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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 61, No. 99

Tuesday, May 21, 1996

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

Notice of Intent To Prepare an

Environmental Impact Statement

SUMMARY: The Forest Service will

prepare an environmental impact

statement on a proposal to construct,

operate, and maintain a petroleum

pipeline across National Forest System

lands.

DATES: Comments concerning the scope

of the analysis should be received in

writing by June 21, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to

Michael Sieg, District Ranger, 6944

South 3000 East, Salt Lake City, Utah

84121.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Nancy Krebs, Project Leader, (801) 943–

2763.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Anschutz

Ranch East Pipeline, Inc. (AREPI) has

proposed construction of a 10-inch

petroleum pipeline form Kimball

Junction in Summit County, Utah to

North Salt Lake in Davis County, Utah.

The proposed buried pipeline would be

approximately 27 miles long with about

nine miles of the pipeline on National

Forest System lands in Salt Lake

County, Utah. The purpose of the

pipeline is to provide additional crude

oil transportation capacity to five Salt

Lake area oil refineries. This new crude

pipeline would transport Canadian

crude that would arrive at Kimball

Junction through a series of existing and

proposed interstate and intrastate

pipelines. It is also AREPI’s intent to

install fiber optic cable in the pipeline

trench both for pipeline communication

purposes and for future commercial sale

of excess fiber optic capacity.

Pipe corrosion protection, a

communication system, pig launchers

and receivers, test leads, mainline

sectionalizing valves and various check

valves are incorporated into the initial

pipeline design for pipeline protection,

systems and pipe monitoring, and

emergency control. The pipeline would

operate at a maximum pressure of 1,440

psi and has a minimum operating life of

25 years. No pump stations are

proposed to be built within this pipeline

segment. Initial pipeline capacity is

proposed to be 55,000 barrels per day

with the capability of increasing

capacity to 70,000 barrels per day by

adding a future pump to an existing line

near Coalville, Utah. The pipeline

parallels existing utility rights-of-way

for most of its length. AREPI has

proposed initiation of construction in

late summer of 1997.

Most of the proposed pipeline rightof-way lies within municipal

watersheds of northern Utah’s Wasatch

Mountains and within the boundaries of

the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. In

addition to Forest Service approvals, a

number of local and state governmental

agencies would be involved in

permitting or regulating pipeline

construction and right-of-way

reclamation and maintenance.

The Forest Service’s decisions are

whether or not to issue Special Use

Permits for the long-term operations and

short-term construction rights-of-way on

National Forest System lands as

proposed, with modifications, or not at

all taking into consideration the

cumulative environmental effects of the

pipeline over its entire 27 miles.

The public scoping process will close

June 24. Scoping Notices describing the

proposal, preliminarily identified

issues, the Forest Service decision to be

made, interests of other local and state

government agencies, and opportunities

for public participation was mailed on

May 20 to over 600 individuals,

organizations, and agencies. Public

scoping meetings will be held May 30

at the Burns Fire Hall, 700 West Bitner

Road, at Kimball Junction in Summit

County and on June 12 at the Read

Auditorium in Orson Spencer Hall,

Central Campus Driver, the University

of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Both

meetings begin at 6:30 p.m.

Preliminarily identified issues

include potential effects to the

watershed, surface water quality, and

culinary water supplies; terrestrial and

aquatic plant and animal species and

their habitats; cultural and historic

resources; open space and visual

quality; public use areas and parks;

existing and proposed hiking and biking

trails; public safety; anticipated future

adjacent resident, commercial, and

business developments; and others.

Alternatives may include adjustments to

the proposed right-of-way, various

approaches to construction and

reclamation, exploring other

transportation means such as increasing

capacity in existing lines, and no action.

No action would preclude construction

of the proposed pipeline across National

Forest System lands.

In order to construct and operate the

line, other permits, rights-of-way, or

regulatory approvals would have to be

obtained by the proponent from private

and public landowners, and local

governments including the State of

Utah, Summit County, Salt Lake

County, Salt Lake City, and the City of

North Salt Lake. Public agencies with

regulatory authority over pipeline

construction and approval have

specifically been invited by the Forest

Service to participate in the NEPA

process.

The public is invited to submit

comments or suggestions to the address

above. The responsible official is Bernie

Weingardt, Forest Supervisor. A draft

EIS is anticipated to be filed in

December 1996 and the final EIS filed

in May 1997.

The comment period on the draft

environmental impact statement will be

45 days from the date the

Environmental Protection Agency’s

notice of availability appears in the

Federal Register. It is very important

that those interested in the proposed

action participate at that time. To be the

most helpful, comments on the draft

environmental impact statement should

be as specific as possible and may

address the adequacy of the statement or

the merits of the alternatives discussed

(see the Council on Environmental

Quality Regulations for implementing

the procedural provisions of the

National Environmental Policy Act 40

CFR 1503.3).

In addition, Federal court decisions

have established that reviews of the

draft environmental impact statements

must structure their participation in the

environmental review of the proposal so

that it is meaningful and alerts an

agency to the reviews’ position and

contentions. Vermont Yankee Nuclear

Power Corp. v. NRDC, 435 U.S. 519, 553

(1978). Environmental objections that
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could have been raised at the draft stage

may be waived if not raised until after

completion of the final environmental

impact statement. City of Angoon v.

Hodel, (9th Circuit, 1986) and

Wisconsin Heritages, Inc. v. Harris, 490

F.Supp. 1334, 1338 (E.D. Wis. 1980).

The reason for this is to ensure that

substantive comments and objections

are made available to the Forest Service

at a time when it can meaningfully

consider them and respond to them in

the final.

Dated: May 14, 1996.

Robert Cruz,

Environmental Coordinator.

[FR Doc. 96–12661 Filed 5–20–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–11–M

Revised Forest Legacy Program

Guidelines

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of availability; request

for comment.

SUMMARY: The Cooperative Forestry

Assistance Act of 1978 (CFAA)

authorizes a Forest Legacy Program, the

purpose of which is to identify and

protect environmentally important

private forest lands that may be

threatened by conversion to non-forest

uses. The Federal Agricultural

Improvement and Reform Act of 1996

amended the CFAA to provide for

Optional State Grants to States

requesting funding support to carry out

the Program. The Forest Service hereby

gives notice of the availability of revised

guidelines for implementing the

revisions to the Forest Legacy Program

in Fiscal Year 1996 and requests

comments.

DATES: Comments must be received in

writing on or before June 20, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to

Director, Cooperative Forestry Staff,

Forest Service, USDA, P.O. Box 96090,

Washington, D.C. 20090–6090, via FAX

at (202) 205–1271, or via the INTERNET

(ASCII only) at /s=cf/oul=w01c@mhsfswa.attmail.com.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Single copies of the guidelines for

implementing the Forest Legacy

Program may be obtained by writing the

Director, Cooperative Forestry Staff,

Forest Service, USDA, P.O. Box 96090,

Washington, D.C. 20090–6090, via FAX

at (202) 205–1271, or by calling (202)

205–1389. Information may also be

requested by E-Mail (ASCII only) at

/s=cf/oul=w01c@mhs=fswa.attmail.com.

Questions about the revised Forest

Legacy Program Guidelines may be

addressed to Ted Beauvais, Cooperative

Forestry Staff, at (202) 205–1190.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section

1217 of Title XII of the Food,

Agriculture, Conservation and Trade

Act of 1990 (104 Stat. 3526) and the

Federal Agricultural Improvement and

Reform Act of 1996 authorize the

Secretary of Agriculture to provide a

Federal grant to a designated State

agency for carrying out the Forest

Legacy Program. The purpose of the

Federal grant is to provide Optional

State Grants to States for the acquisition

of environmentally important private

lands and interests in the lands with

title to the land vested in the State.

Under section 7(a) of the Cooperative

Forestry Assistance Act (16 U.S.C.

2103c(c)), the Secretary of Agriculture

continues to have authority to acquire

from willing landowners,

environmentally important forest lands

and interests therein for Federal

acquisition.

The revised Forest Legacy Program

guidelines are divided into three parts:

Part 1—General Program Guidelines:

Program direction applicable to all

aspects of the Forest Legacy Program.

Part 2—Federal Acquisition Program

Guidelines: Program direction

applicable to States and Forest Service

units selecting the Federal acquisition

and ownership process, where

ownership of lands or interests in lands

is vested in the United States.

Part 3—State Grant Program

Guidelines: Program direction

applicable to States and Forest Service

units where the State has elected the

State grant option and acquisitions

result in State ownership.

The guidelines are for the use of

agencies, State Forest Stewardship

Coordinating Committees, and the

Forest Service in implementing the

Forest Legacy Program nationwide.

The revised implementation

guidelines are available for review and

comment by the Governors through

State forestry agencies and to land

trusts, conservation organizations, forest

industry groups, landowners, and other

organizations interested in the Forest

Legacy Program. Those entities

currently on the Forest Legacy Program

mailing list maintained by the Forest

Service will receive direct notice of the

revised guidelines.

Dated: May 15, 1996.

Jerry A. Sesco,

Acting Chief.

[FR Doc. 96–12732 Filed 5–20–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–11–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of the Census

The American Community Survey

(ACS)

ACTION: Proposed agency information

collection activity; comment request.

SUMMARY: The Department of

Commerce, as part of its continuing

effort to reduce paper work and

respondent burden, invites the general

public and other Federal agencies to

take this opportunity to comment on

proposed and/or continuing information

collections, as required by the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,

Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C.

3506(c)(2)(A)).

DATES: Written comments must be

submitted on or before July 22, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments

to Linda Engelmeier, Acting

Departmental Forms Clearance Officer,

Department of Commerce, Room 5327,

14th and Constitution Avenue NW.,

Washington, DC 20230.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or

copies of the information collection

instruments(s) and instructions should

be directed to Lawrence S. McGinn,

Bureau of the Census, Room 2A, Silver

Hill Executive Plaza, Washington, DC

20233–8400, (301) 763–8327.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

The Census Bureau is authorized to

conduct surveys necessary to furnish

current data on subjects covered by the

major census authorized by Title 13,

United States Code. The data from the

ACS will determine the feasibility of a

continuous measurement system that

provides socioeconomic data on a

continual basis throughout the decade

for small areas and small

subpopulations.

The American Community Survey,

implemented in November 1995, is a

continuing full-scale operation of a

continuous measurement system in four

survey sites—Fulton County,

Pennsylvania; Rockland County, New

York; Brevard County, Florida; and

Multnomah County, Oregon, including

the city of Portland. The survey also

includes a national sample to test

response rates and our ability to obtain

telephone numbers for nonresponse

households. The data collected in this

survey will be within the general scope

and nature of those inquiries covered in

the decennial census every ten years.

We plan to continue sampling and

enumeration in the American