[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 198 (Friday, October 14, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60074-60075]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-20615]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-6668-4]


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 the Federal Register dated 
April 1, 2005 (70 FR 16815).

Draft EISs

EIS No. 20040468, ERP No. D-AFS-L65470-ID, Meadows Slope Wildland Fire 
Protection Project, Proposal to Create and Maintain a Fuelbreak of 
Reduced Crown Fire Hazard, Payette National Forest, New Meadows, Ranger 
District, Adams and Valley Counties, ID

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about potential 
adverse effects of management activities on water quality, fish habitat 
and soil productivity. Rating EC2.

EIS No. 20050081, ERP No. D-AFS-L65477-OR, B&B Fire Recovery Project, 
Proposed Harvest of Fire-Killed Trees, Reduction of Fuels, Planting of 
Tree, Deschutes National Forest, Sister Ranger District, Jefferson and 
Deschutes Counties, OR

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about the potential 
long term impacts of salvage logging to surface water quality, 
especially temperature, and aquatic habitat from increased sediment 
delivery to streams. Rating EC2.

EIS No. 20050250, ERP No. D-AFS-L65489-OR, Ashland Forest Resiliency 
Project, To Recover from Large-Scale High-Severity Wild Land Fire, 
Upper Bear Analysis Area, Ashland Ranger District, Rogue River-Siskiyou 
National Forest, Jackson County, OR

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about the potential 
impacts of sediment delivery to streams that feed into the City of 
Ashland's drinking water supply, and potential impacts from large wood 
debris to streams within and downstream of the proposed project. Rating 
EC2.

EIS No. 20050297, ERP No. D-SFW-J65447-WY, Bison and Elk Management 
Plan, Implementation, National Elk Refuge/Grand Teton National Park/
John D. Rocefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway, Teton County, WY

    Summary: EPA has no objection to the proposed action. Rating LO.

EIS No. 20050299, ERP No. D-SFW-K64026-CA, San Diego Bay National 
Wildlife Refuge Comprehensive Conservation Plan, Implementation, 
Sweetwater Marsh and South San Diego Units, San Diego, County, CA

    Summary: EPA has no objection to the proposed action. Rating LO.

EIS No. 20050138, ERP No. DS-NIH-B81009-MA, National Emerging 
Infectious Disease Laboratories, Additional Information on Two 
Alternatives, Construction of National Biocontainment Laboratory, 
BioSquare Research Park, Boston University Medical Center Campus, 
Boston, MA

    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about the air 
quality, risk assessment, and environmental justice. Rating EC2.

FINAL EISs

EIS No. 20040271, ERP No. F-FHW-B40087-VT, VT 9/100 Transportation 
Improvement Study (NH-010-1(33), In the Towns of Wilmington and West 
Dover, Federal Permits and Approvals, NPDES Permit and COE Section 10 
and 404 Permits. Windham County, VT

    Summary: EPA continues to have environmental concerns about the 
analysis of vernal pool resources and indirect/cumulative wetland 
impacts.

EIS No. 20040502, ERP No. F-FHW-B40089-CT, CT-2/2A/32 Transportation 
Improvement Study, Construction, Funding, Coast Guard Bridge Permit, 
NPDES Permit, COE

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Section 10 and 404 Permit, New London County, CT

    Summary: EPA continues to have environmental concerns about ground 
and surface water resources, impacts to wetlands and secondary impacts. 
However, EPA supports the selection of the preferred alternative.

EIS No. 20050191, ERP No. F-AFS-L65470-ID, Meadows Slope Wildland Fire 
Protection Project, Proposes to Create and Maintain a Fuelbreak of 
Reduced Crown Fire Hazard, Payette National Forest, New Meadows Rangers 
District, Adams and Valley Counties, ID

    Summary: EPA continues to express environmental concern about water 
quality impacts associated with sediment in low gradient streams.

EIS No. 20050258, ERP No. F-AFS-L65477-OR, B&B Fire Recovery Project, 
Proposed Harvest of Fire-Killed Trees, Reduction of Fuels, Planting of 
Tree, Deschutes National Forest, Sisters Ranger District, Jefferson and 
Deschutes Counties, OR

    Summary: EPA continued to have environmental concerns about the 
long term impacts of salvage logging to water quality and aquatic 
habitat from sediment delivery to streams.

EIS No. 20050307, ERP No. F-IBR-K64023-CA, Battle Creek Salmon and 
Steelhead Restoration Project, To Address New Significant Information, 
Habitat Restoration in Battle Creek and Tributaries, License Amendment 
Issuance, Implementation, Tehama and Shasta Counties, CA

    Summary: EPA is supportive of efforts to restore salmonid habitat 
to facilitate population growth and recovery, and has no objection to 
the proposed action.

EIS No. 20050312, ERP No. F-NRC-B06005-CT, Generic-License Renewal of 
Nuclear Plants for the Millstone Power Station, Units 2 and 3, 
Supplement 22 to NUREG-1437, Implementation, New London County, CT

    Summary: EPA continues to have environmental concerns about the 
entrainment and impingement of fish and other aquatic organisms, heat 
shock, and the assessment of cumulative environmental impacts.

EIS No. 20050326, ERP No. F-AFS-K65278-CA, Burlington Ridge Trails 
Project, To Eliminate, Reconstruct/or Reroute Unsound Trail Sections, 
Tahoe National Forest, Yuba River Ranger District, Camptonville, Nevada 
County, CA

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

EIS No. 20050338, ERP No. F-FHW-F40428-OH, OH-823, Portsmouth Bypass 
Project, Transportation Improvements, Funding and U.S. Army COE Section 
404 Permit, Appalachian Development Highway, Scioto County, OH

    Summary: EPA continues to have environmental concerns about 
ecosystem fragmentation, forest losses, relocation impacts, and 
requested that these impacts be further mitigated.

EIS No. 20050345, ERP No. FS-BLM-K67038-NV, Ruby Hill Mine Expansion--
East Archimedes Project, Extension of Existing Open Pit and Expansion 
of Two Existing Waste Rock Disposal Areas, Plan-of-Operations Permit, 
Eureka County, NV

    Summary: EPA recommended that BLM analyze potential long-term heap 
leach draindown scenarios and include the full cost of long-term 
treatment in the reclamation/closure bond.


    Dated: October 11, 2005.
Ken Mittelholtz,
Environmental Protection Specialist, Office of Federal Activities.
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