[Federal Register: February 12, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 29)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ER-FRL-5499-8]

 
Environmental Impact Statements and Regulations; Availability of 
EPA Comments

    Availability of EPA comments prepared January 11, 1999 Through 
January 15, 1999 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, 1999 (62 
FR 17856).

Draft EISs

    ERP No. D-AFS-K08019-CA, Rating LO, Lucerne Valley to Big Bear 
Valley Transmission Line/Substation Project, Construction and Operation 
of Three Electrical Power Facilities: 115 kV Line between the 
Cottonwood Substation in Lurcerne Valley; Goldhill Substation and a new 
Bear Valley Substation, Special-Use-Permit and Right-of-Way Permit, San 
Bernardino County, CA.
    Summary: EPA review has not identified any potential environmental 
impacts requiring changes to the proposal.
    ERP No. D-BLM-J03013-UT, Rating EO2, Ferron Natural Gas Project, 
Proposal to Construct, Maintain and Operate a Natural Gas Transmission 
Pipeline, Application for Permit to Drill (APD), Special-Use-Permit and 
Right-of-Way Grant, Carbon and Emery Counties, UT.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental objections with the DEIS 
including the potential for significant visibility degradation in 
adjacent Class I airsheds including Captal Reef and Canyonlands 
National Park.
    ERP No. D-NOA-B91027-00, Rating EC2, Spiny Dogfish (Squalus 
acanthras) Fishery Management Plan, Implementation, Northwest Atlantic 
Ocean, Labrador to Florida.
    Summary: EPA expressed environmental concerns. The description of 
the spiny dogfish habitat and strategies to deal with the problem of 
``ghost'' fishing from lost or abandoned gill net were inadequately 
addressed in the document. The document provide a suite of management 
alternatives to reduce fishing mortality and to ensure that overfishing 
does not occur.

Final EISs

    ERP No. F-AFS-L61220-OR, Christy Basin Planning Area, 
Implementation, Regeneration Timber Harvesting, Willamette National 
Forest, Oakridge Ranger District, Lane County, OR.
    Summary: Review of the Final EIS was not deemed necessary. No 
formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
    ERP No. F-AFS-L65207-OR, Young'n Timber Sales, Implementation,

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Willamette National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan, Middle 
Fork Ranger District, Lane County, OR.
    Summary: Review of the Final EIS was not deemed necessary. No 
formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
    ERP No. F-AFS-L65302-WA, Green River Road Access Requests, 
Easements Grant, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, North Bend 
Ranger District, King County, WA.
    Summary: Review of the Final EIS was not deemed necessary. No 
formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
    ERP No. F-AFS-L65304-OR, Moose Subwatershed Timber Harvest and 
Other Vegetation Management Actions, Central Cascade Adaptive 
Management (CCAMA), Willamette National Forest, Sweet Home Ranger 
District, Linn County, OR.
    Summary:  Review of the Final EIS was not deemed necessary. No 
formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
    ERP No. F-AFS-L65305-WA Plum Creek Checkerboard Access Project, 
Grant Permanent Easements, Cle Elum and Naches Ranger Districts, 
Wenatchee National Forest, Kittitas County, WA.
    Summary:  Review of the Final EIS was not deemed necessary. No 
formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
    ERP No. F-AFS-L65307-WA Sand Ecosystem Restoration Project, 
Implementation, Leavenworth Range District, Wenatchee National Forest, 
Chelan County, WA.
    Summary:  Review of the Final EIS was not deemed necessary. No 
formal comment letter was sent to the preparing agency.
    ERP No. F-COE-K39047-CA Santa Clara River and Major Tributaries 
Project, Approval of 404 Permit and 1603 Streambed Alteration 
Agreement, In portions of the City Santa Clarita, Los Angeles County, 
CA.
    Summary:  EPA expressed environmental concerns that the preferred 
alternative did not represent the least environmentally damaging 
practicable alternative and requested that the Record of Decision 
contain commitments to permanently and systematically remove non-native 
vegetation from the riparian zone.

    Dated: February 8, 1999.
B. Katherine Biggs,
Associate Director, Office of Federal Activities.
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