Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of EPA Comments

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of

EPA Comments

Availability of EPA comments prepared June 13, 1994 Through June

17, 1994 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)

260-5076.

An explanation of the ratings assigned to draft environmental

impact statements (EISs) was published in FR dated April 08, 1994 (59

FR 16807).

Draft EISs

ERP No. D-AFS-L65226-ID Rating EC2, Elk Creek Integrated Resource

Management Project, Implementation, Boise National Forest, Mountain

Home Ranger District, Elmore County, ID.

Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about impacts on

water quality from timber harvest and road construction. EPA requests

monitoring information from these impacts be included in the final EIS.

ERP No. D-BLM-K67022-NV Rating EC2, Robinson Mining Project,

Construction, Operation and Expansion, Plan of Operation Approval,

White Pine, Elko and Eureka Counties, NV.

Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns for potential project

impacts to water quality and wildlife, and BLM's preferred reclamation

measures, as well as the need for additional information in the final

EIS on mitigation, monitoring and emergency response planning.

ERP No. D-COE-L39036-WA Rating EC2, Lower Snake River Biological

Drawdown Test on Anadromous Fish and Wildlife, Implementation, Lower

Granite Reservoir, WA.

Summary: EPA had environmental concerns with the resource impacts

and stressed the necessity for biological monitoring and additional

monitoring of water quality and sediment parameters. EPA also requested

additional information about juvenile salmon dam passage mortality

factors, possible dredging activities, wastewater discharge remedial

measures, and the extent of wetland impacts.

ERP No. D-DOE-L09804-00 Rating LO, Delivery of the Canadian

Entitlement by the United States Entity of Power Benefits,

Implementation, WA, OR, ID, MI, WY, CA, NV, AZ and British Columbia.

Summary: EPA had no objections to the draft programmatic EIS.

ERP No. DS-USN-L11013-WA Rating LO, US West Coast Homeporting

Program for Fast Combat Support Ships (AOE-6 Class), Updated

Information, for the Pier D Project at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard,

Implementation, Sinclair Inlet, Bremerton, WA.

Summary: EPA believed that adverse effects to water quality and

aquatic resources would be avoided provided that the mitigation

measures specified in the draft SEIS are fully implemented.

Final EISs

ERP No. F-AFS-L65213-ID, Savant Sage Resource Area, Land and

Resource Management Plan, Implementation, Idaho Panhandle National

Forests, Fernan Ranger District, Bonner and Kootenai Counties, ID.

Summary: EPA had no objections to the preferred alternative

described in the EIS.

ERP No. F-FHW-J40122-WY, Snake River Canyon Highway, Improvement,

US 26/89 between Alpine Junction to Hoback Junction, Funding and COE

404 Permit, Teton and Lincoln Counties, WY.

Summary: EPA believed it may be possible to further reduce impacts

through speed reduction and additional reductions of clear zones and

shoulder width.

ERP No. FS-AFS-K65136-CA, CASA--Guard Timber Sale, Timber

Harvesting, Updated Information concerning Impacts on the California

Spotted Owl and Fish Creek Watershed and Reforestation, Sequoia

National Forest, Cannell Meadow Ranger District, Tulare County, CA.

Summary: Review of the Final EIS was not deemed necessary. No

comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.

ERP No. FS-AFS-K65137-CA, Cottonwood and Golf Timber Sales, Timber

Harvesting in the Breckenridge Compartment, Updated Information

concerning Withdrawal of the Golf Timber Sale and Impacts on the

California Spotted Owl and Reforestation for the Cottonwood Timber

Sale, Sequoia National Forest, Greenhorn Ranger District, Kern County,

CA.

Summary: Review of the Final EIS was not deemed necessary. No

comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.

Dated: June 28, 1994.

Anne Norton Miller,

Director, Federal Liaison Division, Office Of Federal Activities.

[FR Doc. 94-16079 Filed 6-30-94; 8:45 am]

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