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Editor's note: This page has notices from March 3 - March 24. For more recent notices, go here.

Monday, March 24 (March 24 Table of Contents from GPO)

• National Nuclear Security Administration, Los Alamos Site Office; Floodplain Statement of Findings for the Fire Road Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (3/24, p. 14227-9)
• FHwA to prepare EIS for proposed international border crossing improvements in Wayne County, Michigan, including improvements to existing infrastructure, new border crossing(s) and new or expanded border processing facilities. (3/24, p. 14271-2)
• Forest Service to prepare EIS on a proposal to assist the recovery of the area that burned in the Easy Fire in the Summer of 2002, Malheur NF, Grant County, Ore. (3/24, p. 14175-6)
• FS to prepare EIS for Monument Fire Recovery Project, Malheur National Forest, Grant County, OR (3/24, p. 14176-8)
• FS to prepare EIS for East Fork Fire Salvage Project; Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Summit County, Utah (3/24, p. 14178-9)

• BLM releases draft amendment/EA for off-road vehicle designations in CDCA West Mojave Planning Area (3/21, p. 13949-50)
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (3/21, p. 8506)

• Forest Service will prepare an EIS for the Ash Creek Fire Salvage within the Ash/Zinc sub-watershed on the Tiller Ranger District of the Umpqua NF (3/20, p. 13666-7)

• BLM's Anchorage Field Office begins planning effort to prepare the Ring of Fire RMP. Issues include recreation, energy transportation, oil and gas leasing, wilderness, subsistence. Area encompasses approximately 1.3 million acres of public land. (3/19, p. 13322-3)
• FERC to prepare EA on proposal by National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation to abandon certain facilities at its Summit Storage Field in Summit Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania. (3/19, p. 13294-6)
• FS to prepare EIS on proposed activities in areas burned in the summer of 2002 by the Biscuit Fire, which affected almost 500,000 acres in the canyons of the Klamath/Siskiyou Mountains. (3/19, p. 13253-4)

• BLM to prepare a Resource Management Plan and EIS for the East Alaska planning area and Environmental Impact Statement (3/18, p. 12931-2)
• BLM announces 15-day extension for Northwest National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska Draft Integrated Activity Plan/EIS (3/18, p. 12931)

• EPA, NOAA issue EA/FONSI on conditional approval of Minnesota's Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program (3/17, p. 12675-6)
• FERC to prepare EA for the proposed Oakford HP Project (upgrade of horsepower at the Oakford and South Oakford Compressor Stations, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, by Dominion Transmission Inc. and Texas Eastern Transmission, LP). (3/17, p. 12693-5)
• FHwA extends comment period for an EIS for improvements to I-64 in St. Louis and St. Louis County, Missouri (3/17, p. 12735-6)
• we are extending the comment period for an environmental impact statement (EIS) for improvements on Route 17 in Texas and Howell Counties, Missouri (3/17, p. 12736)
• FS to prepare EIS on Fortuna Company Gas Exploration Wells, Emery and Sanpete counties, Utah, Manti-La Sal National Forest (3/17, p. 12661-2)
• FS to prepare EIS for a fire salvage timber sale and connected actions within the Panther Creek watershed planning area of the North Umpqua Ranger District, Umpqua NF (3/17, p. 12661-2)

• BLM releases draft RMP/EIS for the Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area (3/14, p. 12363-5)
  • Gunnison Gorge page
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (3/14, p. 12349)
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (3/14, p. 12348-9)
• FS cancels NOI for Helena NF travel plan (3/14, p. 12339)
• NPS plans to prepare an EIS for the general management plan for Canyon De Chelly National Monument. (3/14, p. 12365-6)
• NPS releases draft EIS on vessel quotas and operating requirements for Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska (3/14, p. 12366)
  • Glacier Bay page
• NPS releases draft EIS for the General Management Plan Revision for Petrified Forest National Park. (3/14, p. 12366-8)
• NPS releases General Management Plan/DEIS for Rock Creek Park, Washington, D.C. (3/14, p. 12368)
  • Plan is supposed to be here
• NPS releases General Management Plan/FEIS for Tonto National Monument, AR (3/14, p. 12368-9)
  • More here

• BLM to prepare EIS on proposal to expand natural gas exploration and development operations in the Jonah Field, Sublette County, Wyoming. (3/13, p. 12100-1)
• BLM to prepare EIS for the Seminoe Road Coalbed Methane Natural Gas Development Project, Carbon County, Wyoming. Also, "Notice of the Potential for Amendment of the Great Divide Resource Management Plan." (3/13, p. 12101-2)
• DOE to prepare an EIS for decommissioning and/or long-term stewardship at the West Valley Demonstration Project and Western New York Nuclear Service Center (3/13, p. 12044-8)
• Forest Service corrects heading of March 5 notice on forest planning comment period extension. From "National Forest Service Land and Resource Management Planning to National Forest System Land and Resource Management Planning (3/13, p. 12155)

• FHwA will not prepare tiered EIS for proposed highway capacity improvements on existing or new alignments that connect Interstate 94 (I-94) and Trunk Highway 10 (TH 10) between the cities of Becker and St. Cloud, Minn. "The proposed alignment connections being studied include existing and new crossings of the Mississippi River. Rather, a conventional EIS will be prepared for the proposed improvements." (3/12, p. 11896-7)

• DOE releases EA/FONSI on transport and disposal of PCBs, mixed low-level radioactive waste (MLLW), and transuranic (TRU) waste from the Paducah (Ky.) Gaseous Diffusion Plant (3/11, p. 11537-8)
• FHWA, in cooperation with Alaska DOT&Public Facilities, will prepare a supplemental draft EIS for Juneau Access Improvements, a project to improve surface transportation to and from Juneau within the Lynn Canal corridor. (3/11, p. 11615-6)

• BLM corrects NOI on grazing EIS that was published March 3 (see below) (3/10, p. 11406)
  • Web page for public comment
• BLM: Same announcement, different page (3/10, p. 11406)
• FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in Nevada County, California (3/10, p. 11443)

• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (3/7, p. 11087)
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (3/7, p. 11086-7)
• FERC releases EA on Greenbrier Pipeline Company's proposed pipeline, which "would extend from east of Clendenin, Kanawha County, West Virginia, through West Virginia, southwestern Virginia, and North Carolina to its terminus near Stem, in Granville County, North Carolina. It would consist of 275.6 miles of mainline and three laterals totaling 3.8 miles."/a> (3/7, p. 11086-7)
• FERC to prepare EA on Dominion Transmission, Texas Eastern Transmission's proposed mid-Atlantic Expansion Project (Pennsylvania and Virginia) (3/7, p. 11073-5)
• Allegheny NF, Marienville Ranger District, will prepare draft EIS on proposed Brush Creek Project. (3/7, p. 11033-5)
• NPS releases draft GMP/EIS on Morristown National Historical Park, New Jersey. (3/7, p. 11133)

• DoD issues ROD on destruction of chemical warfare material at Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky (3/6, p. 10705-6)
• FhwA to prepare EIS for a proposed Interstate highway project in Bossier, Claiborne, and Webster Parishes, Louisiana and in Union and Columbia counties, Arkansas (3/6, p. 10775-6)
• Forest Service will prepare an EIS on a proposed action to salvage dead and severely damaged trees, utilize small-diameter forest products resulting and to plant trees to assist in the restoration of the area burned in the Eyerly fire on the Sisters Ranger District of the Deschutes NF (3/6, p. 10684-5)

• APHIS releases EA on controlling tropical soda apple. The EA considers the effects of, and alternatives to, the release of a nonindigenous beetle into the environment as a biological control agent to reduce the severity of infestations of tropical soda apple in Florida and other infested States in the continental United States (3/5, p. 10435-6)
• FS extends to April 7 the comment period for proposed changes to forest management planning rules (3/5, p. 10420)
• HUD to prepare EIS for the Salishan Revitalization Project, Tacoma, Wash. (3/5, p. 10484-5)

• BLM releases draft EIS for Snake River Resource Management Plan, Tteon County, Wyoming (3/4, p. 10264-6)
• GSA releases ROD for the Future Master Plan development for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Chamblee, GA; Record of Decision, Master Plan Expansion for Chamblee Campus Centers for Disease Control, Chamblee, GA (3/4, p. 10247-50)

• BLM grazing ANPR. "The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) requests comments and suggestions to assist us in amending our regulations governing how the BLM administers livestock grazing on public lands." (3/3, p. 9964-6)
• BLM announces public meeting and call for public comment on the proposed sale and fair market value and maximum economic recovery consideration for coal lease application UTU-78953, South Crandall Canyon Coal Tract, Emery County, UT. (3/3, p. 10029-30)
• BLM will prepare a national, programmatic EIS and conduct public scoping meetings on amending grazing regulations. (3/3, p. 10030-2)
• State Department releases draft Comprehensive Environmental Evaluations for activities proposed to be undertaken in Antarctica (Links in notice) (3/3, p. 10060)
• WA is issuing this notice to advise the public that an environmental impact statement will be prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act for proposed transportation improvements in the vicinity of Miller Creek Road in Missoula County, Montana. (3/3, p. 10063-4)
• FS: The Bonners Ferry Ranger District of the Idaho Panhandle National Forests will prepare EIS on proposed rehabilitation of the vegetation in the Brush Creek and Mission Creek watershed (3/3, p. 9970-1)
• Navy to prepare EIS to buy land and establish a Naval Special Warfare Riverine and Jungle Training Range in the Easement Buffer of the National Aeronautical and Space Administration's John C. Stennis Space Center, Hancock County, MS; public scoping meetings announced (3/3, p. 9998-9)