• 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)

• 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)

• FAA to prepare EA on Air Tour Management Plan for Haleakala National Park (1/23, p. 3301)
• FAA to prepare EA on Air Tour Management Plan for Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (1/23, p. 3301-2)
• FHwA to prepare EIS for proposed roadway and bridge improvement project in Cass County, Nebraska, and Mills County, Iowa. (1/23, p. 3303-4)

• BPA releases ROD to build the proposed Grand Coulee-Bell 500-kilovolt (kV) Transmission Line project in Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, and Spokane counties, Washington, (1/22, p. 3020)
  • Go here for more
• FAA releases FEIS on the Potomac Consolidated Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) Airspace Redesign (1/22, p. 3089-90)
  • FEIS is here

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)
  • More here, NPS says
• NPS releases FEIS for the Fort Davis National Historic Site; Texas (1/16, p. 2353-4)
  • Ddocument is here
• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• BLM releases Lakeview Proposed RMP/FEIS (1/13, p. 1635-6)
  • RMP/FEIS is here

• 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)

• 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)
  • EIS is here

• 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)

• EPA makes "preliminary finding that ... formal program withdrawal proceedings should not be initiated for Michigan's approved Clean Water Act section 404 permit program." (1/7, p. 772-5)

• APHIS releases EA re: control program for the Oriental mealybug (Planococcus lilacinus) (1/6, p. 539-40)

• BuRec releases draft decision on implementation of Section 3406(b)(2) of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA) (Hereinafter Draft (b)(2) Decision), Central Valley Project (CVP), California (1/3, p. 128)
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (1/3, p. 365)
• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (1/3, p. 365-6)

• Navy, in cooperation with BLM, has sent a DEIS to EPA re: military operational increases and implementation of associated Comprehensive Land Use Management and Integrated Natural Resources Management Plan (INRMP) at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, Calif. (1/2, p. 364-5)
• Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission releases draft EA for the rehabilitation or replacement of diversion dams on the Duchesne and Strawberry rivers in Utah (1/2, p. 400-1)

• DOE releases ROD on relocation of Technical Area 18 Capabilities and Materials at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (12/31, p. 79906-11)
• DOE releases floodplain Statement of Findings for the Proposed Installation of a Multiple Permeable Reactive Barrier Within Mortandad Canyon at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (12/31, p. 79911-2)

• 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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• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (12/27, p. 79081-2)
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (12/27, p. 79082)

• 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)

• FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed transportation project to improve the safety, capacity, and efficiency of US Highway 160 from Durango to Bayfield in La Plata County, Colorado. (12/24, p. 78563)
• NPS to prepare EIS on alternative management strategies as part of a General Management Plan for Great Falls Park, Virginia, a unit within George Washington Memorial Parkway. (12/24, p. 78507-8)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Defense Logistics Agency releases FONSI for the transport of PCB-containing items from Japan and Wake Island to the U.S. (12/18, p. 77479)
• Forest Service proposes to amend 1994 rule on notice, comment, and appeal procedures for projects and activities implementing forest plans on National Forest System lands. The proposed rule changes current procedures to clarify certain provisions and reduce complexity in the current rule, improve efficiency of processing appeals, encourage early and effective public participation in the environmental analysis of projects and activities, and ensure consistency with the provisions of the statutory authority (12/18, p. 77451-63)

• FS says that Plumas National Forest Supervisor Jim Peņa is the responsible official for a stream fire restoration project in Plumas National Forest; California (12/17, p. 77222)

• 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)

• 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)
  • EA here from BLM's El Centro office
  • More information
• 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)

• APHIS releases EA/FONSI to consider the effects of, and alternatives to, the release of a nonindigenous organism, Chondrilla root moth (Bradyrrhoa gilveolella), into the environment for use as a biological control agent. (12/12, p. 76376)
• FAA to prepare an EIS to implement projects proposed at the Sitka (Alaska) Rocky Gutierrez Airport. (12/12, p. 76435)

• FS's Lassen National Forest will prepare EIS for a proposed land exchange between the Spalding Community Services District and the Lassen National Forest, Lassen County, California. Approval would include the transfer of approximately 57.21 acres of federal lands encompassing one 52.50-acre parcel and one 4.71 acre parcel, and also includes a non-significant minor amendment to the ``Lassen National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan", and authorization of a special use of National Forest System Lands for water and sewer pipeline corridors, and an access road totaling approximately 2.7 acres. (12/11, p. 76158-9)
• MMS releases draft EIS for proposed oil and gas lease sales in Cook Inlet, Alaska. (12/11, p. 76189-90)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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. )
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• Forest Service: Santa Fe National Forest will prepare an EIS for managing cattle grazing on the San Diego Range Allotment located on the Jemez Ranger District, New Mexico (12/5, p. 72410-1)
• NMFS issues final rule to implement the 2002 management measures to prevent overfishing of eastern tropical Pacific tuna stocks pursuant to recommendations by the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (12/5, p. 72394-5)

• Forest Service, Plumas and Lassen National Forests, in cooperation with the Pacific Southwest Research Station will prepare an EIS on a proposal to complete an administrative study on approximately 493,000 acres of National Forest System lands (12/4, p. 72136-8)

• 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)

• EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs asks for comments on implementation of its Endangered Species Protection Program (12/2, p. 71549-61)
• FERC issues draft EA/FONSI on application for a new license for the Lake Chelan Hydroelectric Project, an existing, operating facility located on the Chelan River near the City of Chelan, Washington (12/2, p. 71546)

Friday, Nov. 29 (Nov. 29 Table of Contents from GPO)

• BLM releases final EIS for renewal of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System Right-of-Way Grant (11/29, p. 71194-5)
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for review (11/29, p. 71164-5)
• FHwA to prepare EIS for the proposed relocation of the Rutland rail switching yard and related improvements (11/29, p. 71230)
• FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in South Kohala, Hawaii (11/29, p. 71231)

• DOE: Notice of Wetlands Involvement for the transfer of land at the Miamisburg, Ohio, closure project (11/27, p. 70936-7)

• NRCS to prepare EIS for The Middle Fork of the Popo Agie Watershed, Fremont County, Wyoming. (11/26, p. 70715-6)

• 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)

• 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)

• Coast Guard announces that it has approved its Supplemental Program Environmental Assessment and has made available its FONSI for the proposed modernization of the National Distress and Response System known as "Rescue 21." (11/21, p. 70289-90)
• FERC releases EA/FONSI on an application for a new license for the Strugis Hydroelectric Project located on the St. Joseph River, in St Joseph County, Michigan (11/21, p. 70225)
• FHwA to prepare EIS for a proposed highway project in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. (11/21, p. 70296-7)
• Rural Utilities Service issues FONSI with respect to a request from Georgia Transmission Corporation for financing assistance from RUS to finance the construction of a 230/115 kV substation and a 230 kV transmission line in Cobb County, Georgia. (11/21, p. 70208)

• BIA releases Final Programmatic EIS for the Proposed Navajo Ten-Year Forest Management Plan, Navajo Nation, Arizona/New Mexico (11/20, p. 70090-1)
• Norfolk Southern Corporation and Norfolk Southern Railway has petitioned the Surface Transportation Board for authority to construct and operate a 5.26-mile line of railroad between Saltsburg and Clarksburg, in Indiana County, Pennsylvania (11/20, p. 70109-10)

• BLM releases final EIS on proposed natural gas pipeline right-of-way from near Roseburg in Douglas County, Oregon, to Coos Bay in Coos County, Oregon (11/19, p. 69759-60)
  • More here

• 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)

• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (11/15, p. )
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (11/15, p. )
• Forest Service, Black Hills National Forest will prepare a Draft Environmental Impact Statement to disclose the environmental consequences of the proposed Elk Bugs and Fuel Project which encompasses approximately 45,498 acres of National Forest System Land (NFS) and 15,068 acres of interspersed private and state lands (11/15, p. 69184-6)
• NPS to prepare an EIS for the Fire Management Plan for Carlsbad Caverns National Park (11/15, p. 69239-40)

• No notices today

• FERC issues EA/FONSI on application for minor license for the existing Hart Hydroelectric Project located on the South Branch of the Pentwater River in Oceana County, Michigan (11/13, p. 68857)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• EPA releases comments on draft, final EIS's (11/1, p. 66630)
• EPA receives draft, final EIS's for comment (11/1, p. 66629-30)
• FS: The Cascade Ranger District of the Boise NF will prepare an EIS for a resource management project in the Middle Fork of the Payette River drainage (11/1, p. 66602-4)
• FS will prepare an EIS on a proposal to assist the recovery of areas burned in 2002 by the Toolbox Complex Fires (includes Toolbox Fire, Silver Fire and small portion of Winter Fire) in Fremont NF, Lake County, Ore. (11/1, p. 66604-5)

• 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)

• 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)

• NPS terminates EIS, as noticed in the March 13 Federal Register, for a special resource study of an Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area (10/29, p. 66001)
• Public meetings of the Invasive Species Advisory Committee scheduled for Nov. 18 and 19 (10/29, p. 65993)

• Forest Service asks for comments until Dec. 30 on its strategic plan over the next twelve months (10/28, p. 65778)

• 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)
  • FEIS is here
• 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. )

• 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)

• 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)

• APHIS releases Rangeland Grasshopper and Mormon Cricket Suppression Program; ROD based on FEIS-2002 (10/2, p. 64862)
  • FEIS is here

• 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)
  • More here
• 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)

• 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)
  • More here
• 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)

• BLM releases proposed California Desert Conservation Area Plan Amendment for the Coachella Valley, and FEIS (10/17, p. 64130-1)
  • Plan is here
• Forest Service will prepare an EIS to disclose the environmental effects of treating populations of Crupina vulgaris, an aggressive, non-native plant species invading the north shore of Lake Chelan, Washington (10/17, p. 64082-4)

• 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)

• FERC has released a draft EA on an application to permit 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 is located on the Grand (Neosho) River in Craig, Delaware, Mayes, and Ottawa counties, Oklahoma. (10/15, p. 63643)
• FERC amends Notice of Intent to prepare an EIS for the proposed Grasslands Project and request for comments on environmental issues (10/15, p. 63643-5)
• FS to prepare EIS in conjunction with planning the Upper Blue Stewardship Project (hereafter referred to as the Stewardship Project) (10/15, p. 63604-6)

• 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)

• 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)

• BLM to prepare an EIS within the Upper Siuslaw River Sub-Unit of a Late-Successional Reserve on Lands Administered by the Eugene District in Lane and Douglas Counties, Ore. (10/9, p. 62984-5)
• Forest Service cancels NOI to prepare an EIS for the Comet Administrative Study--Klamath National Forest (10/9, p. 62950)
• Rural Utilities Service issues ROD for the Southern Intertie Project. "The decision of RUS is that the [NEPA] process is satisfied with respect to a request for financing assistance from Golden Valley Electric Association for its share of the cost of constructing the Southern Intertie Project (10/9, p. 62950-1)
  • ROD is here (scroll down)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Corps publishes minor correction to Sept. 27 NOI to prepare a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Florida Bay/Florida Keys Intergrated Feasibility Study (10/3, p. 62096)
• Corps to prepare draft EIS titled: Donaldsonville to the Gulf, Hurricane Protection Feasibility Study (10/3, p. 62038-9)
• The Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) on a proposal to conduct noxious and invasive plant control on the Klamath National Forest (KNF) in Siskiyou County, California (10/3, p. 62005-7)
• The Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement on a proposal to issue an amended Special Use Permit to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (10/3, p. 62003-5)

• 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)

• FERC releases final EA for Southern California Edison's applications for licenses 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 (10/1, p. 61610)
• WAPA issues ROD adopting an FHwA EIS and announcing its decision to modify its transmission system for the U.S. 93 Hoover Dam Bypass Project to accommodate a new highway segment. (10/1, p. 61619-21)

• Coast Guard releases supplemental Program EA for the National Distress and Response System Modernization Project (9/30, p. 61372-3)
  • More here
• FERC plans to prepare an EA for the Proposed WESTLEG Project, asks for comments on environmental issues (9/30, p. 61334-6)
• FERC releases final EIS for East Tennessee Natural Gas Company's proposed Patriot Project. East Tennessee proposes to expand its existing mainline pipelines in Tennessee and Virginia and extend a new pipeline from Virginia into North Carolina (9/30, p. 61336-7)

• 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)

• 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)

• BLM announces the signing of the Record of Decision on the proposed Leeville Project, Eureka Co., Nevada. The decision to approve the mining operation will be in full force and effect, when the Field Office Manager signs the Record of Decision. (9/25, p. 60251-2)
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• BLM plans to consider plan amendment, prepare an environmental analysis for the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Management Plan (9/25, p. 60252)
• BLM to prepare an EA to consider amending the Green River Resource Management Plan by designating the Pilot Butte/Wild Horse National Back Country Byway; request for public participation. (9/25, p. 60252-3)
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• GSA Public Buildings Service, Portfolio Management (9PT), has prepared a Record of Decision for the development of a new U.S. Courthouse in Los Angeles, CA. (9/24, p. 59844-50)

• 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)
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• 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)
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• 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)

• 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)
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• 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)

• 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)

• FERC to prepare EA for Southern LNG's proposed Elba Island (Ga.) Expansion Project; public scoping meetings scheduled (9/18, p. 58783-5)
• NRCS won't prepare EIS for the rehabilitation of Structure R-23 in the Upper Hocking Watershed, in Fairfield County, Ohio. (9/18, p. 58755-6)

• Corps corrects Sept. 10 document (NOI to prepare draft programmatic EIS for the Florida Keys Water Quality Improvements Program). Changes "waterwater" to "wastewater." (9/17, p. 58678)
• FAA releases draft EIS for Atlantic City International Airport, NJ (9/17, p. 58672-3)
• FERC to prepare EA for Williams Gas Pipelines Central Inc.'s proposed Southwest Missouri Expansion Project (9/17, p. 58601-3)

• 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)

• 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)
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• National Park Service and its cooperating agencies are undertaking a conservation planning and environmental impact analysis process intended to supplement the 1996 Elwha River Ecosystem Restoration Implementation final EIS (9/12, p. 57834-6)

• 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)
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• 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)

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