# Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of EPA Comments

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URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/fr%3A98-19121

## Record

- **Collection:** Federal Register
- **Document type:** Notice
- **Published:** July 17, 1998
- **Citation:** 63 FR 38643

## Text

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-5493-8]

Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of
EPA Comments

Availability of EPA comments prepared June 29, 1998 Through July 2,
1998 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)
564-7167. An explanation of the ratings assigned to draft environmental
impact statements (EISs) was published in FR dated April 10, 1998 (63
FR 17856).

Draft EISs

ERP No. D-AFS-J65283-CO Rating EC2, North Fork Salvage Timber
Analysis Area, Implementation, Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest,
Routt County, CO.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns and requested
additional information related to increased sediment potential, large
woody debris mitigation and road closure methodology.
ERP No. D-AFS-J65284-MT Rating EC2, Patty-Piper Access Road
Project, Implementation, To Grant Plum Creek Authorization to Occupy
and Use Land in National Forest System, Flathead National Forest, Swan
Lake Ranger District, Lake County, MT.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns about potential
effects to water quality, fisheries (including bull trout), and the
threatened grizzly bear believes additional information is needed to
fully assess and mitigate all potential impacts of the management
actions.

Final EISs

ERP No. F-AFS-E65024-KY, Daniel Boone National Forest Off-Highway
Vehicle (OHV) Management Policy, Modification, Several Counties, KY.
Summary: EPA's review found that the preferred alternative was
acceptable and provided for off-road vehicle use, while protecting
valuable forest resources and other form of recreation.
ERP No. F-AFS-J65250-CO, Routt National Forest Land and Resource
Management Plan, Implementation, Grand, Routt, Rio Blanco, Jackson,
Moffat and Garfield Counties, CO.
Summary: EPA continues to express concerns that range reform (RA-
1995) analysis not included in the final EIS.
ERP No. F-AFS-J65278-CO, South Quartzite Timber Sale, Timber
Harvesting and Road Construction, White River National Forest, Rifle
Ranger District, Grizzly Creek Rare II Area, Garfield County, CO.
Summary: EPA expressed lack of objections.
ERP No. F-BLM-J67026-MT, Golden Sunlight Mine Expansion,
Implementation of Amendment 008 to Operating Permit No. 0065, COE
Section 404 Permit, Whitehall, Jefferson County MT.
Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns regarding the change
in plans to avoid requiring installation of trench drains and shallow
wells to capture contaminated seepage from waste rock piles until water
quality monitoring demonstrated ground water contamination. EPA also
expressed concerns regarding the large proposed ground water mixing
zone, and assuring financial capability for implementing necessary
perpetual water management and treatment, environmental monitoring,
mitigation, and reclamation measures and believes additional
information is needed to fully assess and mitigate all potential
impacts of the management actions.
ERP No. F-ICC-A53053-00, Conrail Acquisition (Finance Docket No.
33388) by CSX Corporation and CSX Transportation Inc., and Norfolk
Southern Corporation and Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NS), Control
and Operating Leases and Agreements, To serve portion of eastern United
States.
Summary: EPA continued to express concerns with the analyses
performed for noise and environmental justice, and addressed the
applicability of the Clean Air Act general conformity rules.

Dated: July 14, 1998.
William D. Dickerson,
Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office of Federal Activities.
[FR Doc. 98-19121 Filed 7-16-98; 8:45 am]
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