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Comments and Responses-Letter 4 <br />4. Debbie Lowder, Eugene <br />Water & Electric Board <br />After the issuance of the draft EIS, <br />the Eugene Water and Electric <br />Board (EWEB) site alternatives <br />(4A and 4B) were deemed <br />impractical and have been <br />eliminated from further <br />consideration. Alternative site 4A <br />was deemed impractical because of <br />its proximity to the Skinner Butte <br />Historic District. Alternative 4B <br />was eliminated from further <br />consideration because it lies within <br />the 500-Year Floodplain for the <br />Willamette River. <br />4.1-All references to the EWEB <br />electric plant have been revised to <br />read "EWEB steam plant." The <br />draft EIS on page 162, fifth <br />paragraph, sixth line does not <br />mention an electric plant but rather <br />states that there is a steam plant <br />located on the eastern portion of <br />the EWEB site; this statement has <br />not been changed. <br />4.2-Comment acknowledged. <br />None of the buildings on the <br />Alternative 4B sites are potentially <br />eligible for listing in the National <br />Register. <br />4.3-The sentence has been <br />revised to read " ...located south <br />of the Oak Hill School site in <br />southeast Eugene." <br />-° - ~ EttgeneYYatsr & EltseMo Bosh <br />~+d'.~ -rte, <br />EWEB ,ooes,+m,wrx,.isastoxo.aa.,m,e <br />Eq.ro t>trA«~e~asoxua <br />ssi~al/Mn r~a.r.tat~~taz <br />October u. taxi <br />John Marseh~rdt <br />!fetters F.nvironmenni Cacsultmts <br />221x15ixth Avmx. Suits Slli <br />Beadle. Wadrington 98121.1820 <br />pear Mr. Maruheidt.• <br />ltttsr4 <br />Tfa! Eugene Water & Eketrie Bard would like you to consider the follanting cormmenn eo the Draft <br />ii'miramm~rta/ impact Staitment, New Federal Cowrthotase, Firgene%Springjcld Lane Cawnty, Oregtm. <br />S Ttrmbcr 3.2A7Y): <br />d.1 1. Refcrertce ro the `EWEB ekcaic p4m" should be changed to ••EWFA smem plant' w•hetever it <br />occurs in the text including dre lacatims listed below. The plm[ was iced histodcally far standby <br />generation bw is taw used exclusively togenerale zteamfar the downtown diuriet homing system. <br />• page 30, tint lice of die aetbrtd paragraph <br />• page 87, nimh line of the first paragraph, and fourth line of the fotiNi paragraph <br />• page 88, second line of the aecmd puagmph <br />• page 162 sixth line of the fifth psrsgraph <br />q•y 2. ThediacuuionofAlterttative4onPage37ztatesthatAllemativedBwwuldtequimtemovaloffau <br />buildings, nix of which is potemially eligibtr tar lisdng in the National Register. Asmding ro the <br />infonnstion ptesentedon page l0,theonlybuJidmgonFWEB property which iz pmentiallyeligiMe <br />for Nuional Regitatu listing is the EWEB steam plmt. N ahovrn in Figuro 9, the ueain plmt lies <br />outside of the Ahemative AB alto and'u ram one of the four buildingz within 11te 4B Atteirntive site <br />tlne wotdd iequirc rarnoval. <br />d.3) 3. Page 52, sceatd paisgrapb. Oak fill! Sehaot is txated Jn saudteast Eugene. <br />4.4 14. Page $8, accord ptiagraph. The text in the second paragraph sralea that rho steam plant is widda <br />the proposed Altcrnstivc;B site. However, u shown on Figtde 9. the atnm plant lice outside of <br />the Ahemative l8 she. <br />4.6 15, Page 131, third paragraph. Pkase revise the third aenterice u follows; Although sesje*g~jym <br />4] tonlamioxtittn has ban found at the tatmer tmmifanimed gas piml is the sautlterri <br />~ portion of the EWEB property. the cantarttinaaW area is dawn gradiad from the Chiquita <br />Ir• <br />Pkue feel fix m all me at (Sal) 4842411 if you have any queatidna regarding thue ooias»enta <br />4.4-The steam plant is not ~~ <br />located within the Alternative 4B site described in the <br />Draft EIS, but is rather southeast of the site. <br />4.5-Comment acknowledged. The draft EIS text on <br />page 131 should have read "Although petroleum <br />hydrocazbon contamination has been found at the <br />former manufactured gas plant in the southeastern <br />portion of the EWEB property, the contaminated area <br />is downgradient from the Chiquita property." <br />Sirtcaely. <br />t~°LcwG~.~..., <br />tkbbie 1.awder <br />Environmcnul specialist <br />c: pcbtimh Brewer <br />Final EIS 174. New Federal Courthouse <br />