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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
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Notice of Intent To Prepare a Resource
Management Plan for the
Uncompahgre Field Office and
Associated Environmental Impact
Statement
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Intent.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) of 1969, as amended, and the
Federal Land Policy and Management
Act (FLPMA) of 1976, as amended, the
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Uncompahgre Field Office (UFO),
Montrose, Colorado intends to prepare a
Resource Management Plan (RMP) with
an associated Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) for the UFO and by this
notice is announcing the beginning of
the scoping process to solicit public
comments and identify issues. The RMP
will replace the existing 1985 San Juan/
San Miguel RMP and the 1989
Uncompahgre Basin RMP.
DATES: This notice initiates the public
scoping process for the RMP and the
associated EIS. Comments on issues and
planning criteria may be submitted in
writing until March 29, 2010
Scoping meetings were held recently
in the following locations:
Hotchkiss, CO, January 12, 2010.
Delta, CO, January 13, 2010.
Montrose, CO, January 14, 2010.
Ridgway, CO, January 19, 2010.
Norwood, CO, January 20, 2010.
Naturita, CO, January 21, 2010.
Telluride, CO, February 3, 2010.
The dates and locations of all scoping
meetings were announced 15 days in
advance through local media, a
newsletter and the BLM Web site at:
https://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/ufo/
uncompahgre_rmp.html. Comments
received during scoping meetings held
in January and February, 2010 will be
incorporated in the record and
considered by the BLM. In order to be
included in the Draft EIS, all comments
must be received prior to the close of
the 30-day scoping period. The BLM
will provide additional opportunities
for public participation upon
publication of the Draft EIS.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
on issues and planning criteria by any
of the following methods:
• Web site: https://www.blm.gov/co/st/
en/fo/ufo/uncompahgre_rmp.html.
• E-mail: uformp@blm.gov.
• Fax: (970) 240–5367.
• Mail: BLM Uncompahgre Field
Office, RMP Project Manager, 2465 S.
Townsend Ave., Montrose, Colorado
81401.
Documents pertinent to this proposal
may be examined at the UFO during
regular business hours (from 8 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday,
except holidays).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information and/or to have your
name added to our mailing list, contact
Bruce Krickbaum, RMP Project
Manager, telephone (970) 240–5300;
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address BLM Uncompahgre Field Office
2465 South Townsend Ave, Montrose,
Colorado 81401; e-mail
uformp@blm.gov.
This
document: provides notice that the BLM
UFO, Montrose, Colorado, intends to
prepare an RMP with an associated EIS
for the UFO; announces the beginning of
the scoping process; and seeks public
input on issues and planning criteria.
The planning area is located in Delta,
Gunnison, Mesa, Montrose, Ouray and
San Miguel counties, Colorado,
encompasses approximately 675,677
acres of public land, and excludes the
Gunnison Gorge National Conservation
Area and the Dominguez-Escalante
National Conservation Area, which are
managed under separate RMPs.
The purpose of the public scoping
process is to determine relevant issues
that will influence the scope of the
environmental analysis, including
alternatives, and guide the planning
process. Preliminary issues for the
planning area have been identified by
BLM personnel, Federal, State, and local
agencies, and other stakeholders. The
issues include:
• Managing vegetative and water
resources, terrestrial and aquatic habitat
and special management areas, while
sustaining biological diversity and
native species populations;
• Managing mineral, renewable and
nonrenewable energy resources;
• Managing increasing numbers and
types of human activities and uses;
• Managing land tenure adjustments,
withdrawals and utility/energy
corridors;
• Managing and protecting cultural,
historical and paleontological resources
and Native American religious
concerns; and
• Managing public lands and
resources, including authorized and
permitted land uses, for a growing
population and expanding urban
interface, with consideration for
community values and needs.
Preliminary planning criteria include:
• Compliance with the FLPMA, the
NEPA and other applicable laws and
regulations.
• Incorporation of the Colorado BLM
Standards for Public Land Health.
• Continued management of
Wilderness Study Areas under the
Interim Management Policy for Lands
under Wilderness Review until
Congress acts on a designation or
releases lands from consideration.
• Decisions will be made that affect
all BLM lands, including the subsurface
mineral estate, within the planning area.
• Recognition of valid existing rights.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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• Inclusion of adaptive management
criteria to deal with future issues.
Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7 and 43 CFR
1610.2.
Public participation will be encouraged
throughout the process. The BLM will
collaborate and build relationships with
tribes, State and local governments,
Federal agencies, local stakeholders and
others within the community of interest
for the RMP.
You may submit comments on issues
and planning criteria in writing to the
BLM at any public scoping meeting, or
you may submit them to the BLM using
one of the methods listed in the
ADDRESSES section above. To be most
helpful, you should submit comments
within the 30-day scoping period.
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 you
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. The BLM will evaluate identified
issues to be addressed in the plan and
place them into one of three categories:
1. Issues to be resolved in the plan;
2. Issues to be resolved through policy
or administrative action; or
3. Issues beyond the scope of this
plan.
Dave Hunsaker,
Acting State Director.
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The BLM will provide an explanation in
the Draft RMP/EIS regarding why an
issue was placed in category two or
three. The public is also encouraged to
help identify any management questions
and concerns that should be addressed
in the plan. The BLM will work
collaboratively with the interested
parties to identify the management
decisions that are best suited to local,
regional, and national needs and
concerns.
The BLM will use an interdisciplinary
approach to develop the plan in order
to consider the variety of resource issues
and concerns identified. Specialists
with expertise in the following
disciplines will be involved in the
planning process: Wildlife; Threatened
and Endangered Species; Vegetation;
Riparian and Wetlands; Soils; Invasive
and Noxious Weeds; Rangeland
Management; Fire Ecology and
Management; Cultural Resources and
Native American Concerns; Hydrology;
Geology and Minerals; Lands and
Realty; Recreation; Visual Resource
Management; Public Safety; Law
Enforcement; and Geographic
Information Systems.
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National Park Service
Notice of Intent to Repatriate a Cultural
Item: Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice is here given in accordance
with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act
(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent
to repatriate a cultural item in the
possession of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA, that meets
the definition of ‘‘unassociated funerary
object’’ under 25 U.S.C. 3001.
This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations
in this notice are the sole responsibility
of the museum, institution, or Federal
agency that has control of the cultural
items. The National Park Service is not
responsible for the determinations in
this notice.
The item is a coiled, cylindrical
basket with black linear designs.
At an unknown date, this basket was
collected by Grace Nicholson at an
unknown locality, but likely in
California. It was donated to the
Peabody Museum by Lewis Farlow in
1905. Museum documentation states
that this item was ‘‘rescued from pyral
fire.’’ The description of ‘‘pyral fire’’
indicates that this item was intended to
be burned as part of a funeral rite. The
Peabody Museum is not in possession of
the human remains.
Museum documentation describes
this item as ‘‘probably Moquelumnan
stock.’’ The term ‘‘Moquelumnan’’ was
used to describe Miwok people.
Consultation evidence indicates that
present-day groups which represent
Miwok people are the Buena Vista
Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of
California; California Valley Miwok
Tribe, California; Chicken Ranch
Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of
California; Federated Indians of Graton
Rancheria, California; Ione Band of
Miwok Indians of California; Jackson
Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of
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California; Shingle Springs Band of
Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs
Rancheria (Verona Tract), California;
Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of
the Tuolumne Rancheria of California;
United Auburn Indian Community of
the Auburn Rancheria of California; and
Wilton Rancheria, California.
Officials of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (3)(B), the one cultural item
described above is reasonably believed
to have been placed with or near
individual human remains at the time of
death or later as part of the death rite
or ceremony and is believed, by a
preponderance of the evidence, to have
been removed from a specific burial site
of an Native American individual.
Officials of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology also have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (2), there is a relationship of
shared group identity that can be
reasonably traced between the
unassociated funerary object and the
Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk
Indians of California; California Valley
Miwok Tribe, California; Chicken Ranch
Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of
California; Federated Indians of Graton
Rancheria, California; Ione Band of
Miwok Indians of California; Jackson
Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of
California; Shingle Springs Band of
Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs
Rancheria (Verona Tract), California;
Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of
the Tuolumne Rancheria of California;
United Auburn Indian Community of
the Auburn Rancheria of California; and
Wilton Rancheria, California.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the unassociated funerary
object should contact Patricia Capone,
Repatriation Coordinator, Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138,
telephone (617) 496–3702, before March
29, 2010. Repatriation of the
unassociated funerary object to the
Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk
Indians of California; California Valley
Miwok Tribe, California; Chicken Ranch
Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of
California; Federated Indians of Graton
Rancheria, California; Ione Band of
Miwok Indians of California; Jackson
Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of
California; Shingle Springs Band of
Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs
Rancheria (Verona Tract), California;
Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of
the Tuolumne Rancheria of California;
United Auburn Indian Community of
the Auburn Rancheria of California; and
Wilton Rancheria, California may
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLCOS05000 2009]
Notice of Intent To Prepare a Resource Management Plan for the
Uncompahgre Field Office and Associated Environmental Impact Statement
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Intent.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) of 1969, as amended, and the Federal Land Policy and Management
Act (FLPMA) of 1976, as amended, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Uncompahgre Field Office (UFO), Montrose, Colorado intends to prepare a
Resource Management Plan (RMP) with an associated Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) for the UFO and by this notice is announcing the
beginning of the scoping process to solicit public comments and
identify issues. The RMP will replace the existing 1985 San Juan/San
Miguel RMP and the 1989 Uncompahgre Basin RMP.
DATES: This notice initiates the public scoping process for the RMP and
the associated EIS. Comments on issues and planning criteria may be
submitted in writing until March 29, 2010
Scoping meetings were held recently in the following locations:
Hotchkiss, CO, January 12, 2010.
Delta, CO, January 13, 2010.
Montrose, CO, January 14, 2010.
Ridgway, CO, January 19, 2010.
Norwood, CO, January 20, 2010.
Naturita, CO, January 21, 2010.
Telluride, CO, February 3, 2010.
The dates and locations of all scoping meetings were announced 15 days
in advance through local media, a newsletter and the BLM Web site at:
https://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/ufo/uncompahgre_rmp.html. Comments
received during scoping meetings held in January and February, 2010
will be incorporated in the record and considered by the BLM. In order
to be included in the Draft EIS, all comments must be received prior to
the close of the 30-day scoping period. The BLM will provide additional
opportunities for public participation upon publication of the Draft
EIS.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments on issues and planning criteria by
any of the following methods:
Web site: https://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/ufo/uncompahgre_rmp.html.
E-mail: uformp@blm.gov.
Fax: (970) 240-5367.
Mail: BLM Uncompahgre Field Office, RMP Project Manager,
2465 S. Townsend Ave., Montrose, Colorado 81401.
Documents pertinent to this proposal may be examined at the UFO during
regular business hours (from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday,
except holidays).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information and/or to have
your name added to our mailing list, contact Bruce Krickbaum, RMP
Project Manager, telephone (970) 240-5300; address BLM Uncompahgre
Field Office 2465 South Townsend Ave, Montrose, Colorado 81401; e-mail
uformp@blm.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document: provides notice that the BLM
UFO, Montrose, Colorado, intends to prepare an RMP with an associated
EIS for the UFO; announces the beginning of the scoping process; and
seeks public input on issues and planning criteria. The planning area
is located in Delta, Gunnison, Mesa, Montrose, Ouray and San Miguel
counties, Colorado, encompasses approximately 675,677 acres of public
land, and excludes the Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area and
the Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area, which are managed
under separate RMPs.
The purpose of the public scoping process is to determine relevant
issues that will influence the scope of the environmental analysis,
including alternatives, and guide the planning process. Preliminary
issues for the planning area have been identified by BLM personnel,
Federal, State, and local agencies, and other stakeholders. The issues
include:
Managing vegetative and water resources, terrestrial and
aquatic habitat and special management areas, while sustaining
biological diversity and native species populations;
Managing mineral, renewable and nonrenewable energy
resources;
Managing increasing numbers and types of human activities
and uses;
Managing land tenure adjustments, withdrawals and utility/
energy corridors;
Managing and protecting cultural, historical and
paleontological resources and Native American religious concerns; and
Managing public lands and resources, including authorized
and permitted land uses, for a growing population and expanding urban
interface, with consideration for community values and needs.
Preliminary planning criteria include:
Compliance with the FLPMA, the NEPA and other applicable
laws and regulations.
Incorporation of the Colorado BLM Standards for Public
Land Health.
Continued management of Wilderness Study Areas under the
Interim Management Policy for Lands under Wilderness Review until
Congress acts on a designation or releases lands from consideration.
Decisions will be made that affect all BLM lands,
including the subsurface mineral estate, within the planning area.
Recognition of valid existing rights.
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Inclusion of adaptive management criteria to deal with
future issues.
Public participation will be encouraged throughout the process. The BLM
will collaborate and build relationships with tribes, State and local
governments, Federal agencies, local stakeholders and others within the
community of interest for the RMP.
You may submit comments on issues and planning criteria in writing
to the BLM at any public scoping meeting, or you may submit them to the
BLM using one of the methods listed in the ADDRESSES section above. To
be most helpful, you should submit comments within the 30-day scoping
period. 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 you 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. The BLM will evaluate identified issues to be addressed
in the plan and place them into one of three categories:
1. Issues to be resolved in the plan;
2. Issues to be resolved through policy or administrative action;
or
3. Issues beyond the scope of this plan.
The BLM will provide an explanation in the Draft RMP/EIS regarding why
an issue was placed in category two or three. The public is also
encouraged to help identify any management questions and concerns that
should be addressed in the plan. The BLM will work collaboratively with
the interested parties to identify the management decisions that are
best suited to local, regional, and national needs and concerns.
The BLM will use an interdisciplinary approach to develop the plan
in order to consider the variety of resource issues and concerns
identified. Specialists with expertise in the following disciplines
will be involved in the planning process: Wildlife; Threatened and
Endangered Species; Vegetation; Riparian and Wetlands; Soils; Invasive
and Noxious Weeds; Rangeland Management; Fire Ecology and Management;
Cultural Resources and Native American Concerns; Hydrology; Geology and
Minerals; Lands and Realty; Recreation; Visual Resource Management;
Public Safety; Law Enforcement; and Geographic Information Systems.
Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7 and 43 CFR 1610.2.
Dave Hunsaker,
Acting State Director.
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