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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[UT–070–1610–DP–011J]
Notice of Availability of Supplemental
Information and Analysis for the Draft
Price Resource Management Plan/
Environmental Impact Statement;
Notice of Potential Areas of Critical
Environmental Concern and Specific
Associated Resource Use Limitations
for Public Lands in Carbon and Emery
Counties, UT
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This notice announces the
availability of Supplemental
Information and Analysis to the Price
Field Office Draft Resource Management
Plan/Environmental Impact Statement
(Price Draft RMP/EIS) for Areas of
Critical Environmental Concern
(ACECs). This information includes four
potential ACECs inadvertently omitted
from the Price Draft RMP/EIS and prior
notices.
DATES: To assure that public comments
will be considered, BLM must receive
written comments on the supplemental
information and impact analysis to the
Price Draft RMP/EIS for the potential
ACECs within 90 days following the
date the Environmental Protection
Agency publishes the Notice of
Availability of the supplemental ACEC
information in the Federal Register.
Public comments regarding the
designation of the four potential ACECs
will be accepted for 60 days (43 CFR
1610.7–2) following the date this Notice
of Availability is published in the
Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Written comments may be
submitted by mail to the Bureau of Land
Management, Price Field Office, 125
South 600 West, Price, UT 84501. Email comments may be submitted to the
following address:
UT_Pr_Comments@blm.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Floyd Johnson, Assistant Field Manager,
BLM Price Field Office, 125 South 600
West, Price, UT 84501, phone 435–636–
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3600, or visit the project Web site at
https://www.blm.gov/rmp/ut/price.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
supplemental information provides
additional documentation regarding the
disposition of ACEC nominations,
provides a description of the four
additional potential ACECs, and
analyzes any potential impacts relating
to the inclusion of these ACECs in
Alternative C of the Price Draft RMP/
EIS. The original notice of availability
for the Price Draft RMP/EIS for the Price
Field Office planning area in Carbon
and Emery Counties, Utah was
published in the Federal Register,
volume 69, number 136, Friday, July 16,
2004. A supplement to that Notice with
information on existing and potential
ACECs considered within the Price
Draft RMP/EIS was published in the
Federal Register, volume 70, number
238, Tuesday, December 13, 2005.
The Price Field Office planning area
encompasses all of the public land
managed by the Price Field Office in
Carbon and Emery Counties, Utah. This
area includes approximately 2.5 million
acres of BLM-administered surface
lands and 2.8 million acres of Federal
mineral lands underlying Federal, State,
and private surface ownership in the
area. The decisions of the Price RMP
will apply only to BLM-administered
public lands, including Federal mineral
estate.
The Price Draft RMP/EIS addresses
five alternatives of proposed
management decisions and analyzes the
impacts of each. There are presently 13
existing designated ACECs (289,629
total acres) in the Price Field Office,
which were established by the San
Rafael RMP (1991). These are reflected
in the No Action Alternative of the Draft
RMP/EIS.
Nine potential ACECs (286,416 total
acres) were considered in at least one
action alternative in the Draft RMP/EIS.
In some cases, the number and acres
and the resource use limitations applied
to the nine potential ACECs also varied
by alternative. These nine potential
ACECs were described in the Notice
published in the Federal Register,
volume 70, number 238, Tuesday,
December 13, 2005.
In addition to the nine potential
ACECs, four potential ACECs were
inadvertently omitted from the Price
Draft RMP/EIS released July, 2004. The
four additional potential ACECs
described and analyzed in the
supplemental information include:
• Desolation Canyon Area—(159,246
acres) Values of concern include
outstanding scenery, Fremont, Archaic
and Ute cultural sites, and fisheries and
wildlife habitats;
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• Mussentuchit Badlands Area—
(58,398 acres) Values of concern include
cultural resources such as prehistoric
quarrying area;
• White-Tailed Prairie Dog
Complex—(9,204 acres) Values of
concern include protection of habitat
and other species dependent on prairie
dog colonies; and
• Lower Muddy Creek Area—(29,854
acres) Values of concern include
outstanding scenery and threatened and
endangered plants.
These four potential ACECs are
considered for designation in
Alternative C of the Price Draft RMP/
EIS. Potential resource use limitations
related to ACEC management of all of
these areas include limitations to OHV
use, leasing for oil and gas, disposal of
mineral materials, and locatable mineral
entry. Additionally, ACEC management
for the Desolation Canyon potential
ACEC would exclude right-of-way
(ROW) grants. The supplemental
information and analysis has been
prepared for public review to facilitate
the inclusion of these four potential
ACECs into the Price RMP/EIS. The
information includes:
• The incorporation of the specific
ACEC proposals, including resource use
limitations, in Chapter 2:
• A description of potential impacts
in Chapter 4;
• A summary of nominations matrix
in Appendix 26; and
• A description of relevant and
important values found in these four
potential ACECs, also in Appendix 26.
Comments, including names and
street addresses of respondents, will be
available for public review at the Price
Field Office during regular business
hours, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except holidays and
will be subject to disclosure under the
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
They may be published as part of the
EIS and other related documents.
Individual respondents may request
confidentiality. If you wish to withhold
your name or street address from public
review and disclosure under FOIA, you
must state this prominently at the
beginning of your written comment.
Such requests will be honored to the
extent allowed by law. All submissions
from organizations or businesses will be
made available for public inspection in
their entirety. The supplemental
information is available upon request at
the Price Field Office and on the
Internet at the addresses provided
above.
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Dated: May 26, 2006.
Gene Terland,
Acting State Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
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Notice of Intent To Prepare an
Amendment to the White River Field
Office Resource Management Plan and
Associated Environmental Impact
Statement for Oil and Gas
Development, Meeker, CO
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of intent.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(c)
of the National Environmental Policy
Act of 1969 and the Federal Land Policy
and Management Act of 1976, notice is
hereby given that the Bureau of Land
Management (BLM), White River Field
Office (WRFO) located in Meeker, CO,
will be directing the preparation of a
Resource Management Plan (RMP)
Amendment and associated
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
The BLM invites the public to
participate in this planning effort.
DATES: The scoping comment period
will commence with the publication of
this notice and will end 45 days after
publication of this notice. Public
meetings will be held during the
scoping comment period in Meeker and
Rifle, Colorado. Comments on the scope
of the EIS, including concerns, issues, or
proposed alternatives that should be
considered, should be submitted in
writing to the address below. The dates
of public meetings to be held in Meeker
and Rifle, Colorado will be announced
through the local media, newsletters,
and WRFO National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) mailing list. The
draft EIS is expected to be available for
public review and comment in
September 2007 and the final EIS is
expected to be available early in 2008.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be sent to: Jane Peterson, 73554
Highway 64, Meeker, Colorado 81641.
Written comments, including names
and addresses of respondents, will be
available for public review at the offices
of the BLM White River Field Office,
73554 Highway 64, Meeker, Colorado
81641, during normal working hours
(7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., except holidays).
Submissions from organizations or
businesses will be made available for
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public inspection in their entirety.
Individuals may request confidentiality
with respect to their name, address, and
phone number. If you wish to have your
name or street address withheld from
public review, or from disclosure under
the Freedom of Information Act, you
must state this prominently at the
beginning of your comment. Such
requests will be honored to the extent
allowed by law. Comment contents will
not be kept confidential. Responses to
the comments will be published as part
of the Proposed Resource Management
Plan/Final Environmental Impact
Statement.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information or to have your
name added to our mailing list, contact
Jane Peterson, WRFO Oil and Gas EIS
Project Manager, at (970) 244–3027 or
alternately at (970) 878–3828. E-mail
can be directed to
jane_h_peterson@blm.gov and mail can
be sent to the address above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The RMP
Amendment proposes to modify the
level of oil and gas development within
the WRFO boundaries above what was
anticipated in the 1997 WRFO RMP.
The EIS will analyze the potential
impacts of increased oil and gas
development on a field office-wide
level. Citizens are requested to help
identify issues or concerns and to
provide input on BLM’s proposed
action. The White River Field Office
(WRFO), Meeker, Colorado, is located in
northwestern Colorado primarily in Rio
Blanco County, with other tracts located
in Garfield and Moffat Counties and
encompasses 1,455,900 acres of BLM
surface estate and 365,000 acres of split
mineral estate. The WRFO is
experiencing unprecedented growth in
the oil and gas energy program. The
Energy Policy and Conservation Act
(EPCA) Reauthorization of 2000 directed
the Department of the Interior to
produce a scientific inventory of oil and
gas resources and reserves underlying
Federal lands. The EPCA-generated
studies of five oil and gas basins
(Montana Thrust Belt, Powder River,
Green River, San Juan/Paradox, and
Uinta/Piceance), completed and
presented to Congress in January, 2003,
identified the Piceance Basin of
Northwest Colorado, in which the
WRFO is located, as one of five subbasins in the continental United States
with large reserves of undeveloped oil
and gas energy potential. As a result of
EPCA, higher oil and gas prices, and
development of interstate transportation
pipelines the WRFO is experiencing an
oil and gas boom. The WRFO Resource
Management Plan (RMP), approved in
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[UT-070-1610-DP-011J]
Notice of Availability of Supplemental Information and Analysis
for the Draft Price Resource Management Plan/Environmental Impact
Statement; Notice of Potential Areas of Critical Environmental Concern
and Specific Associated Resource Use Limitations for Public Lands in
Carbon and Emery Counties, UT
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the availability of Supplemental
Information and Analysis to the Price Field Office Draft Resource
Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (Price Draft RMP/EIS)
for Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACECs). This information
includes four potential ACECs inadvertently omitted from the Price
Draft RMP/EIS and prior notices.
DATES: To assure that public comments will be considered, BLM must
receive written comments on the supplemental information and impact
analysis to the Price Draft RMP/EIS for the potential ACECs within 90
days following the date the Environmental Protection Agency publishes
the Notice of Availability of the supplemental ACEC information in the
Federal Register.
Public comments regarding the designation of the four potential
ACECs will be accepted for 60 days (43 CFR 1610.7-2) following the date
this Notice of Availability is published in the Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Written comments may be submitted by mail to the Bureau of
Land Management, Price Field Office, 125 South 600 West, Price, UT
84501. E-mail comments may be submitted to the following address: UT--
Pr--Comments@blm.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Floyd Johnson, Assistant Field
Manager, BLM Price Field Office, 125 South 600 West, Price, UT 84501,
phone 435-636-3600, or visit the project Web site at https://
www.blm.gov/rmp/ut/price.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The supplemental information provides
additional documentation regarding the disposition of ACEC nominations,
provides a description of the four additional potential ACECs, and
analyzes any potential impacts relating to the inclusion of these ACECs
in Alternative C of the Price Draft RMP/EIS. The original notice of
availability for the Price Draft RMP/EIS for the Price Field Office
planning area in Carbon and Emery Counties, Utah was published in the
Federal Register, volume 69, number 136, Friday, July 16, 2004. A
supplement to that Notice with information on existing and potential
ACECs considered within the Price Draft RMP/EIS was published in the
Federal Register, volume 70, number 238, Tuesday, December 13, 2005.
The Price Field Office planning area encompasses all of the public
land managed by the Price Field Office in Carbon and Emery Counties,
Utah. This area includes approximately 2.5 million acres of BLM-
administered surface lands and 2.8 million acres of Federal mineral
lands underlying Federal, State, and private surface ownership in the
area. The decisions of the Price RMP will apply only to BLM-
administered public lands, including Federal mineral estate.
The Price Draft RMP/EIS addresses five alternatives of proposed
management decisions and analyzes the impacts of each. There are
presently 13 existing designated ACECs (289,629 total acres) in the
Price Field Office, which were established by the San Rafael RMP
(1991). These are reflected in the No Action Alternative of the Draft
RMP/EIS.
Nine potential ACECs (286,416 total acres) were considered in at
least one action alternative in the Draft RMP/EIS. In some cases, the
number and acres and the resource use limitations applied to the nine
potential ACECs also varied by alternative. These nine potential ACECs
were described in the Notice published in the Federal Register, volume
70, number 238, Tuesday, December 13, 2005.
In addition to the nine potential ACECs, four potential ACECs were
inadvertently omitted from the Price Draft RMP/EIS released July, 2004.
The four additional potential ACECs described and analyzed in the
supplemental information include:
Desolation Canyon Area--(159,246 acres) Values of concern
include outstanding scenery, Fremont, Archaic and Ute cultural sites,
and fisheries and wildlife habitats;
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Mussentuchit Badlands Area--(58,398 acres) Values of
concern include cultural resources such as prehistoric quarrying area;
White-Tailed Prairie Dog Complex--(9,204 acres) Values of
concern include protection of habitat and other species dependent on
prairie dog colonies; and
Lower Muddy Creek Area--(29,854 acres) Values of concern
include outstanding scenery and threatened and endangered plants.
These four potential ACECs are considered for designation in
Alternative C of the Price Draft RMP/EIS. Potential resource use
limitations related to ACEC management of all of these areas include
limitations to OHV use, leasing for oil and gas, disposal of mineral
materials, and locatable mineral entry. Additionally, ACEC management
for the Desolation Canyon potential ACEC would exclude right-of-way
(ROW) grants. The supplemental information and analysis has been
prepared for public review to facilitate the inclusion of these four
potential ACECs into the Price RMP/EIS. The information includes:
The incorporation of the specific ACEC proposals,
including resource use limitations, in Chapter 2:
A description of potential impacts in Chapter 4;
A summary of nominations matrix in Appendix 26; and
A description of relevant and important values found in
these four potential ACECs, also in Appendix 26.
Comments, including names and street addresses of respondents, will
be available for public review at the Price Field Office during regular
business hours, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except
holidays and will be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA). They may be published as part of the EIS and
other related documents. Individual respondents may request
confidentiality. If you wish to withhold your name or street address
from public review and disclosure under FOIA, you must state this
prominently at the beginning of your written comment. Such requests
will be honored to the extent allowed by law. All submissions from
organizations or businesses will be made available for public
inspection in their entirety. The supplemental information is available
upon request at the Price Field Office and on the Internet at the
addresses provided above.
Dated: May 26, 2006.
Gene Terland,
Acting State Director.
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