Notice2022-17375
Extension of Public Comment Period, Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement II for Long Term Management and Storage of Elemental Mercury
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Published
August 12, 2022
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Energy Department
Abstract
On July 8, 2022, a Federal Register Notice was issued that announced the availability of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management's Draft Long-Term Management and Storage of Elemental Mercury Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (Draft Mercury Storage SEIS-II, DOE/EIS-0423-S2D). The Notice also announced two web-based public hearings that were held on August 2 and 4, 2022, to obtain public comments. DOE is extending the public comment period for the Draft SEIS from August 22, 2022, to September 6, 2022.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 155 (Friday, August 12, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49817-49818]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-17375]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Extension of Public Comment Period, Draft Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement II for Long Term Management and Storage
of Elemental Mercury
AGENCY: Office of Environmental Management, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Extension of public comment period.
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SUMMARY: On July 8, 2022, a Federal Register Notice was issued that
announced the availability of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Office of Environmental Management's Draft Long-Term Management and
Storage of Elemental Mercury Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement (Draft Mercury Storage SEIS-II, DOE/EIS-0423-S2D). The Notice
also announced two web-based public hearings that were held on August 2
and 4, 2022, to obtain public comments. DOE is extending the public
comment period for the Draft SEIS from August 22, 2022, to September 6,
2022.
DATES: DOE extends the public comment period to September 6, 2022. DOE
will consider all comments submitted or postmarked by September 6,
2022. Comments submitted to DOE concerning the Draft Mercury Storage
SEIS-II, prior to this announcement do not need to be resubmitted as a
result of this extension of the comment period.
ADDRESSES: Additional information regarding the SEIS-II, the 2011
Mercury Storage EIS, 2013 Mercury Storage SEIS, and other related
documents is available online at: <a href="https://www.energy.gov/nepa/doeeis-0423-s2-supplemental-environmental-impact-statement-long-term-management-and-storage">https://www.energy.gov/nepa/doeeis-0423-s2-supplemental-environmental-impact-statement-long-term-management-and-storage</a>:
<bullet> Mail: Ms. Julia Donkin, Document Manager, Office of
Environmental Management, Department of Energy, EM-4.22, 1000
Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20585.
<bullet> Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ca8fa6afa7afa4beaba687afb8a9bfb8b395848f9a8b8aafa7e4aea5afe4ada5bc"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="397c555c545c574d5855745c4b5a4c4b4066777c6978795c54175d565c175e564f">[email protected]</span></a>. Please submit
comments as an email message or email attachment (i.e., Microsoft Word
or PDF file format) without encryption.
<bullet> Postal Mail: Please submit comments by U.S. Mail to Ms.
Julia Donkin, NEPA Document Manager, Office of Environmental
Management, U.S. Department of Energy, EM-4.22, 1000 Independence
Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20585.
<bullet> Website: The Draft Mercury Storage SEIS-II is available
at: <a href="https://www.energy.gov/nepa/doeeis-0423-s2-supplemental-environmental-impact-statement-long-term-management-and-storage">https://www.energy.gov/nepa/doeeis-0423-s2-supplemental-environmental-impact-statement-long-term-management-and-storage</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions concerning the Draft Mercury
Storage SEIS-II or the public hearing can be sent to Ms. Julia Donkin,
NEPA Document Manager, Office of Environmental Management, U.S.
Department of Energy, EM-4.22, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington,
DC 20585, (202) 586-5000, or to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e4ae91888d85caa08b8a8f8d8aa48189ca808b81ca838b92"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="460c332a2f27680229282d2f2806232b6822292368212930">[email protected]</span></a>. Direct
questions specific to DOE's elemental mercury program to Mr. David
Haught, Mercury Program Manager, Office of Environmental Management,
U.S. Department of Energy, EM-4.22, 1000 Independence Avenue SW,
Washington, DC 20585, (202) 586-5000, or to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c581a4b3aca1eb8da4b0a2adb185adb4eba1aaa0eba2aab3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="793d180f101d5731180c1e110d391108571d161c571e160f">[email protected]</span></a>.
<bullet> For general information concerning the DOE Office of
Environmental Management NEPA process, please contact Mr. William
Ostrum, Office of Environmental Management NEPA Compliance Officer,
U.S. Department of Energy, EM-4.31, 1000 Independence Avenue SW,
Washington, DC 20585, (202) 586-2513, or to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#77201e1b1b1e161a5938040305021a371f065913181259101801"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ca9da3a6a6a3aba7e485b9beb8bfa78aa2bbe4aea5afe4ada5bc">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 8, 2022, DOE published in the
Federal Register the Notice of Availability announcing the availability
of the second Draft Long-Term Management and Storage of Elemental
Mercury Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (Draft Mercury
Storage SEIS-II, DOE/EIS-0423-S2D) for public comment (87 FR 40830). In
that notice, DOE also announced that it would host two web-based public
hearings to allow DOE to present information about the Draft SEIS-II
and to receive oral comments from the public. The first hearing was
held on August 2, 2022, from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EDT. The second
hearing was held on August 4, 2022, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EDT.
Signing Authority
This document of the Department of Energy was signed on August 5,
2022, by William I. White Senior Advisor for Environmental Management,
Office of Environmental Management, pursuant to delegated authority
from the Secretary of Energy. That document with the original signature
and date is
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maintained by DOE. For administrative purposes only, and in compliance
with requirements of the Office of the Federal Register, the
undersigned DOE Federal Register Liaison Officer has been authorized to
sign and submit the document in electronic format for publication, as
an official document of the Department of Energy. This administrative
process in no way alters the legal effect of this document upon
publication in the Federal Register.
Signed in Washington, DC, on August 9, 2022.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2022-17375 Filed 8-11-22; 8:45 am]
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