Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 80 / Wednesday, April 25, 2001 / Notices 20793

Date of Meeting: 26–27 April 2001.

Time of Meeting: 0900–1630, 26 April

2001; 0900–1630, 27 April 2001.

Place: Presidential Towers Office Bldg,

11th floor conference room, April 26, 9th

floor conference room, April 27, 2511

Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA

22202–3911.

Agenda: This is the second meeting of The

Army Science Board’s (ASB) Venture Capital

Ad Hoc Study. Briefings will be presented in

support of Department of Defense initiatives

to access leading edge technologies and on

commercial business strategies for accessing

leading edge technologies. For further

information, please contact Christopher

Vuxton, Senior Procurement Analyst, (703)

681–1037. If you plan to attend and require

an escort to the 9th floor conference room,

please call Mr. Everett R. Gooch on (703)

604–7479.

Damian Bianca,

Executive Secretary, Army Science Board.

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy

Notice of Intent To Prepare an

Environmental Impact Statement for

the Southern Regional Tertiary

Treatment System at Marine Corps

Base, Camp Pendleton, CA

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DOD.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: Per Section 102(2)(C) of the

National Environmental Policy Act

(NEPA) of 1969, as implemented by the

Council on Environmental Quality

Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500–1508),

the Department of the Navy announces

its intent to prepare an Environmental

Impact Statement (EIS) to evaluate the

environmental effects of construction

and operation of a consolidated tertiary

treatment plant, associated conveyance

systems, reclamation systems (i.e.,

reuse), and discharge systems for the

southern portion of Marine Corps Base

(MCB), Camp Pendleton, CA. This

project would eliminate five existing

secondary treatment plants and

establish one regional tertiary treatment

system plant in the Santa Margarita

Basin.

ADDRESSES AND DATES: The Marine

Corps will hold a public scoping

meeting on June 19, 2001, beginning at

7 p.m., at the City of Oceanside Civic

Center (Community Room) located at

300 North Coast Highway, Oceanside,

CA.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Written statements and questions

regarding the scoping process should be

mailed to Ms. Sandra Baldwin, Code

5CPR.SB, Southwest Division, Naval

Facilities Engineering Command, 1220

Pacific Highway, San Diego, CA 92132–

5190, phone (619) 532–4817. All

scoping comments should be received

not later than July 8, 2001.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: MCB

Camp Pendleton currently exceeds

existing wastewater quality standards

for the discharge of secondary-treated

effluent to the Santa Margarita River and

is under Cease and Desist Order (CDO)

No. 99–41 for five sewage treatment

plants (STPs). To resolve this CDO,

MCB Camp Pendleton must provide a

sewage treatment systems that meets the

water quality objectives and effluent

limitations established by the San Diego

Regional treatment system that meets

the water quality objectives and effluent

limitations established by the San Diego

Regional Water Quality Control Board

(RWQCB).

As a temporary solution, the city of

Oceanside has agreed to allow MCB

Camp Pendleton to dispose of

secondary-treated effluent via the city’s

existing ocean outfall. The agreement

stipulates that use of the outfall is for a

five year period commencing on the

date the base begins pumping effluent

into the outfall (expected to begin in

Summer 2001). To reach the outfall,

MCB Camp Pendleton is currently

constructing a 2.2 mile pipeline from

the base through the City, as considered

in the Final Environmental Impact

Statement/Report for P–527B, Sewage

Effluent Compliance Project, Lower

Santa Margarita Basin, Marine Corps

Base, Camp Pendleton, dated April

1997. This temporary agreement is

intended to allow MCB Camp Pendleton

to meet State of California discharge

requirements while developing and

constructing on-Base base treatment and

disposal facilities.

As a long-term solution, the proposed

action would: (1) Construct a

consolidated, southern regional

treatment plant to provide tertiary

treatment with sufficient capacity for all

wastewater currently undergoing

secondary treatment within the Santa

Margarita Basin at STPs 1, 2, 3, 8, and

13, and STP 9 located in the Las Pulgas

Basin; (2) Construct sewage conveyance

systems (pump stations, force mains and

gravity lines) from STPs 1, 2, 3, 8, and

13 to the new plant; (3) Dispose of

tertiary-treated effluent by a

combination of water reclamation and

live-stream discharge to the Santa

Margarita River; and (4) Implement a

watercourse monitoring and

management plan.

Alternatives currently to be addressed

in the EIS include: locating on-base the

site and construction of the southern

regional tertiary treatment plant within

the Santa Margarita Basin, including

alternative conveyance pipeline

alignments, alternative live-stream

treated effluent discharge locations, and

alternative land application locations;

off-base public/private venture

treatment facilities; on-base

construction of new secondary

treatment facilities and construction of

an ocean outfall discharge; and no

action.

Major environmental issues that will

be addressed in the EIS include land

use, hydrology, water quality, air

quality, biological resources including

critical habitat, cultural resources,

noise, traffic/circulation/access, public

services and utilities, human health and

safety, and hazardous materials and

waste management.

The Marine Corps will initiate a

scoping process for the purpose of

determining the extent of issues to be

addressed and identifying the

significant issues related to this action.

The Marine Corps will hold a public

scoping meeting as identified in the

Dates and Addresses section of this

notice. This meeting will also be

advertised in area newspapers.

Marine Corps representatives will be

available at this meeting to receive

comments from the public regarding

issues of concern to the public. Federal,

state, and local agencies and interested

individuals are encouraged to take this

opportunity to identify environmental

concerns that should be addressed

during the preparation of the EIS.

Agencies and the public are also

invited and encouraged to provide

written comments on scoping issues in

addition to, or in lieu of, oral comments

at the public meeting. To be most

helpful, scoping comments should

clearly describe specific issues or topics

that the commenterer believes the EIS

should address.

Dated: April 11, 2001.

Duncan Holaday,

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy,

(Installations and Facilities).

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