• Current FWS and NMFS notices
• Older NEPA notices
• Main ESWR page

NEPA notices for 2006 up until July 14. See this page for ESA and NEPA notices Fri., July 14

• BLM releases Resource Management Plan/FEIS for certain public lands managed by the Hollister Field Office. (More here)
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• FERC to prepare EIS on South Carolina Public Service Authority's application for a new license for the continued operation of the 134.52-megawatt Santee Cooper Hydroelectric Project (FERC No. 199-205). "The project is located on the Santee and Cooper Rivers in Berkeley, Calhoun, Clarendon, Orangeburg, and Sumter Counties, South Carolina. The project does not occupy any Federal lands."
• FRA to prepare EIS on proposed DesertXpress High Speed Train Between Victorville, CA and Las Vegas, NV
  • Go here for more: FRA - Passenger Rail, Environment, Current Reviews, Desert Xpress
• GSA releases ROD for Peace Arch Port of Redevelopment Project (Washington state)
• NPS releases draft EIS/General Management Plan for Olympic National Park.
  • More here

• Corps to prepare DEIS for the proposed SunCreek Project, in Sacramento County, CA (Project as proposed "would result in the permanent loss of approximately 18.25 acres of waters of the United States, including vernal pools and other wetlands. The overall project purpose is to construct large scale mixed-use development in Sacramento County.")
• Forest Service seeks extension of a currently approved information collection, Economic, Social, and Cultural Aspects of Livestock Ranching on the Santa Fe and Carson National Forests.: Information Collection; Request for Comment; Economic, Social, and Cultural Aspects of Livestock Ranching

• Corps releases DEIS for the Floyd County, KY (Levisa Fork Basin), Section 202 Project
• Corps to prepare a DEIS for proposed First Broad First Reservoir in Cleveland County, NC ("The Cleveland County Sanitary District (CCSD) is applying for a Department of the Army permit under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 134) to impact approximately 24 miles of river and stream habitat and approximately 1 acre of wetlands with the construction of a dam and water supply reservoir on the First Broad River.")
• BLM amends grazing regulations (Summary: "The changes ensure that BLM documents its consideration of the social, cultural, environmental, and economic consequences of grazing changes; provide that changes in grazing use will be phased in under certain circumstances; allow permittees, lessees, and others to share title to range improvements with BLM in certain circumstances; make clear how BLM will authorize grazing if a BLM decision affecting a grazing permit is stayed pending administrative appeal; remove provisions in the present regulations concerning conservation use grazing permits; ensure adequate time for developing and successfully implementing an appropriate management action when BLM finds that rangelands do not meet standards and guidelines for rangeland health and that authorized grazing is a significant factor in not achieving one or more land health standards or not conforming with guidelines for grazing administration; and revise some administrative service charges. We intend these changes to contribute to improving working relationships with permittees and lessees, protecting the health of the rangelands and increasing administrative efficiency and effectiveness.
• BuRec to prepare EIS for the Delta-Mendota Canal/California Aqueduct Intertie ("A primary purpose of the Intertie is to allow for operation and maintenance activities on the Tracy pumping plant and fish facility, the Delta-Mendota Canal, and the O'Neill pumping plant and intake canal. A draft EIS is expected to be available in May 2007.")
• NPS: Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Recreation/ Tourism Study, Socioeconomic Monitoring Program for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

• FERC releases draft EIS for Calhoun LNG Project
• FERC Office of Energy Projects releases Environmental Assessment on Duke Power request for non-project use in SC
• FHWA issues draft EIS for proposed interstate facility in the south-central portion of Kentucky, between the Somerset Northern Bypass (I-66) and London, KY
• NPS issues FEIS for proposed reconstruction of Furnace Creek Water Collection System, Death Valley National Park, Inyo County, CA
• NPS to prepare EIS for Lava Beds Monument

• Army asks for nominations to the Inland Waterways Users Board
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• FS issues draft Supplement to the 2004 Final Environmental Impact Statement To Remove or Modify the Survey and Manage Mitigation Measure Standards and Guidelines, Oregon, Washington, and California
• FS: Fishlake National Forest will prepare EIS "to document the analysis and disclose the environmental and human effects of oil and gas leasing on [Fishlake NF] lands."
• DOI: Notice of Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Advisory Committee Meeting
• Job Corps (Labor Dept.) issues preliminary Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the proposed Job Corps Center to be located at 6767 North 60th Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE) releases Draft Site-Wide EIS for continued operation of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
• Western Area Power Administration extends comment period on Big Stone II Power Plant and Transmission Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DOE/EIS-0377)

• DOE releases draft EA for public review and comment on a proposal "to repair, replace, or improve certain facilities, structures, roads, and utilities (collectively referred to as infrastructure) for the Yucca Mountain Project. The proposed action would enhance safety at the project and enable DOE to safely continue ongoing operations, scientific testing, and maintenance until such time as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission decides whether to authorize construction of a repository." (The EA is here)
• NPS gives notice "in accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the ompletion of an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects in the control of the U.S. Department of Defense, Army Corps of Engineers-Memphis District, Memphis, TN, and U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service-Southeast Region, Savannah, GA; and in the possession of the Arkansas Archeological Survey, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR. The human remains and associated funerary objects were removed from Mississippi County, AR."
• NMFS receives application to renew and modify a permit for scientific research from the National Park Service (NPS) in Point Reyes Station, CA

• FHWA to prepare EIS for a proposed combined highway and transit project on I-285 in Cobb, Fulton, and DeKalb Counties, Georgia.
• FHWA to prepare EIS for proposed U.S. 395 Realignment Freeway/Expressway project from the Interstate 15 (I-15)/U.S. 395 interchange to Farmington Road ("Part of the realignment would go through the cities of Oak Hills, Hesperia, Victorville, Adelanto and incorporated areas of San Bernardino County, California.")
• Forest Service to prepare EIS on plans to "implement multiple resource management actions within the Norwood project area as directed by the Black Hills National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan. The Norwood project area is approximately 46,450 acres in size, with 42,250 acres of National Forest lands and 4,200 acres of private land."

Tues., July 4 - NO FR

Mon., July 3

• BLM submits ICR to OMB for review (" OMB Control Number: 1004-0165. Bureau Form Number: None. Abstract: We integrate cave management into existing planning and management processes and provide protection of cave resource information in order to prevent vandalism and disturbance of significant caves. Federal agencies must consult with ``cavers'' and other interested parties to develop a listing of significant caves. Frequency: Once, when nominating the cave or requesting confidential cave information. Description of Respondents: Respondents are cavers and other interested parties. Estimated Completion Time: 3 hours for each nomination and 30 minutes for each request for confidential cave information. Annual Responses: 50 cave nominations and 10 requests for confidential cave information.")
• Forestasks for public comment on proposed revisions to the agency's national trail classification system (TCS), including the Trail Class Matrix and Design Parameters, and proposed implementing directives. ("On May 13, 2005, the Backcountry Horsemen of America filed a lawsuit against the Forest Service challenging revision of the TCS without public notice and comment. In an order dated March 29, 2006, the U.S. District Court found that the Forest Service failed to provide public notice and comment as required by the National Forest Management Act, 16 U.S.C. 1612. In accordance with the Court's order, the Forest Service is publishing the proposed revisions to the TCS and proposed implementing directives for public notice and comment.")
• MMS proposes to amend "regulations to require lessees, lease operators, and pipeline right-of-way (ROW) holders to submit assessment information on the structural integrity of their OCS platforms each year, and to submit an inspection program to MMS yearly"
• Navy decides to conduct all components of ``air-to-ground ordnance delivery and training'' of integrated and sustainment levels of the Fleet Forces Command's Fleet Readiness Training Program at Avon Park Air Force Range, Florida. ("Air-to-ground readiness training includes delivery of inert and high-explosive ordnance from tactical jets such as the Navy's Hornet and Super Hornet strike/fighter aircraft.)

• Army Corps of Engineers issues a Supplement to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Construction of a Dredged Material Containment Facility in the Patapsco River, at Masonville, Baltimore City, MD
• Corps will prepare DEIS for the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY ("The EIS process will determine if there are any environmental and cultural concerns that will affect the sale of the land. The land would be developed in accordance with the mission of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation and the City of New York.")
• Intent To Prepare a Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the Beneficial Use of Dredged Material Program Study as Introduced in the 2004 Louisiana Coastal Area, Louisiana Ecosystem Restoration Study, Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
• Corps is soliciting proposals for estuary habitat restoration projects ("Congress has appropriated limited funds ... to implement the Estuary Habitat Restoration Program as authorized in Section 104 of the Estuary Restoration Act of 2000, Title I of the Estuaries and Clean Waters Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-457) (accessible at http://era.noaa.gov/pdfs/act_s835.pdf)
• Chief of Engineers Environmental Advisory Board to meet in Vicksburg July 19 (in a joint meeting with the Coastal Engineering Research Board)
• BLM releases proposed RMP/FEIS for the Ukiah Field Office.
  • Go here for the plan
• Coast Guard asks for comments on DPEIS "addressing the proposed implementation of the Nationwide Automatic Identification System (NAIS) project. The proposed implementation of the NAIS project would involve installing receivers, transmitters, transceivers, repeaters, and other equipment on towers or other structures at up to 450 sites at locations along 95,000 miles of coastline and inland waterways, as well as the use of selected remote platforms."
• FERC to prepare EIS for the Proposed Jordan Cove LNG and Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline Projects, Request for Comments on Environmental Issues and Notice of a Joint Public Meeting
• FHWA, FTA to prepare separate EIS's on planned transit and highway improvements in the City and County of Denver, Adams County, and the City of Aurora, Colorado

• BIA releases Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara (MHA) Nation's Proposed Clean Fuels Refinery, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, Ward County, ND
• BIA releases FEIS for the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indians' Proposed 79 Acre Fee-to-Trust Transfer and Casino Project in Emmett Township, Calhoun County, MI
• RUS releases DEIS for the Highwood Generating Station ("The purpose of the EIS is to evaluate the potential environmental impacts of and alternatives to the Southern Montana Electric Transmission & Generation Cooperative, Inc. (SME) application for a RUS loan guarantee to construct a 250 megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant near Great Falls, Montana.")
  • More here
• RUS to hold public scoping meetings and prepare EA related to possible financial assistance to East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Inc. (EKPC) of Kentucky for the proposed construction of approximately 35 miles of 345 kilovolt (kV) transmission line in Clark, Madison, and Garrard counties, KY

• FAA requests comments on EA for the Blue Origin West Texas Commercial Launch Site (Links to more here, and direct link to EA is here)
• FAA releases EA/FONSI/ROD on construction of a new 4,100-foot General Aviation Runway and Associated Support Facilities (i.e., Taxiways, Hangars, Access Roads, etc.) for W.K. Kellogg Airport, Located in Battle Creek, MI
• FERC releases EA/FONSI for the construction and operation of the expansion of the Freeport liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal as proposed by Freeport LNG Development, L.P.

• NRCS issues EA/FONSI for the rehabilitation of Floodwater Retarding Structure No. 6A of the Martinez Creek Watershed, Bexar County, Texas

• BPA to prepare an EIS on proposed improvements to the Lyle Falls Fishway in Klickitat County, near Lyle, Washington. The improvements would ease fish passage to upstream high quality habitat in the Klickitat Basin and improve capabilities to trap and handle adult fish
• FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed roadway improvement on SR-108 in Davis and Weber Counties, Utah.
• NRCS issues EA/FONSI for the Tongue River Watershed, Cavalier and Pembina Counties, North Dakota.

• Air Force releases Draft EA on transforming the 49th Fighter Wing at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, through retirement of the F-117A, and T-38A, and beddown of the F-22A
  • More here
• BLM releases FEIS for Resource Development Group Uinta Basin Natural Gas Project, Uintah County, UT
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• FS: The Forest Service will prepare an EIS (the Westpoint Project) on a proposal to treat vegetation using a variety of silvicultural methods on approximately 930 acres of National Forest System lands in the Middle Creek and Scott Bar Mountain areas about 12 miles west of the town of Fort Jones, in Siskiyou County, Calif.

• FERC issues EA/FONSI on the application by the licensee to install a fifth turbine in the project powerhouse, rated at 850 kW, with a maximum hydraulic capacity of 210 cfs. The project is located on the Winooski River in the townships of Essex Junction and Williston, Vermont
• FERC issues DSEIS concluding that approval of natural gas pipeline facilities proposed for the Northeast (NE)-07 Project "would have limited adverse environmental impact." (in Genesee, Ontario, Yates, Schuyler, Steuben, Chemung, Tioga, Broome, Delaware, Orange, Rockland, Putnam, and Dutchess Counties, New York; Morris County, New Jersey; and Fairfield and New Haven Counties, Connecticut, proposed by Millennium Pipeline L.L.C., Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation, Empire State Pipeline and Empire Pipeline, Inc., Algonquin Gas Transmission System, and Iroquois Gas Transmission System
• FERC issues DEIS on application for a New Major License for the Clackamas River Hydroelectric Project. Staff, located on the Clackamas River, Clackamas County, Oregon.
• Another Clackamas notice from FERC

• FERC issues EA/FONSI on an application filed by South Carolina Electric & Gas Company requesting approval for non-project use of project lands and waters at the Saluda Hydroelectric Project

• APHIS amends noxious weed and imported seed regulations by adding South African ragwort (Senecio inaequidens DC.) and Madagascar ragwort (Senecio madagascariensis Poir.) to the list of terrestrial noxious weeds and to the list of seeds with no tolerances applicable to their introduction. This action is necessary to prevent the artificial spread of these noxious weeds into the United States." ("The United States contains dozens of native species of Senecio, two of which are federally listed as threatened. These native species live in a variety of habitats, including those favorable to the establishment of S. inaequidens and S. madagascariensis. If S. inaequidens or S. madagascariensis become established in the United States, they would likely invade these habitats, threatening the existence of those species through competition or indirectly through hybridization. Many species of Senecio freely interbreed if they come in contact with each other.")
• APHIS releases EA for field release of genetically engineered Pink Bollworm
• Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement requests comment "on a request for a determination of valid existing rights (VER) to use an existing Forest Service road as a coal mine access and haul road across Federal lands within the boundaries of the Daniel Boone National Forest in Owsley County, Kentucky. The mine would be located on privately owned land."
• Rural Utilities Service to prepare EA "related to possible financial assistance to East Kentucky Power Cooperative (EKPC) for the proposed construction of approximately 15.21 miles of 161 kilovolt (kV) electric transmission line in Warren County, Kentucky. EKPC is requesting the USDA Rural Development to provide financial assistance for the proposed project."

• BLM: Request for Public Comment on Environmental Analysis, Fair Market Value, and Maximum Economic Recovery; Coal Lease Application--NDM 95104; BNI Coal, Ltd.
• BLM will prepare an EIS for the "Over The River'' Art Project in Colorado (Christo, Arkansas River)
• MMS to prepare EIS on request from Long Island Offshore Wind Park, LLC for a lease, easement, or right-of-way to construct and operate a wind energy facility in Federal waters off Long Island, 3.6 miles southwest of Jones Beach Island, Nassau and Suffolk Counties, New York. The purpose of this project is to provide a utility-scale renewable energy facility providing power to the New York electrical grid.
• FEMA identifies communities "where the sale of flood insurance has been authorized under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), [but which are now] scheduled for suspension on the effective dates listed within this rule because of noncompliance with the floodplain management requirements of the program."

• Corps to prepare a DEIS for the Proposed Implementation of Interim Water Storage Contracts Associated With the Southeastern Federal Power Customers Settlement Agreement, at Lake Sidney Lanier/Buford Dam, GA
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• ("EPA has identified a variety of environmental impacts that may be associated with cooling water intake structures at Phase III facilities, depending on conditions at an individual facility's site. These impacts include organism entrainment and impingement, which can contribute to impacts to threatened and endangered species; reductions in ecologically critical aquatic organisms, including important elements of an ecosystem's food chain; diminishment of population compensatory reserves; losses to populations, including reductions of commercial and recreational fisheries; and stresses to overall communities and ecosystems as evidenced by reductions in diversity, changes in species composition, or other changes in ecosystem structure or function. (See discussion at 69 FR 68461-66.")
• FERC releases EA/FONSI on application for a subsequent license for the Danbury Hydroelectric Project, located on the Yellow River in Burnett County, Wisconsin
• FERC releases EA/FONSI on Birch Power Company's proposed Lower Turnbull Drop and Upper Turnbull Drop projects and Wade Jacobsen's proposed Mill Coulee Drops Project. The proposed projects would be located on the Spring Valley and Mill Coulee Canals, near the Town of Fairfield, in Teton and Cascade counties, Montana.
• FERC: Calypso U.S. Pipeline, LLC; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Modifications to the Calypso U.S. Pipeline Project and Request for Comments on Environmental Issues (proposed by Calypso U.S. Pipeline, LLC in Broward County, Florida, State Waters of Florida, and Federal Waters of the United States)
• FS to prepare EIS on Dixie National Forest proposal for specific commercial timber harvest, pre-commercial stand treatment, and fencing in the Pockets Project area
• FS plans EIS on Kootenai National Forest, Lincoln County, MT; Grizzly Vegetation and Transportation Management Project
• MMS to prepare EA for proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sale 201 in the Central Gulf of Mexico (2007)
• NPS releases FEIS for Burr Trail Modifications for Capitol Reef National Park, Utah.
• NPS releases Draft General Management Plan and EIS, Flight 93 National Memorial, Pennsylvania

• No NEPA notices

• Army releases FEIS for construction and operation of a Battle Area Complex and a Combined Arms Collective Training Facility Within U.S. Army Training Lands in Alaska
  • More here at USAG - U.S. Army Garrison Alaska Conservation Web Page
• Corps corrects email address in June 2 notice on White River Minimum Flow Reallocation Study, AR
• Corps to prepare Draft Supplement to the EIS to Evaluate Construction of Authorized Improvements to the Federal Pascagoula Harbor Navigation Project in Jackson County, MS
• Local interest (Maryland): EPA issues final rule approving Maryland's Ambient Air Quality Standard for Ozone and Fine Particulate Matter in its air quality implementation plan.
• EPA to prepare SEIS for the Chuitna Coal Project in Southcentral Alaska
• GSA to prepare on consolidation of the two existing NIOSH Facilities in Cincinnati, Ohio
• Forest Service: San Bernardino National Forest seeks public input and comment on a proposed animal park, which would be located near the Big Bear Discovery Center

• Corps extends comment period on DEIS, for the Floyd County, KY (Levisa Fork Basin), Section 202 Project
• Corps NOI, DEIS: Intent to Prepare a Supplement to the Final Environmental Statement for the Area VI (Elm Fork of the North Fork of the Red River) Portion of the Red River Chloride Control Project, Texas and Oklahoma
• Corps NOI for DEIS. ("The Millington, Tennessee and Vicinity Feasibility Study will be conducted to analyze problems being experienced in the Big Creek drainage basin and evaluate alternatives to provide plans for ecosystem restoration, flood damage reduction, and recreation.")
• BuRec releases FEIS for the San Luis Drainage Feature Reevaluation. (More here)
• NPS releases Final South Denali Implementation Plan and EIS
• NPS to prepare GMP/EIS for Fire Island National Seashore, located in the towns of Islip and Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York
• NPS terminates preparation of an EIS for the General Management Plan, Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot National Monuments, Arizona
• NRCS releases an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Highland Lake Fish Passage Project, Westbrook, Maine. "NRCS has found that the restoration of the Highland Lake Stream channel and alteration to the fishway would not result in a significant impact on the quality of the human environment, particularly when focusing on the significant adverse effects that NEPA is intended to help decision makers avoid and mitigate against."

• FHWA to prepare EIS for proposed transportation improvements in the U.S. 51 orridor in the Madison, Dane Co., Wis., "generally between U.S. 12/18 (South Beltline Highway) and State Trunk Highway (STH) 19."

• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's /a>
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• EPA to prepare SEIS for the Chuitna Coal Project in Southcentral Alaska
• Siskiyou County Resource Advisory Committee to meet in Yreka, Calif., June 19, 2006
• NRCS issues EA/FONSI on Matanuska River Terrace Erosion Area Acquisition Pilot Project

• FHWa to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in Stark, Mahoning, and Columbiana Counties, Ohio.

• FHwA to prepare EIS for a multi-land widening of I-26 between NC 225 and I-40 in Asheville in Buncombe and Henderson Counties, N.C.
• Forest Service proposes revision of its directives on predator damage management in wilderness areas
• HUD to prepare EIS for the redevelopment of Westpark public housing community located in Bremerton, WA
• NRCS adopts Environmental Assessment prepared by FERC in April for the Sandy River Project, Madison, Maine. ("NRCS found that the removal of the Sandy River Project dam would not result in a significant impact on the quality of the human environment, particularly when focusing on the significant adverse effects that NEPA is intended to help decision makers avoid and mitigate against.")

• Army: Correction to ROD for the Chemical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP) Final Programmatic EIS

• BLM, City of Palm Springs will prepare joint EIS/R for a proposed wind energy facility on public and private land in the Coachella Valley.
• Maritime Administration releases DEIS for the Neptune LNG, L.L.C., Liquefied Natural Gas Deepwater Port license application. The application describes a project that would be located in federal waters of Massachusetts Bay, in Block 125, approximately 8 miles southeast of Gloucester, MA and 22 miles northeast of Boston, MA
• NRCS releases EA/FONSI: Choccolocco Creek Multipurpose Dam No. 11, Calhoun County, Alabama.

• Corps releases FSEIS for the Boston Harbor Inner Harbor Maintenance Dredging Project
• Corps releases DEIS for the White River Minimum Flow Reallocation Study, AR
• Commodity Credit Corporation issues final rule to "amend the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) regulations to implement provisions of Public Law 109-148 (2006 Act) that provide for enrollment in the CRP of private non-industrial forest land that experienced a loss of 35 percent or more of merchantable timber in the States suffering forestry damage directly related to hurricanes Katrina, Ophelia, Rita, Dennis, and Wilma."
• BLM releases draft Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area Resource Management Plan and EIS, Idaho
  • Idaho BLM page
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• FAA releases FONSI on a Short Form EA, Central Illinois Regional Airport, Bloomington, IL
• FERC releases DEIS on Centerpoint Energy Gas Transmission Company's proposed Carthage to Perryville Project (finds that "with the appropriate mitigation measures as recommended, would have limited adverse environmental impact." FWS, Corps are cooperating agencies)
• FERC to prepare EA on Algonquin Gas Transmission's proposed Algonquin Cape Cod Project
• FERC to prepare EA on Texas Eastern Transmission's proposed Texas Eastern Incremental Market Expansion II Project
• FERC to prepare EA on Texas Gas Transmission's proposed Texas Gas Storage Expansion Project--Phase 2
• Forest Service to prepare EIS on proposal to conduct timber harvest, noncommercial thinning, and fuels reduction activities in the Marks Creek Wateshed, Ochoco NF, Lookout Mountain Ranger District; Oregon;
• TVA to prepare EIS addressing the proposed resolution of leakage problems at Bear Creek Dam, Franklin County, Alabama

• Corps issues minor corrections to notice of draft Integrated System Investment Plan and Programmatic EIS for the Ohio River Mainstem System Study
• BuRec, California Department of Parks and Recreation propose to prepare a joint EIS/EIR for the Auburn State Recreation Area General Plan/Interim Resource Management Plan (GP/IRMP).
• BuRec releases Carlsbad Project Water Operations and Water Supply Conservation FEIS. (More here)
• Coast Guard to prepare EIS on TORP Terminal LP's application for Bienville Offshore Energy Terminal Liquefied Natural Gas Deepwater Port License Application
• MMS releases NEPA-related Site-Specific Environmental Assessments (SEA) and Findings of No Significant Impact for oil and gas activities proposed on the Gulf of Mexico OCS.
• Navy releases Final Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Assessment (SPEA) and FONSI for the 2006 Supplement to the 2002 Rim of the Pacific Exercises Programmatic Environmental Assessment, Hawaii (More here)

• FERC releases EA/FONSI on an application for non-project use of project lands and waters at the Catawba-Wateree Project. Duke Power (licensee) requests Commission authorization to lease 0.461 acres to The Sanctuary at Lake Wylie, LLC, and The Sanctuary Property Owners Association." ("The Sanctuary proposes to construct one cluster dock with ten boat slips and a covered fishing pier located adjacent to the cluster dock, an irrigation intake structure, and install 20,000 feet of shoreline stabilization.")
• FERC releases EA/FONSI on PacifiCorp application to "remove its Cove development and reduce the minimum flow required in the bypassed reach of the Grace development. The project is located on the Bear River in Caribou and Franklin Counties, Idaho."
• FERC releases EA/FONSI on Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company's proposed Essex-Middlesex Project
• FERC will prepare EIS for the Proposed Mississippi Expansion Project; Request for Comments on Environmental Issues, and Notice of Public Scoping Meetings
• Job Corps releases final FONSI for proposed center at the Dome Industrial Park on 5th Avenue and 22nd Street in St. Petersburg, FL
• BLM releases FEIS on the effects of three multiple use decisions on sensitive avian species in Elko County, Nevada. (supposed to be here)
• BLM releases EA/FONSI, asks for public comment on decision to lease Mill Fork West Tract Coal Lease by Application UTU-84285. ("BLM requests public comment on the fair market value and environmental effects of this tract.")
• NPS has revised boundary of the Cape Cod National Seashore to encompass lands depicted on a map prepared by NPS, dated May 1997, and numbered 609/80,801. The revision to the boundary includes tract 04-1081 as depicted on the map.
• NPS to prepare EIS for an Oil and Gas Management Plan (O&GMP) for Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area (BISO), and Obed Wild and Science River (OBRI)

• "MMS has received a request from Cape Wind Associates, LLC for a lease, easement or right-of-way to construct and operate a wind park located in Federal waters 4.7 miles offshore Cape Cod, Mass. The purpose of this project is to provide a utility-scale wind energy facility providing power to the New England power grid. By this document, the MMS announces: (1) Its intention to prepare an EIS; (2) commencement of a 45-day written scoping period...; and (3) invitation for participation by interested cooperating agencies." (More here at MMS's renewable energy page)
• NRCS releases proposed changes in the NRCS National Handbook of Conservation Practices for public review and comment. (Docs are here)
• RUS to prepare EA "related to possible financial assistance to East Kentucky Power Cooperative (EKPC) for the construction of approximately 19 miles of double circuit 345/138 kilovolt (kV) electric transmission line and two 345 kV electric transmission substations."

• Corps releases Draft Integrated System Investment Plan and Programmatic EIS for the Ohio River Mainstem System Study (more information here)
• Corps to prepare EIS for Residential, Commercial, and Marine Development Along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway
• Corps to prepare a Real Estate Supplement/Third Supplemental EIS to the Final SEIS on Modified Water Deliveries to Everglades National Park, Tamiami Trail Feature, Miami-Dade County, FL, November 2005
• BLM releases Maysdorf Coal Lease Application DEIS, announces Federal Coal Notice of Hearing, Wyoming
• BLM to prepare Resource Management Plan Revision (RMPR) for the Taos Field Office, New Mexico, and associated EIS
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• FHwA republishes NOI for EIS for a proposed highway project along U.S. Highway (Highway) 101 in Humboldt County, in the cities of Eureka and Arcata, and the unincorporated area between the two cities, California.

Thurs., May 25

• Army releases ROD for the Clinical and Biological Defense Program (CBDP) Final Programmatic EIS
• EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Request for Nominations of Candidates for a Panel To Review EPA's Draft Technical Document for the Report on the Environment 2007
• FERC releases EIS on Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC's proposed Northeast Gateway Project; Notice of Public Comment Meetings
• FERC releases EIS for Bayou Casotte Energy, LLC's Casotte Landing LNG Project
• FERC releases EIS for Gulf LNG Energy, LLC/Gulf LNG Pipeline, LLC's LNG Clean Energy Project
• FERC releases EA/FONSI, including proposed amended license conditions for the Lundy Hydroelectric Project, located on Mill Creek in Mono County, near the town of Lee Vining.
• FERC to prepare EIS for Guardian Pipeline, L.L.C.'s proposed Guardian Expansion/Extension Project; Request for Comments on Environmental Issues, Notice of Public Scoping Meetings
• FERC: Trunkline LNG Company, LLC; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Infrastructure Enhancement Project and Request for Comments on Environmental Issues
• FHwA and WisDOT to prepare EIS for proposed transportation improvements in the United States Highway (US) 51 corridor in the city of Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin generally between US 12/18 (South Beltline Highway) and State Trunk Highway (STH) 19. The EIS is being prepared in conformance with 40 CFR 1500 and FHWA regulations.

• BuRec, FWS release final programmatic EIS for the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program. The FEIS also serves as the Biological Assessment necessary for consultation under section 7 of the ESA.
• Coast Guard to prepare EA on the proposed decommissioning and excessing of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter (USCGC) STORIS (WMEC-38), homeported in Kodiak, AK, and USCGC ACUSHNET (WMEC-167), homeported in Ketchikan, AK
• EPA announces June 19-20 meeting of Association of American Pesticide Control Officials (AAPCO)/State-FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group (SFIREG) (Endangered species enforcement on tentative agenda) (go here for info
• FERC releases EA/FONSI on application for a subsequent license for the Holyoke No. 4 Project, located on the Holyoke Canal adjacent to the Connecticut River, in the City of Holyoke, Hampden County, Massachusetts,
• FERC to prepare EIS on AES Sparrows Point LNG, LLC and Mid-Atlantic Express, LLC's proposed Sparrows Point Project; Request for Comments on Environmental Issues and Notice of a Joint Public Meeting
• FERC to prepare EA on Egan Hub Storage's proposed Egan Horsepower Reconfiguration Project
• FTA to prepare supplemental draft EIS on East-West Corridor Transit Improvements in Miami-Dade County, FL

• APHIS releases EA/FONSI for a field trial of genetically engineered Bahiagrass (EA/FONSI is here)
• APHIS releases Environmental Assessment for a Biological Control Agent for Old World Climbing Fern
• FS to prepare EIS on a proposal to use "multiple vegetation treatments focused on creating a landscape condition more adapted to fire and that reduces potential for high severity wildfire near at-risk communities and in the wildland-urban interface." (Black Hills NF, Mystic Ranger District, South Dakota, Mitchell Project)
• FS to prepare EIS "to disclose the environmental effects of timber harvest and watershed restoration activities in the Long Ridge project area on the Lochsa Ranger District of the Clearwater National Forest. The Long Ridge project area is located in the Musselshell Creek drainage, a tributary to Lolo Creek, approximately 8 air-miles southeast of the town of Pierce, Idaho."
• FS "to develop a network of defensible fuel profile zones (DFPZ's), establish group selection harvest units, conduct area thinnings, make improvements in riparian habitat conservation areas (RHCA's), and recover aspen stands on the Almanor Ranger District in the Lassen National Forest."
• MMS submits to OMB for approval the paperwork requirements that address the narrative portion only of MMS's Coastal Impact Assessment Program, which is a grant program ("MMS shall disburse $250 million for each FY 2007 through 2010 to eligible producing states and coastal political subdivisions (CPSs) through a grant program. The funds allocated to each state are based on the proportion of qualified OCS revenues offshore the individual state to total qualified OCS revenues from all states. In order to receive funds, the states submit CIAPs detailing how the funds will be expended. Alabama, Alaska, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas are the only eligible states under EPAct.")
• WAPA releases Big Stone II Power Plant and Transmission Project DEIS

• BIA: "This notice advises the public of three corrections to the Notice of Availability of the Draft [EIS] for the Cowlitz Indian Tribe's Proposed Fee-to Trust Transfer, Reservation Proclamation and Casino-Resort Project, Clark County, Washington, published in the Federal Register on April 12, 2006, 71 FR 18767 (FR Doc. E6-5383). The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was erroneously included among the cooperating agencies. EPA is not a cooperating agency for this DEIS. This notice also corrects the name, address and telephone number of the contact person for the DEIS."
• MMS: Oil and Gas and Sulphur Operations in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)--Incorporate API RP 65 for Cementing Shallow Water Flow Zones ("MMS is proposing to incorporate by reference the First Edition of the American Petroleum Institute's Recommended Practice for Cementing Shallow Water Flow Zones in Deep Water Wells (API RP 65) into MMS regulations. Since 1987, at least 113 OCS wells have encountered shallow water flow (SWF) to varying degrees. The majority of these wells experienced SWF to only a minor degree; however, there were instances of severe encounters resulting in abandonment of well sites and loss of wells. This action would establish best practices for cementing wells in deep water areas of the OCS that are prone to SWF").
• FAA: Supplemental Notice of Availability of the Final EIS containing a DOT Section 4(f)/303(c) Evaluation for a Proposed Replacement Airport for the City of St. George, UT
• FERC -- Consolidated Water Power Company; Notice of Availability of Draft Environmental Assessment
• FTA to prepare EIS on proposed public transportation improvements in the Houston metropolitan area. The area being studied, known as the University Corridor, extends approximately ten miles from the vicinity of the University of Houston--Central Campus to the Uptown/Galleria area in southwest Houston.
• MMS: Summary: "MMS seeks comments on how to improve our regulatory approach to safety and environmental management systems (SEMS) for operations conducted in the OCS. The various approaches for SEMS include voluntary and mandatory implementation of partial and full SEMS. In addition, the MMS is seeking comments on a regulatory scheme that would allow companies with outstanding performance records to operate under an alternative compliance program. MMS is investigating ways to develop an improved regulatory program that is more efficient and responsive to evolving conditions."
• NPS revises boundary of Big Thicket National Preserve to include the parcel of land known as Tract 223-09 . "The U.S. will acquire this tract from The Conservation Fund upon the revision of the boundary. The National Park Service has determined that this boundary revision is necessary and that the acquisition of this tract would make a significant contribution to the purposes for which the preserve was created."
• NPS corrects date, location for meeting on recommendation that the Irvine Ranch Land Reserve be designated a National Natural Landmark. National Park System Advisory Board will meet June 9, 2006, at Zion Lodge, Zion National Park, Springdale, Utah 84767

• Corps releases FEIS for the Proposed Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) A-1 Reservoir located in Palm Beach County, FL (More here-Hot Topics, UACE-SAJ
• Corps releases DEIS on proposed construction of a dredged material containment facility in the Patapsco River, at Masonville, Baltimore City, MD
• Corps to prepare draft EIS for the Seven Oaks Dam Water Quality Study, San Bernadino County, CA
• The Department of the Army "intends to enter into an Exchange Agreement with MassDevelopment for the exchange of 13.57+/- acres of Government owned land at Devens Reserve Forces Training Area, Devens, Massachusetts, in exchange for renovations to several buildings at Devens Reserve Forces Training Area. The purpose of this notice is to effect the exchange pursuant to provisions of 10 U.S.C. 2869.
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• Maritime Administration releases DEIS for the Northeast Gateway Energy Bridge, L.L.C., Liquefied Natural Gas Deepwater Port license application. (The dms.dot.gov page is here)

• BLM releases Alamosa River Watershed Restoration Master Plan and Environmental Assessment (Plan is here)
• BLM: North Slope Science Initiative (NSSI) Science Technical Group (STG) will meet in Anchorage June 26-28.
• FAA publishes Preamble on NEPA Implementing Instructions for Airport Actions
• FHwA to prepare EIS for proposed transportation improvements in Davis County, Utah.
• FDA: Guidance for Industry: Preparing a Claim of Categorical Exclusion or an Environmental Assessment for Submission to the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
• FS to prepare EIS "on proposal to harvest timber from the Little Doe and Low Gulch project area, which is located on National Forest System lands administered by the Six Rivers National Forest in Northern California. If approved, the project would harvest approximately 7.9 million board feet (MMBF) of timber from approximately 923 acres of conifer stands through intermediate and regeneration cutting methods."

• FERC releases EA/FONSI on applications for new major licenses for the East and West Fork projects, a subsequent license for the Bryson Project, and the application for license surrender for the Dillsboro Project. We prepared a draft combined environmental assessment (EA) on the proposed actions. The East and West Fork and Dillsboro projects are located on the Tuckasegee River in Jackson County, North Carolina. The Bryson Project is located on the Oconaluftee River (a tributary to the Tuckasegee River) in Swain County, North Carolina.

• APHIS releases EA on petition to grant nonregulated status for plum genetically engineered for resistance to Plum Pox
• FS to prepare EIS on Big Creek Vegetation Treatment Project, Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Rich County, UT
• NRCS issues interim final rule, requests comments, on informal appeal procedures ("For example, NRCS program mediation may result in: identifying alternative means for a participant to comply with regulatory requirements, exploring alternative mitigation strategies when a wetland has been converted, or considering possible changes to a farming operation with regard to compatible uses of easement acreages.")

• Corps to prepare DEIS for the Neuse River Basin Feasibility Study, NC
• FHWA to prepare EIS for proposed highway improvements to Trunk Highway (TH) 71 and TH 23 from the Willmar Bypass to the north junction of TH 71 and TH 23, located northeast of the City of Willmar in Dovre Township, a distance of approximately 3.5 miles, in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota
• FS to prepare EIS on revision of Rangeland Allotment Management Plans for all allotments within the McKelvie Geographic Area to analyze continuation of grazing within the constraints of the Revised Nebraska Land and Resource Management Plan
• FS revises NOI on planned EIS on a proposal to harvest timber in the Baht Timber Sale project area, Wrangell Ranger District, Tongass National Forest.
• NRCS ursuant to Section 102[2][c] of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations [40 CFR part 1500]; and the Natural Resources Conservation Service Regulations [7 CFR part 650]; the Natural Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, gives notice that an environmental impact statement is not being prepared for the Yellow River Watershed Structure No. 3, Gwinnett County, Georgia.

• BPA, ROD, South Fork Flathead Watershed Westslope Cutthroat Trout Conservation Program, based on the South Fork Flathead Watershed Westslope Cutthroat Trout Conservation Program Final Environmental Impact Statement
• EPA releases national guidance: Best Management Practices for Preparing Vessels Intended To Create Artificial Reefs
  • Here it is
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• FAA releases FEIS containing a DOT Section 4(f)/303(c) Evaluation for a proposed replacement airport for the city of St. George, UT
• FAA releases FEIS for the Proposed Relocation of the Panama City-Bay County International Airport, Panama City, FL; Notice of Significant Encroachment and Unavoidable Impacts to the Base Floodplain; Notice of New Construction Significantly Affecting Wetlands and Finding of No Practicable Alternative
• FAA: The Record of Decision was prepared based on the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for Horizontal Launch and Reentry of Reentry Vehicles.
• FS begins 90-day comment period on the Proposed forest plans for the Kootenai and Idaho Panhandle National Forests.

• Corps issues minor correction on NOI for EIS for the Dam Safety Assurance Evaluation Report, Dover Dam, City of Dover, Tuscarawas County, OH
• EPA is finalizing its proposal to de-designate an existing ocean dredged material disposal site and designate a new ocean dredged material disposal site located offshore of Coos Bay, Oregon. EPA's proposed rule was published March 31, 2000. The new site is needed for long-term use by authorized Coos Bay navigation projects and may be available for use by persons meeting the criteria for ocean disposal of dredged material. The de-designation of the existing site allows for its incorporation into the newly designated site. ("EPA's evaluation at the time of the proposed rule concluded that long distances and travel times between the dredging locations near Coos Bay and the continental shelf posed significant environmental, operational, safety and environmental concerns, including risk of encounter with endangered species and increased air emissions. This conclusion is unchanged and new Site F, finalized by today's rule, is consistent with this criterion.")
• FERC releases EA/FONSI on application for a subsequent license for the Clam River Hydroelectric Project, located on the Clam River, 9.5 miles northwest of Webster, Wisconsin in Burnett County
• FERC releases EA/FONSI on liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities proposed by Sabine Pass LNG, L.P. The Sabine Pass LNG Terminal Phase II Project would be located in Cameron Parish, Louisiana.
• FERC releases FEIS on Creole Trail LNG Terminal and Pipeline Project
• FERC dismisses complaint filed against Nicholas Josten, applicant for an exemption for the West Valley A&B Hydroelectric Project No. 12053. ("The issues raised in the pleading relate to consideration of the application for exemption. As such, they are not properly the subject of a formal complaint. Accordingly, the complaint is dismissed and the comments raised in the pleading will be considered in the exemption proceeding." "The project is proposed to be located on the South Fork of the Pit River in Modoc County, California. The project would be located on approximately 31 acres of federal lands, managed by Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. The pleading generally alleges that Nicholas Josten has made misrepresentations in information he filed in support of his application for exemption.")
• FHWA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in Brunswick and New Hanover Counties, North Carolina.
• FHWA rescinds NOI for DEIS for a proposed highway project in Sampson, Duplin, and Cumberland Counties, North Carolina

• BuRec, Contra Costa Water District (CCWD) have made available for public review and comment a Draft EIR/EIS for the proposed CCWD Alternative Intake Project. The Draft EIR/EIS describes and presents the environmental effects of five alternatives: the No-Action Alternative and four action alternatives. Three public hearings will be held.
  • Reclamation Mid-Pacific NEPA
• FAA approves FONSI on a Final EA, Lake in the Hills Airport, Lake in the Hills, IL
• NPS releases DEIS for the Hunting Program at Cape Cod National Seashore.

Tues., May 9

• BuRec: California Bay-Delta Public Advisory Committee will meet May 25, 2006. "The agenda for the Committee meeting will include discussions with State and Federal agency representatives on the status of the revitalization of the CALFED Bay-Delta Program including the 10-Year Action Plan and Program Plans, priority setting, the changing roles of the CALFED agencies, and the restructuring of the Committee Subcommittees."
• FAA: "On March 27, 2006, the FAA published a Notice of Intent to prepare a PEIS for Experimental Permits in the Federal Register (71 FR 15251). The FAA has decided to extend the scoping period for the preparation of the PEIS to June 2, 2006. All comments received by June 2, 2006 will be considered in the preparation of the Draft PEIS."
• FAA releases ROD for the FEIS on a proposed Airport Development Program at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX), Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona.
  • More here
• FERC releases EA/FONSI for an application requesting approval for surrender of minor project license and dam removal of the 547 kilowatt Sandy River Project (FERC No. 11433). The project is located on the Sandy River in the Towns of Norridgewock and Starks, Somerset County, Maine.
• FS: Plumas National Forest will prepare EIS on eradication of populations of the noxious weed tall whitetop (Lepidium latifolium), along the Middle Fork of the Feather River approximately one-mile southwest of the town of Beckwourth.

Mon., May 8

• FS: " Proposed Land Management Plans for the Bitterroot, Flathead and Lolo National Forests are now available for public comment during a 90-day period that begins on the date of publication of this notice in the following newspapers of record: For the Bitterroot Forest, The Ravalli Republic; for the Flathead Forest, The Daily Interlake; and for the Lolo Forest, The Missoulian." (More is here)

Fri., May 5

Lots today

• Army releases ROD on level of training on the Overhills Tract, Fort Bragg, Cumberland and Harnett Counties, NC
• Corps issues DEIS for the Floyd County, KY (Levisa Fork Basin), Section 202 Project
  • More here
• Corps to prepare a Supplemental EIS to the Interim Operational Plan for Protection of the Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow, Everglades National Park, Miami-Dade County, FL, May 2002
• Corps to prepare an EIS for the Dam Safety Assurance Evaluation Report, Dover Dam, City of Dover, Tuscarawas County, OH
• BLM releases Kobuk-Seward Peninsula Draft Resource Management Plan/EIS
  • Go here for more
• BuRec corrects discrepancy in the Trinity River Restoration Program FEIS's description of the hydrologic forecast used in the annual flow regime component of the Program. (no changes in operation anticipated, Bureau says)
• Coast Guard issues EA/FONSI for the Installation and Operation of the Integrated Anti-Swimmer System (No, I don't know what it is-Ed.)
• Commodity Credit Corporation issues DPEA for the Emergency Forestry Conservation Reserve Program ("EFCRP will provide assistance for owners of forest land and timber related to losses from hurricanes during the 2005 calendar year.")
• FSA releases draft Programmatic EA for selected 2005 Hurricane Assistance Programs of the Farm Service Agency (FSA). These programs include: (1) Hurricane Indemnity Program, (2) Feed Indemnity Program, (3) Livestock Indemnity Program, (4) Tree Indemnity Program, and (5) Aquaculture Grant Program.
  • More from FSA here
• FAA, in cooperation w/ USAF, releases EA on Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority (OSIDA) proposal to operate a commercial launch facility at the Clinton-Sherman Industrial Airpark (CSIA) located next to the town of Burns Flat, Okla.
  • More here
• FEMA suspends issuance of flood insurance in NC communities "because of noncompliance with the floodplain management requirements of the program."
• FERC, Corps, USCG issue EIS on Crown Landing, LLC; Texas Eastern Transmission, L.P.'s proposed LNG terminal, which would be located on the shoreline of the Delaware River in Logan Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey
• FERC, Corps, USCG issue EIS on Cove Point Expansion Project (LNG terminal and natural gas (steel) pipeline facilities in Pa., Va., W.V., Md., N.Y.)
• FERC issues EA/FONSI on application by Duke Power for non-project use of project lands and waters
• FERC releases FEIS and Final General Conformity Determination for the Port Arthur LNG Project
• FERC issues EA/FONSI on the application for license for the Portal Hydroelectric Project, located on Camp 61 Creek and Rancheria Creek in Fresno County, California (Southern Calif. Edison)
• FHwA, Iowa DOT to prepare EIS for a proposed roadway project in Polk County, Iowa ("The planned EIS will evaluate potential transportation improvement alternatives for serving northeast Des Moines and its neighboring communities between I-80/US65 west of Altoona to US69/NE 126 Avenue north of Ankeny")
• MMS: Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare a programmatic EIS, hold scoping meetings on Program for Renewable Energy and Alternate Use of Existing Structures on the Outer Continental Shelf (Salient 2002 memo here )

  Excerpt from FR:

  "The MMS invites other Federal agencies and State, tribal, and local governments to consider becoming cooperating agencies in the preparation of the programmatic EIS. We invite qualified government entities to inquire about cooperating agency status for the EIS. Following the guidelines from the Council of Environmental Quality (CEQ), qualified agencies and governments are those with ''jurisdiction by law or special expertise.'' Potential cooperating agencies should consider their authority and capacity to assume the responsibilities of a cooperating agency and to remember that an agency's role in the environmental analysis neither enlarges nor diminishes the final decision making authority of any other agency involved in the NEPA process. Upon request, the MMS will provide potential cooperating agencies with a written summary of ground rules for cooperating agencies, including time schedules and critical action dates, milestones, responsibilities, scope and detail of cooperating agencies' contributions, and availability of pre-decisional information. The MMS anticipates this summary will form the basis for understanding between the MMS and each cooperating agency. Agencies should also consider the ``Factors for Determining Cooperating Agency Status'' in Attachment 1 to CEQ's January 30, 2002, Memorandum for the Heads of Federal Agencies: Cooperating Agencies in Implementing the Procedural Requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act. A copy of this document is available at: http://ceq.eh.doe.gov/nepa/regs/cooperating/cooperatingagenciesmemorandum.html and http://ceq.eh.doe.gov/nepa/regs/

• FAA cancels NOI to prepare EIS for the Dayton International Airport, Dayton, OH
• NPS rule designates areas where personal watercraft (PWC) may be used in Gulf Islands National Seashore, Florida and Mississippi. "This final rule implements the provisions of the National Park Service (NPS) general regulations authorizing parks to allow the use of PWC by promulgating a special regulation." (mentions T&E species impacts)

Wed., May 3

• GSA to prepare EIS, hold scoping meeting for the Master Site Plan, Denver Federal Center in Lakewood, CO
• FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in Bannock County, Idaho.

• Corps releases FEIS for Commercial Sand and Gravel Dredging Operations in the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers, PA
  • EIS is here

Mon., May 1

• Corps releases FEIS for Upper Columbia Alternative Flood Control and Fish Operations, Libby and Hungry Horse Dams, MT
  • It's here
• Corps to prepare EIS for Pine Mountain Dam & Lake Project, AR
• FAA to prepare EIS for Port Columbus International Airport, Columbus, OH
• NPS releases Record of Decision for the EIS on the Falls Creek Hydroelectric Project and Land Exchange, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska.
  • More here

• BLM: Notice of Availability of Draft Resource Management Plans and Associated DEIS's for three BLM offices in Northeast California and Northwest Nevada: the Eagle Lake Field Office; the Alturas Field Office, and the Surprise Field Office
  • BLM California land use planning page
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review
• FAA's Office of Airports (ARP) has updated and revised its instructions for implementing NEPA for airport actions
  • here it is

• FHwA rescinds NOI for an EIS for a proposed highway project in Butler County, Pa.
• FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in Gaston and Mecklenburg Counties, North Carolina

• What? No NEPA notices? Yes, it's true... There, there, that's OK. I'm sure there will be some tomorrow

• FERC issues EA/FONSI on application for exemption from licensing for the A.H. Smith Dam Project, which is located on the San Marcos River near the town of Martindale, Caldwell County, Texas.
• FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in Blount County, Tennessee
• BLM releases EA, Determination of NEPA Adequacy, and Public Hearing for Coal Lease Application UTU-81893, Utah Kenilworth Tract Coal Lease (1,760 acres in Carbon County, Utah)By Application UTU-81893 and Federal Coal Notice of Public Hearing, and Request for Environmental Assessment, Determination of NEPA Adequacy, Maximum Economic Recovery and Fair Market Value Comments.
• NPS to expand the scope of the General Management Plan/EIS for the addition at Big Cypress National Preserve, FL ("The NPS also will prepare an Off-Road Vehicle Management Plan that will address in more detail the management of off-road vehicles in the Addition Lands.")
  • Big Cypress page
• NPS releases DEIS for the General Management Plan and Wilderness Study, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve.

• Army releases ROD for the Final EIS for the Transformation of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard 56th Brigade Into a Stryker Brigade Combat Team at the National Guard Training Center-Fort Indiantown GAP, PA
• BIA to prepare EIS for the Proposed Community Development on the Las Vegas Paiute Indian Tribe Reservation, Clark County, NV
• DOT: Maritime Administration releases draft FONSI/Finding of No Practicable Alternative (FONSI/FONPA) for the Port of Anchorage Intermodal Expansion, North End Runway Material Extraction and Transport Project

• DHS: A Final Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program are available to the public for electronic download. The Final PEA examines the potential environmental impacts of four strategic approaches to enhance immigration and border management processes and addresses the substantive comments received on the Draft PEA during the public comment period.
• FHWA to prepare EIS for the proposed 3,400-foot (1.0 km) extension of North Hillside Road from its current terminus northward to U.S. Route 44 in Tolland County, Connecticut.
• FS to prepare EIS on Tracy Placer Mine, Rogue River--Siskiyou National Forest, Josephine County, OR

• BLM reopens calls for nominations for Sonoran Desert National Monument Advisory Committee
• BuRec releases FEIS for operation of the Navajo Dam and Reservoir, Colorado River Storage Project, New Mexico and Colorado
• EPA extends comment period to May 31 on Proposed Reissuance of the NPDES General Permit for Oil and Gas Exploration, Development and Production Facilities Located in state and federal Waters in Cook Inlet, AK
  • Go here, scroll down for docs on proposed Alaska NPDES permits
  • Public notice, March 1
  • Draft permit
• NPS terminates preparation (stops working on) Draft General Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement, Amistad National Recreation Area, TX
• NPS releases Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Elk and Vegetation Management Plan, Rocky Mountain National Park (More here)

• Availability of an Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for Field Release of Genetically Engineered Pink Bollworm
• BIA, as lead agency, with National Indian Gaming Commission, Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeño Indians, and Big Lagoon Rancheria as cooperating agencies, will gather information necessary to prepare EIS "for a proposed 45 acre fee-to-trust transfer and casino and hotel project to be located in San Bernardino County, California. The purpose of the proposed action is to help improve the tribal economy of the Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeño Indians and Big Lagoon Rancheria (hereinafter collectively referred to as the Tribes) and assist tribal members to attain economic self-sufficiency."
• DOI extends deadline for nomination submissions for Invasive Species Advisory Committee (More here)
• NRCS to prepare EIS on proposed Clarke County Water Supply Project, Clarke County, IA (Iowa NRCS site)
• FERC OEP has reviewed the application for exemption from licensing for the Williams Fork Reservoir Hydroelectric Project, a small hydroelectric project of less than 5 megawatts, located on the Williams Fork River near its confluence with the Colorado River at Parshall, in Grand County, Colorado, and has prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the project.
• FTA, City of Madison, WI will prepare an EIS for a proposal by Madison to implement new transit operations in an approximately 13-mile travel corridor extending from the City of Middleton on the west, through the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison to the Isthmus of Madison, WI to the American Parkway interchange on US 151, southwest of Sun Prairie, WI and encompassing the surrounding urbanized areas. (More here)

• FERC issues EA/ FONSI on proposal by Duke Power to use project lands and waters at the Keowee-Toxaway Hydroelectric Project, "The proposed marina would consist of: (1) Three cluster docks with eight boat docking locations each, and one cluster dock with six boat docking locations for Waterford Ridge; (2) one cluster dock with fourteen boat docking locations, and two cluster docks with eight boat docking locations each for Waterford Farms; and (3) nine cluster docks with ten boat docking locations each for Waterford Pointe. The marina's docks would provide a total of 150 boat docking locations for the residents of the Waterford Communities." The project is located on the Little and Keowee Rivers in Oconee County, South Carolina.
• In related action, FERC's Office of Energy Projects releases EA/FONSI on Duke Power's request for "Commission authorization to lease two parcels of project land to Crescent Communities S.C, LLC, and the Waterside Crossing Owners Association."

• NRCS: EA/FONSI released for Highline Canal/Black Point Pipeline Project (Utah)
• Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Scientific Committee Plenary Session in Santa Barbara May 10

• APHIS: Availability of an Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for a Field Release of Genetically Engineered Tall Fescue and Genetically Engineered Italian Ryegrass
• Army Corps: Minor correction to 4/11 notice (see below) on scoping meetings for San Francisquito Creek Study, San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties, CA
• BLM releases Record of Decision for the Dillon Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), Beaverhead and Madison Counties, MT (More here)
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• FERC: Puget Sound Energy, Inc., Washington; Notice of Availability of a DEIS for the Baker River Hydroelectric Project
• FERC: Southern Natural Gas Company; Florida Gas Transmission Company; Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Cypress Pipeline Project and Phase VII Expansion Project
• FERC: Questar Pipeline Company; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Southern System Expansion Project II, Request for Comments on Environmental Issues and Notice of Scoping Meeting
• FERC: Wyoming Interstate Company, Ltd.; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment And Proposed Land Use Plan Amendment for the Proposed Kanda Lateral and Mainline Expansion Project, Request for Comments on Environmental Issues, Notice of Public Scoping Meetings, and Notice of Site Visit
• FHwA to prepare Tier I EIS "to review improvements in the existing transportation system between Interstate 68 in Western Maryland and Appalachian Corridor H in the West Virginia Potomac Highlands. The study area generally parallels the existing U.S. 220 highway corridor."
• NPS releases Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the General Management Plan, Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site
  • Park planning site

• OMB sends draft report on costs and benefits of federal regs to Congress (4/13/06) (Report is here)
• FERC: Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline, Inc.; Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Ozark Trails Expansion Project and Request for Comments on Environmental Issues
• FS: The Eldorado National Forest will prepare an EIS "to restore, reforest, and reduce fuels on approximately 4,300 acres that burned in the Freds Fire of 2004. ("The Freds Fire Reforestation project area is located in El Dorado County, California, on the Eldorado National Forest, Placerville and Pacific Ranger Districts.")
• FS to prepare an EIS on The proposal to treat approximately 25,000 acres of invasive plants in 2.4 million-acre Wallowa-Whitman NF ("The forest anticipates to treat approximately 4,000 acres of invasive plant sites annually.")
• OMB
• Report
• NRCS "gives notice of the deauthorization of Federal funding for the Broad Creek Watershed project, Kent and Sussex Counties, Delaware, effective on March 23, 2006"

• BIA files DEIS with EPA on Cowlitz Indian Tribe's Proposed 151.87 Acre Fee-to-Trust Transfer, Reservation Proclamation and Casino-Resort Project, Clark County, Washington. (More here)
• FS: Wasatch-Cache NF to prepare EIS on a proposal to relocate a total of about 5 miles of the Millville Peak and Logan Peak Roads (Forest Roads 20168 and 20042, respectively) due to road damage and safety concerns. The relocation would place construction in adjacent roadless areas.

Tues., April 11

• Corps, San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority to prepare EIS/R for the San Francisquito Creek Study, San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties, CA
• FERC to prepare EIS on proposed Wamsutter Expansion Project ("This project involves the construction and operation of facilities by Questar Overthrust Pipeline Company (Overthrust) in Lincoln and Sweetwater Counties, Wyoming. These facilities would include approximately 77 miles of 36-inch-diameter natural gas pipeline, two new compressor stations, two new receipt points, and one new delivery point.")
• FERC to prepare EIS on TransColorado Gas Transmission Company's proposed Blanco-to-Meeker Project ("This project involves the construction and operation of facilities by TransColorado Gas Transmission Company (TransColorado) in San Juan County, New Mexico and Zuma, Montrose, Mesa, Garfield, and Rio Blanco Counties, Colorado.")

• BuRec: Notice of public open-house scoping meetings associated with an environmental impact statement (EIS) being prepared for the completion of the Northwest Area Water Supply Project
• BuRec extends public comment period for the Red River Valley Water Supply Project DEIS (More here)
• USAF to prepare EA for the retirement of the F-117A and T-38A Aircraft and Beddown of the F-22A at Holloman Air Force Base, NM
• Coast Guard to prepare EA for homeporting of four new 418-foot National Security Cutters (NSCs) at Coast Guard Island (CGI) in Alameda, California
• FHWA to adopt FEIS that has been "prepared and approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District, for the South Lawrence Trafficway located in Lawrence, Kansas."
• DOI establishes Lake Champlain Sea Lamprey Control Alternatives Workgroup
• NRCS to prepare SEIS for the Lost River Subwatershed of the Potomac River Watershed Hardy County, West Virginia.
• White House Office of Science and Technology Policy releases Planning Document for the U.S. Ocean Research Priorities Plan, asks for public comment
  • Here it is

• APHIS releases "three documents related to the National Animal Identification System (NAIS): A document that provides an update on the implementation plans, including operational milestones and participation goals; a document describing how private and State animal tracking databases may be integrated into the NAIS to provide animal health officials with animal movement information on an as-needed basis; and, in connection with the animal tracking databases document, a template for a cooperative agreement that the [APHIS] may enter into with organizations that wish to participate in the animal tracking database component of the NAIS."
• Corps to prepare EIS for the Proposed TransAlta Pit 7 Mine Completion Project at Centralia, Wash.
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• Labor Dept issues preliminary FONSI for the Proposed Job Corps Center To Be Located at the Dome Industrial Park on 5th Avenue and 22nd Street in St. Petersburg, FL
• DOT: Maritime Administration releases FEIS, announces public hearings on Compass Port LLC Liquefied Natural Gas Deepwater Port License

Thurs., April 6

• Corps issues supplemental NOI for a DEIS/R for a Permit Application for the Berths 136-147 Terminal Improvement Project, Also Known as the TraPac Container Terminal in the Port of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA ("The Corps is considering the Port's application for a Department of the Army permit under Clean Water Act section 404 and River and Harbor Act section 10 to conduct dredge and fill activities and construct one new wharf approximately 705 feet and seismically upgrade two wharves approximately 3,022 feet in length associated with the proposed project.")
• Umatilla National Forest Invasive Plants Treatment, Umatilla National Forest, Oregon and Washington ("The Umatilla National Forest proposes to treat approximately 25,000 acres of invasive plants located across the 1.4 million acre National Forest. It is anticipated that approximately 4,000 acres of both existing and newly discovered sites would be treated in any year. The proposed treatment methods includes: Manual pulling or use of hand tools, use of mechanical hand tools, herbicide, cultural methods such as grazing or mulching, and biological controls. The method used would depend on resource protection concerns for a given site.")

• FERC issues EA/FONSI on application requesting authorization for non-project use of project lands and waters for a water withdrawal at the Logan Martin development of the Coosa River Project. The proposed withdrawal would be located south of Ragland, Alabama.
• FERC: Gulf South Pipeline Company; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed East Texas Expansion Project and Request for Comments on Environmental Issues
• FHwA proposes application for states to submit to assume NEPA responsibilities for highway projects ("Section 6005 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) established a pilot program to allow the Secretary to assign and the State to assume the Secretary's responsibilities under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for one or more highway projects. The Secretary may permit not more than five States (including the States of Alaska, California, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Texas) to participate in the program)."

• RUS to hold public scoping meetings and prepare an EA on projects proposed by Georgia Transmission Corporation. ("The proposal consists of the construction of approximately 55 miles of 500 kilovolt transmission line and approximately 13 miles of 230 kilovolt transmission line, a 500/230 kilovolt substation and a switching station. The 500-kilovolt transmission line project would be located in Putnam, Morgan, Walton and Oconee counties, Georgia.")
• DHS issues final NEPA policy and procedures (Go here for more)

• APHIS to prepare SEIS to "analyze alternatives and methods for the reduction of additional wildlife hazards to aircraft and human health and safety at John F. Kennedy International Airport. This action is a supplement to the Gull Hazard Reduction Program at John F. Kennedy International Airport Final Environmental Impact Statement, May 1994." (in cooperation with FWS, NPS, FAA, NY DEP, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and NYC DEP)

• Corps: Availability of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement To Consider Issuance of a Department of the Army Permit Pursuant to Section 404 of the Clean Water Act for Mingo Logan Coal Company's (Mingo Logan) Proposal To Construct and Operate Spruce No. 1 Mine, Near Blair in Logan County, WV
• Corps To Prepare a DEIS for Elliott Bay Seawall, WA
• Corps to prepare a draft supplement to the EIS on authorized improvements to the Federal Gulfport Harbor Navigation Project in Harrison County, MS
• Corps: NOI to prepare joint EIS/R for the Proposed BNSF Cajon Subdivision Third Main Track Project Keenbrook to Summit, San Bernardino County, CA
• BLM releases Addendum to the FEIS on grazing adminustration, exclusive of Alaska ("The Addendum responds to comments received on the Draft EIS.")
• BLM releases FEIS for proposed Cotterel Wind Power Project and proposed RMP Amendment, Burley Field Office, Cassia County, ID (More here)
• BLM to prepare EIS, begin scoping process for Lincoln County Water District Proposed Water Production Wells, Water Transmission Pipeline, Electric Lines, and Communication Lines in Southwestern Lincoln County; NV
• BLM to prepare EIS and initiate the public scoping process for Lincoln County Water District Proposed Water Production Wells, Water Transmission Pipeline, Electric Lines, and Communication Lines in Southeastern Lincoln County; NV
• BuRec, acting on behalf of DOI, "proposes to take action to adopt specific Colorado River Lower Basin shortage guidelines and coordinated reservoir management strategies to address operations of Lake Powell and Lake Mead, particularly under low reservoir conditions."
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• Forest Service (Malhuer NF) to prepare EIS: "The Malheur National Forest proposes to treat approximately 3,800 acres of invasive plants located across the 1.7 million acre National Forest. It is anticipated that approximately 800 acres of both existing and newly discovered sites would be treated in any year. The proposed treatment methods includes: manual pulling or use of hand tools, use of mechanical hand tools, herbicide, cultural methods such as grazing or mulching, and biological controls. The method used would depend on resource protection concerns for a given site."
• NPS proposes to recommend Irvine Ranch Land Reserve, located forty-five miles south of downtown Los Angeles, in Orange County, California, for designation as a National Natural Landmark. (Meeting to be held June 8, 2006, at Zion National Park, in the Majestic View Lodge, 2400 Zion Park Blvd., Springdale, Utah.)

• Department of the Army; Corps of Engineers Coastal Engineering Research Board (CERB); Correction: ("In notice document 06-2859 appearing on page 14858 in the issue of Friday, March 24, 2006, make the following correction: In the second column, under the heading FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, in the last line, ``29180-6199.'' should read ``39180-6199.'')
• FERC: PacifiCorp, Cowlitz PUD; Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Lewis River Projects
• FERC releases DEA or public review. "The draft EA analyzes the environmental impacts of an application for non-project use of project lands and waters filed for the Saluda Project. The project is located on Lake Murray in Lexington County, South Carolina."
• FERC: to prepare EIS on Kinder Morgan Louisiana Pipeline's proposal to construct, operate and maintain approximately 133 miles of natural gas pipeline in Cameron, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Acadia and Evangeline Parishes, Louisiana
• FERC: Southern LNG, Inc. and Elba Express Company, L.L.C.; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement and U.S. Coast Guard Letter of Recommendation for the Proposed Elba III Project, Request for Comments on Environmental Issues, and Notice of Public Comment Meetings

• FS: Plumas NF to prepare supplement to EIS "to document and clarify the analysis of environmental effects, primarily in the following resource areas: air quality, rare plants and noxious weeds, economics, fire and fuels, hydrology, recreation, soils, vegetation, and wildlife. Additional maps will be included to provide further information to the public." (Decision was finalized in Sept 2005 and rescinded in December.)
• Pike NF of the Rocky Mountain Region of the Forest Service releases Final Plan and Final EIS, Supplemental Information Report (SIR) and Record of Decision 2 (ROD 2) for the Gold Camp Road. (More here)
• MMS issues rule expanding the circumstances under which MMS allows inspection of Geological and Geophysical data and information. (Specifically, the rule "extends the circumstances under which MMS selectively allows persons with a direct and pertinent interest to inspect proprietary G&G data and information that are used by MMS in certain decisions." The rule, proposed in 2002, also modifies the start dates of proprietary terms for geophysical data and information and any derivatives of these data and information that MMS acquires. In addition, the rule clarifies the proprietary terms of geological data and information MMS acquires pursuant to a permit.

  Here's an excerpt on sperm whales:
  "Comment: One commenter noted that the seismic industry is experiencing increasing scrutiny from MMS and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries over the impacts of acoustic pulses and other emissions [from seismic surveys] on the health and well being of marine mammals, particularly the sperm whale which is listed as an endangered species. There are new restrictions on data acquisition operations, and some are suggesting that prime producing areas of the GOM should be designated as critical habitat which would make access more difficult.

  "Response: MMS is funding a collaborative, international effort to study sperm whales in the GOM and determine what, if any, potential impacts there may be to sperm whales as a result of seismic survey activity. MMS also prepared a programmatic environmental assessment on geological and geophysical exploration activities in the GOM. The assessment found no significant potentially adverse impacts to sperm whales from seismic survey activities. MMS, as a precaution, developed mitigation measures to avoid or minimize any potential incidental (accidental) take of certain marine mammals in the GOM, and petitioned NOAA Fisheries to promulgate incidental take regulations governing the conduct of seismic surveys in the GOM. Any designation of critical habitat for the sperm whale in the GOM would be the responsibility of NOAA Fisheries under established Endangered Species Act procedures."

  NPS releases Final General Management Plan and Final EIS for the First Ladies National Historic Site, Ohio

  NPS Dog Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo Counties, CA; Notice of Extension of Scoping Period

  NPS approves ROD for FEIS/Fire Management Plan; Golden Gate National Recreation Area; Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo Counties, CA

  NPS to prepare EIS on proposed extension of San Francisco Municipal Railway Historic Streetcar Service; Golden Gate National Recreation Area and San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park; County of San Francisco

  NPS to prepare EIS, General Management Plan for Golden Gate National Recreation Area; Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties, CA

Tues., March 28

• FERC releases EA/FONSI on Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation's proposed Leidy-to-Long Island expansion project
• FERC issues EA/FONSI on application for authorization to surrender the license for the Brown Bridge Project (FERC Project No. 2978) and exemptions for the Boardman Dam Project (FERC Project No. 2979) and the Sabin Dam Project (FERC Project No. 2980). These projects are located on the Boardman River in Grand Traverse County, Michigan
• FERC sets public meetings on new license for the Priest Rapids Hydroelectric Project No. 2114-116, located on the mid-Columbia River, near the city of Ellensburg, in portions of Grant, Yakima, Kittitas, Douglas, Benton, and Chelan counties, Washington. DEIS was released Feb. 28, 2006.
• The FTA and the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to prepare EIS for the South Florida East Coast Corridor Transit Analysis in Southeast Florida; Including Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach Counties, FL
  • More here
• Forest Service to prepare EIS on potential significant amendment to the 1997 Tongass National Forest Plan. The ROD will consider and identify changes, if any, to the current 1997 Forest Plan

• FAA revises procedures for implementing NEPA. "The revisions include: changes for clarification, consistency, and addition of information; corrections; and editorial changes." (1050.1E CHG1 (PDF) – Environmental Impacts Order)
• FAA issues FEA/FONSI for expansion of Southern Illinois Airport, Carbondale-Murphysboro, IL
• FAA to prepare PEIS on experimental permit regime for developmental reusable suborbital rockets. (more here)

• Corps' Huntington District will prepare an SEIS evaluating "potential impacts to the natural, physical, and human environment as a result of utilizing soil borrow material for construction of the selected plan for the proposed flood damage reduction measures for the area at the City of Milton, Cabell County, WV (lower Mud River Project)."
• Corps: Public Scoping Meeting and Preparation of Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Widening and Deepening of the Matagorda Ship Channel in Calhoun County and Matagorda County, TX
• Corps announces "major change in the scope of" EIS. The Baltimore and Norfolk Districts "will prepare a single, integrated master plan (MP) and [PEIS] for native oyster recovery in the entire Chesapeake Bay. This MP is a long-term plan for native oyster recovery and will be written in cooperation with the local sponsors, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and Virginia Marine Resources Commission. The Corps is undertaking native oyster recovery in the Chesapeake Bay to support efforts to reverse the ongoing decline in oyster resources throughout the Bay."
• Coastal Engineering Research Board (CERB) meets April 26, Sheraton Gateway Atlanta Airport Hotel, 1900 Sullivan Rd., Atlanta, GA
• BLM: Notice of Availability (NOA) of a Draft EIS for the Pit 14 Coal Lease-by-Application (LBA) and Federal Coal Notice of Hearing, Wyoming
  • BLM Wyo. docs
• BLM: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Overland Pass Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline in Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas
• BuRec extends comment period for the Draft EIS for the Upper Rio Grande Water Operations Review, DES-05-80, to April 20, 2006
• FERC: Central New York Oil and Gas Company, LLC; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Stagecoach Phase II Expansion Project and Request for Comments on Environmental Issues and Notice of Site Visit
• FERC: Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Proposed 2006-2008 Expansion Project and Request for Comments on Environmental Issues

• The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) have established Alternative Arrangements to meet [NEPA] requirements ... for FEMA Grants to Reconstruct Critical Infrastructure in the New Orleans Metropolitan Area." ("These Alternative Arrangements are designed to enable timely action on the expected large number of grant applications to restore safe and healthful living conditions in the New Orleans Metropolitan Area."
• The Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest (WI) plans to supplement the May 2003 ``Cayuga Project'' FEIS in order to "clarify and add more detail to the cumulative effects analysis regarding certain Regional Forester Sensitive Species that may be affected by the actions considered in the original [EIS]." ("Specifically, the supplement will fully consider cumulative effects of timber harvest to goshawk, red-shouldered hawk, American marten, spruce grouse and black-backed woodpecker that occur in the Cayuga project area.")
• NPS: of a Record of Decision on the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Colorado River Management Plan, Grand Canyon National Park.

• Advance Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Technology Demonstration Program
• The Forest Service will prepare an EIS on proposed actions to harvest trees and associated transportation management activities ( Fishel Vegetation and Transportation Management Project; Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Vilas and Forest Counties, WI)

• BLM: Notice of Public Meeting, North Slope Science Initiative, Science Technical Group
• Coast Guard to prepare an EIS to review possible changes to the Coast Guard's operations in the areas of responsibility for Coast Guard Districts 11 and 13 (California, Oregon and Washington) and requests public comments. The EIS will analyze the environmental impacts of Coast Guard vessel and air operations when engaged in the following missions and activities: law enforcement, national security, search and rescue, aids to navigation, and oil pollution and vessel grounding response
• FERC, USCG (in DHS) to prepare EIS on Downeast LNG project, which "would consist of an onshore [liquefied natural gas] import and storage terminal, located on the south side of Mill Cove in the Town of Robbinston, near the confluence of Passamaquoddy Bay and the St. Croix River, in Washington County, Maine; and an approximately 31-mile-long natural gas sendout pipeline, extending from the terminal to the existing Maritimes & Northeast (M&NE) pipeline system at the Baileyville, Maine, compressor station."
• FERC to prepare EA on Enbridge Pipelines' proposed T-1 Mainline Segment abandonment and request for comments on environmental issues ("The T-1 Mainline segment that would be abandoned originates at the Desiard Compressor Station in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana and extends in a southeasterly direction to the intersection of Holdiness Road, approximately 1.9 miles northeast of Alto, Richland Parish, Louisiana.")
• FERC to prepare EIS on Quoddy Bay's proposed Quoddy Bay LNG Project; Public scoping meetings scheduled

• AID: Comment Request and Notice of Public Meeting for Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) for Malaria Vector Control Interventions
• Army releases ROD for the SEIS for the Proposed Addition of Maneuver Training Land at Fort Irwin, California
  • More here
• DOE Generadora del Desierto SA de C.V. (GDD) has applied for a Presidential permit to construct, operate, maintain, and connect an electric transmission line across the U.S. border with Mexico.
• State Dept. receives application for a Presidential Permit for Pipeline Facilities To Be Operated and Maintained on the Border of the United States

• Army releases SDEIS for the Construction and the Operation of a Battle Area Complex and a Combined Arms Collective Training Facility Within U.S. Army Training Lands in Alaska
• Corps to prepare DEIS for Proposed Dredged Material Management Plan for Cleveland Harbor, OH
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• FERC to conduct two public meetings on EA for the Osage Hydroelectric Project No. 459-128
• FERC releases draft EA on application for non-project use of project lands and waters filed for the Keowee-Toxaway Hydroelectric Project. The project is located on Lake Keowee in Pickens County, South Carolina.
• FHWA The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that an environmental impact statement will be prepared for a proposed hurricane evacuation route project in Horry and Georgetown Counties, South Carolina.
• FHWA, FTA to prepare EIS for the Washington State Ferries Seattle Ferry Terminal Project in Seattle, Washington
• FHWA announces final agency actions for highway projects in South Carolina. Public must seek judicial review by Sept. 13, 2006. "If the Federal law that authorizes judicial review of a claim provides a time period of less than 180 days for filing such claim, then that shorter time period still applies."
• BLM announces temporary closure of public lands during competitive special recreation permitted events: Nevada, Carson City Field Office; Closure Number: NV-030-06-002 (" By agreement with the Ely and Battle Mountain Field Offices the Tonopah Field Station and the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, those lands affected by the Vegas to Reno OHV Race in Lincoln, Nye and Esmeralda Counties are included in this closure. This action is taken to provide for public and participant safety and to protect adjacent natural and cultural resources during the conduct of permitted special recreation events." / "Race and ride events are conducted along dirt roads, trails, and washes approved for such use.")
• Maritime Administration releases Port of Anchorage Intermodal Expansion, North End Runway Material Extraction and Transport draft EA (Go here )

• FS cancels NOI for South Deep Management Project on the Three Rivers Ranger District of the Colville National Forest

• BLM: BLM announces approval of the West Mojave (WEMO) Plan and Record of Decision (ROD). The approved WEMO Plan/ROD amends the California Desert Conservation Area (CDCA) Plan by providing management direction for approximately 3.3 million acres of public lands administered by the BLM's California Desert District, located in Inyo, Kern, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino Counties in southern California. Approval of the WEMO Plan/ROD terminates all interim measures identified in the Consent Decree in Center for Biological Diversity, et al. v. BLM (C-00-0927 WHA (JCS)) with regard to the West Mojave Planning area. (More here)
• FERC: Algonquin Gas Transmission LLC; Notice of Alternative Project Site Algonquin Ramapo Expansion Project
• FERC to prepare EA for the proposed Southern Natural Gas Co.'s 2006 Abandonment and Replacement Project; Request for Comments on Environmental Issues
• MMS: Notice of Additional Public Scoping Meeting on the Environmental Impact Statements for the Proposed 5-Year Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2007-2012; and Western and Central Gulf of Mexico, Oil and Gas Lease Sales for Years 2007-2012
  • 5-year plan, 2007-12

Tuesday, March 14 (March 14 Table of Contents from GPO)

• BLM releases ROD for the FEIS, Jonah Infill Drilling Project, Sublette County, WY (BLM Wyo. NEPA documents)
• Maritime Administration releases FEIS on the Main Pass Energy Hub (MPEH) Deepwater Port License Application (More here)
• NPS, in consultation with DOE, "initiates conservation planning and environmental impact analysis process for a Special Resource Study concerning the preservation and interpretation of historic sites associated with the Manhattan Project. The scope of the study includes the Los Alamos National Laboratory and townsite, New Mexico; the Hanford Site in Washington; the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee; and Dayton-area sites in Ohio."
• NPS releases ROD for EIS on Backcountry Management Plan and General Management Plan Amendment, Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska
  • NPS planning page
• NPS Pacific West Region approves ROD for the Fire Management Plan for Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.
• NRCS releases EA/FONSI for the Southern Washington County Watershed Protection Project, Washington County, Idaho

• BLM, FS: "This further proposed rule amends the proposed rule published in the Federal Register on July 27, 2005 (70 FR 43349). The proposed rule would revise existing Onshore Oil and Gas Order Number 1 (see 48 FR 48916 as amended at 48 FR 56226 (1983)). The Order provides the requirements necessary for the approval of all proposed oil and gas exploratory, development, or service wells on all Federal and Indian (except Osage Tribe) onshore oil and gas leases, including leases where the surface is managed by the U.S. Forest Service (FS). It also covers approvals necessary for subsequent well operations, including abandonment. This further proposed rule amends the proposed rule by making the provisions on the Application for Permits to Drill or Deepen (APD) package processing consistent with the Energy Policy Act of 2005. In addition, this further proposed rule amends a provision in the proposed rule having to do with proposed operations on lands with Indian surface and Federal minerals. This notice also reopens the comment period for the proposed rule for 30 days." (This seems like a big deal from the summary)
• FS: Revised Notice of Intent To Prepare a Supplement to the Final Environmental Impact Statement for Gypsy Moth Management in the United States: A Cooperative Approach
• STB: "This Notice discusses the environmental review process conducted thus far for this proceeding and the basis for determining that a Supplemental [DEIS] is needed; the scope of the [SDEIS]; and the remaining steps necessary to conclude the environmental review process (STB web site)

• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• FTA, Denton County Transportation Authority (DCTA) to prepare EIS for transportation improvements in Denton and Dallas Counties, Texas. (Page for this)
• Notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement and to conduct scoping for the Mars Science Laboratory mission.
• Corps of Engineers' Los Angeles District plans to adopt July 2004 FHwA FEIS (for "Route Location, Adoption, and Construction of State Route 905 Between the Otay Mesa Port of Entry and Interstate 805 in the County of San Diego, CA")

• Coast Guard to prepare EIS in connection with the development of proposed new regulations on the incidental discharge of dry cargo residue in the Great Lakes (Also, CG releases study on current dry cargo residue discharge practices in the Great Lakes; link takes you to the docket)
• FS' Coronado NF announces intent to prepare an EIS "to evaluate a proposed action to renew individual special-use permits (SUPs) for occupancy and use of 88 existing recreational residences on the Safford Ranger District. If a decision is made to renew, term permits would be issued for a 20-year period beginning on January 1, 2009. No change in the use of the residences would occur upon issuance of a new permit."
• NRCS issues EA/FONSI for the grade stabilization of Midlands Creek, Papillion Creek Watershed, Sarpy County Nebraska.

• FERC Office of Energy Projects issues DEIS on application for a new license for the Priest Rapids Hydroelectric Project No. 2114-116, located on the mid-Columbia River, near the city of Ellensburg, in portions of Grant, Yakima, Kittitas, Douglas, Benton, and Chelan Counties, Washington (FEIS will be prepared)
• FERC releases EA/FONSI on natural gas pipeline facilities proposed by Florida Gas Transmission in connection w/ widening of SR 91
• FERC to hold public meetings to discuss DEIS for Nevada Power Company/Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District/California Lake Elsinore Advanced Pumped Storage Project
• FERC to prepare EA on Port Barre Investments, L.L.C. (d/b/a Bobcat Gas Storage) plans for proposed Bobcat Gas Storage Project
• NSF: Notice of availability of a draft Environmental Assessment for proposed activities in the Arctic Ocean (EA is here)

• APHIS releases EA "for a proposed field trial using two transgenic grass lines. The trial consists of Argentine bahiagrass plants that are genetically engineered to express resistance to the herbicide glufosinate and resistance to the antibiotic kanamycin."
• MMS announces intent to prepare an EIS on the tentatively scheduled 2007-2012 oil and gas leasing proposals in the Western and Central Gulf of Mexico (GOM), off the States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama

• BuRec begins working on an EIS for the Northwest Area Water Supply Project (NAWS Project), a federal reclamation project located in North Dakota.
• The Coast Guard and the Maritime Administration (MARAD) release DEIS for Beacon Port Liquefied Natural Gas Deepwater Port License Application (More here)

• Corps to prepare PEIS for the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Project
  • More here on LCPR
• Corps' L.A. District seeks comments on plans to adopt U.S. DOT FEIS for the proposed ``Route Location, Adoption, and Construction of State Route 905 Between the Otay Mesa Port of Entry and Interstate 805 in the County of San Diego, California.''
• BLM: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Continental Divide--Creston Natural Gas Project, Carbon and Sweetwater Counties, WY
  • BLM Wyoming NEPA page
• FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed road project (State Project No. 700-92-0011 and Federal Aid Project No. NH-9201(501)) in Lafourche, St. Charles, and Jefferson Parishes, Louisiana
• FHWA has signed ROD for the First Street Viaduct and Street Widening Project in Los Angeles, California. "The project will widen the First Street Viaduct by approximately twenty-six feet, providing two eastbound and two westbound traffic lanes on the viaduct between Vignes Street and Mission Road separated by dual light rail tracks within a raised median."
• FS: "The Department of Agriculture is revising the transition language contained in the 2005 planning rule (70 FR 1023)." ("This final rule modifies the transition language to allow the Tongass National Forest to revise its land management plan either under the 2005 Rule or the planning regulations in effect before November 9, 2000. The preamble of this rule includes a discussion of the public comments received on the proposed rule published January 4, 2006 (71 FR 307), and the Department's responses to the comments."
• FS "will prepare a supplemental [EIS] for the Meadow Face Stewardship Pilot Project on the Nez Perce National Forest, Clearwater Ranger District, in Idaho County, Idaho, for the purpose of completing the cumulative effects analysis referred to in U.S. District Court Judge Edward J. Lodge's March 31, 2005 unpublished order in Friends of the Clearwater v. Lohn, Case No. CV04-384-C-EJL (D. Idaho). The court in that case issued a preliminary injunction against further timber harvesting under the Meadow Face Project until the Forest Service complies with the requirements for a cumulative effects analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act."
• FS issues final directive to Forest Service Manual 1330, Environmental Management Systems (EMS), "to provide overall guidance to Forest Service line officers and employees on how to include EMS in carrying out national forest land management planning regulations at 36 CFR part 219, subpart A," published in the Jan. 5, 2005, Federal Register (see below)
• Here's a link to the directive
• MMS Notice of Public Scoping Meetings on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed 5-Year Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2007-2012
• NIH to prepare EIS for the Rocky Mountain Laboratories Campus Master Plan, Hamilton, Ravalli County, Montana
• NPS releases FEIS/ROD on vessel management in Glacier Bay (includes whale zones)
• Vessel Quotas and Operating Requirements EIS page (doesn't look like the final docs are up yet)
• The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), through the Trade Policy Staff Committee (TPSC), is initiating an environmental review of the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and Korea.
  • Free Trade Agreement

• APHIS releases EA for Field Testing Marek's Disease-Newcastle Disease Vaccine, Serotypes 2 and 3, Live Virus, Live Marek's Disease Vector
• FAA issues FONSI/EA on Quad City International Airport; Moline, IL
• HUD gives notice to the public, agencies, and Indian tribes of the availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for review and comment for: The Ashburton Avenue Urban Renewal Plan and Ashburton Avenue Master Plan and the Mulford Gardens HOPE VI Revitalization Plan in the City of Yonkers, Westchester County, NY.

• Northern Natural Gas Company; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Northern Lights Project, Request for Comments on Environmental Issues and Notice of Scoping Meetings
• "FHWA announces creation of an FHWA Web site to provide information regarding the STEP; and (2) to solicit public input on the implementation strategy for this program. The Web site URL for the STEP is http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/hep/step/index.htm. The FHWA will use this Web site as a major mechanism for informing the public regarding the status of the STEP."
• Department of State gives notice of the availability of a draft Comprehensive Environmental Evaluation (CEE) for activities proposed to be undertaken in Antarctica. Interested members of the public are invited to submit comments relative to this CEE
  • Here's a link
• NPS: Environmental Statements; Availability, etc: Fallen Timbers Battlefield and Fort Miamis National Historic Site, OH; General Management Plan
• NPS releases Record of Decision for the Low Country Gullah Culture Special Resource Study and Final Environmental Impact Statement
  • More here

• BIA: Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians' Proposed 29.87 Acre Fee-to-Trust Transfer and Casino Project, Contra Costa County, California (GSA releases DEIS for a new FBI Field Office Headquarters Facility) in Los Angeles, CA
• NPS releases ROD on FEIS for the for the Oil and Gas Management Plan, Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas.

• FERC: Elsinore Municipal Water District and the Nevada Hydro Company, Inc.; Notice of Availability of the DEIS for the proposed Lake Elsinore Advanced Pumped Storage Project
• FERC: Grand River Dam Authority; Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment/FONSI
• FHwA rescinds NOI to prepare an EIS in Benton County, MO
• FHwA to prepare EIS for proposed improvements between the I-70 and State Route Z interchange and the U.S. Route 63 and State Route AC interchange in Boone County and the City of Columbia, Mo.
• GSA to prepare EIS for the Calexico West Port of Entry Expansion/Renovation, Calexico, California
• DOI Secy. Norton renews Outer Continental Shelf Scientific Committee

• Army: Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Transformation of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard 56th Brigade Into a Stryker Brigade Combat Team at the National Guard Training Center--Fort Indiantown Gap, PA
• Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District will prepare an integrated Project Implementation Report/DEIS for the Everglades National Park (ENP) Seepage Management Project. "The study is a cooperative effort between the Corps and the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD), which is also a cooperating agency for this DEIS. The project seeks to reduce eastward water seepage from the Everglades system for the benefit of wetland communities within ENP."
• BLM Notice of Intent To Prepare a Land Use Plan Amendment To Provide for a Proposed Direct Land Sale ( a 1.25 acre parcel in Bonneville County, Idaho)
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• EPA opens 15-day comment period on proposed settlement w/ NRDC in Section 7 case re: atrazine's effect on listed species ("On August 21, 2003, plaintiff filed a lawsuit in the Federal District Court of Maryland alleging that EPA failed to comply with section 7(a)(2) of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), 16 U.S.C. 1536(a)(2) (NRDC v. EPA, 03-2444 RDB, ).
  • Settlement is here
  • EPA pesticides site
  • Pesticides: EPA's Endangered Species Protection Program
• Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline, Inc.; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Proposed West Colony Expansion of the Colony Storage Field and Request for Comments on Environmental Issues
• FS: The Forest Service will prepare a supplemental EIS on a proposal to implement multiple resource management actions within the Dean Area as directed by the Black Hills National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan. The Dean Project Area covers about 12,468 acres of National Forest System land and about 2,256 acres of interspersed private land within the Redwater Creek watershed directly north of Sundance, Wyoming.

• MMS: Minerals Management Service (MMS), in accordance with Federal Regulations that implement NEPA, announces the availability of NEPA-related Site-Specific Environmental Assessments (SEA) and FONSI, prepared by MMS for the following oil and gas activities proposed on the Gulf of Mexico OCS

Wednesday, Feb. 22 (Feb. 22 Table of Contents from GPO)

• The Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) on a proposal for a hazardous fuel reduction project to reduce the threat of wildfire to the communities of Saltese, Haugan, DeBorgia, and Cabin City in the St. Regis River drainage, Lolo National Forest, Superior Ranger District, Mineral County, Montana.
• HUD releases FEIS for the development of Stillwater Business Park, City of Redding, CA
• BLM releases Record of Decision for the Clear Creek Management Area Resource Management Plan Amendment and Route Designations ("BLM received eleven protests to the PRMP/FEIS. No inconsistencies with State or local plans, policies, or programs were identified during the Governor's consistency review of the PRMP/FEIS."
  • Hollister field office
• Under the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the National Park Service (NPS) is preparing an environmental impact statement for a Dog Management Plan for Golden Gate National Recreation Area
  • http://www.nps.gov/goga/">More info
  • and more
• STB announces final scope of study for the EIS (on petition filed by HolRail LLC to construct and operate a rail line in Orangeburg and Dorchester counties, South Carolina)

• BLM releases EA, announces public hearing for Coal Lease Application COC 67514. Colorado (Twenty Mile Coal Company)
• BLM: Notice of Intent To Prepare a Resource Management Plan for the John Day Basin Portion of the Central Oregon Resource Area and Associated Environmental Impact Statement
• BLM: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for a Proposed Coal-Fired Electric Power Generating Plant in Southeastern Lincoln County and Notice of Public Scoping Meetings; Nevada
• BuRec: Notice for extension of the public comment period for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) and two additional public hearings to receive comment on the DEIS.
• NRCS issues FONSI on Harding Lake, Aquatic Habitat Enhancement Project in Alaska.
• Navy corrects Jan. 20 notice re: Supplemental Environmental Assessment to the 2002 Rim of the Pacific Programmatic Environmental Assessment, Hawaii (" The notice incorrectly identified the United States National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration (NOAA), Department of Commerce, as a cooperating agency.

Friday, Feb. 17 (Feb. 17 Table of Contents from GPO)

• APHIS releases draft Exotic Fruit Fly Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2006 through 2010 (comments requested)
• Army seeks nominees for Inland Waterways Users Board
• State Dept. grants permit to Valero Logistics Operations L.P. to build, connect, operate, and maintain a pipeline crossing the international boundary between the U.S. and Mexico
  • FONSI/EA issued on Valero proposal (response to comments)
• DOE extends Scoping Period and Reschedules Scoping Meetings for the Notice of Intent To Prepare the Tank Closure and Waste Management Environmental Impact Statement for the Hanford Site, Richland, WA
• DOE establishes Climate Change Science Program Product Development Advisory Committee for a two-year period
• EPA releases comments on drft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• Science Advisory Board Staff Office; Request for Nominations for Science Advisory Board Panel(s) on Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico
• FTA: will be prepared for proposed development of a multimodal ferry terminal in the City of Mukilteo, Snohomish County, Washington.
• Homeland Security: United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) Program; Notice of Availability of a Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) on the US-VISIT Plan for Potential Changes to Immigration and Border Management Processes (and notice of public meetings)
• NPS: Notice of Intent To Prepare a Restoration Plan/Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Seagrass Restoration Within Biscayne National Park
• Notice of Intent To Prepare a Restoration Plan/Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Coral Restoration Within Biscayne National Park
  • Biscayne NP site
• NOAA seeks input on priorities for its next five-year planning cycle

• DOE Advance Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for Implementation of the FutureGen Project (DOE site)
• FERC issues EA/FONSI on Duke Power's applications for licenses for the Nantahala, Franklin, and Mission projects (Nantahala West Projects) ("The projects are located on the Nantahala, Little Tennessee, and Hiwassee rivers, respectively, in Macon and Clay counties, North Carolina.")

• BLM will hold "listening sessions ... to solicit suggestions from the public on how best to implement the split estate provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. ("Section 1835 of the Energy Policy Act directs the Secretary of the Interior to review current policies and practices for managing oil and gas resources in split estate situations, that is, how the BLM provides for oil and gas development and environmental protection where the surface estate is privately owned and the mineral estate is owned and administered by the Federal Government." )

• Coast Guard: Waterway Suitability Assessment to be prepared for Expansion of Dominion Cove Point Liquefied Natural Gas Facility, Calvert County, Maryland
• FERC says approval of Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company's Proposed Northeast ConneXion Project--New England "with appropriate mitigating measures, would not constitute a major Federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment."
• FERC issues EA/FONSI on application by Union Electric Company, dba AmerenUE, for new license for the Osage Project, located on the Osage River in south central Missouri
• FERC: Transwestern Pipeline Company LLC; Notice of Intent To Prepare an EIS and Proposed Land Use Plan Amendment for the Proposed Phoenix Expansion Project, Request for Comments on Environmental Issues, and Notice of Public Scoping Meetings
• FS to prepare EIS on removal of "hazardous trees located within approximately 150 feet of either side of the centerline of the South Yuba Canal, within the public lands of the Tahoe National Forest."

• APHIS releases EA for a proposed field trial of Genetically Engineered Pink Bollworm
• APHIS releases EA for a proposed field trial of Genetically Engineered Tall Fescue and Genetically Engineered Italian Ryegrass
• Corps releases supplemental DEIS for the Proposed Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) A-1 Reservoir Located in Palm Beach County, FL
  • More here
• Notice of Intent To Prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Campo Solid Waste Landfill Facility on the Campo Indian Reservation, San Diego County, CA; Reopening of Comment Period
• BIA Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Fee-to-Trust Conveyance of Property for the Cayuga Indian Nation of New York, Cayuga and Seneca Counties, New York
• FS to prepare SEIS for the Northeast Yaak project. ("The Northeast Yaak project includes urban interface fuels treatments, vegetation management, watershed rehabilitation activities, wildlife habitat improvement, and access management changes, including road decommissioning.")

• BLM releases DEIS for the North Steens Ecosystem Restoration Project
• BLM will prepare EIS for the Gasco Production Company Natural Gas Field Development, Duchesne and Uintah Counties, UT
• BLM announces the availability of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) that evaluates, analyzes, and discloses to the public direct, indirect, and cumulative environmental impacts of a proposal to extract and transport natural gas and oil in Uintah County, Utah.
• BLM releases EA, will hold public hearing for Coal Lease by Application KYES-50213 ("The EA analyzes and discloses direct, indirect, and cumulative environmental impacts of issuing competitively a Federal coal lease for 314.53 acres in the Daniel Boone National Forest (DBNF) Clay County, Kentucky.")
• FAA releases FEIS for the proposed Airport Development Program at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
  • More here
• FERC: Notice of Intent To Prepare an EA for the Proposed Big Sandy Pipeline Project
• FERC to prepare EA on Cameron LNG L.L.C.'s proposed Terminal Expansion Project involving construction and operation of facilities in Cameron Parish, Louisiana
• FERC to prepare EA on Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.'s for the proposed Potomac Expansion Project
• FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed State Highway (SH) 87 bridge connecting Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula in Galveston County, Texas
• FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed State Highway (SH) 99 (Grand Parkway Segments H and H-1) connecting US 59 (N) to IH 10 (E) in Montgomery, Harris, Liberty, and Chambers Counties, Texas.
• MMS to prepare EIS on the draft proposed 5-Year Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2007-2012 and
• WAPA to prepare EIS to conduct public scoping meetings; notice of floodplain and wetlands involvement

• Corps to prepare DEIS for construction and operation of an Open Pit Taconite Mine proposed by Ispat Inland Mining between Biwabik and McKinley in St. Louis County, MN
• NPS preparing a General Management Plan/EIS for the Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Sites located in the town of Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York.

• Army: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) in Support of New Facilities for the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, MD
• EPA to prepare EIS for designation of an Ocean Dredged Material Disposal Site (ODMDS) off Gulfport, MS
• FHWA to prepare EIS for proposed transportation improvements in San Juan County, Utah

• No NEPA notices today

• Corps to prepare PDEIS/R for the Los Angeles River Ecosystem Restoration Study, Los Angeles, CA
• Corps: Estuary Habitat Restoration Council to meet Feb. 21, 2006, from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The meeting is open to the public.

• APHIS: "We are advising the public of our determination that the Monsanto Company corn designated as transformation event LY038, which has been genetically engineered to express a lysine-insensitive dihydrodipicolinate synthase (cDHDPS) enzyme to allow for the accumulation of higher levels of lysine in the germ of the seed, is no longer considered a regulated article under our regulations governing the introduction of certain genetically engineered organisms."
• BLM Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Blackfoot Bridge Mine, Caribou County, ID
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• FAA (Office of Commercial Space Transportation) to prepare draft EA for the Oklahoma Spaceport
  • More here
• FRA extends EIS study for Va-NC high-speed rail from Main Street Station in Richmond, Va., to Raleigh, N.C. (Boylan Wye), forming a project corridor approximately 168 miles long
• FS revises NOI on ESI for proposal in Tongass NF to harvest an estimated 42 million board feet on approximately 1,410 acres with about 11 miles on new road construction
• FS will prepare an EIS for Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Helicopter Use in Wilderness. The Alaska Region and Pacific Northwest (PNW) Research Station are proposing to inventory 913 plots in wilderness areas over a 10-year span
• The Manti-La Sal NF will exercise its option to adjust the land management plan revision process from compliance with the 1982 planning regulations, to conform to new planning regulations adopted in January 2005.

• DOE to prepare Tank Closure and Waste Management EIS for the Hanford Site, Richland, WA
• Corps releases Final Supplement II to the Final EIS (FSII) for the Proposed New Water Supply Reservoir Located in Williamson and Johnson Counties, for the City of Marion, IL
• FHwA, Corps announce final approval of Legacy Parkway Project in Utah
  • More on Legacy (UDOT)
• FS: "Hoosier [NF] has made a decision on [an FEIS] for German Ridge Restoration project. The Acting Forest Supervisor has selected Alternative A for implementation. The DEIS discloses the environmental consequences of replacing nonnative pine plantations in the German Ridge area of Perry County, Indiana with native hardwood communities."
• Uinta National Forest will prepare an EIS to determine "under what conditions (stipulations) leases would be issued. The EIS would analyze all lands with a federally-owned leasable mineral estate within the Uinta National Forest."
• NIH approves proposal "to partially fund the construction of a state-of-the-art National Biocontainment Laboratory (NBL), to be called the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), at the Boston University Medical Center (BUMC) Campus in Boston, Massachusetts."
• NRCS releases ROD for the Williamson River Delta Restoration Project.

• Corps Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Halligan-Seaman Water Management Project in Northeastern Colorado
• FERC releases EA/FONSI application for a new license for the Merrimack River Project, located on the Merrimack River, in Merrimack and Hillsborough counties, New Hampshire,
• The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Environmental Impact (EIR) will be prepared for a project in Los Angeles, California, known as the State Route (SR) 90/Admiralty Way Improvements Project
• FHwA terminates EIS process for transportation improvements to Cross Hollow Road, from I-15 to SR-56, located in Cedar City, Utah, will be terminated.
• BIA extends comment period on DEIS for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation's Proposed Coyote Business Park, Umatilla County, OR

Tuesday, Jan. 31 (Jan. 31 Table of Contents from GPO)

• BuRec to prepare EIS on North Sonoma County Agricultural Reuse Project Sonoma County, CA

• FHwA rescinds NOI to prepare EIS for proposed U.S. 74 corridor improvements in Mecklenburg and Union Counties, NC
• FHwA to prepare Tier 1 EIS for "proposed transportation improvements in Pueblo County, Otero County, Bent County and Prowers County," Colorado
• DOT's Maritime Administration issues EA/FONSI on Cherry Hill Material Extraction and Transport Project on Elmendorf Air Force Base
• NPS terminates Draft General Management Plan/EIS, Chickasaw National Recreation Area, Oklahoma
• NPS releases Draft EIS for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Elkmont Historic District General Management Plan Amendment
• NPS plans to prepare a General Management Plan and EIS for New River Gorge National River in West Virginia

• Coast Guard releases final EA/FONSI that evaluated the potential environmental impacts resulting from the implementation of the policy on ballast water management for vessels entering the Great Lakes declaring no ballast onboard.
• DoD releases draft PEIS for DTRA Activities on White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico (More here, possibly)
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review

• Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), of which the United States is a member, has adopted conservation measures, pending countries' approval, pertaining to fishing in the CCAMLR Convention Area (Commission is "[a]ware that [illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU)] fishing involves significant by-catch of some Antarctic species, including endangered albatross.")
• Forest Service: "Coconino National Forest is proposing to develop an Outfitter-Guide Management Plan for the Red Rock Ranger District that will serve the public need for outfitting and guide activities in ways that protect the area's natural and cultural resources as well as the more primitive social settings desired for the National Forest by most visitors."

• BLM proposes to revise procedures for Chapter 11 of the Department of the Interior's Manual 516 DM--Managing the NEPA Process
• FAA, NPS to prepare EIS for actions to substantially restore natural quiet to the Grand Canyon National Park; public scoping period set
• FERC releases EA on proposal by Crisp Country Power Commission, licensee for the Lake Blackshear Hydroelectric Project (FERC No. 659), to amend the existing project boundary. ("The licensee proposes to amend the Lake Blackshear Project's boundary to include a 3.2 acre increase in the lake surface area in association with a proposed subdivision on Lincolmpinch Cove. The proposed subdivision would include 16 lots and would extend the inlet to provide lake frontage to the proposed lots. The extension would be created by excavating wetland areas bordering the cove to a depth of approximately 4 feet below the normal water surface elevation of Lake Blackshear.")

• Notice of Intent To Perform an Environmental Assessment for Increased Depleted Uranium Use at Nevada Test and Training Range, Nevada
• Army: Correction of URL in Jan. 19 Notice of Availability (NOA) for the SFEIS for the Proposed Addition of Maneuver Training Land at Fort Irwin, CA
• BLM extends Public Comment Period for the Ring of Fire Draft Resource Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (Alaska)
• BuRec extends comment period for review of DEIS, San Luis Unit Long-Term Contract Renewal
• DOE issues amended Amended ROD on Savannah River Site Salt Processing Alternatives (DOE NEPA page)
• Corps corrects Jan. 19 FR notice on preparing DSEIS/R for the Yuba River Basin Project, Yuba County, CA. "On page 3060, in the second column, under the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT heading, in the third line, ``Robert.L.Roenigs'' should read ``Robert.L.Koenigs''."
• Notice of Extension of the Public Comment Period for the Draft Supplemental Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Modification to the Four Corner-Post Plan at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport
• FAA to prepare, in cooperation w/ BLM, an EIS "for the New Mexico Economic Development Department's proposal to develop and operate a commercial launch site near Upham, New Mexico."
• FERC releases EA/FONSI on application by Alaska Power and Telephone Company for approval "to make certain design and site location changes to project facilities as licensed."
• FS issues minor correction to Dec. 13 notice on NEPA documentation needed for Oil and Gas Exploration and Development Activities (Categorical Exclusion)

• FTA, in cooperation with the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (SEWRPC), will prepare a DEIS for the proposed initiation of commuter rail or bus services between Kenosha, Racine and Milwaukee, Wis.
• Forest Service will prepare an EIS on a proposal to harvest timber in the Navy Timber Sale project area on the Wrangell Ranger District, Tongass National Forest

• Corps releases Baltimore Harbor and Channels Dredged Material Management Plan and Final Tiered EIS, which is here
• BuRec releases DEIS, announces public meetings for the Upper Rio Grande Basin Water Operations Review
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs will hold a public meeting Feb. 22, 2006 in Arlington, VA. ("The focus of the meeting is to inform the public about aspects of EPA's Endangered Species Protection Program field implementation, including EPA's overall approach to field implementation, under what circumstances EPA will be employing this approach, the responsibilities of the public, and the roles of other government agencies.")
• Navy to prepare EA for the Use of a More Efficient Shipping Container System for Spent Nuclear Fuel From Naval Aircraft Carriers

• Army releases SFEIS for the proposed addition of Maneuver Training Land at Fort Irwin, CA
• Corps to prepare a DEIS for the Wilmington Harbor-96 Act, General Reevaluation Report, New Hanover County, NC
• Corps to prepare DSEIS/R for the Yuba River Basin Project, Yuba County, CA
• FAA releases EA/FONSI and ROD for the Midwest Airspace Enhancement (MASE) Project (more here)
• FERC releases EA for Appalachian Power Company application requesting approval of a non-project use of project lands and waters for the Smith Mountain Pumped Storage Project, FERC No. 2210. This project is located on the Roanoke River, in Bedford, Pittsylvania, Franklin, and Campbell Counties, Virginia
• FERC to prepare SEIS for the Proposed Millennium Phase I Project, Columbia Line A-5 Replacement Project, Empire Connector Project, Algonquin Ramapo Expansion Project, and Iroquois Market Access Project and Request for Comments on Environmental Issues
• NPS releases Final Backcountry Management Plan, General Management Plan Amendment and EIS. (More here)
• Rural Utilities Service releases EA/FONSI in connection with potential impacts related to the construction and operation of a natural gas-fired simple cycle, combustion turbine power generation facility in Cambridge Township in Isanti County, Minnesota.

• APHIS releases EA/FONSI "relative to the issuance of a permit for the environmental release of the nonindigenous fly Fergusonina turneri Taylor and its obligate nematode Fergusobia quinquenerviae Davies and Giblin-Davis, which are potential biological control agents of Melaleuca quinquenervia."
• Notice of Extension of the Public Comment Period for the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement and Environmental Report for Vegetation Treatments on Public Lands Administered by the Bureau of Land Management in the Western United States, Including Alaska
• BLM, NPS to prepare a Comprehensive Management Plan/EIS for the Old Spanish National Historic Trail; New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, and California
• FAA extends public scoping period for preparation of an EIS for the proposed relocation of Runway 11R/29L and Associated Development at the Tucson International Airport in Tucson, AZ

• NOAA releases Record of Decision and Final Findings on Approvability for the Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management's Review of Amendments to the Alaska Coastal Management Program Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)

• Corps releases DSEIS for the Boston Harbor Inner Harbor Maintenance Dredging Project
• Corps to prepare DEIS/EIR for the Westminster Watershed Study, Orange County, CA (" The purpose of this study is to evaluate the Westminster watershed ecosystem and look for multipurpose recommendations for how to more effectively manage its natural resources. There is a need for both flood control improvements as well as ecosystem habitat restoration. The study area is located in western Orange County, CA, approximately 25 miles southeast of the City of Los Angeles.")
• BLM Coeur d'Alene Field Office, Idaho, releases Draft Resource Management Plan and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (More here)
• BLM releases FEIS for the Proposed Jonah Infill Drilling Project, Sublette County, WY
• BLM releases Proposed Resource Management Plan Amendment and Final Environmental Impact Statement for McGregor Range, Otero County, NM (BLM NEPA page)
• BLM: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Amendment to the Cascade Resource Management Plan
• EPA releases comments ion draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• FERC to prepare EIS on CenterPoint Energy Gas Transmission's proposed Carthage to Perryville Project
• FERC to prepare EIS on Dominion Cove Point LNG, L.P.'s proposed Cove Point Air Separation Unit Project
• FERC to prepare EA on Golden Pass Pipeline LP's Optimized Pipeline Project
• FERC to prepare EIS on Rockies Express Pipeline, LLC's proposed Rockies Express Pipeline Project
• Forest Service, Lolo National Forest will prepare a DEIS through a third-party contractor onn proposed expansion of the Montana Snowbowl Ski Area (MSB) in Missoula County, Montana
• MMS releases NEPA-related Site-Specific Environmental Assessments (SEA) and Findings of No Significant Impact (FONSI), for oil and gas activities proposed on the Gulf of Mexico OCS.
• Not NEPA: BIA issues regulations "on the Alaska Native reindeer industry to implement the provisions of the Reindeer Act of 1937, as amended." These regulations also apply to non-Natives who own, or want to own, reindeer in Alaska. These regulations provide Alaska Native reindeer owners, government officials, and those doing business with them, with procedures and policies for administration of the reindeer industry in Alaska."

• Corps, FWS correct Notice of Intent To Prepare an Integrated EIS/R/Feasibility Report for the South San Francisco Bay Shoreline Study: Alviso Ponds and Santa Clara County Interim Feasibility Study
• BLM releases Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Chapita Wells-Stagecoach Area Natural Gas Development Project, Uintah County, UT
• BuRec: Notice of Availability and Notice of Public Meeting for the Long-Term Miscellaneous Purposes Contract Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Eddy County, New Mexico (More here, including EIS)
• FERC: Southern Natural Gas Company; Florida Gas Transmission Company; Notice of Availability of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Cypress Pipeline Project and Phase VII Expansion Project
• FERC: Overthrust Pipeline Company; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Overthrust Expansion Project and Request for Comments on Environmental Issues
• Forest Service will prepare EIS to disclose the environmental effects of vegetation management through commercial timber harvest, precommercial thinning and prescribed fire; access management changes; trail construction and improvement; treatment of fuels in campgrounds; and watershed rehabilitation activities
• NPS has prepared a Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Acadia National Park, Schoodic General Management Plan Amendment, which is now available from the NPS.
• NPS: Stream Management Plan, Abbreviated FEIS, Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, IA
• NPS releases Draft Site Progress Report to the World Heritage Committee, Yellowstone National Park (More here)
• NRCS releases Finding of No Significant Impact for Rehabilitation of Grade Stabilization Structures S-27, S-31 and S-32 Papillion Creek Watershed, Sarpy County, NE
• NRCS releases FONSI for Upper Salt Creek 19-B Rehabilitation; Lancaster County, NE

• BLM: Correction to Notice of Availability of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Atlantic Rim Natural Gas Development Project
• BLM releases Record of Decision for the Wind Energy Development Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) and Associated Land Use Plan Amendments (More here
• BIA: Corrections to the Notice of Availability of the Draft EIS for the Proposed Cordova Oil Spill Response Facility, Cordova, AK
• FS to prepare EIS on Plains Exploration & Production Company's proposal to drill three exploratory oil and gas wells on National Forest System (NFS) lands in the Noble Basin area, about seven miles southeast of Bondurant in Sublette County, Wyoming (Bridger-Teton National Forest--Big Piney Ranger District, Wyoming; Eagle Prospect)

• BLM to to prepare a Resource Management Plan (RMP) amendment to the Carson City Field Office Consolidated RMP to "address Lands and Land Tenure Issues, and Recreation and Travel Management."
• NSF to prepare PEIS "to evaluate the potential environmental impacts associated with the NSF funding of the United States Implementing Organization's (USIO) participation in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program."

• Forest Service cancels preparation of an EIS on Lower Tucannon Ecosystem Management Project, Umatilla NF, Columbia County, WA

• Monsanto Company; Availability of Determination of Nonregulated Status for Corn Genetically Engineered for Insect Resistance and Glyphosate Tolerance
• Final Environmental Impact Statement To Fully Integrate the Overhills Property Into the Fort Bragg Training Program, Fort Bragg, NC
• Corps to hold scoping meetings on EIS for the Fishtrap Lake Road Project, Fishtrap Lake, Pike County, KY
• FWS, Corps: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Integrated EIS/R/Feasibility Report for the South San Francisco Bay Shoreline Study: Alviso Ponds and Santa Clara County
• BLM: Notice of Availability of Agua Fria National Monument and Bradshaw-Harquahala Draft Resource Management Plan and Draft EIS
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• GSA: Notice of Intent to Prepare an EIS, hold a scoping meeting for Construction of a New Border Station Facility in Madawaska, Maine
• National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), an agency within DOE, is extending the scoping period for the Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS) for the Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12), located at the junction of Bear Creek Road and Scarboro Road in Anderson County, Tennessee, near the City of Oak Ridge, Tennessee

• DOE: Record of Decision and Floodplain Statement of Findings; Bangor Hydro-Electric Company Northeast Reliability Interconnect
• NASA releases draft PEIS for the Development of Advanced Radioisotope Power Systems

• Forest Service proposes technical change to the transition language contained in the 2005 planning rule (70 FR 1023; Jan. 5, 2005). "The current transition language requires plan revisions initiated after January 5, 2005, to conform to the requirements in the 2005 planning rule. In response to a court order affecting only the Tongass National Forest, the proposed amendment would allow the Tongass National Forest to revise its land management plan to address the errors identified by the court either under the 2005 Rule or the planning regulations in effect before November 9, 2000."
• NPS releasesDraft General Management Plan Amendment/DEIS for the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, OH
• NPS releases DEIS for the North Shore Road in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
• NPS releases Plan of Operations and EA for a 30-day public review at Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, Moore County, Texas
• NPS releases Draft General Management Plan and EIS for Manassas National Battlefield Park, VA
• OMB extends comment period re: draft Bulletin for Good Guidance Practices to Jan. 9, 2006. This Bulletin is intended to increase the quality and transparency of agency guidance practices and the guidance documents produced through them.

• BuRec, South Delta Improvements Program, Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay Delta, CA ("The Notice of Availability of the Draft [EIS/R] and notice of public meetings and hearings was published in the Federal Register on [11/10/05]. The Bureau of Reclamation is correcting the public hearing dates from 2005 to 2006 and changing the dates, times, and locations")
• FAA releases EA/FONSI and Department of Transportation Act Section 4(f) Determination for the Final EA, Erie International Airport, Erie, PA
• Vector Pipeline, LP; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Vector Compression Expansion Project and Request for Comments on Environmental Issues
• This notice informs the public that the MMS has developed offshore administrative lines from each adjoining coastal state as described below. Having these lines in place provides various benefits, including:

• BuRec releases Red River Valley Water Supply Project Draft EIS, announces public hearings
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• FHwA revises 11/18/04 NOI to prepare an EIS for a proposed Interstate 29 corridor study in Sioux City, Iowa from Sioux Gateway Airport/Sergeant Bluff Interchange to the South Dakota State border. FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public of a revision to the study corridor limits.
• FS will prepare an SEIS for the West Gold project in the Idaho Panhandle National Forest
• NNSA extends scoping period for the NOI to prepare an EIS for the Operation of a Biosafety Level 3 Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

• BLM: Notice of Availability of Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Smoky Canyon Mine, Panels F and G (Idaho)
• BLM: Revision of NOI to prepare EIS for the Smoky Canyon Mine, Panels F and G Project, as published in the Federal Register page 53998 to 53999 on September 15, 2003 (Vol. 68, No. 178). This revision includes a change of project schedule
• NRCS issues EA/FONSI for the Floating Marsh Creation Demonstration Project (LA-05), Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

• FAA corrects Dec. 20 notice on "Environmental Impacts: Policies and Procedures," by adding the "FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT" information
• FAA cancels NOI to prepare DEIS for proposed airport development projects at San Antonio International Airport.
• Creole Trail LNG, L.P. and Cheniere Creole Trail Pipeline; Notice of Availability of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Creole Trail LNG Terminal and Pipeline Project, which includes construction of facilities in Cameron, Calcasieu, Beauregard, Allen, Jefferson Davis, and Acadia Parishes, Louisiana ("The staff concludes that approval of the Creole Trail Project, with appropriate mitigating measures as recommended, would have limited adverse environmental impact.")
• FERC issues EA/FONSI on Erie Boulevard Hydropower's application for a subsequent license for the 1-megawatt Macomb Project, located on the Salmon River, in Franklin County, New York
• FERC extends comment deadline to Jan. 20 on draft EA for PacifiCorp's Prospect Nos. 1, 2, and 4 Hydroelectric Project
• FERC releases preliminary draft EA on Southern California Edison Company's application for license for Mammoth Pool Hydroelectric Power Project. Deadline established for submission of final amendments ("On the San Joaquin River, near North Fork, California. The project affects 2,036 acres of federal land administered by the Sierra National Forest.")
• FERC to prepare EIS on Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline's proposed Maritimes Phase IV Project in Maine and Massachusetts; scoping meetings scheduled
• Forest Service cancels NOI to prepare EIS for the Chloride Bush Project on the Idaho Panhandle National Forests
• FS will prepare a supplement to the FEIS "to document and clarify additional analysis of cumulative environmental effects primarily in five resource areas: Vegetation, Fire/Fuels/Air Quality, Wildlife, Watershed, and Botanical Resources/Noxious Weeds."
• NPS releases FEIS on Oil and Gas Management Plan, Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas
  • Big Thicket page
• NPS releases FEIS for Fire Management Plan, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Muir Woods National Monument and Fort Point National Historic Site; Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo Counties, CA
• NPS releases FEIS for Fire Management Plan for Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area; Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, CA
• NPS prepares EA for the Jackson Hole Airport Use Agreement Extension for Grand Teton National Park, WY
• NPS to prepare EIS for the General Management Plan/Wilderness Study, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
• Navy extends comment period for the draft SEIS for the Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System Low Frequency Active (SURTASS LFA) Sonar
• Navy extends public comment period for DEIS for the Undersea Warfare Training Range (USWTR) (More here)

• Air Force extends public comment period, schedules public hearing for the Realistic Bomber Initiative Draft SEIS
• Corps revises NOI to prepare DEIS/R for a permit application for a proposed marine terminal expansion at Piers D, E and F in the Middle Harbor District of the Port of Long Beach, Los Angeles County, CA ("The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) is considering an application for Section 404 and Section 10 permits to conduct dredge and fill activities to redevelop and consolidate two existing container terminals for the construction of a 342-acre marine terminal including redevelopment of 294 acres of existing land and the placement of dredged material in open water to create 48 acres of new land. The primary reason for the revised notice of intent is because the proposed terminal expansion project has been modified to utilize additional existing land to reduce the amount of fill in open water by approximately 20 acres.")
• BLM, NPS releases draft RMP/EIS for the Arizona Strip, the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, and the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, and a Draft General Management Plan/EIS for the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument
• FS cancels NOI for EIS "to assess and disclose the environmental effects of issuing a road easement to allow motorized access to private property surrounding Matheson Reservoir."
• NRCS issues EA/FONSI for the Pigeon Roost Watershed, Jackson County, Kentucky

Dec. 26 - Federal holiday

Friday, Dec. 23 (Dec. 23 Table of Contents from GPO)

• Corps releases DEIS for the Prado Basin Master Plan, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, CA
• BIA to prepare EIS for the proposed Fee-to-Trust Transfer From the Oneida Indian Nation of New York to the Bureau of Indian Affairs of 17,370 Acres of Land in Oneida and Madison Counties, NY
  • More here
• BLM releases final EIS/R for the Imperial Irrigation District's Desert Southwest Transmission Line Project, California
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• EPA extends comment period to Feb. 16 (from Jan. 16) on proposed NPDES general permit for stormwater discharges from industrial activities
• EPA releases final Environmental Economics Research Strategy
• FERC releases EA/FONSI for East Tennessee Natural Gas, L.L.C.'s proposed Jewell Ridge Lateral Project
• FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed roadway corridor project in Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin extending into Lake County, Illinois by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation
• OMB extends comment period regarding its draft Bulletin for Good Guidance Practices from Dec. 23 to Jan. 9, 2006

• BIA releases DEIS for the Proposed Cordova Oil Spill Response Facility, Cordova, AL

• Corps corrects 11/10 Notice of Availability of DEIS and Notice of Public Hearings (see Nov. 10, below; due date for comments is Jan. 3, 2006)
• BLM releases Sheep Complex, Big Springs and Owyhee Grazing Allotments Sensitive Bird Species Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Elko County, NV ("The order was to prepare the EIS with respect to burrowing owls, raptors and sage grouse on the Sheep Complex and the Owyhee Allotment, and sage grouse on the Big Springs Allotment. The issues analyzed included the impacts of livestock grazing proposed by the multiple use decisions and alternatives to the extent applicable to these sensitive bird species and considering springs, seeps, riparian areas and upland habitat. A range of alternatives (including the no-action alternative) was developed to address the issues.")

• BuRec to prepare EIs FOR Los Vaqueros Reservoir Expansion Investigation, Contra Costa County, CA
• FAA proposes to revise its procedures for implementing the National Environmental Policy Act

• Office of Environmental Management; Record of Decision for the Idaho High-Level Waste and Facilities Disposition Final Environmental Impact Statement
• FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that the Notice of Intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed project to construct a fourth bore to the Caldecott Tunnel between State Route 24/Broadway interchange in the City of Oakland in Alameda County and the State Route 24/Camino Pablo interchange in the City of Orinda in Contra Costa County, California is being withdrawn; and an Environmental Assessment (EA) in lieu of an EIS is being prepared for this proposed highway project.

• Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation's Proposed Coyote Business Park, Umatilla County, OR
• Coast Guard amends regulations governing marine casualty reporting requirements by adding 'significant harm to the environment' as a reportable marine casualty, and by requiring certain foreign flag vessels, such as oil tankers, to report marine casualties that occur in waters subject to U.S. jurisdiction, but beyond U.S. navigable waters, when those casualties involve material damage affecting the seaworthiness or efficiency of the vessel, or significant harm to the environment. These changes are required by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990."
• FAA extends public comment period for the Draft SEIS for the Proposed Modification to the Four Corner-Post Plan at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport
• FHWA issues this notice to advise the public that a Tier 1 Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) will be prepared for a proposed toll highway facility in the vicinity of Lafayette, Louisiana
• FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that a Tier 1 Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) will be prepared for a proposed toll highway facility in the vicinity of Lafayette, Louisiana. (More here)

• No NEPA notices today

• BuRec to hold additional scoping meeting: "Safety Modifications and Flood Damage Reduction Project for Folsom Dam and Appurtenant Structures (Combined Federal Effort)--Sacramento, El Dorado, and Placer Counties, CA
• FHwA terminates EIS process for transportation improvements in the 3500 South Corridor in Salt Lake County, Utah

• BLM to prepare PEIS and Plan Amendments for Oil Shale and Tar Sands Resources Leasing on BLM lands in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming
• BLM releases Supplement to Notice of Availability of the Draft Resource Management Plan and Draft EIS for the Price Field Office To List Proposed Areas of Critical Environmental Concern and Specific Associated Resource Use Limitations for Public Lands in Carbon and Emery Counties, UT
• BLM releases Supplement to Notice of Availability of the Draft Resource Management Plan and Draft EIS for the Vernal Field Office To List Proposed Areas of Critical Environmental Concern and Specific Associated Resource Use Limitations for Public Lands in Daggett, Duchesne, Uintah and Grand Counties, UT
• Forest Service proposes "to add a new categorical exclusion in section 31.2 to facilitate the implementation of limited oil and gas projects on leases on National Forest System lands that do not have significant effects on the human environment." (Service says CE This "will not apply where there are extraordinary circumstances, such as adverse effects on threatened and endangered species or their designated critical habitat, wilderness areas, inventoried roadless areas, wetlands, and archeological or historic sites.")
• NPS releases FEIS for the General Management Plan, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, IN
  • More here
• NPS releases FEIS for the General Management Plan, Rock Creek Park, and the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway
  • More here on Rock Creek Park page
• NPS terminates EIS for the Transportation Plan, Arches National Park, Utah

• BLM releases DEIS for the Atlantic Rim Natural Gas Development Project
• BLM, FS will prepare SEIS on "survey and manage" standards and guidelines for rare, but unlisted species in areas covered by Northwest Forest Plan
• FS to prepare EIS: Shasta-Trinity National Forest proposes to thin trees and reduce existing fuels on approximately 1,700 acres of National Forest System lands in the Gemmill Thin project
• Rural Utilities Service releases FONSI on request from Georgia Transmission Corporation for financing assistance from RUS to finance the construction of a 230/25 kV Substation, a 230 kV switching station, and a 230 kV transmission line in Gwinnett County, Georgia

• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draf, final EIS's for comment
• FERC issues EA/FONSI on application for exemption from licensing for the Indian River Project, to be located on the Westfield River, in the Town of Russell, Hampden County, Massachusetts
• FERC issues EA/FONSI on Northeast Generation Company's application for a temporary amendment of license for the Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Project. "The request is for a deviation from required project operating limits to allow additional operating flexibility this winter. The project is located on the east side of the Connecticut River, in the towns of Northfield and Erving, in Franklin County, Massachusetts."
• FERC to prepare EA on Colorado Interstate Gas Company's proposed Sanford Station Abandonment Project
• RUS issues EA "in connection with possible impacts related to the construction and operation of a natural gas-fired simple cycle, combustion turbine power generation facility in Cambridge Township in Isanti County, Minnesota."

• APHIS: Availability of a Supplemental Environmental Assessment and Decision/FONSI for Oral Rabies Vaccine Program on National Forest System Lands
• BLM releases Record of Decision (ROD) for the Thermal Energy Company Preference Right Lease Applications (PRLAs), San Juan County, NM
• State Dept: Greater Yuma (Arizona) Port Authority applies for a Presidential Permit to Construct a New Commercial Border Crossing at San Luis, Arizona
• DOE releases DEIS for the Gilberton Coal-to-Clean Fuels and Power Project for public comment. The DEIS "analyzes the potential environmental consequences of providing federal funding for the design, engineering, construction, and operation of the first power facility in the United States to use coal waste as feed to a gasification facility that subsequently generates fuel gas for clean power, thermal energy, and clean liquid fuels production."

• BLM: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)/Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Proposed Devers-Palo Verde No. 2 Transmission Line Project
• BLM to prepare a Resource Management Plan (RMP) Amendment with an associated Environmental Assessment (EA) for recently acquired BLM coastal lands in Humboldt County in Northwest California.
• FERC releases EA/FONSI on application for new license for the Eel Weir Project, located at the outlet of Sebago Lake.
• FERC releases EA/FONSI for Santa Felicia Hydroelectric Project, located on Piru Creek in Ventura County, California
• FERC releases EA/FONSI on Yuba County Water Agency's application for an amendment of license for the Yuba River Development Project
• FERC: Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Essex-Middlesex Project; Request for Comments on Environmental Issues, and Notice of Site Visit and Public Scoping Meeting
• FERC: Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Station 50 Horsepower Replacement Project and Request for Comments on Environmental Issues
• FHwA to prepare EIS for the proposed extension of SR-357 in Sullivan County, Tennesse
• FTA to prepare EIS for High-Capacity Transit Improvements in the Southern Corridor of Honolulu, HI

• BPA This notice extends the close of comment for scoping from the previously published May 13, 2005 to January 5, 2006. BPA is preparing its Klondike III/Biglow Canyon Wind Integration EIS under the National Environmental Policy Act
• FHwA to prepare EIS for the proposed extension of SR-357 in Sullivan County, Tennessee.
• Forest Service: Helena NF is going to prepare an EIS for vegetation management actions in the Cabin Gulch and North Fork of Deep Creek drainages
• MMS releases EA for proposed oil and gas exploration on the Alaska Outer Continental Shelf
• BuRec extends comment period on DEIS for San Luis Unit Long-Term Contract Renewal to Jan. 17, 2006

• FAA releases Draft Supplemental Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Modification to the Four Corner-Post Plan at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport
• FS to prepare EIS to disclose the environmental effects from construction of an access road approximately 4,800 feet long to Sierra Pacific industrial private lands surrounded by Forest Service Lands.

• BLM imposes temporary restrictions on the use of Ma-le'l Dunes,, approximately 150 acres and located along the coastline nearly two miles west of Arcata, CA. ("The BLM recently acquired this 38-acre parcel adjacent to its existing 112 acres and developed a parking and picnic area to accommodate an increased demand for pedestrian and equestrian access to the beach. The anticipated increased visitor use will have unacceptable adverse impacts on significant resource values, including impacts on endangered plant species, if temporary restrictions are not initiated.")
• Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement To Analyze the Proposed Amendment to the Pipeline/South Pipeline Plan of Operations (NVN-067575) for the Cortez Hills Expansion Project
• BuRec to prepare EIS on Safety Modifications for Folsom Dam and Appurtenant Structures (Folsom Safety of Dams Project), Sacramento, El Dorado, and Placer Counties, CA
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review

• " EPA Regions 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, and 10 propose NPDES general permit for stormwater discharges from industrial activity, also referred to as the Multi-Sector General Permit (MSGP) (The permit "The permit will replace the existing permit covering industrial sites in EPA Regions 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 10 that expired on October 30, 2005. Today's proposed permit is similar to the existing permit and will authorize the discharge of stormwater associated with industrial activities in accordance with the terms and conditions described therein.")
  • More here
• FEMA suspends communities eligible for flood insurance for not adopting adequate floodplain management measures with effective enforcement measures.
• The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) will be prepared for a proposed highway project in the towns of Brewer, Holden, Eddington, and Clifton, Maine.

• Forest Service to prepare EIS on Arapahoe Basin Ski Area and Montezuma Bowl Projects.
• OMB asks for comments on Proposed Bulletin for Good Guidance Practices
  • More here

• Corps to prepare DEIS for Potential Multipurpose Projects for Ecosystem Restoration, Flood Damage Reduction, and Recreation Development Within and Along the West and Elm Forks and Main Stem of the Trinity River in Dallas, Dallas County, TX
• FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed connector route from the proposed Interstate 69 to U.S. Highway 82 near the City of Greenville, MS in Washington and Bolivar Counties, MS
• FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in the Towns of Skowhegan and Madison, Maine
• FS: Stanislaus National Forest, Mi-Wok Ranger District, California, Great Hunt Reforestation and Release Project. "Comments concerning the scope of the analysis should be received in writing within 15 days of the date of publication of this Notice of Intent in the Federal Register" ("Treatments will include backpack application of the herbicide glyphosate on approximately 545 acres; mechanically shredding or hand cutting competing vegetation on 1,655 acres with follow-up glyphosate applications on 1,530 acres; and burning and hand cutting competing vegetation with follow up glyphosate applications on 30 acres. Treatments are designed to assure adequate survival and growth of planted conifers by reducing competing vegetation.")
• NNSA: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Operation of a Biosafety Level 3 Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
• NNSA issues Record of Decision for Final Site-wide EIS for Continued Operation of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Supplemental Stockpile Stewardship and Management PEIS
• NPS releases Draft General Management Plan and Draft EIS for Pea Ridge National Military Park, AR
• NPS releases Record of Decision for the Final SEIS for Elwha River ecosystem restoration at Olympic National Park.
  • Elwha FSEIS is here
• Rural Utilities Service (RUS) intends to hold public scoping meetings and prepare an environmental assessment in connection with possible impacts related to a project proposed by Central Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. (CEPCI) of South Carolina.

• FRA to prepare PEIS for Bay Area To Central Valley High-Speed Train
  • More here
• National Nuclear Security Administration to prepare site-wide EIS for the Y-12 National Security Complex

• APHIS releases ROD based on the Black-Tailed Prairie Dog Conservation and Management on the Nebraska National Forest and associated units FEIS
  • ROD ("Black-tailed Prairie Dog Conservation and Management on the Nebraska National Forest and Associated Units Record of Decision")
  • All Wildlife Services Publications
• BPA releases Record of Decision (ROD) on Goodnoe Hills and White Creek Wind Energy Projects
  • BPA NEPA docs are here
  • BPA Environment, Fish and Wildlife page
• BLM releases Draft Resource Management Plan/EIS for the Arizona Strip, the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, and the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument and a Draft General Management Plan for the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument (Arizona Strip Draft Plan/DEIS).
• BLM releases DEIS for the Seminoe Road Gas Development Project
  • BLM NEPA docs - Wyoming
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review
• FERC releases EA/FONSI on application for new license for the Prospect Nos. 1, 2, and 4 Hydroelectric Project, located on the Rogue River, Middle Fork Rogue River, and Red Blanket Creek in Jackson County, Oregon
• FERC: Unocal Windy Hill Gas Storage, LLC; Notice of Intent To Prepare an EA for the Proposed Windy Hill Gas Storage Project and Request for Comments on Environmental Issues
• Navy releases Record of Decision for the Disposal and Re-use of Naval Station Treasure Island, CA
• NSF releases EA/FONSI for the Construction of Northern Arizona University's Merriam-Powell Research Station at The Arboretum at Flagstaff, Flagstaff, Arizona

Thursday: No FR notices - Thanksgiving

Wednesday, Nov. 23 (Nov. 23 Table of Contents from GPO)

• Army to prepare EIS's for Realignment Actions Resulting From the 2005 Base Closure and Realignment Commission's Recommendations
• Coast Guard to prepare a PEIS as part of the environmental planning process for the Nationwide Automatic Identification System (NAIS) project
• FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
• Forest Service issues revised NOI to prepare an EIS for the Natapoc Ridge Forest Restoration Project
• USTR releases, requests public comment on Interim Environmental Review of U.S.-Thailand Free Trade Agreement
  • Interim environmental review, U.S.-Thailand FTA
  • Environmental reviews in Free Trade Agreements

• DOE reopens scoping period till Dec. 19 on EIS re: site selection and expansion of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve ("On October 27, 2005, the Governor of Mississippi requested the Secretary of Energy to include a new site at Bruinsburg Salt Dome in the analysis of potential sites and environmental impacts for the proposal to expand the storage capacity of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. In light of this request, DOE has reopened the public scoping period and scheduled another scoping meeting.")
• FERC: Pacific Gas and Electric Company; Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impacts Statement for the Upper North Fork Feather River Project
• GSA: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Lease/Construction of a Central Records Complex in Winchester, Virginia
• MMS to prepare EA for proposed OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sale 200 in the Western Gulf of Mexico (2006)
• MMS releases EA/FONSI for proposed OCS oil and gas Lease Sale 198 in the Central Gulf of Mexico scheduled for March 2006 (" No new significant impacts were identified for proposed Lease Sale 198 that were not already assessed in the Multisale EIS. As a result, MMS determined that a supplemental EIS is not required...")
• MMS "announces the availability of the Proposed Notice of Sale for Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Lease Sale 198 in the Central Gulf of Mexico (GOM)."
• NRCS to prepare EIS for South Fork of Licking River Watershed, Licking, Perry, Fairfield Counties, Ohio.

• FHwA, in cooperation with the Georgia DOT, have jointly prepared a Draft SEIS for proposed transportation improvements in the US 411 Corridor.
• FHwA rescinds Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare an EIS for proposed improvements to the Thompson River Road (also known as Forest Highway 56), a county road located near Thompson Falls, Montana.
• FS: Idaho Panhandle National Forest, Idaho to prepare SEIS -- Hidden Cedar EIS Project
• NPS releases DEIS for the Fort King Special Resource Study
• NPS releases ROD for the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail Comprehensive Management Plan and FEIS

• DOE to prepare an EA, conduct public scoping neetings; also, Notice of Floodplain and Wetlands Involvement; Montana Alberta Tie, Ltd. ( application for a Presidential permit to construct a new international transmission line that crosses the U.S.-Canada international border in northwest Montana)
• Corps to prepare SEIS for the Proposed Ruter-Hess Reservoir Expansion Project, Parker, CO
• EPA releases draft, final EIS's for comment
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review
• DOI: Notice of Renewal of the Advisory Committee on Water Information Charter
• United States Section, International Boundary and Water Commission (USIBWC) releases ROD for FSEIS, Clean Water Act Compliance at the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant, located in San Diego County, CA
• NSF: Correction to Notice of the Availability of Finding of No Significant Impact for a Low-Energy Marine Seismic Survey by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on The Louisville Ridge in the Southwest Pacific Ocean

• NRCS issues EA/FONSI for Silt Salinity Control Project, Garfield County, CO

• Corps releases DEIS for the San Juan Creek Watershed/Western San Mateo Creek Watershed Special Area Management Plan, Orange County, CA
  • SAMP page is here
• FAA releases EA/FONSI on impacts associated w/ proposed corporate hangar construction at Cincinnati Municipal Airport-Lunken Field, Located in Cincinnati, OH
• Navy: Notice of Public Hearings for a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System Low Frequency Active (SURTASS LFA) Sonar
• Navy: Notice of Public Hearings for a Draft Overseas Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Statement for the Undersea Warfare Training Range; Correction

• APHIS releases EA/FONSI concerning authorization to ship for the purpose of field testing, and then to field test, an unlicensed Canine Melanoma Vaccine, DNA, for use in dogs
• APHIS releases EA/FONSI for Field Testing West Nile Virus Vaccine, Live Flavivirus Chimera
• Army to prepare Fort Bliss, TX and New Mexico Mission Master Plan Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
• Army Corps: Chief of Engineers Environmental Advisory Board to meet Dec. 1 in Orlando
• FERC will prepare EIS on licensing the Niagara Power Project
• Looks the same as the previous one... Niagara Power Project
• BuRec releases Flaming Gorge Dam FEIS
  • More here
• FS, NMFS will prepare EIS "on a site-specific proposal to improve forest health and sustainability on National Forest lands in the Natapoc Mountain area of the Wenatchee River Ranger District, Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forests."

• FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in San Diego County, California.
• NPS releases ROD on the abbreviated final EIS for the Boston Harbor Islands general management plan.
• NSF releases draft EA for the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (Veritas) ("The NSF and DOE propose to authorize the continued expenditure of grant funds totaling $12.3 million by the `Smithsonian Institution to construct a four-telescope array [west of the top of Kitt Peak in Horsehose Canyon] near Tucson, Arizona."
  • More here

Friday, Nov. 11 -- Veterans Day

Thursday, Nov. 10 (Nov. 10 Table of Contents from GPO)

• Corps Seattle District and Bureau of Reclamation's Pacific Northwest Region release DEIS on effects of alternative flood control at Libby Dam on the Kootenai River and at Hungry Horse Dam on the South Fork Flathead River in western Montana. ("The overall goal of the DEIS is to evaluate effects of alternative dam operations that are intended to provide reservoir and flow conditions at and below Libby and Hungry Horse Dams for anadromous and resident fish listed as threatened or endangered under the [ESA], consistent with authorized project purposes, including maintaining the current level of flood control benefits.")
  • More here
• Reclamation and California Department of Water Resources release Draft EIS/EIR for the South Delta Improvements Program (SDIP).
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• BLM releases FEIS for the North Valleys Rights-of-Way Projects and initiation of a 30-day comment period
• BLM releases DPEIS/R for Vegetation Treatments on Public Lands Administered by the BLM in the Western United States, including Alaska
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review
• Plumas National Forest will prepare an EIS on a proposal implement hazardous fuel reduction and construction of Defensible Fuel Profile Zones, implement thinning, group selection harvest, road system improvements, and stream channel restoration. Also, treatments of noxious weeds are proposed using mechanical, fire, and chemical methods.
• GSA releases DEIS for improvements to the Andrade Port of Entry, Andrade, California, for public review and comment. "The EIS provides GSA and its stakeholders an analysis of the environmental impacts resulting from ongoing operations as well as reasonable alternatives for new operations and facilities at the Andrade Port of Entry, located in southeastern California, and a potential new Port of Entry west of Yuma, Arizona."
• Interior: Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Advisory Committee to meet Dec. 1 in Shepherdstown, W.V.

• Forest Service, Tahoe National Forest, Sierraville Ranger District to prepare EIS on effects of applying silvicultural and fuel treatment prescriptions to treatment units totaling approximately 5,057 acres
• NSF releases FONSI for a Low-Energy Marine Seismic Survey by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on the Louisville Ridge in the Southwest Pacific Ocean
• Rural Utilities Service will hold public scoping meetings and prepare an EIS "in connection with possible impacts related to a project being proposed by Basin Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. (Basin Electric), of Bismarck, North Dakota. The proposal consists of the construction and operation of a coal-fired electric generation facility referred to as the Dry Fork Station, consisting of a single maximum net 385 Megawatt (MW) unit, at a site in Gillette, Wyoming, and the construction of 130 miles of 230 kilovolt (kV) transmission line in Campbell and Sheridan counties, referred to as the Hughes Transmission Project."
• STB: Correction of Due Date for Comments on Draft Scope of Study for Environmental Impact Statement and Potential Environmental Effects of a Project. (The Alaska Railroad Corporation--Petition for Exemption To Construct and Operate a Rail Line Between Eielson Air Force Base (North Pole) and Fort Greely (Delta Junction), AK)

• BIA to prepare SEIS for the proposed Campo Solid Waste Landfill Facility on the Campo Indian Reservation, San Diego County, CA
• NRCS releases DEIS ("The section of Coal Creek that traverses Cedar City, Utah, has channel stability and capacity deficiencies that pose a threat to existing infrastructure and development due to flooding. The NRCS proposes to modify the Coal Creek channel to safely convey floodwaters from a 100-year flood event. In conjunction with the proposed channel improvements, two irrigation diversion/drop structures on Coal Creek (the Main Street Diversion and the Woodbury Diversion) will have to be reconstructed to eliminate significant channel and capacity restrictions.")

• FERC releases EA/FONSI for proposed non-project use of Martin Dam Hydroelectric Project. The project is located on Lake Martin near Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama.

• Corps Baltimore District releases DEIS on Dominion Cove Point LNG, LP; Dominion Transmission, Inc., proposed Cove Point Expansion Project
• BLM releases DEIS for the Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument Resource Management Plan (RMP)
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• FHwA to prepare a Supplemental DEIS in cooperation with the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) for Route 475 (Knoxville Parkway) in Loudon, Knox, and Anderson counties, Tennessee
• FS: Notice of initiation to revise the Ashley National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan, Utah and Wyoming
• IBWC: Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for Alternatives for Improved Flood Control of the Hidalgo Protective Levee System, in the Lower Rio Grande Flood Control Project, Located in Hidalgo County, TX. ("Alternatives under consideration to improve the Hidalgo Protective Levee System will expand the levee footprint by lateral extension of the structure. Levee footprint increases toward the riverside could potentially extend into floodplain areas designated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as part of the Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV) National Wildlife Refuge System. Footprint increases toward the levee landside could extend beyond the USIBWC right-of-way.")

• FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed transportation improvement project in the City of Medford, Jackson County, Oregon.
• NPS releases General Management Plan/FEIS, Colorado National Monument, Colorado (More here)

• Coast Guard issues Environmental Assessment and Draft Finding of No Significant Impact for the Decommissioning and Excessing of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter MACKINAW (WAGB-83)
• EPA: "This document describes how EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs intends to implement its Endangered Species Protection Program (ESPP or the Program). The goal of the ESPP is to carry out responsibilities under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) in compliance with the Endangered Species Act (ESA), while at the same time not placing unnecessary burden on agriculture and other pesticide users."
• FS to prepare EIS: Lassen National Forest, Hat Creek Ranger District, CA, North 49 Project Forest Health Recovery Project

• Coast Guard to prepare EA for remedial action associated with petroleum and metals impacted soil at the Passage Island Light Station, Keweenaw County, Michigan.
  • More here
  • and here
• FAA releases EA/FONSI on application for a launch license from Space Exploration Technologies, Inc. (SpaceX) to conduct launches of its Falcon 1 launch vehicle from Omelek Island, U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll/Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Test Sit
• FHWA to prepare EA for a proposed highway project in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
• Forest Service: Hoosier NF has completed a final EIS to disclose the environmental consequences of a vegetation restoration project. The FEIS addresses the potential environmental impacts of replacing pine plantations in the German Ridge area of Perry County, Indiana with native hardwood communities.
• STB to prepare an EIS on Alaska Railroad Corp.'s petition for exemption to build and operate a rail line between Eielson Air Force Base (North Pole) and Fort Greely (Delta Junction), Alaska
• TVA has decided to implement the preferred alternative identified in its Final eis on proposed 500-kV Transmission Line in Middle Tennessee.

• Interior Dept. released its semi-annual agenda
• NPS releases Colorado River Management Plan, Final Environmental Impact Statement, Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon, Arizona
  • More here

• Corps releases Integrated Feasibility Report & EIS for the Flood Damage Reduction Project, Bloomsburg, PA
• Corps Galveston District will prepare a DEIS to assess the social, economic and environmental effects of the proposed widening of portions of the Freeport Harbor Entrance and Jetty Channels.
• Corps, EPA, OSM, FWS, West Virginia DEP release Final Programmatic EIS for Mountaintop Mining and Valley Fills (PEIS is here)
  • Mountaintop mining page
• BLM: Notice of Availability of the Draft Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement (DRMP/EIS) for the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, MT
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• MMS: : Request for Information (RFI) and Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare an Environmental Assessment, Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), Alaska OCS Region, Beaufort Sea Oil and Gas Lease Sale 202, March 2007
• Navy: Notice of Public Hearings for a Draft Overseas EIS/EIS for the Undersea Warfare Training Range

• No NEPA notices today

• FERC issues EA/FONSI on Midwestern Gas Transmission Company's Proposed Mgt Eastern Extension Project
• FERC: Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation; Supplemental Notice of Intent To Prepare an EA for the Proposed Leidy to Long Island Expansion Project and Request for Comments on Environmental Issues

• BuRec to hold another public scoping meeting on Shasta Lake Water Resources Investigation, Shasta and Tehama counties, CA.
• FTA to prepare EIS for the Downtown Birmingham/University of Alabama Birmingham Activity Centers (a.k.a. In-town Transit Partnership Project)
• "MMS is extending to January 6, 2006, the comment period of the proposed rule titled, ``Oil and Gas and Sulphur Operations in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)--Plans and Information--Protection of Marine Mammals and Threatened and Endangered Species'' published on September 6, 2005 (70 FR 52953). The previous deadline for comments was November 7, 2005. This notice will extend the original 60-day comment period to 120 days. This extension is necessary because of damage caused in the New Orleans area by Hurricane Katrina and the Louisiana/Texas area by Hurricane Rita and subsequent flooding."

• FHwA releases Record of Decision for FEIS for transportation improvements in Washington County, Utah.
  • More here

• Corps to prepare a Joint SEIS/R for the Port of Los Angeles Channel Deepening Project for Navigation Improvement Additional Disposal Capacity; Los Angeles County, CA
• BLM: Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement and Record of Decision for the Castle Peak and Eight Mile Flat Oil and Gas Expansion Project, Newfield Rocky Mountains, Inc.
• BLM Challis Field Office, will be directing the preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that will analyze the mining impacts resulting from L&W Stone's Amended Plan of Operations in Custer County, Idaho.
• BLM to prepare a Supplemental EIS for the Pinedale Anticline Oil and Gas and Exploration and Development Project, Sublette County, Wyoming, and Possible Amendment to the Pinedale Resource Management Plan
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• Forest Service issues revised NOI re: Ochoco and Deschutes National Forests; OR; Invasive Plant Treatment Project.
• HUD: Notice of Intent To Prepare a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Development of Cedar Grove Housing in Tahoe Vista, Placer County, CA
• Rural Utilities Service (RUS) proposes to prepare an EA related to possible financial assistance to Georgia Transmission Corporation (GTC) for the construction of approximately 4.4 miles of 230 kilovolt transmission line, a 230/25 kilovolt transmission substation, and a 230 kilovolt switching station.

• Coast Guard: Neptune LNG, L.L.C., Liquefied Natural Gas Deepwater Port License Application; Preparation of Environmental Impact Statement
• FAA: Notice of Availability of Record of Decision (ROD) for the Final Environmental Impact Statement, Washington Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, VA
• FERC: the Office of Energy Projects releases EA/FONSI on application for a new license for the Saranac River Hydroelectric Project, located on the Saranac River, in Clinton County, New York, and has prepared an Environmental Assessment
• Forest Service will prepare an EIS to disclose the anticipated Environmental effects of the Durango Mountain Resort (DMR) 2004 Master Development Plan

• Corps releases final General Reevaluation Report and Supplemental EIS for the Poplar Island Environmental Restoration Project, Talbot County, MD
• Corps: Vicksburg District is preparing the Dredged Material Management Plan (DMMP) for the existing Atchafalaya River and Bayous Chene, Boeuf, and Black, Louisiana, Navigation project. DMMP will require an SEIS
• FERC: Northern Natural Gas Company; Notice of Intent To Prepare an EA for the Proposed Cunningham Service Expansion Project and request for comments on environmental Issues
• NPS: Notice of Availability of the Draft General Management Plan and DEIS for the North Unit of Badlands National Park, South Dakota
• NPS releases FEIS and General Management Plan for Crater Lake National Park, Douglas, Jackson & Klamath Counties, Oregon; Notice of Approval of Record of Decision

• FHwA issues Record of Decision following a FEIS for transportation improvements in Salt Lake County, Utah
• FS to prepare EIS for Fuel Reduction Activities Within the City of Bozeman's Municipal Watershed on the Gallatin National Forest and City of Bozeman Lands, Montana; Gallatin National Forest; Gallatin County, MT
• FS: The Mountain City Ranger District of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest will prepare an EIS on a proposal to authorize continued livestock grazing on National Forest System (NFS) lands within the boundaries administered by the Ranger District

• FERC releases EA/FONSI for ANR Pipeline's proposed Wisconsin 2005 Expansion Project
• FERC: Port of Long Beach, Sound Energy Solutions; Notice of Availability/Completion of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Report, Draft General Conformity Determination, and Draft Port Master Plan Amendment for the Proposed Long Beach LNG Import Project
• FERC: Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company; National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation; Notice of Availability of the Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Northeast ConneXion--NY/NJ Project
• FERC: Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Northeast ConneXion Project-- New England and Request for Comments on Environmental Issues
• FERC: Texas Eastern Transmission, LP; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Accident Storage Enhancement Project and Request for Comments on Environmental Issues
• FS: Eldorado National Forest, Georgetown Ranger District, Georgetown, CA; Notice of Intent To Prepare a Supplement to the Rock Creek Recreational Trails Final Environmental Impact Statement
• The USDA Forest Service is preparing a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement to further address issues associated with old growth associated with the Dry Fork Vegetative Restoration project on the Belt Creek Ranger District of the Lewis and Clark National Forest

• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• Non-ESA item of interest: EPA: Notice of Data Availability and Request for Data and Information to Develop Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Protection of Human Health for Atrazine and Alachlor
• FHwA to prepare EIS for proposed highway project in Yamhill County, Oregon.
• BLM releases Hollister Draft Resource Management Plan/DEIS
• BLM releases proposed Resource Management Plan and FEIS for the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area (SCNCA)
• BLM releases Eecord of Decision for the Upper Deschutes Resource Management Plan (RMP) and EIS

• FAA to prepare EIS, conduct scoping meetings for the proposed relocation of runway 11R/29L and associated development at the Tucson International Airport in Tucson, AZ

• APHIS seeks information to develop an EIS as part of its consideration of a petition received from Monsanto Company and The Scotts Company. The petition requests a determination of nonregulated status for engineered creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera) that is glyphosate tolerant.
• FHWA, in cooperation with the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT), have jointly prepared a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (DSEIS) for proposed transportation improvements in the US 411 Corridor.
• NPS releases DEIS on Reconstruction of the Furnace Creek Water Collection System; Death Valley National Park; Inyo County, CA
• Navy Marine Corps Air Station Miramar (MCAS Miramar) and Department of Veterans Affairs intend to prepare an EIS and conduct a public scoping meeting for the proposed development and operation of a national veteran's cemetery at MCAS Miramar in San Diego

• RUS: Seminole Electric Cooperative, Inc.; Notice of Intent To Hold Public Scoping Meeting and Prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

Nothing Monday--Columbus Day

Friday, Oct. 7 (Oct. 7 Table of Contents from GPO)

• APHIS makes determination that the Mycogen Seeds/Dow AgroSciences LLC and Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. corn designated as corn line DAS-59122-7, which has been genetically engineered for resistance to a corn rootworm complex and for tolerance to the herbicide glufosinate, is no longer considered a regulated article under our regulations governing the introduction of certain genetically engineered organisms. (EA released)
• APHIS releases EA "for a field trial of genetically engineered strains of an endophytic fungus of perennial ryegrass, Neotyphodium sp. isolate Lp1. The fungi have been genetically engineered to disrupt the ergovaline synthesis pathway. The environmental assessment provides a basis for our conclusion that these field tests will not present a risk of introducing or disseminating a plant pest and will not have a significant impact on the quality of the human environment."
• BLM to prepare amendment to the Carson City Field Office Consolidated Resource Management Plan
• BLM: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Moxa Arch Area Infill Gas Development Project, Lincoln, Sweetwater and Uinta Counties, WY
• BuRec releases FEIS for the Humboldt Project Conveyance, Pershing, Churchill, and Lander Counties, Nevada.
• BuRec proposes to prepare an EIS for the Shasta Lake Water Resources Investigation
• DOE: Office of Environmental Management; Notice of Availability of Draft Section 3116 Determination Concerning Disposal of Residual Tank Wastes in Tanks 18 and 19 at the Savannah River Site
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• FAA cancels EIS for the Oklahoma Launch Site Operator License for the Clinton-Sherman Industrial Airpark (CSIA)
• FAA releases ROD on O'Hare Modernization, at Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, IL
• FS to prepare EIS on Habitat Restoration and Fuels Reduction Project in Klamath National Forest, California and Oregon, Mt. Ashland LSR
• NSF releases draft EA for construction of Northern Arizona University's Merriam-Powell Research Station at The Arboretum at Flagstaff, Flagstaff, Arizona.

• BLM to prepare EIS for the Creston/Blue Gap II Natural Gas Project, Carbon and Sweetwater Counties, WY
• BuRec will prepare EIS for the implementation of the safety modifications for Folsom Dam and Appurtenant Structures
• FERC releases EA/FONSI on Ga. Power's request for authorization to permit the Clayton-Rabun County Water and Sewer Authority to increase its water withdrawal from Lake Rabun, a reservoir of the North Georgia Project, from 2.0 million gallons per day to 3.5 million gallons per day for municipal water supply.
• HUD releases supplement to the Draft EIS for the development of Stillwater Business Park, City of Redding, CA
• CWA enforcement: DOJ files proposed consent decree in U.S. v. Washington Golf and Country Club, 05-112 (JCC/LO), E.D. Va.)

• APHIS amends endangered species regulations concerning terrestrial plants by replacing all references to ``general permits'' with references to ``protected plant permits.'' This final rule is necessary for the regulations to reflect the change in the name of the permit. We are also updating a mailing address in the regulations and making other nonsubstantive editorial changes.
• Corps: Estuary Habitat Restoration Council to meet in D.C. Oct. 24
• BuRec, NPS release DEIS for Clean Water Coalition Systems Conveyance and Operations Program; Lake Mead National Recreation Area; Clark County, NV
• Coast Guard, Maritime Administration (MARAD) announce that the Coast Guard will prepare an EIS as part of the environmental review of this license application
• NPS says draft wilderness and backcountry management plan/draft EIS for Isle Royale National Park, Michigan won't be available till October

• BLM releases ROD for the San Juan/San Miguel Resource Management Plan (RMP) Amendment and EIS
• Coast Guard and the Maritime Administration cancel an EA "that they previously planned as a follow-up to MARAD's approval of the license application for the Port Pelican LLC Deepwater Port in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana. The EA would have assessed the environmental impact of related shoreside fabrication site activities in Texas. The Coast Guard and MARAD are canceling the EA, due to Port Pelican LLC's decision to defer these fabrication site activities indefinitely."
• FHwA issues Record of Decision for FEIS on an interstate reconstruction project in the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County, Missouri.

• Corps to prepare DEIS programmatic Sediment Management Plan, Lower Snake River Reservoirs, in the States of Washington and Idaho ("The plan will identify and evaluate ways the Corps can manage sediment within these reservoirs and examine the sediment input (sources) on a programmatic basis in the near-term, mid-term, and long-term.")
• Coast Guard announces the availability of the Draft Programmatic EA of the Integrated Anti- Swimmer System (IAS). The Coast Guard is proposing to deploy and operate the IAS for temporary periods at various U.S. ports throughout the U.S. Maritime Domain, when necessary. The purpose of the Proposed Action is to increase the Coast Guard's ability to detect, track, classify, and interdict, if necessary, potential underwater threats and as a result, protect personnel, ships, and property from sabotage and/or other subversive acts
• FERC Office of Energy Projects has reviewed the application for a new license for the Conecuh River Project, located on the Conecuh River, in Covington County, Alabama, and has prepared a single EA for the project. The project does not use or occupy any federal facilities or lands.
• Port Arthur LNG, L.P. Port Arthur Pipeline, L.P.; Notice of Public Meeting Cancellation and Extension of Comment Period for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Port Arthur LNG Project
• FERC: Southern California Edison Company, Pacific Gas & Electric Company; Notice of Availability of Final Environmental Assessment

• BLM releases Ring of Fire Draft Resource Management Plan and EIS (Anchorage Field Office, BLM)
• BLM releases proposed Resource Management Plan Amendment (RMPA) and Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Clear Creek Management Area (CCMA).
• BLM releases Lake Havasu Field Office Draft Resource Management Plan and Draft EIS
• BuRec: Notice of intent to prepare an EIS and notice to solicit comments and hold public scoping meetings on the development of Lower Basin shortage guidelines and coordinated management strategies for the operation of Lake Powell and Lake Mead under low reservoir conditions.
• BuRec releases DEIS on renewal of Long-Term Water Service Contracts for the San Luis Unit of the Central Valley Project (CVP)
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• FEMA: "This rule identifies communities, where the sale of flood insurance has been authorized under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), that are scheduled for suspension on the effective dates listed within this rule because of noncompliance with the floodplain management requirements of the program." (localities in NJ, NE, CO, CA, AZ, WI)
• Rural Utilities Service (RUS) agrees to extend the public scoping comment period by 30 days prior to the preparation of an EIS in connection to a project proposed by Associated Electric Cooperative, Inc. (AECI), with headquarters in Springfield, Mo.

• Natl. Indian Gaming Commission: Supplemental Notice of Intent to Prepare an EIS for the Proposed Federated Indians of the Graton Rancheria Casino and Hotel Project, Sonoma, CA

• DOE, DOI to prepare PEIS, amend relevant agency land use plans, and conduct public scoping meetings on identification of corridors on federal land in the 11 Western States for oil, gas and hydrogen pipelines and electricity transmission and distribution facilities; also Notice of Floodplain and Wetlands Involvement. BLM and DOE will be co-lead agencies for the effort, with assistance from USDA.
• HUD releases DEIS for the Ashburton Avenue Urban Renewal Plan and Master Plan, Yonkers, Westchester County, NY
• Maritime Administration releases draft Environmental Assessment for the Port of Anchorage, Cherry Hill Gravel Extraction Project

• APHIS: Monsanto Company; Availability of Petition and Environmental Assessment for Determination of Nonregulated Status for Corn Genetically Engineered To Express High Lysine Levels
• Army releases Record of Decision (ROD) for Activities Associated With Future Programs at the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground (DPG), Utah
• BIA to prepare EIS for the proposed exploration and drilling of additional coalbed natural gas and Conventional Gas Wells in the Riverton Dome Field, Wind River Indian Reservation, Fremont County, WY
• Department of the Army signs Secretariat Memorandum to transfer approximately 2,640 Acres of land at Joliet Army Ammunition Plant, Illinois to the Department of Agriculture for use by the Forest Service as the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie.
• FHwA, FTA to prepare EIS for proposed highway and transit improvements in the Interstate 5 Columbia River Crossing (CRC) corridor between the Portland, Oregon and Vancouver/Clark County, Washington area

• BLM: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Amendment to the Caliente Resource Management Plan Regarding Bureau of Land Management Administration of Newly Transferred Lands at Naval Petroleum Reserve 2 (NPR-2) in Kern County, CA

• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• Forest Service will prepare EIS on a proposal to develop a travel management plan to regulate motorized and non-motorized travel on roads and trails on lands administered by the Belt Creek, Judith Musselshell, and White Sulphur Ranger Districts of the Lewis and Clark National Forest.

• DHS: "The Secretary of Homeland Security has determined, pursuant to law, that it is necessary to waive certain laws, regulations and other legal requirements in order to ensure the expeditious construction of barriers and roads along the international land border of the United States in California."
• NSF: Notice of Intent To Prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement for the National Science Foundation To Address Potential Impacts on the Marine Environment Related to the Use of Seismic Sources in Support of NSF-Funded Research by U.S. Academic Scientists

• BLM releases Record of Decision and Resource Management Plan for the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area
• DOE issues Record of Decision for the Remediation of the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings, Grand and San Juan Counties, UT (More here)
• FAA releases final EA and FONSI/ROD for the proposed New Air Traffic Control Tower at the St. Louis Downtown Airport in Cahokia, IL
• NPS releases draft South Denali Implementation Plan and EIS

• Corps: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report for the Ballona Creek Ecosystem Restoration Feasibility Study, Los Angeles County, CA
• FERC: Northern Star Natural Gas LLC; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Bradwood Landing LNG Project, Request for Comments on Environmental Issues, and Notice of a Joint Public Meeting, and Site Visit
• FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project that will traverse the west central section of the State of Alabama.
• FS: Notice of initiation to revise the Shoshone National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan.

• FERC Office of Energy Projects releases EA/FONSI on application for a new license for the Bar Mills Hydroelectric Project, located on the Saco River, York County, Maine.

• BLM releases Ukiah Draft Resource Management Plan and Draft EIS
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• Forest Service to prepare EIS to disclose the environmental effects from construction of defensible fuel profile zones (DFPZs); harvest and reforestation of timber stands; watershed rehabilitation; control of noxious weeds; construction of temporary roads and reconstruction of specified roads; decommissioning of roads; road access restrictions, and underburning forest fuels and debris in the Slapjack project area.

• No NEPA notices today

• FAA withdraws NOI to prepare EIS for New Orleans International Airport, New Orleans, LA
• FS, CDFG to issue EIS/R to consider Federal and State actions associated with CDFG's proposal to eradicate northern pike, Esox lucius, from Lake Davis and its tributaries.
• MMS will initiate a process to prepare a comprehensive ``areawide'' Chukchi Sea EIS.

• FERC issues EA/FONSI on an application to surrender the license for the Battersea Project, filed December 20, 2004. The project is located on The Appomattox River, in Petersburg, Va.
• FHwA, in coordination with District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT), says DEIS will be prepared to assess the impacts of the proposed transportation improvements to the 11th Street Bridges.
• FS, Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, cancels NOI to prepare EIS for the Expansion of the Bill Williams Ski Area
• NPS corrects Sept. 2 notice announcing availability of DEIS/General Management Plan: Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve, Island County, WA

• Department of Energy announces two public hearings on DEIS for the Bangor Hydro-Electric Company (BHE) Northeast Reliability Interconnect'' (DOE/EIS-0372)
• EPA designates LA-3 as "a permanent ocean dredged material disposal site (ODMDS) located offshore of Newport Beach, California, managed at a maximum annual dredged material disposal quantity of [2.5 million] cubic yards (yd\3\) (1,911,000 cubic meters [m\3\]), and adjusts the management of the permanently-designated LA-2 ODMDS at an increased maximum annual dredged material disposal quantity of [1 million cubic yards] (765,000 m\3\) for the ocean disposal of clean dredged material from the Los Angeles County and Orange County regions." (" During development of the site designation EIS, EPA consulted with [NMFS and FWS] ... regarding the potential for designation and use of the ocean disposal sites to jeopardize the continued existence of any federally listed species. This consultation process is fully documented in the site designation EIS. NMFS and FWS concluded that use of the disposal sites for disposal of dredged material meeting the criteria for ocean disposal would not jeopardize the continued existence of any federally listed species.")
• Forest Service rescinds NOI to prepare an EIS for the Fanshaw Project.
• FS makes a number of corrections to Aug. 30 notice on Bull Mountain Natural Gas Pipeline in White River National Forest; and Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forests; (see below for notice)
• NRCS issues EA/FONSI North Fork Cowanesque River Watershed, Potter County, Pennsylvania.
• NRCS issues EA/FONSI on South River Watershed Dams Numbers 23, 25 and 26, Augusta County, Va.

• BLM releases ROD for the California Coastal National Monument Resource Management Plan
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA releases draft, final EIS's for comment
• FERC releases DEIS/FONSI for application for a New Major License for the Rocky Reach Project, located on the Columbia River in Chelan County, Washington.
• NPS releases Record of Decision for the Fire Management Plan, Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona.
• NPS: Notice of availability of the Stream Management Plan, draft environmental impact statement, Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, Iowa.
• NPS releases Final EIS for the Fire Management Plan, Saguaro National Park
• NPS to prepare EIS for the construction and operation of a proposed new Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah
• Presidio Trust: Notice of Receipt of and Availability for Public Comment on an Application for Wireless Telecommunications Facilities Site; The Presidio of San Francisco, California

• BLM to prepare EIS for the Creston/Blue Gap II Natural Gas Project, Carbon and Sweetwater Counties, WY
• DoD: Missile Defense Agency releases Mobile Sensors EA and Draft FONSI
• DOE releases a Supplement Analysis for Transportation, Storage, Characterization, and Disposal of Transuranic Waste Currently Stored at the Battelle West Jefferson Site Near Columbus, OH

• Corps to prepare a draft EIS/R for a permit application for navigation modifications and improvements as Part of the San Pedro Waterfront and Promenade Development, in the Port of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA
• BLM: Notice of Intent To Prepare Resource Management Plan Revisions and an Associated Environmental Impact Statement for Six Western Oregon Districts of the Bureau of Land Management
• FAA releases DEIS and DOT Section 4(f)/303(c) evaluation for a proposed replacement airport for the City of St. George, UT: Notice of Public Hearing Date, Time, and Location
  • More here
• FERC and the California State Lands Commission will jointly prepare an EIS/R that will discuss the environmental impacts of North Baja Pipeline, LLC's proposed North Baja Pipeline Expansion Project in La Paz County, Arizona and Riverside and Imperial counties, California
• FS releases Gold Camp Road Final Plan/EIS and Record of Decision

• FS cancels NOI to prepare an EIS for the False Island Timber Sale(s) project, Tongass NF
• MMS proposes to require lessees of federal oil and gas leases in the OCS to provide information on how they will meet the requirements of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA). (Proposal "identifies environmental, monitoring, and mitigation information that lessees must submit with plans for exploration and development and production.")

• Labor Day: No FR

• Corps to prepare DEIS for construction of the following features of the Mississippi River and Tributaries--Morganza, LA to the Gulf of Mexico Project (MtoG): Houma Navigation Canal (HNC) Lock Complex and Associated Structures, in Terrebonne Parish in the Vicinity of Dulac, LA to Include Levee Reach G1, HNC Lock Access Road, HNC Closure Dam, HNC Lock and Floodgate Complex, Levee Reach F1, Bayou Grand Caillou Structure, and the Sand Sources for these Levee Reaches
• BLM releases FEIS on a coal lease application received for federal coal tracts in the West Mine Area, Freedom Mine, Mercer County, North Dakota
• BLM to prepare the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area and Tucson Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement
• BLM releases Final Supplementary Rules Regarding Operation of Motorized Vehicles and Bicycles and Closure of Public Lands to Recreational Target Shooting
• BLM establishes Special Recreation Management Special Recreation Permit Fee Area, and Interim Final Supplementary Rules on Public Lands Within the Knolls Special Recreation Management Area Managed by the Salt Lake Field Office, UT
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• FERC releases EA/FONSI for the Proposed Liberty Gas Storage Project
• FERC releases DEIS and Draft General Conformity Determination for the Port Arthur LNG Project
• FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in Colfax and Dodge Counties, Nebraska.
• NPS releases Draft EIS/General Management Plan: Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve, Island County, WA
• NPS issues Categorical Exclusion for Krescent Energy Company's Plan of Operations to conduct the Tyler 3-D ``Cable-Only'' Seismic Survey of the Upper Neches River Corridor Unit of Big Thicket National Preserve, within Tyler and Jasper counties, Texas.
• NPS issues Categorical Exclusion for Century Exploration Houston's Plan of Operations to conduct the JASPO 3-D ``Cable-Only'' Seismic Survey of the Lower Neches River Corridor Unit of Big Thicket National Preserve, within Hardin, Jasper, and Orange Counties, Texas

• BuRec releases DEIS, announces public meetings, for Carlsbad Project Water Operations and Water Supply Conservation.
• DOE intends to prepare an EIS to assess the proposed capacity expansion at three of the four existing SPR storage sites and the development of a new storage site in the Gulf Coast region.

• Coast Guard releases DEIS on best management practices for residual ballast water and sediment management to be followed by NOBOB vessels.
• FERC issues EA/FONSI analyzing environmental impacts of allowing Duke Power Company, licensee for the Catawba-Wateree Hydroelectric Project, to grant an easement to the Town of Mooresville, North Carolina, for project property within the Cowans Ford Development, also known as Lake Norman
• FERC extends comment period on DEA for the Eel Weir Project

• BIA to prepare EIS for the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon Proposed Trust Acquisition and Resort and Casino Project, Cascade Locks, Hood River County, OR
• Forest Service, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, will prepare a DEIS for the Heavenly Mountain Resort Master Plan Amendment, 2006.
• FS: Notice of Intent (NOI) to conduct scoping and prepare an IS for the Bull Mountain Natural Gas Pipeline Project, Delta, Garfield, Gunnison, and Mesa counties, Colorado.

• DOE releases EA supporting its application to the Interior Department for a Public Land Order to withdraw public lands within and around the Caliente Rail Corridor, Nevada, from surface entry and new mining claims (More here)
• EPA won't prepare EIS (but will prepare EA) for the Comprehensive Port Improvement Plan Within the Port of New York and New Jersey (PONYNJ)
• FERC Office of Energy Projects releases EA/FONSI on application for a new license for the Orono Hydroelectric Project, located on the Stillwater Branch of the Penobscot River, in Penobscot County, Maine

• BLM, NPS release FEIS for a proposed Resource Management Plan/General Management Plan for the Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve. The Monument is located in Blaine, Butte, Lincoln, Minidoka, and Power counties, in Idaho (This Notice of Availability was prematurely released on August 12, 2005 and retracted.)
• BLM releases FEIS on Ruby Hill Mine Expansion--East Archimedes
• BLM: Notice of Intent to Prepare an EIS and to Conduct Public Scoping for the West Tavaputs Natural Gas Full Field Development Plan, Carbon and Duchesne Counties, UT
• BLM releases Records of Decision for the Andrews Management Unit and Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area Resource Management Plans (RMPs)/Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and the Steens Mountain Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Plan
• EPA releases comments on draft and final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• EPA changes the way it calculates the economic benefit of noncompliance in civil penalty enforcement cases ("[T]he Agency is making eight sets of changes that should improve the model's precision and function. Although the combined effect of these changes will affect individual cases differently, the overall impact across all EPA's enforcement cases should be insignificant.")
• FS corrects Aug. 12 FR notice ("On August 12, 2005, the USDA, Forest Service, Olympic National Forest, published a Notice of Intent in Federal Register (70 FR 47171) to prepare an [EIS] for Dosewallips Road Washout Project. The Notice of Intent is being revised to correct the project's location from Oregon State to Washington State, and to correct the Olympic National Park e-mail contact address. The correct address is olym_ea@nps.gov."
• FS: Donald J. Bright (Responsible Official), Forest Supervisor of the Nebraska National Forest and Associated Units, has signed the Record of Decision (ROD) to implement Alternative 3 of the Black-tailed Prairie Dog Conservation and Management EIS.
  • More here

• FS to prepare EIS of proposed invasive plant treatments. "The Proposed Action is to apply a combination of herbicide, manual and mechanical methods to control known invasive plants within approximately 2,687 acres over 114 treatment areas on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest and Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area in Washington."
• Forest Service will prepare an EIS "to document and disclose the potential environmental effects of proposed invasive plant treatments. The proposed action is to apply a combination of herbicide, mechanical and manual treatments to control known invasive plants within approximately 3,830 acres in 99 treatment areas on the Olympic National Forest in Washington."
• Plumas National Forest will prepare an EIS on "several vegetation management projects" * ** "to reduce hazardous fuels, improve forest health, improve bald eagle habitat, cost effectively support the local communities, improve aspen stands, provide access needed to meet other project objectives and reduce transportation system impacts on the west side of Lake Davis near Portola, CA."
• NPS extends comment period for the DEIS for the Transportation Plan, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

• BuRec extends public review and comment period for San Luis Drainage Feature Re-evaluation Draft Environmental Impact Statement, to Thursday, Sept. 1. The notice of availability of the Draft EIS and notice of public hearings was published in the Federal Register on June 2, 2005, (70 FR 32370). The public review period was originally scheduled to end on August 1, 2005. (DEIS here)
• MMS requests comments on the preparation of a new five-year Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2007-2012; and on the Intent to prepare an EIS for the program
• OSM extends comment period on the Preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement on Excess Spoil Generation and Disposal and Stream Buffer Zone Rulemaking

• DOE extends comment period to Sept. 21 on preferred technology announced August 3, 2005 in the Federal Register Notice of Preferred Sodium Bearing Waste Treatment Technology (70 FR 44598)
• FERC issues EA/FONSI for on application for license amendments for the White River Lock and Dam No. 1 Project (P-4204), White River Lock and Dam No. 2 Project (P-4660) and the White River Lock and Dam No. 3 Project (P-4659) (City of Batesville and Independence County Arkansas)
• FERC issues EA/FONSI on application for a new license for the Waterbury Hydroelectric Project, located on the Little River in the town of Waterbury in Washington County, Vermont
• FERC issues EA/FONSI on an original license for William Arkoosh's Little Wood River Ranch II Hydroelectric Project (Little Wood River Ranch II, Idaho)

• Corps releases DEIS for for the Hudson-Raritan Estuary, Liberty State Park Ecosystem Restoration Study, Hudson County, NJ
• Corps releases DEIS for the Montauk Point Storm Damage Reduction Project, Suffolk County, NY
• BIA: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Greenville Rancheria's Trust Acquisition and Casino Project, Tehama County, CA
• BIA as lead agency, with the cooperation of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, plans to gather information necessary to prepare an EIS for the proposed reconstruction of BIA Route 27 near Wounded Knee, S.D.

• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review
• FAA releases FEIS Containing a Final Air Quality General Conformity Determination (FGCD), (Preliminary) Final Section 106 Historic Resources Report, and Virginia Coastal Zone Consistency Determination: Notice of EPA 30-day Hold Period and Notice of Comment Period for Proposed New Runways and Associated Development at Washington Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, VA
• FERC: Little Wood River Ranch II William Arkoosh; Notice of Availability of Final Environmental Assessment
• Wyoming Interstate Company, Ltd.; Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Piceance Basin Expansion Project
• Broadwater Energy; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Broadwater LNG Project; Request for Comments on Environmental Issues, and Notice of Joint Public Meetings
• Forest Service: "On July 19, 2005, the Forest Service published a notice in the Federal Register with request for comment on the issuance of two interim directives (IDs) to Forest Service Handbook (FSH) 2209.13, chapter 10--Term Grazing Permits and chapter 20--Grazing Agreements. These IDs established procedures and responsibilities for administering term grazing permits and grazing agreements (FR 70 41370). On that same day, several other amendments to FSH 2209.13, as well as amendments to several chapters of Forest Service Manual (FSM) 2200 on Range Management were issued. The Forest Service has decided to rescind the IDs and reissue revised IDs. In addition, the Forest Service has prepared proposed directives containing the direction removed from the above mentioned IDs. Public comment is invited and will be considered in development of the final directives. Public comments received on the earlier ID's will also be considered."

• Forest Service to prepare EIS to disclose the environmental effect of timber harvest and watershed restoration activities in the Yakus Creek project area on the Lochsa Ranger District of the Clearwater National Forest.

• "The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) is amending the Record of Decision (ROD) for the Environmental Impact Statement for the Conveyance and Transfer of Certain Land Tracts Administered by the Department of Energy and Located at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos and Santa Fe Counties, New Mexico, DOE/EIS-0293 (Conveyance and Transfer EIS) to reflect changes in the need to retain a certain portion of a land tract withheld earlier due to potential national security mission requirements for a health and safety buffer area relating to on-going operations." (Yes, it's one sentence.) (Look here for more)
• FS to prepare EIS on Rangeland Allotment Management Plans (RAMP) for eight allotments comprising about 79,634 acres within two Ranger Districts of the Black Hills National Forest. Service will analyze impacts of continuation of grazing within the constraints of the Revised Black Hills National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan, as amended (BHNF LRMP).

• NRCS: Notice of Availability of a Finding of No Significant Impact for the Sallisaw Creek Watershed Site Nos. 32, 33, and 34 in Sequoyah County, OK

• Corps: Intent To Prepare a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Construction and Operation of an Open Pit Taconite Mine, an Ore Concentrator, a Pellet Plant, a Direct Reduced Iron Plant, a Steel Mill, and a Tailings Basin Proposed by Minnesota Steel Industries, LLC Near Nashwauk in Itasca County, MN
• BLM: Notice of Extension of the Public Scoping Period for the South National Petroleum Reserve--Alaska Integrated Activity Plan/EIS and Request for Information, Call for Nominations and Comments, and Solicitation of Interest in Hardrock and Coal Mining
• FS to prepare EIS on proposal to conduct timber harvest, noncommercial thinning, and fuels reduction activities in the eastern half of the Maury Mountains. The proposal includes the connected action of constructing 20.9 miles of road. The project area covers approximately 24,250 acres.
• NPS: Notice of Availability of a Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Low Country Gullah Culture Special Resource Study
• NPS: Notice of Availability of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Castillo de San Marcos National Monument General Management Plan
• NPS: Notice of Availability of a Draft General Management Plan, Draft EIS for Great Falls Park, Virginia, a Site Within George Washington Memorial Parkway
• NPS: Notice of Availability of a Record of Decision (ROD) on the Final EIS/General Management Plan (FEIS/GMP) for Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Kentucky and Tennessee (National Area)
• NPS: Final Supplemental EIS and Revised Comprehensive Management Plan, Merced Wild and Scenic River, Yosemite National Park, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Mono & Tuolumne Counties, CA; Notice of Approval of Record of Decision

• APHIS issues EA/FONSI re: petition from Monsanto Company seeking a determination of nonregulated status for corn designated as transformation event MON 88017, which has been genetically engineered for resistance to a corn rootworm complex and for tolerance to the herbicide glyphosate.
• APHIS releases EA "for a field trial of genetically engineered strains of an endophytic fungus of perennial ryegrass, Neotyphodium sp. isolate Lp1. The fungi have been genetically engineered to disrupt the ergovaline synthesis pathway."
• APHIS releases EA "for a field trial of genetically engineered strains of a bacterium, Erwinia carotovora, the causal agent of tuber soft rot disease in potato. The bacteria have been genetically engineered to disrupt the disease causing pathway."
• Corps to prepare PEIS re: maintenance and creation of Emergent Sandbar Habitat on the Upper Missouri River (More on Master Manual)
• BLM: Notice of Availability of the Proposed Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review
• FERC: Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation, Hardy Storage Company, LLC; Notice of Availability of the Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Hardy Storage and Transmission Projects
• FHwA to prepare EIS for a State Route 601 Highway Study in Harrison and Stone counties, Mississippi
• FS to prepare EIS "to document the analysis and disclose the environmental effects of the proposed action to reestablish road access provided by Forest Service Road (FSR) 2610 and Park Service Dosewallips Road to National Forest and National Park recreational facilities." (Olympic NF)
• National Indian Gaming Commission to prepare EIS for the proposed Big Sandy Casino and Resort Project, Fresno County, CA

• FERC to hold public meeting on EA for project located on the Presumpscot River at the outlet of Sebago Lake, in Cumberland County, Maine.
• FERC releases draft EA on license application for the Portal Hydroelectric Project. The project is located on Camp 61 Creek and Rancheria Creek in Fresno County, California.Southern California Edison; Notice of Availability of Draft Environmental Assessment
• Forest Service will prepare a supplemental EIS for the Sheep Flats Diversity Unit Timber Sale to present additional information concerning Management Indicator Species (MIS), and Threatened, Endangered and Sensitive Species (TES)
• NRCS: EIS is not being prepared for Chiwapa Creek Watershed, Pontotoc, Lee, and Monroe Counties, Mississippi.
• NRCS: EIS is not being prepared for the Canon City C-4 Dam Repair Project, Fremont County, Colorado.

• Rural Utilities Service will hold public scoping meetings and prepare an EIS in connection with possible impacts related to a project proposed by Associated Electric Cooperative, Inc. (AECI), with headquarters in Springfield, Missouri. The proposal consists of the construction and operation of a nominal 660 megawatt coal-based electrical generating plant and associated transmission facilities.

• BLM releases supplemental air quality analyses and information prepared for the DEIS for the Jonah Infill Drilling Project, Sublette County, Wyoming. The supplemental information will be available to the public for a 60-day review and comment period.
• FAA: Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement and Hold Scoping Meetings for proposed development at Sacramento International Airport, Sacramento, CA
• FS to prepare EIS to document and disclose the environmental impacts of a proposal to issue long-term permits for a variety of commercial pack stock related activities to twelve existing Resort Special Use Permit holders (commercial service supported by horse).
• FS to prepare EIS to document and disclose the environmental impacts of a proposal to re-issue long term permits for a variety of commercial pack stock related activities to seven existing Resort Special Use Permit holders (commercial service supported by horse) and one existing Outfitter-Guide Special Use Permit Holder (Sierra National Forest; Fresno, Madera, and Mariposa Counties, CA)
• Rural Utilities Service releases EA/FONSI in connection with a request from Basin Electric Power Cooperative of Bismarck, N.D., for financing assistance for construction of a natural gas-fired combustion turbine and associated equipment near Groton in Brown County, South Dakota.

• FERC: Northwest Pipeline Corporation; Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Capacity Replacement Project
• The Forest Service has issued an interim directive (ID) 1902.2-2005-10 to Forest Service Handbook 1909.12, section 71.12, to guide agency employees in identifying and evaluating potential wilderness areas during land management planning. This ID revises ID 1902.12-2005-8, issued March 23, 2005.
• NRCS: Notice of Availability of a Finding of No Significant Impact for the Caney-Coon Creek Watershed Site No. 2 in Coal County, OK
• NRCS issues EA/FONSI for Indian Creek Watershed Supplemental Watershed Plan, Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
• State Dept's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs issues Notice of Interpretation: "Executive Order 11423, of August 16, 1968, as amended, authorizes the Secretary of State to issue Presidential permits for the construction of facilities crossing the international borders of the United States, including, but not limited to, bridges and tunnels connecting the United States with Canada or Mexico. Section 2(a) of Executive Order 13337, dated April 30, 2004, amended Executive Order 11423, inter alia, by authorizing the Secretary of State to issue Presidential permits for ``border crossings for land transportation, including motor or rail vehicles, to or from a foreign country, whether or not in conjunction with the facilities'' to which Executive Order 11423 previously applied. This new language is found in section 1(a)(vi) of Executive Order 11423, as amended."

• BLM: Notice of Intent To Prepare a Supplement to the Statewide Oil and Gas Final Environmental Impact Statement and Amendment of the Powder River and Billings Resource Management Plans; MT
• Coast Guard reopens public comment period on the Draft Programmatic EIS for the rulemaking on Vessel and Facility Response Plans for Oil; 2003 Removal Equipment Requirements and Alternative Technology Revisions published on June 1, 2005.
• DOE releases FEIS on remediation of Moab Uranium Mill Tailings, Grand San Juan counties, Utah
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• FERC: Office of Energy Projects releases EA/FONSI for a subsequent license for the City of Marshall Hydroelectric Project, located on the Kalamazoo River near the City of Marshall, in Calhoun County, Michigan. The project does not affect federal lands.

• Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Work Group to meet Aug 30-31
• EPA: "This notice describes and seeks public comment about a collaborative effort between EPA and the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS). This effort seeks to integrate performance-based environmental leadership programs into standard operating procedures for states and EPA in order to identify, develop, and implement incentives for top environmental performers that are part of state and federal performance-based environmental leadership programs. EPA will convene a public meeting on October 19, 2005, in Chicago, Illinois, to solicit stakeholder input on the preliminary results of these collaborations."
• FS to prepare EIS Kaibab National Forest; North Kaibab Ranger District; Jacob Ryan Vegetation Management project. (" The Jacob Ryan Vegetation Management project would perform vegetation treatments on approximately 30,000 acres around Jacob Lake in Northern Arizona.")
• The Dixie and Fishlake National Forests will exercise their option to adjust the land management plan revision process from compliance with the 1982 planning regulations, to conform with new planning regulations adopted in January 2005.
• NRCS gives notice of a Finding of No Significant Impact according to the Environmental Assessment of the Big Delta State Historical Park Streambank Protection Project.

• APHIS releases EA relative to the control of saltcedar
• Army releases DEIS for the Transformation of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard's (PAARNG) 56th Brigade Into a Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) at the National Guard Training Center (NGTC)--Fort Indiantown Gap (FITG), PA
• Army releases DEIS for Military Training Activities at Makua Military Reservation (MMR), HI
• Corps to prepare a DEIS for the modification of the Kissimmee Basin Structure Operating Criteria
• Corps to prepare DSEIS for the Lake Okeechobee Regulation Schedule Study of the Central and Southern Florida Project for Flood Control and Other Purposes, Lake Okeechobee, FL ("The proposed action will be coordinated with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) pursuant to Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act, with the NMFS concerning Essential Fish Habitat, and with the State Historic Preservation Officer concerning historic and cultural resources.")
• Corps to prepare a DSEIS for the Atchafalaya Basin Floodway System, Louisiana Project, Including Flat Lake Management Unit, Beau Bayou Management Unit and Cocodrie Swamp Management Unit, and Possible Modifications or Additions to the Buffalo Cove Management Unit, Located in St. Martin, St. Mary, Iberville, and Iberia Parishes, LA
• DOE says "the Non Separations Alternative, Steam Reforming Option, as analyzed in the Final EIS and its associated Supplement Analysis (SA), DOE/ EIS-0287-SA-01, June 2005, is DOE's preferred treatment technology for the [mixed transuranic waste/sodium bearing waste]." (DOE issued FEIS in 2002 for Final Idaho High-Level Waste (HLW) and Facilities Disposition)
• Northern Natural Gas Company; Notice of Availability of the Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Bluff Creek/Tomah Expansion Project
• FERC: Calhoun LNG, L.P. and Point Comfort Pipeline Company, L.P.; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Calhoun LNG Terminal and Pipeline Project, Request for Comments on Environmental Issues, and Notice of Public Scoping Meetings and Site Visit
• FERC: Louisville Gas and Electric Company; Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment
• FERC: Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Weaver, Medina, and Coco Storage Field Well Abandonment Project and Request for Comments on Environmental Issues
• FHwA issues revised NOI to update the public, tribes, and agencies of changes made to the previous notice of intent for a proposed highway project along SR 99 in Seattle, King County, Washington.
• NASA releases FEIS for implementation of the New Horizons mission

• BPA to prepare EIS on a comprehensive management program for summer/fall Chinook salmon in the Okanogan subbasin and the Columbia River between the confluence of the Okanogan River and Chief Joseph Dam including construction, operation, and maintenance of a hatchery and acclimation ponds.
• FAA to prepare EIS for the Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park Air Tour Management Plan

• Nothing today

• FAA releases O'Hare Modernization FEIS, Final Section 4(f) and Section 6(f) Evaluation, and Final General Conformity Determination, Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, IL (Go here for FEIS)
• FAA releases Draft Programmatic EIS for Horizontal Launch and Reentry of Reentry Vehicles
  • More here
• FERC, BuRec release EIS/R for Battle Creek Salmon and Steelhead Restoration Project, Tehama and Shasta Counties, CA
• FERC Office of Energy Projects' staff has prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) for an application for a non-capacity related amendment of the Lake Almanor Development of the Upper North Fork Feather River Project. The Upper North Fork Feather River Project, FERC No. 2105, is located on the Butt Creek and North Fork Feather River in Plumas County, California.
• FS issues directive re: Administrative Procedures for Processing Appeals Under 36 CFR, Part 215, for Projects or Activities Implementing Land and Resource Management Plans on National Forest System Lands
• BLM releases Draft Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement for the Ely Field Office, Nevada
• Navy to prepare EIS for the Proposed Extension of Kilo Wharf, Apra Harbor Naval Complex, Guam and To Announce Public Scoping Meetings
• HolRail LLC--Construction and Operation Exemption--in Orangeburg and Dorchester Counties, SC

• No NEPA notices today

• BLM to prepare EIS for Geothermal Leasing for Truckhaven and Superstition Mountains.
• FS: "The National Forests in Mississippi elects to adjust its land management plan revision process from compliance with the 1982 planning regulations, to conformance with new planning regulations adopted in January 2005."
• NRCS will not prepare EIS for the rehabilitation of Lake Prairie Grove, Multiple Purpose Structure No. 4, Muddy Fork of the Illinois River Watershed, Washington County, Arkansas.
• NRCS issues EA/FONSI on St. George and Washington Canal Washington Fields Pipeline Project

• FERC issues EA/FONSI "for the City of St. George's application requesting Commission approval to surrender the exemption for the Lower Gunlock Hydroelectric Project, FERC No. 6662. The project is located on the Santa Clara River in Washington County, Utah."
• FERC to prepare EA for Freeport LNG Development, L.P.
• FS to prepare EIS: Modoc National Forest, CA; Restoration of the Sagebrush Steppe and Associated Ecosystems in Northeast California and Northwest Nevada through Improved Management of Western Juniper and Other Natural Resources. "Restoration projects will occur on National Forest lands and public lands administered by the BLM in parts of Modoc, Lassen, Shastaand Siskiyou counties, California and in Washoe County, Nevada. The planning area covers approximately 6.5 million acres of public and private land."
• Western Area Power Administration extends scoping period to Aug. 29 for the Construction and Operation of the Proposed Big Stone II Power Plant and Transmission Project, South Dakota and Minnesota, EIS

• Corps: Intent To Prepare a Supplemental EIS for Two Features of the Atchafalaya Basin Floodway System, Louisiana Project: Henderson Lake Management Unit, Which Is an Element of the Management Unit Feature in St. Martin and St. Landry Parishes, Including the Freshwater Distribution Structure for the Henderson Lake Area; and the Recreational Development Feature in St. Martin, Iberia, St. Mary, Iberville, St. Landry, and Pointe Coupee Parishes, LA
• DOI: Notice of Availability of a Final EA/FONSI for the execution of a lease of power privilege contract and the construction, operation, and maintenance of a non-federal hydroelectric generation facility on Jordanelle Dam, Wasatch County, Utah, pursuant to the lease.

• Corps of Engineers will prepare Draft Revised Supplemental EIS II (DRSEIS II) on first phase of St. Johns Bayou and New Madrid Floodway project, Missouri
• BLM: Notice of Availability of a Final Integrated Pest Management Program Environmental Impact Statement for the Horning Seed Orchard; Clackamas County, OR (BLM is working to "improve the security of BLM Websites and ... restoring site elements as they are ready for reconnection.")
• BLM releases Final Integrated Pest Management Program Environmental Impact Statement for the Provolt and Sprague Seed Orchards; Jackson and Josephine Counties, OR
• BLM releases Final Integrated Pest Management Program EIS for the Tyrrell Seed Orchard; Lane County, OR
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• FHwA to prepare EIS, with revised terminus, for the proposed I-73 highway project in eastern South Carolina.
• United States Section, International Boundary and Water Commission (USIBWC): Release of FSEIS for Clean Water Act compliance at the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant (SBIWTP), San Diego County, CA (Go here for more, possibly)
• Mississippi River Commission to hold meetings on board MISSISSIPPI V -- Cairo, Ill.; Memphis, Tenn.; Greenville, MS; Morgan City, LA, Aug. 22, 23, 24 and 26. ("Matters to be considered: (1) Summary report by President of the Commission on national and regional issues affecting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Commission programs and projects on the Mississippi River and its tributaries; (2) District Commander's overview of current project issues within the Memphis District; and (3) Presentations by local organizations and members of the public giving views or comments on any issue affecting the programs or projects of the Commission and the Corps of Engineers.")

Thursday, July 21 (July 21 Table of Contents from GPO)

• BLM, Burns District, Andrews Resource Area, Interior, to prepare EIS for the North Steens Ecosystem Restoration Project
• FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed roadway project in Polk County, Iowa. The planned EIS will evaluate potential transportation improvement alternatives for serving east-west travel between downtown Des Moines and the Highway 65 outer beltway.
• NPS releases DEIS, General Management Plan, Minidoka Internment National Monument, Jerome County, ID (More here
• NPS releases Draft General Management Plan and Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Niobrara National Scenic River, NE (Search here)
• NPS releases FSEIS for the Elwha Ecosystem Restoration Implementation; Olympic National Park, Clallam County, WA
• NPS to prepare General Management Plan and EIS, Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Illinois
• NPS to prepare draft EIS for the General Management Plan for Little River Canyon National Preserve, AL

• APHIS EA/FONSI: "We are advising the public of our determination that cotton designated as transformation Event COT102, which has been genetically engineered for insect resistance, is no longer considered a regulated article under our regulations governing the introduction of certain genetically engineered organisms. Our determination is based on our evaluation of data submitted by Syngenta Seeds, Inc., in its petition for a determination of nonregulated status, our analysis of other scientific data, and comments received from the public in response to a previous notice."
• Coast Guard: Environmental Equivalency Evaluation Index: Methodology To Assess the Oil Outflow Performance of Alternative Designs to the Double Hull Oil Tanker
• Corps corrects URL in July 14 notice on FSEIS for the Wyoming Valley Levee Raising Project, Wilkes-Barre, PA
• Corps to prepare EIS for Potential Multipurpose Projects for Flood Damage Reduction and Recreation Development Within and Along the Highland Lakes, Colorado River, TX

• Corps: Intent To Prepare a Draft EIS/R (DEIS/DEIR) for Proposed Future Permit Actions Under Section 404 of the CWA for the Newhall Ranch Specific Plan and Associated Facilities Along Portions of the Santa Clara River and Its Side Drainages, and Development of a Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances (CCAA) for the San Fernando Valley Spineflower, in Los Angeles County, California, With the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
• BIA: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Reconstruction of BIA Route 4 on the Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota
• FERC Office of Energy Projects staff has prepared an EA/FONSI for Appalachian Power Company's application requesting approval of a shoreline management plan for the Smith Mountain Pumped Storage Project, FERC No. 2210. This project is located on the Roanoke River, in Bedford, Pittsylvania, Franklin, and Campbell Counties, Virginia.
• FERC issues EA/FONSI on S.D. Warren Co's application for new license for the Eel Weir Project, located at the outlet of Sebago Lake
• FS "has issued two (2) interim directives (IDs) to Forest Service Handbook 2209.13 establishing procedures and responsibilities for administering term grazing permits and grazing agreements (a specific type of term grazing permit)."

• No NEPA notices today

• BPA issues ROD for Service to Direct Service Industrial (DSI) Customers for Fiscal Years 2007-2011
• Coast Guard releases draft programmatic EA and draft FONSI t (FONSI) for the Mark 11 Static Barrier Running Gear Entanglement System (RGES)
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• Forest Service accepts application for a special use authorization from Deerfield Wind, LLC for the installation and operation of 20 to 30 wind turbines on National Forest System (NFS) lands managed by Green Mountain National Forest (GMNF). The project would utilize approximately 80 acres of National Forest land within the Manchester District
• Pike National Forest of the Rocky Mountain Region of the Forest Service releases final Plan and FEIS and ROD for the Gold Camp Road.

• Corps releases FEIS for Wyoming Valley Levee Raising Project, Wilkes-Barre, PA
  • FEIS here
• Corps to prepare DSEIS for the Dredged Material Management Plan for the Calcasieu River and Pass, Louisiana, Federal Navigation Channel
• BLM: Notice of Intent: To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Eastside Township Fuels and Vegetation Project
• BLM: Notice of Intent To Prepare a Land Use Analysis/Environmental Impact Statement; Coal Lease Applications WVES-50556 and WVES-50560, Wayne County, WV
• DOE announces public hearings on DEIS for the proposed Consolidation of Nuclear Operations Related to Production of Radioisotope Power Systems (orig. notice published July 1)
• FS to prepare EIS on Mines Management Inc. Montanore Project, Kootenai National Forest, Lincoln County, MT

• Corps to prepare EIS/R for the Coyote Creek Watershed Management Plan Feasibility Study, Orange and Los Angeles Counties, CA
• NRCS issues EA/FONSI on project in Big Cedar Creek Watershed Floyd and Polk County, Georgia
• NRCS won't prepare EIS on proposed rehabilitation of Caballo Arroyos Site 4 (Wardy-Hedgecock Dam) in Doña Ana County, New Mexico

• Corps makes minor correction to June 28 notice, NOI re: DEIS for the Success Dam Seismic Remediation Project, CA

• FS revises NOI on Bugtown Gulch Mountain Pine Beetle and Fuels Project Hell Canyon Ranger District, Black Hills National Forest Custer, South Dakota: "The proposed action is modified to include 3 site specific, non-significant Forest Plan amendments and the decision to be made will include whether or not to approve those amendments."

• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• FERC releases EIS on 328-mile Entrega Pipeline Project, involving "the construction and operation of a new interstate natural gas pipeline system that would extend between a proposed Meeker Hub in Rio Blanco County, Colorado; to Wamsutter, in Sweetwater County, Wyoming; and continuing on to the Cheyenne Hub in Weld County, Colorado." The proposed project would be capable of transporting up to 1.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day.
• United States Section, International Boundary and Water Commission, releases DEA/draft FONSI for alternatives for improved Flood Control of the Hidalgo Protective Levee System

• Sonora Pipeline, LLC; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Burgos Hub Export/Import Project, and Notice of Request for Comments on Environmental Issues; Site Visit
• NSF releases draft EA for proposed activities in the Pacific Ocean

• FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway improvement project in eastern Sussex County, Delaware
• FTA and the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) intend to prepare a joint EIS/R for proposed transit service to eastern Contra Costa County. The project would extend service from the existing BART terminus station at Pittsburg/BayPoint, through the communities of Pittsburg, Antioch, Brentwood, and Oakley, to a new terminus in Byron
• Forest Service, Angeles NF, and the Palmdale Water District will prepare a joint EIS/R, to evaluate a proposed project and alternatives. The district proposes to excavate sediment from the Littlerock Reservoir and construct a grade control structure located on Littlerock Creek, in Los Angeles County
• The Shasta-Trinity National Forest proposes to authorize a 30-year term permit to Seven Resorts, Inc. to build and operate a resort marina at Turntable Bay located in section 22 & 27, T34N, R4W, MDBM on Shasta Lake.
• Forest Service, Craig Ranger District will prepare an EIS to consider a proposal to harvest timber from Suemez Island, located on the Craig Ranger District, Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska

• FERC to prepare EA to discuss the environmental impacts of the Wisconsin 2006 Expansion Project involving construction and operation of facilities by ANR Pipeline Company (ANR) in Rock, Outagamie, Marinette, Dane, Marathon, and Columbia Counties, Wisconsin
• FERC to prepare EIS on environmental impacts of Florida Gas Transmission Company's (FGT) proposed Phase VII Expansion Project, which would involve construction in portions of Florida as discussed below. This project is directly connected to Southern Natural Gas Company's proposed Cypress Pipeline Project.
• HHS "has decided to approve the Proposed Action, the Master Plan 2003 Update, as the guide for the future growth and development of the Bethesda [NIH] campus."
• NRCS issues EA/FONSI for the rehabilitation of Hatch Valley Arroyos Site 6 (Garfield Dam) in Doña Ana County, New Mexico ("The project purpose is flood damage reduction. The action includes the rehabilitation of a floodwater retarding dam.")

Monday, July 4: No FR notices

Friday, July 1 (July 1 Table of Contents from GPO)

• Corps to prepare DEIS for construction and operation of an Open Pit Copper/Nickel/Cobalt/Precious Metals Mine, an Ore Processing Plant, and Tailings Basin Proposed by PolyMet Mining, Inc. Near Babbitt and Hoyt Lakes in St. Louis County, MN
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed transportation project in Dallas County, Texas
• FS: "The Environmental Protection Agency published in the Federal Register of February 3, 2004, a notice of intent to prepare an EIS for the Ashley-Dry Fork Grazing Allotments. This document removes that notice of intent."
• NSF corrects web links in June 23 FR notice re: FONSI on proposed activities in the Arctic.
• TVA to prepare EIS for Rutherford-Williamson-Davidson Power Supply Improvement Project

• FAA releases EA/FONSI/ROD re: proposed extension of Runway 10R/28L for the Capital City Airport located in Lansing, MI
• FERC releases EA/FONSI on Erie Boulevard Hydropower's application for a new license for the Piercefield Hydroelectric Project, located on the Raquette River, in St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, New York
• FERC to prepare EA for the Proposed Wisconsin 2006 Expansion Project
• FERC to prepare EIS on Florida Gas Transmission Company's "proposed Phase VII Expansion Project, which would involve construction in portions of Florida..."
• Forest Service will prepare EIS on environmental effects of timber harvest, prescribed fire, and watershed rehabilitation in the Marten Creek project area on the Cabinet Ranger District of the Kootenai National Forest.
• The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is extending until July 15, 2005, the period for interested persons to submit comments on the March

• FS releases EA for the North Light Creek Bridge Replacement, Hiawatha National Forest, Munising Ranger District, Alger County, MI

• APHIS releases EA/FONSI on Ventria Bioscience -- Field Tests of Genetically Engineered Rice Expressing Lysozyme
• APHIS releases EA/FONSI on field Tests of Genetically Engineered Rice Expressing Lactoferrin
• Corps releases Draft General Reevaluation Report and Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Poplar Island Environmental Restoration Project, Talbot County, MD
• Corps to prepare EIS on an application for a CWA Section 404 permit by the Angelina & Neches River Authority for the Construction of Lake Columbia, a Proposed 10,000-Surface-Acre Water Supply Reservoir in Smith and Cherokee Counties, TX
• Corps to prepare a DEIS for the Success Dam Seismic Remediation Project, CA
• BuRec releases FEIS for the Central Valley Project Long-Term Water Service Contract Renewals--American River Division
• FS to prepare EIS, Angeles National Forest, California, Antelope-Pardee 500-kV Transmission Project
• NPS extends public comment period on revised Draft Backcountry Management Plan, General Management Plan Amendment and EIS, Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska

• APHIS: Monsanto Co. and Forage Genetics International; Availability Determination of Nonregulated Status for Alfalfa Genetically Engineered for Tolerance to the Herbicide Glyphosate
• FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in Lee and Collier Counties, Florida
• NSF releases FONSI for a Biocomplexity Study of the Response of Tundra Carbon Balance to Warming and Drying Across Multiple Time Scales
• NSF releases ROD following a Final Comprehensive Environmental Evaluation for Antarctic Activities

• BLM releases final programmatic EIS on Wind Energy Development on BLM-Administered Lands in the Western United States, Including Proposed Amendments to Selected Land Use Plans
  • More here
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• NPS: revises boundary of Biscayne National Park
• NPS releases FEIS for the Fire Management Plan, Chiricahua National Monument
• NPS releases draft General Management Plan and EIS for the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, Indiana
• NPS will prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for a Comprehensive Site Plan for the Warner Valley area in Lassen Volcanic National Park, Plumas County, Calif..
• NPS to prepare EIS for the Winter Use Plans, Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Memorial Parkway
• NRCS to prepare EIS for the Cape Cod Watershed, Barnstable County, Massachusetts
• Navy to prepare supplement to the 2003 EIS for introduction of the F/A-18 E/F (Super Hornet) Aircraft to the East Coast of the United States

• NSF: Notice of the Availability of Finding of No Significant Impact for a Marine Geophysical Survey in the Arctic Ocean
• NSF to prepare EIS for the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) at the Haleakala High Altitude Observatory (HO) Site, Mt. Haleakala, Island of Maui, HI

• Corps releases Draft General Reevaluation Report and Supplemental EIS for the Poplar Island Environmental Restoration Project, Talbot County, MD (More here)
• FERC: Florida Gas Transmission Company; Notice Of Intent To Prepare An Environmental Assessment For The Proposed SR 91 Widening Project And Request For Comments On Environmental Issues
• Forest Service will prepare an EIS that will evaluate alternatives to provide pack stock outfitter and guide services on the Methow Valley, Chelan and Tonasket Ranger Districts of the Okanogan and Wenatchee National Forests

• BLM: Burley, Idaho Field Office of the Twin Falls District of the Bureau of Land Management, located in Cassia County, has prepared a draft EIS/resource management plan amendment to consider whether or not to grant a right-of-way and amend the 1985 Cassia Resource Management Plan (Cassia RMP)
• FTA, in cooperation with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, and supported by the New York City Economic Development Corporation, will prepare an EIS to evaluate alternatives that provide improved commuter and airport access connecting Lower Manhattan with the Long Island Rail Road Jamaica Station in Queens and with JFK International Airport.
• NPS Notice of Availability of the Final EIS for the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail Comprehensive Management Plan
• NPS has prepared the Final Merced Wild and Scenic River Revised Comprehensive Management Plan and Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
• NPS will prepare a General Management Plan and EIS for Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park, located in Frederick, Shenandoah, and Warren counties of Virginia.
• NPS is preparing an EIS for Middle Fork Avalanche Hazard Reduction for Glacier National Park, Montana.

• BuRec proposes to participate and serve as the lead agency under NEPA in the preparation of a joint EIS/EIR on the Lower Yuba River Accord
• FERC to prepare EA on Freeport LNG Development's proposal to amend its authorization for its Freeport LNG Project

• BLM releases FEIS for regulatory amendments of grazing regulations for the public lands (More here)
• Coast Guard, Maritime Administration release DEIS on Freeport-McMoRan Energy LLC Main Pass Energy Hub Liquefied Natural Gas Deepwater Port License Application
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment
• FERC releases FEIS for proposed Ingleside Energy Center LNG Terminal And Pipeline Project

• DOE issues ROD for West Valley Demonstration Project Waste Management Activities
• OSM plans to prepare an EIS analyze the effects of possibly revising our regulations pertaining to excess spoil generation and disposal and stream buffer zones

• BLM: Notice of Intent to prepare the South National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska Integrated Activity Plan and an accompanying EIS, Request for Information, Call for Nominations and Comments, and Solicitation of Interest in Hardrock and Coal Mining
• "The Secretary of the Interior has directed the Bureau of Reclamation to develop additional Colorado River management strategies to address operations of Lake Powell and Lake Mead under low reservoir conditions. It is anticipated that, among other potential elements, these strategies could identify those circumstances under which the Department of the Interior would reduce annual water deliveries, and the manner in which annual operations would be modified."
• Coast Guard to hold public hearings on draft Programmatic EIS for Vessel and Facility Response Plans for Oil: 2003 Removal Equipment Requirements and Alternative Technology Revisions

• FHwA to prepare EIS for the extension of Elizabeth Brady Road in Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina (TIP Project U-3808)
• Dakota Prairie Grasslands; North Dakota and South Dakota; Dakota Prairie Grasslands Noxious Weed Management Strategy EIS
• Forest Service is preparing EIS to consider and disclose the effects of amending the Carson National Forest's 1987 Land and Resource Management Plan to incorporate standards and guidelines for the management of the Valle Vidal area of the Carson National Forest. The proposed Forest Plan amendment includes a recommendation for a special area designation of the "Upper Ponil Botanical Area"
• NRCS releases EA/FONSI for rehabilitation of Floodwater Retarding Structure No. 18A of the Little Elm and Laterals Watershed of the Trinity River Watershed, Collin County, TX
• NRCS releases EA/FONSI for rehabilitation of Floodwater Retarding Structure Nos. 1A, 2B, 4, and 17 of the East Fork Above Lavon Watershed of the Trinity River Watershed, Collin County, TX

Nothin' Monday, June 13...

Friday, June 10 (June 10 Table of Contents from GPO)

• Coast Guard, Maritime Administration: Beacon Port Natural Gas Deepwater Port License Application; Preparation of Environmental Impact Statement
• Corps: Intent To Prepare a Draft Revised General Reevaluation Report/Second Supplemental EIS (RGRR/SEIS) for the Modified Water Deliveries to Everglades National Park, Tamiami Trail Feature
• Corps: Intent To Prepare a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed River Islands Project, in San Joaquin County, CA
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review
• FERC: Liberty Gas Storage, L.L.C.; Notice of Extension of Scoping Period Closing Date
• Notice of Availability of the California Coastal National Monument Proposed Resource Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement

• FERC issues FEIS on the liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal and natural gas pipeline facilities in Jefferson, Orange, and Newton Counties, Texas, and Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, proposed by Golden Pass LNG Terminal L.P. and Golden Pass Pipeline L.P. (collectively referred to as Golden Pass) in the above-referenced dockets
• FERC to prepare EA on National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation and Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company's proposed Northeast Connexion-NY/NJ Project