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protestants parties to the proceeding.

Any person wishing to become a party

must file a motion to intervene. Copies

of these filings are on file with the

Commission and are available for public

inspection.

David P. Boergers,

Acting Secretary.

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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 June 29, 1998

Through July 2, 1998 Pursuant to 40

CFR 1506.9.

EIS No. 980256, FINAL EIS, AFS, WY,

CO, Tie Camp Timber Sale,

Harvesting Timber and Road

Construction, Medicine Bow-Routt

National Forest, Brush Creek/Hayden

Ranger District, Carbon County, WY

and Jackson County, CO, Due: August

10, 1998, Contact: Kathy Rodriguez

(302) 325–5258.

EIS No. 980257, FINAL EIS, BLM, OR,

Northeast Oregon Assembled Land

Exchange Resource Management Plan

(RMP), Implementation, Site Specific,

John Day, Umatilla, Granda Ronde,

Power River Basins, Grant, Umatilla,

Morrow, Wheeler, Baker, Wallowa

and Union, OR, Due: August 10, 1998,

Contact: Dick Cosgriffe (541) 416–

6731.

EIS No. 980258, FINAL EIS, TVA, MS,

Red Hills Power Project, Proposal to

Purchase 440 megawatts (MW) of

Electrical Energy, COE Section 404

Permit, Town of Ackerman, Choctaw

County, MS , Due: August 10, 1998,

Contact: Charles P. Nicholson (423)

632–3582.

Amended Notices

EIS No. 980255, FINAL EIS, EPA, AL,

Sand Mountain Region On-Site

Sewage Pollution, Wastewater

Disposal Site, Dekalb, Etowah,

Marshall and Jackson Counties, AL,

Due: August 3, 1998, Contact: Heinz

J. Mueller (404) 562–9617. This EIS

was inadvertently omitted from the

07–02–98 Federal Register. The

official 30 days NEPA review period

is calculated from 07–02–98.

Dated: July 7, 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 June 22, 1998 Through June

26, 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 FR

dated April 10, 1998 (63 FR 17856).

Draft EISs

ERP No. D–DOA–F39034–00 Rating

EC2, Lincoln-Pipestone Rural Water

(LPRW), Development and Expansion of

Existing System North/Lyon County

Phase and Northeast Phase Expansion

Project, Yellow Medicine, Lincoln and

Lyon Counties, MN and Deuel County,

SD.

Summary: EPA expressed

environmental concerns regarding the

lack of full disclosure of reasonable

foreseeable development and

cumulative impacts. EPA expressed

support for the preferred alternative and

mitigation measures which must be

implemented.

ERP No. DA–JUS–A82111–00 Rating

LO, Cannabis Eradication in the

Contiguous United States and Hawaii,

Updated Information on Herbicidal

Eradication New Scientific Data.

Summary: EPA had no objections to

the preferred alternative which allows

for use of the full range of eradication

methods based on site-specific

condition.

ERP No. RD–NOA–B91024–ME Rating

EC2, American Lobster Fishery

Management Plan, Implementation, To

Prevent Overfishing of American

Lobster, Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)

off the New England and Mid-Atlantic,

ME.

Summary: EPA had environmental

concerns with the proposed action.

EPA’s concerns were based on the need

to lengthen the planning duration to 10

years; additional information requested

in which agencies would be responsible

for enforcing proposed reduced fishing

times; and the role played by point and

non-point pollution in the decline of the

lobster fishery.

Final EISs

ERP No. F–FHW–E40330–TN, I–40

Reconstruction, I–40/I–240 Directional

(Midtown) Interchange to TN–300

Interchange, Funding and Possible COE

404 Permit, Shelby County, TN.

Summary: EPA continues to express

concern regarding noise impacts.

ERP No. F–NOA–E39041–SC, Marine

Environmental Health Research

Laboratory (MEHRL), Construction and

Operation of Premiere, High Technology

and Marine Research Center, Approval

of Permits, Charleston County, SC.

Summary: EPA had environmental

concerns regarding the proposed action.

These concerns were based on the

ventilation system having visual, noise,

and chemical fumes impacts.

ERP No. F–NSF–A81164–00,

Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station,

Proposal to Modernize through

Reconstruction and Replacement of Key

Facilities, Antarctica.

Summary: EPA had no environmental

objections to the proposed project.

ERP No. F–UAF–G11033–NM,

Holloman Air Force Base, Proposed

Expansion of German Air Force

Operations, for the Beddown of 30

Aircrafts and Construction of Facilities

for 640 Personnel, NM.

Summary: EPA continues to express

environmental concerns for the Air

Force proposed action and requested

that mitigation measures as described in

the FEIS to minimize impacts be

implemented and made part of the

Record of Decision and incorporated

into that document to become binding

stipulations to the proposed action.

ERP No. FA–FHW–E40108–NC, Smith

Creek Parkway, Updated and

Supplemental Information, Construction

from Third Street to Kornegay Avenue,

U.S. Coast Guard Permit, COE Section

10 and 404 Permits, Wilmington,

Hanover County, NC.

SSummary: EPA continues to express

concern because of the two crossing of

Smith Creek that would contribute

additional pollutant loading to an

already stressed system.

ERP No. FS–AFS–J65211–CO, Illinois

Creek Timber Sale, Timber Harvesting,

Implementation, Amended Land and

Resource Management Plan, Grand

Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison

National Forests, Taylor River/Cebolla

Ranger District, Gunnison County, CO.

Summary: EPA had no comment on

this supplement to the final EIS. No