Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 211 / Tuesday, November 2, 2010 / Notices 67391 

Dated: October 27, 2010. 

Mercedes M. Ma ́ rquez, 

Assistant Secretary for Community Planning 

and Development. 

[FR Doc. 2010–27682 Filed 11–1–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5455–N–01] 

Notice of Intent To Prepare a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the West Coast Recycling Group 

Project in West Sacramento, Yolo 

County, CA 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Community Planning and 

Development, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: HUD gives notice to the 

public, agencies, and Indian tribes that 

the City of West Sacramento, CA, 

intends to prepare an Environmental 

Impact Statement/Environmental 

Impact Report (EIS/EIR) for the 

development of the West Coast 

Recycling Group project located at the 

Port of West Sacramento (Port) in West 

Sacramento, Yolo County, CA. The City 

of West Sacramento, acting as the lead 

agency, will prepare the EIS/EIR acting 

under its authority as the responsible 

entity for compliance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in 

accordance with 42 U.S.C. 5304(g) and 

HUD regulations at 24 CFR 58.4, and 

under its authority as lead agency in 

accordance with the California 

Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The 

EIS/EIR will be a joint document under 

NEPA and CEQA. The EIS will satisfy 

the requirements of NEPA and HUD 

regulations at 24 CFR part 58. The EIR 

will satisfy requirements of the CEQA 

(Public Resources Code 21000 et seq.) 

and State CEQA Guidelines (14 

California Code of Regulations 15000 et 

seq.), which require that all State and 

local government agencies consider the 

environmental consequences of projects 

over which they have discretionary 

authority before acting on those 

projects. The proposed action is subject 

to compliance with NEPA because 

Federal Community Development Block 

Grant (i.e., CDBG) funds would be used 

for the design and construction of a new 

main entrance to the Port. This notice is 

given in accordance with the Council on 

Environmental Quality regulations at 40 

CFR parts 1500–1508. All interested 

Federal, State, and local agencies, 

Indian tribes, groups, and the public are 

invited to comment on the scope of the 

EIS. If you are an agency with 

jurisdiction by law over natural or other 

public resources affected by the project, 

the City of West Sacramento needs to 

know what environmental information 

germane to your statutory 

responsibilities should be included in 

the EIS/EIR. 

ADDRESSES: Comments relating to the 

scope of the EIS are requested and will 

be accepted by the contact person listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section for up to December 2, 

2010. Any person or agency interested 

in receiving a notice and wishing to 

make comment on the draft EIS should 

contact the person listed below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Tilley, Senior Planner, 

Community Development Department, 

City of West Sacramento, 1110 West 

Capitol Avenue, 2nd Floor, West 

Sacramento, CA 95691; telephone 

number 916–617–4645, Fax Number: 

916–371–0845. Mr. Tilley may also be 

contacted by e-mail at: 

davidt@cityofwestsacramento.org. 

Public Meetings: A public scoping 

meeting will be held for this EIS/EIR. 

The public scoping meeting will be held 

no less than 15 days after the 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register. The scoping meeting will 

provide an opportunity for the public to 

learn more about the project and 

provide input to the environmental 

process. Written comments and 

testimony concerning the scope of the 

EIS/EIR will be accepted at this meeting. 

The meeting will be preceded by a 

notice of public hearing which will be 

published in the local news media at 

least 15 days before the meeting date. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description of the Proposed Action 

The West Coast Recycling Group 

(WCRG) proposes to develop 

approximately 15 acres at the Port of 

West Sacramento (Port) in the city of 

West Sacramento to construct and 

operate a scrap metal shredding and 

recycling facility. The project site is on 

formerly used industrial land at 3125 

Industrial Boulevard in Yolo County, 

California. The Port is located 

approximately 0.5 mile south of U.S. 

Highway 50 and 1.25 miles west of 

Interstate 5, and is bounded by 

Industrial Boulevard to the north and 

east, the Sacramento Deep Water Ship 

Channel (SDWSC) and turning basin to 

the south, and Lake Washington to the 

west. The project site is located in the 

northwestern portion of the Port facility. 

Much of the approximately 15-acre 

project site was previously used as a log 

export yard. A portion of the site is 

currently being used as a concrete 

recycling facility. The remainder of the 

property is currently composed of 

vacant industrial land and a heavy 

equipment storage area. Predominant 

land uses in the vicinity of the project 

site are industrial. Land uses adjacent to 

and surrounding the Port include 

industrial facilities, warehouses, a 

firehouse, office buildings, and other 

commercial land uses. Residential land 

uses are located south and east of the 

Port. 

The project would require a 

conditional use permit from the City of 

West Sacramento and a ground lease 

from the Port of West Sacramento. 

Operations at the proposed facility 

would include scrap metal sorting and 

scrap metal shredding, material 

separation and processing to extract 

usable material, and stabilization of 

nonmetallic material to make it useful 

as sanitary day cover in landfills. The 

vehicles that are to be shredded on-site 

will already have been dismantled by 

other companies to remove vehicle 

fluids, tires, batteries, and reusable 

parts. The facility would be a state-ofthe-art design, with modern emission 

controls, and an industrial storm water 

system to capture and reuse rainwater. 

A portion of the metal material 

delivered for shredding at the facility 

would include retired automobiles or 

end-of-life vehicles. However, other 

sources of scrap metal would also be 

shredded such as appliances, 

agricultural equipment, and industrial 

scrap metal. The scrap metal may be 

bailed or placed into bins for transport. 

The project includes design and 

construction of a new main Port 

entrance from Industrial Boulevard. The 

new entrance would be located west of 

the current main entrance at Harbor 

Boulevard and approximately 350 feet 

east of the Beacon Drive/Industrial 

Boulevard intersection (centerline to 

centerline). 

The proposed metal recycling facility 

would process automobiles and scrap 

metals through the shredder at an 

average hourly throughput of 170 gross 

tons, with a maximum of 220 gross tons 

per hour. The maximum daily shredder 

throughput is estimated to be 1,760 

gross tons per day. The monthly 

throughput is estimated to be 25,000 

gross tons. 

Alternatives to the Proposed Action 

Consistent with the requirements of 

the State CEQA Guidelines § 15126.6, 

and § 1502.14 of the Council on 

Environmental Quality Regulations 

implementing NEPA, the EIR/EIS will 

examine a range of reasonable 

alternatives to the proposed project that 

are potentially feasible. The alternatives 


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must feasibly attain most of the 

objectives of the proposed project while 

also avoiding or substantially lessening 

at least one of the significant 

environmental effects of the proposed 

project. As required by NEPA, the 

alternatives will be evaluated at the 

same level of detail as the proposed 

project. As a result of the scoping and 

agency consultation efforts conducted to 

date, the alternatives currently proposed 

for evaluation in the EIR/EIS include: 

1. No Project/Action Alternative. This 

alternative, required by both CEQA and 

NEPA, would evaluate the 

environmental impacts if the proposed 

project were not constructed and 

existing operations on the project site 

were to continue. 

2. Proposed Project. This alternative 

would evaluate the proposed project as 

described in the Project Description. 

3. One or more other alternatives (to 

be identified). Alternative(s) will be 

based on input received during the 

scoping process and feasible project 

options that could minimize or avoid 

significant environmental effects. These 

alternatives may possibly include a 

reduced project alternative and/or an 

alternative site, and will be identified 

during the scoping process. 

One of the purposes of the NOI is to 

solicit input from the public, agencies, 

Indian tribes, and interested 

organizations regarding potential 

alternatives to the proposed project. 

Therefore, the City welcomes comments 

during the public scoping process 

regarding these alternatives or 

suggestions for other alternatives to be 

examined in the EIR/EIS. 

Probable Environmental Effects 

The following subject areas will be 

analyzed in the combined EIS/EIR for 

probable environmental effects: 

Aesthetics (including light and glare); 

air quality; biological resources; climate 

change/greenhouse gases; cultural 

resources; geology and soils; 

paleontology; hazards and hazardous 

materials; hydrology and water quality; 

land use; noise and vibration; 

population, employment, and housing; 

public services; recreation; 

transportation and traffic; utilities and 

service systems; environmental justice; 

cumulative impacts; and growthinducing impacts. 

Lead Agency 

For purposes of complying with 

NEPA and CEQA, the City of West 

Sacramento is the Lead Agency and as 

the Responsible Entity under 24 CFR 

58.2(a)(7) assumes the responsibility for 

environmental review, decisionmaking, 

and action that would otherwise apply 

to HUD under NEPA. Section 104(g) of 

Title I of the Housing and Community 

Development Act (42 U.S.C. 5304[g]) 

authorizes recipients of HUD assistance 

to assume NEPA responsibilities in 

projects involving CDBG for 

infrastructure development. 

Questions may be directed to the 

individual named in this notice under 

the heading FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

Dated: October 25, 2010. 

Mercedes M. Ma ́ rquez, 

Assistant Secretary for Community Planning 

and Development. 

[FR Doc. 2010–27680 Filed 11–1–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5415–N–19] 

Notice of Availability: Notice of 

Funding Availability (NOFA) for HUD’s 

Fiscal Year 2010 Public and Indian 

Housing Family Self-Sufficiency 

Program Under the Resident 

Opportunity and Self-Sufficiency 

(ROSS) Program 

AGENCY: Office of the Chief of the 

Human Capital Officer, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: HUD announces the 

availability on its Web site of the 

applicant information, submission 

deadlines, funding criteria, and other 

requirements for HUD’s Fiscal Year (FY) 

2010 Public and Indian Housing Family 

Self-Sufficiency Program under the 

Resident Opportunity and SelfSufficiency (ROSS) Program (PH–FSS). 

The PH–FSS NOFA makes available 

approximately $15 million under the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act 2010. 

The purpose of the PH–FSS program is 

to promote the development of local 

strategies to coordinate the use of 

assistance under the Public Housing 

program with public and private 

resources, enable participating families 

to increase earned income and financial 

literacy, reduce or eliminate the need 

for welfare assistance, and make 

progress toward achieving economic 

independence and housing selfsufficiency. 

The notice providing information 

regarding the application process, 

funding criteria and eligibility 

requirements can be found using the 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development agency link on the 

Grants.gov/Find Web site at http:// 

www.grants.gov/search/agency.do. A 

link to Grants.gov is also available on 

the HUD Web site at http:// 

www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/ 

fundsavail.cfm. The Catalogue of 

Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) 

number for PH–FSS program is 14.877. 

Applications must be submitted 

electronically through Grants.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions regarding specific program 

requirements should be directed to the 

agency contact identified in the program 

NOFA. Program staff will not be 

available to provide guidance on how to 

prepare the application. Questions 

regarding the 2010 General Section 

should be directed to the Office of 

Grants Management and Oversight at 

(202) 708–0667 or the NOFA 

Information Center at 800–HUD–8929 

(toll free). Persons with hearing or 

speech impairments may access these 

numbers via TTY by calling the Federal 

Information Relay Service at 800–877– 

8339. 

Dated: October 27, 2010. 

Barbara S. Dorf, 

Director, Office of Departmental Grants 

Management and Oversight, Office of the 

Chief of the Human Capital Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5415–C–25] 

Notice of Availability: HUD’s Fiscal 

Year (FY) NOFA for the Choice 

Neighborhoods Initiative—Round 1 

NOFA Grant Program; Technical 

Correction and Extension of Deadline 

Date 

AGENCY: Office of the Chief of the 

Human Capital Officer, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice extension of deadline. 

SUMMARY: On August 26, 2010, HUD 

posted on http://www.Grants.gov its 

Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) 

for HUD’s FY2010 Choice 

Neighborhoods Initiative—Round 1. 

Today’s Federal Register notice 

announces that HUD has posted on 

http://www.Grants.gov a technical 

correction that extends the October 26, 

2010 deadline date for HUD’s FY2010 

Choice Neighborhoods Initiative— 

Round 1 NOFA for at least 30 days. 

HUD is extending the deadline for 

application to makes changes to the 

Mapping Tool used to determine 

neighborhood eligibility. HUD will post 

on http://www.Grants.gov a subsequent 

notice with a new deadline date once 

the Mapping Tool has been revamped. 


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