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Fergus, Petroleum, Phillips and

Valley Counties, MT, Due: August 06,

1998, Contact: Jerry Majerus (406)

538–7461.

EIS No. 980150, Final EIS, COE, AZ, Rio

Salado Environmental Restoration of

two Sites along the Salt River; (1)

Phoenix Reach and (2) Tempe Reach,

Feasibility Report, in the Cities of

Phoenix and Tempe, Maricopa

County, AZ, Due: June 08, 1998,

Contact: Alex Watt (213) 452–3860.

EIS No. 980151, Final EIS, AFS, KY,

Daniel Boone National Forest OffHighway Vehicle (OHV) Management

Policy, Modification, Several

Counties, KY, Due: June 08, 1998,

Contact: Benjamin T. Worthington

(606) 745–3100.

EIS No. 980152, Draft EIS, USA,

Stratford Army Engine Plant (SAEP)

Disposal and Reuse, Implementation,

City of Stratford, Fairfield and New

Haven Counties, CT, Due: June 22,

1998, Contact: Leslie Sullivan (703)

697–0153.

EIS No. 980153, Draft EIS, NPS, MS,

Natchez Trace Parkway, Construction

of Section 3X Southern Terminus,

Adam Counties, MS, Due: July 07,

1998, Contact: Wendell Simpson (601)

680–4003.

EIS No. 980154, Final EIS, FHW, CA,

CA–101/Cuesta Grade Highway

Improvements, 1.1 Miles north of

Reservoir Canyon Road to the Cuesta

Grade Overhead, Funding and Permit

Issuance, San Luis Obispo County,

CA, Due: June 08, 1998, Contact: John

R. Schultz (916) 498–5041.

EIS No. 980155, Draft EIS, DOE, SC,

Tritium Extraction Facility (TEF),

Construction and Operation near the

Center of Savannah River Site at H

Area, (DOE/EIS–0271D), Aiken and

Barnwell Counties, SC, Due: June 22,

1998, Contact: Andrew R. Grainger

(800) 881–7292.

EIS No. 980156, Draft EIS, COE, GA, SC,

Savannah Harbor Section 203

Expansion Project, Channel

Deepening and Harbor Improvements,

Georgia Ports Authority, Federal

Navigation Project, Chatham County,

Ga and Jasper County, SC, Due: June

22, 1998, Contact: William Bailey

(912) 652–5781.

EIS No. 980157, Draft EIS, AFS, OR,

Moose Subwatershed Timber Harvest

and Other Vegetation Management

Actions, Central Cascade Adaptive

Management (CCAMA), Willamette

National Forest, Sweet Home Ranger

District, Linn County, OR, Due: June

22, 1998, Contact: Donna Short (541)

367–5168.

EIS No. 980159, Final EIS, UAF, FL, CA,

Evolved Expandable Launch Vehicle

(EELV) Program, Development,

Operation and Deployment, Proposed

Launch Locations are Cape Canaveral

Air Station (AS), Florida and

Vandenberg Air Force Base (AFB),

California, Federal Permits and

Licenses, FL and CA, Due: June 08,

1998, Contact: Patty Vaught (703)

604–0561.

EIS No. 980160, Final EIS, NSF,

Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station,

Proposal to Modernize through

Reconstruction and Replacement of

Key Facilities, Antarctica, Due: June

08, 1998, Contact: Joyce A. Jatko (703)

306–1032.

EIS No. 980161, Draft EIS, BLM, AZ,

Hualapai Mountain Land Exchange/

Plan Amendment, Implementation,

Kingman and Dutch Flat, Mohave

County, AZ, Due: July 27, 1998,

Contact: Don McClure (520) 692–

4400.

This EIS was inadvertently omitted

from the 04–24–98 Federal Register.

The official 45 days NEPA review

period is calculated from 04–24–98.

Dated: May 5, 1998

William D. Dickerson,

Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office

of Federal Activities.

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Environmental Impact Statements and

Regulations; Availability of EPA

Comments

Availability of EPA comments

prepared April 20, 1998 Through April

24, 1998 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 the

FR dated April 10, 1998 (63 FR 17856).

Draft EISs

ERP No. D–AFS–K65203–CA Rating

EC2, Sirretta Peak Motorcycle Trail

Construction, Approval and

Implementation, Sirretta Peak/Machine

Creek Area, Kern Plateau, Sequoia

National Forest, Cannell Meadow

Ranger District, Tulare County, CA.

Summary: EPA expressed

environmental concerns about potential

adverse impacts to the watershed and

wildlife habitat from the construction

and use of a motorized trail in a roadless

area.

ERP No. D–BLM–K67047–NV Rating

EC2, Trenton Canyon Mining Project,

Construction, Operation and Expansion,

Plan of Operation, Valma and North

Peak Deposits, Humboldt and Lander

Counties, NV.

Summary: EPA expressed

environmental concerns to the proposed

project, based on a lack of analysis of a

reasonable range to project alternatives,

and potential environmental

degradation to waters of the United

States. EPA asked for additional

information, including information on a

sequential backfilling alternative, waste

rock and pit wall rock characterization,

cumulative impact, project description,

comprehensive mitigation and

monitoring plan.

ERP No. D–COE–E39042–GA Rating

EC2, Latham River/Jekyll Creek

Environmental Restoration Project

(Section 1135), To Establish the Without

Project Condition, Atlantic Intracoastal

Waterway (AIWW), Glynn County, GA.

Summary: EPA expressed

environmental concerns over the longterm impacts to wetlands resources in

the project and the potential for

increased development on Jekyll Island.

ERP No. D–COE–K32049–CA Rating

EO2, San Francisco Bay to Stockton

Phase III (John F. Baldwin) Navigation

Channel Project, Construction and

Operation, For Deliver of Petroleum to

Refineries, Storage Terminals and Other

Facilities, COE Section 10 and 404

Permits, US Coast Guard Permit, Contra

Costa County, CA.

Summary: EPA expressed

environmental objectives with two

action alternatives because, according to

the DEIS, deepening 16 miles of

navigation channel would result in

adverse water quality impacts,

specifically intrusion of salt water into

the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta that

would exceed salinity standards. This

increased salinity intrusion would have

adverse effects on municipal drinking

water supplies, fish and wildlife

resources. EPA also expressed concerns

on Clean Water Act Section 404 issues

associated with a pipeline system

alternative and noted that all three

action alternatives may require a

conformity determination for oxides of

nitrogen (an ozone precursor) due to the

San Francisco Bay Area’s ozone

maintenance status.

ERP No. D–FRC–B03009–ME Rating

EC2, Maritimes Phase II Project,

Construct and Operate an Interstate

Natural Gas Pipeline, COE Section 10

and 404 Permits, Endangered Species

Act (ESA) and NPDE’s permits, US
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Canada border at Woodland

(Burleyville) Maine and Westbrook

Maine.

Summary: EPA requested additional

information about the impacts of the

proposed pipeline with regard to

wetlands, eelgrass, drinking water,

groundwater supply, and secondary

impacts in order to fully evaluate the

environmental acceptability of the

proposed project.

ERP No. D–FRC–J02035–00 Rating

EC2, Alliance Natural Gas Pipeline

Project, Construction and Operation,

Funding, NPDES Permit, COE Section

10 and 404 Permit, ND, MN, IA and IL.

Summary: EPA expressed

environmental concerns and requested

additional information on the following

areas; Purpose and Need, Alternatives

Evaluation, Resource Surveys

(Threatened and Endangered Species,

Cultural and Historical), Agricultural

Land/Non-Agricultural Land,

Waterbody/Wetland Crossing

Procedures, Wetland/Woodland Loss

Compensation and description of Extra

Work Areas.

ERP No. DS–COE–L36011–00 Rating

EC2, Columbia and Lower Willamette

River Federal Navigation Channel,

Integrated Dredge Material Management

Study, OR and WA.

Summary: EPA’s expressed

environmental concerns that the Corps

should take more effort at advanced

identification and management of instream dredged material disposal sites.

EPA also requested more information

regarding the environmental impacts of

upland disposal of dredged material.

Dated: May 5, 1998.

William D. Dickerson,

Director, Office of Federal Activities.

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Designation of an Ocean Dredged

Material Disposal Site (ODMDS) Off

Wilmington, NC, Intent To Prepare an

Environmental Impact Statement

AGENCY: U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA) Region 4.

ACTION: Notice of Intent to prepare an

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)

on the final designation of an ODMDS

off Wilmington, North Carolina.

PURPOSE: The U.S. EPA, Region 4, in

accordance with Section 102(2)(c) of the

National Environmental Policy Act

(NEPA) and in cooperation with the

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,

Wilmington District, will prepare a Draft

EIS on the designation of an ODMDS off

Wilmington, North Carolina. An EIS is

needed to provide the information

necessary to designate an ODMDS. This

Notice of Intent is issued Pursuant to

Section 102 of the Marine Protection,

Research and Sanctuaries Act of 1972,

and 40 CFR Part 228 (Criteria for the

Management of Disposal Sites for Ocean

Dumping).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND TO BE

PLACED ON THE PROJECT MAILING LIST

CONTACT: Mr. Douglas K. Johnson, U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency,

Region 4, Coastal Programs Section, 61

Forsyth Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30303,

phone 404–562–9386 or Mr. Philip M.

Payonk, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,

Wilmington District, Environmental

Resources Section, P.O. Box 1890,

Wilmington, North Carolina 28402–

1890, phone 910–251–4589.

SUMMARY: Ongoing needs for ocean

disposal of dredged sediments and

proposed improvements to the

Wilmington Harbor navigation channel

have resulted in the need for

designation of a new ODMDS off

Wilmington, North Carolina. Based on

site surveys and anticipated levels of

site use, the capacity of the existing

Wilmington ODMDS will be reached in

seven to 10 years. The annual volume of

maintenance dredged material taken to

the ocean for disposal from the

Wilmington Harbor area is about two

million cubic yards per year. The

recently authorized Wilmington Harbor

Federal navigation channel

improvements (deepening and other

channel modifications) will produce

approximately 19 million cubic yards of

dredged material for ocean disposal.

The channel improvements will realign

the ocean bar channel directly across

the Wilmington ODMDS rendering the

site obsolete. The channel would be

realigned to avoid rock dredging and

blasting and the environmental

concerns associated with those

activities.

The relocation of the ODMDS would

provide an opportunity to add

separation between the Wilmington

ODMDS and nearby shrimp trawling

bottoms. The shrimpers have

complained that wood debris attributed

to dredged materials placed within the

ODMDS interfere with shrimping.

Need for Action: The Corps of

Engineers, Wilmington District, has

requested that EPA designate a new

ODMDS off Wilmington, North Carolina

for the disposal of dredged material

from the Wilmington Harbor area, when

ocean disposal is the preferred disposal

alternative. An EIS is required to

provide the necessary information to

evaluate alternatives and designate the

preferred ODMDS.

Alternatives:

1. No action. The no action alternative

is defined as not designating an ocean

disposal site.

2. Alternative disposal sites in the

nearshore, mid-shelf, and shelf break

regions.

Scoping: Scoping will be

accomplished by correspondence and

meetings, in late Spring or early

Summer, 1998, with affected Federal,

State and local agencies, and interested

parties.

Estimated Date of Release: The Draft

EIS will be made available in October

1999.

Responsible Official: John H.

Hankinson, Jr., Regional Administrator,

Region 4.

Richard E. Sanderson,

Director, Office of Federal Activities.

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Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian

Community; Tentative Approval of an

Alternative Liner System Design and

Use of Alternative Daily Cover Material

for the Salt River Municipal Solid

Waste Landfill

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Tentative determination on

application of the Salt River PimaMaricopa Indian Community for

approval of an alternative liner system

design and use of alternative daily cover

material for the Salt River Municipal

Solid Waste Landfill, public hearing and

public comment period.

SUMMARY: Subtitle D of the Resource

Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA),

42 U.S.C. 6941–6949a requires EPA to

establish minimum federal criteria to

ensure that municipal solid waste

landfills are designed and operated in a

manner that protects human health and

the environment. These standards are

codified at 40 CFR part 258. Generally,

these criteria are technical standards

and are self-implementing. For many of

these criteria, part 258 also establishes

a flexible performance-based standard

as an alternative to the self

implementing regulations.

The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian

Community submitted applications for

approval to use two of the flexible