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Friday, Feb. 28 (Feb. 28 Table of Contents from GPO)
- APHIS releases EA/FONSI on Giant Salvinia (2/28, p. 9633-4)
- Corps won't prepare a supplemental EIS to the Central and Southern Florida Project Comprehensive Review Study Integrated Feasibility Report and
Programmatic EIS on the Water Preserve Areas Feasibility Study (2/28, p. 9644)
- Corps, EPA extend until April 16 comment period on "waters of the U.S." ANPR (2/28, p. 9613)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (2/28, p. 9651-2)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (2/28, p. 9650-1)
- NPS to prepare an EIS for the General Management Plan for the Buck Island Reef National Monument (2/28, p. 9713)
- NPS to prepare an EIS for the General Management Plan for the Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument (2/28, p. 9713-4)
- NPS to prepare an EIS for the General Management Plan for Virgin Islands National Park (2/28, p. 9714-5)
Thursday, Feb. 27 (Feb. 27 Table of Contents from GPO)
Wednesday, Feb. 26 (Feb. 26 Table of Contents from GPO)
- BLM issues ROD on Coos County's plans to allow the
construction and operation of the 12-inch natural gas pipeline across federal lands (2/26, p. 8923)
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- BuRec plans to prepare EIS for the Humboldt
Project Conveyance (2/26, p. 8924)
- DOJ issues EA concluding that the methamphetamine investigation and clandestine laboratory closure activities of the Methamphetamine/Drug
Hot Spots Program will not have significant impact on the quality of the human environment. (2/26, p. 8926-7)
- FS extends comment period for the proposed Middle Little Salmon Vegetation Management Project Draft EIS. (2/26, p. 8874)
- The Soda Springs Ranger District, Caribou-Targhee National Forest, will be preparing an EIS to analyze the effects of authorizing grazing on several cattle allotments. (2/26, p. 8874-5)
- FS corrects Feb. 6 notice re: Flagtail Fire Recovery Project, Malheur National Forest, Grant County, OR (2/26, p. 8967)
Tuesday, Feb. 25 (Feb. 25 Table of Contents from GPO)
Monday, Feb. 24 (Feb. 24 Table of Contents from GPO)
Friday, Feb. 21 (Feb. 21 Table of Contents from GPO)
Thursday, Feb. 20 (Feb. 20 Table of Contents from GPO)
Wednesday, Feb. 19 (Feb. 19 Table of Contents from GPO)
Tuesday, Feb. 18 (Feb. 18 Table of Contents from GPO)
- APHIS releases EA "relative to the licensing of Brucella Abortus Vaccine, Strain RB-51, Live Culture." (2/18, p. 7761)
- BLM releases supplemental draft EIS for the Jack Morrow Hills Coordinated Activity Plan/Draft Green River Resource Management Plan Amendment (2/18, p. 7800-1)
- BLM to prepare full field development EIS in connection with ConocoPhillips's Alpine Satellite Development Program within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) and in the Colville River Delta. (2/18, p. 7802-3)
- FERC to prepare an EIS for the Proposed Tractebel Calypso Pipeline Project, announces public scoping meeting and site visit (2/18, p. 7784-8)
- NRCS says it won't prepare an EIS for the Lingle-Ft.
Laramie Water Quality Project, Goshen County, Wyoming. (2/18, p. 7763-4)
- NRCS issues FONSI for the Upper Knapps Creek Watershed Natural Stream Restoration Demonstration Project, Pocahontas County, WV (2/18, p. 7764-5)
Friday, Feb. 14 (Feb. 14 Table of Contents from GPO)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (2/14, p. 7535-6)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (2/14, p. 7536)
- AA's intention to conduct a Public
Information Meeting on behalf of the FAA's ongoing Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) for the proposed Modernization Program for O'Hare
International Airport (2/14, p. 7646-7)
- FERC releases EA for application for license for the Red
Creek Hydroelectric Project located on Red Creek, in Iron County, Utah (2/14, p. 7524)
- FERC to prepare EA for the proposed Wyckoff Gas Storage Project (2/14, p. 7526-7)
- he Helena National Forest is proposing a revision of the
existing year-round travel management plan in the northern portion of
the Big Belt Mountains and portions of the Dry Range on the Helena and
Townsend Ranger Districts (2/14, p. 7495-6)
Thursday, Feb. 13 (Feb. 13 Table of Contents from GPO)
Wednesday, Feb. 12 (Feb. 12 Table of Contents from GPO)
Tuesday, Feb. 11 (Feb. 11 Table of Contents from GPO)
Monday, Feb. 10 (Feb. 10 Table of Contents from GPO)
- BLM to prepare EIS for the development of the Timber Mountain/John's Peak Off-Highway Vehicle Management Plan (2/10, p. 6762-3)
- BLM to prepare a Wild Horse Management Amendment to the Elko Resource Management Plan and Associated EA (2/10, p. 6769-70)
- BLM to prepare a Resource Management Plan for the Ely District and associated EIS (2/10, p. 6770-1)
- BLM to prepare a Recreation Area Management Plan
and an amendment to the Gunnison Resource Management Plan for the Hartman Rocks Recreation Area in Gunnison County, Colorado. (2/10, p. 6761-2)
- Forest Service, BLM to prepare a supplemental EIS to amend forest plans in Southwest Oregon for Management of Port-Orford-Cedar (2/10, p. 6709-10)
- FHwA, in cooperation with the Montana DOT, has prepared a draft EIS for proposed transportation improvements along the I-15 Corridor in Helena, Lewis & Clark and Jefferson counties, Montana. (2/10, p. 6793-4)
- USDA proposes rule to implement the provisions of Title II of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 relating to the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (2/10, p. 6655-73)
- HUD to prepare draft EIS for Park Lake Homes, King County, WA (2/10, p. 6755-6)
Friday, Feb. 7 (Feb. 7 Table of Contents from GPO)
- BuRec, in cooperation with the California Department of Parks and Recreation, proposes to prepare a draft PEIS/EIR for the San Luis Reservoir and Los Banos Creek State Recreation Area (2/7, p. 6509-10)
- DOD releases Ground-Based Midcourse Defense
Extended Test Range Draft EIS (2/7, p. 6420-1)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (2/7, p. 6449-50)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (2/7, p. 6449)
- FS to prepare EIS on Lake Project, "to salvage dead, insect infested and dying trees" in Manti-La Sal National Forest, Emery and Sanpete counties, Utah (2/7, p. 6401-2)
- NPS to prepare an EIS for Harriet Tubman Special Resource Study (2/7, p. 6508-9)
Thursday, Feb. 6 (Feb. 6 Table of Contents from GPO)
Wednesday, Feb. 5 (Feb. 5 Table of Contents from GPO)
- CEQ will host a public meeting Feb. 6 for stakeholders to clarify and respond to comments filed on the proposed rule to establish programmatic regulations for the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (2/5, p. 5860)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for construction of a proposed four-lane highway in west central Illinois through portions of Peoria, Fulton, and McDonough counties (2/5, p. 5971)
- FS rescinds NOI to prepare an EIS for the North Belts Travel Plan Project on the Helena and Townsend Ranger Districts of the Helena NF (2/5, p. 5866)
- FS corrects Aug. 22 NOI to prepare an EIS for the Green Ridge Mountain Pine Beetle Analysis, Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests and Thunder Basin National Grassland, Jackson County, Colorado. The original notice designated the Regional Forester as the Responsible Official. The Forest Supervisor is the Responsible Official. (2/5, p. 5866)
- NPS releases draft rural landscape management
program, EIS for Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio. (2/5, p. 5919)
- NPS begins a conservation planning and environmental impact analysis process for a new General Management Plan for San Juan Island National Park (2/5, p. 5919-20)
Tuesday, Feb. 4 (Feb. 4 Table of Contents from GPO)
Monday, Feb. 3 (Feb. 3 Table of Contents from GPO)
- BuRec temporarily closes 171 acres of federal land to public access. The closure will protect a mitigation area for the San Joaquin kit fox, and includes all lands, waters, and facilities within the fence enclosure west and east of the
San Luis Canal and adjacent to the San Luis Canal R.O.W. in Merced County, California (2/3, p. 5307)
- BuRec to prepare programmatic EIS/EIR for Millerton Lake Resource Management Plan and General Plan, Fresno and Madera counties, Calif. (2/3, p. 5307-8)
- Forest Service to prepare an EIS for the Emigrant Wilderness Dams on the Stanislaus NF, Tuolumne County, CA (2/3, p. 5267-9)
Friday, Jan. 31 (Jan. 31 Table of Contents from GPO)
Thursday, Jan. 30 (Jan. 30 Table of Contents from GPO)
Wednesday, Jan. 29 (Jan. 29 Table of Contents from GPO)
Tuesday, Jan. 28 (Jan. 28 Table of Contents from GPO)
NRCS to prepare EIS for Williamson River Delta Restoration Project (1/28, p. 4166)
Monday, Jan. 27 (Jan. 27 Table of Contents from GPO)
- BLM's Arizona State Office will prepare an Arizona Statewide Land Use Plan Amendment to incorporate current fire management policy and to prepare an EA that will amend seven land use plans (1/27, p. 3892-3)
- FERC to prepare EA for Red Lake Gas Storage, L.P.'s proposed project in Mohave County, Arizona (1/27, p. 3878)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project on Interstate 25 in Pueblo, Colorado, from south of Pueblo Boulevard/State Highway 45 (Milepost 94) to north of U.S. Highway 50/State Highway 47 (Milepost 102). (1/27, p. 3929-30)
- TVA issues ROD for Pickwick Reservoir Land Management Plan, Lauderdale and Colbert Counties, Ala.; Tishomingo County, Miss., and Hardin County, TN (1/27, p. 3927-9)
Friday, Jan. 24 (Jan. 24 Table of Contents from GPO)
- BLM to prepare EIS for restoration and timber salvage within the timbered rock fire, Medford District, Ore. (1/24, p. 3545-6)
- BIA to prepare EIS for the drilling of additional exploration and development natural gas wells in and adjacent to the Muddy Ridge and Pavilion fields and the surrounding areas, Wind River Indian Reservation, Fremont County, Wyoming. (1/24, p. 3543-4)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (1/24, p. 3526-7)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (1/24, p. 3526)
- FERC releases EA/FONSI for Revised Shoreline Management Plan (SMP) for the Catawba-Wateree Project (1/24, p. 3523-4)
Thursday, Jan. 23 (Jan. 23 Table of Contents from GPO)
Wednesday, Jan. 22 (Jan. 22 Table of Contents from GPO)
Tuesday, Jan. 21 (Jan. 21 Table of Contents from GPO)
- FHwA rescinds NOI to prepare EIS for improvements proposed to U.S. 34, from Interstate 29 in Mills County, IA, to U.S. 75 in Cass or Sarpy county in Nebraska (1/21, p. 2814)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed bridge and roadway improvement project in Sarpy County, Nebraska, and in Mills County, Iowa. (1/21, p. 2813-4)
- NRCS issues FONSI for West Fork Kickapoo River Watershed, Vernon County, Wisconsin. (1/21, p. 2749-50)
Friday, Jan. 17 (Jan. 17 Table of Contents from GPO)
- BLM releases Northwest National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska Draft Integrated Activity Plan/EIS (1/17, p. 2568-9)
- BLM releases Montana Statewide Oil and Gas Final
EIS and proposed amendment to the Powder River and Billings Resource Management Plans (1/17, p. 2569-70)
- BLM releases FEIS for the Powder River Basin Oil and Gas Project and proposed RMP amendments; Johnson, Sheridan, Campbell, and
Converse Counties, WY (1/17, p. 2570-2)
- Army Corps of Engineers to prepare draft EIS for the
Mid-Chesapeake Bay Island, MD, Environmental Restoration Feasibility Study (1/17, p. 2532-3)
- BuRec, California Department of Parks and Recreation will prepare a General Plan/Resource Management Plan for the Folsom Lake State Recreation Area (including Lake Natoma and the Folsom Powerhouse State Historic Park) (1/17, p. 2573-4)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (1/17, p. 2539-40)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (1/17, p. 2538-9)
- FS to prepare Gallatin National Forest Invasive Plant Treatment EIS, Gallatin County, Madison County, Meagher County, Park County, Sweet Grass County, and Stillwater County, MT (1/17, p. 2493-4)
- Forest Service will prepare an EIS on timber harvest, prescribed fire, road management, and watershed rehabilitation in the Fortine Analysis Area on the Fortine Ranger District of the Kootenai National Forest (1/17, p. 2494-5)
Thursday, Jan. 16 (Jan. 16 Table of Contents from GPO)
- DOI, USDA extend comment period for proposed
categorical exclusions for fire management activities (1/16, p. 2309-10)
- NPS to prepare EIS for mountain lake fisheries management in North Cascades National Park Service Complex, Washington (1/16, p. 2355-6)
- NPS begins conservation planning and environmental
impact analysis process for an interagency regional trail management plan (TMP) for the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (1/16, p. 2356-7)
- NPS to prepare EIS for a general management plan for Amistad National Recreation Area, Texas (1/16, p. 2351-2)
- NPS releases EA on managing flight obstructions to
preserve safety at Andrews Air Force Base (1/16, p. 2352-3)
- General Management Plan/Draft Environmental Impact Statement for
Arkansas Post National Memorial (1/16, p. 2353)
- NPS releases FEIS for the Fort Davis National
Historic Site; Texas (1/16, p. 2353-4)
- NPS to prepare EIS/GMP for Great Sand Dunes National Monument and Preserve (1/16, p. 2354-5)
- NPS releases final EIS/General Management Plans for Wupatki and Sunset Crater Volcano National Monuments, Arizona (1/16, p. 2355)
Wednesday, Jan. 15 (Jan. 15 Table of Contents from GPO)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for the proposed construction of an extension of Newtown Pike (Fayette County, KY) on a new alignment. (1/15, p. 2104-5)
- NRCS says it won't prepare EIS for the GIWW
Bankline Restoration Project, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. (1/15, p. 2007)
- NRCS will prepare EIS for Porter Bayou Watershed, Bolivar and Sunflower Counties, Mississippi. (1/15, p. 2007)
- Rural Utilities Service is proposing to amend its
existing environmental regulations, Environmental Policies and Procedures, which have served as RUS' implementation of NEPA (1/15, p. 2078-84)
Tuesday, Jan. 14 (Jan. 7 Table of Contents from GPO)
- BPA proposes to rebuild the Raymond-Cosmopolis 115-kilovolt transmission line in western Washington State. The proposed rebuild is needed to increase transmission line capacity and to address safety and reliability concerns because the transmission line is old, physically worn, and structurally unsound in some areas.
The 18.3-mile-long transmission line traverses wetlands and floodplains located in both Pacific and Grays Harbor Counties. (1/14, p. 1828-9)
- FERC issues EA/FONSI on application for surrender of
project license for the Fort Halifax Project, located on the Sebasticook River, Kennebec County, Maine, (1/14, p. 1841-2)
- Rural Utilities Service issues FONSI re: request from Georgia Transmission Corporation for financing assistance from RUS to finance the construction of a 230/115 kV switching station and a 230 kV transmission line in Heard and Coweta Counties, Georgia. (1/14, p. 1815-16)
Monday, Jan. 13 (Jan. 13 Table of Contents from GPO)
Friday, Jan. 10 (Jan. 10 Table of Contents from GPO)
- BLM will prepare SEIS of the final EIS for the Flood
Control Master Plan, Clark County Regional Flood Control District, approved June 4, 1991, by record of decision. (1/10, p. 1475-6)
- BIA, in cooperation with the Jamul Indian Village and the
National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC), intends to file a draft EIS with EPA for the proposed approval of a 101-acre fee-to-trust transfer, a gaming management contract and the construction of associated casino and support facilities in San Diego County, CA (1/10, p. 1475)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (1/10, p. 1458)
- DOE withdraws NOI to prepare EIS for the proposed Wind Farm at the Nevada Test Site (1/10, p. 1448)
- FHWA to prepare Tier I EIS for a proposal to improve capacity on Trunk Highway (TH) 41 between TH 169 and proposed TH 212, including a crossing of the Minnesota River, in Scott and Carver counties, Minnesota (1/10, p. 1507-8)
Thursday, Jan. 9 (Jan. 7 Table of Contents from GPO)
- BIA cancels final programmatic EIS for the proposed Navajo 10-year forest management plan, Navajo Nation, Arizona/New Mexico (1/9, p. 1189-90)
- BIA to prepare EIS for the proposed Integrated Resource Management Plan for the Spokane Indian Reservation, Stevens County, WA (1/9, p. 1190-1)
- BIA to prepare EIS for a proposed Tribal Light Industrial Park, Umatilla Indian Reservation, Umatilla County, OR (1/9, p. 1191)
- BuRrec releases draft EIS on impacts of alternatives to lower the minimum surface elevation for Banks Lake in Washington in August from 1,565 feet to 1,560 feet. (1/9, p. 1196-7)
Wednesday, Jan. 8 (Jan. 8 Table of Contents from GPO)
- DOE will prepare EIS for retrieval, treatment, and disposal of tank waste and closure of single-shell tanks at the Hanford Site, Richland, Wash. (1/8, p. 1052-7)
- FHwA proposes rule (in line with TEA-21) to provide for the development and implementation of safety, bridge, pavement, and congestion management systems for transportation facilities serving the National Wildlife Refuge System funded under the Federal Lands Highway program (1/8, p. 1096-1104)
- FHwA proposes rule "to provide for the development and
implementation of safety, bridge, pavement, and congestion management systems for transportation facilities providing access to and within the National Forests and funded under the FLHP." (1/8, p. 1088-96)
- FHwA proposes "to provide for the development and
implementation of pavement, bridge, safety, and congestion management systems for transportation facilities providing access to Indian lands and funded under the FLHP." (1/8, p. 1105-14)
- FHwA "proposes to provide for the development and
implementation of safety, bridge, pavement, and congestion management systems for transportation facilities under National Park Service jurisdiction and funded under the FLHP." (1/8, p. 1079-88)
- FS asks for comments on proposal that would add three
categorical exclusions to Section 31.2 that are applicable to small timber harvesting projects. (1/8, p. 1026-30)
Tuesday, Jan. 7 (Jan. 7 Table of Contents from GPO)
Monday, Jan. 6 (Jan. 6 Table of Contents from GPO)
Friday, Jan. 3 (Jan. 3 Table of Contents from GPO)
Thursday, Jan. 2 (Jan. 2 Table of Contents from GPO)
Tuesday, Dec. 31 (Dec. 31 Table of Contents from GPO)
Monday, Dec. 30 (Dec. 30 Table of Contents from GPO)
- Army releases Notice of Availability (NOA) of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Destruction of Chemical Agents and Munitions
at Blue Grass Army Depot, KY (12/30, p. 79063-4)
- Corps to prepare Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact
Statement for the Port of the Americas Port Complex (12/30, p. 79575-6)
- Non-NEPA notice, but interesting. EPA proposes to delay until March 10, 2005, the "permit authorization deadline for National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES) storm water permits for oil and gas construction activity that disturbs one to five acres of land." Permit requirements are scheduled to go into effect March 10, but EPA says it need smore time to study the impact of the permitting requirements on oil and gas operators, whose interest in getting authorizations was apparently much higher than EPA anticipated. "EPA assumed that few, if any, oil and gas
exploration, production, processing, or treatment operations or transmission facilities would be affected by the rule. Since rule promulgation, information has become available indicating that close to 30,000 oil and gas sites per year may be affected by the December 8, 1999, storm water regulations." (12/30, p. 79827-32)
- DOE: otice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement and
To Conduct Public Scoping Meetings, and Notice of Floodplain and
Wetlands Involvement for Remediation of the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings
Site in Grand County, UT (12/30, p. 79588)
- FS to prepare EIS on proposal to allow continued grazing in the Santa Rosa Ranger District, Humboldt-Toiyabe NF (12/30, p. 79557-9)
- FS issues revised NOI on Upper West Fork Weiser Vegetation Project in Payette NF, Idaho (12/30, p. 79559-60)
- FS to prepare SEIS on various projects within Payette NF: Sloan-Kennally Timber Sale, Goose Creek Watershed Projects, Brown Creek Timber Sale, Middle Fork Weiser Vegetation Management Project; Little Weiser Vegetation Management Project Martin Basin Rangeland Project (12/30, p. 79560-1)
- FS revises Nov. 22, 2000, NOI on Interface Recreation Trails Project, Stanislaus NF, Calif. (12/30, p. 79561-2)
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Friday, Dec. 27 (Dec. 27 Table of Contents from GPO)
Thursday, Dec. 26 (Dec. 26 Table of Contents from GPO)
- Corps to prepare draft EIS for a Special Area Management for the San Jacinto River and Upper Santa Margarita River Watersheds, Riverside County, CA (12/26, p. 78787-8)
- FHwA proposes to sign an agreement with FWS designating 25 acres of property owned by the Colorado DOT as a habitat
conservation bank for the Preble's Meadow Jumping Mouse (12/26, p. 78853-4)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed east/west minor arterial connection between Trunk Highway 15 and TH 10, including a crossing of the Mississippi River, in an area south of 10th Street South and north of Interstate 94 in the St. Cloud Metropolitan Area, Sherburne and Stearns Counties, Minnesota (12/26, p. 78854-5)
- FS to prepare re: construction of the well pads, access roads, production facilities, utilites, and pipelines proposed under the Surface Use Plan
of Operations (SUPO's) for the Equity 23-21 and 32-4 oil and gas wells located in the Bell Lake Inventoried Roadless Area (North Dakota) (12/26, p. 78768-9)
- NRCS says it will not prepare EIS for the Mill Creek
Watershed, Richland County, Wisconsin. (12/26, p. 78769-71)
Tuesday, Dec. 24 (Dec. 24 Table of Contents from GPO)
Tuesday, Dec. 23 (Dec. 23 Table of Contents from GPO)
- FHWA and FTA, in cooperation with the New York State Thruway Authority and the Metro-North Railroad, will prepare an Alternatives Analysis and an EIS for the I-287 Corridor in Westchester and Rockland Counties, NY, which includes the Tappan Zee Bridge, the Corridor's most important infrastructure element (12/23, p. 78267-8)
- NPS will prepare a draft EIS for the General Management Plan for Canaveral National Seashore (12/23, p. 78242)
- NPS to prepare EIS for the general management plan amendment for Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, Ohio (12/23, p. 78242-3)
- TVA won't prepare EIS on the addition of electric generation baseload capacity in Tennessee (12/23, p. 78266)
Friday, Dec. 20 (Dec. 20 Table of Contents from GPO)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (12/20, p. 77981)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (12/20, p. 77980-1)
- DOE to prepare an EIS, conduct scoping meetings re: plans to remediate Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Site in Grand County, Utah. "The Colorado River adjacent to the site has also been negatively affected from site-related contamination, mostly due to ground water discharge. The primary site-related contaminant in surface water is ammonia, which potentially affects endangered fish species in the river. Concentrations of other constituents, particularly uranium and
manganese, are also elevated in surface water samples." (12/20, p. 77969-73)
Thursday, Dec. 19 (Dec. 19 Table of Contents from GPO)
- BLM plans to prepare EIS/land use amendment, to
consider the proposed Cotterel Mountain Wind Energy Project, located southeast of the town of Albion in Cassia County, Idaho (12/19, p. 77801-2)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for proposed highway project PIN 0016.20, Reconstruction of NY Route 112, I-495 to Skips Road (Mill Road Connector), Suffolk County, New York. (12/19, p. 77823)
- State Dept. publishes notice listing the full text of the conservation measures adopted at the Twenty-First meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (12/19, p. 77875-901)
Wednesday, Dec. 18 (Dec. 18 Table of Contents from GPO)
Tuesday, Dec. 17 (Dec. 17 Table of Contents from GPO)
Monday, Dec. 16 (Dec. 16 Table of Contents from GPO)
- APHIS requests comments on a petition from Aventis CropScience "seeking a determination of nonregulated status for cotton designated as
Transformation Event LLCotton25, which has been genetically engineered for tolerance to the herbicide glufosinate." (12/16, p. 77034-5)
- DOI: Changes proposed to clarify who has standing in BLM land appeals and to allow BLM "wildfire management decisions" to remain effective even while being appealed. (12/16, p. 77011-5)
- Corps, with city of Long Beach, releases revised draft EIS/EIR for the Pier J South Marine Terminal Expansion project. (12/16, p. 77056)
- FERC releases EA on application for a nonpower
license for the Keuka Hydroelectric Project, located between Waneta Lake and Lamoka Lake impoundments, and Keuka Lake in Steuben and Schuyler Counties (12/16, p. 77059)
- Federal Law Enforcement Training Center releases EA "related to the acquisition of county roads in Glynn County, Georgia." The FLETC wants to "close the portions of each road that are located adjacent to the tract of land that FLETC is proposing to purchase, create cul-de-sacs/entry gates at the terminal points for both roads, and construct a security fence and a perimeter road on the northern and eastern perimeter of the parcel." (12/16, p. 77130-1)
- Forest Service, Interior Dept. propose to add two categorical exclusions under NEPA: "(1) Hazardous fuels reduction activities (such as thinning overstocked stands and brush); and (2) activities for rehabilitating and stabilizing lands and infrastructure (such as reseeding) impacted by wildland fires or fire suppression." (12/16, p. 77038-44)
Friday, Dec. 13 (Dec. 13 Table of Contents from GPO)
- BLM says protests can be filed until Jan. 13 on proposed ORV trail changes in the Western Colorado Desert (WECO) portion of Imperial County, CA. Changes are contained in an amendment to the California Desert Conservation Area Plan (12/13, p. 76755-6)
- Army Corps of Engineers plans to prepare a joint EIS/EIR for the Sacramento and San Joaquin River Basins Comprehensive Study, Hamilton City Flood Damage Reduction and Ecosystem Restoration, Glenn County, CA (12/13, p. 76731-2)
- Corps to prepare draft programmatic EIS "to identify problems, opportunities, and potential measures to reduce flood damages in the
floodplains of the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers." (12/13, p. 76732-3)
- EPA releases summaries of comments on draft and final EIS's (12/13, p. 76740-1)
- EPA receives draft and final EIS's for review (12/13, p. 76740)
- FS will prepare an EIS on proposed amendment to the Gallatin NF forest plan, to "establish direction for public recreational use and access using the Forest's road and trail system." (12/13, p. 76713-4)
- FS will prepare an EIS on a proposal to turn a dirt road into a gravel road, conduct repaving, and make other changes to 14.2 miles of Copper Creek Road (Lincoln Ranger District, Helena National Forest, Lewis & Clark County, Montana). (12/13, p. 76714-6)
- FS issues revised NOI "outlining expanded activities" proposed in Manti La-Sal NF, Emery Co., Utah "associated with [State Institutional
Trust Lands Administration] (timber harvest to the North and a natural gas well to the South) and Prima Oil Company natural gas well in the same East Mountain area of the National Forest." (p. 76716-7)
Thursday, Dec. 12 (Dec. 12 Table of Contents from GPO)
Wednesday, Dec. 11 (Dec. 11 Table of Contents from GPO)
Tuesday, Dec. 10 (Dec. 10 Table of Contents from GPO)
- Army releases draft Mission EIS for Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), Maryland
(12/10, p. 75851-2)
- Forest Service extends scoping period in conjunction with revision of the Forest Plans for the Kootenai and Idaho Panhandle Forests located in Lincoln, Sanders, and Flathead counties in Montana; Bonner, Boundary, Kootenai, Shoshone, Benewah, Latah, and Clearwater counties in Idaho; and Pend Oreille county in Washington (12/10, p. 75844)
Monday, Dec. 9 (Dec. 9 Table of Contents from GPO)
- BLM to prepare EIS for the southern portion of the Phoenix Field Office (referred to as Phoenix South RMP) in association with the Sonoran Desert National Monument RMP (12/9, p. 72968-9)
- DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Los Alamos Site Operations, plans to build a multiple permeable reactive barrier within Mortandad Canyon at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The permeable reactive barrier would be located within a floodplain area for the purpose of reducing the contaminant load within shallow groundwater. DOE says it will prepare a floodplain/wetland assessment and will perform this proposed action in a manner so as to avoid or minimize potential harm to or within the affected floodplain (12/9, p. 72926)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway improvement project on the Thompson River Road (Forest Highway 56), which is a county road near Thompson Falls, Montana. (12/9, p. 73004-5)
- FS to prepare a supplement to the final EIS to document additional soils analysis and disclose the environmental impacts to the soils resource of the preferred alternative to manipulate forest and range vegetation on 684 acres. (Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forests, Beaverhead County, MT) (12/9, p. 72901-2)
- FS to prepare EIS on proposals to manage forest and
rangelands to reduce fuel levels, improve forest health, and improve vegetative structure in the Flint Creek, North Flint Creek, and upper Warm Springs drainages. (Beaverhead Deerlodge National Forest, Granite and Deer Lodge Counties, MT) (12/9, p. 72902-3)
- FS to prepare EIS to restore, reforest, and reduce fuels within the 13,263-acre Larson project area that was burned in the Stanislaus Complex Fire of 1987 (Stanislaus National Forest, CA) (12/9, p. 72903-4)
Friday, Dec. 6 (Dec. 6 Table of Contents from GPO)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (12/6, p. 72670-1)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (12/6, p. 72669-70)
- FS to prepare EIS on proposal to harvest timber, build roads, and regenerate new stands of trees in upper Georgetown Canyon of the Caribou National Forest in Bear Lake County, Idaho (12/6, p. 72635-6)
- Forest Service: The Priest Lake Ranger District on the Idaho Panhandle National Forests will prepare an EIS on a proposal to treat forest vegetation over approximately 980 acres (12/6, p. 72636-7)
- The Forest Service will prepare an EIS on effects of timber harvest, prescribed burning, road management changes, weed spraying, and stream channel restoration in a 44,000 acre project area approximately 25 miles northwest of Missoula, Montana. (12/6, p. 72637-8)
- The Forest Service is proposing changes to the National Forest System Land and Resource Management Planning Rule adopted Nov. 9,
2000 (12/6, p. 72769-816)
- NRCS releases ROD on installation of the Rehabilitation of Aging Flood Control Dams in Oklahoma (12/6, p. 72638-9)
- Surface Transportation Board has published a draft EIS for the Bayport Loop BuildOut Project (12/6, p. )
Thursday, Dec. 5 (Dec. 5 Table of Contents from GPO)
Wednesday, Dec. 4 (Dec. 4 Table of Contents from GPO)
Tuesday, Dec. 3 (Dec. 3 Table of Contents from GPO)
- APHIS releases EA/FONSI, decides to extend to one
additional canola event "our determination that a canola line developed by Monsanto Company, which has been genetically engineered for tolerance to the herbicide glyphosate, is no longer considered a regulated article under our regulations governing the introduction of certain genetically engineered organisms." (12/3, p. 71928-9)
- APHIS: "We are advising the public of our determination that the Vector Tobacco (USA) Ltd. tobacco designated as Vector 21-41, which has been genetically engineered for reduced nicotine, is no longer considered a regulated article under our regulations governing the introduction of certain genetically engineered organisms and products." EA/FONSI available. (12/3, p. 71929-30)
- BLM will prepare two Environmental Assessments and consider amending the Grand Resource Area Resource Management Plan, Moab, Utah. (12/3, p. 71978-9)
- Corps announces Final Estuary Habitat Restoration Strategy prepared by the Estuary Habitat Restoration Council (12/3, p. 71942-9)
- FTA to conduct an Alternatives Analysis and prepare a draft EIS on a proposal by the JTA to study the implementation of transportation improvements within a corridor known as the Jacksonville East/Southwest CorridorHwA to prepare draft EIS on the Proposed East-Southwest Corridor Study Project in Jacksonville, Duval County and Clay County, FL (12/3, p. 72022-4)
- NPS releases Draft EIS for the General Management Plan
Amendment for Biscayne National Park in the State of Florida. (12/3, p. 71980-1)
- NPS releases draft EIS/GMP, for Vancouver National Historic Site, Clark County, Washington (12/3, p. 71981-3)
- NPS releases Record of Decision on the Final EIS/Oil and Gas Management Plan for Lake Meredith National Recreation Area and Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument, Potter, Hutchinson, and Moore Counties, Texas. (12/3, p. 71983)
- NPS to prepare an EIS on proposed restoration/enhancement of the lower Redwood Creek watershed at Muir Beach, Marin County, California (12/3, p. 71983-4)
- NPS will prepare an EA (required by court order) on two privately owned and operated cellular communications towers located in Rock Creek Park (12/3, p. 71980-1)
Monday, Dec. 2 (Dec. 2 Table of Contents from GPO)
Forest Service will prepare the Meadows Slope Wildland Fire Protection Project EIS (Payette National Forest, Idaho) (12/2, p. 71531-2)
Friday, Nov. 29 (Nov. 29 Table of Contents from GPO)
Wednesday, Nov. 27 (Nov. 27 Table of Contents from GPO)
Tuesday, Nov. 26 (Nov. 26 Table of Contents from GPO)
Monday, Nov. 25 (Nov. 25 Table of Contents from GPO)
- Corps to prepare a draft supplemental EIS for the Indian River Lagoon-North Feasibility Study located in portions of Volusia, Brevard, Indian River, St. Lucie, and Okeechobee counties, FL (11/25, p. 70585-6)
- BLM: Notice of Availability to Announce the 60-Day Public Review and Comment Period for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Ivanpah Energy Center (11/25, p. 70617-8)
- FERC to prepare an for the Proposed Ocean Express Pipeline Project; public scoping meeting and site visit scheduled (11/25, p. 70589-92)
- FERC to prepare an EA for the proposed Shoshone Pipeline Conversion Project (11/25, p. 70592-4)
- Forest Service, BLM will prepare and consider a supplemental EIS on a proposal to amend the Record of Decision for the Northwest Forest Plan. Specifically, the proposed action will make the Aquatic Conservation Strategy in the Record of Decision consistent with the original intent of the report prepared by the Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team. (11/25, p. 70575-6)
Friday, Nov. 22 (Nov. 22 Table of Contents from GPO)
- APHIS: Aventis CropScience; Extension of Determination of Nonregulated Status for Canola Genetically Engineered for Male Sterility, Fertility
Restoration, and Glufosinate Herbicide Tolerance (11/22, p. 70392-3)
- Aventis CropScience; Extension of Determination of Nonregulated Status for Canola Genetically Engineered for Glufosinate Herbicide
Tolerance (11/22, p. 70393-5)
- APHIS: Availability of Determination of Nonregulated
Status for Cotton Genetically Engineered for Insect Resistance (11/22, p. 70391-2)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (11/22, p. 70429-30)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (11/22, p. 70429)
- Forest Service revises NOI to prepare an EIS on a proposal to authorize grazing of up to 396 Animal Units on five allotments encompassing approximately 72,558 acres of National Forest System lands in the North Fork Eel River Watershed in Trinity County, California. (11/22, p. 70395-6)
- MMS releases draft EIS, announces public hearings on proposed Eastern Planning Area oil and gas lease sales 189 and 197. (11/22, p. 70455)
Thursday, Nov. 21 (Nov. 21 Table of Contents from GPO)
Wednesday, Nov. 20 (Nov. 20 Table of Contents from GPO)
Tuesday, Nov. 19 (Nov. 19 Table of Contents from GPO)
Monday, Nov. 18 (Nov. 18 Table of Contents from GPO)
- DOE revises its approach for managing approximately 0.97 metric tons of plutonium-bearing materials (containing about 0.18 MT of surplus plutonium) that are currently located at the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology. Supplement analysis available. (11/18, p. 69512-3)
- This proposed rule would revise the Department of Energy's floodplain and wetland environmental review requirements to add flexibility and remove unnecessary procedural burdens by: simplifying DOE public notification procedures for proposed floodplain and wetland actions; exempting additional actions from the floodplain and wetland assessment provisions of these regulations; providing for immediate action in an emergency; expanding the existing list of sources that may be used in determining the location of floodplains and wetlands; and allowing floodplain and wetland assessments for actions proposed to be taken under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) to be coordinated with the CERCLA environmental review process rather than the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process. (11/18, p. 69480-1)
- FERC releases EA/FONSI on Grande Pointe Power Corporation's application for an original minor license for the Three Rivers Project, located on the St. Joseph River in the city of Three Rivers, St. Joseph County, Michigan (11/18, p. 69523)
- FERC issues DEIS on PacifiCorp--Bear River Projects; Soda Project No. 20-019, Caribou and Franklin Counties, Idaho Grace-Cove Project No. 2401-007, Oneida Project No. 472-017; Notice of Intention To Hold Public Meeting for
Discussion of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Bear River Hydroelectric Projects (11/18, p. 69523)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project that will traverse the southeastern section of the State of Alabama (11/18, p. 69593)
- NPS postpones the implementation of some existing snowmobile regulations in Yellowstone National Park, the John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Memorial Parkway, and Grand Teton National Park for one year. "This additional time is needed because the NPS has not had sufficient time to plan for and implement the NPS-managed, mass-transit, snowcoach-only system outlined in the existing Winter Use Plan and Record of Decision and to complete the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement." (11/18, p. 69473-8)
Friday, Nov. 15 (Nov. 15 Table of Contents from GPO)
Thursday, Nov. 14 (Nov. 14 Table of Contents from GPO)
Wednesday, Nov. 13 (Nov. 13 Table of Contents from GPO)
Tuesday, Nov. 12 (Nov. 12 Table of Contents from GPO)
- FERC releases EA/FONSI on Grande Pointe Power Corporation's application for an original minor license for the Three Rivers Project, located on the St. Joseph River in the city of Three Rivers, St. Joseph County, Michigan (11/12, p. 68593)
- MMS releases final EIS on proposed Central Planning Area Oil and Gas Lease Sales 185, 190, 194, 198, and 201, and Proposed Western Planning Area Sales 187, 192, 196, and 200 (11/12, p. 68684-5)
Friday, Nov. 8 (Nov. 8 Table of Contents from GPO)
- BPA releases ROD on building the McNary-John Day Transmission Line Project in Benton and Klickitat counties, Washington, and Sherman and Umatilla counties, Oregon (11/8, p. 68112)
- BuRec, in conjunction with the City of Phoenix, has prepared a final EIS for a Recreation Master Plan for the Reach 11 Recreation Area (Reach 11), located in the northeast portion of the city of Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. (11/8, p. 68164)
- BuRec issues final EIR/EIS on the Imperial Irrigation District (IID) Water Conservation and Transfer Project, which would conserve and transfer the right to use up to 300,000 acre-feet per year of Colorado River water, which IID would otherwise divert for use within IID's water service area in Imperial County, California (11/8, p. )
- BuRec issues Implementation Agreement, Inadvertent Overrun and Payback Policy and Related Federal Actions Final EIS (11/8, p. 68166-7)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (11/8, p. 68129-30)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (11/8, p. 68128-9)
- FERC announces meetings for the Greenbrier Pipeline Project draft EIS (11/8, p. 68123)
- FHwA will rpepare EIS for highway improvements on U.S. Route 31 corridor in the City of Kokomo, Howard County, and Tipton County, Indiana. (11/8, p. 68225)
- Forest Service: The Six Rivers NF will prepare an EIS on a proposal to authorize grazing 591 cow-calf pairs on five allotments encompassing approximately 72,558 acres of national forest system lands in the North Fork Eel River Watershed in Trinity County, California (11/8, p. 68089-91)
- National Park
Service--and in coordination with Marin County (California) and the
California Department of Transportation--is initiating a conservation
planning and environmental impact analysis process regarding
transportation access and facility improvements to the roadway network
between U.S. Highway 101 (at the U.S. Highway 101-State Highway 1
interchange) and Stinson Beach (Pacific Ocean) (11/8, p. 68158-60)
Thursday, Nov. 7 (Nov. 7 Table of Contents from GPO)
- BLM to hold scoping meetings for the amendment to the Taos Resource Management Plan and associated EIS (11/7, p. 67864)
- Corps issues correction to NOI to prepare a draft EIS for the
PCS Phosphate Mine Continuation, Aurora, Beaufort County, NC (11/7, p. 67903)
- Corps to prepare a draft supplemental EIS for the Big Sunflower River Maintenance Feasibility Report (11/7, p. 67826)
- EPA plans to prepare a joint EIS/EIR for the Peninsula Beach Feasibility Study, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, CA (11/7, p. 67826-7)
- EPA to hold public scoping meeting on the preparation of an EIS on the federal funding, construction, operation and monitoring of a coastal wetlands restoration project, the Mississippi River Water Reintroduction into Maurepas Swamp (11/7, p. 67831-2)
- FAA extends scoping comment period until Dec. 9 on the NOI to prepare draft and final EIS for a replacement airport at St. George, Utah (11/7, p. 67891-2)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in Shelby County, Tennessee. (11/7, p. 67893)
Wednesday, Nov. 6 (Nov. 6 Table of Contents from GPO)
- Air Force to prepare EIS for DoD Mission Closure at Johnston Atoll Airfield (11/6, p. 67606)
- FTA to prepare EIS for the proposed Salt Lake City-Weber
County Regional Transportation Corridor project located in Weber, Davis, and Salt Lake counties, Utah (11/6, p. 67684-6)
- FTA to prepare EIS on expansion of transit services
westward from MARTA's Hamilton E. Holmes Station on its West Line to a logical terminus on Fulton Industrial Boulevard (11/6, p. 67682-4)
- Forest Service, Gallatin NF: EIS planned on environmental effects of overstory and understory canopy thinning, prescribed burning, wildlife habitat
enhancement, and hazardous fuels reduction located in the Main Boulder River drainage, Gallatin National Forest, Big Timber Ranger District, Sweet Grass County, Montana (11/6, p. 67598-9)
Tuesday, Nov. 5 (Nov. 5 Table of Contents from GPO)
- FERC to prepare EA on Project MAX, involving construction and operation of facilities by Northern Natural Gas Company (Northern)
in several counties of Minnesota. (11/5, p. )
- FS: Tahoe NF to prepare an EIS to disclose the environmental effects of applying registered herbicides to approximately 13,500 acres of National Forest System land (11/5, p. 67384-6)
- NRCS issues FONSI re: East Prong Little Pigeon River Watershed, Sevier County, TN (11/5, p. 67386-7)
- NRCS to prepare an EIS for the Cane Creek Remedial Plan, Lauderdale County, Tennessee. (11/5, p. 67387)
- Rural Utilities Service issues FONSI re: request from Owen Electric Cooperative for financing assistance to finance the construction of a new headquarters facility in Owen County, Kentucky. (11/5, p. 67387-8)
Monday, Nov. 4 (Nov. 4 Table of Contents from GPO)
- FERC releases EA/FONSI on Grande Pointe Power Corporation's application for an original minor license for the Three Rivers Project, located on the St. Joseph River in the city of Three Rivers, St. Joseph County, Michigan (11/4, p. 67173)
- FERC releases EIS on proposed Greenbrier Pipeline Project. The project would extend from east of Clendenin, Kanawha County, West Virginia through West Virginia, southwestern Virginia, and North Carolina to its terminus near Stem, in Granville County, North Carolina. It would consist of 275.6 miles of mainline and three laterals totaling 3.8 miles. GPC would also construct 2 compressor
stations, 3 meter stations, 20 block valves, and appurtenant facilities, and use up to 212 access roads. (11/4, p. 67173-4)
- FERC releases EA/FONSI on applications for licenses for the Angels Hydroelectric Project, Utica Hydroelectric Project, and the Upper Utica Project. Commission staff, with the U.S. Forest Service as a cooperating agency. These projects are located on the North Fork Stanislaus River, Silver Creek, Mill Creek, and Angels Creek in Alpine, Calaveras, and Tuolumne Counties, California, partially within the Stanislaus National Forest (11/4, p. 67174)
- FERC releases EA/FONSI on Judith A. Burford Hydroelectric Project, CO. The operating project is located on East Brush Creek, a tributary to the Eagle River, in Eagle County, Colorado. The project occupies about 1.008 acres of land within the White River NF, administered by the FS (11/4, p. 67174)
- FERC releases EA/FONSI on Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation's proposed Trenton Woodbury Expansion Project in New Jersey (11/4, p. 67175)
- FERC releases EA/FONSI on Woods Lake Hydroelectric Project, located on Lime Creek, a tributary to the Frying Pan River, in Eagle County, Colorado. The project occupies about 2.73 acres of land within the White River
National Forest, administered by the Forest Service. (11/4, p. 67179)
- FS revises NOI for EIS on the planning and control element of the Modoc National Forest Noxious Weed Strategy. (11/4, p. 67144-7)
- FS: Salt Lake Ranger District of the Wasatch-Cache NF will prepare an EIS on Wasatch Powderbird Guides request for a 5-year outfitter and guide special use permit for guided helicopter skiing on National Forest System lands. (11/4, p. 67147-8)
Friday, Nov. 1 (Nov. 1 Table of Contents from GPO)
Thursday, Oct. 31 (Oct. 31 Table of Contents from GPO)
- APHIS releases EA on proposed field release of the non-indigenous salvinia weevil for the biological control of the aquatic weed giant salvinia (10/31, p. 66381-2)
- Corps releases draft EIS for the operation and maintenance of Lake Sidney Lanier, GA (10/31, p. 66385)
- Corps releases final EIS for the South River, Raritan River Basin, Hurricane and Storm Damage Reduction and Ecosystem Restoration Study, Middlesex County, NJ (10/31, p. 66385-6)
- Ccorps to prepare draft EIS for the PCS Phosphate Mine Continuation, Aurora, Beaufort County, NC (10/31, p. 66386-7)
- Corps to prepare a draft EIS for evaluating the placement of dredged and fill Material in the jurisdictional wetlands on the protected side of the West Bank Hurricane Protection Levee, Jefferson Parish, LA (10/31, p. 66387-8)
- Corps to prepare a draft EIS for the Millstone River Basin, New Jersey Flood Control and Ecosystem Restoration Feasibility Study (10/31, p. 66388)
- Corps to prepare a draft EIS for providing a deeper and wider navigation channel to the Port of Iberia through the enlargement of existing access channels, in Vermilion and Iberia Parishes in the vicinity of New Iberia and Intracoastal City, LA (10/31, p. 66388-9)
- FAA revises NOI to prepare draft and final EIS's for a replacement airport at St. George, UT (10/31, p. 66449)
Wednesday, Oct. 30 (Oct. 30 Table of Contents from GPO)
- BLM corrects comment period on EA, proposed amendment to the California Desert Conservation Area Plan for Off-Road Vehicle Trail Designations in the Western Colorado Desert (WECO). It's a 30-day, not a 45-day, comment period. (10/30, p. 66167)
- BuRec extends comment period for the Navajo
Reservoir Operations draft EIS until Dec. 4. (10/30, p. 66168)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for proposed highway improvements to Trunk Highway (TH) 371 from the intersection of TH 371 and Crow Wing County Road 18 in Nisswa to the intersection of TH 371 and Cass County Road 42 in Pine River, a distance of approximately 16 miles, in Cass and Crow Wing Counties, Minnesota. (10/30, p. 66191)
- NRCS issues FONSI for a project on the Williamson River Delta (10/30, p. 66108)
Tuesday, Oct. 29 (Oct. 29 Table of Contents from GPO)
Monday, Oct. 28 (Oct. 28 Table of Contents from GPO)
Friday, Oct. 25 (Oct. 25 Table of Contents from GPO)
- DOE releases final EIS for a Geologic Repository
for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste
at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, NV (10/25, p. 65539-42)
- Federal Law Enforcement Training Center proposes to prepare an EA related to the limited acquisition of certain public roadways adjacent to the FLETC Glynco, Ga., facility (10/25, p. 65637)
- EPA issues comment letters on draft, final EIS's (10/25, p. 65565-6)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (10/25, p. 65564-5)
- FERC issues EA on Minnesota Power (d.b.a. ALLETE, Inc)'s application for a new license for the Blanchard Project located on the Mississippi River, in Morrison County, Minnesota (10/25, p. 65559)
- NPS releases draft EIS/General Management Plan
for Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site; Notice (10/25, p. )
- More here (10/25, p. )
Thursday, Oct. 24 (Oct. 24 Table of Contents from GPO)
- CEQ issues guidelines for ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information from federal agencies (10/24, p. 65354)
- Corps to prepare EIS on proposal to build an international
airport facility in St. Charles Parish, in the vicinity of the highway I-10/I-310 interchange near Kenner, Louisiana. (10/24, p. 65342)
- Corps to prepare a draft supplemental EIS for the Design Modifications and Recreational Enhancements to the Wyoming Valley Levee Raising Project at the Wilkes-Barre, PA Historic River Commons (10/24, p. 65343-4)
- FHwA, in cooperation with Utah DOT, will prepare an EIS on a proposal to improve U.S. Hwy. 6 in Utah, Wasatch, Carbon, and Emery counties, Utah. "The proposed improvements would involve reconstruction of the existing US 6 between Interstate-15 (I-15) at Spanish Fork and I-70 at Green River, a distance of about 206 kilometers (128 miles)." (10/24, p. 65404)
- FTA, with state and local agencies, to prepare Alternatives Analysis and EIS for Commuter Corridor Between the cities of Deland and Kissimmee, FL (10/24, p. 65404-5)
Wednesday, Oct. 23 (Oct. 23 Table of Contents from GPO)
- APHIS determines that Monsanto corn designated as Event MON 863, 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 and products. (10/23, p. 65087-8)
- BLM releases Draft Lookout Mountain Forest and
Rangeland Health Project Plan, Associated Amendments to the Baker Resource Management Plan and Draft EIS (10/23, p. 65140-1)
- FAA will prepare an EIS for the Oklahoma Space Industry
Development Authority's proposal to operate a commercial launch site at the Clinton-Sherman Industrial Airpark (10/23, p. 65169-70)
- FERC announces public comment meeting and
site visit for the proposed Red Lake Gas Storage Project in Mohave County, Arizona (10/23, p. 65107)
- FERC to prepare EA on El Paso Natural Gas Company's proposed Power-Up Project, in Pinal and Cochise Counties, Arizona, Hidalgo and Luna
Counties, New Mexico, and El Paso, Winkler, and Culbertson counties, Texas (10/23, p. 65107-9)
- Navy to hold public meeting on draft EIS for basing the Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, CA (10/23, p. 65096)
- State Department receives PMI Services North America's application for a Presidential Permit for pipeline facilities to be built and maintained on the border with Mexico (10/23, p. 65168-9)
Tuesday, Oct. 22 (Oct. 22 Table of Contents from GPO)
Monday, Oct. 21 (Oct. 21 Table of Contents from GPO)
- The Coast Guard releases an EA on Implementation of the its Training Center Cape May's Integrated Natural Resources Management Plan (INRMP), Cape May, New Jersey (10/21, p. 64694-5)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for proposed improvements to State Highway 199 (S.H. 199) in Tarrant County, Texas. (10/21, p. 64695-6)
- BLM, FS to prepare SEIS on proposal to remove "survey and manage" guidelines from Northwest Forest Plan. (10/21, p. 64601-2)
- FS revises NOI to prepare EIS on White Pass Ski Area Expansion, Okanogan-Wenatchee and Gifford Pinchot National Forests, Yakima and Lewis Counties (10/21, p. 64602)
Friday, Oct. 18 (Oct. 18 Table of Contents from GPO)
- Air Force to prepare EIS for proposed aircraft conversion at Martinsburg, WV (10/18, p. 63454)
- BLM releases draft amendment and associated EA to the California Desert Conservation Area Plan for Off-Road Vehicle Trail (Route of Travel) Designations in the Western Colorado Desert portion of Imperial County, Calif. (10/18, p. 64408-9)
- BLM, NPS release draft EIS for El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail, and proposed amendments to the Taos, Mimbres and White Sands Resource Management Plans, New Mexico. (10/18, p. 64409-10)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (10/18, p. 64367-8)
- FERC Office of Energy Projects will conduct a site review of the Grasslands Project proposed by Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Company (Wyo., Mont., N.D.) (10/18, p. 64365)
Thursday, Oct. 17 (Oct. 17 Table of Contents from GPO)
Wednesday, Oct. 16 (Oct. 16 Table of Contents from GPO)
- Corps to prepare a draft EIS for potential multipurpose projects for ecosystem restoration, flood damage reduction, and recreation development within and along the Clear and West Forks of the Trinity River in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, TX (10/16, p. 63900-1)
- Corps to prepare a draft EIS for the relocation of Bogue Inlet Channel between Emerald Isle and Hammocks Beach State Park, and the Placement of the Dredged Material onto Emerald Isle Beach, in Carteret County, NC (10/16, p. 63901-3)
- Corps to prepare a draft EIS for the North Palm Beach County Project, Part 1 in Palm Beach County, FL (10/16, p. 63903-4)
- Federal Transit Administration to prepare EIS for the Monmouth-Ocean-Middlesex Rail; Monmouth, Ocean, and Middlesex Counties, NJ (10/16, p. 63957-9)
Tuesday, Oct. 15 (Oct. 15 Table of Contents from GPO)
Friday, Oct. 11 (Oct. 11 Table of Contents from GPO)
- BLM: Notice of Intent to Prepare a Resource Management Plan (RMP) for the King Range National Conservation Area and associated Environmental Impact Statement (10/11, p. 63448-9)
- BIA releases final EIS for the Truckee River Water Quality Settlement Agreement, Federal Water Rights Acquisition Program for Washoe, Storey, and Lyon counties, NV (10/11, p. 63445-6)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (10/11, p. 63420-1)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (10/11, p. 63421-2)
- FERC releases EA/FONSI on Land and Shoreline Management Plan for the Kingsley Dam Hydroelectric Project, located on the North Platte and Platte Rivers, in Garden, Keith, Lincoln, Dawson, and Gosper counties, Nebraska (10/11, p. 63421-2)
- FERC releases EA/FONSI on application for an original license for the Upper and Middle Dam Storage Project located on the Rapid River, in Oxford and Franklin Counties, Maine (10/11, p. 63413)
- FERC to prepare EA for Williams Gas Pipelines Central's proposed Redbud Power Pipeline Project (10/11, p. 63413-5)
Thursday, Oct. 10 (Oct. 10 Table of Contents from GPO)
- Corps changes date for scoping meeting on draft EIS for the
Florida Bay Florida Keys Feasibility Study. It now will be held Oct. 29 at the Marathon Government Center, 2798 Overseas Highway, Marathon, FL. (10/10, p. 63080-1)
- Chief of Engineers Environmental Advisory Board to meet Oct. 25 at Hilton Palm Beach Airport Hotel, Salon B, 150 Australian Ave., West Palm Beach, FL (10/10, p. 63081)
- Rural Utilities Service issues FONSI on request
from Coweta-Fayette Electric Membership Corporation for financing assistance from RUS to finance the construction of a new headquarters facility in Coweta County, Georgia (10/10, p. 63073-4)
- RUS issues FONSI on joint project proposed by Corn Belt Power Cooperative of Humboldt, Iowa, and Basin Electric Power Cooperative of Bismarck, North Dakota. (10/10, p. 63074)
Wednesday, Oct.9 (Oct. 9 Table of Contents from GPO)
Tuesday, Oct. 8 (Oct.8 Table of Contents from GPO)
- BPA releases ROD to offer contract terms for integrating power from the Umatilla Generating Project into the Federal Columbia River Transmission System. (10/8, p. 62704)
- BuRec extends public review period to Oct. 31 for written comments on the scope of the EIS/EIR for the South Delta Improvements Program (10/8, p. 62813)
- BuRec and the State of North Dakota will prepare an EIS "concerning all feasible options to meet the comprehensive water quality and quantity needs of the Red River Valley and the options for meeting those needs" (10/8, p. 62813-5)
- FERC will prepare an EA for proposal by Red Lake Gas
Storage, L.P. in Mohave County, Arizona. These facilities would consist of: 2 underground salt caverns, about 52 miles of various diameter pipeline, 34,000 horsepower (hp) of compression, and appurtenant gas storage facilities (10/8, p. 62713-4)
- NASA to prepare an EIS, conduct scoping meetings for the proposed International Space Research Park on the John F. Kennedy Space Center (10/8, p. 62832-3)
- NRCS issues FONSI re: Comprehensive Management of Nutria Herbivory Damage in Coastal Louisiana and Coastwide Nutria Control Program in Coastal Louisiana (10/8, p. 62684)
Monday, Oct. 7 (Oct. 7 Table of Contents from GPO)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for the proposed reconstruction of Trunk Highway (TH) 14 and bridge replacement over the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern (DM&E) Railroad line, from the end of the four-lane roadway on the east side of Rochester through Eyota, approximately 8 miles, in Olmsted County, Minnesota (10/7, p. 62517-8)
- The Northwest Mountain Region, Airports Division, Federal Aviation Administration, acting as lead agency, intends to prepare Draft and Final Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) for the construction of a
replacement airport at St. George, Utah (10/7, p. 62513)
- FS will prepare an EIS to disclose the anticipated environmental effects of the Arizona Snowbowl proposed 2002 Facilities Improvements Plan. The chief feature of the Proposed Action is Snowbowl's proposal to develop snowmaking (10/7, p. 62435-6)
- FS rescinds August 2, 1999, NOI to prepare an EIS for the South Pyramid Timber Sales on
the Sweet Home Ranger District of the Willamette NF (10/7, p. 62434-5)
Friday, Oct. 4 (Oct. 4 Table of Contents from GPO)
- BuRec and the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission
will prepare a draft EIS on Carlsbad Project water operations and water supply Conservation to address changes in the operation of Sumner Dam, located on the Pecos River, New Mexico, and implementation of a proposed water acquisition program in
the Pecos River Basin (10/4, p. 62262-3)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (10/4, p. 62244)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (10/4, p. 62244)
- FERC issues EA/FONSI on application for a non-capacity related license amendment at the Riley-Jay-Livermore Project, FERC No. 2375, located on Androscoggin River at the junction of Franklin, Androscoggin, and Oxford counties, Maine. (10/4, p. 62241-2)
- FERC allows California State Water Resources Control Board to intervene in proceedings involving the Southern California Edison Company's Lytle Creek Hydroelectric Project No. 1932, located on the Lytle Creek near the town of Devore, San Bernardino County, California. (10/4, p. 62242)
Thursday, Oct. 3 (Oct. 3 Table of Contents from GPO)
Wednesday, Oct. 2 (Oct. 2 Table of Contents from GPO)
- BIA to prepare an EIS for construction of the Shepard Point Oil Spill Response Facility and Access Road in Cordova, AK (10/2, p. 61917-8)
- FERC releases final EA on application for license amendment for the Goat Lake Hydroelectric Project, located on Pitchfork Falls, near the town of Skagway, in the First Judicial District, Alaska (10/2, p. 61861)
- FERC releases supplemental EA on application for a new license for Pacific Gas & Electric Company's Crane Valley Project, located on Willow
Creek, South Fork Willow Creek, North Fork Willow Creek, Chilkoot Creek, and Chiquito Creek in the San Joaquin River Basin in Madera County, California (10/2, p. 61861-2)
- FERC to hold public meetings on draft EIS for PUD No. 1 of Pend Oreille County's Box Canyon Hydroelectric Project (10/2, p. 61862)
- MMS releases EAs/FONSIs for oil and gas activities
proposed on the Gulf of Mexico OCS. (10/2, p. 61920-2)
Tuesday, Oct. 1 (Oct. 1 Table of Contents from GPO)
Monday, Sept. 30 (Sept. 30 Table of Contents from GPO)
Friday, Sept. 27 (Sept. 27 Table of Contents from GPO)
- Army to prepare EIS on proposed revisions to the strategic planning process at Fort Lewis and Yakima Training Center, Washington (9/27, p. 61077-8)
- Corps to prepare draft EIS for the Florida Bay/Florida Keys Integrated Feasibility Study (9/27, p. 61080)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (9/27, p. 61089-90)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (9/27, p. 61089)
- FERC releases EA/FONSI on application for a non-capacity related license amendment at the Smithland Project, located on the Ohio
River in Livingston County, Kentucky. (9/27, p. 61087)
- HUD says Hartford, Conn., has released an FEIS analyzing the potential impacts of developing approximately 37 acres of land and associated air rights in a publicly and privately funded mixed-use 24 hour a day development site located in its downtown land near the Connecticut River (9/27, p. 61241-3)
Thursday, Sept. 26 (Sept. 26 Table of Contents from GPO)
- BLM's Roswell Field Office proposes to protect resource values in the Cedar Hills Mule Deer Management Area by developing a transportation plan that includes route designations and road and trail closures. This action is in accordance with the 1997 Roswell Resource Management Plan. The route plan is necessary to reduce the impact from recreationist to wildlife, wildlife habitat, soils, and range improvements. (9/26, p. 60698-700)
- FERC issues EA/FONSI re: application from Joe Harwood d/b/a Arrowhead Investment & Development Company to expand and modernize an existing marina located on the Duck Creek arm of Grand Lake, the project reservoir (9/26, p. 60654)
- FERC issues EA/FONSI re: applications for new licenses for the Anson and Abenaki Hydroelectric Projects, located on the Kennebec River in Somerset County, Maine (9/26, p. 60654)
- FS to prepare EIS for Missionary Ridge Burned Area Timber Salvage and Public Scoping, San Juan NF, Colorado (9/26, p. 60639-40)
- FS: Apache-Sitgreaves and Tonto National Forests of the
Southwestern Region are planning to prepare an EIS on a proposal to salvage fire-
killed timber on National Forest System lands within the Rodeo/Chediski Fire on June 2002 (9/26, p. 60637-9)
Wednesday, Sept. 25 (Sept. 25 Table of Contents from GPO)
Tuesday, Sept. 24 (Sept. 24 Table of Contents from GPO)
Monday, Sept. 23 (Sept. 23 Table of Contents from GPO)
- Army releases ROD for the Northern Training Complex With a Multi-Purpose Digital Training Range and Expanded Maneuver Areas, Drop Zones and Landing Zones at Fort Know, KY (9/23, p. 59495)
- BPA releases ROD to offer contract terms for integrating power from the Cliffs Energy Project of GNA Energy, LLC, into the Federal Columbia River Transmission System (9/23, p. 59498)
- DoD Missile Defense Agency releases draft supplement to the final EIS for the Program Definition and Risk Reduction Phase of the Airborne Laser Program (April 1997) and Record of Decision (September 1997) (9/23, p. 59494)
- FHwA to initiate a planning study for a proposed highway project in the southwestern portion of Kentucky, located between Eddyville and
Henderson, Kentucky. (9/23, p. 59593)
- NPS releases draft EIS for the Special Resource Study for the Battle of Homestead and Carrie Furnaces Sites (9/23, p. 59530)
- NPS releases final EIS for the General Management Plan, Fort Davis National Historic Site. (9/23, p. 59531)
- NMFS releases final EIS for the General Management Plan for Fort Frederica National Monument, Saint Simons Island, Georgia (9/23, p. 59531-2)
- NPS releases final EIS for the National Coal Heritage Area, Management Action Plan (9/23, p. 59532-3)
- NPS corrects 9/13/02 FR document concerning request for comments on a Right of Way Request, EA or EIS at Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. The second and third sentences of the first paragraph of the Summary were incorrect. (9/23, p. 59533)
- NPS will prepare an EIS and hold public scoping meetings for the Chesapeake Bay Special Resource Study. (9/23, p. 59533)
- NPS will prepare an EIS for a General Management Plan, Chickasaw National Recreation Area, Oklahoma. (9/23, p. 59530-1)
- NPS will prepare an EIS on the Backcountry Management Plan and General Management Plan Amendment for Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve (9/23, p. 59533-4)
- NPS will prepare an EIS on
the Backcountry Management Plan and General Management Plan Amendment
for Glacier Bay National Park (9/23, p. 59534-5)
- NPS begins conservation planning and environmental impact analysis process for a proposed wetlands restoration project at the former
Giacomini Ranch in Marin County, California (9/23, p. 59535-6)
- NPS extends public comment period on scoping issues
for preparation of an EIS for the Colorado River Management Plan, Grand Canyon National Park. (9/23, p. 59536-7)
- NPS will prepare an EIS for an Integrated Multimodal Transportation Plan, Grand Teton National Park. (9/23, p. 59537)
- NPS will prepare an EIS for the Transportation Plan, Mesa Verde National Park. (9/23, p. 59538-9)
- NPS will prepare an EIS for the Wildland Fire Management Plan, Mesa Verde National Park. (9/23, p. 59537-8)
- NPS will prepare a General Management Plan/EIS for Monocacy National Battlefield, Maryland. (9/23, p. 59539)
- NPS will prepare an EIS for the Fire Management Plan for Saguaro National Park. (9/23, p. 59539-40)
- NPS will prepare an EIS for a right-of-way request to cross the Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway with the Arrowhead-Weston Electric
Transmission Line Project, Wisconsin. (9/23, p. 59540-1)
- NPS will prepare an EIS on the Backcountry Management Plan and General Management Plan Amendment for Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska (9/23, p. 59542)
- NPS will prepare an EIS for the Environmental Education
Campus Development Program at Crane Flat, Yosemite NP (9/23, p. 59543)
Friday, Sept. 20 (Sept. 20 Table of Contents from GPO)
- Corps releases draft supplemental EIS for the Missouri River Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Project located on the Missouri River From Sioux City, Iowa to the Mouth Near St. Louis, MO in the States of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri (9/20, p. 59272-3)
- BIA releases final EIS for the Teayawa Energy Center, Riverside County, CA (9/20, p. 59306-7)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (9/20, p. 59284)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (9/20, p. 59284-5)
- FHwA, FTA withdraw a proposed rule to update and revise our National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementation regulation for projects funded or approved by the FHWA and the FTA (9/20, p. 59225-8)
- NNSA releases final EIS for the proposed relocation of Technical Area 18 Capabilities and Materials (9/20, p. 59283-4)
Thursday, Sept. 19 (Sept. 19 Table of Contents from GPO)
- The National Guard Bureau announces the availability of a
ROD explaining its decision to proceed with 11 construction and enhancement actions at the National Guard Training Center at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa. (9/19, p. 59054-5)
- Bureau of Indian Affairs, with the cooperation of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe, intends to prepare a programmatic EIS for an Integrated Resource Management Plan (IRMP) for the approximately 345,000 acre Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation, located within both Benewah and Kootenai Counties in the northern Idaho panhandle (9/19, p. 59074-5)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in Jefferson, Rock and Walworth Counties, Wisconsin (9/19, p. 59089-90)
Wednesday, Sept. 18 (Sept. 18 Table of Contents from GPO)
Tuesday, Sept. 17 (Sept. 17 Table of Contents from GPO)
Monday, Sept. 16 (Sept. 16 Table of Contents from GPO)
- DOE: National Nuclear Security Administration Office of Los Alamos Site Operations; Floodplain Statement of Findings for the Proposed Access Control and Traffic Improvements at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (9/16, p. 58407-9)
- FERC issues final EA on application for a subsequent license for the existing Stiles Hydroelectric Project, located on the Oconto River, in the township of Stiles, Oconto County, Wisconsin (9/16, p. 58417)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed transportation project in Fort Bend County, Texas. (9/16, p. 58441-2)
- Forest Service to prepare a supplemental EIS to the Griffin Springs Resource Management Project, Dixie NF, Utah (9/16, p. 58351)
Friday, Sept. 13 (Sept. 13 Table of Contents from GPO)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (9/13, p. 58036-7)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (9/13, p. 58037)
- Forest Service will prepare an EIS in response to Vest-O-Land Enterprises, Inc.'s proposed Steamboat Mountain Mining Operations, Rogue River National Forest, Jackson County, OR (9/13, p. 58010-1)
- FS to prepare a supplemental EIS on proposed changes to
the Kensington Gold Mine Project; Tongass National Forest, Juneau Ranger District, Juneau, AK (9/13, p. 58011-2)
- NPS releases draft EIS for personal watercraft use on Lake Powell, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. (9/13, p. 58071-2)
- NPS: Notice of intent to prepare either an EA or EIS on a request by Duke Energy Frederick, LLC, for a right-of-way permit for water conveyance pipelines associated with a proposed electric power plant. (9/13, p. 58072)
Thursday, Sept. 12(Sept. 12 Table of Contents from GPO)
Wednesday, Sept. 11 (Table of Contents from GPO)
- BLM will prepare a Plan Amendment/EA to the Carlsbad RMP for possible disposal of public land (9/11, p. 57613-4)
- NPS releases draft rehabilitation of the Going-to-the-Sun Road, EIS, Glacier NP, a Portion of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, Montana (9/11, p. 57619-20)
- NPS releases EA for proposal to build Odor Treatment
Units for the Potomac Interceptor Sewer and Improvements to a Parking Area and Two New Comfort Stations for the C&O Canal National Historical Park (9/11, p. 57618-9)
- NPS releases ROD/FONSI for proposal to reconstruct the entrance station at Great Falls Park, VA (9/11, p. 57619)
- Navy announces another public hearing in Washington, N.C., extends public comment period for the draft EIS and draft Clean Air Act Conformity Determination for introduction of F/A-18 E/F (Super Hornet) Aircraft to
the East Coast of the United States (9/11, p. 57583)
- Presidio Trust in San Francisco adopts Presidio Trust Management Plan, releases Record of Decision (9/11, p. 57632-3)
Tuesday, Sept. 10 (Table of Contents from GPO)
- Corps will prepare a draft Programmatic EIS for the Florida Keys Water Quality Improvements Program (9/10, p. 57413-4)
- FERC prepares EA for South Carolina Electric & Gas Company's proposal to sell project land for future private development at the Saluda Project, located on the Saluda River in Lexington, Saluda and Newberry Counties, South Carolina (9/10, p. 57425)
- FERC releases EA for Portland General Electric Company's application for amendment of license for the Oak Grove Project No. 135 and North Fork Project No. 2195, located on the Oak Grove and Clackamas Rivers, in Clackamas County, Oregon (9/10, p. 57425)
- NRCS issues FONSI for the rehabilitation of
Floodwater Retarding Structure VIII-D in the Chippewa Creek Watershed (9/10, p. 57372-3)
- NRCS issues FONSI for the rehabilitation of Floodwater Retarding Structure No. 6 (Wolf Run Lake Dam) in the West Fork Duck Creek Watershed, Noble County, Ohio (9/10, p. 57373-4)
Monday, Sept. 9 (Sept. 9 TOC)
Friday, Sept. 6 (Sept. 6 TOC)
- Commodity Credit Corporation, Farm Service Agency release draft programmatic EIS for the Conservation Reserve Program (9/6, p. 56979)
- DOE revises Record of Decision for its transuranic waste management program (9/6, p. 56989-92)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (9/6, p. 57006-7)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (9/6, p. 57007)
- FERC releases draft EA on Land and Shoreline Management Plan
for the Kingsley Dam Hydroelectric Project, located on the North Platte and Platte Rivers, in Garden, Keith, Lincoln, Dawson, and Gosper Counties, Nebraska. The project does not occupy any federal or tribal lands. (9/6, p. 57001)
- FERC releases EA on New York State Electric and Gas Corporation's (NYSEG) proposal to change land rights, and sell 101 acres within the current boundary of the Saranac River Hydroelectric Project to Clinton County, New York (County) or New England Waste Services of New York, Inc. (9/6, p. 57001)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway improvement in Lincoln County, Oregon. (9/6, p. 57059-60)
- The Salmon-Challis National Forest, will prepare a Draft
Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (DSEIS) in order to make a
new decision on the Salmon Wild and Scenic River Management Plan (9/6, p. 56979-80)
- TVA adopts Final Supplement 1 Environmental Impact Statement (FSEIS) issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in May 2001. The FSEIS, entitled ``Lower Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers, Kentucky Lock Addition Project,'' was filed with EPA on May 31, 2001. (9/6, p. 57055-7)
Thursday, Sept. 5 (Sept. 5 TOC)
Wednesday, Sept. 4 (Sept. 4 TOC)
Tuesday, Sept. 3 (Sept. 3 TOC)
- BLM extends comment period on scoping until Oct. 3 for an amendment to the California Desert Conservation Area Plan and EIS regarding vehicle route designation in the Surprise Canyon Area of Critical Environmental Concern. (9/3, p. 56300)
- BLM to prepare EIS and amendment to the San Juan/San Miguel Resource Management Plan for a Proposed Ski Area Near Silverton, CO (9/3, p. 56301-2)
- BLM to prepare a plan amendment to the Taos Resource Management Plan with associated NEPA documentation (9/3, p. 56301)
- FHwA postpones meeting re: preparation of an EIS for improving the freeway system for I-80, I-29, and I-480 in the City of Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, and the City of Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska. (9/3, p. 56341)
- FTA, Lane Transit District to prepare an EIS re: transit improvements in the North Springfield Bus Rapid Transit Corridor of the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan region (9/3, p. 56346)
- FTA to prepare EIS for the North Eugene Bus Rapid Transit Corridor in the Eugene-Springfield Oregon Metropolitan Area (9/3, p. 56345-6)
- NPS releases final EIS for Santa Cruz Island Primary Restoration Plan Channel Islands National Park Santa Barbara County, Calif. (9/3, p. 56308-9)
- NPS releases ROD on FEIS/General Management Plan. Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming. (9/3, p. 56309-10)
- NPS releases ROD for final EIS/General Management Plan for the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, Washington, DC (9/3, p. 56310-1)
Friday, Aug. 30 (Aug. 30 TOC)
- Corps extends comment period till Sept. 5 on draft EIS for the South River, Raritan River Basin, Hurricane and Storm Damage Reduction and Ecosystem Restoration Study. (8/30, p. 55823-4)
- Corps to prepare a draft EIS on Walla Walla District Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration, Walla Walla River Basin, Oregon and Washington (8/30, p. 55824-5)
- Corps to prepare a draft supplemental EIS for the Federal Flood Control Project for Hunting Bayou, Harris County, TX (8/30, p. 55824)
- BLM releases final EIS for oil and gas development on
the Southern Ute Indian Reservation, in La Plata and Archuleta counties, Colorado (8/30, p. 55865-6)
- BuRec and and the California Department of Water Resources will prepare an EIS/EIR for implementing the South Delta Improvements Program (8/30, p. 55870-1)
- DOE: Notice of Floodplain Involvement for the Proposed
Access Control and Traffic Improvements at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (8/30, p. 55829-31)
- DOE to prepare a draft supplemental EIS for the federal Flood Control Project for Hunting Bayou, Harris County, TX (8/30, p. 55824)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (8/30, p. 55837)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (8/30, p. 55838-9)
- Forest Service adds to Aug. 9 NOI re: EIS for Stream Fire Restoration Project in Plumas National Forest, California. The final EIS is expected to be published in March 2003 (8/30, p. 55775)
- FS: Hoosier NF to prepare EIS for vegetation restoration project (8/30, p. 55773-5)
- Rural Utilities Service (RUS) issues FONSI re: request
from Habersham Electric Membership Corporation for financing assistance to finance the construction of a new headquarters facility in Habersham County, Georgia. (8/30, p. 55775)
Thursday, Aug. 29 (Aug. 29 TOC)
Wednesday, Aug. 28 (Aug. 28 TOC)
- Army releases Record of Decision (ROD) for disposal of chemical weapons at the Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado (8/28, p. 55207-8)
- Defense Logistics Agency, DoD, releases draft EIS for the transport of PCB-containing items from Japan and Wake Island to the U.S. (8/28, p. 55208)
- Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact
Statement for the Section 14 Specific Plan on the Agua Caliente Indian
Reservation, Riverside County, CA (8/28, p. 55271-2)
- FERC releases final EIS on the natural gas pipeline facilities proposed by Islander East Pipeline Co., L.L.C. and Algonquin Gas Transmission
Co. (8/28, p. 55219)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in Mobile County, Alabama. (8/28, p. 55304)
- FS will prepare EIS on invasive plant control in Colville,
Okanogan, Wenatchee, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie, Olympic and Gifford Pinchot National Forests in Washington, and Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Malheur, Fremont, Deschutes, Ochoco, Rogue River, Siskiyou, Mt. Hood, Siuslaw, Umpqua, Umatilla, Willamette, Wallowa-Whitman, and Winema National Forests in Oregon. (8/28, p. 55194-5)
Tuesday, Aug. 27 (Aug. 27 TOC)
Monday, Aug. 26 (Aug. 26 TOC)
Friday, Aug. 23 (Aug. 23 TOC)
- BLM releases Northern and Eastern Mojave Desert Proposed Plan, amendment to the California Desert Conservation Area Plan, and final EIS (8/23, p. )
- Corps releases draft EIS to consider issuing 404 permit for Alcoa's proposal to build and operate Three Oaks Mine in Lee and Bastrop counties, TX (8/23, p. 54646)
- Corps releases draft supplemental EIS for 200000380 (IP-DEB), Phipps Ocean Park Beach Restoration Project, Town of Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, FL (8/23, p. 54646-8)
- Corps to prepare a draft supplemental EIS for the Boston Harbor Navigation Improvement Project (8/23, p. 54648)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (8/23, p. 54650-1)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (8/23, p. )
- FS to 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 Rocky Mountain Ranger District, also known as the Rocky Mountain Division of the Lewis and Clark NF (8/23, p. 54621-2)
- FS clarifies "extraordinary circumstances for categories of
actions excluded from documentation in an EA or an EIS." (8/23, p. 54622-7)
Thursday, Aug. 22 (Aug. 22 TOC)
Wednesday, Aug. 21 (Aug. 21 TOC)
- The FHWA is issuing this notice to advise the public that an
environmental impact statement will be prepared for improving the
freeway system for Interstate-80 (I-80), I-29, and I-480 in the City of
Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, and the City of Omaha,
Douglas County, Nebraska (8/21, p. 54256)
- FS will prepare a supplemental EIS to the South Spruce Ecosystem Rehabilitation Project EIS (1999) to implement vegetation management
treatments in the spruce/fir forests within the Cedar City Ranger District, Dixie NF, Utah (8/21, p. 54164-6)
Tuesday, Aug. 20 (Aug. 20 TOC)
- BLM retracts one notice from Feb. 21 (LUA/EA for coal lease application by Southfork Coal Company), but says it will republish it with
errors having been corrected. The Feb. 21 notice on page 8034 (LUA/EA for coal
lease application by Chas Coal, L.L.C.) remains correct. (8/20, p. 53964)
- CEQ extends public comment period on NEPA task force scope to Sept. 23 (8/20, p. 53931-2)
- FERC releases draft EA "of an Offer of Settlement and Memorandum of Agreement that propose, as part of a license amendment, spill measures for enhancing the downstream passage survival and passage efficiency of outmigrating anadromous salmonid juveniles at the Priest Rapids Project in Grant County, Washington." Part of the project occupies about 3,052 acres of BLM, DOE, Army, BuRec and FWS land. (8/20, p. 53920)
- GSA releases EA/FONSI for proposed master plan for U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in Gaithersburg, Md. (8/20, p. 53945-6)
- NASA has prepared a final programmatic EIS for the proposed Nasa Ames Development Plan. (8/20, p. 53977-80)
Monday, Aug. 19 (Aug. 19 TOC)
- DOE selects preferred alternative identified in FEIS,
Stabilize Tanks-Fill with Grout, to guide development andimplementation of closure of the high-level waste tanks and associated equipment at the Savannah River Site. (8/19, p. 53784-7)
- FS revises NOI to prepare EIS to update range management
planning on eight livestock grazing allotments on the Blue Mountain and Prairie City Ranger Districts, Malheur NF, Grant County, Ore. (8/19, p. 53773)
- FS rescinds 1999 NOI to prepare EIS for the Chalk Creek Timber Sales on the Middle Fork Ranger District of Willamette NF (8/19, p. 53773)
- FS recinds NOI to prepare EIS for the TwoBee Landscape Management Project on the McKenzie River Ranger District of the Willamette NF (8/19, p. 53773)
- FS recinds NOI to prepare EIS for the Wolfmann Projects on the McKenzie River Ranger District of the Willamette NF (8/19, p. 53773-4)
Friday, Aug. 16 (Aug. 16 TOC)
Thursday, Aug. 15 (Aug. 15 TOC)
Today's links: Wednesday, Aug. 14 (Aug. 14 Table of Contents)
Tuesday, Aug. 13 (Aug. 13 TOC)
Monday, Aug. 12 (Aug. 12 TOC)
- DOE, National Nuclear Security Administration, extends comment period until Sept. 16 on NOI to prepare a site-wide EIS for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (8/12, p. 52462)
- FERC releases FEA/FONSI on application for an initial license for the Dead River Project and a new license for the Marquette Project, both
located on the Dead River in Marquette County, Michigan (8/12, p. 52472)
- FERC to prepare EA for Petal Gas Storage, L.L.C.'s
proposed natural gas storage cavern expansion project in Forrest County, Mississippi (8/12, p. 52472-4)
- FS will prepare an EIS for a proposal to harvest timber; reclaim, rehabilitate, and construct roads; change road and trail access; place large logs in streams; construct large pool habitat; re-vegetate habitat; and burn brushfields or forest understory trees within the Logan Creek watershed. The area is located northwest of Whitefish, Mont, and southwest of Olney, Mont. (8/12, p. 52439-41)
Friday, Aug. 9 (Aug. 9 TOC)
- APHIS determines that it's not necessary to supplement a July 2000 DEIS w/ EPA data on methyl bromide, before a final EIS is issued. APHIS says final EIS will incorporate APHIS' review of data on methyl bromide consumption since publication of the draft. EIS concerns imports of unmanufactured wood articles from Mexico. (8/9, p. 51811-3)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (8/9, p. 51848)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (8/9, p. 51849)
- FHwA to prepare EIS on proposal for a multilane controlled access facility in northern Brazoria and Galveston counties, Texas that would be part of a third circumferential loop (State Hwy. 99) around Houston (8/9, p. 51923-4)
- FHwA to rpepare EIS on a proposal for transportation
improvements in the Route 9 corridor, in the city of Middletown, Conn., located between the Washington Street intersection and the bridge over the Mattabesset River for a distance of approximately 6,000 feet. (8/9, p. 51924)
- FS: Plumas NF will prepare EIS on a proposal to treat fuels on about 2,300 acres in the Stream Fire burned area (8/9, p. 51816-8)
Thursday, Aug. 8 (Aug. 8 TOC )
Wednesday, Aug. 7 (Aug. 7 TOC )
- FERC releases EA/FONSI on CMS Trunkline LNG Company's proposed Trunkline LNG Expansion Project (8/7, p. 51246)
- FERC releases EA/FONSI on application for license for the Vail
Hydroelectric Project, on the Passumpsic River, in Lyndonville, Vt. (8/7, p. 51246-7)
- FERC releases FEA/FONSI for an initial license for the Dead River Project and a new license for the Marquette Project, both located on the Dead River in Marquette County, Michigan (8/7, p. 51247)
- FHwA to prepare EIS on improvements to U.S. Hwy. 2, in Hill and Blaine counties, Montana. (8/7, p. 51316-7)
Tuesday, Aug. 6 (Aug. 6 TOC)
Monday, Aug. 5 (Aug. 5 TOC)
- Corps to prepare EIS for the Lake Okeechobee Watershed Project (8/5, p. 50656-50657)
- Corps releases draft EIS for the Centralia Flood Reduction Project, Lewis County, WA (8/5, p. 50657-8)
- DEIS is here
- Corps cancels NOI to prepare EIS for the Mississippi River Diversion Near Benny's Bay, Mississippi River Delta, LA (8/5, p. 50658)
- Navy releases ROD for proposed Future Operations and Facility
Modernization at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division Point Mugu Sea Range, Point Mugu, CA (8/5, p. 50658-60)
Friday, Aug. 2 (Aug. 2 TOC)
- The Army Corps of Engineers proposes to establish programmatic
regulations for the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (8/2, p. 50539-75)
- BLM releases Northern and Eastern Colorado Desert Proposed Plan, an Amendment to the California Desert Conservation Area Plan, and FEIS (8/2, p. 50457)
- EPA releases comments on draft and final EIS's (8/2, p. 50428-9)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (8/2, p. 50428)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed transportation project in Dallas and Ellis Counties, Texas (8/2, p. 50504)
- FS will prepare an EIS on a proposal to exchange lands with Clearwater Land Exchange-Oregon (8/2, p. 50412-4)
- FS to prepare EIS for the Sugar Run Project, McKean County, PA (8/2, p. 50411-2)
Thursday, Aug. 1 (Aug. 1 TOC)
Wednesday, July 31 (July 31 TOC)
Tuesday, July 30 (July 30 TOC)
- DOE: the Department has prepared a draft
EA for the future location of the Heat Source/Radioisotope Power
Systems (HS/RPS) assembly and test operations program currently located
at the Mound site in Miamisburg, Ohio (7/30, p. 49323-4)
- FERC releases EA/FONSI re: Northern States Power Company's applications for new license for the Holcombe, Wissota, and Dells projects, and amendments to license for the Chippewa Falls, Jim Falls, and Cornell Projects, located on the Chippewa River, in Chippewa, Rusk, and Eau Claire Counties, Wisconsin. (7/30, p. 49329)
- FERC release final EA/FONSI on application for a subsequent
license for the Bigfork Hydroelectric Project located on the Swan River, in Flathead County, Montana (7/30, p. 49329-30)
- FERC releases final EA on Ridgewood Maine Hydro Partners' application for an original license for the Damariscotta Mills Project, located on the Damariscotta River in Lincoln, County, Maine. (7/30, p. 49330)
- FHwA rescinds Notice of Intent to prepare an EIS for a proposed transportation improvement in the vicinity of northern Allegheny County and southern Beaver and Butler counties. (7/30, p. 49381)
- Forest Service, in conjunction with BLM and BuRec, will hold public scoping meetings in Santa Fe, N.M., to discuss the Buckman Water Diversion Project (7/30, p. 49287)
Friday, July 29 (July 29 TOC)
- FERC releases draft EA/FONSI for Goat Lake Hydroelectric Project, located on Pitchfork Falls, near the town of Skagway, Tongass NF (7/29, p. 49018)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in the Towns of Wiscasset and Edgecomb, Sagadahoc County, Maine. (7/29, p. 49056)
- NPS to prepare EIS on impacts of alternative management strategies that will be described in the general management plan amendment for the Schoodic District of Acadia NP. (7/29, p. 49034)
- NPS releases EIS for the Jamestown Project Development Concept Plan, Colonial National Historical Park, Jamestown Unit, and Jamestown National
Historic Site. (7/29, p. 49035)
Friday, July 26 (July 26 TOC)
- BLM Elko Field Office releases FEIS on Newmont Mining
Corporation's Leeville Project, located in Eureka County, Nevada. (7/26, p. 48942)
- BLM releases ROD on the proposed South Operations Area Project Amendment (Eureka Co., Nevada). (7/26, p. 48942-3)
- BLM release FEIS for the Table Mountain Wind Generating Facility (7/26, p. 48943)
- BuRec will prepare an EIS for the Systems Conveyance and Operations Program. "Current effluent discharge is causing erosion problems to wetlands
within the Las Vegas Wash, especially within the Clark County Wetlands Park where wetland restoration is underway. The SCOP is intended to maintain the integrity and quality of the treated effluent as it increases through time and is conveyed into Lake Mead." (7/26, p. 48947-8)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (7/26, p. 48895-6)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (7/26, p. )
- FERC issues EA on applications for license amendments for the White River Lock and Dam No. 1 Project (P-4204-024), White River Lock and Dam No. 2 Project (P-4660-028), and White River Lock and Dam No. 3 Project (P-6059-006), located on the White River in Independence County, Arkansas (7/26, p. 48891)
- FERC releases final EA for the Saluda Dam Seismic Remediation Project. The dam is a part of the Saluda Project (FERC No. 516) and is located on the Saluda
River in Lexington, Richland, Newberry, and Saluda counties, South Carolina. (7/26, p. 48891)
- FHwA and New Jersey DOT will prepare EIS for the proposed widening of Rte. 9 to four lanes between Indian Head Road in Dover Township and Main Street in Lakewood Township in Ocean County, New Jersey. (7/26, p. 48965)
- FS will prepare an EIS for a proposal to initiate vegetation treatments to reach desired conditions within the Bluewater Watershed in the Zuni Mountains on the Mt. Taylor Ranger District within McKinley and Cibola counties in New Mexico. (7/26, p. 48866-9)
- NRCS preparing EIS for the creation of a water management plan
to assist the Little Red River Regional Irrigation District (White County, Arkansas) in its efforts to reduce the useage of declining groundwater and to enhance fish and wildlife habitat (7/26, p. 48869)
Thursday, July 25 (July 25 TOC)
Wednesday, July 24 (July 24 TOC)
NRC to prepare EIS on aging Oklahoma dam, Site Number 6, Cavalry Creek Watershed, Oklahoma. "The project concerns watershed protection and flood prevention. Alternatives under consideration to reach these objectives include rehabilitation, no action, nonstructural measures, and decommissioning." (7/24, p. 48435)
NRCS changes regs to allow for 15-year WHIP (Wildlife Habitat
Incentives Program) agreements, as specified in the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002. Currently, agreements can be from 5-10 years. (7/24, p. 48353)
NRCS will not prepare EIS for the rehabilitation project for Floodwater Retarding Structure 2 in the Margaret Creek Watershed. (7/24, p. 48435)
Wednesday, July 23 (July 23 TOC)
- Coast Guard revises list of agency actions considered categorical exclusions under NEPA (i.e., no requirement to prepare an EA or EIS) (7/23, p. 48243-6)
- DoD issues final programmatic EA/FONSI for the Millennium Challenge 2002 Joint Integrating Experiment (7/23, p. 48138-9)
- DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration will prepare an EIS for the Proposed Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Building Replacement Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (7/23, p. 48160-2)
- FAA: Notice of Approval of the ROD for the Final EIS for FAA Site Approval and Land Acquisition by the State of Illinois for a Proposed South Suburban
Airport (7/23, p. 48246-7)
- FERC releases final EIS for the proposed Georgia Strait Crossing Project in Washington state (7/23, p. 48172-3)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in the City and County of Denver, Colorado. (7/23, p. 48248-9)
- FS: Ashley NF (Utah) has proposed to harvest live and dead timber within the Trout Slope West area of the Vernal Ranger District (7/23, p. 48130-1)
- FS to prepare EIS on a proposal to harvest timber for the Couverden Timber Sale(s) project on the south end of the Chilkat Peninsula north of Icy Strait and west of Lynn Canal on the Juneau Ranger District, Tongass NF (7/23, p. 48131-2)
- "The Department of the Navy, after carefully weighing the operational, scientific, technical, and environmental implications of the alternatives considered, announces its decision to employ two SURTASS LFA sonar systems with certain geographical restrictions and monitoring mitigation designed to reduce potential adverse effects on the marine environment." (7/23, p. 48145-54)
Monday, July 22 (July 22 TOC)
- Air Force amends notice of intent to prepare an EIS for actions to sustain operability of Air Force Space Command early warning radar sites at Cape Cod Air Force Station, Massachusetts; Beale Air Force Base, California, and Clear AFS, Alaska (7/22, p. 47776-7)
- FERC to prepare EIS for the Proposed Hackberry LNG Terminal
Project (Louisiana) (7/22, p. 47791-3)
- FHWA, in cooperation with the Washington State DOT and King County DOT, will prepare a supplement to the final EIS on the proposal to replace the Elliott
Bridge on 149th Avenue Southeast where it crosses the Cedar River approximately three miles east of downtown Renton in King County, Washington. (7/22, p. 47883)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed new location highway/tollway project in Travis County, Texas. (7/22, p. 47883-4)
- FS will prepare an EIS to amend plan for the Flathead NF plan regarding winter snowmobile use. (7/22, p. 47761-2)
- FS to prepare EIS on North Fork of Pound Natural Gas Development Project, Clinch Ranger District, Wise County, VA (7/22, p. 47762-4)
- FS and BLM to prepare an EIS on a proposal that if authorized would permit the construction and operation of the Buckman Water Diversion Project on public lands managed by the FS and BLM, Santa Fe County, New Mexico (7/22, p. 47764-6)
- NRCS, the Caldwell County Commission (Missouri), and the Caldwell County Soil and Water Conservation District will prepare an EIS on construction of a
multiple-purpose reservoir in the Little Otter Creek Watershed (7/22, p. 47766)
Friday, July 19 (July 19 TOC)
- The Jacksonville District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
(Corps), intends to prepare an integrated Pilot Project Design Report
and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Lake Okeechobee
Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) Pilot Project (7/19, p. 47527)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (7/19, p. 47539-40)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (7/19, p. )
- FHwA withdraws notice of intent to prepare EIS for the proposed reconstruction of US-12 from the east city limit of Saline to Munger Road in Washtenaw County, Michigan (7/19, p. 47598)
- (7/19, p. )
- Notice of a finding of no significant impact with regard to an
application to construct, operate, and maintain a pipeline and related
facilities to transport liquefied petroleum gas, including propane and
butane, across the U.S.-Mexico border at Maverick County, Texas. (7/19, p. 47594-5)
Thursday, July 18 (July 18 TOC)
Wednesday, July 17 (July 17 TOC)
Tuesday, July 16 (July 16 TOC)
- Forest Service will prepare a supplement to the draft EIS for the Drew Creek, Diamond Rock and Divide Cattle Allotments, on Tiller Ranger District, Umpqua NF, Douglas County, Oregon (7/16, p. 46630)
- NPS releases draft EIS for the Lake Management Plan, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Mohave County, Arizona and Clark County, Nev. (7/16, p. 46687-9)
- NPS releases ROD for the final EIS/General Management Plan for Lassen Volcanic National Park (7/16, p. 46689)
- NPS releases draft EIS and General Management Plan for Navajo National Monument, Arizona (7/16, p. 46689-90)
- NPS extends through June 7 the public scoping period for the EIS on Vessel Quotas and Operating Requirements for Glacier Bay NP and Preserve. Original scoping period was through April 23, 2002 (7/16, p. 46690)
- NPS to prepare an EIS for the Schuylkill River Valley National Heritage, Management Plan Update (7/16, p. 46690)
Monday, July 15 (Table of Contents (GPO Access))
Friday, July 12 (Table of Contents (GPO Access))
- BLM will prepare supplemental EIS on mine expansion called Millennium Project on 1,394 acres of public and private lands in Humboldt County, Nevada (7/12, p. 46206-7)
- BLM to prepare RMP for Alabama and Mississippi. The RMP will establish land use management policy on approximately 2,080 acres of land in Alabama, 3,770 acres of land in Mississippi and 200,000 acres of BLM-administered fluid mineral rights (oil and gas). (7/12, p. 46207-9)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (7/12, p. 46185-6)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (7/12, p. 46184-5)
- FHwA rescinds NOI to prepare an EIS for the proposed U.S. 20 Capacity Improvement Study in Dubuque County, Iowa (7/12, p. 46241)
- FHWA to prepare an EIS for proposed transportation improvements to U.S. 285 from Foxton Road to Bailey in Jefferson and Park counties, Colorado (7/12, p. 46241-2)
- FS to prepare EIS on a proposal to implement multiple resource management actions within the Prairie Project Area as directed by the Black Hills Black Hills NF (Mystic Ranger District, SD) (7/12, p. 46165-6)
- GSA, in conjunction with INS, will prepare EA for a proposed construction project in San Diego County, California. (7/12, p. 46193)
- NRCS will not prepare EIS for the Swan Quarter Watershed Project, Hyde County, North Carolina. (7/12, p. 46168)
Monday, July 11 (July 11 TOC )
Wednesday, July 10 (July 10 TOC)
- DOE releases supplement to ROD on Interim Management of Nuclear Materials at the Savannah River Site (7/10, p. 45710-2)
- Forest Service: Lassen NF, Plumas National Forest, and Tahoe NF will prepare a supplemental EIS in response to a recent court decision (Californians for
Alternatives to Toxics v. Dombeck No. Civ. S-00-605 LKK/PAN.
This supplemental EIS will address maintenance of defensible fuels
profile zones (DFPZs) in the Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Forest
Recovery Act Pilot Project Area. (7/10, p. )
- Rural Utilities Service releases final EIS for the Southern Intertie Project, which involves construction of a 138 kV transmission line between the Kenai Peninsula and Anchorage (7/10, p. 45701-2)
- Wetlands enforcementDOJ: Proposed consent decree would prohibit discharges into waters of the U.S. "on or adjacent to the Froom Ranch and Boysen Ranch Sites in San Luis Obisqo, unless such discharge complies with the provisions of the CWA and its implementing regulations. The proposed [CD] requires the creation of 10.2 acres of wetlands and the payment of $15,000 in civil penalties." (Madonna v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 01-07515, C.D. Cal., and U.S. v. Madonna, 02-92, C.D. Cal.). (7/10, p. 45763)
- Rural Utilities Service releases final EIS for the Southern Intertie Project, which involves construction of a 138 kV transmission line between the Kenai Peninsula and Anchorage (7/10, p. 45701-2)
Tuesday, July 9 (July 9 TOC)
Monday, July 8 (Table of Contents)
- DOE to prepare supplemental EIS to the Tank Waste Remediation System, Hanford Site, Richland, Wash., final EIS (TWRS EIS, DOE/EIS-0189, August 1996). . "The TWRS EIS evaluated alternatives for the disposal of mixed, radioactive, and hazardous waste stored or projected to be stored in 177 underground storage tanks and approximately 60
active and inactive miscellaneous underground storage tanks associated with the Hanford Site's tank farm operations." (7/8, p. 45104-7)
- FERC to prepare EA for National Fuel Gas Supply Corp.'s plan to replace about 5.44 miles of 10-inch-diameter steel pipeline (Line PY-10) and abandon 27.35 miles of Line PY-10, in Allegany County, N.Y. (7/8, p. 45110-2)
- FWS: Thomas Lefever has applied for a 5-year permit to build a home in the Black Forest in Colorado in habitat of the threatened Preble's meadow jumping mouse (Zapus hudsonius preblei) (7/8, p. )
- FS extends comment period on NOI to prepare an EIS to revise the Finger Lakes forest plan, so people can comment on a document, "``Implementing the Finger Lakes Land and Resource Management Plan--A Fifteen Year Retrospective." (7/8, p. 45076)
- FS extends comment period on NOI to prepare an EIS to revise the Finger Lakes forest plan, so people can comment on a document, "``Implementing the Green Mountain Land and Resource Management Plan--A Fifteen Year Retrospective." (7/8, p. 45076)
- FS to prepare an EIS for the Baltimore Vegetative Management Project in the Ottawa NF, Ontonagon County, Michigan. (7/8, p. 45076-8)
- GSA releases FEIS for the future master plan development for the CDC in Chamblee, GA (7/8, p. 45117)
Today's links: Friday, July 5 (July 5 TOC)
- APHIS releases Supplemental Decision/FONSI on expansion of oral rabies vaccine program to Kentucky and Tennessee "to effectively stop the westward spread of raccoon rabies." (7/5, p. 44797-8)
- Corps and California Department of Water Resources preparing a joint draft EIS/EIR to evaluate the Daguerre Point Dam Fish Passage Improvement Project (7/5, p. 44809-10)
- Corps L.A. District to prepare SEIS/SEIR re: future applications for Section 404 and Section 10 permits to conduct dredge and fill activities associated with a ontinuing program of waterside, marine terminal, and transportation improvement projects in the West Basin area of the Port of Los Angeles. Some of the project elements are completed and others are previously approved actions by the Port of Los Angeles (Port) and the Corps,
including the Channel Deepening Project (Corps/Port 2000) that will dredge all navigational channels in the West Basin to -53 feet and construct 43 acres of new landfill in the Southwest Slip. (7/5, p. 44810-1)
- BLM releases Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) Right-of-Way Renewal draft EIS (7/5, p. 44874-5)
- FS plans to prepare EIS on proposal to authorize livestock grazing
on the Sacramento Grazing Allotment, Sacramento Ranger District, Lincoln NF, Otero County, NM. "The project has generated controversy on three main points: effects to threatened and endangered animal and plant species, concern for degraded riparian areas, and forage ompetition between wildlife and livestock." (7/5, p. 44805)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (7/5, p. 44832)
- FERC releases multi-project EA on applications for licenses for the
Hailesboro i4 Hydroelectric Project (P-6058-005), and Fowler i7 Project (P-6059-006), located on the Oswegatchie River in St. Lawrence County, New York. Not a major federal action requiring preparation of an EIS. (7/5, p. 44825-6)
- FERC recommends approval of applications for new licenses
for the Dundee, Gambo, Little Falls, Mallison Falls, and Saccarappa hydroelectric projects (7/5, p. 44825)
- FERC releases draft EA for the Saluda Dam Seismic Remediation Project, located on the Saluda River in Lexington, Richland, Newberry, and Saluda counties, South Carolina. Not a major federal action. (7/5, p. 44825)
- FERC to prepare EIS on proposal to build the Falls Creek Hydroelectric Project (7/5, p. 44826-7)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed State Route 299 (SR 299) improvement project in Shasta and Trinity Counties, California. (7/5, p. 44922)
- FS to prepare EIS for timber harvest, stream restoration, wildlife enhancement, and road management activities in the Glady Fork watershed of the Monongahela NF (7/5, p. 44805-7)
- NRCS releases ROD to proceed with the installation of the Lower Clear Boggy Creek Watershed, Site 32B project (7/5, p. 44807)
Nothing for the Fourth
Wednesday, July 3 (July 3 TOC )
Tuesday, July 2 (Table of Contents)
- Army releases ROD for the PEIS on Army Transformation. "The ROD details the environmental concerns, identified in the PEIS, that may affect various aspects of Army transformation including, but not limited: unit location; materiel acquisition and testing; training areas; range requirements; and strategic deployment." (7/2, p. 44427-8)
- Army releases draft EIS for activities associated with future programs at the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, Utah (7/2, p. 44428)
- NRCS issues FONSI for project in Tobosofkee Creek Watershed;
Lamar and Monroe counties, GA, June 2002 (7/2, p. 44419-21)
- NRCS issues FONSI for project in Tobosofkee Creek Watershed;
Lamar and Monroe counties, GA (7/2, p. 44419)
- NRCS to prepare EIS on South Logan/Scott counties Water Supply Project, Arkansas (7/2, p. 44421)
Monday, July 1 (Table of Contents)
- FERC to prepare EA on M-1 Expansion Project, which involves construction and operation of facilities by Texas Eastern Transmission, LP in Monroe, Hinds, Copiah, Amite, Franklin, and Madison counties, Mississippi, Colbert County, Alabama,
and Giles and Wilson counties, Tennessee. Facilities would consist of about 33 miles of 36-inch diameter pipeline and 28,000 hp of additional compression (7/1, p. 44192-4)
- FS to prepare an EIS on a proposal to treat dry forest types, whitebark pine, limber pine and aspen, the need to reduce fuels near the urban interface, the need to improve water quality combined with the timing of a state facilitated sub-basin review, and opportunities for westslope cutthroat trout habitat enhancement. The analysis area encompasses approximately 214,000 acres of the Judith Ranger District, Lewis and Clark NF, Judith Basin County, Montana. (7/1, p. 44167-8)
Friday, June 28 (June 28 TOC)
- Corps Tulsa District releases draft supplement to the final EIS for the Reallocation of Water Supply Storage Project, John Redmond Lake, KS (6/28, p. 43588)
- Corps releases Availability of the Draft Supplement to the Final EIS for the Operation and Maintenance Program at Wister Lake and Poteau River, OK (6/28, p. 43588-9)
- Corps plans to prepare EIS "to determine the feasibility of deepening the navigation channel of the Atchafalaya River and Bayous Chene, Boeuf, and Black,
LA, from 20 feet to 35 feet. Deepwater oil and gas exploration and development in the Gulf of Mexico and other deepwater areas has increased because of growth in demand; depletion of existing oil and gas fields, including those in the shallower areas of the gulf; and advancements in deepwater drilling technologies that include larger platforms." (6/28, p. 43589-90)
- Corps to prepare draft EIS for the L-31N Seepage Management Pilot Project. "The project is a cooperative effort between the Corps and the South Florida Water Management District, which is also a cooperating agency for this DEIS. L-31N is a levee-canal system running north-south and is located south of the Tamiami Canal in Miami-Dade County. One of the environmentally detrimental effects resulting from the construction of the Central and
South Florida Project is extensive water seepage from Everglades National Park." (6/28, p. 43590)
- Corps to "prepare Supplement 1 to the Dallas Floodway Extension
EIS to address cumulative impacts of reasonably foreseeable similar projects in the geographic area of the authorized Dallas Floodway Extension, Trinity River, City of Dallas, Dallas County, TX." (That's a lot of Dallases-Ed.) (6/28, p. 43591)
- BLM's Upper Snake River District has proposed designating 1.44 M acres of public lands managed by the Shoshone Field Office within Elmore, Gooding, Camas, Jerome, Blaine, Lincoln, and Minidoka counties in south-central Idaho as Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACECs) (6/28, p. 43680-2)
- BLM releases draft Farmington RMP/EIS, which "identifies and analyzes land use planning options for managing [about] 2 million acres of public land and
just over 3 million acres of Federal mineral estate administered by the Farmington Field Office and in the San Juan Basin portion of the area administered by the Albuquerque Field Office. (6/28, p. 43682-3)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (6/28, p. 43595-6)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (6/28, p. 43596-8)
- FAA releases final EA/FONSI/ROD for the O'Hare International Airport World Gateway Program and pther capital improvement projects at Chicago, IL (6/28, p. 43695-6)
- FHwA will prepare an EIS for a proposed State Route 299 (SR 299) project in Shasta and Trinity counties, California (6/28, p. 43697-8)
- NRCS to prepare EIS for the L'Anguille River Watershed, in
Poinsett and Craighead Counties, Arkansas. (6/28, p. 43580)
Thursday, June 27 (June 27 TOC)
- EPA to prepare EIS, hold scoping meetings for T.F. Green Airport master plan development (Warwick, R.I.) (6/27, p. 43382)
- DOE: Notice of Floodplain Involvement for the Proposed
Future Disposition of Certain Cerro Grande Fire Flood and Sediment Retention Structures at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (6/27, p. 43298-300)
- DOE: Notice of Floodplain Involvement for the Construction
and Operation of a 12-inch Natural Gas Pipeline in Los Alamos Canyon at
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (6/27, p. 43300-2)
- Forest Service to prepare an EIS on proposal to harvest about 1 MMBF of aspen/mixed conifer on about 125 acres on Manti-La Sal NF (Oak Creek Ridge Aspen Project. "Burning of slash concentrations and fencing will follow treatment." Also: Chainsaw fell conifers on about 75 acres of existing young aspen stands. 3. Reconstruction (culvert replacement) of approximately 2.5 miles FDR 138. (6/27, p. 43273-4)
- FS proposes "forest health" project "to improve forest health on approximately 550 acres of land [in Mt. Hood NF], using commercial thinning and individual tree selection treatments, and to reconstruct approximately 1.5 miles, and close approximately 22 miles of roads within the planning area." (Juncrock Timber Sale, Wasco County, OR) (6/27, p. 43274-6)
Wednesday, June 26 (June 26 TOC)
Tuesday, June 25 (June 25 TOC)
- BLM will prepare an EA on amending the Grand Resource Area Resource Management Plan in Moab, Utah. Here's one of the preliminary issues: "Managing the Recreation Area to maintain its visual quality following objectives established for visual resource management (VRM) classes in the BLM Visual Resource Management System. BLM has inventoried the area and found it to contain VRM Classes II and III. As a result of this analysis of visual resources, a potential impact could be that oil and gas leasing categories may change to ensure consistency." (6/25, p. 42793-4)
- BLM received a competitive coal lease application from Triton Coal Company, LLC (Triton) on Aug. 31, 2000, for a maintenance tract containing approximately 135 million tons of federal coal and including about 933 acres in an area
adjacent to the company's Buckskin Mine (6/25, p. 42794-5)
- BLM's White River Office will prepare an EA for an amendment to the White River Resource Management Plan (RMP) regarding nanagement of wild horses in the West Douglas Herd Area (Colorado). (6/25, p. 42796)
- NRCS to prepare EIS for the L'Anguille River Watershed, in
Poinsett and Craighead Counties, Arkansas. (6/25, p. 42752-3)
- RUS issues FONSI on construction and operation of a 490-MW generation plant in Louisa County, Va. (6/25, p. 42753)
Monday, June 24 (June 24 TOC)
Friday, June 21 (June 21 TOC)
- Corps releases draft supplement to the FEIS for the authorized Red River Chloride Project--Wichita River Only Portion, Oklahoma and Texas (6/21, p. 42239-40)
- Corps Buffalo District, state and local interests have resumed assessment/evaluation of a flood damage reduction project along Irondequoit and Allen Creeks in Panorama Valley in the Town of Penfield, Monroe County, NY. Supplemental draft EIS planned. (6/21, p. 42240-1)
- BLM releases proposed Resource Management Plan/FEIS for the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area and Sonoita Valley Acquisition Planning District located in Pima and Santa Cruz counties, Arizona (6/21, p. 42279)
- EPA comments on draft, final EIS's released (6/21, p. 42253-4)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (6/21, p. 42253)
- FHwA to prepare an EIS for the Rim of the World Scenic Trail on the San Bernardino NF, San Bernardino County, CA (6/21, p. 42309-10)
- FS Intermountain Region to prepare an EIS on a proposal to relocate a 1.5-mile section of the Grouse Creek Road (Forest Service Road 50325), Payette NF (6/21, p. 42230-2)
- NPS to prepare a draft EIS for a General Management Plan Amendment for Biscayne NP, Florida. (6/21, p. 42280-1)
- Rural Utilities Service issues FONSI in connection with a
request from Basin Electric Power Cooperative of Bismarck, N.D., for assistance from RUS to finance the construction of an asynchronous tie that would connect the eastern and western transmission grids near Rapid City in Pennington County, South Dakota. (6/21, p. 42232)
Thursday, June 20 (June 20 TOC)
- BIA will prepare an EIS for a proposed drought management plan for operation of the Kerr Hydroelectric Project, Flathead Lake, Mont. (6/20, p. 42054-5)
- BLM corrects July 9 and July 10 meeting locations for draft Toquop Disposal Amendment to the Caliente Management Framework Plan and Draft EIS for
the Toquop Energy Project, located in Lincoln, Clark, and Washoe counties (6/20, p. 42055-6)
- BuRec and the Placer County Water Agency (PCWA) have prepared a final EIS/EIR for the American River Pump Station Project (6/20, p. 42056 )
- DOE: Notice of Floodplain and Wetlands Involvement for the Proposed Transfer of Parcel ED-1 to the Community Reuse Organization of East
Tennessee (6/20, p. 41970-1)
- Navy issues Record of Decision for Disposal and Reuse of the Fleet Industrial Supply Center, Naval Fuel Depot Point Molate, CA (6/20, p. 41967-8)
Wednesday, June 19 (June 19 TOC)
- FERC releases EA on application for a new license for
the existing and operating Storage Project, located on Ragged Steam, Caucomgomoc Stream, West Branch and South Branch of the Penobscot River in the Counties of Somerset and Piscataquis, Maine (6/19, p. 41714)
- The Federal Railroad Administration will prepare an EIS for proposed Los Angeles Union Station Run-Through Track Project (6/19, p. 41749-50)
- FS to prepare EIS on a proposal to take pre-suppression measures on a mountain pine beetle infestation of stands of lodgepole pine, and to address overall forest health issues in high-risk areas, within the Arapaho National Recreation Area (6/19, p. 41688-90)
- FS extends comment period for document associated with preparation of Revised Land and Resource Management Plan for the Finger Lakes NF (Seneca and Schuyler counties, New York) (6/19, p. 41690)
- FS extends comment period on document prepared for revision of Land and Resource Management Plan for the Green Mountain National Forest (Addison, Bennington, Rutland, Washington, Windham, and Windsor Counties, Vermont) (6/19, p. 41690)
- DOJ plans to prepare EIS/EIR for a new juvenile justice facility in Alameda County, Calif. (6/19, p. 41735-6)
- DOJ to prepare EIS on expansion of a juvenile hall in Sacramento County, California (6/19, p. 41736-7)
Tuesday, June 18 (June 18 TOC)
- BLM: Notice of intent to prepare an amendment to the Royal Gorge
Resource Management Plan (Colorado), and prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA). (6/18, p. 41442-3)
- BLM: Notice of Intent To Amend the Judith-Valley-Phillips Resource Management Plan (EA planned); Fergus County, MT (6/18, p. 41443)
- NASA has made a Finding
of No Significant Impact (FONSI) with respect to the proposed Launch of
NASA Routine Payloads on Expendable Launch Vehicles from Cape Canaveral
Air Force Station (CCAFS), Florida, and Vandenberg Air Force Base
(VAFB), California, during the period 2002 through 2012 (6/18, p. 41525-7)
- NPS has prepared a draft EIS identifying and evaluating four
alternatives for a Fire Management Plan for Yosemite National Park, California (6/18, p. 41444-5)
- TVA Board of Directors has decided to adopt the preferred
alternative (Refurbishment and Restart of Unit 1 With Extended Operation Of All Units) identified in TVA's final supplemental EIS, Operating License Renewal of the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant In Athens, Ala. (6/18, p. 41565-9)
Monday, June 17 (June 17 TOC)
- FERC adopts EA prepared by the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, New England District, in January 2001. The EA is titled "Smelt Hill Dam Environmental Restoration Study--Falmouth, Maine," and concludes that removal of the dam would not be a major federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment (6/17, p. 41233-4)
- Forest Service will prepare an EIS on a proposal to emphasize restoration of the longleaf ecosystem across the Talladega National Forest, Oakmulgee Ranger District, Alabama (6/17, p. 41214-6)
- Energy Dept.'s National Nuclear Security Administration's Oakland Operations Office announces its intent to prepare a Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS) to evaluate the environmental effects of the operation of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California (6/17, p. 41224-7)
- TVA will prepare an EA or an EIS to assess the impacts of a project for commercial recreation and residential development proposed by a private developer (LTR Properties, Inc.) in the area encompassing TVA property on the Tellico Reservoir in east Tennessee (6/17, p. 41292-3)
Friday, June 14 (June 14 TOC)
- Army issues ROD on FEIS on the disposal and reuse of the Oakland Army Base, Oakland, CA (6/14, p. 40921)
- BuRec releases draft EIS for the City of Albuquerque
drinking water project, announces public hearings (6/14, p. 40961-3)
- BuRec releases FEIS on the Resource Management Plan for Elephant Butte and Caballo Reservoirs (6/14, p. 40964)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (6/14, p. 40923)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (6/14, p. 40922-3)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in Clinton County, New York. (6/14, p. 40978-9)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for the I-75 Oakland County Planning/Environmental Study (6/14, p. 40979)
Thursday, June 13 (June 13 TOC)
- Forest Service to prepare an EIS to update range management planning on 23 livestock grazing allotments, Tongue Ranger District, Bighorn National Forest, Sheridan County, WY (6/13, p. 40684-5)
- FS to prepare an EIS for the North Fork Fire Salvage project, Sierra NF, Madera County, California. (6/13, p. 40685-6)
- NPS to prepare an EIS for the Colorado River Management Plan, Grand Canyon National Park (6/13, p. 40749-50)
Wednesday, June 12 (June 12 TOC)
Tuesday, June 11 (June 11 TOC)
- FERC releases EA on natural gas expansion project in Idaho and Wyoming (constructing and operating six loops totaling about 91.1 miles), proposed by Northwest Pipeline Corporation. Not a major federal action, FERC concludes (6/11, p. 39969-70)
- FHwA withdraws proposal for US-23 freeway project in Arenac and Iosco Counties, Michigan, adopts NO BUILD alternative. (6/11, p. 40038)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in Hernando and Citrus Counties, Florida, concerning the Suncoast Parkway. (6/11, p. 40038-9)
- FS receives request from High Mountains Heli-Skiing, holder of a Special Use Permit to conduct guided helicopter skiing on portions of the Caribou-Targhee and
Bridger-Teton National Forests, for a new 5-year priority Special Use Permit for 1,500 annual user day (6/11, p. 39948-51)
Monday, June 10 (June 10 TOC)
Friday, June 7 (June 7 TOC)
- Corps releases draft EIS for the South River, Raritan River Basin, Hurricane and Storm Damage Reduction and Ecosystem Restoration Study (6/7, p. 39366-8)
- BLM revises notice of intent to prepare West Mojave Plan and
EIS; California Desert District Office, California (6/7, p. 39423-4)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (6/7, p. 39382-3)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (6/7, p. 39383-4)
- FAA cancels EIS for Toledo Express Airport, Toledo, OH (6/7, p. 39464-5)
- NRCS says no EIS will be prepared for the Plain-Honey Creek Watershed, Sauk County, Wisconsin. (6/7, p. 39336)
Thursday, June 6 (June 6 TOC)
Wednesday, June 5 (June 5 TOC)
Tuesday, June 4 (June 4 TOC)
- BuRec establishes criteria for the use of non-Department of the Interior law enforcement personnel within a Reclamation project or on Reclamation lands (6/4, p. 38418-23)
- EPA, NOAA give notice of conditional approval of Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Programs and availability of Final Findings Documents and
Records of Decision for Ohio and Georgia. (6/4, p. 38471-2)
- FERC prepares EA (with Forest Service) the applications for licenses for the Angels Hydroelectric Project, Utica Hydroelectric Project, and the
Upper Utica Project. Commission staff, with the U.S. Forest Service as a cooperating agency, has prepared an EA for the project (6/4, p. 38494-5)
- FTA (lead agency) to prepare EIS for the Union Station Master Plan and vicinity in downtown Denver, CO (6/4, p. 38546-7)
- Interior Dept. proposes to modify the 1983 Central Arizona Project (CAP) Water Allocation Decision to delete the mandatory effluent pooling provision (6/4, p. 38514-6 )
Monday, June 3 (June 3 TOC)
- Air Force issues ROD re: Air-to-Ground Training Range in Blaine County, MT (6/3, p. 38264)
- Corps to prepare a draft EIS for the ACME Basin B Discharge Project (6/3, p. 38324)
- FERC to prepare EA re: Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation's proposed Rock Springs Expansion Project (Chester County, Pennsylvania) (6/3, p. 38268-9)
- FHwA says it may prepare a tiered EIS for proposed multi-modal transportation projects in Hamilton and Clermont Counties, Ohio, and Campbell County, Kentucky. (6/3, p. 38309-10)
- FHWA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in Kauai County, Hawaii (6/3, p. 38310)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties, California. (6/3, p. 38310-1)
- FS: The Emmett Ranger District of the Boise NF will prepare an EIS for a resource management project in the Squaw Creek drainage. The entire project
area is within the Kennedy and Pine Creek subwatersheds, which are tributaries to Squaw Creek. The project area is located about 50 miles north of Boise, Idaho. (6/3, p. 38247-8)
- MMS is preparing a programmatic EA for exploration drilling and
associated activities in the sale area of the Eastern Planning Area (EPA) on the Gulf of Mexico outer continental shelf (OCS (6/3, p. 38289-90)
Today's links: Friday, May 31 (May 31 Table of Contents)
- Corps to prepare EIS for the Arkansas River Navigation Study, Phase II, AR and OK (5/31, p. 38074-5)
- Ccorps to prepare EIS in conjunction with proposed flood control and ecosystem restoration measures on the Upper Des Plaines River and Tributaries in Kenosha
County, WI, and in Cook and Lake Counties, IL (5/31, p. 38075)
- Corps to prepare EIS for the Marina del Rey and Ballona Creek
Sediment Control Management Plan Feasibility Study, Marina del Rey, Los Angeles County, CA (5/31, p. 38075-6)
- Corps to prepare EIS for the San Diego Shoreline Feasibility Study, Oceanside, CA (5/31, p. 38076-7)
- Corps to prepare EIS for the Hillsboro Aquifer Storage & Recovery Pilot Project adjacent to the Hillsboro Canal, Palm Beach County, FL (5/31, p. 38077-8)
- Corps to prepare EIS on the future dredging of Capron Shoal for the Fort Pierce Shore Protection Project in St. Lucie County, FL (5/31, p. 38078-9)
- BLM releases draft California Desert Conservation Area Plan Amendment for the Coachella Valley, Draft Trails Management Plan and Draft EIS (5/31, p. 38145)
- BLM's Ely Field Office releases DEIS for the Toquop Energy Project (Lincoln and Clark Counties, southern Nevada). (5/31, p. 38145-7)
- BuRec has established a Closure Order for certain lands and waters of the Klamath Project in the State of Oregon (5/31, p. 38147)
- DOE to prepare an EA to assess the environmental impacts related to determining the future location of the Department's Heat Source/Radioisotope Power System (HS/RPS) assembly and test operations (5/31, p. 38083-4)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (5/31, p. 38101-2)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (5/31, p. 38100-1)
- FERC prepares EA on Idaho Power Company's application for license amendment for extension of temporary amendment of license, approved by the May 8,
2001, order, at the Milner Hydroelectric project, located on the Snake River in Twin Falls and Cassia Counties, Idaho, (5/31, p. 38094)
- FERC is requesting comments on environmental issues related to
the impacts of constructing and operating the Mount Vernon Variation for the Millennium Pipeline Project proposed by Millennium Pipeline Company in New York (5/31, p. 38095-6)
- FERC to prepare EA on impacts of the Trenton Woodbury Expansion Project involving construction and operation of facilities by Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Company/Williams in Mercer and Burlington Counties, New Jersey and Bucks County, Pennsylvania (5/31, p. 38096-8)
- FHWA, in cooperation with the Colorado DOT, has prepared a draft EIS for proposed transportation improvements to State Highway 9, Frisco to Breckenridge in Summit County, Colorado (5/31, p. 38179)
- Forest Service's Coeur d'Alene River Ranger District of the Panhandle NF is proposing vegetation rehabilitation in the Deerfoot Ridge watershed located east of Hayden Lake, Idaho in Kootenai County. EIS to be prepared. (5/31, p. 38063-4)
- FS rescinds 1999 NOI to prepare an EIS for the Southeast Galena Restoration on the Long Creek Ranger District of the Malheur NF. (5/31, p. 38064)
- FWS to hold public hearing June 18 for the proposed rule to list the
Roswell springsnail (Pyrgulopsis roswellensis), Koster's tryonia (Tryonia kosteri), Pecos assiminea (Assiminea pecosensis) and Noel's amphipod (Gammarus desparatus) as endangered with critical habitat (5/31, p. 38059-60)
Today's links: Thursday, May 30 (May 30 Table of Contents)
- Army releases DEIS assessing the potential impacts of the design, construction, operation, and closure of one or more pilot-scale test facilities for an assembled chemical weapons destruction system at one or more chemical weapons stockpile sites (5/30, p. 37783)
- Army releases DEIS for the disposal of chemical munitions at Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD), Kentucky (5/30, p. 37784)
- APHIS releases EA re: control of yellow starthistle (5/30, p. 37755)
- BLM to prepare an amendment to the California Desert Conservation Area Plan and EIS (5/30, p. )
- Rural Utilities Service issues FONSI with respect to a request from Georgia Transmission Corporation for assistance from RUS to finance the construction of a 230 kV electric transmission line in Colquitt, Brooks, and Lowndes Counties, Georgia. (5/30, p. 37775)
Wednesday, May 29 (May 29 TOC)
Tuesday, May 28 (May 28 TOC)
- FERC releases final EA on application for an original license
for Alaska Power and Telephone Company's proposed Otter Creek Hydroelectric Project. Conclusion: "licensing the project, with appropriate environmental protective measures, would not constitute a major federal action that would significantly affect the quality of the human environment." (5/28, p. 36874)
- FERC plans scoping meetings for EIS on Dominion Transmission Inc.'s project in West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina. The planned facilities consist of about 278.3 miles of mainline and lateral pipelines, two compressor stations, up to four meter stations, and related facilities (5/28, p. 36874-7)
- FERC releases EA on application for an original license
for the Upper and Middle Dam Storage Project located on the Rapid River, in Oxford and Franklin Counties, Maine. EA also looks at another project. Conclusion: Not a major federal action. (5/28, p. 36877)
- Forest Service will prepare a draft supplement to the final EIS for
the Deep Vegetation Management Project, Ochoco NF, Crook and Wheeler Counties, OR (5/28, p. 36852-3)
Friday, May 24 (May 24 Table of Contents)
- BIA releases assessment plan for natural resources
injured by releases of hazardous substances from the Leviathan Mine (5/24, p. 36645-6)
- Coast Guard to prepare a Supplemental Program EA (SPEA) for the National Distress and Response System Modernization Project (5/24, p. 36663-4)
- Corps to prepare a draft EIS for the ACME Basin B Discharge Project (Florida) (5/24, p. 36577-8)
- Corps to prepare a draft EIS for the Montauk Point Storm Damage Reduction Project, Town of East Hampton, Suffolk County, Long Island, NY (5/24, p. 36578-9)
- Corps to prepare a draft EIS for a Dredged Material Management Plan for the Port of Baltimore, Chesapeake Bay, MD (5/24, p. 36579)
- Corps to prepare an Integrated Draft Project Implementation
Report/EIS for the Southern Golden Gate Estates Hydrologic Restoration (5/24, p. 36579-80)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (5/24, p. 36591-2)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (5/24, p. 36592-3)
- Forest Service will prepare an EIS on a proposal to emphasize forest health initiatives across the Bankhead NF in a systematic five-year program (5/24, p. 36562-6)
Thursday, May 23 (May 23 TOC)
Wednesday, May 22 (May 22 TOC)
Tuesday, May 21 (May 21 TOC)
Monday, May 20 (May 20 TOC)
- FAA releases Tier 1 final EIS--FAA Site Approval and Land Acquisition by the State of Illinois for a Proposed South Suburban Airport (5/20, p. 35615)
- FAA to prepare EIS for development of proposed new runways,
terminal facilities, and related facilities at Washington Dulles International Airport, Chantilly, Virginia (5/20, p. 35615-6)
- Forest Service issues interim final rule to extend the date by which all forest plan amendments and revisions would otherwise be subject to the planning regulations
adopted Nov. 9, 2000. An extension of the compliance date will allow the agency to propose and adopt adjustments to the 2000 planning rule that may be necessary (5/20, p. 35431-4)
- NPS publishes the General Management Plan/Environmental Assessment for Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site, Essex County, Massachusetts. (5/20, p. 35574)
- RUS issues FONSI re: construction and operation of an 85-megawatt electric generation unit in Jones County, Mississippi (5/20, p. 35473)
Friday, May 17 (May 17 TOC)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (5/17, p. 35106-8)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (5/17, p. 35108)
- FERC releases EA on request for authorization for a new license for the existing Bartholomew Hydroelectric Project. The subject project is located within Bartholomew Canyon and on Hobble Creek, in Utah County, Utah. The project is partially located on federal lands within the Uinta National Forest. (5/17, p. 35105)
- FS releases EIS for an applicant's proposal to acquire a road easement and reconstruct an access road to their private land inholding on the San Juan National Forest, Colorado (5/17, p. 35092-3)
- FS to prepare EIS on Surface Creek Ditch and Reservoir Company's request to remove all of the peat from Kennicott Slough Reservoir by mechanical means over the next five to ten years. (5/17, p. 35093-5)
Thursday, May 16 (May 16 TOC)
- APHIS releases EA/FONSI on control of Melaleuca quinquenervia in Florida (5/16, p. 34896-7)
- intends to prepare an integrated Project Implementation Report
(PIR) and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the C-111
Spreader Canal Project study (5/16, p. 34915-6)
- Corps cancels Notice of Intent to prepare a draft EIS for the Dade County Beach Erosion Control and Hurricane Protection Project, for a Test Beach Fill Using a
Domestic Upland Sand Source Based on a Generic Sand Specification (5/16, p. 34916)
- Corps corrects May 3 NOI for the Shrewsbury River Basin, Monmouth County, NJ, Flood Control and Ecosystem Restoration Study: Feasibility Phase (5/16, p. 34916)
- BPA to prepare a Supplemental Draft EIS on the construction, operation, and maintenance of a 500-kilovolt (kV) transmission line in King and Kittitas Counties, State of Washington (5/16, p. 34917-8)
- NPS releases EA for the proposed
construction of permanent security improvements that include a visitor
access/screening facility, vehicle barrier system, and general
improvements of the grounds at the Washington Monument in Washington,
D.C. (5/16, p. 34950-1)
Wednesday, May 15 (May 15 TOC)
- Army releases final EIS for the Northern Training Complex with a Multi-Purpose Digital Training Range and Expanded Maneuver Areas, Drop Zones and
Landing Zones at Fort Knox, Kentucky (5/15, p. 34684)
- FTA will prepare EIS for a proposed transportation improvement in the Metropolitan Atlanta Region's Northwest Corridor (5/15, p. 34751-3)
- FTA to prepare EIS for the Spokane Regional Light Rail (South Valley Corridor) Project in Spokane, Washington, Metropolitan Area (5/15, p. 34751-3)
- DOI releases ROD documenting Interior's decision to modify a portion of the alignment of the Bonneville Unit Diamond Fork System of the Central Utah Project. The new alignment would eliminate the construction of a portion of the Upper Diamond Fork Tunnel and instead construct an alternative series of pipeline, tunnel, and shaft as
presented in the Diamond Fork System 2002 (5/15, p. 34728)
Tuesday, May 14 (May 14 TOC)
- BLM proposes to amend the West HiLine Resource Management Plan, Chouteau County, MT (5/14, p. 34469)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for proposed transportation improvements in the Trunk Highway (TH) 8 corridor between Interstate 35 (I-35) to the west in Chisago County, Minnesota and the TH 8/Highway 35 intersection to the east in Polk County, Wisconsin. (5/14, p. 34513)
- FHWA corrects Feb. 4 NOI re: EIS for a proposed highway project in Maricopa County, Arizona. The contact information has changed, as well as the original
project limits. (5/14, p. 34513-4)
- FS will prepare an EIS on a proposal to authorize livestock grazing activities on the Sacramento Grazing Allotment, Sacramento Ranger District, Lincoln NF, Otero County, NM (5/14, p. 34425)
Monday, May 13 (May 13 TOC)
- BLM to prepare EIS on Pediment Plan of Operations: a new open pit, heap leach facility, and ancillary facilities. The project will involve public and
private lands in Lander County, Nevada. (5/13, p. 32058-9)
- FERC releases draft EA on license applications for the Lytle Creek, Santa Ana River 1 & 3, and the Mill Creek 2/3 Hydroelectric Projects, located on the Lytle Creek, Santa Ana River, and Mill Creek, respectively, in San Bernardino County, California (5/13, p. 32037-8)
- Forest Service to prepare EIS on a proposal to improve forest health and wildlife habitat, reduce urban interface fuels, and make access management changes to improve grizzly bear habitat. The project is located on the Three Rivers Ranger District, Kootenai National Forest, Lincoln County, Montana, about 30 air miles northeast of Troy, Montana (5/13, p. 32006-7)
- FS to prepare EIS on managing approximately 101,000 acres of federal land in Laurentian Ranger District, Aurora, MN, Superior National Forest. The proposed action would provide approximately 35 to 45 million board feet of timber to local and regional timber markets, among other things. (5/13, p. 32007-8)
- Presidio Trust releases Presidio Trust Management Plan
(PTMP): Land Use Policies for Area B of The Presidio of San Francisco and associated final EIS (5/13, p. 32070-1)
Friday, May 10 (May 10 TOC)
- Bureau of Prisons cancels notice of intent to prepare EIS on plans to build facilities to house criminal aliens in Arizona and California. "New population
projections indicate a reduced rate of growth of the federal inmate
population." (5/10, p. 31826-7)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (5/10, p. )
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (5/10, p. 31801)
- FHwA to prepare Second Tier EIS for proposed improvements to a portion of Interstate 70 (identified as SIU #7) in Montgomery, Warren, Lincoln and St. Charles counties, MO (5/10, p. 31861)
- FS begins efforts to revise the Forest Plans for the Flathead, Lolo and Bitterroot National Forests (5/10, p. 31761)
- FS to revise the forest plan for the Dixie National Forest (5/10, p. )
- NRCS says EIS is not being prepared for Holly Beach to Constance
Beach Segmented Breakwaters and Sand Management Project, Cameron Parish, Louisiana. (5/10, p. 31761-2)
Thursday, May 9 (May 9 TOC)
- 404 program: Corps, EPA revise definition of "fill" under CWA (5/9, p. 31129-43)
- BLM releases final EIR/EIS for the Proposed Mesquite
Mine Expansion (5/9, p. 31365-6)
- Intent To Prepare a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for
Proposed Quonset/Davisville Port and Commerce Park, Narragansett Bay,
North Kingstown, RI, Application for Corps Section 10/404 Individuals
Permit (5/9, p. 31285)
- FERC issues EA/FONSI on Northwest Pipeline Corporation's Proposed Evergreen Expansion Project in Washington state (5/9, p. 31295-6)
- FERC issues EA/FONSI for license application for Columbia Hydroelectric Project, located on the Broad and Congaree Rivers in the City of Columbia and Richland County, South Carolina (5/9, p. 31296)
- Fishlake National Forest will revise Land and Resource Management Plan (Forest Plan) (5/9, p. 31178)
- HUD releases final EIS on 1105-1135 Warburton Avenue, City of Yonkers, NY; Affordable Housing Ordinance (AHO) Mandated by a 1988 Federal Long-Term Plan Order (5/9, p. 31355-6)
- MMS releases EA for oil and gas exploration activities proposed on the Alaska Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). (5/9, p. 31368-9)
Today's links: Wednesday, May 8 (May 8 Table of Contents)
- BPA releases ROD "to offer contract terms to integrate power from the Satsop Combustion Turbine Project, a 650-megawatt gas-fired, combined-cycle, combustion turbine power generation project, into the Federal Columbia River Transmission System." (5/8, p. 30905)
- BLM releases ROD approving Newmont Mining Corporation's proposed South Operations Area Project Amendment. The proposed project expansion would result in disturbance of an additional 1,392 acres of federal and private lands located in Eureka County, Nevada. The "incorporat[es] mitigating modifications analyzed under the proposed
action. (5/8, p. 30954)
- BLM will prepare EIS on the Inland Resources, Inc. Monument Butte-Myton Bench Oil
Field Development, Duchesne and Uintah Counties, Utah (5/8, p. 30954-5)
- BLM will prepare plan amendments and associated EAs to the 1995 Fort Greely Resource Management Plan (RMP) and 1995 Fort Wainwright RMP and
associated Environmental Assessments (EAs). (5/8, p. 30955-6)
- BLM will prepare an Amendment to the Judith-Valley-
Phillips Resource Management Plan and Associated Environmental Assessment, Montana (5/8, p. 30958-9)
- BLM will prepare a Fire and Fuels Management Plan Amendment and an EA for the San Luis Resource Management Plan (5/8, p. 30959-60)
- BLM will prepare a Resource Management Plan revision and associated EIS, Socorro Field Office, New Mexico. (5/8, p. 30956-7)
- Forest Service is beginning to prepare an EIS to document the analysis and disclose the environmental impacts of the Wildland Urban Interface Project in Island Park, ID (5/8, p. 30866-7)
- FS to prepare a draft EIS for designating a system of roads and
trails within portions of the Apalachicola, Osceola, and Ocala National Forests in Florida. (5/8, p. 30865-6)
- FS to prepare an EIS to analyze and disclose the environmental impacts of a Special-Use Permit for a proposed project in the Inyo NF to operate an array of radio telescopes (5/8, p. 30867-9)
- FS to prepare EIS on Upper Bear Timber Sale. The proposed action is to reduce fuels within a "fuels reduction zone", manage forest vegetation, and manage roads. (5/8, p. 30869-71)
Tuesday, May 7 (May 7 TOC)
Monday, May 6 (May 6 TOC)
Friday, May 3 (May 3 TOC)
- Corps to prepare a draft EIS for the Shrewsbury River Basin, Monmouth County, NJ, Flood Control and Ecosystem Restoration Study: Feasibility Phase (5/3, p. 22414-5)
- Corps requests comments on draft Estuary Habitat Restoration
Strategy Prepared by the Estuary Habitat Restoration Council (5/3, p. 22415-21)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (5/3, p. 22425-6)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (5/3, p. 22426-7)
- FAA issues EA/FONSI evaluate Kistler Aerospace Corporation's proposal to construct and operate commercial launch and reentry/recovery facilities at the Nevada Test Site on land withdrawn from the public domain for use by DOE (5/3, p. 22479-83)
- Forest Service and BLM will jointly prepare an EIS to document the analysis and disclose the effects of authorizing a gas exploration well and associated road access on the Manti-La Sal NF (5/3, p. 22391-2)
- Forest Service will prepare an EIS for a proposal to manage invasive plant species on the Cibola NF and the Kiowa, Rita Blanca, Black Kettle and McClellan Creek National Grasslands (5/3, p. 22389-90)
- FS will prepare an EIS to disclose the impacts of authorizing an access route across National Forest System Lands to the State of Utah State Institutional Trust Lands Administration inholdings in Emery County, Utah (5/3, p. 22392-3)
- FS will prepare an EIS to document the analysis and disclose the environmental and human effects of proposed coal mining within the Cottonwood Canyon
Coal Tract, and to ensure that the Mining and Reclamation Plan will be in accordance with the Manti-La Sal National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan (5/3, p. 22390-1)
- for revising the Monongahela NF forest plan (5/3, p. 22393-6)
- FS announces the beginning of efforts to revise the forest plan for the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest (5/3, p. 22396)
- FS announces intent of the Manti-La Sal National Forest to revise their forest plan under the 1982 planning regulations (36 CFR 219). Initial steps of the
revision process will focus on information needs, organizing the revision team, resource inventory reviews, and establishing a forest plan revision mailing list (5/3, p. 22397)
- MMS announces the availability of NEPA-related site-specific
EAs and FONSI, prepared by MMS for oil and gas activities proposed on the Gulf of Mexico OCS (5/3, p. 22447-8)
- Notice of Public Meetings on Preliminary Alternatives for the
Environmental Impact Statement for the Exit Glacier Area Plan, Kenai
Fjords National Park, Alaska (5/3, p. 22448-9)
Thursday, May 2 (May 2 TOC)
- APHIS releases EA on control of cycad scale, Aulacaspis yasumatsui (5/2, p. 22037)
- APHIS releases EA on control of pink hibiscus mealybug,
Maconellicoccus hirsutus (5/2, p. 22038)
- FERC releases draft EIS on natural gas pipeline facilities (Patriot Pipeline Project) proposed by East Tennessee Natural Gas Company (5/2, p. )
- FS to prepare EIS for revising the Finger Lakes National Forest plan (5/2, p. 22039-43)
- FS to prepare EIS for revising the Green Mountain National Forest plan (5/2, p. 22043-8)
- FS changes title of Palmer Quarry Expansion EIS to Tamarack Quarry Expansion EIS (5/2, p. 22048)
- FS to prepare EIS on a proposal to improve forest health on approximately 821 acres of land (Bear Knoll Timber Management Project, Mt. Hood National Forest, Wasco County, Oregon) (5/2, p. 22049-50)
Wednesday, May 1 (May 1 TOC)
Tuesday, April 30 (April 30 TOC)
- BuRec will prepare an EIS on the Kennewick and Columbia Irrigation Districts Pump Exchange Feasibility Study, Washington (4/30, p. 21270-1)
- EPA seeks comments on proposed consent decree "that would establish a series of deadlines for [EPA] to begin consulting with the [FWS] and [NMFS] [on] certain pesticide uses and their potential effects" on listed plant and fish species. (4/30, p. )
- Forest Service to prepare EIS on revision of forest plans for the Kootenai and Idaho Panhandle national forests (Kootenai Idaho Panhandle Zone,
hereafter referred to as KIPZ) located in Lincoln, Sanders, and Flathead counties in Montana; Bonner, Boundary, Kootenai, Shoshone and Benewah, Latah, and Clearwater counties in Idaho; and Pend Oreille county in Washington. (4/30, p. 21210-4)
- NRCS issues FONSI for a stream restoration project on the South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve (4/30, p. 21215)
- NRCS: Notice of Availability of a Finding of No Significant Impact for the Sandstone Creek Watershed in Roger Mills County, OK (4/30, p. 21215)
Monday, April 29 (April 29 TOC)
- BLM to prepare an EIS and amendment to the Carson City Field
Office Consolidated Resource Management Plan (4/29, p. 20991-2)
- CEQ announces availability of Annual Report submitted by Basin Electric Power Cooperative, as Project Manager for the Missouri Basin Power Project in the matter of an exemption granted from the requirements of the ESA to Grayrocks Dam. The lead federal agency in the project is the Rural Electrification Administration. (4/29, p. 20973)
- FERCA releases EA on application for exemption from
licensing for the Meyers Falls 1910 Hydroelectric Project, located on the Colville River in Stevens County near the city of Kettle Falls, Washington. Conclusion: Not a major federal action. (4/29, p. 20969-70)
- FHwA to prepare an EIS for a proposed highway project in the south-central portion of Kentucky, between the proposed Somerset Northern Bypass and London. (4/29, p. 21013)
- FHwA to prepare EA prepare an EA for a proposed highway project in the south-central portion of Kentucky, between the Louis B. Nunn Parkway (Cumberland Parkway) at Fishing Creek to Ky 80 east of Somerset. (4/29, p. 21013-4)
Friday, April 26 (April 26 TOC)
- Army to prepare EIS for construction of the Cadet Library-Learning Center and Other activities to the Cadet Zone within the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY (4/26, p. 20747-8)
- BLM releases final supplemental EIS for the Smoky Canyon Mine, Panels B and C (southeast Idaho) (4/26, p. 20821)
- BLM's Elko Field Office has prepared, by third-party contractor, a final EIS on Newmont Mining Corporation's South Operations Area Project Amendment, located in Eureka County, Nevada. (4/26, p. 20821-2)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (4/26, p. 20762-3)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (4/26, p. 20763-4)
- EPA will prepare a supplemental EIS on a request to modify a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between EPA and Jefferson Parish, La., prohibiting the
parish from providing service from the Lafitte-Marrero waterline to a designated area (4/26, p. 20764)
- EPA will prepare an EIS on the federal funding, construction, operation and monitoring of a Coastal Wetlands Restoration Project, Mississippi River Water
Reintroduction Into the Maurepas Swamp (4/26, p. 20764-5)
- NRCS won't prepare EIS for the Kelly Creek Watershed in Barry and Lawrence Counties, Missouri. (4/26, p. 20725)
- NRCS won't prepare EIS for Bayou Duralde-Lower Nezpique Watershed, Acadia, Evangeline, and Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana. (4/26, p. 20724-5)
Thursday, April 25 (April 25 TOC)
Wednesday, April 24 (April 24 TOC)
- Commodity Credit Corp, Farm Service Agency will prepare a programmatic EIS for the Conservation Reserve Program, Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program and the Emergency Conservation Program, and hold public scoping meetings (4/24, p. 20082-3)
- BLM to prepare an RMP, EIS for Agua Fria National Monument, designated on Jan. 11, 2000, and for lands collectively known as the Bradshaw Foothills (4/24, p. 20148-9)
- BLM to prepare RMP, EIS for the California Coastal National Monument, designated January 11, 2000. The planning area includes all counties which border the
California Coast. (4/24, p. 20149-51)
- BLM to prepare RMP, EA for the Carrizo Plain National Monument, designated January 17, 2001, and (2) to amend the Caliente RMP (California) (4/24, p. 20152-3)
- BLM to prepare RMP, EIS for the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, designated June 9, 2000 (Colorado). (4/24, p. )
- BLM releases Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Draft Resource Management Plan and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Oregon) (4/24, p. 20153-4)
- BLM to prepare an RMP/GMP, and EIS for the Craters of the Moon National Monument. The Monument is located in Blaine, Butte, Lincoln, Minidoka, and Power Counties, Idaho. (4/24, p. 20154-5)
- BLM to prepare RMP for the Grand Canyon Parashant National Monument, designated Jan. 11, 2000, for the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, designated November 9, 2000, and (3) will revise the 1992 Arizona Strip RMP. These three actions will require a single EIS. These lands are located in Mohave and Coconino Counties, Arizona. (4/24, p. 20155-7)
- BLM to prepare RMP for the Ironwood Forest National Monument, designated on June 9, 2000, and (2) will amend the 1989 Phoenix RMP to consider land tenure
adjustments in support of the Pima County Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan. These two actions will require a single Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). These lands are located northwest of Tucson in Pima and Pinal Counties, Arizona. (4/24, p. 20157-8)
- BLM to prepare an RMP and EIS for the Sonoran Desert
National Monument, designated Jan. 17, 2001. These lands are located in Maricopa and Pinal counties, Arizona (4/24, p. 20158)
- Notice of Intent to prepare a Resource Management Plan (RMP)
for the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, designated
January 17, 2001. This action will require a single Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS). The planning area is located in Chouteau,
Blaine, Phillips and Fergus (4/24, p. 20158-9)
- DOE: National Nuclear Security Administration Office of Los Alamos Site Operations; Floodplain Statement of Finding for the Connector Road
Between Technical Areas 22 and 8 at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico (4/24, p. 20102)
- NPS has prepared a draft supplemental EIS to amend the General Management Plan assessing the potential impacts of a proposal to construct a new Visitor/Learning Center on NPS-administered lands north of the town of Baker, Nevada (4/24, p. 20160)
- Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Lake Management
Plan; Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Mohave County, AZ and Clark
County, NV; Notice of Availability (4/24, p. 20160-2)
- NPS: Notice of Intent to prepare a Fisheries Management Plan with EIS for Biscayne National Park (4/24, p. 20162-3)
- NPS to prepare GMP/EIS for the Minidoka Internment National Monument, Idaho (4/24, p. 20163)
- Navy releases Record of Decision for Disposal and Reuse of the Naval Air Station, South Weymouth, MA (4/24, p. 20097-9)
Tuesday, April 23 (April 23 TOC)
Monday, April 22 (April 22 TOC)
- BLM and the California Department of Fish and Game have prepared a draft Resource Management Plan and a draft EIS/EIR for the Headwaters Forest
Reserve located in Humboldt County, California (4/22, p. 19585-6)
- FERC: Notice of Combined Initial Information Meeting and Scoping Meeting, Project Site Visit, and Solicitation of Scoping Comments for an Applicant-Prepared EA using the Alternative Licensing Procedure; Garkane Power Association, Inc.; Utah (4/22, p. 19563-4)
- FERC: Islander East Pipeline Company, L.L.C., Algonquin Gas
Transmission Company; Notice of Public Comment Meetings on the Draft EIS for the Proposed Islander East Pipeline Project (4/22, p. 19564)
- FERC: Notice of Combined Initial Information Meeting and Scoping Meeting, Project Site Visit, and Solicitation of Scoping Comments for an Applicant-Prepared EA using the Alternative Licensing Procedure; City of Monroe, UT (4/22, p. 19564)
- FERC releases EA on application for a subsequent
license for the Bigfork Hydroelectric Project located on the Swan River, in Flathead County, Montana. Conclucion: Not a major federal action (4/22, p. 19565)
- FERC releases EA for the proposed Hanging Rock Lateral Project; Texas Eastern Transmission, L.P. (4/22, p. 19565-6)
- FERC to prepare an EA for the Saluda Dam Remediation Project. The Saluda Dam impounds the 48,000-acre Lake Murray and is located in Richland, Lexington,
Newberry, and Saluda counties, South Carolina (4/22, p. 19566)
- Forest Service will prepare an EIS on the Gaylord North Timber
Sale. The proposed action in the EIS is to manage timber stands to improve their productivity, reduce fire risk to timber and facilities in the Weiser River Canyon, reduce severity of current and future insect and disease activity, improve some compacted soils, decrease existing road levels, and provide wood fiber for society (4/22, p. 19543-4)
- NRCS to prepare EIS for a proposed flood prevention project in the Lahaina Watershed, Maui County, Hawaii (4/22, p. 19544-5)
Friday, April 19 (April 19 TOC)
- Corps releases EA on Green Brook Flood Control Project, Segments A & N (Somerset, Middlesex, and Union Counties, New Jersey) (4/19, p. 19429-30)
- Corps rescinds release of a draft EIS to consider issuance of a CWA 404 permit for fills associated with Hobet Mining's proposed surface coal mining operation in conjunction with its Spruce No. 1 surface mine, near Blair in Logan County, WV. "This cancellation is necessitated in order to amend the [DEIS] to include socioeconomic data
that was erroneously omitted." (4/19, p. 19430)
- Corps releases draft Evaluation Report and draft EIS, Tuttle Creek Dam Safety Assurance Program, Big Blue River, near the City of Manhattan, Riley and Pottawatomie Counties, KS (4/19, p. 19428-9)
- BuRec to prepare EIS on the Kennewick and Columbia Irrigation Districts Pump Exchange Feasibility Study, Washington (4/19, p. 19447-8)
- DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration is amending the Records of Decision (RODs) for the Storage and Disposition of Weapons-Usable Fissile Materials Final Programmatic EIS (Storage and Disposition PEIS) and Surplus Plutonium Disposition (SPD EIS) (4/19, p. 19432-5)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (4/19, p. 19435)
- EPA to prepare EIS on ExxonMobil's proposal to develop oil and gas reserves in or near the Point Thomson Unit, North Slope, Alaska. Proposal potentially includes designation of ocean dredged material disposal site(s) (4/19, p. 19435-5)
- FHwA to prepare Tier II EIS for proposed improvement to the I-70 highway corridor in Boone County, Missouri (4/19, p. 19469-70)
- Allegheny National Forest's Marienville Ranger District will prepare a Draft EIS to disclose the environmental consequences of the proposed Spring Creek Project (4/19, p. 19386-8)
- FS revises notice of intent to prepare EIS on Payette National Forest's (Idaho) proposed Middle Little Salmon Vegetation Management Project (4/19, p. 19388-9)
- FS will prepare an EIS for the proposed Plan of Operations for the Golden Hand #3 and #4 lode mining claims in the Frank Church--River of No Return (FC-RONR) Wilderness on the Krassel Ranger District, Payette National Forest (4/19, p. 19389-90)
- MMS issues a proposed OCS final leasing program for 2002-2007. This is the third and final proposal for a new OCS oil and gas leasing program, following the July 2001 draft proposed program and October 2001 proposed program (4/19, p. 19447)
- MMS has prepared a final EIS related to the Proposed OCS
Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2002-2007 (4/19, p. )
Thursday, April 18 (April 18 TOC)
Wednesday, April 17 (April 17 TOC)
- Army releases final EIS for the disposal of chemical munitions at Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado (4/17, p. 18870)
- FERC issues EA/FONSI on Public Utility District No. 1 of Chelan County's application for license amendment to construct and operate a permanent juvenile fish bypass system at the Rocky Reach Hydroelectric Project, located on the Columbia River in Chelan and Douglas Counties, Washington (4/17, p. 18885)
- FERC to prepare EA for the proposed Maritimes Phase IV
Project; request for comments on environmental issues (4/17, p. 18885-7)
- FERC to prepare EA on Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company's proposal for South Texas Expansion Project (4/17, p. 18887-9)
- The Coconino National Forest is planning to prepare an EIS on a proposal to amend the Coconino Forest Plan. The planned amendment provides clarification to current Forest Plan language and adds additional direction for management of lands surrounding the City of Flagstaff, the Flagstaff Area National Monuments and the Lake Mary Watershed (4/17, p. 18856-7)
- FS to prepare an EIS on a proposal to harvest timber in the Woronkofski Timber Sale project area, Wrangell Ranger District, Tongass NF. The proposed action is to harvest an estimated 10 million board feet on approximately 1,000 acres, with 2 miles of road construction and 2 miles of reconstruction, and development of two new log transfer facilities (4/17, p. 18857-9)
Ttuesday, April 16 (April 16 TOC)
- FS to prepare EIS on Sunken Moose project in Chequamegon/Nicolet National Forest, Bayfield County, WI (4/16, p. 18579-80)
- FS to prepare EIS on revision of Land and Resource Management Plan for the Mark Twain National Forest; Barry, Bollinger, Boone, Butler, Callaway, Carter,
Christian, Crawford, Dent, Douglas, Howell, Iron, Laclede, Madison, Oregon, Ozark, Phelps, Pulaski, Reynolds, Ripley, St. Genevieve, St. Francis, Shannon, Stone, Taney, Texas, Washington, Wayne, and Wright counties, MO (4/16, p. 18580-3)
- GSA to prepare EIS on disposal of Square 62, (Lot Nos. 810, 813, 814 and 815), located at 2218 C Street, NW Washington, DC 20037. (4/16, p. 18623)
Monday, April 15 (April 15 TOC)
- Corps releases final EIS for the Platte West Water Production Facilities, Douglas and Saunders counties, NE (4/15, p. )
- BLM releases final EIS and ROD for 3R Minerals Coal Bed Canyon Mine (4/15, p. 18237-8)
- BLM issues interim final supplementary rules on the Piedras
Blancas Light Station property, San Simeon, California (4/15, p. 18238-40)
- DOE: Notice of Floodplain Involvement for Proposed Deactivation and Demolition of the Zone 13 Sewage Treatment Plant at the Pantex Plant, Amarillo, TX (4/15, p. 18182-3)
- FERC: Notice of Public Scoping and Site Visit for the Newton Falls Hydroelectric Project (4/15, p. 18192)
- FERC releases final EA on license application for the Ware Shoals Hydroelectric Project (4/15, p. 18191)
- GSA announces public meeting, notice of intent to prepare EA for the proposed development of a new Census Bureau building at the Suitland Federal Center (4/15, p. 18204-5)
- Navy issues Record of Decision for Ford Island Development, Pearl Harbor, HI (4/15, p. 18180-2)
Friday, April 12 (April 12 TOC)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (4/12, p. 17992-3)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (4/12, p. 17993-4)
- BLM, in collaboration with the Coachella Valley Association of Governments, is preparing a joint EIS/EIR for the Coachella Valley Multiple Species HCP and CDCA Plan Amendment (4/12, p. 18022-3)
- FERC releases EA on Aquenergy Systems' application for license for the Ware Shoals Hydroelectric Project. Conclusion: Not a major federal action (4/12, p. 17988)
- BIA files FEIS on proposed White River Amphitheatre, Muckleshoot Indian Reservation, King County, Wash. The proposed BIA action is to take into trust the land upon which the tribe proposes to build and operate a 20,000 seat amphitheatre. (4/12, p. 18018-9)
- NPS to prepare an EIS for the National Park Service concerning the environmental impacts of implementing "benefits-sharing" agreements when information derived from research specimens collected from units of the National Park System results in commercial value. (4/12, p. 18034-5)
- Surface Transportation Board releases EA on Alamo North Texas Railroad Corporation's petition for authority to build and operate a rail line approximately 2.25 miles in length in Wise County, Texas to serve a limestone quarry near Chico, Texas (4/12, p. )
- STB releases EA on Midwest Generation, LLC's petition for authority to build a rail line about 4,007 feet in length in Will County, Illinois, to provide
an alternate route for rail access to the Joliet Generating Station in Joliet, Illinois (4/12, p. 18053)
Thursday, April 11 (April 11 TOC)
- Forest Service will prepare an EIS to analyze and disclose the environmental impacts of a site-specific proposal to revise the master plan and the present
special use permit of the Chewelah Basin Ski Corporation, current operator of the 49 Degrees North Mountain Resort (Colville NF, Stevens County, Washington) (4/11, p. 17671-2)
- GSA releases draft EIS for the master plan and the proposed development and future build-out for the CDC in Chamblee, Ga. (4/11, p. 17694)
- DOJ releases EA/FONSI that says the methamphetamine investigation and clandestine laboratory closure activities of the Methamphetamine/Drug
Hot Spots Program will not have significant impact on the quality of the human environment (4/11, p. 17718)
- NPS approves ROD for the Final EIS for the Alcatraz Island Historic Preservation and Safety Construction Program, Golden Gate National Recreation Area (4/11, p. 17714-5)
- NPS releases EA for the reconstruction of the entrance station at Great Falls Park, Virginia, a unit of the George Washington Memorial Parkway. (4/11, p. 17715)
- NPS releases Record of Decision on the Final Supplemental EIS, Re-analysis of Cumulative Impacts on the Sonoran Pronghorn for Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (4/11, p. 17715-6)
- NPS to prepare EIS for the Cades Cove Development Concept and Transportation Management Plan for Great Smoky Mountains National Park (4/11, p. 17716-7)
Wednesday, April 10 (April 10 TOC)
- Corps issues draft EIS on CWA 404 permit for Hobet Mining, Inc.'s proposed surface coal mining operation in conjunction with its Spruce No. 1 Surface Mine, Near Blair in Logan County, WV (4/10, p. 17418)
- DOI releases FONSI on the final EA for the Diamond Fork
System 2002 Proposed Action Modifications (4/10, p. 17435-6)
- NPS releases final general management plan and final EIS for Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site, Arkansas (4/10, p. 17441)
- NPS begins a conservation planning and environmental
impact analysis process to identify and assess potential impacts of alternative transportation management concepts and transportation infrastructure improvements for the Marin Headlands and Fort Baker area of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (4/10, p. 17439-40)
- NPS approves Record of Decision for the General Management Plan and Abbreviated final EIS for Mojave National Preserve (4/10, p. 17441-5)
- NPS approves a Record of Decision for the final EIS/General Management Plan for Mount Rainier National Park (4/10, p. 17445)
- NPS releases draft EIS for the National Coal Heritage Area Management Plan (4/10, p. 17446)
- NPS begins public scoping for a conservation planning and environmental impact analysis process for preparing a non-native deer management plan for Point Reyes National Seashore (4/10, p. 17446-7)
- NPS releases ROD on the final EIS for the general management plan and visitor use and facilities plan, Voyageurs National Park in Koochiching and St. Louis counties, Minnesota (4/10, p. 17447-55)
- NPS to prepare EIS on Garfield County, Utah's proposed road modifications to the Burr Trail (Boulder-to-Bullfrog Road) within Capitol Reef National
Park (4/10, p. 17455-6)
- NPS to prepare EIS for the general management plan for both the Lake Meredith NRA and the Alibates Flint Quarries NM (4/10, p. 17456)
- NPS to prepare draft EIS on the Low Country Gullah Culture
Special Resource Study (4/10, p. 17456-7)
- Navy releases ROD for the renewal of authorization to use
Pinecastle Range, Ocala National Forest, FL (4/10, p. 17418-20)
- Rural Utilities Service issues FONSI in connection with a request from Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association Inc.for assistance from RUS to finance the construction and operation of an 150 MW combustion turbine generation facility in
Hildago County, New Mexico (4/10, p. 17357)
- Western Area Power Administration will prepare a floodplain/wetlands assessment on ROW maintenance on transmission lines in Placer,
Sacramento, and Sutter counties, California (4/10, p. 17426-7)
Tuesday, April 9 (April 9 TOC)
Monday, April 8 (April 8 TOC)
Friday, April 5 (April 5 TOC)
- Corps, in coordination with Lake County and the State of California Reclamation Board, have prepared the Draft Integrated Feasibility Report and EIS/EIR for the Middle Creek Flood Damage Reduction and Ecosystem Restoration Project, Lake County,
California (4/5, p. 16369)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (4/5, p. 16375-6)
- Forest Service rescinds NOI for Ponderosa Pine Restoration Area
Project (4/5, p. 16365)
- Rural Utilities Service will hold a scoping meeting and prepare an EA on a proposal by Golden Valley Electric Association Inc. of Fairbanks, Alaska. The project
consists of constructing a 138kV transmission line between the GVEA generating facilities at the Williams Alaska Petroleum Refinery in North Pole, Alaska, and the Carney Substation, which is approximately 28 miles southeast of North Pole. (4/5, p. 16365-6)
Thursday, April 4 (April 4 TOC)
- Corps of Engineers to prepare a draft programmatic supplemental EIS for the Louisiana Coastal Area, Louisiana--Comprehensive Coastwide Ecosystem Restoration Feasibility Study (4/4, p. 16093-6)
- FERC releases draft EIS on natural gas pipeline facilities proposed by Islander East Pipeline Company, L.L.C.and by Algonquin Gas Transmission Company in New Haven County, Connecticut, and Suffolk County, New York (4/4, p. 16103-4)
- Forest Service will prepare an EIS for revising the Wayne National Forest forest plan (4/4, p. 16082-5)
- BLM: The Glendale Resource Area is providing the Draft Kelsey
Whisky Landscape Management Plan, associated amendments to the Medford Resource Management Plan, and draft EIS (RMPA/LMP/EIS) for public review and comment (4/4, p. 16116)
Wednesday, April 3 (April 3 TOC)
- FS extends comment period, sets public meetings on revised forst plan for the Shawnee National Forest (Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Saline, Williamson, and Union Counties, IL) (4/3, p. 15773)
- Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission issues
FONSI on the final EA for the Diamond Fork System 2002 Proposed Action Modifications (4/3, p. 15853-4)
Tuesday, April 2 (April 2 TOC)
- Bureau of Indian Affairs plans to prepare EIS for the proposed Jamul Indian Village 101 Acre Fee-to-Trust Transfer and Casino Project, San Diego County, CA (4/2, p. 15582)
- DOE National Nuclear Security Administration of the Los Alamos Area Office plans to build a connector road about one mile long between Technical Areas (TAs) 22 and 8 at Los Alamos National Laboratory. A short segment, less than 200 feet in length, of the road will cross a floodplain area within Pajarito Canyon, located within the western portion of LANL (4/2, p. 15554-5)
- DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Los Alamos Site Operations, plans to decontaminate and demolish the Omega West Facility from the Los Alamos Canyon bottom to reduce the potential for radioactive contaminant spread and debris dissemination in the event of a major flood. The facility, originally constructed in 1944, and its associated structures are of advanced age and not in a condition suitable for renovation or
reapplication. Further, they are located within a potential flood pathway. (4/2, p. 15555-6)
- FERC's Office of Energy Projects releases EA on a proposed recreation and land management plan for the Tacoma Development of the Tacoma-Ames Project. Conclusion: not a major Federal action (4/2, p. 15563-4)
- FERC issues EA on application for a new license for
the Fifteen Mile Falls Hydroelectric Project, located on the Connecticut River, in Grafton County, New Hampshire and Caledonia County, Vermont. Conclusion: Not a major federal action (4/2, p. 15564)
Monday, April 1 (April 1 TOC)
- FERC to prepare EA on construction and operation of a new compressor station by Reliant Energy Gas Transmission Company (Reliant) on its Line J system in Jackson County, Arkansas (4/1, p. 15380-2)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in Salt Lake County, Utah. (4/1, p. 15499-500)
- FS to prepare EIS on a proposal to expand the Mt. Ashland Ski Area (Rogue River NF) (4/1, p. 15356-7)
- NPS releases EA, Floodplains and Wetlands Statement of Findings for site of the proposed well. (4/1, p. 15411)
- NRCS to prepare EIS for a federally assisted proposed project by the Little Wood River Irrigation District, Blaine County, Idaho (4/1, p. 15357-8)
Friday, March 29 (March 29 TOC)
- Coast Guard releases Final Programmatic EIS on the
Integrated Deepwater System Project. (3/29, p. 15275-6)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (3/29, p. 15193-5)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (3/29, p. 15193)
- NPS proposes postponement of implementation of existing snowmobile regulations in Yellowstone National Park, the John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Memorial Parkway, and Grand Teton National Park for one year. This proposal is in conjunction with the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) being prepared for all three NPS areas (3/29, p. 15145-9)
- NPS releases draft supplemental EIS for the Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Memorial Parkway, Wyoming and Montana (3/29, p. 15223-4)
Thursday, March 28 (March 28 TOC)
- Army Corps of Engineers will prepare a draft EIS for the proposed University of California at Merced and Associated Infrastructure Projects, Corps Permit Application Numbers 199900203 and 200100570. "The project as proposed would impact over 92 acres of waters of the United States, including vernal pools and other associated wetlands." (3/28, p. 14920-1)
- Corps: Chief of Engineers Environmental Advisory Board to meet April 11 in Rock Island, Ill. (3/28, p. 14921)
- The Missile Defense Agency is preparing a Supplement to the
Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Program Definition
and Risk Reduction (PDRR) Phase of the Airborne Laser (ABL) Program
(April 1997) and Record of Decision (September 1997) (3/28, p. 14917-9)
- DOD's Missile Defense Agency to prepare the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Extended Test Range EIS (3/28, p. 14919-20)
- FERC issues draft EA on applications for original licenses for Erie
Boulevard Hydropower L.P.'s Parishville Hydroelectric Project and Allens Falls Hydroelectric Project, both located on the West Branch St. Regis River in St. Lawrence County, New York. Conclusion: Not major federal actions (3/28, p. 14932-3)
- Navy: Notice of Intent To Prepare an EIS for Stabilization of In-Water Facilities at the Fox Island Laboratory, Tacoma, WA, and Public Scoping Meeting (3/28, p. 14921-2)
- NPS issues FONSI for EA on the Mount Vernon (Virginia) Trail Bridge #12 Safety Realignment (3/28, p. 14971)
- NPS to prepare EIS for the General Management Plan for Fort Matanzas National Monument, St. Augustine, Fla. (3/28, p. 14971-2)
- NPS issues FONSI for the EA for the Glen Echo Park North Arcade Rehabilitation (3/28, p. 14971)
Wednesday, March 27 (March 27 TOC)
Tuesday, March 26 (March 26 TOC)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for proposed improvements to US 31 in Marshall and St. Joseph Counties in Indiana (3/26, p. 13818)
- NPS has prepared a Record of Decision on the Final General Management Plan and Abbreviated final EIS for Death Valley National Park (3/26, p. 13796-9)
- NPS releases draft general management plan/draft environmental
impact statement (DGMP/DEIS) for Grand Portage National Monument in Minnesota (3/26, p. 13799)
- NPS will prepare a general management plan and EIS for Fallen Timbers Battlefield and FortMiamis National Historic Site, Ohio. (3/26, p. 13799-800)
- NPS will prepare a general management plan and EIS for First Ladies National Historic Site, Ohio. (3/26, p. 13800)
- NPS is undertaking a conservation planning and environmental
impact analysis process to determine what approaches to take concerning resource protection and visitor use in the development of the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, Contra Costa County, California (3/26, p. 13801)
- NPS begins public scoping for a conservation planning and impact analysis process for updating the current fire management plan at Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. (3/26, p. 13801-2)
- NPS will prepare Comprehensive Management Plans for the Middle and South Forks Kings River and the North Fork Kern River, which in 1987 were designated as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System (3/26, p. 13802-3)
Monday, March 25 (March 25 TOC)
- BLM proposes to amend California Desert Conservation Area Plan and EA to establish or revise designations of areas and trails for off-road vehicles (3/25, p. 13648-9)
- BuRec proposes to participate in a joint EIS/EIR on the Freeport
Regional Water Project. The FRWP is being proposed by the Freeport Regional Water Authority, a joint powers agency formed by the Sacramento County Water Agency and East Bay Municipal
Utility District to make use of Central Valley Project contract and other water supplies (3/25, p. 13656-7)
- FERC will prepare an EA that will discuss the environmental impacts of the amended Maritimes Phase III/HubLine Project involving construction and operation of facilities by Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline, L.L.C. in Essex County, Massachusetts and Algonquin Gas Transmission Company in primarily offshore Essex, Suffolk, Plymouth, and Norfolk Counties, Massachusetts (3/25, p. 13621-2)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in Burleigh and Morton Counties, North Dakota. (3/25, p. 13678)
Friday, March 22 (March 22 TOC)
Thursday, March 21 (March 21 TOC)
- DOE Notice of Wetland Involvement. The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Operations is proposing to convey Parcel G to the City of Oak Ridge (3/21, p. 13133-4)
- FERC issues EA on application for exemption from licensing of the Goodrich Falls Project, located on the Ellis River, in Carroll County, New Hampshire. Conclusion: Not a major federal action. (3/21, p. 13136-7)
- FERC will prepare an EA for the proposed Eagle Pass International Pipeline Project, asks for comments on environmental issues. Project involves construction and operation of facilities by Reef International, L.L.C. in Maverick County, Texas. (3/21, p. 13137-8)
- NPS releases final EIS and General Management Plan for Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming. (3/21, p. 13193-4)
- NPS to prepare EIS for the Valley Forge National Historical Park General Management Plan (3/21, p. 13194)
Wednesday, March 20 (March 20 TOC)
- The Army will prepare an EIS on military training activities at Makua Military Reservation (MMR), Oahu, Hawaii (3/20, p. 12978-9)
- FERC issues EA on effects of the construction and operation of Columbia Gas's proposed pipeline facilities in Chester and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania, and Gloucester, County, New Jersey (3/20, p. 12987)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for transportation improvements in the State Trunk Highway (STH) 83 corridor between County Trunk Highway (CTH) ``NN'' at the north limits of the Village of Mukwonago and STH 16, Waukesha County, Wisconsin (3/20, p. 13038)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in Weber County, Utah. (3/20, p. 13038-9)
- FRA will join Caltrans in the preparation of a program level EIS and programmatic EIR for passenger rail improvements to the Los Angeles to San Diego (LOSSAN) rail corridor. (3/20, p. 13039-40)
- The Forest Service will prepare an EIS to assess and disclose the environmental effects of lode and placer exploration at the Lost Cabin Mine, Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Carbon County, WY (3/20, p. 12958-9)
- Forest Service to prepare an EIS for revising the Shawnee National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan (3/20, p. 12960-3)
- FS to prepare EIS on a proposal to manage forest vegetation in the Bear River drainage of the of the Wasatch-Cache National Forest (3/20, p. 12963-4)
Tuesday, March 19 (March 19 TOC)
Monday, March 18 (March 18 TOC)
Friday, March 15 (March 15 TOC)
Thursday, March 14 (March 14 TOC)
Wednesday, March 13 (March 13 TOC)
- DOE issues Record of Decision on the operation of the Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12) in the State of Tennessee (3/13, p. 11296-301)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed intermodal freight terminal in Wayne County, Michigan (3/13, p. 11369)
- NPS releases General Management Plan, final EIS for Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, Washington, DC (3/13, p. 11360-1)
- NPS to prepare EIS for the General Management Plan for the Blue Ridge Parkway (3/13, p. 11361-2)
- NPS is preparing an EIS for the general management plan for Colorado National Monument. The EIS will be approved by the Director, Intermountain Region (3/13, p. 11362-3)
- NPS is preparing an EIS for the Livestock Management Plan and associated allotment management plans for Dinosaur National Monument (3/13, p. 11363)
- NPS preparing EIS for the resource study of the
Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area (3/13, p. 11363-4)
- BuRec proposes to prepare a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) on increasing the storage capacity of Gerber Reservoir, Klamath Project, Oregon (3/13, p. 11364)
Tuesday, March 12 (March 12 TOC)
Monday, March 11 (March 11 TOC)
- BuRec, FWS: BuRec has filed a draft EIR/EIS on Imperial Irrigation District's (IID) proposed Water Conservation and Transfer Project, Draft Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) (3/11, p. 10928-30)
- BLM corrects Feb. 21 notice (3/11, p. 10969)
- DOE releases draft EA for Waste Disposition Activities at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plan (3/11, p. 10897-8)
- FERC releases EA on Mechanicville Hydroelectric Project, located on the Hudson River in Saratoga and Rensselaer Counties, New York. Not a major federal action, FERC says. (3/11, p. 10903)
- natural gas pipeline facilities proposed by Northwest Pipeline
Corporation (49 miles of pipeline in Thurston and Grays Harbor counties, Washington) (3/11, p. 10903-4)
- FHwA to prepare EIS on plans to widen SR 99 from four lanes to six lanes from 0.6 kilometers north of Arch Road to 0.2 kilometers south of SR 4 West, in Stockton, San Joaquin County, California (3/11, p. 10965-6)
- FHwA to prepare EIS on a proposal to improve NYS Route
9A in Westchester County, New York. The proposed improvements will involve the reconstruction of approximately 2.5 miles of the existing route from just south of Route 119 to just north of Route 100C in the Towns of Greenburgh and Mount Pleasant and Village of Elmsford (3/11, p. 10966)
- Tahoe National Forest will prepare an EIS on a proposal to reduce fuel loading on Tahoe NF by removing fire-killed trees on approximately 7,700 acres on the Foresthill Ranger District as a result of the Star Fire. (3/11, p. 10886-8)
- NRCS will not prepare an EIS for Shammack Creek Watershed, Kemper County, Mississippi. (3/11, p. 10889)
- Rural Utilities Service (RUS) issues FONSI on construction and operation of two, 268 megawatt coal-fired electric generation units in Mason County, Kentucky (3/11, p. 10889)
- RUS issues FONSI on proposal by Georgia Transmission Corporation for assistance from the RUS to finance the construction of a 230/115 kV transmission line in Gwinnett and Hall Counties, Georgia (3/11, p. 10889-90)
Friday, March 8 (March 8 TOC)
- Army releases final PEIS for Army Transformation (3/8, p. 10690-1)
- Army's Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Polk, and Kisatchie National Forest to prepare EIS to evaluate potential impacts associated with the Army's proposal for implementing force transformation and mission capability enhancements at the JRTC and Fort Polk, Louisiana, along with long-term military training use of the
Kisatchie National Forest (3/8, p. 10691-4)
- Army Corps' San Francisco District to prepare EIS on application from Roy F. Weston Inc. on behalf of the City of Vallejo, Calif., to deposit up to 11.4 million cubic yards of regionally dredged material into seven dredged disposal ponds covering an area of 359-acres on the western side of Mare Island in the City of Vallejo in Solano County, California (3/8, p. 10696-7)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (3/8, p. 10711-2)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (3/8, p. 10712)
- Federal Law Enforcement Training Center has issued an EA/FONSI on the renovation of the former Naval Communications Detachment, Cheltenham, Md., to provide a law enforcement training and requalification facility (3/8, p. 10804)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for the Tri-County Parkway, a 10-mile long, four- to six-lane controlled access facility on new location linking Route 234 (Sudley Road) in the City of Manassas and Braddock Road in Loudoun County (3/8, p. 10795)
- Federal Transit Administration will prepare an EIS with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority to evaluate transit improvements, including a potential rapid transit service extension, in the North Shore Corridor from Revere to Salem, Mass. (3/8, p. 10796-8)
- Forest Service will prepare an EIS on a proposal to harvest timber in
the Shady Highbush Timber Sale Project area, Wrangell Ranger District, Tongass NF (3/8, p. 10661-2)
Thursday, March 7 (March 7 TOC)
Wednesday, March 6 (March 6 TOC)
Tuesday, March 5 (March 5 TOC)
Monday, March 4 (March 4 TOC)
- Army to prepare EIS for Force Transformation of the 172nd Infantry Brigade (Separate) and Mission Sustainment in Alaska (3/4, p. 9716-7)
- Army to prepare EIS for Force Transformation of the 2nd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, Hawaii (3/4, p. 9717-8)
- Coast Guard seeks comments on the development of a ballast
water treatment goal, and an interim ballast water treatment standard (3/4, p. 9632-8)
- FHwA to prepare EIS in cooperation with the Virginia DOT for a proposed Route 29 South Bypass Improvement Project in Campbell County and the City of Lynchburg to address safety and capacity issues and to enhance mobility and economic
competitiveness (3/4, p. 9801-2)
- FHwA to prepare EIS on proposed highway project in Madison, Stanton, Wayne, Dixon and Dakota Counties, Nebraska (3/4, p. 9802)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed bridge
project between Pottawattamie County, Iowa, and Douglas County,
Nebraska (3/4, p. 9802)
Friday, March 1 (March 1 TOC)
Thursday, Feb. 28 (Feb. 28 TOC)
- APHIS releases ROD for the Fruit Fly Cooperative
Control Program FEIS (2/28, p. 9245-7)
- APHIS releases EA for a proposed decision "to extend to one additional canola event our determination that a canola line developed by Monsanto
Company, which has been genetically engineered for tolerance to the
herbicide glyphosate, is no longer considered a regulated article..." (2/28, p. 9247-8)
- BuRec releases ROD identifying the alternative to be implemented for the Keechelus Dam Safety of Dams Modification Project, located in the Yakima River basin
in central Washington (2/28 p. 9319)
- BuRec identifies alternative to be implemented for the Potholes
Reservoir Resource Management Plan (2/28, p. 9319-20)
- FERC releases EA for the Calligan Creek Hydroelectric Project, located on Calligan Creek in King County, Washington. Conclusion: "Not a major federal action." (2/28, p. 9264)
- FERC releases final EA for amendment of the license for the Hancock Creek Hydroelectric Project, located on Hancock Creek in King County, Washington Conclusion: "Not a major federal action." (2/28, p. 9264)
- FERC to prepare EA for construction and operation of facilities by Texas Eastern Transmission, LP in several counties in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and
New York (2/28, p. 9264-6)
- FTA, FHwA, Metro and Tri-Met to prepare a supplemental EIS
for transit improvements in the southern segment of the South/North Transit Corridor (referred to as the South Corridor Project) of the Portland, Ore., metropolitan region (2/28, p. 9352-3)
- FS to prepare EIS on a proposal to implement vegetation, riparian and road management projects in Colville NF (2/28, p. 9248-50)
- FS rescinds NOI on Upper Desolation Vegetation Recovery Projects, Umatilla National Forest, Grant County, Ore. (2/28, p. 9250)
Wednesday, Feb. 27 (Feb. 27 TOC)
Today's links: Tuesday, Feb. 26 (Feb. 26 Table of Contents)
Monday, Feb. 25 (Feb. 25 TOC)
- APHIS releases EA on proposal not to regulate "certain canola events developed by Aventis CropScience, which have been genetically engineered for male
sterility, fertility restoration, and tolerance to the herbicide glufosinate." (2/25, p. 8509-10)
- Corps corrects address in NOI to prepare a Draft Tier II EIS (DEIS) for the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project, Savannah, Ga., in the Federal Register on Jan. 22, 2002. A portion of the
address contained in contact information was incorrect. T (2/25, p. 8528)
- Corps corrects 2/13 correction notice for NWPs (2/25, p. 8579)
- BLM Rawlins, Wyo., office begins revision of the Great Divide Resource Management Plan (RMP) to guide future management actions on the public lands within the Rawlins Field Office administrative (or management) area. Issue 1: Potential Conflicts Between Mineral Exploration and Development Activities and Other Land and Resource Uses and Values (2/25, p. 8701-3)
- BLM's Pinedale Field Office is initiating a revision of the
Pinedale Resource Management Plan (RMP) to guide future management actions on the public lands within the Pinedale Field Office administrative (or management) area. Issue 1: see above notice (2/25, p. 8699-701)
- FS to prepare EIS on a proposal to acquire approximately 3,994 acres of Sierra Pacific Industries Corporation land in exchange for 2,126 acres in the Eldorado National Forest, El Dorado and Placer Counties, California (2/25, p. 8510-2)
- FS cancels plan to prepare an EIS on a proposal to
harvest timber, prescribe burn, and improve wildlife habitat on the Pacific Ranger District. (2/25, p. 8512)
- FS to prepare EIS on a proposal to drill for and develop conventional oil and gas resources with one (1) well on Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests and Thunder Basin National Grassland in Campbell County, Wyoming (2/25, p. 8512-4)
- Rural Utilities Service issues FONSI on request from Arizona Electric Power Cooperative (AEPCO) for assistance from RUS to finance the construction and operation of a 40 MW gas turbine generation facility at the Apache Generating Station--Cochise County, Arizona (2/25, p. 8517-8)
- TVA is conducting a comprehensive reservoir operations study (ROS). "The purpose of the ROS is to determine if changes in TVA's reservoir operating policies would produce greater overall public value." (2/25, p. 8573-5)
Friday, Feb. 22 (Feb. 22 TOC)
- BuRec proposes to prepare a draft EIS regarding delivery of Central Arizona Project water to the San Carlos Apache Reservatio (2/22, p. 8316-7)
- Corps releases draft EIS on proposed Rueter-Hess Reservoir near the town of Parker, in Douglas County, Colorado (2/22, p. 8234)
- Corps to prepare a draft EIS for the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) Storage Reservoirs--Phase 1 Project, Central and Southern Florida (C&SF) Project, Comprehensive Review Study (2/22, p. 8234-5)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (2/22, p. 8242-3)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (2/22, p. 8243)
- FERC releases final EA on an application to install 12-inch-high
flashboards at the Allegheny Lock and Dam No. 6 Hydroelectric Project (2/22, p. 8240)
- FHwA to prepare EIS on the proposed alternates to improve US 1 and MD 201 in Prince George's County, Maryland. (2/22, p. 8332-3)
- NPS is preparing an EIS on vessel quotas and operating requirements for Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve (2/22, p. 8313-4)
Thursday, Feb. 21 (Feb. 21 TOC)
- Customs Service releases draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed construction of an advanced training center at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia (2/21, p. 8063)
- FHwA to prepare supplemental draft EIS for a proposed highway project in Duval County, Florida, concerning the Branan Field/Chaffee Road extension and realignment (2/21, p. 8060-1)
- BLM will prepare a Land Use Analysis/EA to consider leasing federal coal in response to lease application KYES-50213. The 315.13-acre application area in Clay County, Kentucky is managed by the Daniel Boone National Forest. The LUA/EA will be a cooperative effort among BLM, the Forest Service and the Office of Surface Mining. The coal lease application was filed by Southfork Coal Company (2/21, p. 8033-4)
- BLM will prepare a Land Use Analysis/EA to consider leasing federal coal in response to lease application KYES-50213. The coal lease application was filed by Chas Coal, L.L.C. (2/21, p. 8034)
- BLM plans to prepare a Fire, Fuels and Related Vegetation Management Direction Plan Amendment and EIS for 12 Land Use Plans within the Upper Snake River District in central and eastern Idaho (2/21, p. 8034-5)
Wednesday, Feb. 20 (Feb. 20 TOC)
Tuesday, Feb. 19 (Feb. 19 TOC)
Friday, Feb. 15 (Feb. 15 TOC)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (2/15, p. 7152-3)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (2/15, p. 7151-2)
- FS to prepare EIS on land management activities and corresponding alternatives within the Rams Horn project area, which is located just east of Fort Leonard Wood Military Reservation on national forest lands administered by the Houston/Rolla/Cedar Creek Ranger District in the Spring Creek and Big Piney River watersheds, southwest of Rolla, Mo. (2/15, p. 7126-8 )
- BLM's Las Vegas Field Office to prepare EIS for the Ivanpah Energy Center. "The EIS will analyze the impacts of issuing rights-of-way for a
gas-fired electric power plant and ancillary facilities (consisting of
electric transmission lines, electric substations, a water pipeline,
and an access road)." (2/15, p. 7191-2)
- BLM releases final supplemental EIS for reclamation of the Zortman and Landusky Mines in Phillips County, Montana. (2/15, p. 7191)
Thursday, Feb. 14 (Feb. 14 TOC)
Wednesday, Feb. 13 (Feb. 13 TOC)
Today's links: Tuesday, Feb. 12 (Feb. 12 Table of Contents)
Monday, Feb. 11 (Feb. 11 TOC)
Friday, Feb. 8 (Feb. 8 TOC)
- BIA releases draft EIS for Section 14 Specific Plan on the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation, Riverside County, CA (2/8, p. 6048-9)
- BPA issues FONSI on proposal to rebuild the first 17 miles of the Santiam-Chemawa transmission line from Santiam Substation to the line's connection (tap) to Portland General Electric's (PGE) Bethel Substation to improve transmission system reliability in the Salem area of northwestern Oregon. A Floodplain Statement of Findings is also included. (2/8, p. 6019-20)
- Corps to prepare draft EIS for the Bogue Banks Shore Protection Feasibility Study, in Carteret County, NC (2/8, p. 6015-6)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (2/8, p. 6022-3)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (2/8, p. 6021-2)
- GSA releases ROD for the proposed lease acquisition of a new or renovated headquarters building for the Department of Transportation (DOT) in the Central Employment Area (CEA) of Washington, DC (2/8, p. 6034)
Thursday, Feb. 7 (Feb. 7 TOC)
- FHWA, in cooperation with the Washington state DOT, will prepare an EIS on a proposal to either repair or replace the South Park Bridge, which crosses the Duwamish River in King County, Washington (2/7, p. 5881-2)
- MMS is preparing a programmatic EA for applications from OCS oil and gas operators to inject OCS-generated, and RCRA-exempt, exploration and production (E&P) waste into salt caverns and caprock at Main Pass Block 299. Main Pass Block 299 is located 16 miles offshore, east of Plaquemines Parish, La. (2/7, p. 5847-8)
- MMS issues Call/NOI to get information and nominations on oil and gas leasing, exploration, and development and production for the two tentatively scheduled OCS lease sales in a portion of the Eastern GOM Planning Area south of Alabama. "This information is important for ensuring that all interests and concerns are communicated to the Department of the Interior to use in making future decisions in the leasing processes for these two proposed sales." (2/7, p. 5849-51)
Wednesday, Feb. 6 (Feb. 6 TOC)
Tuesday, Feb. 5 (Feb. 5 TOC)
- FERC says the Condit Hydroelectric Project Final EIS issued in the relicensing proceeding for Project No. 2342-005 on Oct. 31, 1996, is incorporated into the
record of the proceeding for Project No. 2342-011 (2/5, p. 5280)
- FERC releases draft EA on application for license for the
Damariscotta Mills project, located on the Damariscotta River, in Lincoln, County, Maine (2/5, p. 5280)
- FERC releases EA on an application to surrender the license for the Station 160 Hydroelectric Projec (2/5, p. 5280)
- FS revises date the final EIS for the Lewis Run Project is scheduled to be completed is revised to be June 1, 2002 (2/5, p. 5256)
Monday, Feb. 4 (Feb. 4 TOC)
- APHIS to prepare EIS relative to a proposed release into the environment of genetically engineered autocidal pink bollworms as part of an ongoing research
effort in the pink bollworm sterile insect program (2/4, p. 5086-7)
- BPA to prepare an EIS on the Salmon Creek Project, a proposal by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation (CCT) and the Okanogan Irrigation District (OID) to enhance fish habitat and fish passage and increase instream flows in lower Salmon Creek, a tributary to the Okanogan River in Okanogan County, Washington (2/4, p. 5099-5101)
- National Nuclear Security Administration to prepare a sitewide EA for Sandia National Laboratories, California (2/4, p. 5089-91)
- FERC releases EA for a new license for the existing and operating Queens Creek Hydroelectric Project FERC No. 2694-002, located on Queens Creek, in Macon County, North Carolina (2/4, p. 5110)
- FHwA says the the northern terminus for the EIS being prepared for proposed highway improvements to Trunk Highway (TH) 169 in Crow Wing and Mille Lacs Counties, Minnesota, has been revised. (2/4, p. 5142)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project within Maricopa County, Arizona (2/4, p. 5142-3)
- FHwA says southern terminus for the EIS being prepared for the proposed reconstruction of Trunk Highway (TH) 371 in Morrison County, Minnesota, has been revised (2/4, p. 5143)
Friday, Feb. 1 (Feb. 1 TOC)
Thursday, Jan. 31 (Jan. 31 TOC)
Wednesday, Jan. 30 (Jan. 30 TOC)
- BLM prepares draft EIS for the Table Mountain Wind Generating Facility (1/30, p. 4470-1)
- Corps to prepare a draft EIS for the Myrtle Grove Ecosystem Restoration Analysis, LA (1/30, p. 4413-4)
- Corps to prepare draft EIS for proposed Cape Wind Energy Project, Nantucket Sound and Yarmouth, MA; application for Corps Section 10/404 Individual Permit (1/30, p. 4414-5)
- EPA, NOAA plan to fully approve the Delaware and United States Virgin Islands Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Programs (1/30, p. 4393-4)
- FERC plans public meeting Feb. 28 to discuss Idaho Power Company's draft EIS for the Mid-Snake River Hydroelectric Projects (1/30, p. 4419)
- FS to prepare EIS on environmental impacts of proposed hazardous fuels reduction, bark beetle sanitation, and the maintenance and/or restoration of vegetative communities (willow bottoms, mature riparian spruce, and mature Douglas-fir) on about 1,500 acres in the areas burned by the Mussigbrod and Middlefork fires of 2000 in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest (1/30, p. 4387-8)
Tuesday, Jan. 29 (Jan. 29 TOC)
- DOI and agencies within it (FWS, BLM, BIA, MMS, NPS, BuRec, USGS, publish alternate agency mail sites for submission of comments to rulemaking documents, notices, and any other relevant departmental documents under public review and for which comments have been solicited. The department's Internet access, including receipt of
outside e-mail, has been shut down under court order until further notice (1/29, p. 4278)
- Corps corrects Jan. 23 notice of intent to prepare a draft EIS for the environmental restoration of areas next to Arlington and Garrows Bend Channels, Mobile Harbor Federal Navigation Project in Mobile County, Alabama (1/29, p. 4316)
- FERC Office of Energy Projects releases EA on application for a subsequent minor
license for the Black River Falls Project located on the Black River, in Jackson County, Wisconsin (1/29, p. 4249)
- FERC will prepare an EA to discuss the environmental impacts of the SCG Pipeline Project involving construction and operation of facilities by SCG Pipeline, Inc. (SCG) in Chatham and Effingham Counties, Georgia, and Jasper County, South Carolina. Facilities would consist of about 18.2 miles of 20-inch-diameter pipeline and appurtenant facilities (1/29, p. 4249-51)
Monday, Jan. 28 (Jan. 28 TOC)
Friday, Jan. 25 (Jan. 25 TOC)
- BuRec issues draft EIR/EIS on Imperial Irrigation District's proposed project that would conserve and transfer the right to use up to 300,000 acre-feet
per year of Colorado River water, which IID is otherwise entitled to divert for use within IID's water service area in Imperial County, California. (1/25, p. 3732-3)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (1/25, p. 3697)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (1/25, p. 3697-8)
- FAA releases ROD, Piedmont Triad International Airport, Greensboro, NC (1/25, p. 3777)
- FERC releases EA on application to amend the license for the Horseshoe Bend Hydroelectric Project. The amendment application is to modify existing facilities and construction of new facilities in two phases to control sediment accumulation in the project's power canal (1/25, p. 3695-6)
- TVA will prepare an EA or EIS on alternatives for commercial and recreational development requested by local governments in jurisdictions surrounding TVA
property in the Shoals area of northwestern Alabama (Colbert County, city of Florence, Lauderdale County, city of Muscle Shoals, city of Sheffield, and city of Tuscumbia) (1/25, p. 3773-4)
Thursday, Jan. 24 (Jan. 24 TOC)
Wednesday, Jan. 23 (Jan. 23 TOC)
- BLM plans to amend the Arcata (Calif.) Field Office's Arcata Resource Management Plan. A plan amendment and environmental assessment will be prepared (1/23, p. 3228)
- Corps' Mobile District to prepare a draft EIS to address the potential impacts associated with the removal, transportation, disposal, and/or remediation of contaminated sediments in and adjacent to the Arlington and the Garrows Bend Channels, Mobile Harbor Federal navigation project in Mobile County, Alabama (1/23, p. 3169-70)
- Corps to prepare a draft EIS for the Choctaw Point and Monroe Park Development Project, located in Mobile County, Alabama (1/23, p. 3170-1)
- Corps to prepare a draft EIS for the Southwest Florida Feasibility Study (1/23, p. 3171)
- NPS releases ROD for the final supplemental EIS for The Old Agency Area (Project 3P13) of the Natchez Trace Parkway (1/23, p. 3228-9)
Tuesday, Jan. 22 (Jan. 22 TOC)
- BLM will prepare national, programmatic EIS and conduct public scoping meetings on its use of prescribed burning, biological control, cultural practices, mechanical, and chemical treatment of vegetation, including noxious weeds and other
invasive species in public lands management. The EIS addresses public lands administered by BLM in 16 western states, including Alaska (1/22, p. 2901-3)
- BPA to prepare a joint EIS/state EIS in cooperation with Benton County, state of Washington, for an electrical interconnection including a new one-mile transmission line and other facilities associated with a proposed power plant (1/22, p. 2868-9)
- Corps to prepare a Draft Tier II EIS for the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project, Savannah, GA (1/22, p. 2861-3)
- FERC's Office of Energy Projects has prepared an EA on an application for license for the Lower Tule Hydroelectric Project, located on the Middle Fork of the Tule River in Tulare County, California (1/22, p. 2874)
- FERC will prepare an EA on the Line 280 Replacement Project involving construction, operation, and abandonment of facilities by Dominion Transmission Inc. in Pennsylvania (1/22, p. 2874-5)
- FERC will prepare an EA on the Leidy Extension Project in Potter County, Pennsylvania, involving construction and operation of natural gas pipeline facilities (1/22, p. 2875-7)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for the SR 30 Section S01 (US 30) corridor in East Lampeter Township, Salisbury Township, Leacock Township, and Paradise Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. (1/22, p. 2947)
- FHwA rescinds previous Notice of Intent (issued May
8, 2000) to prepare an EIS for a proposed highway project along U.S. Route 22 between its interchanges with Interstate 78 to the west and State Route 248 to the east, a distance of about 31 km (19 miles). (1/22, p. 2947-8)
Friday, Jan. 18 (Jan. 18 TOC)
- Army releases EA/FONSI for the Programmatic Treatment
of Capehart and Wherry Era Housing (1/18, p. 2644)
- BIA, Nuclear Reg. Comm., BLM, DOI, DOT and STB release FEIS for Private Fuel Storage's proposal to store spent fuel on the reservation of the Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians. FEIS also includes analysis of related transportation facility in Tooele
County, UT (1/18, p. 2702-3)
- BLM Idaho Falls Field Office will prepare land use plan amendment and EA to provide for the possible disposal by direct sale of approximately 140 acres of public land in Madison County, Idaho; comments requested by March 4 (1/18, p. 2667)
- DOE extends comment period to Jan. 25 for the proposed Kentucky
Pioneer Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) Demonstration Project draft EIS (1/18, p. 2646)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (1/18, p. 2651)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (1/18, p. 2651)
- NRCS issues FONSI on Pellaphalia Creek Watershed, Leake County, MS (1/18, p. 2627)
- BLM extends scoping periods on Richfield and Price Field Offices' Resource Management Plans (1/18, p. 2667-8)
- FHwA will prepare an EIS for a proposed highway project in Jefferson and Clearfield counties, Pennsylvania (1/18, p. 2728-9)
- TVA issues ROD on Guntersville Reservoir Land Management Plan, Jackson and Marshall Counties, Alabama and Marion County, TN (1/18, p. 2725-8)
Thursday, Jan. 17 (Jan. 17 TOC)
Wednesday, Jan. 16 (Jan. 16 TOC)
- Corps issues ROD on Arthur Kill Channel--Howland Hook Marine Terminal, New York and New Jersey (1/16, p. 2199)
- Corps to prepare a draft EIS for a Proposed Hurricane and Storm Damage Reduction Project at the Village of Asharoken, Suffolk County, NY (1/16, p. )
- Intent To Prepare a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS)
for a Proposed Hurricane and Storm Damage Reduction Project at the
Village of Bayville, Nassau County, New York (1/16, p. 2200-1)
- Corps L.A. District to prepare EIS to support the proposed study for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and the City of Mesa; scoping meeting set for Jan. 24. (1/16, p. 2201)
- FERC releases final EA on application for license for the Irving, Middleville and LaBarge Hydroelectric Projects, located on the Thornapple River in Barry and Kent Counties, Michigan. Conclusion: Not a major federal action (1/16, p. 2208)
Tuesday, Jan. 15 (Jan. 15 TOC)
- Army Corps issues new nationwide permits, conditions (1/15, p. 2019-95)
- BLM extends scoping period until Feb. 15 on Integrated Activity Plan (IAP)/EIS for the Northwest Area of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A)
- BuRec issues draft EIS on proposed execution of an implementation Agreement that would commit the Secretary of the Interior to make Colorado River water deliveries in accordance with the terms and conditions of the IA to enable certain southern California water agencies to implement the proposed Quantification Settlement Agreement (1/15, p. 1988-9)
- BuRec asks for comments on whether Operating Criteria for Colorado River Reservoirs should be modified, and if so, how
- DOE says "there are no substantial changes or significant new circumstances or information that would justify" preparing a new Supplement Analysis on the National Ignition Facility (1/15, p. 1969)
- FS to prepare EIS to evaluate options for addressing forest health
concerns in the southern half of the Metolius Basin, Deschutes NF, Jefferson County, OR (1/15, p. 1954-5)
- FS to prepare EIS on a proposal to expand Palmer Quarry in Mt. Hood National Forest, Clackamas County, OR (1/15, p. 1955-6)
- FS rescinds NOI for EIS on Red Knight Restoration Project, Winema NF, Klamath County, OR (1/15, p. 1956)
- DOJ, California Board of Corrections and Alameda County are preparing a joint EIS/EIR on propsoed government center with juvenile justice facility (1/15, p. 1990-1)
- DOJ, Fresno County to prepare EIS/EIR on proposed Juvenile Justice Campus in Fresno County, California (1/15, p. 1991-2)
- MMS releases site-specific Eas, FONSIs on oil and gas activities proposed on the Gulf of Mexico OCS (1/15, p. 1984-6)
- NRCS says it will not be preparing EIS for a number of projects in New Mexico (1/15, p. 1956-7)
Tuesday, Jan. 15 (Jan. 15 TOC)
- More coming.... Just wanted to get the permits up
- Wetlands: Army Corps issues new nationwide permits, conditions (1/15, p. 2019-95)
- DOE says "there are no substantial changes or significant new circumstances or information that would justify" preparing a new Supplement Analysis on the National Ignition Facility (1/15, p. 1969)
- FS to prepare EIS to evaluate options for addressing forest health
concerns in the southern half of the Metolius Basin, Deschutes National
Forest, Jefferson County, OR (1/15, p. 1954-5)
- FS to prepare EIS on a proposal to expand Palmer Quarry in Mt. Hood National Forest, Clackamas County, OR (1/15, p. 1955-6)
- FS rescinds NOI for EIS on Red Knight Restoration Project, Winema NF, Klamath County, OR (1/15, p. 1956)
Monday, Jan. 14 (Jan. 14 TOC)
- BPA to prepare EIS on the proposed construction, operation, and maintenance of an 84-mile-long 500-kilovolt (kV) transmission line in Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, and Spokane Counties, Washington (also notice of floodplain and wetlands involvement) (1/14, p. 1746-7)
- FHwA, in cooperation with the Trinity County DOT and Caltrans,
will prepare an EIS on a proposal by TCDOT to build a local connector roadway project providing residents with local connections to existing county roads and minimizing the travel dependency on SR-299 through Weaverville. (1/14, p. 1804-5)
Friday, Jan. 11 (Jan. 11 Table of Contents)
- APHIS releases EA/FONSI for confined field test of genetically engineered pink bollworm (1/11, p. 1434-5)
- BLM releases draft EIS and draft Planning Amendments on the Powder River Basin Oil and Gas Project (1/11, p. 1497-9)
- Corps, city of San Clemente to prepare EIS/EIR on alternatives for protection of the San Clemente Shoreline, for the approximately five-mile strech that runs from Shorecliff Beach to San Mateo Point (1/11, p. 1450-1)
- Corps, Ventura Port District plan to prepare EIS for the Ventura Harbor Sand Bypass System and Regional Beneficial Reuse Feasibility Study, Ventura, CA (1/11, p. 1452)
- Corps L.A. District to prepare draft EIS for the Matilija Dam Ecosystem Restoration Feasibility Study, Ventura County, Calif. (1/11, p. 1451-2)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (1/11, p. 1462-3)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (1/11, p. )
- FTA and FHwA to prepare EIS in cooperation with the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (VDRPT) and Virginia DOT for potential transportation improvements in the I-66 corridor in Fairfax and Prince William Counties to address projected increases in travel demand over the next 20 years. (1/11, p. 1533-4)
- NPS requests comments on EA for proposed mitigation to Jones Point Park, associated with the Woodrow Wilson Bridge project, which was originally published in the Federal Register Wednesday, Nov. 21 (see below) (1/11, p. 1499)
- NPS to prepare draft EIS for proposed land exchange between it and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians at Great Smoky Mountains NP, Tennessee (1/11, p. 1500)
Thursday, Jan. 10 (Jan. 10 TOC)
Wednesday, Jan. 9 (Jan. 9 TOC)
- Coast Guard extends comment period on draft EA regarding
the National Coast Guard Museum in New London, Conn., through Feb. 8, 2002 (1/9, p. 1261)
- FTA, in cooperation with the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas DOT, and the Houston-Galveston Area Council, plan to prepare one or more EIS's evaluating highway and transit improvements in the North-Hardy Corridor extending along and between Interstate 45 (IH 45) and Hardy Toll Road From SH 242 in Southern Montgomery County, Texas, to Spur 527 (Louisiana Street Exit From US 59 South), Harris County (1/9, p. 1268-70)
- FTA, in cooperation with the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, plans to prepare an EIS on possible transportation improvements in the Southeast-Universities-Hobby Corridor Extending from Downtown Houston, Harris County to the Vicinity of Hobby Airport in Southeast Harris County (1/9, p. 1265-6)
- FTA, in cooperation with the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, plans to prepare an EIS on possible transportation improvements in the Uptown-West Loop Corridor Located in Uptown and Along the West Loop (IH-610 West) in Houston (Harris County) (1/9, p. 1266-8)
Tuesday, Jan. 8 (Jan. 8 TOC)
Monday, Jan. 7 (Jan. 7 TOC)
Friday, Jan. 4 (Jan. 4 TOC)
- BPA will prepare EIS on a proposed electrical interconnection requested by Peoples Energy Resources Corporation to integrate electrical power from the COB Energy facility into the federal transmission grid. (1/4, p. 576-7)
- Corps to prepare EIS for sand and gravel dredging on the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers, Pennsylvania (1/4, p. 569-70)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (1/4, p. 587)
- EPA announces receipt of draft, final EIS's (1/4, p. 586-7)
- FERC's Office of Energy Projects releases draft EA concluding that license applications for the Rhinelander, Stevens Point, and Biron projects, located on the
Wisconsin River, in Oneida, Portage, and Wood counties, Wisconsin, "would not constitute
a major federal action that would significantly affect the quality of the human environment." (1/4, p. 585)
Thursday, Jan. 3 (Jan. 3 TOC)
Wednesday, Jan. 2 (Jan. 2 TOC)
- BLM to prepare a joint EIS/EIR on proposed Valley-Rainbow 500-kV Interconnect Project; an electrical transmission line project. (1/2, p. 100-1)
- BLM extends public comment period, schedules public scoping meetings for the EIS for the conservation and restoration of vegetation, watershed, and wildlife
habitat treatments on BLM lands in the Western United States, including Alaska (1/2, p. 101-2)
- FERC's Office of Energy Projects releases final EA on application for license for the Powerdale Hydroelectric Project, located on the Hood River in Hood
River County, Oregon (1/2, p. 71)
- FERC releases draft EA on application for an original license for Alaska Power and Telephone Company's proposed Otter Creek Hydroelectric Project (1/2, p. )
- FHWA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in Yuba and Sutter counties, California. The proposed project is called the Third Bridge Crossing of the Feather River (1/2, p. 122)
- Forest Service to prepare EIS on a proposal to conduct vegetation and road management, and implement riparian and wetlands management in Colville NF (1/2, p. 51-2)
- FS will prepare EIS on a site-specific proposal to reduce hazardous fuels on national forest lands in the Trout-West area, Pike and San Isabel National Forests, Teller, Douglas and El Paso counties, Colorado (1/2, p. 52-3)
Monday, Dec. 31 (Dec. 31 TOC)
Friday, Dec. 28 (Dec. 28 TOC)
- APHIS releases EA for field testing Avian Encephalomyelitis-Fowl Pox-Mycoplasma Gallisepticum Vaccine, Live Virus, Fowl Pox Vector (12/28, p. 67169-70)
- BPA plans to prepare a joint NEPA/State Environmental Policy Act
EIS in cooperation with the State of Washington Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council (EFSEC) for an electrical interconnection with a proposed power plant (12/28, p. 67235-6)
- FHwA will prepare an EIS on a series of proposed grade separations within the Orangethorpe Rail Corridor (a section of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail line) located within the cities of Placentia and Anaheim in Orange County, California (12/28, p. 67350)
- FS to prepare EIS on impacts of proposed land management activities, and corresponding alternatives, within the Interior Wetlands project area. The project is located on the Sault Ste. Marie Ranger District, Hiawatha NF, Chippewa County, Michigan, approximately 35 miles southwest of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan (12/28, p. 67173-5)
- FS to prepare EIS on a proposal to treat approximately 1,650 acres of fire-killed and damaged trees in the Star Fire burned area, Tahoe and Eldorado National Forests (12/28, p. 67172-3)
- FS (Modoc National Forest, Warner Mountain Ranger District) will prepare an EIS on the proposed Blue Fire Forest Recovery Project (12/28, p. 67175-7)
Thursday, Dec. 27 (Dec. 27 TOC)
- BLM corrects Notice of Availability and Protest Period of the
Proposed Planning Analysis for Arkansas and Louisiana (12/27, p. 66918)
- BLM releases draft EIS on a proposed natural gas pipeline right-of-way from near Roseburg in Douglas County, Oregon, to Coos Bay in Coos County, Oregon (12/27, p. 66918-20)
- BLM releases EA/FONSI considering a Recreational and
Public Purposes Act (R&PP) lease for a horse ranch near Trona, Calif. (12/27, p. 66920)
- BLM's Jackson Field Offices, Eastern States, will prepare a
Planning Analysis/EA), in cooperation with the Army Corps of Engineers, to consider leasing federal mineral estate for oil and gas exploration and development. The lands, managed
by the Corps, are located in the Blue Mountain Lake Project Area in Logan and Yell counties, Arkansas (12/27, p. 66920)
- BLM's Jackson Field Office, Eastern States, will prepare a
Planning Analysis/EA, in cooperation with the Army Corps of Engineers, to consider leasing federal mineral estate for oil and gas exploration and development. The lands, managed
by the Corps, are located in the Carr Creek Project Area in Knott County, Kentucky (12/27, p. 66920-1)
- BLM-Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument 11/30 FR notice contained the following errors: (1) The notice was incorrect and unclear about which
plans are associated with the Willow Gulch and Clark Bench grazing allotments; and (2) The notice inadvertently omitted the inclusion of the Willow Gulch grazing allotment in planning criteria number 1. (12/27, p. 66921)
- BLM will prepare EIS for a proposed pipeline right-of-way across federal land in Lea, Eddy, Chaves, Lincoln, Guadalupe, Torrance, Sandoval, McKinley and San Juan Counties, NM; Ector and Winkler Counties, TX (12/27, p. 66921-2)
- FS cancels Notice of Intent to analyze the Lakes Forest Recovery Project on the Lassen National Forest (12/27, p. 66870)
- NRCS-New Mexico says EIS won't be prepared for dry cropland in parts of Curry, Quay, and Roosevelt counties and Santa Clara Pueblo Irrigated Lands in Rio Arriba County, irrigated cropland in Curry and Roosevelt counties, Socorro County Irrigated Valley and Rio Cebolla in Rio Arriba County (12/27, p. 66871)
Wednesday, Dec. 26 (Dec. 26 TOC)
Friday, Dec. 21 (Dec. 21 TOC)
- BLM to prepare EA or EIS on one lease application received for one Federal coal tract in the decertified Green River/Hamms Fork Coal Production Region, Wyoming; scoping announced (12/21, p. 65984-5)
- Employment and Training Administration issues preliminary FONSI for the proposed relocation of the Cleveland Job Corps Center to be located at
498 East 140th St. in Cleveland (12/21, p. 65994-6)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (12/14, p. 65949)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (12/14, p. 65948-9)
- FTA, in cooperation with the Wasatch Front Regional Council and Utah Transit Authority, will prepare an EIS on a transit connection between the 2100 South Light Rail Station and the Cities of West Valley City and Taylorsville in metropolitan Salt Lake City (12/21, p. 66009-11)
- FTA, in cooperation with the Wasatch Front Regional Council and Utah Transit Authority, will prepare EIS on a transit connection between the 6400 West Light Rail Station and South Jordan in metropolitan Salt Lake City (12/21, p. 66007-9)
- NPS to prepare a draft EIS for the Stiltsville Management Plan, Biscayne National Park, FL (12/21, p. 65989)
- NPS issues final EIS/General Management Plan, Mount Rainier National Park, Pierce and Lewis Counties, Wash. (12/21, p. 65989-90)
Thursday, Dec. 20 (Dec. 20 TOC)
- USDA declares emergency because of Infectious Salmon Anemia in Atlantic salmon. Agriculure Secretary Ann Veneman authorizes "the transfer and use of such funds as may be necessary from appropriations or other funds available to the agencies or
corporations of the United States Department of Agriculture to establish an ISA control program in the United States." (12/20, p. 65679-80)
- Corps to prepare a draft EIS for the Mississippi River Diversion near Benny's Bay, Ecosystem Restoration Analysis, Mississippi River Delta, LA (12/20, p. 65681-2)
- FERC releases FEIS on Iroquois Gas Transmission System's plans to convey natural gas from Northport, Long Island, to the Bronx (12/20, p. 65696-7)
- FERC to prepare EA on Iroquois Gas Transmission System's plans to build/operate a new compressor station at Brookfield, Conn. (12/20, p. 65697-8)
- Western Area Power Administration issues ROD on plans to build the Los Banos-Gates Transmission Project through a public/private partnership. Electric power transmission constraints along this path have contributed to blackouts in California. (12/20, p. 65699-72)
- Western Area Power Administration issues Notice of Floodplain and Wetlands Involvement. WAPA plans to rebuild the Havre-Rainbow 161 kilovolt (kV) Transmission Line in central Montana, which will initially require replacement of structures. Eventually, conductors will be replaced and overhead groundwires and fiber optic cable may be added. The line lies north and west of the Missouri River and crosses the Marias and Teton Rivers near Loma, Montana, and the Big Sandy Creek near Big Sandy, Mont. (12/20, p. 65702)
Wednesday, December 19 (Dec. 19 TOC)
Tuesday, Dec. 18 (Dec. 18 TOC)
Today's links: Monday, Dec. 17 (Dec. 17 TOC)
Friday, Dec. 14 (Dec. 14 TOC)
- APHIS releases EA on control of relative Melaleuca quinquenervia (12/14, p. 64797-8)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (12/14, p. 64819)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (12/14, p. 64818-9)
- Forest Service will prepare EIS for a forest-wide noxious weed management program in the Salmon-Challis National Forest (12/14, p. 64799-800)
- FS to prepare an EIS on whether or not to authorize the South Tahoe Public Utility District to build Phase III of the B-Line Export Pipeline. The project would complete the replacement of the original effluent export pipeline that runs from South Lake Tahoe, Calif., to the Tahoe Basin boundary (12/14, p. 64800-3)
- GSA corrects Nov. 21 FR notice on ROD released on Programmatic Development Plan and Phase 1 Implementation for the Suitland Federal Center in Suitland, MD (12/14, p. 64904)
Thursday, Dec. 13 (Dec. 13 TOC)
Wednesday, Dec. 12 (Dec. 12 TOC)
- BuRec releases Potholes Reservoir Resource Management Plan (RMP) final environmental impact statement (FEIS). (12/12, p. 64272)
- FERC Office of Energy Projects releases EA/FONSI on application for relicensing of the Oswego River Hydroelectric Project (12/12, p. 64242)
- FERC to prepare EA on Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation's proposed Delaware Valley Energy Expansion Project (12/12, p. 64242-4)
- FTA and the Sacramento Regional Transit District to prepare EIS for proposed transit improvements from 7th Street and K Street in downtown Sacramento, north through the South and North Natomas areas to the Sacramento International Airport (12/12, p. 64339-41)
- Forest Service to prepare EIS on environmental effects of continued
livestock grazing of up to 263 cow/calf pairs and horses on a Gallatin NF grazing allotment located on the Horse Butte peninsula near West Yellowstone, Mont. (12/12, p. 64211-2)
- Rural Utilities Service issues FONSI on request from South Mississippi Electric Power Association for assistance to finance the construction of a 255 MW electric generating station in Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi (12/12, p. 64213)
- Rural Utilities Service issues FONSI on request from South Mississippi Electric Power Association for assistance to finance the construction of a 129 MW electric generating station in Smith County, Mississippi (12/12, p. 64213-4)
Tuesday, Dec. 11 (Dec. 11 TOC)
- BLM's Jackson, Miss., Field Office will prepare a Planning Analysis/Environmental Assessment (PA/EA), in cooperation with the Army Corps of Engineers, to consider leasing federal mineral estate for oil and gas exploration and development. The lands, managed by the Corps, are located along the South Pass
and Southwest Pass near the mouth of the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish (12/11, p. 64056)
- The Cascade Ranger District of the Boise National Forest will
prepare an EIS for Brush Boulder Project, Boise National Forest, Idaho (12/11, p. 64016-7)
- FS will not prepare EIS on a proposal to update the allotment management plans for twelve sheep allotments on the Fairfield Ranger District (12/11, p. 64017)
Monday, Dec. 10 (Dec. 10 TOC)
- Federal Law Enforcement Training Center prepares EA for renovation of the former Naval Communications Detachment in Cheltenham, Md., to provide a law enforcement requalification training facility for use by a wide variety of federal, state, and local agencies located in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area (12/10, p. 63744-5)
- FERC to prepare an EA for construction and operation of facilities by Copiah County Storage Company in Copiah County, Mississippi (12/10, p. 63693-5)
- FERC to prepare EA for the proposed Station 35 Clean Air Project; request for comments on environmental issues (12/10, p. 63695-6)
- NRCS says it won't prepare EIS for the rehabilitation of two
dams (Sites 1 and 2) and a floodwater diversion (FD-1) in the Hackberry Draw Watershed (12/10, p. 63669)
- RUS issues FONSI with respect to a request from Georgia Transmission Corp. for assistance from the RUS to finance the construction of a 230 kV transmission line in Mitchell County, Georgia (12/10, p. 63669-70)
- RUS issues FONSI with respect to a request from Georgia Transmission Corp. for assistance from the RUS to finance the construction of a 230 kV transmission line and a 230/25 kV substation in Hall County, Georgia. (12/10, p. 63670)
Friday, Dec. 7 (Dec. 7 TOC)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (12/7, p. 63533-4)
- EPA receives draft and final EIS's for comment (12/7, p. 63532-3)
- FERC to prepare EA on environmental impacts of the Freehold Project, involving the construction and operation of facilities by Texas Eastern Transmission,
LP in Somerset and Hunterdon counties, New Jersey (12/7, p. 63531-2)
- FHwA, FRA announces public scoping meetings in preparation of a draft EIS for the Cross Harbor Freight Movement Project (NYC, Northern N.J.). (12/7, p. 63582-3)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in the Arkansas counties of Desha, Chicot, Ashley, Drew, Union, Bradley, Calhoun, Ouachita, and Columbia (12/7, p. 63583)
- BLM to prepare EIS on CCNCA management plan (12/7, p. 63548-9)
- NPS releases final EIS/General Management Plan for
Lassen Volcanic National Park Lassen, Plumas, Shasta, Tehama Counties, Calif. (12/7, p. 63549-50)
Thursday, Dec. 6 (Dec. 6 TOC)
- APHIS's Wildlife Services program has developed a scoping
document for an environmental impact statement being prepared to
analyze the potential environmental effects of reducing blackbird
damage to ripening sunflowers in North Dakota and South Dakota (12/6, p. 63356-8)
- BLM to prepare EIS on Resource Management Plan for the Andrews Resource Area and a management plan for the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area, designated Oct. 30, 2000. (12/6, p. 63402-4)
- BLM to prepare EIS for the coordinated activity plan for the Jack Morrow Hills Area, Sweetwater, Fremont, and Sublette counties, Wyo. (12/6, p. 63404-5)
- BLM Winnemucca and Surprise Field Offices will jointly prepare an RMP and an EIS for the recently designated Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails NCA and associated wilderness areas (12/6, p. 63406-7)
- Forest Service to prepare EIS for a proposed land exchange between the state of Florida and the Forest Service in Baker, Citrus, Franklin, Hernando, Lake, Liberty,
Okaloosa, Osceola, Pasco, Santa Rosa, and Sumter counties, Florida. (12/6, p. 63358)
- FS cancels notice of intent to prepare EIS for Master Development Plan For Pelican Butte Ski Area, Winema National Forest, Klamath County, Ore. (12/6, p. 63358)
- NPS releases Record of Decision for the Final General Management Plan and EIS, Cane River Creole National Historical Park, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. (12/6, p. 63408-9)
Wednesday, Dec. 5 (Dec. 5 TOC)
- APHIS releases EA/FONSI on demonstration project to eradicate and prevent the spread of the aquatic weed giant salvinia in the Toledo Bend Reservoir and surrounding areas in Louisiana and eastern Texas (12/5, p. 63212)
- FERC extends comment period by 60 days (same as yesterday's) (12/5, p. 63235)
- BuRec extends public review period to Dec. 13 on draft EIS/EIR for the PCWA American River Pump Station Project (12/5, p. 63255)
- FERC issues final EA on license application for the Municipal Dam Hydroelectric Project, located on the Pine River in Gratiot County, Michigan (12/5, p. 63235)
- FHWA, in cooperation with Washington DOT and King County Department of Transportation, will prepare a supplemental to the final EIS on the
proposal to replace the Elliott Bridge on 149th Ave. SE where it crosses the Cedar River
approximately three miles east of downtown Renton in King County, Washington (12/5, p. 63287-8)
- FHwA, N.J. DOT to hold a public forum "on the scope of work to be performed for the Penns Neck Area [EIS]." (12/5, p. 63288-9)
- FHWA to prepare EIS for transportation improvements in the State Trunk Highway (STH) 83 corridor between County Trunk Highway (CTH) ``NN'' at the north limits of the Village of Mukwonago and STH 16, Waukesha County, Wisconsin (12/5, p. 63289)
Tuesday, Dec. 4 (Dec. 4 TOC)
Monday, Dec. 3 (Dec. 3 TOC)
- FAA plans to prepare an EIS and conduct environmental scoping for improvements to the Gary/Chicago Airport in Gary, Ind. (12/3, p. 60239-40)
- FS: Soda Springs Ranger District, Caribou-Targhee NF, will prepare an EIS to analyze the effects to grazing on several sheep allotments (12/3, p. 60180-1)
- FS to prepare EIS on land exchange in Idaho. "The Forest Service proposes to acquire 400 acres of private land at Squirrel Meadows that is considered to be important habitat for the threatened grizzly bear and other wildlife for 120 acres of National
Forest System lands at the base of the Grand Targhee Ski and Summer Resort." (12/3, p. 60181-2)
- FS will prepare an EIS on a proposal to salvage fire-killed trees on approximately 1,000 acres on the Lewis and Clark National Forest, in Meagher County, Montana (12/3, p. 60182-3)
- RUS issues FONSI on South Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc.'s request for assistance from RUS to finance the construction and operation of a 177 MW
combined-cycle combustion turbine generation facility in Victoria County, Texas. (12/3, p. 60183)
Friday, Nov. 30 (Nov. 30 TOC)
- BLM releases proposed planning analysis for Arkansas and Louisiana (11/30, p. 59811-2)
- BLM plans to prepare a plan amendment for the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Management Plan, the Escalante Management Framework Plan, and the Paria Management Framework Plan with associated Environmental Assessments. The planning area is located in southern Utah. (11/30, p. 59812)
- BIA releases supplemental draft EIS for the proposed Moapa Paiute Energy Center and associated facilities, located on the Moapa River Indian Reservation
and on BLM lands in Clark County, Nevada (11/30, p. 59809-11)
- Corps' S.F. District to prepare, with California Coastal Conservancy and the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission a joint supplemental EIS/EIR for the Hamilton Army Airfield Wetland Restoration Project to include the Bel Marin Keys Unit V Property, Marin County, CA (11/30, p. 59782-3)
- Corps to prepare a draft EIS for navigation improvements at Unalaska, Alaska (11/30, p. 59784)
- EPA receives comments on draft, final EIS's (11/30, p. 59786-7)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (11/30, p. 59787-8)
- MMS is using the final EIS for proposed lease sales in the
Western Planning Area (WPA)of the Gulf of Mexico OCS to support decisions for proposed WPA Lease Sale 184 (scheduled for August 2002) (11/30, p. 59815)
Thursday, Nov. 29 (Nov. 29 TOC)
Today's links: Wednesday, Nov. 28 (Nov. 28 Table of Contents)
Tuesday, Nov. 27 (Nov. 27 TOC)
Monday, Nov. 26 (Nov. 26 TOC)
Friday, Nov. 23 (Nov. 23 TOC)
- BPA plans to prepare an EIS on the development of additional supplementation facilities and modifications to existing facilities to support the mitigation of impacts to natural populations of spring chinook salmon in the Grande Ronde and Imnaha
River basins. (11/23, p. 58721-3)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (11/23, p. 58734)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (11/23, p. 58733-4)
- FERC isues EA/FONSI on application for a new license for
the Fifteen Mile Falls Hydroelectric Project located on the Connecticut River, in Grafton County, New Hampshire and Caledonia County, Vermont (11/23, p. 58728)
- FERC plans to prepare EA on Southern Natural Gas Company's proposed South System Expansion II project (11/23, p. 58728-31)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway widening project in the Cities of La Mirada, Norwalk, Downey and Santa Fe Springs in Los Angeles County, and the City of Buena Park in Orange County, California (11/23, p. 58780)
- FS to prepare EIS on a proposal to harvest timber in the Slide Ridge Timber Sale project area, Ketchikan-Misty Fiords Ranger District, Tongass National Forest (11/23, p. 58710-1)
- NPS releases plan of operations, EA, and a floodplain statement of findings for a 30-day public review at Padre Island National Seashore, Kleberg and Kenedy counties, Texas (11/23, p. 58750)
- Navy releases Record of Decision for the Yuma Training Range Complex, Arizona and California (11/23, p. 58713-5)
- WAPA will prepare Floodplain/Wetland assessment at the Supply Creek Crossing for the Granby Pumping Plant-Marys Lake 69-Kilovolt Transmission Line,
Grand County, Colorado (11/23, p. 58732)
Wednesday, Nov. 21 (Nov. 21 TOC)
- Corps will prepare a draft EIS on proposed Royal D'Iberville casino and hotel, D'Iberville, Harrison County, Miss. (Mobile District) (11/21, p. 58459-60)
- Corps has prepared EIS on impacts of a transfer of approximately 91,178 acres of recreation lands and other lands from the [Corps] to the State of South Dakota." (11/21, p. 58459)
- Coast Guard issues final regs and voluntary guidelines to control the invasion of aquatic nuisance species (ANS). "Ballast water from ships is one of the largest pathways for the intercontinental introduction and spread of ANS." (11/21, p. 58381-93)
- Coast Guard issues draft EA on its proposal to accept a gift of land for purposes of relocating the Coast Guard Museum to a site near the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut (11/21, p. 58547-8)
- DOE announces public hearings during 30-day supplemental public comment period "regarding the consideration of a possible recommendation by the Secretary of Energy of the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada for development as a [radioactive waste] repository." (11/21, p. 58460-1)
- FERC releases FEIS on Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline/Algonquin Gas Transmission Co./Texas Eastern proposed Phase III/Hubline Pipeline Project (11/21, p. 58464-5)
- GSA extends comment period until Dec. 14 on FEIS for demolition of the federal building currently housing the U.S. Mission to the United Nations (11/21, p. 58493)
- GSA releases ROD on EIS for the Suitland Federal Center
(SFC) Programmatic Development Plan and Phase 1 Implementations (11/21, p. 58495)
- NASA requests comment on DEIS for the proposed NASA Ames Development Plan (11/21, p. 58526-8)
- NPS releases EIS identifying and evaluating the environmental effects of the proposed historic preservation and safety construction program on Alcatraz Island, a site within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (11/21, p. 58516-7)
- NPS releases EA for the proposed mitigation to Jones Point Park, associated with the Woodrow Wilson Bridge project (11/21, p. 58517-8) (No link in the notice)
- NPS releases Plan of Operations, EA, and a Statement of Findings for a 30-day public review at Lake Meredith National Recreation Area and Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument, Potter County, Texas (11/21, p. 58518-9)
- NPS releases supplement to the EIS for the General Management Plan, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (11/21, p. 58519-20)
- NPS plans to prepare EIS for "the Special Resource Study on the Lincoln Highway Between New York and California. "The purpose of the study is to investigate methods to preserve the historical significance of the highway and the role it played in American popular culture, and to determine the degree and kind of federal actions (if any) necessary to achieve such preservation." (11/21, p. 58520)
Tuesday, Nov. 20 (Nov. 20 TOC )
Monday, Nov. 19 (Nov. 19 TOC)
Friday, Nov. 16 (Nov. 16 TOC)
Thursday, Nov. 15 (Nov. 15 TOC)
Wednesday, Nov. 14 (Nov. 14 TOC)
Tuesday, Nov. 13 (Nov. 13 TOC)
- NPS issues ROD on Chiricahua National Monument General Management Plan and Final EIS (11/13, p. 56841-8)
- NPS, Minnesota and Wisconsin DNR's have released a record of
decision for the final cooperative management plan and final EIS for the Lower St. Croix National Scenic Riverway, Minnesota and Wisconsin (11/13, p. 56848-51)
- NPS releases draft supplemental EIS for re-analysis of cumulative impacts on the Sonoran Pronghorn, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona (11/13, p. 56851-2)
- NPS releases final General Management Plan/EIS for Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota (11/13, p. 56852)
- NRCS issues FONSI on Newfound and Sandymush Creeks Watershed Project, Buncombe and Madison County, N.C. (11/13, p. 56797)
Friday, Nov. 9 (Nov. 9 TOC)
- Army releases second ROD of the FEIS on the Disposal and Reuse of the Stratford Army Engine Plant, in accordance with the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990, Pub. L. 101-510, as amended (11/9, p. 56659)
- BuRec and California Dept. of Water Resources plan to prepare a joint EIR/EIS for the North of the Delta Offstream Storage (11/9, p. 56708-9)
- Corps' L.A. District will begin analyses of foreseeable environmental impacts from actions potentially to be implemented on a reach of the Rillito River. "The proposed project emphasizes opportunities to restore riparian habitat, address matters of surface and groundwater quality, explore aquifer recharge along the Rillito, restoration of natural riverbed conditions, fashion localized seasonal wetlands (known in the southwest by the Spanish noun cienegas) at opportune places in the river bottom, and create venues appropriate for recreational educational uses of the river." (11/9, p. 56660-1)
- DOE releases Final Site-Wide Environmental Impact
Statement for the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant [Y-12 Final SWEIS] (DOE/EIS-
0309) (11/9, p. 56663-4)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (11/9, p. 56674-5)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (11/9, p. 56673-4)
- FTA, FHwA, the Washington State DOT and the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority plan to prepare an EIS on the I-90 Project (11/9, p. 56731-2)
Thursday, Nov. 8 (Nov. 8 TOC)
- FERC releases draft EA/FONSI on application for license for the Columbia Hydroelectric Project, located on the Broad and Congaree Rivers in Columbia and Richland County, South Carolina (11/8, p. 56552-3)
- FERC will prepare an Eaon Evergreen Expansion Project, involving construction and operation of facilities by Northwest Pipeline Corporation in Skagit, King, Pierce, Whatcom, Snohomish, and Lewis counties, Washington (11/8, p. 56553-4)
- NPS is preparing a general management plan/EIS for Channel Islands National Park (11/8, p. 56575-6)
Wednesday, Nov. 7 (Nov. 7 TOC)
- BLM to prepare EIS on proposed land exchange in Lincoln County, Nev. (11/7, p. 56337)
- BLM: The Natural Resource Trustees for the M/V New Carissa oil
spill have chosen to enter into the restoration planning phase of a Natural Resource Damage Assessment (11/7, p. 56339-40)
- BLM to prepare EIS/RMP for the Price Field Office (11/7, p. 56343-4)
- BuRec, in conjunction with the City of Phoenix, has prepared a draft EIS for a Recreation Master Plan for the Reach 11 Recreation Area (Reach 11), located in the northeast portion of the City, Maricopa County, Arizona (11/7, p. 56345-6)
- FAA releases draft EA, announces public hearing for Chicago's proposed World Gateway Program and other capital improvement projects at Chicago
O'Hare International Airport (11/7, p. 56370-1)
- FAA to prepare supplemental draft EIS for the proposed extension of Runway 9R-27L to 9,000 feet and widening to 150 feet at Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (11/7, p. 56368-9)
- FAA to prepare EIS "or other appropriate environmental documentation," and will conduct scoping for improvements to the Gary/Chicago Airport in Gary, IN (11/7, p. 56369-70)
- FAA to prepare EA to consider alternatives to meet forecast growth in aviation demand in the Panama City-Bay County regi on (11/7, p. 56371)
- FERC issues draft EA/FONSI on an application to install 12-inch-high flashboards at the Allegheny Lock and Dam No. 6 Hydroelectric Project. "The [draft EA] contains [FERC] staff's preliminary analysis, [which] ... concludes that flashboards should not be installed at Lock and Dam No. 6 because of adverse impacts to wetlands." (11/7, p. 56297)
Tuesday, Nov. 6 (Nov. 6 TOC)
- DOE plans to prepare an EIS for decommissioning and/or long-term stewardship at the West Valley Demonstration Project and Western New York Nuclear Service Center (11/6, p. 56090-3)
- EPA requests comments on draft technical guidance on national management measures to protect and restore wetlands and riparian areas for the abatement of nonpoint source pollution (11/6, p. 56106-7)
- Forest Service will prepare an EIS to determine appropriate actions to reduce the risk of losing late-successional habitat to fire, and insect and disease-related mortality; and to maintain or restore late-successional vigor, function and resiliency within the Gotchen landscape (Gifford Pinchot NF) (11/6, p. 56053-4)
- NPS releases draft General Management Plan/EIS for the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site, Arkansas (11/6, p. 56115)
- NPS releases Record of Decision for final impact statement for the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park General Management Plan (11/6, p. 56115-6)
- NPS releases draft EIS's/GMP's for Sunset Crater Volcano, Walnut Canyon, and Wupatki National Monuments (11/6, p. 56116-7)
- NPS releases final EIS and General Management Plan for Washita Battlefield National Historic Site (11/6, p. 56117)
Monday, Nov. 5 (Nov. 5 TOC)
Friday, Nov. 2 (Nov. 2 TOC)
- Corps releases draft Detailed Project Report and EIS, Marlinton Local Protection Project, Marlinton, Pocahontas County, W.V. (11/2, p. 55643-4)
- Corps plans to prepare a draft EIS for Va Shly'ay Akimel Salt River Restoration Project, Maricopa County, AZ (11/2, p. 55644-5)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's (11/2, p. 55658-9)
- Corps to prepare draft supplemental EIS for the Missouri River Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Project located on the Missouri River From Sioux City, Iowa, to the mouth, near St. Louis in Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri (11/2, p. 55644)
- Navy issues Record of Decision for Transfer and Reuse of the Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant, Bethpage, NY (11/2, p. 55645-6)
Thursday, Nov. 1 (Nov. 1 TOC)
- BLM's Albuquerque Field Office releases FEIS for the land exchange with the Pueblo of San Felipe (11/1, p. 55200)
- BLM: Notification of Approved Off Road Vehicle and Area of Critical Environmental Concern Designations, Southern Washoe County Urban Interface Plan Amendment, Nevada (11/1, p. 55200-2)
- DOE has canceled the Building 235-F Plutonium Packaging
and Stabilization project and the F-Canyon Americium/Curium Vitrification project. To establish the capability to package plutonium in accordance with the plutonium storage standard (DOE-STD-3013), DOE will modify existing furnaces, or install new ones, and install an outer can welding capability within the FB-Line facility, located in Building 221-Fissues amended ROD on interim management of nuclear materials (11/1, p. 55166-71)
- FHWA, NPS will prepare EIS for potential transportation improvements near Manassas National Battlefield Park to address the Manassas National Battlefield Park Amendments Act of 1988, which require relocation of US Route 29 and VA Route 234 in the vicinity of the Park (11/1, p. 55238-9)
Wednesday, Oct. 31 (Oct. 31 TOC)
Tuesday, Oct. 30 (Oct. 30 TOC)
Monday, Oct. 29 (Oct. 29 TOC)
Friday, October 26 (Oct. 26 TOC)
Thursday, October 25 (Oct. 25 TOC)
- FERC Office of Energy Projects releases draft EA on application for license for the Ware Shoals Hydroelectric Project, located on the Saluda River, in the Town of Ware Shoals, within the counties of Laurens, Greenwood, and Abbeville, South Carolina (10/25, p. 54006)
- FERC Office of Energy Projects releases EA on application for license for the City of Hamilton Hydroelectric Project, located on the Great Miami River in Butler County, Ohio (10/25, p. 54006-7)
- FERC to prepare EIS on application to combine the Falls Village Project and the Housatonic Project into a single licensed project, the Housatonic River Project (10/25, p. 54007)
Wednesday, October 24 (Oct. 24 TOC)
Tuesday, Oct. 23 (Oct. 23 TOC)
Monday, Oct. 22 (Oct. 22 TOC)
Friday, Oct. 19 (Oct. 19 TOC)
Thursday, Oct. 18 (Oct. 18 TOC)
Wednesday, Oct. 17 (Oct. 17 TOC)
Tuesday, Oct. 16 (Oct. 16 TOC)
- Corps to prepare a supplemental draft EIS for the National Training Center (NTC) Land Expansion Proposal at Fort Irwin, California. The preferred alternative involves acquisition of about 110,000 new acres on the east and southwest sides of the existing NTC and the return to training use of approximately 22,000 acres in the south that are currently set aside on the NTC. The primary issues to be analyzed in this SDEIS include: Endangered species issues (potential impacts to two listed species--desert tortoise and Lane Mountain Milk vetch), air quality including PM10 standards, noise (aircraft/range firing), soil erosion, water quality, cultural resources, and other issues raised during public scoping (10/16, p. 52596-7)
- Corps: Chief of Engineers Environmental Advisory Board to meet in Vicksburg, Miss., Nov. 2 (10/16, p. 52597)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in Bertie and Hertford Counties, North Carolina (10/16, p. 52652)
- RUS issues FONSI on wind energy project proposed by Basin Electric Power Cooperative of Bismarck, N.D., and East River Electric Power
Cooperative of Madison, S.D. (10/16, p. 52570-1)
Monday, Oct. 15 (Oct. 15 TOC)
- BPA to prepare EIS on the proposed Horse Heaven Wind Project, located southwest Kennewick in Benton County, Washington (10/15, p. 52398-9)
- Corps L.A. District to prepare draft EIS for Tres Rio del Norte, Pima County, AZ. "The proposed project involves restoration of riparian habitat" along stream courses, providing flood protection to Tucson, the town of Marana and part of Pima County, and also increased recreational opportunities (10/15, p. 52396)
- Corps to prepare EIS on general reevaluation report on Berryessa Creek watershed. The report will "address potential improvements for the existing flood management systems, investigate additional areas of flood damage reduction for Berryessa Creek, evaluate methods to reduce sediment deposition in the downstream region, improve recreation, and integrate ecosystem restoration. (10/15, p. 52396-7)
- The FHWA, in cooperation with Alaska DOT and Anchorage, will prepare an EIS to extend the existing Tony Knowles Coastal Trail, a National Recreation Trail, in Anchorage, Alaska (10/15, p. 52475-6)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for reconstruction of US-12, from Saline east city limit to Munger Road in Washtenaw County, Michigan (10/15, p. 52476)
- Federal Law Enforcement Training Center proposes to prepare an
EA related to the renovation of the former Naval Communications Detachment in Cheltenham, Md. (10/15, p. 52480-1)
- Surface Transportation Board prepares EA on he Riverview Trenton Railroad Company's petition for authority to acquire and operate a 1.5-mile rail line in Wayne County, Michigan (10/15, p. 52477)
Friday, Oct. 12 (Oct. 12 TOC)
- BLM to prepare EIS for the conservation and restoration of vegetation, watershed, and wildlife habitat treatments on public lands administered by BLM in the Western U.S. including Alaska (10/12, p. 52148-9)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (10/12, p. 52130-1)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (10/12, p. 52130)
- The FAA prepared a Final Programmatic Environmental Impact
Statement for Licensing Launches (PEIS), to evaluate the potential
environmental consequences of licensing launches (10/12, p. 52171-8)
- FERC Office of Energy Projects has prepared EA on application
to surrender the xxemption and removal of a dam at the John C. Jones Project, located on the Marsh Stream, a tributary of the Penobscot River, near the towns of Winterport and Frankfort, in Waldo County, Maine (10/12, p. 52128)
- MMS has prepared an EA on revised proposal for Eastern Gulf
of Mexico (GOM) Lease Sale 181 (10/12, p. 52149-50)
- NPS will prepare a draft wilderness suitability study and draft EIS for Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Wisconsin. (10/12, p. 52151-2)
- NPS to prepare EIS for the Special Resource Study for the Battle of Homestead and Carrier Furnaces Sites in Western Pennsylvania (10/12, p. 52152)
Thursday, Oct. 11 (Oct. 11 TOC)
- FAA releases final EIS for proposed development at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, Hebron, Kentucky (10/11, p. 51991)
- FERC releases EA on application for an amendment of license for the Jacobson Hydro No. 1 Project (10/11, p. 51944)
- FERC releases final EIS on natural gas pipeline facilities proposed by Millennium Pipeline Co. and Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. in New York and Pennsylvania, including construction of more than 400 miles of pipeline in New York (10/11, p. 51944-5)
- FERC summarizes scoping issues (including concerns about wetlands, species impacts) for Algonquin Gas Transmission Company's Islander East Pipeline Project in Connecticut, New York; also, NOI to prepare EIS (10/11, p. 51945-6)
- FERC to prepare EIS on license application for Pelton Round Butte Hydroelectric Project by Portland General Electric Co. and the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon (10/11, p. 51946-7)
Wednesday, Oct. 10 (Oct. 10 TOC)
Tuesday, Oct. 9 (Oct. 9 TOC)
- NPS will prepare EIS on the General Management Plan for Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, St. Augustine, Fla. (10/9, p. 51456)
- Forest Service extends comment period until Nov. 1 on Caribou Forest Plan Revision; Caribou-Targhee National Forest (10/9, p. 51370)
- FERC to prepare an EIS for East Tennessee Natural Gas Company's proposed Patriot project in Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia. Agency asks for comments on environmental issues, announces public scoping meetings and site visit (10/9, p. 51424-7)
- FHwA says it won't prepare an EIS for an earlier project, ``Rehabilitation or Reconstruction of the Peace Bridge U.S. Plaza and Connecting Roadways in the City of Buffalo, Erie County, New York.'' Instead, it will prepare an EIS "for a new and expanded project entitled 'Capacity Improvements to the Peach Bridge, Plazas and Connecting Roadways in the Town of Fort Erie and City of Buffalo, Ontario Province--Canada and New
York State--respectively. (10/9, p. 51494-5)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in Napa and Solano Counties, California. (10/9, p. 51495)
- FHwA will expand limits of study area for an SEIS will be expanded to include the entire Parsons-to-Davis project in Tucker County, W.V. (10/9, p. 51495-6)
Friday, Oct. 5 (Oct. 5 TOC)
Thursday, Oct. 4 (Oct. 4 TOC)
Wednesday, Oct. 3 (Oct. 3 TOC)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway
project in Butler County, Pennsylvania. (10/3, p. 50494)
- BLM's Jackson Field Office, Eastern States, will prepare Planning Analyses/Environmental Assessments (PA/EA) to consider leasing scattered tracts of federal mineral estate for oil and gas exploration and development (10/3, p. 50447)
- BLM to prepare an EIS on four maintenance lease applications received for five federal coal tracts in the decertified Powder River Federal Coal Production Region, Wyoming, and Notice of Scoping. (10/3, p. 50447-9)
- BLM's Vernal Field Office to hold public scoping meetings for the Vernal Field Office Resource Management Plan and EIS (10/3, p. 50449)
- NPS releases draft general management plan and EA for the Automobile National Heritage Area, Michigan (10/3, p. 50451)
- NPS releases Record of Decision for the Final General Management Plan Amendment/EIS, Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida (10/3, p. 50451-2)
- NPS releases draft EIS for the General Management Plan for Fort Frederica National Monument, Saint Simons Island, Georgia (10/3, p. 50452)
- Rural Utilities Service releases draft EIS for the Southern Intertie Project. "The project being proposed by the Intertie Participants Group (IPG) is the construction
of a 138 kilovolt (kV) transmission line between the Kenai Peninsula and Anchorage, Alaska." (10/3, p. 50396-7)
Tuesday, Oct. 2 (Oct. 2 TOC)
- DOE shifts scoping meeting on scrap metals PEIS from New York City to Philadelphia (10/2, p. 50175-6)
- MMS proposes to prepare a single EIS (multisale EIS) for the nine areawide oil and gas lease sales in the Central and Western Planning Areas (CPA and WPA) scheduled for 2003-2007 in the draft proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas
Leasing Program (10/2, p. 50205-6)
- NPS releases draft General Management Pan/EA for Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site, Essex County, Massachusetts (10/2, p. 50206-7)
- NPS will prepare EA, not EIS, for George Washington Boyhood Home Special Resource Study (10/2, p. 50206)
- NPS will prepare a wilderness management plan and EIS for Isle Royale National Park, Michigan (10/2, p. 50207)
- NPS to prepare EIS to address the impending failure of the San Juan County Cattle Point Road in San Juan Island National Historical Park (10/2, p. 50208)
Monday, Oct. 1 (Oct. 1 TOC)
Friday, Sept. 28 (Sept. 28 TOC )
Thursday, Sept. 27 (Sept. 27 TOC)
Wednesday, Sept. 26 (Sept. 26 TOC)
Tuesday, Sept. 25 (Sept. 25 TOC)
Monday, Sept. 24 (Sept. 24 TOC)
Friday, Sept. 21 (Sept. 21 TOC)
- The BLM is rescheduling scoping meetings for the EIS for renewal of the federal agreement and grant of right-of-way for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) originally scheduled to occur on Sept. 12, 2001, in Barrow, Alaska and Sept. 13,
2001, in Fairbanks, Alaska, and is extending the scoping period (9/21, p. 48705)
- (9/21, p. )
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (9/21, p. 48669-70)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (9/21, p. 48669)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (9/21, p. 48670-1)
Thursday, Sept. 20 (Sept. 20 TOC)
- Corps Los Angeles District will prepare an EIS for the
Encinitas/Solana Beach Shoreline Protection and San Elijo Lagoon Environmental Restoration Feasibility Study, San Diego County, California (9/20, p. 48433)
- FERC releases final EA on application for new license for the Glens Falls Hydroelectric Project, located on the Hudson River in Warren and Saratoga counties, New York (9/20, p. 48451-2)
- FHwA rescinds notice of intent to prepare an EIS for improvements that were proposed to the transportation system in St. Francois County, Missouri (9/20, p. 48504)
- Forest Service proposes to issue an interim directive to guide its employees in complying with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations for issuance of a special use authorization involving administrative changes where no changes are proposed in authorized activities or
facilities (9/20, p. 48412-6)
- Rural Utilities Service issues Record of Decision on EIS prepared for the Jackson County (Ky.) Lake Project (9/20, p. 48417-24)
Wednesday, Sept. 19 (Sept. 19 TOC)
Tuesday, Sept. 18 (Sept. 18 TOC)
- DOE to prepare EIS for depleted uranium hexafluoride conversion facilities (9/18, p. 48123-7)
- FERC releases EA/FONSI on ANR Pipeline Co.'s proposed Badger Pipeline Project (9/18, p. 48128-9)
- FTA to prepare EIS on the Urban Ring Project Phase II, Located in Boston, Chelsea, Everett, Somerville, Cambridge and Brookline, Mass. (9/18, p. 48159-60)
- FTA to prepare EIS on the Capitol Expressway Light Rail Transit Project in San Jose, CA (9/18, p. 48162-3)
- FTA to prepare EIS on the Santa Clara/Alum Rock Light
Rail Transit Project in San Jose, CA (9/18, p. 48160-2)
Monday, Sept. 17 (Sept. 17 TOC)
Friday, Sept. 14 (Sept. 14 TOC)
Thursday, Sept. 13 (Sept. 13 TOC)
- BLM releases draft Lakeview Resource Management Plan (RMP) and EIS (9/13, p. 47683-4)
- BuRec and the Placer County Water Agency have released draft EIS/EIR for the American River Pump Station Project. (9/13, p. 47685-6)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in Chatham County, North Carolina (9/13, p. 47721)
- FHwA says the Southtowns Connector/Buffalo Outer Harbor scoping process has resulted in a major revision to the project's alternatives (9/13, p. 47721-2)
- FHwA, FTA, in cooperation with the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (LDOTD) and the Regional Planning Commission (RPC) say they will prepare for the following projects in the East-West Corridor in St. Charles, Jefferson and Orleans Parishes in Louisiana (9/13, p. 47722-4)
- WAPA issues floodplain statement of findings for the Casper Creek Crossing, Spence-Thermopolis 230-kilovolt (kV) and Alcova-Copper
Mountain 115-kV Transmission Lines (9/13, p. 47650-1)
Wednesday, Sept. 12 (Sept. 12 TOC)
- Corps of Engineers, the Reclamation Board of the state of California, and Sutter County will prepare an EIS/EIR for the Sutter County Feasibility Study (9/12, p. 47458)
- Dept. of Agriculture (Forest Service) transfers 9,900 acres at Fort Leonard Wood Military Reservation and in the Mark Twain NF, to Army control. Order also transfers 1,819 acres from Army to FS, "for inclusion in the Mark Twain [NF]." (9/12, p. 47448-9)
- MMS proposes to adopt a multisale process for the Central and
Western Gulf of Mexico (GOM) sales in the 2002-2007 OCS Oil and Gas
Leasing Program. "We propose to prepare an [EA] for Sale 184, Western GOM, tiering off the previous multisale EIS for Western GOM Sales. We propose to prepare one multisale EIS for the remaining nine Central and Western GOM sales in the 2002-2007 OCS Leasing Program." (9/12, p. 47499-502)
Tuesday, Sept. 11 (Sept. 11 TOC)
Monday, Sept. 10 (Sept. 10 TOC)
Friday, Sept. 7 (Sept. 7 TOC)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (9/7, p. 46791-2)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (9/7, p. 46792-3)
- FERC to prepare EIS for the proposed Calypso Natural
Gas Pipeline Project in Florida (9/7, p. 46786-9)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for the proposed highway improvement of United States Highway (US) 10 from the vicinity of Trestik Road west of the Village of Junction City to Portage County Trunk Highway (CTH) K east of the City of Stevens Point in Portage County, Wisconsin (9/7, p. 46862-3)
- FS's Southern Region, will prepare a supplemental EIS for each of the three Vegetation Management EISs: (1) Vegetation Management in the Appalachian Mountains; (2) Vegetation Management in the Coastal Plains/Piedmont; and (3) Vegetation Management in the Ozark/Ouachita Mountains to clarify management requirements contained in each on Proposed, Endangered, Threatened, and Sensitive (PETS) (9/7, p. 46769-70)
Thursday, Sept. 6 (Sept. 6 TOC)
Wednesday, Sept. 5 (Sept. 5 TOC)
- DOE notice of floodplain and wetlands involvement in Baja California Power Inc.'s and Sempra Energy Resources' applications for Presidential permits to construct, operate, maintain, and connect double-circuit electric transmission lines across
the U.S. border with Mexico (9/5, p. 46440-1)
- DOE notice of floodplain and wetlands involvement in Enron's application for Presidential permits to construct, operate, maintain, and connect double-circuit electric transmission lines across
the U.S. border with Mexico (9/5, p. 46441)
- DOE notice of floodplain and wetlands involvement. San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) has applied to amend Presidential Permit PP-68 authorizing the construction, operation,
maintenance, and connection of a 230-kV electric transmission line at
the U.S. international border with Mexico (9/5, p. 46441-2)
Tuesday, Sept. 4 (Sept. 4 TOC)
Friday, Aug. 31 (Aug. 31 TOC)
- (8/31, p. 45985)
- (8/31, p. 45984)
- FAA releases final EIS for the Chicago Terminal Airspace Project (8/31, p. 46052)
- FAA announces incorporation of a new major proposed action into the EIS assessing implementation of projects proposed at the Juneau International Airport (8/31, p. 46052-3)
- FHwA will prepare EIS on improvements to U.S. 60 highway corridor in Greene, Christian, and Lawrence Counties, Missouri. (8/31, p. 46061)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed Route 101 project in Humboldt County in the Cities of Eureka and Arcata, and vicinity (8/31, p. 46061-2)
- MMS releases NEPA-related Site-Specific EA's and FONSI's
for proposed oil and gas activities on the Gulf of Mexico OCS during the period 4/24/01 to 7/13/01 (8/31, p. 46025-6)
- Floodplain/Wetland Statement for the Interconnection of the
Sundance Energy Project with the Western Area Power Administration's Liberty-Coolidge 230-kilovolt Transmission Line (DOE/EIS-0322) (8/31, p. 45979-82)
Thursday, Aug. 30 (Aug. 30 TOC)
Wednesday, Aug. 29 (Aug. 29 TOC)
Tuesday, Aug. 28 (Aug. 28 TOC)
- Corps releases draft EIS for Missouri River Master Water Control Manual (8/28, p. 45287-8)
- Corps plans to prepare a draft EIS for the Las Americas Transshipment Port Complex being proposed by the Puerto Rico Infrastructure Financing Authority (AFI, Acronym in Spanish) (8/28, p. 45288-90)
- Corps plans to prepare a draft EIS for a General Reevaluation Study of Navigation Improvements at Miami Harbor, Dade County, FL (8/28, p. 45290-1)
- Corps to prepare a draft supplement EIS to the 1996 final EIS for Coast of Florida Erosion and Storm Effects Study, Region III, Palm Beach, Broward, and Dade County, FL, to address an application for a permit to nourish Phipps Beach in Palm Beach
County (8/28, p. 45291-2)
- Corps to prepare a draft EIS for the Rio Salado Oeste Feasibility Study, Phoenix, AZ (8/28, p. 45292)
Monday, Aug. 27 (Aug. 27 TOC)
- No NEPA notices today, except for Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which is in TOC
Friday, Aug. 24 (Aug. 24 TOC)
Thursday, Aug. 23 (Aug. 23 TOC)
Wednesday, Aug. 22 (Aug. 22 TOC)
Tuesday, Aug. 21 (Aug. 21 TOC)
Monday, Aug. 20 (Aug. 20 TOC)
- BLM releases draft RMP/EIS for Las Cienegas National Conservation Area and Sonoita Valley Acquisition Planning District, located in Pima
and Santa Cruz counties, Arizona (8/20, p. 43591-2)
- DOE releases draft EIS for the proposed relocation of technical Area 18 capabilities and materials (8/20, p. 43579-80)
- FAA extends the scoping period for an EIS assessing implementation of projects proposed at the Juneau International Airport (8/20, p. 43606)
- FERC issues EA for application for an original license for the existing and operating Alverno Hydroelectric Project, located on the Black River in the townships of Aloha, Benton, and Grant in Michigan (Cheboygan County). Not a major federal action. (8/20, p. 43586)
- FS will prepare an EIS for a timber sale and connected actions within the Black Creek watershed planning area of the North Umpqua Ranger District (8/20, p. 43568-9)
Friday, Aug. 17 (Aug. 17 TOC)
Thursday, Aug. 16 (Aug. 16 TOC)
Wednesday, Aug. 15 (Aug. 15 TOC)
Tuesday, Aug. 14 (Aug. 14 TOC)
Monday, Aug. 13 (Aug. 13 TOC)
Friday, Aug. 10 (Aug. 10 TOC)
- BLM proposes to temporarily close parts of federal land in Imperial County, California, to camping to protect the resources, desert tortoise habitat and its associated plants and wildlife. (8/10, p. 42234-5)
- BPA releases Record of Decision to offer contract terms for integrating power from Longview Energy Dev (8/10, p. 42207)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (8/10, p. 42216-7)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (8/10, p. 42215-6)
- FTA and the Denver Regional Transportation District, in cooperation with the Denver Regional Council of Governments, will prepare an EIS to evaluate transit improvements, including a potential light rail transit line, in the West Corridor from Denver to Lakewood and Golden in Jefferson County, Colorado (8/10, p. 42251-3)
- Rural Utilities Service proposes to hold a scoping meeting and prepare an EA on a project proposed by Southern Illinois Power Cooperative of Marion, Ill. (8/10, p. 42196-7)
Thursday, Aug. 9 (Aug. 9 TOC)
Wednesday, Aug. 8 (Aug. 8 TOC)
- Army issues final EIS assessing the effects of future development and operations at Fort Meade on the natural and human environment. (8/8, p. 41573-4)
- Army to prepare EIS on plans for destruction of Non-Stockpile chemical warfare materiel at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Ark. (8/8, p. 41574)
- DoD issues FONSI on July 1999 supplemental EA on construction of new outfall line associated with the Pentagon heating and refrigeration plant (8/8, p. 41567)
- FERC releases draft EIS for the proposed Eastchester Project (8/8, p. 41586-7)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for proposed transportation improvement along the I-15 corridor in Helena, Lewis and Clark & Jefferson counties, Montana (8/8, p. 41653-4)
- NPS to prepare EIS for fire management plan for Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area, Whiskeytown Unit, Shasta County, Calif. (8/8, p. 41606-7)
- Navy releases ROD re: proposal to replace two existing World War II era piers at Naval Station, San Diego, Calif., in order to more efficiently meet berthing, logistic and maintenance requirements for ships homeported in San Diego (8/8, p. 41578-9)
Tuesday, Aug. 7 (Aug. 7 TOC)
- BLM plans to prepare (1) a Resource Management Plan (RMP) and EIS for the Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area and an RMP/EIS for the Bruneau planning area of the Owyhee Field Office in southwestern Idaho. (8/7, p. 41263-4)
- Corps plans to prepare a draft EIS as part of a Section 404 permit application evaluation for the proposed South Lawrence Trafficway/K-10 Highway
Extension Project, in and near the City of Lawrence, in Douglas County, Kansas (8/7, p. 41211-2)
- Corps plans to prepare a draft EIS for the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet (MR-GO), Louisiana, Reevaluation Study (8/7, p. 41212)
- Corps San Francisco District, in coordination with the Santa Clara Valley Water District, is preparing a joint Supplemental EIS/Supplemental EIR for the Llagas Creek Flood Control Project (8/7, p. 41212-3)
- FERC issues EA on proposed Cross Bay Project in New York, New Jersey (8/7, p. 41224-5)
- The Southwestern Region of the Forest Service is planning to
prepare an EIS on a proposal to amend national Forest land and resource management plans to modify standards and guidelines for Mexican spotted owl and northern goshawk within
wildland-urban interface areas and to emphasize the management of wildland-urban interface areas throughout the southwest (8/7, p. 41198-200)
Monday, Aug. 6 (Aug. 6 TOC)
Friday, Aug. 3 (Aug. 3 TOC)
- BLM plans to prepare a Resource Management Plan, with an EIS, for portions of Mohave, La Paz, Yavapai, and Maricopa counties, Arizona, and portions of San Bernardino County, California (8/3, p. 40717-8)
- BuRec proposes to prepare an EIS for Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency's Basin Management Plan Update Project (8/3, p. 40719-20)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (8/3, p. 40698-9)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (8/3, p. 40697-8)
- FAA cancels EIS for Lihue Airport, Lihue, Kauai, HI (8/3, p. 40774-5)
- FERC to prepare EA on potential environmental impacts of the High Desert Lateral Project, which would involve construction and operation of facilities by Kern River Gas Transmission Company in San Bernardino County, California (8/3, p. 40684-6)
- FTA to prepare EIS for the proposed transportation improvements in the Downtown-Airport Corridor and adjacent areas located in Memphis, Tennessee (8/3, p. 40776-7)
Thursday, August 2 (Aug. 2 TOC)
- FERC releases draft EIS on proposed Maritimes Phase III/HubLine Project in Essex and Middlesex counties, Massachusetts (Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline, L.L.C., Algonquin Gas Transmission Co., Texas Eastern) (8/2, p. 40243)
- FERC releases EA on application for a new license for the existing and operating Queens Creek Hydroelectric Project located on Queens Creek, in Macon County, North Carolina (8/2, p. 40243-4)
- FHwA, in cooperation with the Riverside Co. Transportation Commission and the California DOT, will prepare an EIS to study alternatives to implement transportation corridor improvements in western Riverside County, specifically improvements for the Hemet to Corona/Lake Elsinore (East to West) transportation corridor. (8/2, p. 40312-3)
- FHwA, in cooperation with the Riverside Co. Transportation Commission and the California DOT, will prepare an EIS to study alternatives to implement transportation corridor improvements in western Riverside County, specifically improvements for the Winchester to Temecula (North to South) transportation corridor (8/2, p. 40313)
- MMS is preparing an EA for a proposed deepwater project to
develop and produce hydrocarbon reserves about 70 miles offshore Louisiana and about 90 miles south of Alabama (8/2, p. 40295-6)
Wednesday, Aug. 1 (Aug. 1 TOC)
Tuesday, July 31 (July 31 TOC)
- Corps releases draft PEIS on Nationwide Permit program (7/31, p. 39499)
- Corps plans to prepare a draft programmatic EIS for potential multi-objective projects in the Lower Colorado River Basin and associated tributaries for flood damage reduction, ecosystem restoration, and recreation currently in and around Austin, Texas (7/31, p. 39499-500)
- Corps to prepare EIS/EIR for the preparation of a Special Area Management Plan and associated 404 permit actions for the San Diego Creek Watershed, Orange County, CA (7/31, p. 39500-1)
- FERC releases EA on Portland General Electric Company's
application for license amendment to install an additional 70-kW turbine/generator unit at the Pelton Round Butte Hydroelectric Project, located on the Deschutes River in Jefferson,
Marion, and Wasco Counties, Oregon (7/31, p. 39509)
- BLM plans to prepare an EIS for renewal of the federal agreement and grant of right-of-way for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (7/31, p. 39529-31)
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- BuRec plans to prepare an EIS for the proposed Wellton-Mohawk title transfer. (7/31, p. 39534-6)
Monday, July 30 (July 30 TOC)
Friday, July 27 (July 27 TOC)
- Army releases Supplemental Draft EIS on the disposal and reuse of
the Oakland Army Base, Oakland, CA (7/27, p. 39153-4)
- DOE extends scoping period until Aug. 31 for a Presidential permit
filed by the Tucson Electric Power Company (7/27, p. 39154-5)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (7/27, p. 39162-3)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (7/27, p. 39161-2)
- FS to prepare EIS on proposal to amend Stillwater Mining Co.'s Plan of Operation pertaining to production limits and water treatment methods (Montana) (7/27, p. 39138-40)
- BLM extends comment period until Nov. 1 on draft Northern and Eastern Colorado Desert Coordinated Management Plan/EIS and the draft Northern and Eastern
Mojave Plan Amendments and EIS (7/27, p. 39192-3)
- BLM plans to prepare an EIS for the Toquop Energy Project/Lincoln County well field, water pipeline and access road rights-of-way in southeastern Lincoln County, Nevada. (7/27, p. 39193)
- MMS preparing an EA for proposed Eastern Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 181 (7/27, p. 39195)
- NPS will prepare a draft EIS to address the long-term management of the rural landscape in Cuyahoga Valley National Park (7/27, p. 39195-6)
- NPS will prepare a draft EIS on the Exit Glacier Area Plan, Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska (7/27, p. 39196-7)
- NPS extends public review period to Aug. 27, 2001, for comments on the scope of the Benefits-Sharing Environmental Assessment. (7/27, p. 39197)
- NPS to prepare a supplemental EIS for the winter use plan, Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Memorial Parkway. (7/27, p. 39197-9)
- NRCS issues FONSI on Humble Canal Project (ME-11), Cameron Parish, LA (7/27, p. 39140-1)
Thursday, July 26 (July 26 TOC)
Wednesday, July 25 (July 25 TOC)
- DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration will prepare an EIS for a proposal to allow the Nevada Test Site Development Corporation (the designated community reuse organization for the NTS) and M&N Wind Power, Inc. and Siemens to
construct, operate and maintain a wind farm at the Nevada Test Site. (7/25, p. 38648-50)
- GSA releases final EIS for a proposed Department of Transportation headquarters (7/25, p. 38705)
- NRCS says it will not prepare EIS for the Bayou L'Ours Hydrologic Restoration Project, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. (7/25, p. 38628)
- NRCS says it will not prepare EIS for the South Lake Decade Freshwater Introduction Project, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana (7/25, p. 38628-9)
Tuesday, July 24 (July 24 TOC)
Monday, July 23 (July 23 TOC)
- No NEPA notices today (Note: We don't do Nuclear Regulatory Commission NEPA docs, so please check the TOC if you want those)
Friday, July 20 (July 20 TOC)
Thursday, July 19 (July 19 TOC)
- BuRec and the Colusa Basin Drainage District release a joint Final PEIS/PEIR for the Integrated Resources Management Program for Flood Control in the Colusa Basin (7/19, p. 37702-3)
- BuRec proposes to prepare an environmental document to evaluate alternatives for renewal of long-term contracts with the entities and individuals asserting rights to divert water from the natural flow of the Sacramento River (7/19, p. 37703-4)
- Corps to prepare EIS on a 404 application from Alcoa Inc. to build and operate the Three Oaks Surface Lignite Mine in Lee and Bastrop Counties, TX (7/19, p. 37660)
- FERC issues final EIS on construction of facilities proposed by Florida Gas Transmission Company for FGT Phase V Expansion Project in the above-referenced docket. (7/19, p. 37667)
- FERC's Office of Energy Projects issues draft EA on application for license for the Municipal Dam Hydroelectric Project, located on the Pine River in Gratiot County, Michigan (7/19, p. 37667-8)
- FRA will prepare an EIS for the Baltimore-Washington Maglev proposal linking the Camden Yards area in Baltimore, MD and Baltimore-Washington International Airport with Union Station in Washington, DC (7/19, p. 37721)
- FRA to prepare EIS for the Pennsylvania Maglev proposal, linking Pittsburgh International Airport to Pittsburgh and its eastern suburbs in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties (7/19, p. 37721-2)
Wednesday, July 18 (July 18 TOC)
Tuesday, July 17 (July 17 TOC)
Monday, July 16 (July 16 TOC)
Friday, July 13 (July 13 TOC)
- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in coordination with the
Kings River Conservation District and Kings River Water Association,
have prepared a DFR/DEIS-EIR for the Pine Flat Dam, Fish and Wildlife
Habitat Restoration Investigation (7/13, p. 36758)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (7/13, p. 36769)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (7/13, p. 36768-9)
- FAA will prepare an EIS and hold an environmental scoping meeting for James M. Cox-Dayton International Airport, Vandalia, Ohio (7/13, p. 36821-2)
- NRCS will not prepare an EIS for the Little Reed Island Creek Watershed in Carroll, Pulaski and Wythe Counties and the Town of Hillsville, Va. (7/13, p. 36740-1)
Thursday, July 12 (July 12 TOC)
Wednesday, July 11 (July 11 TOC)
Tuesday, July 10 (July 10 TOC)
- BLM is proposing to amend the West HiLine Resource Management Plan for public lands in an area known as Loma/Vimy Ridge located in Chouteau County, Montana. BLM is proposing to amend the off-road vehicle designation for the public lands that are currently open seasonally or yearlong to motorized cross-country travel and designate
the area as limited yearlong and also designate the roads and trails open to motorized vehicles (7/10, p. 35994)
- DOE plans to prepare EIS on application by Tucson Electric Power for a Presidential permit to build a double-circuit 345,000-volt (345-kV) transmission line originating at TEP's South Substation in Sahuarita, Ariz., and extending about 60 miles to the south along one of three alternative routes, where it would cross the U.S. border with Mexico near Nogales, Ariz. DOE will hold public scoping meetings. Also a Notice of Floodplain and
Wetlands Involvement (7/10, p. 35950-2)
- FERC releases EA/FONSI on Avista Corporation's application to
waive for 4.5 months the aesthetic flow requirements at the Monroe Street development of the Spokane River Hydroelectric Project, located on the Spokane River in Lincoln, Stevens, and Spokane Counties, Washington, and Kootenai County, Idaho (7/10, p. 35954)
- FERC will prepare EA on TVA Project, which involves the construction and operation of facilities by East Tennessee Natural Gas Company (East Tennessee) in Moore, Lewis, Lawrence, Giles, Maury, Marshall, Hickman, and Franklin counties, Tennessee (7/10, p. 35954-6)
- FERC to prepare EA on Islander East Pipeline Project, which involves construction and operation of facilities by Islander East Pipeline Company, L.L.C. and related facilities built and operated by Algonquin Gas Transmission Company in New Haven County, Connecticut, and Suffolk County, New York (7/10, p. 35956-8)
- FWS designates critical habitat for wintering piping plovers (7/10, p. 36037-36143)
- Enron Canada Corp. has applied for a Presidential permit
to build, operate, maintain, and connect a double-circuit 230,000-volt (230-kV) underground electric transmission facility across the U.S. border with Canada (7/10, p. 35953-4)
- Forest Service issues Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking re: roadless areas (7/10, p. 35918-20)
- MMS releases final EIS on proposed eastern Gulf of Mexico
Sale 181. (7/10, p. 35995-6)
Monday, July 9 (July 9 TOC)
Friday, July 6 (July 6 TOC)
- BuRec and and California Department of Water Resources plan to prepare an EIS/EIR to implement the Environmental Water Account (EWA) as described in the Programmatic Record of Decision for the CALFED Bay-Delta Program (7/6, p. 35668-9)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (7/6, p. )
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (7/6, p. )
- FERC will prepare an EA that will discuss the environmental impacts of the Momentum Expansion Project involving construction and operation of facilities
by Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation in several counties in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi (7/6, p. 35610-1)
- FHWA, N.Y. State Transit Administration and DOT announce termination of the preparation of an EIS for the proposed Rockland County to Manhattan Ferry Project (7/6, p. 35691)
- FWS, Forest Service release draft EIS on effects of providing fish passage through the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery and providing riverine habitat within the hatchery grounds (7/6, p. 35659-60)
- The Forest Service will prepare a draft EIS on the proposed Oak Decline and Forest Health Project (Salem and Potosi Ranger Districts of the Mark Twain NF, Missouri) (7/6, p. 35582-3)
- Forest Service to prepare EIS on Licking Creek Timber Sale, Tongass NF (7/6, p. 35583-4)
- Navy releases Record of Decision for Outfall Replacement for Wastewater Treatment Plant at Fort Kamehameha, Navy Public Works Center, Pearl Harbor, HI (7/6, p. 35599-601)
Thursday, July 5 (July 5 TOC)
- BLM to prepare EIS for a proposed gas-fired electric power plant and ancillary facilities in Clark and Lincoln counties, Nevada; public meetings scheduled (7/5, p. 35452-3)
- FHWA rescinds Notice of Intent issued May 9, 1997, to prepare an EIS for proposed highway project in Bellevue, King County, Washington. (7/5, p. 35497-8)
- FS to prepare EIS on a proposal to implement post-fire forest management and watershed rehabilitation activities, Lolo NF, Missoula, Mineral, and Sanders counties, Montana (7/5, p. 35409-11)
Tuesday, July 3 (July 3 TOC)
Monday, July 2 (July 2 TOC)
- FAA releases final EA and draft FONSI/ROD for Toledo Express
Airport, Toledo, OH (7/2, p. 34980-1)
- FAA published a Notice of Intent to prepare an EIS for proposed
master plan development at San Diego International Airport--Lindbergh Field on June 21. The published Notice of Intent omitted two work items that should have been identified under Alternative One (7/2, p. 34981-2)
- FERC releases EA on Cameron Gas and Electric Company's application for an original license for the unlicensed Smithville and Mix Hydroelectric Project located on the Grand River, in the city of Easton Rapids, Eaton County, Michigan (7/2, p. 34922)
- NPS preparing EIS to assess the impacts of alternative management strategies for the General Management Plan (GMP) for Anacostia Park, Washington, DC (7/2, p. 34949)
- NPS releases draft EIS and General Management Plan for Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming (7/2, p. 34949-50)
- NPS releases EA for the proposed safety improvements on and around Mount Vernon Trail Bridge #12 within George Washington Memorial Parkway (7/2, p. 34950-1)
- NPS releases EA for the proposed replacement of the existing deteriorated North Arcade structure and damaged portions of the adjacent arcade structure with a new North Arcade structure in GLEC, a unit of the George Washington Memorial Parkway (7/2, p. 34951)
- NPS releases Plan of Operations and EA for a proposed three-dimensional seismic survey within the Barataria Preserve Unit of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, Jefferson Parish, LA (7/2, p. 34951-2)
- NPS releases draft General Management Plan/EIS for Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, Washington, DC (7/2, p. 34952-3)
- NPS releases final supplemental EIS for construction of the Natchez Trace Parkway (Section 3P13), Ridgeland, MS (7/2, p. 34953)
- TVA to hold public meeting to receive comments on the draft EIS for addition of electric generation baseload capacity in Franklin County, TN (7/2, p. 34975-6)
Friday, June 29 (June 29 TOC)
- DOE says it will accept comments from some individuals on the supplement to the Draft EIS for a Geologic Repository for the Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada until August 13, 2001 (6/29, p. 34623-4)
- DOE, Los Alamos National Laboratory Notice of floodplain involvement (6/29, p. 34624-5)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (6/29, p. 34632)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (6/29, p. 34632-3)
- Interior Dept. terminates lease of the power privilege process
for the Diamond Fork Area of the Central Utah Project. (6/29, p. 34713)
- Navy has prepared a Supplement to the 1997 EIS for the Yuma Training Range Complex to evaluate the cumulative impacts on the Sonoran Pronghorn (6/29, p. 34622-3)
Thursday, June 28 (June 28 TOC)
- DOE releases amended Record of Decision; Savannah River Site Waste Management, Savannah River Operations Office, Aiken, South Carolina (6/28, p. 34431-3)
- FAA releases Final Supplement to the 1992 Final
Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS)--Master Plan Development,
Indianapolis International Airport (6/28, p. 34507-8)
- FAA to prepare EIS for a proposed new runway at Norfolk International Airport, Virginia (6/28, p. 34508-9)
- FERC prepares EA on natural gas pipeline facilities proposed by PG&E Gas Transmission in Idaho and Washington (6/28, p. 34443)
- FHwA revises scope of EIS to be performed for project in Fairmont, W.V. (6/28, p. 34510-1)
- FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in the City of Franklin in Williamson County Tennessee. (6/28, p. 34511)
Wednesday, June 27 (June 27 TOC)
Tuesday, June 26 (June 26 TOC)
Monday, June 25 (June 25 TOC)
Friday, June 22 (June 22 TOC)
- Corps plans to prepare a draft supplemental EIS in conjunction with proposed flood control measures (Levee 37) on the Upper Des Plaines River at Mount Prospect in Cook County, Illinois (6/22, p. 33533)
- BLM has prepared an EA for two rights-of-way (R/W) proposed by El Paso Global Networks (EPGN) for buried fiber optic telecommunications lines and associated facilities, including the construction, maintenance, operation and termination activities. One R/
W runs from El Paso, Texas to Phoenix, Arizona; the second from Phoenix, Arizona to Los Angeles, California. (6/22, p. 33553-4)
- BLM specifies June 27 as the ending date for comments on its intent to prepare a planning analysis/environmental assessment on Meadowood Farm
in Fairfax County, Virginia. (6/22, p. 33554)
- DOE extends comment period for supplement to the draft EIS for a geologic repository for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste at
Yucca Mountain, Nye County, NV (6/22, p. 33534)
- EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (6/22, p. 33538-9)
- EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (6/22, p. 33537-8)
- FHwA, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), and the City of Seattle will prepare an EIS for alternative solutions to improve the existing SR 99 corridor now partially served by the Alaskan Way Viaduct located in
downtown Seattle, King County, Washington. (6/22, p. 33602-3)
- TVA issues RODs on final EIS for use of lands acquired for the Columbia Dam Component of the Duck River Project (6/22, p. 33599-601)
Thursday, June 21 (June 21 TOC)
- APHIS issues EA for a proposed confined release into the environment of pink bollworm genetically engineered to express green fluorescence as a marker (6/21, p. 33226)
- FAA to prepare EIS and hold scoping meetings for San Diego new facilities, including terminal, at International Airport--Lindbergh Field, San Diego, CA (6/21, p. 33294-5)
- MMS releases draft EIS, locations and dates of public hearings for delineation drilling activities in federal waters offshore Santa Barbara County, CA (6/21, p. 33268-9)
- NRCS says EIS is not being prepared for the Elm Fork Watershed, Multiple-Purpose Structure (MPS) No. 19, Cooke County, Texas. (6/21, p. 33226-7)
Wednesday, June 20 (June 20 TOC)
Tuesday, June 19 (June 19 TOC)
Monday, June 18 (June 18 TOC)
- FTA and the New Jersey Transit Corporation will prepare a Major Investment Study/Draft EIS to study transportation access improvements along the Bergen-Passaic Cross County Corridor (also known as the NYS&W corridor) in Bergen and Passaic counties, New Jersey (6/18, p. 32865-7)
- FTA and the New Jersey Transit Corporation will prepare a Major Investment Study/Draft EIS to study transportation access improvements along the Northern Branch corridor in Bergen County, New Jersey. (6/18, p. 32867-8)
- FTA and the New Jersey Transit Corporation will prepare a Major Investment Study/Draft EIS to study transportation access improvements along the West Shore corridor in Bergen County, New Jersey and Rockland County, New York (6/18, p. 32868-70)
- The Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact
statement to disclose the effects of a proposal by Canyon Creek Irrigation District to rehabilitate Canyon and Wyant Dams, Bitterroot NF, Montana (6/18, p. 32789-90)
- NPS releases Final EIS/General Management Plan for New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, Bristol County, Massachusetts (6/18, p. 32836-7)
- NPS is preparing an EA for the rehabilitation of Bunker Hill Monument, located in the City of Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts (6/18, p. 32837)
- Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission issues final EA/FONSI on Pioneer Irrigation Diversion (Duchesne River in Duchesne County, Utah) (6/18, p. 32873-4)
Friday, June 15 (June 15 TO