Webber Pond Fish Passage, Webber Pond Watershed, Vassalboro, ME

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Federal Register: February 22, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 36)

Notices

Page 9765-9766

From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation Service

Webber Pond Fish Passage, Webber Pond Watershed, Vassalboro, ME

AGENCY: Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of availability of Finding of No Significant Impact.

SUMMARY: The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has prepared an Environmental assessment (EA) for the Webber Pond Fish Passage

Project, Vassalboro, Maine. NRCS has found that the installation of an

Alaska Steep Pass Fishway, American eel passage ladder and water control structure would not result in a significant impact on the quality of the human environment, particularly when focusing on the significant adverse effects that National Environmental Policy Act

  (NEPA) is intended to help decision makers avoid and mitigate.

Therefore, NRCS has prepared a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) in compliance with the (NEPA), as amended, and gives notice that an environmental impact statement is not being prepared.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Single copies of the EA and FONSI documents, may be obtained by contacting Amanda Burton, Soil

Conservationist, USDA-NRCS, 21 Enterprise Drive, Suite 1, Augusta, ME 04330, (207) 622-7847 ext. 3. For additional information related to this notice, contact Dianne C. Guidry, Acting State Conservationist,

Natural Resources Conservation Service, 967 Illinois Avenue, Suite 3,

Bangor, Maine 04401-2700; telephone (207) 990-9100 ext. 3.

DATES: Effective Date: Comments on the EA and FONSI must be received on or before the effective date on March 28, 2008.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The sponsoring local organization, Maine

Department of Marine Resources (MDMR), concurs with this determination and agrees with carrying forward the proposed project. The

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objective of the sponsoring local organization is to create fish passage and water control structure in the Webber Pond Dam in order to provide passage for migrating anadromous fish.

The FONSI has been forwarded to the Federal Energy Regulatory

Agency and to various Federal, State and local agencies and interested parties.

No administrative action on implementation of the proposed action will be taken until 30 days after the date of this publication in the

Federal Register.

Dated: February 6, 2008.

Dianne C. Guidry,

Acting State Conservationist.

FR Doc. 08-801 Filed 2-21-08; 8:45 am

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