[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 11 (Friday, January 16, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3033-3034]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-908]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-8589-6]


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 202-564-7146. An explanation of the ratings 
assigned to draft environmental impact statements (EISs) was published 
in FR dated April 6, 2008 (73 FR 19833).

Draft EISs

EIS No. 20080445, ERP No. D-FTA-K59008-CA, Berkeley/Albany Ferry 
Terminal Study, Proposing to Implement New Ferry Service between 
Berkeley/Albany and the San Francisco Ferry Building, Funding, San 
Francisco Water Transit Authority (WETA), Berkeley/Albany, CA.

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about biological 
resource and dredging impacts. Rating EC2.

Final EISs

EIS No. 20080438, ERP No. F-FHW-K50014-CA, Doyle Drive Project, South 
Access to the Golden Gate Bridge, Propose to Improve Seismic, 
Structural, and Traffic Safety, Presidio of San Francisco, San 
Francisco County Transportation Authority, Marin and San Francisco 
Counties, CA.

    Summary: EPA continues to have environmental concerns about traffic 
and localized air quality impacts due to the scale and duration of 
construction activities.

EIS No. 20080476, ERP No. F-COE-G39047-00, White River Minimum Flow 
Study, To Provide an Improved Minimum Flow for the Benefit of the Tail 
Water Fishery, White River Basin Lakes: Bull Shoal Lakes on the White 
River; Norfork Lake on the North Fork White River, AR.

    Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.

EIS No. 20080482, ERP No. F-DOE-A09800-00, PROGRAMMATIC--Designation of 
Energy Corridors in 11 Western States, Preferred Location of Future 
Oil, Gas, and Hydrogen Pipelines and Electricity Transmission and 
Distribution Facilities on Federal Land, AZ, CA, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, 
UT, WA, and WY.

    Summary: While the final Programmatic EIS provided additional 
information on the interagency operating procedures (IOPs) and impacts 
to visual resources areas, EPA continues to have environmental concerns 
about the potential impacts to wetlands in the designated corridors.

EIS No. 20080483, ERP No. F-FHW-D40184-MO, MO-34 Improvement,

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from U.S. Routes 60/21 Intersection in Carter County to Routes 34/72 
Intersection in Cape Girardeau County, Funding, U.S. Army COE Section 
404 Permit, Carter, Bollinger, Reynolds, Wayne, and Cape Girardeau 
Counties, MO.

    Summary: EPA does not object to the proposed action; however, we 
requested clarification on the number and length of jurisdictional 
streams.

EIS No. 20080490, ERP No. F-BPA-L91030-WA, Lyle Falls Fish Passage 
Project, To Improve Fish Passage to Habitat in the Upper Part of the 
Watershed, Located on the Lower Klickitat River, Klickitat County, WA.

    Summary: The Final EIS adequately responded to our previous 
comments; therefore, EPA does not object to the preferred action.

EIS No. 20080493, ERP No. F-BLM-G65105-NM, Socorro Resource Management 
Plan Revision, Implementation, Socorro and Catron Counties, NM.

    Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.

EIS No. 20080500, ERP No. F-DHS-A10077-00, National Bio and Agro-
Defense Facility, Preferred Alternative is (2) Manhattan Campus Site, 
Propose to Site, Construct and Operate at one of the Proposed 
Locations: (1) South Milledge Avenue Site, Clarke County, GA; (2) 
Manhattan Campus Site, Riley County, KS; (3) Flora Industrial Park 
Site, Madison County, MS; (4) Plum Island Site, Suffolk County, NY; (5) 
Umstead Research Park Site, Granville County, NC; and (6) Texas 
Research Park Site, Bexar and Medina Counties, TX.

    Summary: No formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.

    Dated: January 13, 2009.
Robert W. Hargrove,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
[FR Doc. E9-908 Filed 1-15-09; 8:45 am]
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