Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Redding Rancheria Fee-to-Trust and Casino Project, Shasta County, California, 86001-86002 [2016-28757]
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to commercial forest management
activities within the grizzly security
zones. The current HCP prohibits new
permanent road construction on the
original 19,400 acres of Class A lands.
This measure would remain essentially
the same under an amendment, but
would be specifically applied to the
seven grizzly security zones, including
the additional 2,300 acres in the Coal
Creek State Forest. Several other
measures in the HCP for Class A lands
would remain the same but be extended
to the grizzly security zones with
amendments. Other amendments would
specifically spell out measures that
DNRC had committed to implement in
the original HCP but were previously
incorporated by reference from DNRC’s
Forest Management Administrative
Rules of Montana.
Since we issued the permit, DNRC has
acquired an appreciable amount of
forested lands within the original HCP
area, and they are now requesting to
amend the HCP and permit to cover an
additional 81,416 acres. DNRC proposes
to implement the HCP’s existing
conservation commitments on the
additional lands. The six acquisition
areas and their acreages are the Swan,
which contains 16,446 acres;
Chamberlain, which contains 14,537
acres; Potomac, which contains 32,266
acres; Lolo Land Exchange, which
contains 11,066 acres; Upper Blackfoot,
which contains 5,458 acres; and
Southern Bitterroot, which contains
1,643 acres. The HCP would be
amended to reflect inclusion of (1) the
Swan acquisition lands in the Swan
Transportation Plan, (2) the Swan
acquisition area in the Swan Lynx
Management Area (LMA), (3) a portion
of the Chamberlain acquisition area in
the Garnet LMA, and (4) increasing the
acres of lynx critical habitat addressed
in the HCP.
The original HCP requires the DNRC
to complete corrective actions at sites
identified with high risk of sediment
delivery in bull trout watersheds in the
HCP area by 2027. As directed by the
settlement agreement, the HCP would be
amended to prioritize and complete
such corrective actions in federally
designated bull trout critical habitat by
2024.
Lastly, over the past 5 years of HCP
implementation, the Service and DNRC
identified some commitment and
procedural clarifications that would be
incorporated into the HCP. These
amendments would serve to help DNRC
understand how to implement certain
measures and would not entail any
changes to the nature of the measures or
how they affect the covered species.
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Statutory Requirements
Section 9 of the ESA (16 U.S.C. 1538)
and implementing regulations in title 50
of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
prohibit the taking of animal species
listed as endangered or threatened. The
term ‘‘take’’ is defined under the ESA
(16 U.S.C. 1532(19)) to mean ‘‘harass,
harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill,
trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to
engage in any such conduct.’’ ‘‘Harm’’ is
defined by the Service to include
significant habitat modification or
degradation where it actually kills or
injures listed species by significantly
impairing essential behavioral patterns,
including breeding, feeding, and
sheltering (50 CFR 17.3). ‘‘Harass’’ is
defined by the Service as actions that
create the likelihood of injury to listed
species to such an extent as to
significantly disrupt normal behavior
patterns, which include, but are not
limited to, breeding, feeding, or
sheltering (50 CFR 17.3).
Section 10 of the ESA and
implementing regulations specify
requirements for the issuance of
incidental take permits to non-Federal
landowners for the incidental take of
endangered and threatened species.
Such take must be incidental to
otherwise lawful activities and not
appreciably reduce the likelihood of the
survival and recovery of the species in
the wild, and the impacts of the take on
the listed species must be minimized
and mitigated by the permittee to the
maximum extent practicable. An
applicant for an incidental take permit
must prepare an HCP describing the
impacts that will likely result from such
taking, the conservation program for
minimizing and mitigating those take
impacts, the funding available to
implement the conservation program,
the alternatives considered by the
applicant to avoid such taking, and the
reason(s) such alternatives are not being
implemented.
NEPA requires that Federal agencies
conduct an environmental analysis of
their proposed actions to determine if
the actions may significantly affect the
human environment. The Service
determined that the final DNRC HCP
EIS (September 17, 2010) requires a
supplement since the changes in the
proposed action may materially or
substantially affect the analysis of
impacts (40 CFR 1502.9 and 516 DM
4.5).
Public Comments
The DSEIS will be developed using
the same process as the original DNRC
HCP EIS. We are not soliciting
comments at this time. The public will
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have opportunity to comment on the
published DSEIS, which will be
announced in the Federal Register and
local and regional news sources. For
general inquiries or questions about the
DSEIS process, see FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT.
Authority
The environmental review of this
proposed action will be conducted in
accordance with the requirements of
NEPA, the Council on Environmental
Quality Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500–
1508), the Department of the Interior
NEPA regulations (43 CFR part 46),
other applicable Federal laws and
regulations, and policies and procedures
of the Service. This notice is being
furnished in accordance with 40 CFR
1501.7 to notify the public of the
Service’s intent to prepare a DSEIS.
Michael Thabault,
Assistant Regional Director, Mountain-Prairie
Region.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
[178A2100DD/AAKC001030/
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Notice of Intent To Prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement for
the Proposed Redding Rancheria Feeto-Trust and Casino Project, Shasta
County, California
Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
This notice advises the public
that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA),
as lead agency, intends to gather
information necessary for preparing an
environmental impact statement (EIS) in
connection with the Redding
Rancheria’s (Tribe) application
requesting that the United States acquire
approximately 232 acres of land in trust
in Shasta County, California, for the
construction and operation of a casino
resort.
DATES: To ensure consideration during
the development of the EIS, written
comments on the scope of the EIS
should be sent as soon as possible and
no later than December 29, 2016. The
date of the public scoping meeting will
be announced at least 15 days in
advance through a notice to be
published in the local newspapers
(Redding Record Searchlight and
Sacramento Bee) and online at
www.reddingeis.com.
SUMMARY:
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You may mail or handdeliver written comments to Ms. Amy
Dutschke, Regional Director, Bureau of
Indian Affairs, Pacific Region, 2800
Cottage Way, Sacramento, California
95825. Please include your name, return
address, and ‘‘NOI Comments, Redding
Rancheria Project’’ on the first page of
your written comments. You may also
submit comments through email to John
Rydzik, Chief, Division of
Environmental, Cultural Resource
Management and Safety, Bureau of
Indian Affairs, at john.rydzik@bia.gov. If
emailing comments, please use ‘‘NOI
Comments, Redding Rancheria Project’’
as the subject of your email.
The location of the public scoping
meeting will be announced at least 15
days in advance through a notice to be
published in the local newspaper
(Redding Record Searchlight and
Sacramento Bee) and online at
www.reddingeis.com.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
John Rydzik, Chief, Division of
Environmental, Cultural Resource
Management and Safety, Bureau of
Indian Affairs, Pacific Regional Office,
2800 Cottage Way, Room W–2820,
Sacramento, California 95825;
telephone: (916) 978–6051; email:
john.rydzik@bia.gov. Information is also
available online at www.reddingeis.com.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Tribe
submitted an application to the
Department of the Interior (Department)
requesting the placement of
approximately 232 acres of fee land in
trust by the United States upon which
the Tribe would construct a casino
resort. The facility would include an
approximately 140,000 square foot
casino, an approximately 250-room
hotel, an event/convention center, a
retail center, and associated parking and
infrastructure. The new facility would
replace the Tribe’s existing casino, and
the exisiting casino buildings would be
converted to a different use.
Accordingly, the proposed action for the
Department is the acquisition requested
by the Tribe. The proposed fee-to-trust
property is located in an unincorporated
part of Shasta County, California,
approximately 1.6 miles northeast of the
existing Redding Rancheria, and about
two miles southeast of downtown
Redding. The proposed trust property
includes seven parcels, bound by
Bechelli Lane on the north, private
properties to the south, the Sacremento
River on the west, and Interstate 5 on
the east. The Shasta County Assessor’s
parcel numbers (APNs) for the property
are 055–010–011, 055–010–012, 055–
010–014, 055–010–015, 055–050–001,
055–020–004 and 055–020–005. The
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purpose of the proposed action is to
improve the economic status of the
Tribal government so it can better
provide housing, health care, education,
cultural programs, and other services to
its members.
The proposed action encompasses the
various Federal approvals which may be
required to implement the Tribe’s
proposed economic development
project, including approval of the
Tribe’s fee-to-trust application. The EIS
will identify and evaluate issues related
to these approvals, and will also
evaluate a range of reasonable
alternatives. Possible alternatives
currently under consideration are a
reduced-intensity casino alternative, an
alternate-use (non-casino) alternative,
and one or more off-site alternatives.
The range of issues and alternatives may
be expanded based on comments
received during the scoping process.
Areas of environmental concern
identified for analysis in the EIS include
land resources; water resources; air
quality; noise; biological resources;
cultural/historical/archaeological
resources; resource use patterns; traffic
and transportation; public health and
safety; hazardous materials and
hazardous wastes; public services and
utilities; socioeconomics; environmental
justice; visual resources/aesthetics; and
cumulative, indirect, and growthinducing effects. The range of issues and
alternatives to be addressed in the EIS
may be expanded or reduced based on
comments received in response to this
notice and at the public scoping
meeting. Additional information,
including a map of the project site, is
available by contacting the person listed
in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this notice.
Public Comment Availability:
Comments, including names and
addresses of respondents, will be
available for public review at the BIA
address shown in the ADDRESSES
section, during regular business hours,
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except holidays. Before
including your address, telephone
number, email address, or other
personal identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you can ask in your comment that
your personal identifying information
be withheld from public review, the BIA
cannot guarantee that this will occur.
Authority: This notice is published in
accordance with sections 1501.7 and 1506.6
of the Council on Environmental Quality
Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500 through
1508) implementing the procedural
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requirements of the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969, as amended (42 U.S.C.
4321–4345 et seq.), and the Department of
the Interior National Environmental Policy
Act Regulations (43 CFR part 46), and is in
the exercise of authority delegated to the
Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs by 209
DM 8.
Dated: November 18, 2016.
Lawrence S. Roberts,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary—Indian
Affairs.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
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Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians,
Michigan and Indiana
Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
This notice publishes the
liquor control code of the Pokagon Band
of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and
Indiana (the Band). The liquor control
code regulates and controls the
possession, sale, manufacture, and
distribution of alcohol in conformity
with the laws of the State of Indiana.
DATES: This code will only become
effective if and when the Band’s
pending trust applications for land in
Indiana are approved and the transfer to
trust status is complete.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Rebecca J. Smith, Tribal Relations
Specialist, Eastern Regional Office,
Bureau of Indian Affairs, 545 Marriott
Drive, Suite 700, Nashville, Tennessee
37214, Telephone: (615) 564–6711, Fax:
(615) 564–6701; or the Eastern Regional
Office, Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Telephone: (615) 564–6500.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant
to the Act of August 15, 1953, Public
Law 83–277, 67 Stat. 586, 18 U.S.C.
1161, as interpreted by the Supreme
Court in Rice v. Rehner, 463 U.S. 713
(1983), the Secretary of the Interior shall
certify and publish in the Federal
Register notice of adopted liquor control
codes for the purpose of regulating
liquor transactions in Indian country.
The Tribal Council of the Pokagon Band
of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and
Indiana duly adopted the Pokagon Band
Liquor Control Code (Indiana) on
November 2, 2015, and subsequently
amended it by resolution on July 26,
2016.
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
[178A2100DD/AAKC001030/A0A501010.999900 253G]
Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for
the Proposed Redding Rancheria Fee-to-Trust and Casino Project, Shasta
County, California
AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice advises the public that the Bureau of Indian
Affairs (BIA), as lead agency, intends to gather information necessary
for preparing an environmental impact statement (EIS) in connection
with the Redding Rancheria's (Tribe) application requesting that the
United States acquire approximately 232 acres of land in trust in
Shasta County, California, for the construction and operation of a
casino resort.
DATES: To ensure consideration during the development of the EIS,
written comments on the scope of the EIS should be sent as soon as
possible and no later than December 29, 2016. The date of the public
scoping meeting will be announced at least 15 days in advance through a
notice to be published in the local newspapers (Redding Record
Searchlight and Sacramento Bee) and online at www.reddingeis.com.
[[Page 86002]]
ADDRESSES: You may mail or hand-deliver written comments to Ms. Amy
Dutschke, Regional Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Pacific Region,
2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, California 95825. Please include your
name, return address, and ``NOI Comments, Redding Rancheria Project''
on the first page of your written comments. You may also submit
comments through email to John Rydzik, Chief, Division of
Environmental, Cultural Resource Management and Safety, Bureau of
Indian Affairs, at john.rydzik@bia.gov. If emailing comments, please
use ``NOI Comments, Redding Rancheria Project'' as the subject of your
email.
The location of the public scoping meeting will be announced at
least 15 days in advance through a notice to be published in the local
newspaper (Redding Record Searchlight and Sacramento Bee) and online at
www.reddingeis.com.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. John Rydzik, Chief, Division of
Environmental, Cultural Resource Management and Safety, Bureau of
Indian Affairs, Pacific Regional Office, 2800 Cottage Way, Room W-2820,
Sacramento, California 95825; telephone: (916) 978-6051; email:
john.rydzik@bia.gov. Information is also available online at
www.reddingeis.com.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Tribe submitted an application to the
Department of the Interior (Department) requesting the placement of
approximately 232 acres of fee land in trust by the United States upon
which the Tribe would construct a casino resort. The facility would
include an approximately 140,000 square foot casino, an approximately
250-room hotel, an event/convention center, a retail center, and
associated parking and infrastructure. The new facility would replace
the Tribe's existing casino, and the exisiting casino buildings would
be converted to a different use. Accordingly, the proposed action for
the Department is the acquisition requested by the Tribe. The proposed
fee-to-trust property is located in an unincorporated part of Shasta
County, California, approximately 1.6 miles northeast of the existing
Redding Rancheria, and about two miles southeast of downtown Redding.
The proposed trust property includes seven parcels, bound by Bechelli
Lane on the north, private properties to the south, the Sacremento
River on the west, and Interstate 5 on the east. The Shasta County
Assessor's parcel numbers (APNs) for the property are 055-010-011, 055-
010-012, 055-010-014, 055-010-015, 055-050-001, 055-020-004 and 055-
020-005. The purpose of the proposed action is to improve the economic
status of the Tribal government so it can better provide housing,
health care, education, cultural programs, and other services to its
members.
The proposed action encompasses the various Federal approvals which
may be required to implement the Tribe's proposed economic development
project, including approval of the Tribe's fee-to-trust application.
The EIS will identify and evaluate issues related to these approvals,
and will also evaluate a range of reasonable alternatives. Possible
alternatives currently under consideration are a reduced-intensity
casino alternative, an alternate-use (non-casino) alternative, and one
or more off-site alternatives. The range of issues and alternatives may
be expanded based on comments received during the scoping process.
Areas of environmental concern identified for analysis in the EIS
include land resources; water resources; air quality; noise; biological
resources; cultural/historical/archaeological resources; resource use
patterns; traffic and transportation; public health and safety;
hazardous materials and hazardous wastes; public services and
utilities; socioeconomics; environmental justice; visual resources/
aesthetics; and cumulative, indirect, and growth-inducing effects. The
range of issues and alternatives to be addressed in the EIS may be
expanded or reduced based on comments received in response to this
notice and at the public scoping meeting. Additional information,
including a map of the project site, is available by contacting the
person listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this
notice.
Public Comment Availability: Comments, including names and
addresses of respondents, will be available for public review at the
BIA address shown in the ADDRESSES section, during regular business
hours, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays.
Before including your address, telephone number, email address, or
other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be
aware that your entire comment--including your personal identifying
information--may be made publicly available at any time. While you can
ask in your comment that your personal identifying information be
withheld from public review, the BIA cannot guarantee that this will
occur.
Authority: This notice is published in accordance with sections
1501.7 and 1506.6 of the Council on Environmental Quality
Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500 through 1508) implementing the
procedural requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321-4345 et seq.), and the Department
of the Interior National Environmental Policy Act Regulations (43
CFR part 46), and is in the exercise of authority delegated to the
Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs by 209 DM 8.
Dated: November 18, 2016.
Lawrence S. Roberts,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2016-28757 Filed 11-28-16; 8:45 am]
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