[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 14 (Friday, January 22, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3729-3730]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-1193]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-8987-6]


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)(copyright) 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 or http://www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/.
    An explanation of the ratings assigned to draft environmental 
impact statements (EISs) was published in FR dated July 17, 2009 (74 FR 
34754).

Notice

    In accordance with Section 309(a) of the Clean Air Act, EPA is 
required to make its comments on EISs issued by other Federal agencies 
public. Historically, EPA has met this mandate by publishing weekly 
notices of availability of EPA comments, which includes a brief summary 
of EPA's comment letters, in the Federal Register. Since February 2008, 
EPA has been including its comment letters on EISs on its Web site at: 
http://www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/eisdata.html. Including the entire 
EIS comment letters on the Web site satisfies the Section 309(a) 
requirement to make EPA's comments on EISs available to the public. 
Accordingly, after March 31, 2010, EPA will discontinue the publication 
of this notice of availability of EPA comments in the Federal Register.

Draft EISs

EIS No. 20090381, ERP No. D-IBR-K65382-CA, New Melones Lakes Area 
Resource Management Plan, Implementation, Tuolumne and Calaveras 
Counties, CA.

    Summary: While EPA has no objections to the project as proposed, we 
requested additional information on impervious surfaces, mine-based 
pollution and working with Lower Stanislaus River stakeholders to 
address downstream water quality impairment, and funding. Rating LO.

EIS No. 20090403, ERP No. D-IBW-G29001-TX, Presidio Flood Control 
Project, Flood Control Improvements and Partial Levee Relocation, 
Presidio, TX.

    Summary: EPA does not object to the proposed action. Rating LO.

EIS No. 20090405, ERP No. D-AFS-J65550-SD, Norbeck Wildlife Project, 
Proposing to Manage Vegetation to Benefit Game Animals and Bird, Black 
Hills National Forest, Custer and Pennington Counties, SD.

    Summary: EPA has environmental concerns about this project's 
potential air quality impacts, and recommended additional information 
and analysis regarding potential air quality impacts and mitigation be 
included in the FEIS. Rating EC1.

EIS No. 20090408, ERP No. D-AFS-J65551-CO, Rio de los Pinos Vegetation 
Management Project, Proposes to Salvage Engelmann Spruce Trees that 
have been Killed by, or are Infested with, Spruce Beetle, Conejos Peak 
Ranger District, Rio Grande National Forest, Conejos, Rio Grande and 
Archuleta Counties, CO.

    Summary: EPA does not object to the proposed project. Rating LO.

Final EISs

EIS No. 20090383, ERP No. F-BLM-K67058-NV, Bald Mountain Mine North 
Operations Area Project, Proposes to Expand Current Mining Operations 
at several Existing Pits, Rock Disposal Areas, Heap Leach Pads, 
Processing Facilities, and Interpit Area, Combining the Bald Mountain 
Mine Plan of Operations Boundary and the Mooney Basin Operation Area 
Boundary, White Pine County, NV.

    Summary: EPA continues to have environmental concerns about ground 
and surface water impacts from contaminated leachate. EPA requested 
that the ROD include an Adaptive Waste Rock Management Plan and a Water 
Monitoring and Mitigation Plan.

EIS No. 20090409, ERP No. F-FHW-K40264-CA, Partially Revised Tier 1--
Placer Parkway Corridor Preservation Project, Select and Preserve a 
Corridor for the Future Construction from CA-70/99 to CA 65, Placer and 
Sutter Counties, CA.

    Summary: EPA continues to have environmental concerns about 
hydrology, floodplain, and air quality impacts.

EIS No. 20090412, ERP No. F-AFS-K65358-CA, Stanislaus National Forest 
Motorized Travel Management (17305) Plan, Implementation, Stanislaus 
National Forest, CA.

    Summary: EPA continues to have environmental concerns about the 
travel management planning process, the conversion of closed routes to 
open, and the enforceability of the new transportation system. In 
addition, EPA is also concerned that the decision to eliminate wet 
weather closures and reduce season-of-use limitations would impact 
forest resources.

EIS No. 20090413, ERP No. F-AFS-K65353-NV, Martin Basin Rangeland 
Project, Reauthorizing Grazing on Eight Existing Cattle and Horse 
Allotments: Bradshaw, Buffalo, Buttermilk, Granite Peak, Indian, Martin 
Basin, Rebel Creek, and West Side Flat Creek, Santa Rosa Ranger 
District, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, NV.


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    Summary: EPA's previous concerns have been resolved; therefore, EPA 
does not object to the proposed action.

EIS No. 20090431, ERP No. F-FHW-H40195-MO, East Columbia Transportation 
Project, To Improve the Transportation Network in Eastern Columbia/
Boone County by: (1) Extending Route 740 from its Terminus at US-63, 
along a new Alignment, to I-70 at the existing St. Charles Road 
Interchange, (2) Improving existing Broadway (Route WW) to Olivet Road 
and (3) Extending Ballenger Lane, from Future Route 740 to Clark Lane, 
City of Columbia, Boone County, MO.

    Summary: EPA does not object to the proposed project.

    Dated: January 19, 2010.
Robert W. Hargrove,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
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