Notice of Order Closing Public Lands at the Knoxville Recreation Area, Lake County, CA, to Recreational and Target Shooting., 79899-79900 [E8-30960]
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Notice of Order Closing Public Lands
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AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: Pursuant to 43 Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR) 8364.1, an
Order has been issued by the Ukiah
Field Office, Bureau of Land
Management (BLM), prohibiting
recreational and target practice shooting
on six (6) acres previously available for
such shooting within the Knoxville
Recreation Area. These six acres,
managed by the Ukiah BLM Field
Office, are located in the SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4
section 28, Township 12 North, Range 5
West, Mount Diablo Meridian. The BLM
land base for the Knoxville Recreation
Area is located in southeastern Lake,
northern Napa, and northwestern Yolo
counties, California. This shooting
closure is necessary to protect persons,
property, and public lands. An increase
in visitors, coupled with housing/
subdivision development of adjacent
ranches, has led to a significant increase
in documented cases where stray bullets
have narrowly missed public land users,
vehicles, and adjacent private buildings.
This Closure Order does not apply to
hunting under the laws and regulations
of the State of California. Other BLM
managed public lands of the Knoxville
Recreation Area remain unavailable for
shooting due to the lack of identified
designated shooting areas as defined by
the Ukiah Resource Management Plan
(June 2006.)
DATES: This Order is effective upon
publication.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rich
Burns, Field Manager, BLM Ukiah Field
Office, 2550 North State Street, Ukiah,
California, 95482. Telephone: (707)
468–4000; Fax: (707) 468–4027, during
regular business hours, 7:45 a.m. to 4:30
p.m., Monday through Friday except
holidays.
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The
Knoxville Recreation Area is located in
a remote region of northern California
where Lake, Napa, and Yolo counties
meet. The entire Knoxville region is
approximately 35,000 acres of lands
open to the public of which 11,000 acres
are managed by the State of California
Department of Fish and Game and
24,000 acres are managed by the BLM,
Ukiah Field Office. The BLM-managed
area is open to most types of
recreational activities including
motorized and non-motorized
recreational pursuits. The Ukiah
Resource Management Plan designated
5,236 acres as an Area of Critical
Environmental Concern for botanical
studies and research because the
Knoxville region is considered a ‘‘hot
spot’’ for plant evolution.
BLM has issued this shooting closure
because of increased shooting pressures.
The Ukiah Resource Management Plan
limited shooting at the Knoxville
Recreation Area to a designated six (6)
acre site historically used for
recreational shooting and target
practicing. Since designation, the BLM
Ukiah Field Office has been receiving an
increasing number of public complaints
from recreational users, researchers, and
adjacent private property owners about
near misses to people, animals,
buildings, and equipment from stray
bullets fired in, around, and from the
designated shooting range. In addition,
serious resource degradation has been
occurring throughout the Knoxville
Recreation Area, including the Hunting
Creek Campground, caused by
indiscriminate shooting of BLM signs,
buildings, and natural resources. This
shooting closure is necessary to protect
resources and meet the documented
health and safety concerns raised by the
surrounding land owners and public
land users regarding the dangers of stray
bullets fired by indiscriminate shooters.
Closure Order: Notice is hereby given
that effective on this date of publication
in the Federal Register and pursuant to
43 CFR 8364.1, the public lands
described as the Knoxville Shooting
Range within SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 sec. 28,
Township 12 North, Range 5 West,
MDM., containing approximately six (6)
acres are closed to the public for
recreational shooting and target
practice. These lands, managed by the
Ukiah BLM Field Office, are located at
the Knoxville Recreation Area in
southeastern Lake County, California.
Be advised that other BLM-managed
public lands of the Knoxville Recreation
Area remain unavailable for shooting
due to the lack of identified designated
shooting areas as defined by the Ukiah
Resource Management Plan. This
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Closure Order is necessary to protect
people, public and private property, and
public land resources due to an increase
in documented cases of stray bullets
fired by indiscriminate shooters.
The following persons are exempt
from this closure order:
(1) Federal, State, or local law
enforcement officers, while acting
within the scope of their official duties.
(2) BLM personnel or their
representatives while acting within the
scope of their official duties.
(3) Any member of an organized
rescue, fire-fighting force, or emergency
medical services organization while in
the performance of their official duties.
(4) Any person in receipt of a written
authorization of exemption obtained
from the authorized officer.
(5) Any person with a current legal
California hunting license in his/her
possession and hunting in accordance
with state law.
This Notice and maps of the restricted
area will be clearly posted at main entry
points to the Knoxville Recreation Area
and at the area affected by this Order
and will also be available at the BLM
Ukiah Field Office.
This Closure Order is effective on the
date published in the Federal Register
and will remain in effect until revoked.
Failure to comply with this order is
punishable by a fine not to exceed
$1,000 and/or imprisonment not to
exceed 12 months pursuant to 43 CFR
8360.0–7. A failure to comply may also
be subject to the enhanced fines
provided for by 18 U.S.C. 3571.
This Shooting closure is supported by
NEPA document number CA–340–08–
020. The NEPA document and its
associated decision record are available
upon request at the BLM Ukiah Field
Office.
Rich Burns,
Ukiah Field Manager.
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Notice of Availability of the Record of
Decision and Approved Resource
Management Plan Amendments for
Geothermal Leasing in the Western
United States
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
SUMMARY: In accordance with Section
202 of the National Environmental
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Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) (42 U.S.C.
4321 et seq.), the Council on
Environmental Quality’s regulations
implementing NEPA (40 CFR 1500–
1508), and applicable agency guidance,
the Department of the Interior, Bureau
of Land Management (BLM) announces
the availability of the Record of
Decision (ROD) and Approved Resource
Management Plan (RMP) Amendments
for geothermal leasing in the western
United States (U.S.). The decision is
hereby made to amend 114 BLM land
use plans covering public lands
managed by the BLM under the Federal
Land Policy and Management Act of
1976 (FLPMA) in order to allocate about
111 million acres of BLM-administered
lands as open to geothermal leasing and
to adopt a reasonably foreseeable
development scenario, stipulations, best
management practices (BMPs), and
leasing procedures for geothermal
resources within the 11 western states
and Alaska. The Assistant Secretary,
Land and Minerals Management, in the
Department of the Interior signed the
ROD on December 17, 2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jack
G. Peterson, BLM Project Manager at
(208) 373–4048
(Jack_G_Peterson@blm.gov), BLM, 1387
S. Vinnell Way, Boise, Idaho 83706 or
visit the PEIS Web site at https://
www.blm.gov/Geothermal_EIS.
ADDRESSES: A copy of the ROD and
Approved RMP Amendments are
available for review via the Internet
from a link at https://www.blm.gov/
Geothermal_EIS, as well as at BLM State
Offices and Field Offices. Copies may
also be obtained by contacting Jack G.
Peterson at the address and phone
number listed above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The ROD
and Approved RMP Amendments for
geothermal leasing in the western U.S.
was developed through preparation of
the Final Programmatic Environmental
Impact Statement (PEIS) on Geothermal
Leasing in the Western United States.
The NOA of the Final PEIS was
published in the Federal Register on
October 24, 2008 (73 FR 63430). The
elements of the ROD and Approved
RMP Amendments were evaluated
through this PEIS, which was prepared
in accordance with NEPA and FLPMA.
Alternative B was identified as the
Proposed Action in the Draft PEIS. As
a result of public comment, internal
review, and agency coordination,
Alternative B was clarified and slightly
modified to become the preferred
alternative and proposed to amend 122
plans in the Final PEIS. The Approved
RMP Amendments are identical to the
proposed plan amendments presented
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in the Final PEIS except that the East
San Diego County RMP has been
removed from the list of plans for
amendment because in October 2008 the
BLM issued a ROD revising the RMP to
include allocations and management for
geothermal resources. In addition, the
BLM is deferring the decision to amend
the Box Elder RMP, House Range
Resource Area RMP, Iso-tract
Management Framework Plan (MFP),
Park City RMP, Pony Express RMP,
Randolph RMP, and Warm Springs
Resource Area RMP in accordance with
the provisions of the National Defense
Authorization Act (NDAA § 2815 [a and
d], 113 Stat. 512, 852 [1999]). Based on
these changes, the decision is to amend
114 BLM land use plans to adopt the
allocations, reasonably foreseeable
development scenario, stipulations,
BMPs, and leasing procedures provided
in Alternative B of the PEIS.
In accordance with the Energy Policy
Act of 2005, the ROD/Approved RMP
Amendments facilitates geothermal
leasing of the Federal mineral estate that
has geothermal potential in the 11
western states and Alaska. In the ROD
and Approved RMP Amendments, the
BLM: (1) Identifies public lands with
geothermal potential as being legally
and administratively open or closed to
leasing, and under what conditions; (2)
provides a reasonably foreseeable
development scenario; (3) develops a
comprehensive list of stipulations,
BMPs, and procedures to serve as
consistent guidance for future
geothermal leasing; and (4) provides
information that the Forest Service (FS)
can use to facilitate making consent
determinations for any lease decisions
on National Forest System lands. The
Final PEIS also provided analysis on 19
specific pending lease applications
located in seven geographic areas. This
ROD/Approved RMP Amendments does
not issue a decision for these
applications. Separate RODs will be
issued for the applications as the
environmental review process is
complete.
Over 530 million acres of the western
U.S. and Alaska have been identified as
potentially containing geothermal
resources suitable for commercial
electrical generation and other direct
uses, such as heating. Much of the
resource base is held in the Federal
mineral estate, for which the BLM has
the delegated authority for processing
and issuing geothermal leases. The BLM
is prohibited from issuing leases on
statutorily closed lands (see 43 CFR
3201.11), including Wilderness Areas,
Wilderness Study Areas, lands
contained in a unit of the National Park
System, National Recreation Areas,
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[CA-340-08-1220-DD]
Notice of Order Closing Public Lands at the Knoxville Recreation
Area, Lake County, CA, to Recreational and Target Shooting.
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to 43 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 8364.1, an
Order has been issued by the Ukiah Field Office, Bureau of Land
Management (BLM), prohibiting recreational and target practice shooting
on six (6) acres previously available for such shooting within the
Knoxville Recreation Area. These six acres, managed by the Ukiah BLM
Field Office, are located in the SE\1/4\ SW\1/4\ section 28, Township
12 North, Range 5 West, Mount Diablo Meridian. The BLM land base for
the Knoxville Recreation Area is located in southeastern Lake, northern
Napa, and northwestern Yolo counties, California. This shooting closure
is necessary to protect persons, property, and public lands. An
increase in visitors, coupled with housing/subdivision development of
adjacent ranches, has led to a significant increase in documented cases
where stray bullets have narrowly missed public land users, vehicles,
and adjacent private buildings. This Closure Order does not apply to
hunting under the laws and regulations of the State of California.
Other BLM managed public lands of the Knoxville Recreation Area remain
unavailable for shooting due to the lack of identified designated
shooting areas as defined by the Ukiah Resource Management Plan (June
2006.)
DATES: This Order is effective upon publication.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rich Burns, Field Manager, BLM Ukiah
Field Office, 2550 North State Street, Ukiah, California, 95482.
Telephone: (707) 468-4000; Fax: (707) 468-4027, during regular business
hours, 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday except holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Knoxville Recreation Area is located in
a remote region of northern California where Lake, Napa, and Yolo
counties meet. The entire Knoxville region is approximately 35,000
acres of lands open to the public of which 11,000 acres are managed by
the State of California Department of Fish and Game and 24,000 acres
are managed by the BLM, Ukiah Field Office. The BLM-managed area is
open to most types of recreational activities including motorized and
non-motorized recreational pursuits. The Ukiah Resource Management Plan
designated 5,236 acres as an Area of Critical Environmental Concern for
botanical studies and research because the Knoxville region is
considered a ``hot spot'' for plant evolution.
BLM has issued this shooting closure because of increased shooting
pressures. The Ukiah Resource Management Plan limited shooting at the
Knoxville Recreation Area to a designated six (6) acre site
historically used for recreational shooting and target practicing.
Since designation, the BLM Ukiah Field Office has been receiving an
increasing number of public complaints from recreational users,
researchers, and adjacent private property owners about near misses to
people, animals, buildings, and equipment from stray bullets fired in,
around, and from the designated shooting range. In addition, serious
resource degradation has been occurring throughout the Knoxville
Recreation Area, including the Hunting Creek Campground, caused by
indiscriminate shooting of BLM signs, buildings, and natural resources.
This shooting closure is necessary to protect resources and meet the
documented health and safety concerns raised by the surrounding land
owners and public land users regarding the dangers of stray bullets
fired by indiscriminate shooters.
Closure Order: Notice is hereby given that effective on this date
of publication in the Federal Register and pursuant to 43 CFR 8364.1,
the public lands described as the Knoxville Shooting Range within SE\1/
4\ SW\1/4\ sec. 28, Township 12 North, Range 5 West, MDM., containing
approximately six (6) acres are closed to the public for recreational
shooting and target practice. These lands, managed by the Ukiah BLM
Field Office, are located at the Knoxville Recreation Area in
southeastern Lake County, California. Be advised that other BLM-managed
public lands of the Knoxville Recreation Area remain unavailable for
shooting due to the lack of identified designated shooting areas as
defined by the Ukiah Resource Management Plan. This
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Closure Order is necessary to protect people, public and private
property, and public land resources due to an increase in documented
cases of stray bullets fired by indiscriminate shooters.
The following persons are exempt from this closure order:
(1) Federal, State, or local law enforcement officers, while acting
within the scope of their official duties.
(2) BLM personnel or their representatives while acting within the
scope of their official duties.
(3) Any member of an organized rescue, fire-fighting force, or
emergency medical services organization while in the performance of
their official duties.
(4) Any person in receipt of a written authorization of exemption
obtained from the authorized officer.
(5) Any person with a current legal California hunting license in
his/her possession and hunting in accordance with state law.
This Notice and maps of the restricted area will be clearly posted
at main entry points to the Knoxville Recreation Area and at the area
affected by this Order and will also be available at the BLM Ukiah
Field Office.
This Closure Order is effective on the date published in the
Federal Register and will remain in effect until revoked.
Failure to comply with this order is punishable by a fine not to
exceed $1,000 and/or imprisonment not to exceed 12 months pursuant to
43 CFR 8360.0-7. A failure to comply may also be subject to the
enhanced fines provided for by 18 U.S.C. 3571.
This Shooting closure is supported by NEPA document number CA-340-
08-020. The NEPA document and its associated decision record are
available upon request at the BLM Ukiah Field Office.
Rich Burns,
Ukiah Field Manager.
[FR Doc. E8-30960 Filed 12-29-08; 8:45 am]
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