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Paul Larivier®, Division Administrator Federal Highway Administration Room €i4, Edmund 8. wuskie Federal Building Augusta, MB 04330
Lieutenant Colonel Michael Bradbury, District engineer U.S. Army Corps of {Engineers New England Division 424 Trapelo Road Waltham, MA 02254
Dear Mr, Lariviere and colonel Br&dburyt
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (ERA) is in receipt of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (difw) and Maine Departwnt of Marine Resourcae (DMR) letters of October 13, 1995 regarding the proposed sears island cargo terminal. In these letters, DIFW and DMR take ia»ue with oertain aspects of the September 29, 1&95 Evaluation of Significance document prepared jointly by EPA, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), -y   and National Marine ?iaherie» Service (NMFS). I welcome the views of DIFM and DMR concerning this important project and realize that the»e state agencies may have perspectives which differ in some measure from ours. unfortunately, the letters submitted by DIFW and DMR at tinea misrepresent the findings made by the federal agencies, fail to recognize widely accepted scientific findings and misinterpret tha applicable federal raguiations. .Rather than address every-point raised by the state agencies, I am providing you with EPA's perspective on what seem to be the key ixeuea contained in each letter.
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* Th» dxpw letter states that it has been "involved" with the Sears Island project throughout the entire review pariod»
dipw had some past involvement with the project but has not participated in the numerous interagency meetings and site visits that havo taken place since 1&91, in which the values of and impacts to environmental resources on sears island have been discussed. In 1982, D1FW atated at a meeting that if the port were built, it would "view the island as lost habitatt1' In 1987, DIFW wrote to the comroiSBioner of MOOT regarding the proposed Sears Island cargo terminal. DIFW pointed out that the proposed location for the Sears Island terminal was a Class B area, and stateo that "(a^noe the   ,,, shoreline (of Sears Island] is currently undeveloped, it  ,^rj^<»
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