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successors or assigns, by right-of-way
N–38419 pursuant to the Act of October
21, 1976 (90 Stat. 2776; 43 U.S.C. 1761).
Detailed information concerning the
proposed lease/conveyance, including
conditions, planning and environmental
documents, is available for inspection at
the BLM Carson City Field Office at the
address stated in this notice.
Comments on the classification are
restricted to four subjects:
(1) Whether the land is physically
suited for the proposal;
(2) Whether the use will maximize the
future uses of the land;
(3) Whether the use is consistent with
local planning and zoning; and
(4) If the use is consistent with State
and Federal programs.
Application Comments: You may
submit comments regarding the specific
use proposed in the application and
plan of development, whether the BLM
followed proper administrative
procedures in reaching the decision, or
any other factor not directly related to
the suitability of the land for the
requested R&PP use.
Before including your address, phone
number, e-mail 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 us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so. Facsimiles, telephone calls, and
electronic mails are unacceptable means
of notification. Any adverse comments
will be reviewed by the State Director
who may sustain, vacate, or modify this
realty action. In the absence of any
adverse comments, the classification of
the land described in this notice will
become effective October 16, 2007.
The lands will not be offered for
lease/conveyance until after the
classification becomes effective.
(Authority: 43 CFR 2741.5)
Donald T. Hicks,
Manager, Carson City Field Office.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[ES–020–06–1610–DP–028M]
Notice of Availability of the Alabama
and Mississippi Draft Resource
Management Plan and Environmental
Impact Statement
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Availability.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969 (NEPA, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and
the Federal Land Policy and
Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA, 43
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) has prepared a Draft
Resource Management Plan/
Environmental Impact Statement (RMP/
EIS) for Alabama and Mississippi and
by this notice is announcing the
opening of the comment period.
DATES: To assure that they will be
considered, BLM must receive written
comments on the Draft RMP/EIS within
90 days following the date the
Environmental Protection Agency
publishes their Notice of Availability in
the Federal Register. The BLM will
announce future meetings or hearings
and any other public involvement
activities at least 15 days in advance
through public notices, media news
releases, and/or mailings.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by any of the following methods:
• Web Site: https://www.es.blm.gov/
AL_MS_RMP.
• E-mail: jcomment@blm.gov.
• Fax: (601) 977–5440.
• Mail: Send to the contact listed
below.
Gary
Taylor, Planning and Environmental
Coordinator, Bureau of Land
Management, Jackson Field Office, 411
Briarwood Drive, Jackson, Mississippi
39206. Mr. Taylor may also be contacted
by telephone: (601) 977–5413.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Draft
RMP/EIS addresses all BLMadministered lands and mineral estate
in Alabama and Mississippi. This
includes 333 acres of public surface
land including mineral estate in
Baldwin, Calhoun, Chilton, Coosa,
Geneva, Mobile, Shelby and Talladega
Counties in Alabama and in Hancock
County, Mississippi. The Draft RMP/EIS
also covers 704,850 acres of Federal
mineral estate where the surface is nonFederal and 126,570 acres of Federal
minerals where the surface is managed
by Federal agencies other than the BLM
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or the Forest Service. The issues
addressed in the Draft RMP/EIS are
mineral (oil, gas, and coal) leasing and
ownership adjustment of the scattered
surface tracts.
The Alabama and Mississippi RMP
will be the first BLM land use plan for
these states. Until now BLM resource
management in Alabama and
Mississippi has been implemented
through broad policy guidance and by
project-specific environmental
assessments. When the RMP is
approved, the BLM will be better able to
respond to mineral leasing requests and
deal efficiently with the long-term
management of its scattered lands.
The BLM published its Notice of
Intent to prepare the Alabama and
Mississippi RMP/EIS in the Federal
Register on July 12, 2002. Letters were
sent to Federal and state agencies, as
well as county supervisors and
commissioners to inform them of the
planning process and to the governors of
both states, inviting them to be
cooperating agencies. The State of
Mississippi accepted the invitation to
become a cooperating agency. The BLM
also contacted Native American tribes to
invite them to participate in the
planning process and coordinated
closely with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service in the development of oil and
gas lease stipulations and best
management practices. A public
workshop was held in Gulf Shores,
Alabama on September 2, 2004, to
solicit additional comments for
developing alternatives.
Four alternatives were developed in
response to the issues identified during
the planning process. The ‘‘no action’’
alternative represents current
management and is identified as
Alternative 1. Three additional ‘‘action’’
alternatives present varying levels of oil
and gas leasing constraints to protect
sensitive species and their habitats. The
alternatives also range from retaining all
the surface tracts under BLM
management to transferring them to
other agencies or out of Federal
ownership. Alternative 3 was identified
as the preferred alternative because it
provides the best balance in protecting
sensitive resources while allowing
responsive mineral development and
surface ownership adjustment for most
of the scattered surface tracts.
Please note that public comments and
information submitted will be available
for public review and disclosure at the
above address during regular business
hours (7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.), Monday
through Friday, except holidays. Before
including your address, phone number,
e-mail, or other personal identifying
information in your comment, you
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should be aware that your entire
comment—including your personal
identifying information—may be made
publicly available at any time. While
you can ask us in your comment to
withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so. All submissions from
organizations and businesses, and from
individuals identifying themselves as
representatives or officials of
organizations or businesses, will be
available for public inspection in their
entirety. Copies of the Draft Alabama
and Mississippi RMP/EIS are available
in the Jackson Field Office at the above
address.
A. Barron Bail,
Acting State Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
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Notice To Reopen the Public Comment
Period Regarding Supplemental
Information for Proposed Areas of
Critical Environmental Concern
(ACEC) With Associated Resource Use
Limitations Identified in the Proposed
Roan Plateau Resource Management
Plan Amendment/Final Environmental
Impact Statement (PRMPA/FEIS) for
Public Lands in Garfield and Rio
Blanco Counties, CO
Management, 50629 Highways 6 and 24,
Glenwood Springs, CO 81601.
Comments (written or electronic)
submitted during the ACEC review
process, including names and street
addresses of respondents will be
available for public review at the
Glenwood Springs Field Office during
regular business hours 7:45 a.m. to 4:30
p.m., Monday through Friday, except
holidays, and will be subject to
disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act. Before including your
address, phone number, e-mail 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 us in your comment to
withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jamie Connell, Field Manager, Bureau of
Land Management Glenwood Springs
Field Office, 50629 Highways 6 & 24,
Glenwood Springs, CO 81601, or by
telephone at (970) 947–2800; or Greg
Goodenow at 303–239–3789.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice to
invite comment on the proposed ACECs
was originally published in the Federal
Register on June 11, 2007 (72 FR 32138).
Information concerning the proposed
ACECs, as well as the entire Proposed
Roan Plateau RMPA/FEIS may be found
on the Colorado BLM Web site at https://
www.blm.gov/rmp/co/roanplateau.
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice to reopen the public
comment period for 14 days following
the publication of this notice in the
Federal Register for four potential
ACEC designations identified in the
PRMPA/FEIS.
Dated: August 13, 2007.
Sally Wisely,
State Director, Colorado.
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SUMMARY: The public comment period is
being reopened to allow the public to
submit comments on the proposed
ACECs in the PRMPA/FEIS in an
electronic format as well as in writing.
DATES: The public comment period is
being reopened for 14 days following
the publication of this notice in the
Federal Register. Submissions may be
made electronically on the Colorado
BLM Web site at https://www.blm.gov/
rmp/co/roanplateau/comments.htm, or
in writing to the address listed below.
Instructions on how to submit electronic
comments are posted on the Web site.
ADDRESSES: Submit any written
comments to Jamie Connell—Glenwood
Springs Field Manager, Bureau of Land
National Park Service
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General Management Plan,
Environmental Impact Statement,
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
National Park Service,
Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Intent to prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement for a
General Management Plan amendment,
Petrified Forest National Park.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, 42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C), the National
Park Service is preparing an
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
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for a General Management Plan (GMP)
amendment for Petrified Forest National
Park.
The park is currently managed under
a GMP that was completed in 1993. This
plan describes a proposed boundary
expansion for the park of approximately
93,000 acres. However, the 1993 GMP
does not prescribe management for the
proposed expansion lands. The GMP
was revised in 2004 to address specific
aspects of the park’s management; this
GMP Revision also does not address
management activities for proposed
expansion lands.
Public Law 108–430 was passed by
congress and signed by the President in
December 2004. This Act expanded
Petrified Forest National Park
boundaries by approximately 125,000
acres, and directed the NPS to prepare
a management plan for the new park
lands within three years. Planning for
the new lands is the focus of this GMP
amendment and its associated EIS.
The GMP amendment will establish
the overall direction for park expansion
lands, setting broad management goals
for the area for the next 15 to 20 years.
Among the topics that will be addressed
are protection of natural and cultural
resources, protection of riparian
resources, appropriate range of visitor
uses, impacts of visitor uses, adequacy
of park infrastructure, visitor access to
the park expansion area, education and
interpretive efforts, and external
pressures on the park. Management
zones that were established in the
current GMP will be applied to
expansion lands. These zones outline
the kinds of resource management
activities, visitor activities, and
developments that would be appropriate
in the expansion lands.
A range of reasonable alternatives for
managing the park, including a noaction alternative and a preferred
alternative, will be developed through
the planning process and included in
the EIS. The EIS will evaluate the
potential environmental impacts of the
alternatives.
As the first phase of the planning and
EIS process, the National Park Service is
beginning to scope the issues to be
addressed in the GMP amendment. All
interested persons, organizations, and
agencies are encouraged to submit
comments and suggestions regarding the
issues or concerns the GMP amendment
should address, including a suitable
range of alternatives and appropriate
mitigating measures, and the nature and
extent of potential environmental
impacts.
Written comments on the scope
of the GMP amendment/EIS will be
DATES:
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[ES-020-06-1610-DP-028M]
Notice of Availability of the Alabama and Mississippi Draft
Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Availability.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of
1969 (NEPA, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and the Federal Land Policy and
Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA, 43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the Bureau of
Land Management (BLM) has prepared a Draft Resource Management Plan/
Environmental Impact Statement (RMP/EIS) for Alabama and Mississippi
and by this notice is announcing the opening of the comment period.
DATES: To assure that they will be considered, BLM must receive written
comments on the Draft RMP/EIS within 90 days following the date the
Environmental Protection Agency publishes their Notice of Availability
in the Federal Register. The BLM will announce future meetings or
hearings and any other public involvement activities at least 15 days
in advance through public notices, media news releases, and/or
mailings.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
Web Site: https://www.es.blm.gov/AL_MS_RMP.
E-mail: jcomment@blm.gov.
Fax: (601) 977-5440.
Mail: Send to the contact listed below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary Taylor, Planning and
Environmental Coordinator, Bureau of Land Management, Jackson Field
Office, 411 Briarwood Drive, Jackson, Mississippi 39206. Mr. Taylor may
also be contacted by telephone: (601) 977-5413.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Draft RMP/EIS addresses all BLM-
administered lands and mineral estate in Alabama and Mississippi. This
includes 333 acres of public surface land including mineral estate in
Baldwin, Calhoun, Chilton, Coosa, Geneva, Mobile, Shelby and Talladega
Counties in Alabama and in Hancock County, Mississippi. The Draft RMP/
EIS also covers 704,850 acres of Federal mineral estate where the
surface is non-Federal and 126,570 acres of Federal minerals where the
surface is managed by Federal agencies other than the BLM or the Forest
Service. The issues addressed in the Draft RMP/EIS are mineral (oil,
gas, and coal) leasing and ownership adjustment of the scattered
surface tracts.
The Alabama and Mississippi RMP will be the first BLM land use plan
for these states. Until now BLM resource management in Alabama and
Mississippi has been implemented through broad policy guidance and by
project-specific environmental assessments. When the RMP is approved,
the BLM will be better able to respond to mineral leasing requests and
deal efficiently with the long-term management of its scattered lands.
The BLM published its Notice of Intent to prepare the Alabama and
Mississippi RMP/EIS in the Federal Register on July 12, 2002. Letters
were sent to Federal and state agencies, as well as county supervisors
and commissioners to inform them of the planning process and to the
governors of both states, inviting them to be cooperating agencies. The
State of Mississippi accepted the invitation to become a cooperating
agency. The BLM also contacted Native American tribes to invite them to
participate in the planning process and coordinated closely with the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the development of oil and gas lease
stipulations and best management practices. A public workshop was held
in Gulf Shores, Alabama on September 2, 2004, to solicit additional
comments for developing alternatives.
Four alternatives were developed in response to the issues
identified during the planning process. The ``no action'' alternative
represents current management and is identified as Alternative 1. Three
additional ``action'' alternatives present varying levels of oil and
gas leasing constraints to protect sensitive species and their
habitats. The alternatives also range from retaining all the surface
tracts under BLM management to transferring them to other agencies or
out of Federal ownership. Alternative 3 was identified as the preferred
alternative because it provides the best balance in protecting
sensitive resources while allowing responsive mineral development and
surface ownership adjustment for most of the scattered surface tracts.
Please note that public comments and information submitted will be
available for public review and disclosure at the above address during
regular business hours (7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.), Monday through Friday,
except holidays. Before including your address, phone number, e-mail,
or other personal identifying information in your comment, you
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should be aware that your entire comment--including your personal
identifying information--may be made publicly available at any time.
While you can ask us in your comment to withhold your personal
identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we
will be able to do so. All submissions from organizations and
businesses, and from individuals identifying themselves as
representatives or officials of organizations or businesses, will be
available for public inspection in their entirety. Copies of the Draft
Alabama and Mississippi RMP/EIS are available in the Jackson Field
Office at the above address.
A. Barron Bail,
Acting State Director.
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