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workgroups, i.e. Printing, Petroleum, EIS No. 990028, Draft EIS, COE, NB, EIS No. 990036, Final EIS, COE, AK, and Metal Finishing. Platte West Water Production Beaufort Sea Oil and Gas —Representation from our partners in Facilities, Construct a Drinking Development Northstar Project, actions outlined in the Sector Based Supply and Treatment Facility, Implementation, NPDES Permit, Sea Environmental Protection Action Metropolitan Utilities District of Island, Alaskan Beaufort Sea, Offshore Plan. Omaha, Douglas, Saunders and Sarpy Marine Environment and Onshore —Representation from a broad range of Counties, NB, Due: March 26, 1999, Northslope of Alaskan Coastal Plain, EPA stakeholder groups which have Contact: Mike Neuzil (402) 221–4606. AK, Due: March 08, 1999, Contact: interest and experience in dealing EIS No. 990029, Draft EIS, FAA, OH, Timothy R. Jennings (907) 753–2716. with sector issues, including but not Toledo Express Airport (TOL), Amended Notices limited to business/industry, state/ Proposed Noise Compatibility Plan local/tribal governments, national and Air Traffic Actions and Proposed EIS No. 990015, Final EIS, FAA, NY, local environmental, environmental Aviation Related Industrial Terminal Doppler Weather Radar justice, and labor groups. Development, Airport Layout Plan, (TDWR) Installation and Operation, —Senior level representatives with Funding, Lucas County, OH, Due: Serve the John F. Kennedy decision-making authority for their March 22, 1999, Contact: Wally International Airports (JFK) and La organization. Welter (847) 294–8091. Guardia (LGA), Site Specific, Air —Representatives with experience EIS No. 990030, Final EIS, IBR, CA, San Station Brooklyn, Kings County, NY, working collaboratively with Joaquin River Agreement Project, Due: March 01, 1999, Contact: Jerome stakeholder groups in addition to Implementation of the Meeting Flow D. Schwartz (202) 267–9841. their own. Objectives for 1999–2010, Vernalis Published FR 1–29–99—Due Date Nominations for membership must Adaptive Management Plan, San correction. EIS No. 990016, Final EIS, IBR, WA, include a resume and short biography Joaquin, Stanislaus, Madera, Merced, programmatic EIS—Yakima River describing the educational and Fresno and Tuolume Counties, CA, Basin Water Enhancement (Phase 2) professional qualifications of the Due: March 08, 1999, Contact: Project, Implementation, Benton, nominee and the nominee’s current Michael Delamore (209) 487–5039. Yakima and Kittitas Counties, WA, business address and daytime telephone EIS No. 990031, Draft Supplement, Due: March 01, 1999, Contact: Ms. number. Nominees invited to participate FHW, WV, WV–9 Transportation Corridor, Improvements from Lola Sept (208) 378–5032. will receive an invitation from EPA’s Published FR 1–29–99—Due Date Martinsburg to Charles Town, Deputy Administrator. correction. Updated and Additional Information, For further information, please EIS No. 990018, Legislative Final EIS, Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan contact Ms. Kathleen Bailey, Designated USN, NV, Fallon Naval Air Station, Counties, WV, Due: March 31, 1999, Federal Officer, Office of Reinvention, Renewal of the B–20 Land Contact: David A. Leighow (304) 346– U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Withdrawal, City of Fallon, Churchill 5928. MC 1802, 401 M Street, SW, County, NV, Due: March 01, 1999, Washington, DC 20460. Phone: 202/ EIS No. 990032, Final EIS, USA, GA, Contact: Sam Dennis (650) 244–3007. 260–3413 E-mail: U.S. Army/Fort Benning and The Published FR 1–29–99—Due Date [email protected]. Consolidated Government of correction. Dated: January 25, 1999. Columbus Proposed Land Exchange, EIS No. 990019, Final Supplement, Muscogee and Chattahoochee Kathleen Bailey, BLM, Co, Glenwood Springs Resource Counties, GA, Due: March 08, 1999, Area, Resource Management Plan and Designated Federal Officer. Contact: John Brent, (706) 545–4766. [FR Doc. 99–2693 Filed 2–4–99; 8:45 am] Wilderness Recommendations, EIS No. 990033, Draft EIS, FHW, FL, St. Implementation and BILLING CODE 6560±50±P Augustine Bride of Lions (SR–AIA) Recommendations, Garfield, Mesa, Rehabilitating or Replacing the Routt, Eagle, and Pitkin Counties, CO, Existing Two Lane Bridge, Crossing of ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Due: March 01, 1999, Contact: Steve the Matanzas River/Intracoastal AGENCY Moore (970) 947–2800. Waterway, US Coast Guard Permit, Published FR 1–29–99—Due Date [ER±FRL±5499±6] NPDES and COE Nationwide Permits, correction. St. Augustine, St. John County, FL, EIS No. 9990020, Draft EIS, TVA, TN, Environmental Impact Statements; Due: March 22, 1999, Contact: Mark P. GA, Peaking Capacity Additions, Notice of Availability Bartlett (850) 942–9598. Construction and Operation of EIS No. 990034, Final EIS, USN, HI, Natural Gas-Fired Combustion Responsible Agency: Office of Federal Barbers Point Naval Air Station, Turbines, NPDES and COE Section Activities, General Information (202) Disposal and Reuse of Land Facilities, 404 Permits; Three Sites Proposed: 564–7167 OR (202) 564–7153. HI, Due: March 08, 1999, Contact: Lon Colbert Fossil Plant, Colbert County, Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact (808) 471–9338. AL, Gallatin Fossil Plant, Sumner Statements Filed January 25, 1999 EIS No. 990035, Final EIS, AFS, UT, County, TN and Johnsonville Fossil Through January 29, 1999 Pursuant to Pine Tract Project, Implementation, Plant, Humphreys County, TN, Due: 40 CFR 1506.9 Coal Lease Tract (UTU–76195); March 15, 1999, Contact: Gregory L. EIS No. 990027, Draft EIS, BLM, NM, Modification to Federal Coal Lease Askew, P.E. (423) 632–6418. Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness Oil and (U–63214) Quitchupah Lease) and Published FR 1–29–99—Due Date Gas Development, To Drill 13 Oil and Permit Amendment Application to correction. Gas Wells on Two Leases, Permit to Subside Box Canyon, Manti-La Sal EIS No. 990022, Final EIS, BLM, AK, Drill and Right-of-Way Permit, San National Forest, Ferron/Price Ranger Squirrel River Wild and Scenic River Juan Counties, MN, Due: April 30, District, Emergy and Sevier Counties, Suitability Study, Designation and 1999, Contact: Lee C. Otteni (505) UT, Due: March 8, 1999, Contact: Non-Designation, National Wild and 599–8990. Liane Mattson (435) 637–2817. Scenic Rivers System, AK, Due: 5790 Federal Register / Vol. 64, No. 24 / Friday, February 5, 1999 / Notices

March 01, 1999, Contact: Lon Kelly ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Foundation (NSF) to transport an (907) 474–2368. AGENCY existing ice pier from its base at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, and Published FR 01–29–99—Due Date [FRL±6231±4] correction. dispose of it in the waters of McMurdo Sound. The pier poses a substantial and EIS No. 990024, Final EIS, GSA, VA, Issuance of an Emergency Ocean Dumping Permit to the National unacceptable safety hazard to human U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Science Foundation for Disposal of an life. Minimal adverse environmental (PTO) Consolidation, Acquisition of Ice Pier From Its Base at McMurdo impacts from the disposal of this ice 2.4 million Rentable Square Feet with Station, Antarctica pier are expected. a 20-year Lease Term, Three Possible Sites: Crystal City, Carlyle and AGENCY: Environmental Protection II. Background Eisenhower Avenue, VA, Due: March Agency (EPA). The National Science Foundation 01, 1999, Contact: Carl Witners (202) ACTION: Notice of permit issuance. currently operates three major bases in 401–1025. Antarctica: McMurdo Station on Ross SUMMARY: On February 1, 1999, EPA Island, adjacent to McMurdo Sound; Published FR 1–29–99—Due Date issued an emergency ocean dumping Palmer Station, near the western correction. permit to the National Science terminus of the Antarctic Peninsula; and EIS No. 990025, Draft EIS, UMC, AZ, Foundation (NSF) to transport an Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, at Yuma Marine Corps Air Station existing ice pier from its base at the geographic South Pole. McMurdo (MCAS), To Improve Ordnance McMurdo Station, Antarctica, and Station is the largest of the three Handling and Storage, Construct a dispose of it in the waters of McMurdo stations, and is the primary logistics new Combat Aircraft Loading Area Sound. The emergency permit was base for the United States Antarctic (CALA); New Station Ordnance Area issued to allow NSF to remove the Program (USAP). To permit vessels to and Relocation of MCAS Yuma, AZ, existing pier and to build a new one. dock and unload at McMurdo Station, Due: March 15, 1999, Contact: The existing pier poses a substantial and construction and use of an ice pier is Richard Samrah (520) 341–3163. unacceptable safety hazard to human necessary. This ice pier, which is life. Minimal adverse environmental approximately 800 feet long, 300 feet Published FR 1–29–99—Due Date impact from the disposal of the ice pier wide, and 22 feet thick, is constructed correction. is expected. EPA is publishing the during the winter season by freezing EIS No. 990026, Draft EIS, AFS, ID, WA, emergency permit for the public’s successive layers of ice until the Douglas-fir Bettle Project, Proposal To information. required thickness is achieved. Several Harvest Tree, Regenerated Forest, DATES: The permit was effective on times in the process long lengths of steel Aquatic Restoration and Fuels February 1, 1999. cable are frozen in the pier to provide Reduction, Idaho Panhandle National ADDRESSES: Written correspondence torsional stability. Short lengths of steel Forest, Coeur d’Alene River and Priest may be sent to: Dave Redford, Acting pipe are implanted in the ice layers to Lake Ranger District and Colville Chief, Marine Pollution Control Branch, allow the lengths of cable to be wrapped National Forest, Newport Ranger Oceans and Coastal Protection Division, around the pipes. In the final stage of District, Kootenai, Shoshone and (4504F), Environmental Protection the process, lengths of wooden poles are Bonner Counties, ID and Pend Orielle Agency, 401 M Street SW, Washington, implanted in the ice to provide support County, Wa, Due: March 16, 1999, D.C. 20460. for lighting, power, and telephone Contact: David J. Wright (208) 664– FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: service to buildings on the pier. When 2318. Dave Redford, Acting Chief, Marine the construction of the ice segment of Pollution Control Branch, 202/260– the pier is completed, a 6–8≥ layer of Published FR 1–29–99—Due Date 9179. pumice is applied to the pier, to provide correction. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EPA a non-slip surface. EIS No. 908468, Draft EIS, AFS, OR, issued the emergency permit pursuant In summary, the following types and Pelican Butte Ski Area Master to its authority under the Marine approximate quantities of materials Development Plan, Implementation, Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries would normally be used in the Winema National Forest, Klamath Act of 1972. The terms and conditions construction of an ice pier at McMurdo Ranger District, Klamath County, OR, of the emergency permit follow. Station: ′′ Due: February 26, 1999, Contact: Dated: February 1, 1999. 1 steel cable: 21,000 feet 2′′ steel pipe: 650 feet Edward Sheldal (202) 523–0163. J. Charles Fox, Published FR 11–20–98—Review period Wooden utility poles: Up to 6 Assistant Administrator for Water. Pumice: 5,000 cubic yards extended. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, At the end of each austral summer Dated: February 2, 1999. Marine Protection, Research, and season, the ice pier is inspected, and as William D. Dickerson, Sanctuaries ACT (Ocean Dumping) much as possible of the pumice surface Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office Permit is removed and stored for use the of Federal Activities. Permit Type: Emergency. following season; small amounts of [FR Doc. 99–2846 Filed 2–4–99; 8:45 am] Effective Date: February 1, 1999. pumice surface will remain frozen in BILLING CODE 6560±50±M Expiration Date: March 1, 2000. the pier and cannot be removed. If the Applicant: National Science pier has deteriorated to the point that it Foundation. is not capable of being used the Transporter: U.S. Coast Guard. following season, the wooden poles are cut off just above the surface of the ice, I. Action the pumice is scraped off, all This is an emergency ocean dumping equipment, materials, and debris are permit that allows the National Science removed, and the pier is physically