Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians' Proposed 534-Acre Trust Acquisition and Casino Project, Riverside County, California, 31747-31748 [E9-15435]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
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Alaska Native Claims Selection
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of decision approving
lands for conveyance.
SUMMARY: As required by 43 CFR
2650.7(d), notice is hereby given that an
appealable decision approving the
surface and subsurface estates in certain
lands for conveyance pursuant to the
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
will be issued to Doyon, Limited. The
lands are in the vicinity of Tanana,
Alaska, and are located in:
Fairbanks Meridian, Alaska
T. 6 N., R. 17 W.,
Secs. 5, 7, and 8.
Containing approximately 1,898 acres.
T. 5 N., R. 18 W.,
Secs. 2 to 6, inclusive.
Containing approximately 3,188 acres.
T. 6 N., R. 18 W.,
Secs. 1 to 12, inclusive;
Secs. 14 to 23, inclusive;
Secs. 26 to 35, inclusive.
Containing approximately 20,364 acres.
T. 5 N., R. 19 W.,
Secs. 1 to 6, inclusive.
Containing approximately 3,828 acres.
T. 6 N., R. 19 W.,
Secs. 1 and 2;
Secs. 11 to 14, inclusive;
Secs. 23 to 26, inclusive;
Secs. 35 and 36.
Containing approximately 7,680 acres.
Aggregating approximately 36,958 acres.
Notice of the decision will also be
published four times in the Fairbanks
Daily News-Miner.
DATES: 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 August 3,
2009 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.
ADDRESSES: 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.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The
Bureau of Land Management by phone
at 907–271–5960, or by e-mail at
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who use a telecommunication device
(TTD) may call the Federal Information
Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–
8330, 24 hours a day, seven days a
week, to contact the Bureau of Land
Management.
Jason Robinson,
Land Law Examiner, Land Transfer
Adjudication I.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Draft Environmental Impact Statement
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for the Soboba Band of Luiseno
Indians’ Proposed 534-Acre Trust
Acquisition and Casino Project,
Riverside County, California
AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
SUMMARY: This notice advises the public
that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
as lead agency, with the Soboba Band of
˜
Luiseno Indians (Tribe), City of San
Jacinto and U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) as cooperating
agencies, intends to file a Draft
Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS)
with the EPA for the Tribe’s proposed
534.91± acre trust acquisition and
subsequent construction of a hotel/
casino project to be located within the
City of San Jacinto, Riverside County,
California, and that the DEIS is now
available for public review and
comment. This notice provides a 75-day
public comment period and thereby
grants a 30-day extension to the normal
45-day public comment period.
DATES: The DEIS will be available for
public comment beginning July 2, 2009.
Written comments on the DEIS must
arrive by September 15, 2009. A public
hearing will be held on Wednesday,
August 5, 2009 starting at 6 p.m. to 9
p.m. or until the last public comment is
received.
ADDRESSES: You may mail or hand-carry
written comments to Dale Morris,
Regional Director, Pacific Region,
Bureau of Indian Affairs 2800 Cottage
Way, Sacramento, California 95825.
The public hearing will be held at:
Hemet Public Library, 2nd Floor, 300 E.
Latham, Hemet, CA 92543
See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for
locations where the DEIS will be
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available for review and instructions for
submitting comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John
Rydzik, (916) 978–6051.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
˜
Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians (Tribe)
has requested the BIA to acquire 34
parcels totaling 534.91± acres of land
currently held in fee by the Tribe into
trust, of which the Tribe proposes to
develop approximately 55 acres into a
destination hotel/casino complex. The
Tribe proposes to relocate its existing
casino, which presently resides on trust
lands, to the project site. In addition to
the fee-to-trust action and casino
relocation, the proposed action also
includes the development of a 300-room
hotel, casino, restaurants, retail
establishments, a convention center, an
events arena, and a spa and fitness
center, within a 729,500± square-foot
complex. The proposed developments
also include a Tribal fire station, and a
12-pump gas station with a 6,000
square-foot convenience store.
Approximately 300 acres (56 percent)
of the project site is incorporated in the
City of San Jacinto, California, while the
remainder is within unincorporated
Riverside County, California. The
proposed hotel and casino complex
would be generally located at the
intersection of Soboba Road and Lake
Park Drive and abut the existing Soboba
Springs Country Club. Lake Park Drive
may or may not be realigned as part of
the proposed action contingent upon
consultation with the City of San
Jacinto.
The BIA, serving as the lead agency
for compliance with the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA),
published a Notice of Intent (NOI) to
prepare the EIS for the proposed action
in the Federal Register on December 14,
2007. The EPA and the City of San
Jacinto have accepted invitations to be
cooperating agencies, as entities having
jurisdiction by law or special expertise
relevant to environmental issues.
BIA held a public scoping meeting on
January 8, 2008, at the Hemet Public
Library in Hemet, California. From that
scoping meeting, a range of project
alternatives were developed and
subsequently analyzed in the DEIS,
including: (1) Proposed Action A—
Hotel/Casino Complex with
Realignment of Lake Park Drive; (2)
Proposed Action B—Hotel/Casino
Complex without Realignment of Lake
Park Drive; (3) Reduced Hotel/Casino
Complex; (4) Hotel and Convention
Center (No Casino Relocation); (5)
Commercial Enterprise (No Casino or
Hotel); and (6) No Action alternative.
Environmental issues addressed in the
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DEIS include land resources; water
resources; air quality; biological
resources; cultural resources; economic
and socioeconomic conditions; resource
use patterns; public services; other
values including noise, hazardous
materials, and visual resources;
cumulative effects; indirect effects;
growth inducing effects; and mitigation
measures.
Directions for Submitting Comments
Please include your name, return
address, and the caption: ‘‘DEIS
˜
Comments, Soboba Band of Luiseno
Indians’ Casino Project,’’ on the first
page of your written comments and
submit comments to the BIA address
listed in the ADDRESSES section of this
notice.
Public Availability of the DEIS
Public Comment Availability
Written comments, including the
names and addresses of respondents,
will be available for public review at the
BIA address shown in the ADDRESSES
section, during regular business hours, 8
a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except holidays. 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.
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Dated: June 11, 2009.
Larry Echo Hawk,
Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs.
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available to the public as a matter of
information.
If BLM receives a protest against a
survey, as shown on the plat, prior to
the date of the official filing, we will
stay the filing pending our
consideration of the protest.
We will not officially file the plats
until the day after we have accepted or
dismissed all protests and they have
become final, including decisions on
appeals.
Dated: June 23, 2009.
Dominica Van Koten,
Chief Cadastral Surveyor.
[FR Doc. E9–15662 Filed 7–1–09; 8:45 am]
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The DEIS will be available for review
at:
• The San Jacinto Public Library, 500
Idyllwild Dr., San Jacinto, CA 92583,
telephone (951) 654–8635; and
• The Hemet Public Library, 2nd
Floor, 300 E. Latham, Hemet, CA 92543,
telephone (951) 765–2440.
The DEIS is also available on the
following Web site: https://
team.entrix.com/clientsite/soboba.nsf.
To obtain a compact disk copy of the
DEIS, please provide your name and
address in writing to: Chief, Division of
Environmental, Cultural Resource
Management and Safety, Pacific
Regional Office, Bureau of Indian
Affairs, 2800 Cottage Way, Room W
2820, Sacramento, CA 95825 or call the
number listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this
notice. Individual paper copies of the
DEIS can be provided upon payment of
the applicable printing cost for the
number of copies requested.
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Authority
This notice is published pursuant to
section 1503.1 of the Council of
Environmental Quality Regulations (40
CFR parts 1500 through 1508)
implementing the procedural
requirements of the NEPA of 1969, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 4371 et seq.),
Department of the Interior Manual (516
DM 1–6) and is in the exercise of
authority delegated to the Principal
Deputy Assistant Secretary—Indian
Affairs by 209 DM 8.1.
Bureau of Land Management
Bureau of Land Management
[ES–956–1420–BJ; Group No. 553,
Minnesota]
Eastern States: Filing of Plat of Survey
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,
Interior
ACTION: Notice of filing of plats of
survey; Minnesota.
SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) will file the plats of
survey of the lands described below in
the BLM-Eastern States office in
Springfield, Virginia, 30 calendar days
from the date of publication in the
Federal Register.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Bureau of Land Management, 7450
Boston Boulevard, Springfield, Virginia
22153. Attn: Cadastral Survey.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
survey was requested by the Bureau of
Land Management, Eastern States,
Division of Lands and Renewable
Resources, Milwaukee Field Office.
The lands surveyed are:
Fourth Principal Meridian, Minnesota
The plat of survey represents the
survey of an island in Kabetogama Lake,
designated Tract No. 37, Township 69
North, Range 20 West, of the Fourth
Principal Meridian, in the State of
Minnesota, and was accepted June 5,
2009.
The plat of survey represents the
survey of an island in Kabetogama Lake,
designated Tract No. 37, Township 69
North, Range 21 West, of the Fourth
Principal Meridian, in the State of
Minnesota, and was accepted June 5,
2009.
We will place copies of the plats we
described in the open files. They will be
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Notice of Proposed Reinstatement of
Terminated Oil and Gas Lease NMNM
96574
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of reinstatement of
terminated oil and gas lease.
SUMMARY: Under the Class II provisions
of Title IV, Public Law 97–451, the
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
received a petition for reinstatement of
oil and gas lease NMNM 96574 from the
lessee, OXY USA, Inc., for lands in Lea
County, New Mexico. The petition was
filed on time and was accompanied by
all the rentals due since the date the
lease terminated under the law.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Margie Dupre, Bureau of Land
Management, New Mexico State Office,
P.O. Box 27115, Santa Fe, New Mexico
87502 or at (505) 438–7520.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: No valid
lease has been issued that affects the
lands. The lessee agrees to new lease
terms for rentals and royalties of $10.00
per acre or fraction thereof, per year,
and 162⁄3 percent, respectively. The
lessee paid the required $500.00
administrative fee for the reinstatement
of the lease and $166.00 cost for
publishing this Notice in the Federal
Register. The lessee met all the
requirements for reinstatement of the
lease as set out in Section 31(d) and (e)
of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 (30
U.S.C. 188). We are proposing to
reinstate lease NMNM 96574, effective
the date of termination, October 1, 2008,
under the original terms and conditions
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Soboba Band of
Luise[ntilde]o Indians' Proposed 534-Acre Trust Acquisition and Casino
Project, Riverside County, California
AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: This notice advises the public that the Bureau of Indian
Affairs (BIA) as lead agency, with the Soboba Band of Luise[ntilde]o
Indians (Tribe), City of San Jacinto and U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) as cooperating agencies, intends to file a Draft
Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) with the EPA for the Tribe's
proposed 534.91 acre trust acquisition and subsequent
construction of a hotel/casino project to be located within the City of
San Jacinto, Riverside County, California, and that the DEIS is now
available for public review and comment. This notice provides a 75-day
public comment period and thereby grants a 30-day extension to the
normal 45-day public comment period.
DATES: The DEIS will be available for public comment beginning July 2,
2009. Written comments on the DEIS must arrive by September 15, 2009. A
public hearing will be held on Wednesday, August 5, 2009 starting at 6
p.m. to 9 p.m. or until the last public comment is received.
ADDRESSES: You may mail or hand-carry written comments to Dale Morris,
Regional Director, Pacific Region, Bureau of Indian Affairs 2800
Cottage Way, Sacramento, California 95825.
The public hearing will be held at: Hemet Public Library, 2nd
Floor, 300 E. Latham, Hemet, CA 92543
See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for locations where the DEIS will be
available for review and instructions for submitting comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Rydzik, (916) 978-6051.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Soboba Band of Luise[ntilde]o Indians
(Tribe) has requested the BIA to acquire 34 parcels totaling
534.91 acres of land currently held in fee by the Tribe
into trust, of which the Tribe proposes to develop approximately 55
acres into a destination hotel/casino complex. The Tribe proposes to
relocate its existing casino, which presently resides on trust lands,
to the project site. In addition to the fee-to-trust action and casino
relocation, the proposed action also includes the development of a 300-
room hotel, casino, restaurants, retail establishments, a convention
center, an events arena, and a spa and fitness center, within a
729,500 square-foot complex. The proposed developments also
include a Tribal fire station, and a 12-pump gas station with a 6,000
square-foot convenience store.
Approximately 300 acres (56 percent) of the project site is
incorporated in the City of San Jacinto, California, while the
remainder is within unincorporated Riverside County, California. The
proposed hotel and casino complex would be generally located at the
intersection of Soboba Road and Lake Park Drive and abut the existing
Soboba Springs Country Club. Lake Park Drive may or may not be
realigned as part of the proposed action contingent upon consultation
with the City of San Jacinto.
The BIA, serving as the lead agency for compliance with the
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), published a Notice of Intent
(NOI) to prepare the EIS for the proposed action in the Federal
Register on December 14, 2007. The EPA and the City of San Jacinto have
accepted invitations to be cooperating agencies, as entities having
jurisdiction by law or special expertise relevant to environmental
issues.
BIA held a public scoping meeting on January 8, 2008, at the Hemet
Public Library in Hemet, California. From that scoping meeting, a range
of project alternatives were developed and subsequently analyzed in the
DEIS, including: (1) Proposed Action A--Hotel/Casino Complex with
Realignment of Lake Park Drive; (2) Proposed Action B--Hotel/Casino
Complex without Realignment of Lake Park Drive; (3) Reduced Hotel/
Casino Complex; (4) Hotel and Convention Center (No Casino Relocation);
(5) Commercial Enterprise (No Casino or Hotel); and (6) No Action
alternative. Environmental issues addressed in the
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DEIS include land resources; water resources; air quality; biological
resources; cultural resources; economic and socioeconomic conditions;
resource use patterns; public services; other values including noise,
hazardous materials, and visual resources; cumulative effects; indirect
effects; growth inducing effects; and mitigation measures.
Directions for Submitting Comments
Please include your name, return address, and the caption: ``DEIS
Comments, Soboba Band of Luise[ntilde]o Indians' Casino Project,'' on
the first page of your written comments and submit comments to the BIA
address listed in the ADDRESSES section of this notice.
Public Availability of the DEIS
The DEIS will be available for review at:
The San Jacinto Public Library, 500 Idyllwild Dr., San
Jacinto, CA 92583, telephone (951) 654-8635; and
The Hemet Public Library, 2nd Floor, 300 E. Latham, Hemet,
CA 92543, telephone (951) 765-2440.
The DEIS is also available on the following Web site: https://team.entrix.com/clientsite/soboba.nsf.
To obtain a compact disk copy of the DEIS, please provide your name
and address in writing to: Chief, Division of Environmental, Cultural
Resource Management and Safety, Pacific Regional Office, Bureau of
Indian Affairs, 2800 Cottage Way, Room W 2820, Sacramento, CA 95825 or
call the number listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section
of this notice. Individual paper copies of the DEIS can be provided
upon payment of the applicable printing cost for the number of copies
requested.
Public Comment Availability
Written comments, including the names and addresses of respondents,
will be available for public review at the BIA address shown in the
ADDRESSES section, during regular business hours, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except holidays. 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
This notice is published pursuant to section 1503.1 of the Council
of Environmental Quality Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500 through 1508)
implementing the procedural requirements of the NEPA of 1969, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 4371 et seq.), Department of the Interior Manual
(516 DM 1-6) and is in the exercise of authority delegated to the
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs by 209 DM 8.1.
Dated: June 11, 2009.
Larry Echo Hawk,
Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. E9-15435 Filed 7-1-09; 8:45 am]
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