Notice of Availability of the Draft Damage Assessment and Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment for Enbridge Line 6B Oil Discharges Near Marshall, MI, 33540-33541 [2015-14410]
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EIS and proposed MSHCP are complete
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ADDRESSES as soon as possible. In order
to allow sufficient time to process
requests, please make contact no later
than one week before the public
meeting. Information regarding this
proposed action is available in
alternative formats upon request.
Authority
We provide this notice under section
10 of the ESA (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.),
section 668a of the Eagle Act (16 U.S.C.
668a–668d), and per NEPA regulations
(40 CFR 1501.7, 40 CFR 1506.5 and
1508.22).
Dated: May 29, 2015.
Lynn Lewis,
Assistant Regional Director, Ecological
Services, Midwest Region.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R3–ES–2013–N194;
FXHC11300300000–156–FF03E00000]
Notice of Availability of the Draft
Damage Assessment and Restoration
Plan and Environmental Assessment
for Enbridge Line 6B Oil Discharges
Near Marshall, MI
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability; request
for public comments.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Department of the
Interior (DOI), acting through the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS); the
Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the
Potawatomi Tribe; and the Match-E-BeNash-She-Wish Band of the
Pottawatomi Indians have written a
Draft Damage Assessment and
Restoration Plan and Environmental
Assessment (Draft Plan), which
describes proposed alternatives for
restoring injured natural resources and
compensating for losses resulting from
the discharges of oil from Enbridge’s
Line 6B oil pipeline near Marshall,
Michigan, in July 2010. The Draft Plan
was prepared in accordance with the Oil
Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA) and the
National Environmental Policy Act
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(NEPA). The purpose of this notice is to
inform the public of the availability of
the Draft Plan and to seek written
comments.
Written comments must be
postmarked no later than July 27, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Obtaining Documents: You
may obtain copies of the documents by
any of the following methods:
• Online: https://www.fws.gov/
midwest/es/ec/nrda/MichiganEnbridge/
index.html.
• Email: Lisa L. Williams, at lisa_
williams@fws.gov. Do not use any
special characters or forms of
encryption in your email.
• In-person: U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, 2651 Coolidge Road, Suite 101,
East Lansing, MI 48848.
• U.S. mail: Lisa L. Williams,
Contaminants Specialist, at the Coolidge
Road address above.
Submitting Comments: You may
submit comments to Lisa L. Williams at
the Coolidge Road address above or via
email at kzoorivernrda@fws.gov with
‘‘Enbridge NRDA Comment’’ in the
subject line
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Technical Information: Lisa Williams,
(517) 351–8324.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DOI,
acting through FWS; the Nottawaseppi
Huron Band of the Potawatomi Tribe;
and the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish
Band of the Pottawatomi Indians have
written a Draft Damage Assessment and
Restoration Plan and Environmental
Assessment (Draft Plan), which
describes proposed alternatives for
restoring injured natural resources and
compensating for losses resulting from
the discharges of oil from Enbridge’s
Line 6B oil pipeline near Marshall,
Michigan, which occurred July 25–26,
2010. The Draft Plan was prepared in
accordance with the Oil Pollution Act of
1990 (OPA) and the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). DOI
and the two tribes prepared this Draft
Plan in cooperation with our coTrustees: The Department of Commerce
(DOC), acting through the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), and the State
of Michigan, acting through the
Michigan Department of Environmental
Quality (MDEQ), the Michigan
Department of Natural Resources
(MDNR), and the Michigan Department
of Attorney General (MDAG). The
purpose of this notice is to inform the
public of the availability of the Draft
Plan and to seek written comments.
This notice is provided pursuant to
Natural Resource Damage Assessment
and Restoration (NRDAR) regulations
DATES:
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(15 CFR 990.23 and 990.55(c)) and
NEPA regulations (40 CFR 1506.6).
The DOI (represented by the FWS),
the DOC (represented by the NOAA),
the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the
Potawatomi Tribe, the Match-E-BeNash-She-Wish Band of the
Pottawatomi Indians, and the State of
Michigan (the latter acting through
MDEQ, MDNR, and MDAG) are Trustees
for natural resources considered in this
Draft Plan, pursuant to subpart G of the
National Oil and Hazardous Substances
Pollution Contingency Plan (40 CFR
300.600, 300.605, and 300.610) and
Executive Order 12580. The Trustees
followed the NRDAR regulations found
at 15 CFR part 990 and the NEPA
regulations found at 40 CFR parts 1500–
1508 for the development of the Draft
Plan. The Trustees will consider all
public comments received during the
public comment as we proceed to
finalize the Draft Plan. The Draft Plan
will be finalized prior to
implementation of restoration. Any
significant additions or modifications to
the Final Plan that become necessary as
restoration actions proceed will be made
available for public review before any
changes in restoration actions are
undertaken.
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Background
The goal of NRDAR under the Oil
Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701 et
seq.; OPA) is to make the environment
and public whole for injuries to natural
resources and natural resource services
resulting from incidents involving
discharge or substantial threat of
discharge of oil. This goal is achieved
through returning injured natural
resources and services to baseline and
compensating for interim losses of such
natural resources and services through
the restoration, rehabilitation,
replacement, or acquisition of
equivalent natural resources and/or
services.
Process
In this case, the Trustees worked
together in a cooperative process to
identify appropriate restoration
activities to address natural resource
injuries caused by discharges of oil from
Enbridge’s Line 6B pipeline near
Marshall, Michigan. The results of this
administrative process are contained in
the Draft Plan, which is a planning and
decision document being published for
public review under OPA and NEPA.
The Draft Plan describes the injuries
that occurred as a result of the
discharges of oil, how the Trustees
estimated damages, how those damages
will be addressed through proposed
restoration alternatives, and what the
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expected environmental impacts of the
proposed projects would be. By law,
natural resource damages received must
be used to restore, rehabilitate, replace,
and/or acquire the equivalent of those
injured natural resources.
Public Involvement
Interested members of the public are
invited to review and comment on the
Plan. Copies can be requested from the
address and Web site listed above.
Comments on the Draft Plan should be
sent to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service (see ADDRESSES). The U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service will provide copies
of all comments to the other Trustees.
All comments received from individuals
become part of the official public
record. Requests for such comments will
be handled in accordance with the
Freedom of Information Act and the
Council on Environmental Quality’s
NEPA regulations (40 CFR 1506.6(f)).
Availability of Public Comments
The Trustees’ practice is to make
comments, including names and home
addresses of respondents, available for
public review during regular business
hours. Before including your address,
phone number, email address, or other
personal identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that the
entire comment, including your
personal identifying information, may
be available at any time. While
individual respondents may request that
the Fish and Wildlife Service withhold
their personal identifying information
from public review, we cannot
guarantee we will be able to do so.
Authority
This notice is provided pursuant to
NRDAR regulations (15 CFR 990.23 and
990.55(c)) and NEPA regulations (40
CFR 1506.6).
Dated: April 3, 2015.
Charles Wooley,
Acting Regional Director, Midwest Region,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Endangered Species; Marine
Mammals; Receipt of Applications for
Permit
AGENCY:
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
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Notice of receipt of applications
for permit.
ACTION:
We, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, invite the public to
comment on the following applications
to conduct certain activities with
endangered species or marine mammals.
With some exceptions, the Endangered
Species Act (ESA) and Marine Mammal
Protection Act (MMPA) prohibit
activities with listed species unless
Federal authorization is acquired that
allows such activities.
DATES: We must receive comments or
requests for documents on or before July
13, 2015. We must receive requests for
marine mammal permit public hearings,
in writing, at the address shown in the
ADDRESSES section by July 13, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Brenda Tapia, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, Division of
Management Authority, Branch of
Permits, MS: IA, 5275 Leesburg Pike,
Falls Church, VA 22041; fax (703) 358–
2281; or email DMAFR@fws.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brenda Tapia, (703) 358–2104
(telephone); (703) 358–2281 (fax);
DMAFR@fws.gov (email).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
I. Public Comment Procedures
A. How Do I Request Copies of
Applications or Comment on Submitted
Applications?
Send your request for copies of
applications or comments and materials
concerning any of the applications to
the contact listed under ADDRESSES.
Please include the Federal Register
notice publication date, the PRTnumber, and the name of the applicant
in your request or submission. We will
not consider requests or comments sent
to an email or address not listed under
ADDRESSES. If you provide an email
address in your request for copies of
applications, we will attempt to respond
to your request electronically.
Please make your requests or
comments as specific as possible. Please
confine your comments to issues for
which we seek comments in this notice,
and explain the basis for your
comments. Include sufficient
information with your comments to
allow us to authenticate any scientific or
commercial data you include.
The comments and recommendations
that will be most useful and likely to
influence agency decisions are: (1)
Those supported by quantitative
information or studies; and (2) Those
that include citations to, and analyses
of, the applicable laws and regulations.
We will not consider or include in our
administrative record comments we
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R3-ES-2013-N194; FXHC11300300000-156-FF03E00000]
Notice of Availability of the Draft Damage Assessment and
Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment for Enbridge Line 6B Oil
Discharges Near Marshall, MI
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability; request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), acting through the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS); the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of
the Potawatomi Tribe; and the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of the
Pottawatomi Indians have written a Draft Damage Assessment and
Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment (Draft Plan), which
describes proposed alternatives for restoring injured natural resources
and compensating for losses resulting from the discharges of oil from
Enbridge's Line 6B oil pipeline near Marshall, Michigan, in July 2010.
The Draft Plan was prepared in accordance with the Oil Pollution Act of
1990 (OPA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The
purpose of this notice is to inform the public of the availability of
the Draft Plan and to seek written comments.
DATES: Written comments must be postmarked no later than July 27, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Obtaining Documents: You may obtain copies of the documents
by any of the following methods:
Online: https://www.fws.gov/midwest/es/ec/nrda/MichiganEnbridge/.
Email: Lisa L. Williams, at lisa_williams@fws.gov. Do not
use any special characters or forms of encryption in your email.
In-person: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2651 Coolidge
Road, Suite 101, East Lansing, MI 48848.
U.S. mail: Lisa L. Williams, Contaminants Specialist, at
the Coolidge Road address above.
Submitting Comments: You may submit comments to Lisa L. Williams at
the Coolidge Road address above or via email at kzoorivernrda@fws.gov
with ``Enbridge NRDA Comment'' in the subject line
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Technical Information: Lisa Williams,
(517) 351-8324.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DOI, acting through FWS; the Nottawaseppi
Huron Band of the Potawatomi Tribe; and the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish
Band of the Pottawatomi Indians have written a Draft Damage Assessment
and Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment (Draft Plan), which
describes proposed alternatives for restoring injured natural resources
and compensating for losses resulting from the discharges of oil from
Enbridge's Line 6B oil pipeline near Marshall, Michigan, which occurred
July 25-26, 2010. The Draft Plan was prepared in accordance with the
Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA) and the National Environmental Policy
Act (NEPA). DOI and the two tribes prepared this Draft Plan in
cooperation with our co-Trustees: The Department of Commerce (DOC),
acting through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA), and the State of Michigan, acting through the Michigan
Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), the Michigan Department of
Natural Resources (MDNR), and the Michigan Department of Attorney
General (MDAG). The purpose of this notice is to inform the public of
the availability of the Draft Plan and to seek written comments. This
notice is provided pursuant to Natural Resource Damage Assessment and
Restoration (NRDAR) regulations
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(15 CFR 990.23 and 990.55(c)) and NEPA regulations (40 CFR 1506.6).
The DOI (represented by the FWS), the DOC (represented by the
NOAA), the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi Tribe, the Match-
E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of the Pottawatomi Indians, and the State of
Michigan (the latter acting through MDEQ, MDNR, and MDAG) are Trustees
for natural resources considered in this Draft Plan, pursuant to
subpart G of the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution
Contingency Plan (40 CFR 300.600, 300.605, and 300.610) and Executive
Order 12580. The Trustees followed the NRDAR regulations found at 15
CFR part 990 and the NEPA regulations found at 40 CFR parts 1500-1508
for the development of the Draft Plan. The Trustees will consider all
public comments received during the public comment as we proceed to
finalize the Draft Plan. The Draft Plan will be finalized prior to
implementation of restoration. Any significant additions or
modifications to the Final Plan that become necessary as restoration
actions proceed will be made available for public review before any
changes in restoration actions are undertaken.
Background
The goal of NRDAR under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C.
2701 et seq.; OPA) is to make the environment and public whole for
injuries to natural resources and natural resource services resulting
from incidents involving discharge or substantial threat of discharge
of oil. This goal is achieved through returning injured natural
resources and services to baseline and compensating for interim losses
of such natural resources and services through the restoration,
rehabilitation, replacement, or acquisition of equivalent natural
resources and/or services.
Process
In this case, the Trustees worked together in a cooperative process
to identify appropriate restoration activities to address natural
resource injuries caused by discharges of oil from Enbridge's Line 6B
pipeline near Marshall, Michigan. The results of this administrative
process are contained in the Draft Plan, which is a planning and
decision document being published for public review under OPA and NEPA.
The Draft Plan describes the injuries that occurred as a result of the
discharges of oil, how the Trustees estimated damages, how those
damages will be addressed through proposed restoration alternatives,
and what the expected environmental impacts of the proposed projects
would be. By law, natural resource damages received must be used to
restore, rehabilitate, replace, and/or acquire the equivalent of those
injured natural resources.
Public Involvement
Interested members of the public are invited to review and comment
on the Plan. Copies can be requested from the address and Web site
listed above. Comments on the Draft Plan should be sent to the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service (see ADDRESSES). The U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service will provide copies of all comments to the other Trustees. All
comments received from individuals become part of the official public
record. Requests for such comments will be handled in accordance with
the Freedom of Information Act and the Council on Environmental
Quality's NEPA regulations (40 CFR 1506.6(f)).
Availability of Public Comments
The Trustees' practice is to make comments, including names and
home addresses of respondents, available for public review during
regular business hours. Before including your address, phone number,
email address, or other personal identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that the entire comment, including your
personal identifying information, may be available at any time. While
individual respondents may request that the Fish and Wildlife Service
withhold their personal identifying information from public review, we
cannot guarantee we will be able to do so.
Authority
This notice is provided pursuant to NRDAR regulations (15 CFR
990.23 and 990.55(c)) and NEPA regulations (40 CFR 1506.6).
Dated: April 3, 2015.
Charles Wooley,
Acting Regional Director, Midwest Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service.
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