Notice Re-opening the Comment Period for the Draft Resource Management Plan and Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Clear Creek Management Area, California, 17951 [2010-7999]
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Decision). The matter has been stayed
during settlement negotiations. The
Ninth Circuit stayed litigation regarding
similar challenges to the Lakeview RMP
in Oregon Natural Desert Association v.
Gammon, No. 07–35728 (9th Cir.),
pending resolution of the Southeastern
Oregon RMP case, and to allow for
settlement negotiations between the
parties. The BLM is preparing RMP
Amendments/EISs consistent with the
2008 holding of the Ninth Circuit.
The two RMP Amendments/EISs plan
to address the following issues:
• Consideration of information from
updates of resource information related
to wilderness characteristics;
• Development of a range of
allocation alternatives with respect to
ORV use, travel, and transportation; and
• Development of grazing
management alternative(s).
The purpose of the public scoping
processes is to determine other relevant
issues that will influence the scope of
the environmental analyses, including
alternatives, and guide the planning
processes.
The BLM has also identified some
preliminary planning criteria to guide
development of the RMP Amendments,
to avoid unnecessary data collection
and analysis, and to ensure the RMP
Amendments are tailored to the issues.
These criteria may be modified and/or
other criteria may be identified during
the public scoping process. Preliminary
planning criteria include compliance
with all legal mandates of the FLPMA,
the NEPA, the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, the Administrative
Procedures Act, the BLM planning
regulations in 43 CFR part 1600, and
other relevant laws. The following
planning criteria will also guide the
planning processes:
• The principles of multiple-use and
sustained yield will be observed;
• A systematic interdisciplinary
approach to integrate, physical,
biological, economic, and other sciences
will be used;
• Priority will be given to the
designation and protection of Areas of
Critical Environmental Concern;
• The best available data regarding
natural resources will be used, to the
extent possible;
• Present and potential uses of public
lands will be considered;
• The relative scarcity of values and
availability of alternative means and
sites for recognizing those values will be
considered;
• Long term benefits to the public
against short term benefits will be
weighed;
• Tribal, Federal, and state pollution
laws, standards and implementation
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plans will be complied with, to the
extent possible; and
• Consistency and coordination with
other programs, plans and policies will
be sought.
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
either prior to the close of the 90-day
scoping period or within 30 days after
the last public meeting. 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. The minutes and list of attendees
for each scoping meeting will be
available to the public and open for 30
days after the meeting to any participant
who wishes to clarify the views he or
she expressed. The BLM will evaluate
identified issues to be addressed in the
RMP Amendments, and will place them
into one of three categories:
1. Issues to be resolved in the plan
amendment;
2. Issues to be resolved through policy
or administrative action; or
3. Issues beyond the scope of the plan
amendments.
The BLM will provide an explanation
in the Draft RMP Amendments/EISs as
to 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 RMP
Amendments. The BLM will work
collaboratively with 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 RMP
Amendments in order to consider the
variety of resource issues and concerns
identified. At a minimum, specialists
with expertise in the following
disciplines will be involved in the
planning processes: Rangeland
management, wilderness, travel
management, recreation, and wildlife.
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Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7; 43 CFR 1610.2.
Larry Frazier,
Acting Vale District Manager.
Carol Benkosky,
Lakeview District Manager.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
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Notice Re-opening the Comment
Period for the Draft Resource
Management Plan and Draft
Environmental Impact Statement for
the Clear Creek Management Area,
California
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) announces a reopening of the comment period on the
Draft Resource Management Plan (RMP)
and Draft Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) for the Clear Creek
Management Area (CCMA). The original
notice was published in the Federal
Register on December 4, 2009 [74 FR
0232] and provided for a comment
period to end on March 5, 2010. The
BLM is re-opening the comment period
to end April 19, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sky
Murphy, BLM Hollister Field Office, 20
Hamilton Court, Hollister, California
95023, (831) 630–5039.
The
original Notice of Availability provided
for comments on the Draft RMP/Draft
EIS to be received through March 5,
2010. The BLM is re-opening the
comment period in response to and in
light of the land use restrictions
considered in the plan. Comments on
the Draft RMP and EIS will now be
accepted through April 19, 2010.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Karen Montgomery,
Acting Deputy State Director for Natural
Resources.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLCAC09000 L16100000.DP0000]
Notice Re-opening the Comment Period for the Draft Resource
Management Plan and Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Clear
Creek Management Area, California
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces a re-opening of
the comment period on the Draft Resource Management Plan (RMP) and
Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Clear Creek
Management Area (CCMA). The original notice was published in the
Federal Register on December 4, 2009 [74 FR 0232] and provided for a
comment period to end on March 5, 2010. The BLM is re-opening the
comment period to end April 19, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sky Murphy, BLM Hollister Field
Office, 20 Hamilton Court, Hollister, California 95023, (831) 630-5039.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The original Notice of Availability provided
for comments on the Draft RMP/Draft EIS to be received through March 5,
2010. The BLM is re-opening the comment period in response to and in
light of the land use restrictions considered in the plan. Comments on
the Draft RMP and EIS will now be accepted through April 19, 2010.
Karen Montgomery,
Acting Deputy State Director for Natural Resources.
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