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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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Bureau of Land Management
Announcement of National Geospatial
Advisory Committee Meeting
[AA–6652–J, AA–6652–K, AA–6652–A2; AK–
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AGENCY:
U.S. Geological Survey,
Alaska Native Claims Selection
Interior.
ACTION:
AGENCY:
Notice of meeting.
Bureau of Land Management,
The National Geospatial
Advisory Committee (NGAC) will meet
on June 3–4, 2008 in the 2nd Floor
Boardroom of the American Institute of
Architects Building, 1735 New York
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20006.
The NGAC, which is composed of
representatives from governmental,
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organizations, has been established to
advise the Chair of the Federal
Geographic Data Committee on
management of Federal geospatial
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National Spatial Data Infrastructure, and
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—Discussion of NGAC Bylaws/NGAC
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—Geospatial Line of Business/OMB
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—Imagery for the Nation
—Subcommittee Reports
—National Geospatial Strategy Design
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and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on June 4.
DATES:
John
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220–4621).
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Notice of decision approving
lands for conveyance.
Bureau of Land Management
SUMMARY: As required by 43 CFR
2650.7(d), notice is hereby given that an
appealable decision approving lands for
conveyance pursuant to the Alaska
Native Claims Settlement Act will be
issued to Far West Incorporated. The
lands are in the vicinity of Chignik,
Alaska, and are located in:
Information Notice of Planning Criteria
for the Programmatic Environmental
Impact Statement for Leasing of
Geothermal Resources
ACTION:
Seward Meridian, Alaska
T. 42 S., R. 57 W.,
Secs. 28 and 29;
Secs. 32, 33, and 34.
Containing approximately 3,199 acres.
T. 43 S., R. 57 W.,
Secs. 13 and 14.
Containing approximately 345 acres.
Aggregating approximately 3,544 acres.
The subsurface estate in these lands
will be conveyed to Bristol Bay Native
Corporation when the surface estate is
conveyed to Far West Incorporated.
Notice of the decision will also be
published four times in the Bristol Bay
Times.
The time limits for filing an
appeal are:
1. Any party claiming a property
interest which is adversely affected by
the decision shall have until June 16,
2008 to file an appeal.
2. Parties receiving service of the
decision by certified mail shall have 30
days from the date of receipt to file an
appeal.
Parties who do not file an appeal in
accordance with the requirements of 43
CFR Part 4, Subpart E, shall be deemed
to have waived their rights.
DATES:
A copy of the decision may
be obtained from: Bureau of Land
Management, Alaska State Office, 222
West Seventh Avenue, #13, Anchorage,
Alaska 99513–7504.
ADDRESSES:
Dated: May 12, 2008.
Ivan DeLoatch,
Staff Director, Federal Geographic Data
Committee.
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The
Bureau of Land Management by phone
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8330, 24 hours a day, seven days a
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Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Information Notice of Planning
Criteria.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: On June 13, 2007, the
Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Land Management (BLM), and the
United States Department of
Agriculture, Forest Service (FS),
published in the Federal Register
[72FR32679] a Notice of Intent (NOI) to
prepare a joint Programmatic
Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS)
to analyze the leasing of BLM- and FSadministered lands with potential for
geothermal resources in 11 western
states and Alaska. The Federal Land
Policy and Management Act (FLPMA)
requires the BLM to develop land use
plans, also known as Resource
Management Plans (RMPs), to guide the
BLM’s management of the public lands.
The BLM’s land use planning
regulations, which implement FLPMA,
require the BLM to publish, and provide
for public review of, the proposed
planning criteria that will guide the
BLM’s land use planning process. The
purpose of this Information Notice is to
identify the RMPs that the BLM may
amend and set out the proposed
planning criteria that would guide the
BLM’s planning amendment process.
Please note that while the preparation of
the PEIS is a joint project with the FS,
this Notice applies only to public lands
that the BLM manages and does not
apply in any way to lands that the FS
administers. The FS manages lands that
are under its jurisdiction under a
separate statutory and regulatory
framework.
DATES: Comments concerning the BLM’s
preliminary list of RMPs to be amended
(identified by Field Office) and
proposed planning criteria should be
received by June 16, 2008. Individuals,
groups, or other agencies who
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responded to previous scoping efforts
for this PEIS are not required to respond
to this Notice. The BLM considered
comments submitted in response to the
previous Notice during development of
the planning criteria proposed in this
Notice.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by any of the following methods:
• E-mail: geothermal_EIS@blm.gov.
• Fax: 1–866–625–0707.
• U.S. Mail: Geothermal
Programmatic EIS, c/o EMPS Inc., 182
Howard Street, Suite 110, San
Francisco, CA 94105.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information, including
information on how to comment, you
may contact Jack G. Peterson, Bureau of
Land Management, at 208–373–4048,
Jack_G_Peterson@blm.gov or visit the
PEIS Web site at https://www.blm.gov/
Geothermal_EIS.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FLPMA
requires the BLM to develop land use
plans, also known as RMPs, to guide the
BLM’s management of the public lands.
In order for geothermal resource leasing
and development to take place on the
public lands that the BLM manages,
such activities must be provided for in
these RMPs. The aforementioned NOI
published by the BLM and the FS
initiated a lengthy and comprehensive
scoping process, including 10 public
meetings held throughout the western
United States. This Notice fulfills the
BLM’s obligation under FLPMA and the
BLM’s planning regulations (43 CFR
1610.2(f) and 43 CFR 1610.4–2) to notify
the public that in response to input
during the scoping process, the BLM has
developed proposed planning criteria to
guide the amendment of the listed
RMPs, including the analysis of the
amendments and their reasonable
alternatives in the PEIS. Please note that
while the preparation of the PEIS is a
joint project with the FS, this Notice
applies only to public lands that the
BLM manages and does not apply in any
way to lands that the FS administers.
The FS manages lands that are under its
jurisdiction under a separate statutory
and regulatory framework.
Planning criteria are the constraints,
standards, and guidelines that
determine what the BLM will or will not
consider during its planning process. As
such, they establish parameters and
help focus analysis of the issues
identified in scoping, and structure the
preparation of the PEIS in so far as it
addresses amendment of BLM RMPs,
including data collection, analysis and
decision making. The BLM welcomes
public comment on the following
proposed planning criteria, which
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would be used in the development of
the PEIS as it is prepared to analyze
these BLM RMP amendments:
• The BLM will prepare the PEIS and
BLM RMP amendments in compliance
with the Federal Land Policy and
Management Act, the Endangered
Species Act, the Clean Water Act, the
Clean Air Act, the National
Environmental Policy Act and all other
applicable laws, Executive Orders and
BLM management policies.
• The BLM will use the PEIS as the
analytical basis for any decision it
makes to amend an individual land use
plan as necessary to respond to the
potential for increased levels of
geothermal resource leasing and
development on BLM-administered
lands.
• The BLM will develop a reasonably
foreseeable development (RFD) scenario
to predict levels of development and
will identify lands to be allocated as
open, closed, and open with restrictive
stipulations to geothermal leasing in the
affected plans.
• The BLM will limit its amendment
of these plans to geothermal resource
leasing and development issues and will
not address management of other
resources, although the BLM will
consider and analyze the impacts from
this increased use on other managed
resource values.
• The BLM will continue to manage
other resources in the affected planning
areas under the pre-existing terms,
conditions and decisions in the
applicable RMPs for those other
resources.
• The BLM will recognize valid
existing rights under the RMPs, as
amended.
• The BLM will coordinate with
local, state, tribal and Federal agencies
in the PEIS and plan amendment
process to strive for consistency with
their existing plans and policies, to the
extent practicable.
• The BLM will coordinate with tribal
governments and will provide strategies
for the protection of recognized
traditional uses in the PEIS and plan
amendment process.
• The BLM will take into account
appropriate protection and management
of cultural and historic resources in the
PEIS and plan amendment process, and
will engage in all required consultation.
• The BLM will recognize in the PEIS
and plan amendments the specific niche
occupied by public lands in the life of
the communities that surround them
and in the nation as a whole.
• The BLM will make every effort to
encourage public participation
throughout the process.
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• The BLM has the authority to
develop protective management
prescriptions for lands with wilderness
characteristics within RMPs. As part of
the public involvement process for land
use planning, the BLM will consider
public input regarding lands to be
managed to maintain wilderness
characteristics.
• Environmental protection and
energy production are both desirable
and necessary objectives of sound land
management practices and are not to be
considered mutually exclusive
priorities.
• The BLM will consider and analyze
relevant climate change impacts in its
land use plans and associated NEPA
documents, including the anticipated
climate change benefits of geothermal
energy.
• The BLM will prepare the PEIS in
compliance with the Geothermal Steam
Act, as amended, and the legislative
directives set forth in the Energy Policy
Act of 2005.
• The BLM will use geospatial data
that are automated within a Geographic
Information System (GIS) to facilitate
discussions of the affected environment,
formulation of alternatives, analysis of
environmental consequences, and
display of results.
The following is a list of BLM Field
Offices that manage lands that BLM has
identified as having geothermal
potential. You may view these areas on
a map with a GIS overlay showing the
BLM and the FS jurisdictional
boundaries at https://www.blm.gov/
Geothermal_EIS. Some BLM offices may
decide not to use this PEIS and
amendment process to amend certain
RMPs that appear on this list because
those offices may already have land use
plan amendments or revisions
underway or recently completed. Please
contact your local BLM office for more
information. In addition, the BLM will
exclude many units or areas within
certain RMPs from any consideration for
geothermal development. The plan
amendments will reflect the fact that
some units or portions of the areas
identified as having geothermal resource
potential will not be developed because
they are unavailable for leasing, either
by statute, regulation or other authority.
These designations are described at 43
CFR 3201.11, and include, but are not
limited to: Lands where the Secretary
has determined that issuing a lease
would cause unnecessary or undue
degradation to public lands and
resources; lands contained within a unit
of the National Park System, lands
within a National Recreation Area; and
lands where the Secretary determines
after notice and comment that
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geothermal operations are reasonably
likely to result in a significant adverse
effect on a significant thermal feature
within a National Park System unit, for
example, the geothermal features in
Yellowstone National Park; wilderness
areas; wilderness study areas; fish
hatcheries; wildlife management areas;
Indian trust lands; and other areas
referred to in the above regulation. As
mentioned above, this Notice does not
address the FS lands. Therefore, no
affected Forests are listed below. The
BLM Field Offices that manage lands
that have geothermal resource potential
are as follows (Where the name of the
BLM Field Office that has jurisdiction
over a Resource Area differs from the
name of the District Office, the name of
the District office appears in
parentheses following the name of the
Field Office. A table identifying the
affected Field Offices along with the
name of the affected RMP under its
jurisdiction, which sometimes differ,
will appear in the Draft EIS, and on the
Web site above in the near future.
State
Central Yukon (Fairbanks).
Anchorage (Anchorage).
Glennallen (Anchorage).
Arizona Strip (Arizona
Strip).
Kingman (Colorado
River).
Lake Havasu (Colorado
River).
Yuma (Colorado River).
Safford (Gila).
Tucson (Gila).
Hassayampa (Phoenix).
Lower Sonoran (Phoenix).
Barstow (California
Desert).
El Centro (California
Desert).
Needles (California
Desert).
Palm Springs-South
Coast (California
Desert).
Ridgecrest (California
Desert).
Alturas.
Arcata.
Bakersfield.
Bishop.
Eagle Lake.
Hollister.
Redding.
Surprise.
Ukiah.
Columbine (San Juan).
Del Norte (San Luis
Valley).
Dolores (San Juan).
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Montana .................
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Alaska ....................
Field office (district office)
State
Colorado ................
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New Mexico ...........
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Glenwood Springs.
Grand Junction.
Gunnison.
Kremmling.
La Jara (San Luis Valley).
Little Snake.
Pagosa Springs (San
Juan).
Royal Gorge.
Saguache (San Luis
Valley).
Uncompahgre.
White River.
Bruneau (Boise).
Four Rivers (Boise).
Owyhee (Boise).
Cottonwood (Coeur
d’Alene).
Challis (Idaho Falls).
Pocatello (Idaho Falls).
Salmon (Idaho Falls).
Upper Snake (Idaho
Falls).
Burley (Twin Falls).
Jarbridge (Twin Falls).
Shoshone (Twin Falls).
Billings.
Butte.
Dillon.
Lewistown.
Malta.
Miles City.
Missoula.
Carson City.
Battle Mountain.
Carson City.
Elko.
Ely.
Las Vegas.
Winnemucca.
Rio Puerco (Albuquerque).
Soccoro (Albuquerque).
Farmington.
Taos (Farmington).
Las Cruces.
Carlsbad (Pecos).
Roswell (Pecos).
Andrews (Burns).
Three Rivers (Burns).
Upper Willamette (Eugene).
Klamath Falls
(Lakeview).
Lakeview (Lakeview).
Ashland (Medford).
Butte Falls (Medford).
Central Oregon
(Prineville).
Deschutes (Prineville).
Cascades (Salem).
Border (Spokane).
Wenatchee (Spokane).
Baker (Vale).
Jordan (Vale).
Malheur (Vale).
Cedar City.
Fillmore.
Kanab.
Richfield.
Salt Lake.
St. George.
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Wyoming ................
Field office (district office)
Vernal.
Buffalo.
Casper.
Cody.
Kemmerer.
Lander.
Newcastle.
Pinedale.
Rawlins.
Rock Springs.
Worland.
You may submit comments in writing
on the stated planning criteria and plans
to be amended using one of the methods
listed in the ADDRESSES section. 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.
Authority: 43 CFR 1610.2(f)(2).
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Assistant Director, Minerals and Realty
Management, Bureau of Land Management.
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Management and Budget (OMB)
Review; Comment Request
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(MMS), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of a revised information
collection (1010–0170).
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: To comply with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), we are notifying the public that
we have submitted to OMB an
information collection request (ICR) to
revise an approval of the paperwork
requirements that address the MMS’s
Coastal Impact Assistance Program
(CIAP) which is a grant program. This
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paperwork burden of these
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
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Information Notice of Planning Criteria for the Programmatic
Environmental Impact Statement for Leasing of Geothermal Resources
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Information Notice of Planning Criteria.
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SUMMARY: On June 13, 2007, the Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Land Management (BLM), and the United States Department of Agriculture,
Forest Service (FS), published in the Federal Register [72FR32679] a
Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare a joint Programmatic Environmental
Impact Statement (PEIS) to analyze the leasing of BLM- and FS-
administered lands with potential for geothermal resources in 11
western states and Alaska. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act
(FLPMA) requires the BLM to develop land use plans, also known as
Resource Management Plans (RMPs), to guide the BLM's management of the
public lands. The BLM's land use planning regulations, which implement
FLPMA, require the BLM to publish, and provide for public review of,
the proposed planning criteria that will guide the BLM's land use
planning process. The purpose of this Information Notice is to identify
the RMPs that the BLM may amend and set out the proposed planning
criteria that would guide the BLM's planning amendment process. Please
note that while the preparation of the PEIS is a joint project with the
FS, this Notice applies only to public lands that the BLM manages and
does not apply in any way to lands that the FS administers. The FS
manages lands that are under its jurisdiction under a separate
statutory and regulatory framework.
DATES: Comments concerning the BLM's preliminary list of RMPs to be
amended (identified by Field Office) and proposed planning criteria
should be received by June 16, 2008. Individuals, groups, or other
agencies who
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responded to previous scoping efforts for this PEIS are not required to
respond to this Notice. The BLM considered comments submitted in
response to the previous Notice during development of the planning
criteria proposed in this Notice.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
E-mail: geothermal_EIS@blm.gov.
Fax: 1-866-625-0707.
U.S. Mail: Geothermal Programmatic EIS, c/o EMPS Inc., 182
Howard Street, Suite 110, San Francisco, CA 94105.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information, including
information on how to comment, you may contact Jack G. Peterson, Bureau
of Land Management, at 208-373-4048, Jack_G_Peterson@blm.gov or visit
the PEIS Web site at https://www.blm.gov/Geothermal_EIS.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FLPMA requires the BLM to develop land use
plans, also known as RMPs, to guide the BLM's management of the public
lands. In order for geothermal resource leasing and development to take
place on the public lands that the BLM manages, such activities must be
provided for in these RMPs. The aforementioned NOI published by the BLM
and the FS initiated a lengthy and comprehensive scoping process,
including 10 public meetings held throughout the western United States.
This Notice fulfills the BLM's obligation under FLPMA and the BLM's
planning regulations (43 CFR 1610.2(f) and 43 CFR 1610.4-2) to notify
the public that in response to input during the scoping process, the
BLM has developed proposed planning criteria to guide the amendment of
the listed RMPs, including the analysis of the amendments and their
reasonable alternatives in the PEIS. Please note that while the
preparation of the PEIS is a joint project with the FS, this Notice
applies only to public lands that the BLM manages and does not apply in
any way to lands that the FS administers. The FS manages lands that are
under its jurisdiction under a separate statutory and regulatory
framework.
Planning criteria are the constraints, standards, and guidelines
that determine what the BLM will or will not consider during its
planning process. As such, they establish parameters and help focus
analysis of the issues identified in scoping, and structure the
preparation of the PEIS in so far as it addresses amendment of BLM
RMPs, including data collection, analysis and decision making. The BLM
welcomes public comment on the following proposed planning criteria,
which would be used in the development of the PEIS as it is prepared to
analyze these BLM RMP amendments:
The BLM will prepare the PEIS and BLM RMP amendments in
compliance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, the
Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the
National Environmental Policy Act and all other applicable laws,
Executive Orders and BLM management policies.
The BLM will use the PEIS as the analytical basis for any
decision it makes to amend an individual land use plan as necessary to
respond to the potential for increased levels of geothermal resource
leasing and development on BLM-administered lands.
The BLM will develop a reasonably foreseeable development
(RFD) scenario to predict levels of development and will identify lands
to be allocated as open, closed, and open with restrictive stipulations
to geothermal leasing in the affected plans.
The BLM will limit its amendment of these plans to
geothermal resource leasing and development issues and will not address
management of other resources, although the BLM will consider and
analyze the impacts from this increased use on other managed resource
values.
The BLM will continue to manage other resources in the
affected planning areas under the pre-existing terms, conditions and
decisions in the applicable RMPs for those other resources.
The BLM will recognize valid existing rights under the
RMPs, as amended.
The BLM will coordinate with local, state, tribal and
Federal agencies in the PEIS and plan amendment process to strive for
consistency with their existing plans and policies, to the extent
practicable.
The BLM will coordinate with tribal governments and will
provide strategies for the protection of recognized traditional uses in
the PEIS and plan amendment process.
The BLM will take into account appropriate protection and
management of cultural and historic resources in the PEIS and plan
amendment process, and will engage in all required consultation.
The BLM will recognize in the PEIS and plan amendments the
specific niche occupied by public lands in the life of the communities
that surround them and in the nation as a whole.
The BLM will make every effort to encourage public
participation throughout the process.
The BLM has the authority to develop protective management
prescriptions for lands with wilderness characteristics within RMPs. As
part of the public involvement process for land use planning, the BLM
will consider public input regarding lands to be managed to maintain
wilderness characteristics.
Environmental protection and energy production are both
desirable and necessary objectives of sound land management practices
and are not to be considered mutually exclusive priorities.
The BLM will consider and analyze relevant climate change
impacts in its land use plans and associated NEPA documents, including
the anticipated climate change benefits of geothermal energy.
The BLM will prepare the PEIS in compliance with the
Geothermal Steam Act, as amended, and the legislative directives set
forth in the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
The BLM will use geospatial data that are automated within
a Geographic Information System (GIS) to facilitate discussions of the
affected environment, formulation of alternatives, analysis of
environmental consequences, and display of results.
The following is a list of BLM Field Offices that manage lands that
BLM has identified as having geothermal potential. You may view these
areas on a map with a GIS overlay showing the BLM and the FS
jurisdictional boundaries at https://www.blm.gov/Geothermal_EIS. Some
BLM offices may decide not to use this PEIS and amendment process to
amend certain RMPs that appear on this list because those offices may
already have land use plan amendments or revisions underway or recently
completed. Please contact your local BLM office for more information.
In addition, the BLM will exclude many units or areas within certain
RMPs from any consideration for geothermal development. The plan
amendments will reflect the fact that some units or portions of the
areas identified as having geothermal resource potential will not be
developed because they are unavailable for leasing, either by statute,
regulation or other authority. These designations are described at 43
CFR 3201.11, and include, but are not limited to: Lands where the
Secretary has determined that issuing a lease would cause unnecessary
or undue degradation to public lands and resources; lands contained
within a unit of the National Park System, lands within a National
Recreation Area; and lands where the Secretary determines after notice
and comment that
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geothermal operations are reasonably likely to result in a significant
adverse effect on a significant thermal feature within a National Park
System unit, for example, the geothermal features in Yellowstone
National Park; wilderness areas; wilderness study areas; fish
hatcheries; wildlife management areas; Indian trust lands; and other
areas referred to in the above regulation. As mentioned above, this
Notice does not address the FS lands. Therefore, no affected Forests
are listed below. The BLM Field Offices that manage lands that have
geothermal resource potential are as follows (Where the name of the BLM
Field Office that has jurisdiction over a Resource Area differs from
the name of the District Office, the name of the District office
appears in parentheses following the name of the Field Office. A table
identifying the affected Field Offices along with the name of the
affected RMP under its jurisdiction, which sometimes differ, will
appear in the Draft EIS, and on the Web site above in the near future.
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State Field office (district office)
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Alaska.................................. Central Yukon (Fairbanks).
Anchorage (Anchorage).
Glennallen (Anchorage).
Arizona................................. Arizona Strip (Arizona Strip).
Kingman (Colorado River).
Lake Havasu (Colorado River).
Yuma (Colorado River).
Safford (Gila).
Tucson (Gila).
Hassayampa (Phoenix).
Lower Sonoran (Phoenix).
California.............................. Barstow (California Desert).
El Centro (California Desert).
Needles (California Desert).
Palm Springs-South Coast
(California Desert).
Ridgecrest (California
Desert).
Alturas.
Arcata.
Bakersfield.
Bishop.
Eagle Lake.
Hollister.
Redding.
Surprise.
Ukiah.
Colorado................................ Columbine (San Juan).
Del Norte (San Luis Valley).
Dolores (San Juan).
Glenwood Springs.
Grand Junction.
Gunnison.
Kremmling.
La Jara (San Luis Valley).
Little Snake.
Pagosa Springs (San Juan).
Royal Gorge.
Saguache (San Luis Valley).
Uncompahgre.
White River.
Idaho................................... Bruneau (Boise).
Four Rivers (Boise).
Owyhee (Boise).
Cottonwood (Coeur d'Alene).
Challis (Idaho Falls).
Pocatello (Idaho Falls).
Salmon (Idaho Falls).
Upper Snake (Idaho Falls).
Burley (Twin Falls).
Jarbridge (Twin Falls).
Shoshone (Twin Falls).
Montana................................. Billings.
Butte.
Dillon.
Lewistown.
Malta.
Miles City.
Missoula.
Nevada.................................. Carson City.
Battle Mountain.
Carson City.
Elko.
Ely.
Las Vegas.
Winnemucca.
New Mexico.............................. Rio Puerco (Albuquerque).
Soccoro (Albuquerque).
Farmington.
Taos (Farmington).
Las Cruces.
Carlsbad (Pecos).
Roswell (Pecos).
Oregon/Washington....................... Andrews (Burns).
Three Rivers (Burns).
Upper Willamette (Eugene).
Klamath Falls (Lakeview).
Lakeview (Lakeview).
Ashland (Medford).
Butte Falls (Medford).
Central Oregon (Prineville).
Deschutes (Prineville).
Cascades (Salem).
Border (Spokane).
Wenatchee (Spokane).
Baker (Vale).
Jordan (Vale).
Malheur (Vale).
Utah.................................... Cedar City.
Fillmore.
Kanab.
Richfield.
Salt Lake.
St. George.
Vernal.
Wyoming................................. Buffalo.
Casper.
Cody.
Kemmerer.
Lander.
Newcastle.
Pinedale.
Rawlins.
Rock Springs.
Worland.
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You may submit comments in writing on the stated planning criteria
and plans to be amended using one of the methods listed in the
ADDRESSES section. 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.
Authority: 43 CFR 1610.2(f)(2).
Michael D. Nedd,
Assistant Director, Minerals and Realty Management, Bureau of Land
Management.
[FR Doc. E8-11059 Filed 5-15-08; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4310-84-P
