompassing approximately 23,000

acres in Townships 1 South and 1 North

and Ranges 6 to 8 East SLB&M. The area

is irregularly shaped with maximum

dimensions of about 14 miles from

southwest to northeast and

approximately 3 miles from northwest

to southeast. The entire area is within

Summit County, Utah. No viable

alternative sources of drinking water

with sufficient supply exist. If this

aquifer is contaminated, a significant

hazard to public health would occur.

The boundaries of the designated area

have been reviewed and approved by

EPA. As a result of this action, federal

financially assisted projects constructed

in the approximately 40 square mile

area mentioned above will be subject to

EPA review to ensure that these projects

are designed and constructed in a

manner which does not create a

significant hazard to public health. For

the purposes of this designation the

Aquifer Service Area and the Project

Review Area are the same as the

Designated Area.

DATES: This determination shall be

promulgated for purposes of judicial

review at 1:00 p.m. Mountain Standard

Time on December 1, 2000.

ADDRESSES: The data upon which these

findings are based, and a map of the

designated area are available to the

public and may be inspected during

normal business hours at the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency,

Region VIII, 999 18th Street, Suite 300,

Denver, CO 80202–2466.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

William J. Monheiser, Regional Sole

Source Aquifer Coordinator, Ground

Water Program, 8P–W–GW, USEPA

Region VIII, 999 18th Street, Suite 300,

Denver, Colorado 80202–2466, Phone:

303.312.6271, Fax: 303.312.7084, email: monheiser.william@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is

hereby given that, pursuant to section

1424(e) of the Safe Drinking Water Act,

42 U.S.C. 300f, 300h–3(e), Public Law

93–523 as amended, the Regional

Administrator of the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

has determined that the Western Uinta

Arch Paleozoic Aquifer System is the

sole or principal source of drinking

water for the Oakley area of central Utah

described above. Pursuant to section

1424(e), federal financially assisted

projects constructed anywhere in the

Oakley, Utah area described above will

be subject to EPA review.

I. Background

Section 1424(e) of the Safe Drinking

Water Act states:

If the Administrator determines, on his

own initiative or upon petition, that an area

has an aquifer which is the sole or principal

drinking water source for the area and which,

if contaminated, would create a significant

hazard to public health, he shall publish

notice of that determination in the Federal

Register. After the publication of any such

notice, no commitment for federal financial

assistance (through a grant, contract, loan

guarantee, or otherwise) may be entered into

for any project which the Administrator

determines may contaminate such aquifer

through a recharge zone so as to create a

significant hazard to public health, but a

commitment for federal financial assistance

may, if authorized under another provision of

the law, be entered into to plan or design the

project to assure that it will not so

contaminate the aquifer.

Effective March 9, 1987, authority to

make a Sole Source Aquifer Designation

Determination was delegated to the U.S.

EPA Regional Administrators.

On August 26, 1999, a petition was

received from the City of Oakley, Utah,

P.O. Box 129, Oakley, Utah 84055,

requesting that EPA designate the

ground water resources of the Western

Uinta Arch Paleozoic Aquifer System

near the City of Oakley as a Sole Source

Aquifer. In response to this petition,

EPA published a notice of a Public

Meeting held at the Oakley City offices

on May 10, 2000. This notice was

published in the Park City Record, a

newspaper of general circulation in the

area. EPA also sent copies of the notice

with descriptive information to all

postal patrons in the Oakley area. This

notice announced receipt of the petition

and requested public comment in

writing or oral comments at the public

meeting held May 10, 2000 and for a 30

day comment period following the

meeting. Comments received by

telephone, Fax and e-mail were also

accepted. The public comment period

extended from May 11, 2000 to June 15,

2000.

Subsequently, EPA determined that

the petition is both administratively and

technically complete and adequate.

II. Basis for Determination

Among the factors considered by the

Regional Administrator for designation

of a Sole Source Aquifer under section

1424(e) are: (1) Whether the aquifer is

the area’s sole or principal source of

drinking water, (2) if the designated area

has been adequately delineated and, (3)

whether contamination of the aquifer

would create a significant hazard to

public health.

On the basis of information available

to EPA, the Regional Administrator has

made the following findings of fact,

which are the basis for this

determination:

1. The Western Uinta Arch Paleozoic

Aquifer System serves as the ‘‘sole

source’’ of drinking water for

approximately 1,005 permanent

residents within the City of Oakley.

There is no existing alternative drinking

water source or combination of sources

which could provide fifty percent or

more of the drinking water to the

designated area, nor is there any

projected future alternative source

capable of supplying the area’s drinking

water needs at an economical cost.

2. Although the Paleozoic Aquifer

System underlies much of central Utah,

in the Oakley area the aquifer is

isolated, of very high quality, able to be

used as a drinking water source with

minimal treatment required by the State

of Utah. This constitutes a resource

limited to this immediate area that if

contaminated would create a significant

hazard to public health. Potential

sources of contamination include: (1)

Petroleum, mineral exploration, and

geophysical drilling, (2) accidental

spills along roadways, (3) abandoned

but unplugged petroleum, mineral and

geophysical wells, tunnels and (4) nonsustainable forestry practices.

III. Description of the Petitioned

Aquifer

The designated area of the Paleozoic

Aquifer System near the City of Oakley

encompasses about 23,000 acres in an

irregularly shaped area approximately

14 miles long by approximately 3 miles

wide. Drinking water production is from

three developed springs in the Park City

Formation and one drilled artesian well

in the Doughnut and Humbug

Formations. Combined production can

be greater than 1000 gallons per minute.

Flow is from fractures located within

the limestones of the Park City,

Doughnut and Humbug Formations. The

Paleozoic Aquifer System is composed

of the Park City, Weber, Morgan, Round

Valley, Doughnut, and Humbug

Formations of Permian and

Mississippian ages. The boundaries of

the aquifer were determined by

hydrogeologic mapping of the area,

which is interpreted to contribute water

to the springs and well.

IV. Information Utilized in

Determination

The information utilized in this

determination includes the petition

from the City of Oakley, review of

available literature, and the results of

ground water investigations conducted

to date on the ground water resources of

the area. These data are available to the

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public and may be inspected during

normal business hours at EPA Region

VIII, 999 18th Street, Suite 330, Denver,

Colorado 80202–2466.

V. Project Review

EPA, Region VIII, will work with the

Federal Agencies that may, in the

future, provide financial assistance to

projects in the designated area.

Interagency procedures will be

developed in which EPA will be

notified of proposed commitments by

federal agencies for projects which

could contaminate the aquifer. EPA will

evaluate such projects and, where

necessary, conduct an in-depth review,

including soliciting public comments

where appropriate. Should EPA

determine that a project may

contaminate the aquifer, so as to create

a significant hazard to public health, no

commitment for federal assistance may

be entered into. However, a

commitment for federal assistance may,

if authorized under another provision of

law, be entered into to plan or design

the project to assure that it will not

contaminate the aquifer.

Although the project review process

cannot be delegated to state or local

agencies, the EPA will rely upon any

existing or future state and local control

mechanisms to the maximum extent

possible in protecting the ground-water

quality of the aquifer. Included in the

review of any federal financially

assisted project will be coordination

with local agencies. Their comments

will be given full consideration, and the

Federal review process will attempt to

complement and support state and local

ground water quality protection

mechanisms.

VI. Summary and Discussion of Public

Comments

In response to the Public Notice and

Public Meeting, three questions were

asked during the public meeting, all

requesting clarification of ‘‘federal

financial assistance.’’ Further

clarification of ‘‘federal financial

assistance’’ was contained in the

Responsiveness Summary. No questions

or comments were received during the

30 day comment period. No comments

objecting to designation were received

during any portion of public

participation phase of the petition

review process.

No data were presented during the

public comment period regarding

aquifer characteristics, boundary

delineation or potential errors of fact

presented in the petition.

VII. Economic and Regulatory Impact

Pursuant to the provisions of the

Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA), 5

U.S.C. 605(b), I hereby certify that this

designation will not have a significant

impact on a substantial number of small

entities. For purposes of this

Certification, ‘‘small entity’’ shall have

the same meaning as given in section

601 of the RFA. This action is only

applicable to projects with the potential

to impact the Western Uinta Arch

Paleozoic Aquifer System Sole Source

Aquifer as designated.

The only affected entities will be

those businesses, organizations or

governmental jurisdictions that request

federal financial assistance for projects

which have the potential for

contaminating the Sole Source Aquifer

so as to create a significant hazard to

public health. EPA does not expect to be

reviewing small isolated commitments

of financial assistance on an individual

basis, unless a cumulative impact on the

aquifer is anticipated; accordingly, the

number of affected small entities will be

minimal.

For those small entities which are

subject to review, the impact of today’s

action will not be significant. Many

projects subject to this review will be

preceded by a ground water impact

assessment required pursuant to other

federal laws, such as the National

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) as

amended 42 U.S.C. 4321, et seq.

Integration of those related review

procedures with sole source aquifer

review will allow EPA and other federal

agencies to avoid delay or duplication of

effort in approving financial assistance,

thus minimizing any adverse effects on

those small entities which are affected.

Finally, today’s action does not prevent

grants of federal financial assistance

which may be available to any affected

small entity in order to pay for the

redesign of the project to assure

protection of the aquifer.

Under Executive Order 12866, EPA

must judge whether a regulation is

‘‘major’’ and therefore subject to the

requirement of a Regulatory Impact

Analysis. This regulation is not major

because it will not have an annual effect

of $100 million or more on the

economy, will not cause any major

increase in costs or prices and will not

have significant adverse effects on

competition, employment, investment,

productivity, innovation, or the ability

of United States enterprises to compete

in domestic or export markets. Today’s

action only affects the Western Uinta

Arch Paleozoic Aquifer System in

Summit County, Utah. It provides an

additional review of ground water

protection measures, incorporating state

and local measures whenever possible,

for only those projects which request

federal financial assistance.

Dated: November 16, 2000.

William P. Yellowtail,

Regional Administrator, Region VIII.

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Notice of Public Information

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November 21, 2000.

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications

Commission, as part of its continuing

effort to reduce paperwork burden

invites the general public and other

Federal agencies to take this

opportunity to comment on the

following information collection, as

required by the Paperwork Reduction

Act of 1995, Public Law 104–13. An

agency may not conduct or sponsor a

collection of information unless it

displays a currently valid control

number. No person shall be subject to

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a collection of information subject to the

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Comments are requested concerning (a)

whether the proposed collection of

information is necessary for the proper

performance of the functions of the

Commission, including whether the

information shall have practical utility;

(b) the accuracy of the Commission’s

burden estimate; (c) ways to enhance

the quality, utility, and clarity of the

information collected; and (d) ways to

minimize the burden of the collection of

information on the respondents,

including the use of automated

collection techniques or other forms of

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DATES: Written comments should be

submitted on or before January 2, 2001.

If you anticipate that you will be

submitting comments, but find it

difficult to do so within the period of

time allowed by this notice, you should

advise the contact listed below as soon

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ADDRESSES: Direct all comments to Les

Smith, Federal Communications

Commission, Room 1–A804, 445 12th

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via the Internet to lesmith@fcc.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

additional information or copies of the

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