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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[ER–FRL–6669–02] 

Environmental Impacts Statements; 

Notice Of Availability 

Responsible Agency: Office of Federal 

Activities, General Information (202) 

564–7167 or http://www.epa.gov/ 

compliance/nepa/. 

Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact 

Statements 

Filed 10/31/2005 Through 11/04/2005 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9. 

EIS No. 20050457, Final EIS, IBR, CA, 

Lake Berryessa Visitor Services Plans, 

Future Use and Operation, Solano 

Project Lake Berryessa, Napa County, 

CA, Wait Period Ends: 12/09/2005, 

Contact: Peter Lucero 707–966–2111 

Ext 106. 

EIS No. 20050458, Final EIS, AFS, SD, 

Deerfield Project Area, Proposes to 

Implement Multiple Resource 

Management Actions, Mystic Ranger 

District, Black Hills National Forest, 

Pennington County, SD, Wait Period 

Ends: 12/09/2005, Contact: Robert 

Thompson 605–343–1567. 

EIS No. 20050459, Draft EIS, BLM, 00, 

Programmatic—Vegetation 

Treatments Using Herbicides on 

Bureau of Land Management Public 

Lands in 17 Westerns, including 

Alaska, Comment Period Ends: 01/09/ 

2006, Contact: Brian Amme 775–861–

6645. 

EIS No. 20050460, Draft Supplement, 

USN, 00, Surveillance Towed Array 

Sensor System Low Frequency Active 

(SURTASS LFA) Sonar Systems, 

Updated and Additional Information, 

Implementation, Comment Period 

Ends: 12/27/2005, Contact: J.S. 

Johnson 703–465–8404. 

EIS No. 20050461, Final EIS, AFS, WY, 

Bighorn National Forest Revised Land 

and Resource Management Plan, 

Implementation, Big Horn Mountain 

Range, Bighorn National Forest, 

Johnson, Sheridan, Bighorn, and 

Washakie Counties, WY, Wait Period 

Ends: 12/09/2005, Contact: Bernie 

Bornong 307–674–2685. 

EIS No. 20050462, Draft EIS, IBR, CA, 

South Delta Improvements Program, 

To Improve Water Quality, Water 

Conveyance, and Fish Habitat 

Conditions, Central Valley Project, 

U.S. Army COE Section 404 Permit, 

South Sacramento-San Joaquin River 

Delta, Several Counties, CA, Comment 

Period Ends: 02/07/2006, Contact: 

Sharon McHale 916–978–5086. 

EIS No. 20050463, Final EIS, BLM, NV, 

North Valleys Rights-of-Way Projects, 

Proposed Construction and Operation 

of Water Transmission Pipelines, 

Washoe County, NV, Wait Period 

Ends: 12/09/2005, Contact: Terri 

Knutson 775–885–6156. 

EIS No. 20050464, Final EIS, AFS, 00, 

Quachita National Forest, Proposed 

Revised Land Resource Management 

Plan, Implementation, Several 

Counties, AR; and LeFlore and 

McCurtain Counties, OK, Wait Period 

Ends: 12/09/2005, Contact: Bill Pell 

501–321–5320. 

EIS No. 20050465, Final Supplement, 

FHW, UT, Legacy Parkway Project, 

Construction from 1–215 at 2100 

North in Salt Lake City to 1–15 and 

US–89 near Farmington, Updated 

Information, Funding and U.S. Army 

COE Section 404 Permit, Salt Lake 

and Davis Counties, UT, Wait Period 

Ends: 12/09/2005, Contact: Gregory 

Punske, P.E. 801–963–0182. 

EIS No. 20050466, Final EIS, COE, NJ, 

Liberty State Park Ecosystem 

Restoration Project, Hudson Raritan 

Estuary Study, To Address the 

Adverse Impacts Associated with Past 

Filling Activities, Port Authority of 

New and New Jersey City, Hudson 

County, NJ, Wait Period Ends: 12/09/ 

2005, Contact: Mark Matusiak 202–

761–5909. 

EIS No. 20050467, Final EIS, COE, NY, 

Montuak Point Storm Damage 

Reduction Project, Proposed 

Reinforcement of an Existing Stone 

Revetment Wall, Suffolk County, NY, 

Wait Period Ends: 12/09/2005, 

Contact: Lee Ware 202–761–4242. 

EIS No. 20050468, Draft EIS, EPA, CA, 

Regional Non-Potable Water 

Distribution System Project, Funding, 

US Army COE Section 404 Permit, 

Riverside and San Bernardino 

Counties, CA, Comment Period Ends: 

12/28/2005, Contact: Elizabeth 

Borowiec 415–972–3419. 

EIS No. 20050469, Draft EIS, NOA, 00, 

PROGRAMMATIC—Towards an 

Ecosystem Approach for the Western 

Pacific Region: From Species Based 

Fishery Management Plans to PlaceBased Fishery Ecosystem Plans, 

Realignment, Implementation, 

Western Pacific Region (America 

Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, 

Commonwealth of the Northern 

Mariana Islands), and US Pacific 

Remote Island Areas, Comment 

Period Ends: 12/26/2005, Contact: 

William L. Robinson 808–944–2200. 

This document is available on the 

Internet at: http://swr.nmfs.noaa.gov/ 

pir. 

EIS No. 20050470, Final EIS, NPS, AZ, 

Colorado River Management Plan, 

Analyzing Alternatives for 

Management of Recreational Use of 

the Colorado River, Grand Canyon 

National Park, Coconino County, AZ, 

Wait Period Ends: 12/09/2005, 

Contact: Rick Ernenwein 928–779–

6279. 

Amended Notices 

EIS No. 20050397, Draft EIS, BIA, ID, 

Programmatic—Coeur d’ Alene Tribe 

Integrated Resource Management 

Plan, Implementation, Coeur d’ Alene 

Reservation and Aboriginal Territory, 

ID, Comment Period Ends: 12/14/ 

2005, Contact: Tiffany Allgood 208–

686–8802. 

Revision of Federal Register Notice 

Published on 09/30/2005: Comment 

Period Extended from 11/14/2005 to 12/ 

14/2005. 

EIS No. 20050454, Draft EIS, FRC, 00, 

Cove Point Expansion Project, 

Construction and Operation of a 

Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Import 

Terminal Expansion and Natural Gas 

Pipeline Facilities, US. Army COE 

Section 404 Permit, Docket Nos. 

CPO5–130–000, CP05–131–000 and 

CP05–132–00, PA, VA, WV, NY and 

MD, Comment Period Ends: 12/21/ 

2005, Contact: Thomas Russo 1–866–

208–3372. 

Revision of Federal Register Notice 

Published 11/04/2005: Correction to 

Document Status from Final to Draft 

EIS. 

Dated: November 7, 2005. 

Robert W. Hargrove, 

Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office 

of Federal Activities. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–7994–8] 

State Innovation Grant Program, 

Preliminary Notice on the Development 

of a Solicitation for Proposals for 2006 

Awards 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Office of Policy, 

Economics and Innovation (OPEI) is 

giving preliminary notice of its 

intention to solicit proposals for a 2006 

grant program to support innovation by 

state environmental regulatory 

agencies—the ‘‘State Innovation Grant 

Program.’’ In addition, EPA is asking 

each State Environmental Regulatory 

Agency to designate a point of contact 

at the management level (in addition to 

the Commissioner or Cabinet Secretary 

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level) who will be the point of contact 

for further communication about the 

upcoming solicitation. If your point of 

contact from previous State Innovation 

Grant solicitations is to be your contact 

for this year’s competition, there is no 

need to send that information again, as 

all previously designated points of 

contact will remain on our notification 

list for this year’s competition. EPA 

anticipates publication of a Federal 

Register notice to announce the 

availability of the next solicitation 

approximately three weeks after 

publication of this announcement. 

DATES: State Environmental Regulatory 

Agencies will have 14 days from the 

date of this pre-announcement notice in 

the Federal Register publication until 

November 25, 2005 to respond with 

point of contact information for the 

person within the State Environmental 

Regulatory Agency (in addition to 

Commissioner or Cabinet Secretaries) 

who will be designated to receive future 

notices about the State Innovation 

Grants. We will automatically transmit 

notice of availability of the solicitation 

to people in State agencies identified for 

previous solicitations. 

ADDRESSES: Information should be sent 

to: State Innovation Grant Program; 

Office of Policy, Economics and 

Innovation; U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (1807T); 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. Responses may also be sent 

by fax to (202) 566–2220, addressed to 

the ‘‘State Innovation Grant Program,’’

or by e-mail to: Innovation_State_

Grants@EPA.gov. We encourage e-mail 

responses. If you have questions about 

responding to this notice, please contact 

EPA at this e-mail address or fax 

number, or you may call Sherri Walker 

at 202–566–2186. For point of contact 

information, please provide: name, title, 

department and agency, street or Post 

Office address, city, State, zip code, 

telephone, fax, and e-mail address. EPA 

will acknowledge all responses it 

receives to this notice. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: In April 2002, EPA issued 

its plan for future innovation efforts, 

published as Innovating for Better 

Environmental Results: A Strategy to 

Guide the Next Generation of 

Innovation at EPA (EPA 100–R–02–002; 

http://www.epa.gov/innovation/ 

strategy/). The Agency’s Innovation 

Strategy presents a framework for 

environmental innovation consisting of 

four major elements: 

(1) Strengthen EPA’s innovation 

partnerships with States; 

(2) Focus on priority environmental 

issues: 

(3) Diversify environmental protection 

tools and approaches: 

(4) Foster a more ‘‘innovationfriendly’’ organizational culture and 

systems. 

This assistance program strengthens 

EPA’s partnership with the States by 

supporting innovation compatible with 

the Innovation Strategy. EPA would like 

to help States build on previous 

experience and undertake strategic 

innovation projects that promote largerscale models for ‘‘next generation’’

environmental protection and promise 

better environmental results. EPA is 

interested in funding projects that go 

beyond a single facility experiment to 

promote change that is ‘‘systemsoriented’’ and provides better results 

from a program, process, or sector-wide 

innovation. EPA is particularly 

interested in innovation that promotes 

integrated (cross-media) environmental 

management with high potential for 

transfer to other States. 

In 2002, EPA initiated the State 

Innovation Grant Program with a 

competition that asked for State project 

proposals that would create innovation 

in environmental permitting programs 

related to one of the Innovation 

Strategy’s four priority environmental 

issues: Reducing greenhouse gases, 

reducing smog, improving water quality, 

and ensuring the long-term integrity of 

the nations’s water infrastructure. In 

addition, the solicitation encouraged 

projects that test incentives that 

motivate ‘‘beyond-compliance’’

environmental performance, or move 

whole sectors toward improved 

environmental performance through 

models such as Environmental Results 

Programs, Environmental Management 

Systems and the National 

Environmental Performance Track 

Program. Fifteen total awards to States 

have been made from the three prior 

competitions. Awards from the 2002 

solicitation competition totaled 

$618,000. Awards from the 2003–2004 

competition were approximately $1.6 

million dollars. EPA is currently 

completing awards to seven States 

selected in the 2005 competition. Of 

those projects that have been awarded, 

including those with pending awards: 

11 are for development of 

Environmental Results Programs, 7 

relate to Environmental Management 

Systems and permitting, 2 are to 

enhance Performance-Based 

Environmental Leadership programs, 2 

are for Watershed-based permitting, and 

1 is Information Technology. For more 

information on last year’s solicitation, 

the proposals received, and the award 

decisions, please see the Web site at: 

http://www.epa.gov/innovation/ 

stategrants. 

Proposed General Topic Areas for 

Solicitation: Because the Agency has 

limited funding for the Program, NCEI 

wants to maximize the strategic impact 

of these projects. Our intention, 

therefore is to retain ‘‘innovation in 

permitting’’ as the general subject area 

of the upcoming solicitation with 

special attention toward the three 

specific topics under that theme from 

last year: (1) Projects that support the 

development of state Environmental 

Results Programs (ERP); (2) projects 

which explore the relationship between 

Environmental Management Systems 

(EMS) and permitting (see EPA’s 

Strategy for Determining the Role of 

EMS in Regulatory Programs at http:// 

www.epa.gov/ems or http:// 

www.epa.gov/ems/docs/EMS_and_the_

Reg_Structure_41204F.pdf); (3) projects 

that support state performance-based 

programs or state support for 

implementation of Performance Track 

particularly with regard to development 

and implementation of incentives. 

EPA’s focus on a small number of topics 

within this general subject area 

effectively concentrates the limited 

resources available for greater strategic 

impact. Project selections and awards 

will be subject to funding availability 

for each topic area. In addition, EPA 

may contemplate a very limited number 

of projects otherwise related to the 

theme of permitting, in particular as 

they may address EPA Regional and 

State environmental permitting 

priorities. 

As in previous rounds of this 

competition, the 2006 State Innovation 

Grant Program competition will seek to 

strengthen EPA’s innovation 

partnership with States by providing a 

source of funding to facilitate State 

efforts to test new models for ‘‘next 

generation’’ environmental protection 

that will provide better environmental 

results, consistent with the goals of 

EPA’s Innovation Strategy. 

This grant program emphasizes 

interest in funding projects that go 

beyond a single facility experiment to 

promote change that is ‘‘systemsoriented’’ and provides better results 

from a program, process, or sector-wide 

innovation. Another key goal for this 

grant program is practical transferability 

of innovation that enables or supports 

other States to motivate their designated 

or geographical priority facility(ies) of 

choice to provide ‘‘beyond compliance’’

environmental performance, or to move 

whole sectors toward improved 

environmental performance. 

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Note: These grants will not be applied to 

the development or demonstration of new 

environmental technologies, nor will NCEI 

fund projects that propose development or 

upgrading of information technology systems 

for anything other than a very minor 

component of the project. Projects will be 

much less likely to be funded through the 

State Innovation Grant Program if agency 

resources are already available through 

another agency program. 

Competition Limited to the State 

Environmental Regulatory Agency: The 

competition will be limited to the 

principal Environmental Regulatory 

Agency within each State, although 

these agencies are encouraged to partner 

with other agencies within the State that 

have environmental mandates (e.g., 

natural resources management, 

transportation, public health, energy). 

EPA will accept only one proposal from 

an individual State and it must be 

submitted by the principal 

Environmental Regulatory Agency from 

that State. States are also encouraged to 

partner with other States and Tribes to 

address cross-boundary issues, and to 

create networks for peer-mentoring. A 

multi-state or State-Tribal proposal will 

be accepted in addition to an individual 

State proposal, but a State may appear 

in no more than one multi-State or 

State-Tribal proposal in addition to its 

individual proposal. EPA regrets that 

because of the limitations in available 

funding it is not yet able to open this 

competition to Native American Tribal 

environmental agencies but we strongly 

encourage Tribal agencies to join with 

adjacent States in project proposals. 

Request for Designation of a Primary 

Point of Contact: EPA asks that each 

State Environmental Regulatory Agency 

designate as a primary point-of-contact, 

a manager who we will add to the EPA 

notification list for further 

announcements about the State 

Innovation Grant Program. If your point 

of contact from previous State 

Innovation Grant solicitations is to be 

your contact for this year’s competition, 

there is no need to send that 

information again, as all previously 

designated points of contact will remain 

on our notification list for this year’s 

competition. We are asking that this 

name be submitted with the approval of 

the highest levels of management within 

an Agency (Secretary, Commissioner, or 

their deputies) within 14 days after 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register November 25, 2005. Please 

submit this information to EPA by mail, 

fax or e-mail in the following manner. 

By mail to: State Innovation Grant 

Program, Office of Policy, Economics 

and Innovation, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (1807T), 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC 20460. 

By fax to: ‘‘State Innovation Grant 

Program’’, 202–566–2220. 

By e-mail to: 

Innovation_State_Grants@EPA.gov. 

We encourage e-mail responses. If you 

have questions about responding to this 

notice, please contact EPA at this e-mail 

address or fax number, or you may call 

Sherri Walker at 202–566–2186. For 

point of contact information, please 

provide: name, title, department and 

agency, street or Post Office address, 

city, State, zip code, telephone, fax, and 

e-mail address. EPA will acknowledge 

all responses it receives to this notice. 

Opportunity for Dialogue: Between 

now and the initiation of the 

competition with the release of the 

solicitation, States are encouraged to 

discuss potential projects with their 

EPA Regional contact to ascertain 

whether the scope of a potential project 

is suitable for funding under this 

program. Unlike last year, we will not 

be hosting a series of pre-competition 

workshops for all States and Regions. 

Questions that come to us during this 

period, as well as our responses, along 

with helpful resource materials will be 

posted on the State Innovation Grant 

Web site at http://www.epa.gov/ 

innovation/stategrants. The Regional 

contacts and the EPA HQ National 

Center for Environmental Innovation are 

as follows: 

Regional Contacts 

George Frantz 

U.S. EPA Region I 

1 Congress Street, Suite 1100 

Boston, MA 02114–2023 

(617) 918–1883 

frantz.george@epa.gov 

States: ME, NH, VT, MA, CT, RI 

Grace Smith 

U.S. EPA Region 2 

290 Broadway, 26th Floor 

New York, NY 10007–1866 

(212) 637–3589 

smith.grace@epa.gov 

States & Territories: NY, NJ, PR, VI 

Marie Holman 

U.S. EPA Region 3 

1650 Arch Street (3EA40) 

Philadelphia, PA 19103 

(215) 814–5463 

holman.marie@epa.gov 

States: DE, DC, MD, PA, VA, WV 

Melissa Heath 

U.S. EPA Region 4 

61 Forsyth Street, SW 

Atlanta, GA 30303 

(404) 562–8381 

heath.melissa@epa.gov 

States: AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN 

Marilou Martin 

U.S. EPA Region 5, B–19J 

77 West Jackson Blvd. 

Chicago, IL 60604–3507 

(312) 353–9660 

martin.marilou@epa.gov 

States: MN, WI, MI, IL, IN, OH 

David Bond 

U.S. EPA Region 6 

Fountain Place, Suite 1200 

1445 Ross Avenue 

Dallas, TX 75202–2733 

(214) 665–6431 

bond.david@epa.gov 

States: AR, LA, NM, OK, TX 

Chrissy Wolfersberger 

U.S. EPA Region 7 

901 N. 5th Street 

Kansas City, KS 66101 

(913) 551–7864 

wolfersberger.chris@epa.gov 

States: KS, MO, NE, IA 

Whitney Trulove-Cranor 

U.S. EPA Region 8 (8P–SA) 

999 18th Street, Suite 300 

Denver, CO 80202–2466 

(303) 312–6099 

trulove-cranor.whitney@epa.gov 

States: CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, WY 

Loretta Barsamian 

U.S. EPA Region 9 

75 Hawthorne Street (SPE–1) 

San Francisco, CA 94105 

(415) 947–4268 

barsamian.loretta@epa.gov 

States & Territories: CA, NV, AZ, HI, 

AS, GU 

Bill Glasser 

U.S. EPA Region 10 

1200 Sixth Avenue (ENF–T) 

Seattle, WA 09101 

206–553–7215 

glasser.william@epa.gov 

States: AK, ID, OR, WA 

Headquarters Office: 

Sherri Walker 

State Innovation Grants Program 

National Center for Environmental 

Innovation 

Office of the Administrator 

U.S. EPA (MC 1807T) 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW. 

Washington, DC 20460 

(202) 566–2186 

(202) 566–2220 fax 

Innovation_State_Grants@epa.gov. 

For courier delivery only: 

Sherri Walker 

U.S. EPA 

EPA West Building, room 4214D 1301 

Constitution Ave., NW. 

Washington, DC 20005 

Dated: November 2, 2005. 

Elizabeth Shaw, 

Director, Office of Environmental Policy 

Innovation. 

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