Re: Department of the Navy

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[Federal Register: February 17, 1995]

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Navy

Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement/
Environmental Impact Report for Treated Effluent Disposal from Marine 
Corps Base Camp Pendleton to the City of Oceanside, California

 Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act as implemented by 
Council on Environmental Quality regulations (40 CFR Parts 1500-1508), 
and pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CA Public 
Resources Code Sec et. seq. 21000) the U.S. Marine Corps and City of 
Oceanside intend to prepare a joint Environmental Impact Statement/
Environmental Impact Report (EIS/EIR) to evaluate the environmental 
effects of the disposal of treated effluent from five existing sewage 
treatment plants at Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Pendleton to the City 
of Oceanside, California.
 The proposed action would construct two new sewage pipelines to 
connect five existing sewage treatment plants in the Santa Margarita 
Basin in MCB Camp Pendleton to existing sewage outfalls in the City of 
Oceanside. One proposed pipeline would transport treated effluent from 
three existing sewage treatment plants at MCB Camp Pendleton to the 
existing outfall serving the La Salina sewage treatment plant in the 
City of Oceanside. A second proposed pipeline would transport treated 
effluent from two existing sewage treatment plants at MCB Camp 
Pendleton to the existing outfall serving the San Luis Rey sewage 
treatment plant in the City of Oceanside. All effluent from these 
pipelines at MCB Camp Pendleton would then be transported for ocean 
disposal via existing City of Oceanside land and ocean outfalls. No 
[[Page 9328]] additional treatment of MCB Camp Pendleton effluent would 
be provided by City of Oceanside sewage treatment plants.
 Alternatives currently under consideration that will be addressed 
in the EIS/EIR include construction of a new tertiary sewage treatment 
plant at MCB Camp Pendleton, upgrade and consolidation of existing 
sewage treatment plants, injection wells, percolation ponds, and no 
action. Alternative pipeline alignments will also be evaluated.
 Major environmental issues that will be addressed in the EIS/EIR 
include land use, hydrology, water quality, air quality, biological 
resources, cultural resources, noise, traffic/circulation/access, 
public services and utilities, human health and safety, and hazardous 
materials and waste management.
 The Department of the Navy published a Notice Of Intent in the 
Federal Register on September 26, 1991, initiating a scoping process 
for preparation of an EIS/EIR for a sewage effluent compliance project 
at MCB Camp Pendleton for the San Onofre and Santa Margarita Basins. A 
scoping meeting was held in the City of Oceanside on October 17, 1991, 
and an EIS/EIR was begun. Since that time, the proposed action has been 
revised as additional studies have been undertaken, and additional 
alternatives have been identified that needed to be evaluated. While 
the EIS/EIR for the San Onofre basin is continuing, the EIS/EIR for the 
Santa Margarita basin is beginning. Therefore, the scoping process is 
being reopened until March 6, 1995, in order to collect additional 
comments on the scope of issues to be addressed in the EIS/EIR for the 
Santa Margarita basin proposed action. However, no additional scoping 
meetings will be held.
 Agencies and the public are invited and encouraged to provide 
written comment on scoping issues. To be most helpful, scoping comments 
should clearly describe specific issues or topics which the commentor 
believes the EIS/EIR should address. Written statements and or 
questions regarding the scoping process should be mailed no later than 
March 6, 1995 to Commanding Officer, Southwest Division, Naval 
Facilities Engineering Command, 1220 Pacific Highway, San Diego, 
California 92132-5190, (Attn: Ms. Sheila Donovan, Code 2032), telephone 
(619) 532-3624.

 Dated: February 13, 1995.
Robert Watkins,
Colonel, USMC, Head, Land Use and Military Construction Branch, 
Facilities and Services Division, Installations and Logistics 
Department.
[FR Doc. 95-3983 Filed 2-16-95; 8:45 am]
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