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ADDRESSES: Administrative Records. Additionally under the Acid Rain AK, Due: April 22, 1996, Contact: The administrative record for the Program regulations (40 CFR 72.8), James M. Thomas (907) 747–6671. exemptions, except information utilities may petition EPA for an EIS No. 960125, Draft EIS, USN, FL, protected as confidential, may be exemption from Phase II permitting Programmatic EIS—Mayport Naval viewed during normal operating hours requirements for units that are retired Station, to Evaluate Facilities at the following locations. For plants in prior to the issuance of a Phase II Acid Development Necessary to Support New York: EPA Region 2, 290 Rain permit. Units that are retired prior Potential Aircraft Carrier Homporting, Broadway, New York, NY 10007–1866; to the deadline for continuous Duval County, FL, Due: May 6, 1996, for plants in Texas: EPA Region 6, First emissions monitoring system (CEMS) Contact: Ronnie Lattimore (803) 820– Interstate Bank Tower, 1445 Ross certification may also petition for an 5888. Avenue, Dallas, TX, 75202–2733; and exemption from monitoring EIS No. 960126, Final EIS, GSA, CA, for plants in Kansas and Missouri: EPA requirements. San Diego—United States Courthouse, Region 7, 726 Minnesota Ave., Kansas While the exempt retired units have Site Selection and Construction City, KS, 66101. been allocated allowances under 40 CFR within a portion of the Central FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For part 73, units exempted under 40 CFR Business District (CBD), City of San plants in New York, Gerry DeGaetano, 72.8 must not emit any sulfur dioxide or Diego, San Diego County, CA, Due: 212–637–4020; for plants in Texas, Dan nitrogen oxides on or after the date the April 22, 1996, Contact: Rosanne Meyer, 214–665–7233, and for plants in units are exempted, and the units must Nieto (415) 444–8111. Kansas and Missouri, Lisa Hanlon, 913– not resume operation unless the EIS No. 960127, Draft EIS, AFS, MT, 551–7599. designated representative submits an Boulder and Wyman Gulch Vegetation Management Timber Sale SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: All public application for an Acid Rain permit and and Prescribed Burning, comment received on any exemption in installs and certifies its monitors by the Implementation, Beaverhead- this direct final action on which applicable deadlines. Deerlodge National Forests, significant, adverse comments are EPA is issuing written exemptions Philipsburg Ranger District, Granite timely received will be addressed in a from Phase II permitting requirements County, MT, Due: May 06, 1996, subsequent issuance or denial of and monitoring requirements, effective Contact: Ed Casey (406) 859–3211. exemption based on the relevant draft from January 1, 1996, through December EIS No. 960128, Final EIS, FHW, OH, exemption in the notice of draft written 31, 2000, to the following retired units: Waterside units 51 and 52 in New US 50 Highway Improvements exemptions that is published elsewhere York, operated by Consolidated Edison. between the City of Athens to the in today’s Federal Register and that is The designated representative for Village of Coolville, US 50 18.58 from identical to this direct final action. Waterside is M. Peter Lanahan, Jr. 4 km (2.5 miles) west of OH–690 to Under the Acid Rain Program Victoria unit 5 in Texas, operated by OH–7, US Coast Guard Permit and regulations (40 CFR 72.7), utilities may Central and Southwest Services, Inc. COE Section 10 and 404 Permits, petition EPA for an exemption from The designated representative for Athens County, OH, Due: April 22, permitting and monitoring requirements Victoria is E. Michael Williams. 1996, Contact: Dale E. Wilken (708) for any new utility unit that serves one 283–3500. or more generators with total nameplate Dated: March 19, 1996. EIS No. 960129, Draft EIS, DOE, NY, capacity of 25 MW or less and burns Brian J. McLean, West Valley Demonstration Project for only fuels with a sulfur content of 0.05 Director, Acid Rain Division, Office of Completion and Western New York percent or less by weight. On the earlier Atmospheric Programs, Office of Air and Nuclear Service Center Closure or of the date a unit exempted under 40 Radiation. Long-Term Management, Appalachian CFR 72.7 burns any fuel with a sulfur [FR Doc. 96–7032 Filed 3–21–96; 8:45 am] Plateau, City of Buffalo, NY, Due: content in excess of 0.05 percent by BILLING CODE 6560±50±P September 22, 1996, Contact: Dan weight or 24 months prior to the date Sullivan (800) 633–5280. the exempted unit first serves one or [ER±FRL±5414±6] more generators with total nameplate Dated: March 18, 1996. capacity in excess of 25 MW, the unit Environmental Impact Statements; William D. Dickerson, shall no longer be exempted under 40 Notice of Availability Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office CFR 72.7 and shall be subject to all of Federal Activities. permitting and monitoring requirements RESPONSIBLE AGENCY: Office of [FR Doc. 96–7002 Filed 3–21–96; 8:45 am] of the Acid Rain Program. Federal Activities, General Information BILLING CODE 6560±50±U EPA is issuing written exemptions to (202) 564–7167 or (202) 564–7153. the following new units, effective from Weekly receipt of Environmental January 1, 1996 through December 31, Impact Statements Filed March 11, 1996 [ER±FRL±5414±7] through March 15, 1996, Pursuant to 40 2000: Environmental Impact Statements and CFR 1506.9. Wamego units 1920–3, 1920–4, and Regulations; Availability of EPA 1920–5 in Kansas, operated by the City EIS No. 960123, Draft EIS, AFS, CA, Comments of Wamego. The designated Emigrant Wilderness Management representative for Wamego is Larry Direction, Implementation, Stanislaus Availability of EPA comments Fechter. National Forest, Tuolume County, CA, prepared March 4, 1996 through March Malden units 2, 3, and 4 in Missouri, Due: May 21, 1996, Contact: Steve 8, 1996 pursuant to the Environmental operated by the City of Malden. The Brougher (209) 965–3434. Review Process (ERP), under Section designated representative for Malden is EIS No. 960124, Final EIS, AFS, AK, 309 of the Clean Air Act and Section Gary Youngquist. Northwest Baranof Timber Sale(s), 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental Vandalia units 4 and 5 in Missouri, Implementation, NPDES, Coast Guard Policy Act as amended. Requests for operated by the City of Vandalia. The Bridge, COE Section 10 and 404 copies of EPA comments can be directed designated representative for Vandalia Permits, Tongass National Forest, to the Office of Federal Activities at is Todd Hileman. Sitka Ranger District, Baranof Island, (202) 564–7167. Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 57 / Friday, March 22, 1996 / Notices 11837

An explanation of the ratings assigned Dated: March 18, 1996. would be by means of gravity separation to draft environmental impact William D. Dickerson, and froth flotation processes in an statements (EISs) was published in FR Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office underground mill. No cyanide would be dated April 14, 1996 (60 FR 19047). of Federal Activities. used. Surface facilities would be located [FR Doc. 96–7003 Filed 3–21–96; 8:45 am] at the Rock Dump area south of Juneau. Draft EISs BILLING CODE 6560±50±U The tailings would be pumped through ERP No. D–AFS–J65243–MT Rating a pipeline in for LO, Castle Mountians Allotment [ER±FRL±5414±5] discharge at depth in . Management Plan, Implementation, Power would be supplied by diesel-gas Lewis and Clark National Forest, Intent To Prepare a Supplemental turbine generators. Staffing is estimated Musselshell and King Hill Ranger Environmental Impact Statement at 400 personnel. Districts, White Sulphur Springs, (SEIS) for the ±Juneau (AJ) Mine Project alternatives currently Meagher County, MT. Project, Juneau, AK considered include: (1) Douglas Island Summary: EPA expressed lack of AGENCY: Environmental Protection Dry Tailings—the tailings would be objections and recommended that Agency (EPA). piped across Gastineau Channel, additional information including ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an dewatered and conveyed to a dry improved descriptions of State Water SEIS. tailings disposal area on Douglas Island, Quality Standards and linkages to State (2) Sheep Creek Subaqueous Tailings— lists of water quality limited streams be SUMMARY: In accordance with Section similar to the proposed action in the included in the FEIS. 511(c)(1) of the Clean Water Act (CWA) 1992 FEIS except the impoundment and Section 102(2)(c) of the National would hold less tailings, no cyanide ERP No. D–BLM–K67032–NV Rating Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) EPA would be used, and the flows of Sheep EO2, Round Mountain Mine Mill and has identified a need to prepare an SEIS Creek would be partially diverted Tailings Facility, Construction and and publishes this Notice of Intent in Operation for the Smoke Valley around the impoundment, (3) Powerline accordance with 40 CFR 1501.7. Gulch Subaqueous Tailings—similar to Operation, Plan of Operations FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR TO SEND Amendment Approval, Nye County, NV. an option in the 1992 FEIS, except the SCOPING COMMENTS: William Riley, impoundment would hold less tailings, Summary: EPA expressed Office of Water Mining Coordinator no cyanide would be used, and surface environmental objections to the OW–135, EPA, 1200 Sixth Avenue, runoff would be diverted around the proposed project because it could result Seattle, WA 98101, phone (206) 553– impoundment, (4) Mine Backfill and in significant adverse cumulative 1412. Local contact is Steve Torok, Douglas Island Dry Tailings—combining EPA’s Juneau office, phone (907) 586– impacts to waterfowl attracted to the pit backfilling of cemented tailings with 7619. lake which could exceed water quality surface disposal at a reduced dry standards for wildlife. We also SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The tailings site on Douglas Island, (5) recommended additional information in proposed AJ Mine Project is subject to Submarine Tailings Disposal Upland EPA authorization through CWA the Final Environmental Impact Pipeline—similar to the proposal, Section 402, including the National Statement (FEIS) regarding mitigation except the tailings pipeline would measures; impacts to soil, vegetation, Pollutant Discharge Elimination System follow an upland route along Gastineau wildlife, livestock, and springs and (NPDES) permit program. The project is Channel and to Stephens Passage for seeps; and monitoring. a new source (40 CFR 122.2 and 122.29), and under CWA Section 511(c)(1) is discharge. ERP No. D–SFW–G64012–00 Rating subject to NEPA prior to the NPDES LO, Mexican Wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) SCOPING MEETING DATE AND COMMENT permit decision (40 CFR Part 6, Subpart Reintroduction within the Historic DEADLINE: On April 17, 1996, EPA will F). The AJ Mine is an underground gold Range, Implementation, in the host an SEIS scoping open house at mine, located south of Juneau, Alaska, Centennial Hall in Juneau from 3:00 to Southwestern United States, Catron, which closed in 1944. In 1988, Echo Dona Ana, Grant and Lincoln Counties, 9:00 p.m. Scoping comments from the Bay, Alaska (Echo Bay) filed necessary public will be welcomed that day, or NM and Apache and Greenlee Counties, permit applications to reopen the mine AZ. they may be submitted to EPA in and an EIS was completed by the writing. The scoping period comment Summary: EPA had no objections to Bureau of Land Management in 1992. deadline is April 30, 1996. the proposed action and concurs with During the permitting phase, EPA the Fish and Wildlife Service’s selection completed a technical assistance report ESTIMATED DATE OF DRAFT SEIS RELEASE: of Alternative A as the environmentally which concluded there was a high September, 1996. preferred alternative. potential for significant degradation of Dated: March 20, 1996. the waters of the United States. Echo Final EISs Bay proposed modifications to address Richard E. Sanderson, Director, Office of Federal Activities. ERP No. F–NPS–K61128–CA Santa concerns raised and filed new permit [FR Doc. 96–7004 Filed 3–21–96; 8:45 am] Rosa Island Development Concept Plan, applications. EPA also commenced a rule-making that would allow BILLING CODE 6560±50±U Implementation and Funding, Channel consideration of submarine tailings Islands National Park, Santa Barbara disposal. New field studies to County, CA. characterize marine and other resources Summary: EPA requested that the are ongoing. NEPA Record of Decision contain a Project Description—The reopened AJ commitment to implement the water Mine would produce 15,000 tons per quality protection measures contained day of ore, and 80 million tons during in the FEIS. the 13-year project life. Gold recovery