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current direction. Visitor services would
improve about at the rate and extent of
the current direction. The target for each
District would be to restore 200 acres of
grassland per year. The 15 year target for
wetland restoration would be 75 percent
of the drained wetlands for Leopold
WMD and 90 percent for St. Croix
WMD. Up to 90 percent of the
woodlands and oak savannah would be
inventoried with the objective of
restoring approximately 75 percent
(Leopold) and 80 percent (St. Croix) of
the identified potential savannah.
Invasive species would be inventoried
on 100 percent of the Districts and
would be treated on 25 percent
(Leopold) and 50 percent (St. Croix) of
District lands. Land acquisition would
continue as funds were available with
the intent of establishing larger
complexes of wetlands and grasslands.
An objective would be to raise the
quality of the visitor services programs
over time, reaching a higher level of
rating within 5 years. Five (Leopold)
and two (St. Croix) WPAs would be
more fully developed with visitor
services facilities. The volunteer and
partnership programs would increase.
Contacts with neighbors would increase
slightly and general knowledge of the
District and Service identity and
missions would increase slightly. Full
implementation of this alternative
would require the addition of 1.5 fulltime equivalents (Leopold) and 2.5 fulltime equivalents (St. Croix) to the
current staff.
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Alternative 3, Waterfowl Emphasis With
Low Increase in Management for Other
Wildlife and Increased Consideration
for Visitor Services
Under Alternative 3, the types and
amounts of habitat management
activities undertaken by the Districts
would be similar to Alternative 1.
Visitor services would expand and
improve in quality compared with
Alternative 1. Outreach activities would
also be greater. An objective would be
to raise the quality of the visitor services
programs over time, reaching two higher
levels of rating within 5 years. Seven
(Leopold) and four (St. Croix) WPAs
would be more fully developed with
visitor services facilities. The volunteer
and partnership programs would
increase. Contacts with neighbors would
increase and additional information
would be provided to them. The general
knowledge of the District and Service
identity and mission would increase
among neighbors and the community.
Full implementation of this alternative
would require the addition of 1.5 fulltime equivalents (Leopold) and 2.5 full-
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time equivalents (St. Croix) to the
current staff.
Alternative 4, Waterfowl Emphasis With
Increased and Balanced Consideration
for Other ‘‘Priority’’ Species, Their
Habitats, Visitor Services and
Neighborhood Relationships (Preferred
Alternative)
Alternative 4 incorporates
components of Alternatives 2 and 3.
Under this alternative the types of
habitat management activities of the
Districts would continue, but with more
acres affected. Monitoring of habitat and
wildlife would increase compared to the
current direction. Visitor services would
expand and improve in quality
compared to the current direction.
Outreach activities would also be
greater. The target for each District
would be to restore 200 acres of
grassland per year. The 15 year target for
wetland restoration would be 75 percent
of the drained wetlands for Leopold
WMD and 90 percent for St. Croix
WMD. Up to 90 percent of the
woodlands and oak savannah would be
inventoried with the objective of
restoring approximately 75 percent
(Leopold) and 80 percent (St. Croix) of
the identified potential savannah.
Invasive species would be inventoried
on 100 percent of the Districts and
would be treated on 25 percent
(Leopold) and 50 percent (St. Croix) of
District lands. The Districts would
develop a monitoring program to
determine waterfowl recruitment. Land
acquisition would continue as funds
were available with the intent of
establishing larger complexes of
wetlands and grasslands. Seven
(Leopold) and four (St. Croix) WPAs
would be more fully developed with
visitor services facilities. The volunteer
and partnership programs would
increase. Contacts with neighbors and
the expected effects would be the same
as Alternative 3. Full implementation of
this alternative would require the
addition of 3.5 full-time equivalents
(Leopold) and 3.5 full-time equivalents
(St. Croix) to the current staff.
Public Meetings
We will give the public an
opportunity to provide comments at
public meetings. You may obtain the
schedule from the addresses listed
above (see ADDRESSES). You may also
submit comments anytime during the
comment period by writing to the above
addresses.
Public Availability of Comments
Before including your address, phone
number, e-mail address, or other
personal identifying information, you
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should know that your entire
comment—including your personal
identifying information—may be made
publicly available. While you may 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 comments
become part of the official public
record, and we handle requests for such
comments in accordance with the
Freedom of Information Act, NEPA, and
Service and Departmental policies and
procedures.
Dated: May 22, 2008.
Charles M. Wooley,
Acting Regional Director, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, Fort Snelling, Minnesota.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTEROR
Bureau of Land Management
[WY–030–5101–ER–K103; WYW–167155]
Notice of Intent To Announce a
Proposed Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) for the Chokecherry
and Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project,
Announce a Proposed EIS To Amend
Rawlins Resource Management Plan,
and Announce a Public Comment
Period and Public Meetings for
Obtaining Comments
Bureau of Land Management.
Notice of Intent (NOI) to (1)
announce a proposed Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS) for the
Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind
Energy Project; (2) announce a proposed
EIS to amend Rawlins Resource
Management Plan; and (3) announce a
public comment period and public
meetings for obtaining comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(C)
of the National Environmental Policy
Act (NEPA) of 1969, an EIS will be
prepared by the Bureau of Land
Management (BLM), Rawlins Field
Office, Wyoming, for the Chokecherry
and Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project
in Carbon County, Wyoming. The EIS
will analyze the impacts of issuing
rights-of-way for a wind energy project
and ancillary facilities (consisting of
access roads, electric power gathering
cables, an electric transmission line, and
electric substations).
DATES: Public meetings will be held to
inform the public and obtain comments.
Dates, times, and locations of meetings
will be announced at least 15 days in
advance through local media, news
releases, and posting to the BLM Web
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site. The public comment period will
close 45 days after publication in the
Federal Register. The BLM Field
Manager, Rawlins Field Office, 1300 N.
Third Street, Rawlins, Wyoming 82301
will receive comments submitted via
mail or overnight delivery from the
general public and interested parties.
Facsimiles, telephone calls, or
electronic mail via the Internet will not
be considered as validly submitted
comments. 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:
Heather Nino, Realty Specialist, Bureau
of Land Management, Rawlins Field
Office, 1300 North Third Street,
Rawlins, WY 82301 or
Heather_Nino@blm.gov, or Jerry
Crockford at cellular telephone (505)
360–0473.
The EIS
will address the proposed action and a
range of reasonable alternatives
including a no action alternative.
The proposed action can be
summarized as: construction, operation
and maintenance of a nominal 2,000
megawatt (MW) wind energy project
and ancillary facilities. The wind energy
project area comprises approximately
98,500 acres located within Townships
19 and 20 North, Ranges 85 through 87
West for the Chokecherry area, and
Townships 16 through 18 North, Ranges
87 through 89 West for the Sierra Madre
area. The project occurs in a ‘‘checker
board’’ land ownership pattern area
with approximately half of the land
being BLM public land, and
approximately half being private and
State of Wyoming ownership.
The proposed 2,000 MWs will be
provided by approximately 675 2–MW
turbines to be constructed in the
Chokecherry area portion of the project,
and approximately 325 2–MW turbines
to be constructed in the Sierra Madre
portion of the project area. Other
associated facilities required by the
project will include access roads,
underground electric gathering lines, an
overhead electric transmission line, and
electric substations to interconnect the
generated power to the electric grid. The
project will utilize existing roads.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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The project will require
approximately three to five years for
construction, with an in-service target
date of late-2012. The project will
operate continuously, except for
maintenance shutdowns on individual
wind turbine generators, with a
projected 30-year life. Power would
interconnect with the national electric
grid.
Under the No Action Alternative,
BLM would not issue right-of-way
grants for the Chokecherry and Sierra
Madre Wind Energy Project and
ancillary facilities. The project
including the wind generating turbines,
access roads, gathering cables,
substations, and transmission line
would not be constructed. The areas
proposed for the Chokecherry and Sierra
Madre Wind Energy Project and
ancillary facilities would remain
undeveloped. An energy need would
not be met by the proposed generated
power.
Public participation is encouraged
throughout the processing of this
project. Comments presented
throughout the process will be
considered.
Dated: July 9, 2008.
Patrick Madigan,
Field Manager, Rawlins Field Office,
Wyoming.
[FR Doc. E8–17071 Filed 7–24–08; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[ID–957–1420–BJ]
Idaho: Filing of Plats of Survey
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Filing of Plats of
Surveys.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) has officially filed
the plats of survey of the lands
described below in the BLM Idaho State
Office, Boise, Idaho, effective 9 a.m., on
the dates specified.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Bureau of Land Management, 1387
South Vinnell Way, Boise, Idaho,
83709–1657.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: These
surveys were executed at the request of
the Bureau of Land Management to meet
their administrative needs. The lands
surveyed are:
The plat representing the dependent
resurvey of a portion of the north
boundary and subdivisional lines, and
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the subdivision of sections 2, 3, 10, 23
and 26, in T. 8 S., R.36 E., Boise
Meridian, Idaho, Group Number 1119,
was accepted April 3, 2008.
The plat representing the dependent
resurvey of portions of the Fort Hall
Correction Line (south boundary), east
boundary, and subdivisional lines, and
the subdivision of section 25, T. 9 S., R.
37 E., Boise Meridian, Idaho, Group
Number 1162, was accepted May 2,
2008.
The plat constituting the entire survey
record of the dependent resurvey of
portions of the south boundary and
subdivisional lines, and the subdivision
of section 31, T. 9 S., R. 38 E., Boise
Meridian, Idaho, Group Number 1162,
was accepted May 2, 2008.
The plat representing the dependent
resurvey of portions of the east
boundary and subdivisional lines, and
the subdivision of sections 1, 12, and
24, T. 10 S., R. 37 E., Boise Meridian,
Idaho, Group Number 1162, was
accepted May 2, 2008.
The plat representing the dependent
resurvey of a portion of the
subdivisional lines, and the subdivision
of sections 6, 7, 18, and 19, T. 10 S., R.
38 E., Boise Meridian, Idaho, Group
Number 1162, was accepted May 2,
2008.
The plat representing the dependent
resurvey of portions of the east
boundary and subdivisional lines, and
the corrective dependent resurvey of a
portion of the subdivisional lines and
the subdivision of section 23, and the
subdivision of sections 13 and 24, the
survey of a portion of the 2005–2008
meanders of the right bank of the
Salmon River in section 24, and certain
metes-and-bounds surveys in sections
13, 23, and 24, T. 15 N., R. 19 E., and
the dependent resurvey of portions of
the subdivisional lines, and the original
1911 right bank meanders of the Salmon
River in sections 17 and 18, and the
subdivision of sections 7, 17, and 18,
the survey of the 2005–2008 meanders
of the Salmon River in sections 7, 17,
and 18, the survey of certain 2005–2008
partition lines in section 17, and the
metes-and-bounds survey of lots 10 and
11 in section 18, T. 15 N., R. 20 E., of
the Boise Meridian, Idaho, Group
Number 1205, was accepted May 9,
2008. The supplemental plat prepared
to correct certain erroneous depictions
of the Snake River Birds of Prey
National Conservation Area, T. 1 N., R.
2 E., Boise Meridian, Idaho, was
accepted May 9, 2008.
The plat representing the dependent
resurvey of portions of the north
boundary, subdivisional lines, and
boundaries of certain mineral surveys,
T. 5 S., R. 3 W., of the Boise Meridian,
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTEROR
Bureau of Land Management
[WY-030-5101-ER-K103; WYW-167155]
Notice of Intent To Announce a Proposed Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) for the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy
Project, Announce a Proposed EIS To Amend Rawlins Resource Management
Plan, and Announce a Public Comment Period and Public Meetings for
Obtaining Comments
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management.
ACTION: Notice of Intent (NOI) to (1) announce a proposed Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS) for the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy
Project; (2) announce a proposed EIS to amend Rawlins Resource
Management Plan; and (3) announce a public comment period and public
meetings for obtaining comments.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, an EIS will be prepared by the Bureau of
Land Management (BLM), Rawlins Field Office, Wyoming, for the
Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project in Carbon County,
Wyoming. The EIS will analyze the impacts of issuing rights-of-way for
a wind energy project and ancillary facilities (consisting of access
roads, electric power gathering cables, an electric transmission line,
and electric substations).
DATES: Public meetings will be held to inform the public and obtain
comments. Dates, times, and locations of meetings will be announced at
least 15 days in advance through local media, news releases, and
posting to the BLM Web
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site. The public comment period will close 45 days after publication in
the Federal Register. The BLM Field Manager, Rawlins Field Office, 1300
N. Third Street, Rawlins, Wyoming 82301 will receive comments submitted
via mail or overnight delivery from the general public and interested
parties. Facsimiles, telephone calls, or electronic mail via the
Internet will not be considered as validly submitted comments. 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: Heather Nino, Realty Specialist,
Bureau of Land Management, Rawlins Field Office, 1300 North Third
Street, Rawlins, WY 82301 or Heather_Nino@blm.gov, or Jerry Crockford
at cellular telephone (505) 360-0473.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EIS will address the proposed action and
a range of reasonable alternatives including a no action alternative.
The proposed action can be summarized as: construction, operation
and maintenance of a nominal 2,000 megawatt (MW) wind energy project
and ancillary facilities. The wind energy project area comprises
approximately 98,500 acres located within Townships 19 and 20 North,
Ranges 85 through 87 West for the Chokecherry area, and Townships 16
through 18 North, Ranges 87 through 89 West for the Sierra Madre area.
The project occurs in a ``checker board'' land ownership pattern area
with approximately half of the land being BLM public land, and
approximately half being private and State of Wyoming ownership.
The proposed 2,000 MWs will be provided by approximately 675 2-MW
turbines to be constructed in the Chokecherry area portion of the
project, and approximately 325 2-MW turbines to be constructed in the
Sierra Madre portion of the project area. Other associated facilities
required by the project will include access roads, underground electric
gathering lines, an overhead electric transmission line, and electric
substations to interconnect the generated power to the electric grid.
The project will utilize existing roads.
The project will require approximately three to five years for
construction, with an in-service target date of late-2012. The project
will operate continuously, except for maintenance shutdowns on
individual wind turbine generators, with a projected 30-year life.
Power would interconnect with the national electric grid.
Under the No Action Alternative, BLM would not issue right-of-way
grants for the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project and
ancillary facilities. The project including the wind generating
turbines, access roads, gathering cables, substations, and transmission
line would not be constructed. The areas proposed for the Chokecherry
and Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project and ancillary facilities would
remain undeveloped. An energy need would not be met by the proposed
generated power.
Public participation is encouraged throughout the processing of
this project. Comments presented throughout the process will be
considered.
Dated: July 9, 2008.
Patrick Madigan,
Field Manager, Rawlins Field Office, Wyoming.
[FR Doc. E8-17071 Filed 7-24-08; 8:45 am]
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