Notice of Expansion of the Lisbon Valley Known Potash Leasing Area, Utah, 70024-70025 [2010-28724]
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5. Comments
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locations near these areas in to mid
November 2010. The meetings are being
planned for, but not necessarily limited
to:
• Tuesday, November 16, 2010, New
Orleans, Louisiana, Hilton New Orleans
Airport, 901 Airline Drive Kenner,
Louisiana 70062, 1 p.m. CST.
• Wednesday, November 17, 2010,
Houston, Texas, Houston Airport
Marriott at George Bush
Intercontinental, 18700 John F. Kennedy
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• Thursday, November 18, 2010,
Mobile, Alabama, The Battle House
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North Royal Street, Mobile, Alabama
36602 1 p.m. CST.
These scoping meetings may also
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and the EIS addressing proposed lease
sales in the Central and Western GOM
in the 2012–2017 OCS Program. The
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2. In written form, delivered by hand
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labeled ‘‘SEIS Comments’’ to the
Regional Supervisor, Leasing and
Environment (MS 5410), Bureau of
Ocean Energy Management, Regulation
and Enforcement, Gulf of Mexico OCS
Region, 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard,
New Orleans, Louisiana 70123–2394.
Comments should be submitted no
later than January 3, 2011.
Dated: November 10, 2010.
L. Renee Orr,
Acting Associate Director for Offshore Energy
and Minerals Management.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLUT920–09–L13300000–EN000, UTU–
XXXX]
Notice of Expansion of the Lisbon
Valley Known Potash Leasing Area,
Utah
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
Potash is a trade name for
potassium bearing minerals used mainly
for fertilizer. Potash and certain other
non-energy solid minerals found on
Federal lands may be leased for
development in either of two ways: (1)
If it is unknown whether an area
contains valuable potash deposits, an
interested party may obtain a
prospecting permit, which grants it the
exclusive right to explore for potash,
and, if a valuable deposit is found, that
party may qualify for a noncompetitive
lease; or (2) If the BLM has access to
information which shows that valuable
deposits of potash exist in an area, the
area may be classified and designated a
Known Potash Leasing Area (KPLA),
where prospecting permits may not be
issued, and any leasing must be done on
a competitive basis.
In 1960, the United States Geological
Survey (USGS) established the Lisbon
Valley KPLA, based on mineral land
classification standards established in
1957. In 1983, under Secretarial Order
3087, the authority to designate KPLAs
was transferred to the BLM. Recent
advances in drilling technology have
provided the capability to extract deep
potash deposits using dissolution. Based
on this new technology, the BLM
approved new mineral land
classification standards for the Utah
portion of the Paradox Basin geologic
province, which includes Lisbon Valley
in 2009. The BLM Utah State Office
used the new standards and the analysis
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of available drilling information to
determine that the Lisbon Valley KPLA
should be expanded to include deep
solution-mineable potash deposits.
Additional information regarding this
KPLA expansion, including maps and
the Potash Master Title Plats, are
available in the Public Room of the BLM
Utah State Office and at the following
Web site:
https://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/prog/more/
Land_Records.html. The lands included
in the Lisbon Valley KPLA expansion,
located in San Juan County, Utah, are
described as follows:
Salt Lake Base Meridian, Utah
T. 29 S., R. 24 E.,
Sec. 29, SW1⁄4SW1⁄4;
Sec. 30, E1⁄2SE1⁄4;
Sec. 31, E1⁄2E1⁄2, SE1⁄4SW1⁄4, W1⁄2SE1⁄4;
Sec. 32, W1⁄2W1⁄2, E1⁄2SW1⁄4, S1⁄2SE1⁄4; and
Sec. 33, E1⁄2, SE1⁄4NW1⁄4, E1⁄2SW1⁄4,
SW1⁄4SW1⁄4.
Containing 1,200.00 acres.
T. 291⁄2 S., R. 24 E.,
Sec. 27, lots 2–4;
Sec. 28, lots 1–4;
Sec. 29, lots 1–4;
Sec. 32, N1⁄2, E1⁄2SW1⁄4, SE1⁄4;
Sec. 33, all; and
Sec. 34, W1⁄2NE1⁄4, W1⁄2, SE1⁄4.
Containing 1,980.68 acres.
T. 30 S., R. 24 E.,
Sec. 2, W1⁄2SW1⁄4;
Sec. 3, all;
Sec. 4, all;
Sec. 5, lots 1, 2, S1⁄2NE1⁄4, SE1⁄4;
Sec. 8, E1⁄2, SE1⁄4SW1⁄4;
Sec. 9, all;
Sec. 10, all;
Sec. 11, SW1⁄4NE1⁄4, W1⁄2, W1⁄2SE1⁄4;
Sec. 13, W1⁄2SW1⁄4;
Sec. 14, all;
Sec. 15, all;
Sec. 16, N1⁄2, N1⁄2S1⁄2, S1⁄2SE1⁄4;
Sec. 17, NE1⁄4, E1⁄2NW1⁄4, N1⁄2S1⁄2;
Sec. 21, E1⁄2E1⁄2;
Sec. 22, all;
Sec. 23, all;
Sec. 24, W1⁄2;
Sec. 25, W1⁄2NE1⁄4, SE1⁄4NE1⁄4, W1⁄2, SE1⁄4;
Sec. 26, all;
Sec. 27, N1⁄2, N1⁄2S1⁄2, SE1⁄4SW1⁄4, S1⁄2SE1⁄4;
Sec. 28, N1⁄2, N1⁄2S1⁄2;
Sec. 35, N1⁄2N1⁄2, S1⁄2NE1⁄4; and
Sec. 36, N1⁄2, N1⁄2S1⁄2, SE1⁄4SW1⁄4, S1⁄2SE1⁄4.
Containing 10,997.82 acres.
T. 31 S., R. 24 E.,
Sec. 1, lots 1–3, S1⁄2NE1⁄4, NE1⁄4SE1⁄4.
Containing 253.75 acres.
T. 30 S., R. 25 E.,
Sec. 30, lots 2–4, SE1⁄4SW1⁄4, SW1⁄4SE1⁄4;
Sec. 31, all;
Sec. 32, W1⁄2NE1⁄4, SE1⁄4NE1⁄4, NW1⁄4, S1⁄2;
Sec. 33, SW1⁄4NE1⁄4, S1⁄2NW1⁄4, S1⁄2;
Sec. 34, S1⁄2NE1⁄4, SE1⁄4NW1⁄4, S1⁄2; and
Sec. 35, SW1⁄4, SW1⁄4SE1⁄4 .
Containing 2,517.75 acres.
T. 31 S., R 25 E.,
Sec. 2, lots 3, 4, SW1⁄4NW1⁄4;
Sec. 3, lots 1–4, S1⁄2N1⁄2, N1⁄2SW1⁄4,
SW1⁄4SW1⁄4, NE1⁄4;SE1⁄4;
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Sec. 4, all;
Sec. 5, all; and
Sec. 6, lots 1–6, S1⁄2NE1⁄4, SE1⁄4NW1⁄4,
NE1⁄4SW1⁄4, SE1⁄4.
Containing 2,495.23 acres.
Containing an aggregate acreage of:
19,445.23.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[2253–665]
This mineral land classification
will become effective upon date of
publication of this notice in the Federal
Register.
DATES:
Inquiries should be sent to
the State Director (UT–923), Bureau of
Land Management, Utah State Office,
440 West 200 South, Suite 500, Salt
Lake City, Utah 84101.
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ADDRESSES:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Competitive leasing within the KPLA
will be initiated based on expressions of
interest. Any competitive leases issued
will be subject to the oil and gas leasing
stipulations contained in the 2008 Moab
and Monticello Resource Management
Plans (Moab RMP, Appendix A and
Monticello RMP, Appendix B).
Competitive potash leases will also be
subject to additional conditions of
approval developed as part of sitespecific National Environmental Policy
Act of 1969 (NEPA) compliance.
In accordance with Departmental
Manual (DM) 516, Chapter 11.9 J(12),
the classification of a KPLA is an action
that is categorically excluded from
NEPA analysis, provided that there are
no ‘‘extraordinary circumstances’’ as
described in 43 CFR 46.215. The
proposed Lisbon Valley KPLA
expansion was reviewed and was
determined to have no ‘‘extraordinary
circumstances’’ as documented in DOI–
BLM–UT–9230–2010–0003–CX. Further
NEPA review will be done for site
specific proposals within the KPLA.
This notice will be published in the
Moab Times Independent for 2
consecutive weeks after publication in
the Federal Register.
Pursuant to the authority in the Act of
March 3, 1879, (43 U.S.C. 31), as
supplemented by Reorganization Plan
No. 3 of 1950 (43 U.S.C. 1451, note) and
235 Departmental Manual 1.1L, and the
Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as
amended (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.), the
Lisbon Valley KPLA of May 18, 1960, is
expanded to include the lands listed
above effective on November 16, 2010.
Kent Hoffman,
Acting State Director.
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Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Reclamation, Pacific Northwest
Region, Boise, ID, and Colville Tribal
Repository, Nespelem, WA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice is hereby given in accordance
with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act
(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the
completion of an inventory of human
remains in the control of the U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Reclamation, Pacific Northwest Region,
Boise, ID, and in the physical custody
of the Colville Tribal Repository,
Nespelem, WA. The human remains
were removed from Grant County, WA.
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 Native
American human remains. The National
Park Service is not responsible for the
determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the human
remains was made by Bureau of
Reclamation professional staff with
assistance from a Central Washington
University physical anthropologist and
professional staff from Washington State
University, the National Park Service,
and the History/Archaeology
Department of the Confederated Tribes
of the Colville Reservation, Washington.
From the winter of 1963 to 1964,
human remains representing a
minimum of eight individuals were
removed from a location, which was
later designated as the Steamboat Rock
Mass Grave (45–GR–98), near the mouth
of Barker Canyon at Banks Lake, Grant
County, WA. A member of the general
public reported a mass grave had been
exposed by receding waters at Banks
Lake. Members of Washington State
University’s Department of Sociology
and Anthropology excavated the
remains in an effort to protect them
from vandalism and theft. The remains
were accessioned at Washington State
University. The human remains were
moved, most likely in 1967, to the
Alfred Bowers Laboratory of
Anthropology at the University of Idaho.
At an unknown date, the remains were
loaned to the Arizona State Museum,
University of Arizona, for analysis, and
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this analysis occurred in 1967. There is
no documentation indicating if the loan
originated while the remains were at
Washington State University or after
they had been moved to the University
of Idaho, nor is there documentation of
which institution they were returned to
following analysis. However, the human
remains were stored at the University of
Idaho until 2000, when they were
moved back to Washington State
University. In 2006, they were
transferred to the Colville Tribal
Repository for curation pending
repatriation. No known individuals
were identified. No associated funerary
objects are present.
No physical description of the
remains was prepared at the time of
recovery. In 1967, the Arizona State
Museum documented the partial
remains of six individuals. In 2005, the
Bureau of Reclamation completed a
physical description of the remains. All
individuals identified in 1967 were
present in the collection at the time of
the 2005 inventory, and isolated
elements representing two additional
individuals were identified.
The osteological evidence as
described by archeologists and physical
anthropologists indicate the human
remains described above are Native
American. The geographic location of
the site is within the Plateau Culture
Area. The site is within the judicially
established aboriginal territory of the
Confederated Tribes of the Colville
Reservation. Tribal oral tradition and
anthropological and historical research
indicate the site lies within an area
occupied by the Sanpoil and the
Nespelem Tribes or Bands, who are
legally represented by the Confederated
Tribes of the Colville Reservation,
Washington.
Officials of the Bureau of
Reclamation, Pacific Northwest Region,
have determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001(9), that the human remains
described above represent the physical
remains of eight individuals of Native
American ancestry. Officials of the
Bureau of Reclamation, Pacific
Northwest Region, have also
determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001(2), that there is a relationship of
shared group identity that can be
reasonably traced between the Native
American human remains and the
Confederated Tribes of the Colville
Reservation, Washington.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the human remains
should contact Ms. Lynne MacDonald,
Regional Archeologist, Pacific
Northwest Region, Bureau of
Reclamation, 1150 N. Curtis Road,
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLUT920-09-L13300000-EN000, UTU-XXXX]
Notice of Expansion of the Lisbon Valley Known Potash Leasing
Area, Utah
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: Potash is a trade name for potassium bearing minerals used
mainly for fertilizer. Potash and certain other non-energy solid
minerals found on Federal lands may be leased for development in either
of two ways: (1) If it is unknown whether an area contains valuable
potash deposits, an interested party may obtain a prospecting permit,
which grants it the exclusive right to explore for potash, and, if a
valuable deposit is found, that party may qualify for a noncompetitive
lease; or (2) If the BLM has access to information which shows that
valuable deposits of potash exist in an area, the area may be
classified and designated a Known Potash Leasing Area (KPLA), where
prospecting permits may not be issued, and any leasing must be done on
a competitive basis.
In 1960, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) established the
Lisbon Valley KPLA, based on mineral land classification standards
established in 1957. In 1983, under Secretarial Order 3087, the
authority to designate KPLAs was transferred to the BLM. Recent
advances in drilling technology have provided the capability to extract
deep potash deposits using dissolution. Based on this new technology,
the BLM approved new mineral land classification standards for the Utah
portion of the Paradox Basin geologic province, which includes Lisbon
Valley in 2009. The BLM Utah State Office used the new standards and
the analysis of available drilling information to determine that the
Lisbon Valley KPLA should be expanded to include deep solution-mineable
potash deposits. Additional information regarding this KPLA expansion,
including maps and the Potash Master Title Plats, are available in the
Public Room of the BLM Utah State Office and at the following Web site:
https://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/prog/more/Land_Records.html. The lands
included in the Lisbon Valley KPLA expansion, located in San Juan
County, Utah, are described as follows:
Salt Lake Base Meridian, Utah
T. 29 S., R. 24 E.,
Sec. 29, SW\1/4\SW\1/4\;
Sec. 30, E\1/2\SE\1/4\;
Sec. 31, E\1/2\E\1/2\, SE\1/4\SW\1/4\, W\1/2\SE\1/4\;
Sec. 32, W\1/2\W\1/2\, E\1/2\SW\1/4\, S\1/2\SE\1/4\; and
Sec. 33, E\1/2\, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, E\1/2\SW\1/4\, SW\1/4\SW\1/4\.
Containing 1,200.00 acres.
T. 29\1/2\ S., R. 24 E.,
Sec. 27, lots 2-4;
Sec. 28, lots 1-4;
Sec. 29, lots 1-4;
Sec. 32, N\1/2\, E\1/2\SW\1/4\, SE\1/4\;
Sec. 33, all; and
Sec. 34, W\1/2\NE\1/4\, W\1/2\, SE\1/4\.
Containing 1,980.68 acres.
T. 30 S., R. 24 E.,
Sec. 2, W\1/2\SW\1/4\;
Sec. 3, all;
Sec. 4, all;
Sec. 5, lots 1, 2, S\1/2\NE\1/4\, SE\1/4\;
Sec. 8, E\1/2\, SE\1/4\SW\1/4\;
Sec. 9, all;
Sec. 10, all;
Sec. 11, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, W\1/2\, W\1/2\SE\1/4\;
Sec. 13, W\1/2\SW\1/4\;
Sec. 14, all;
Sec. 15, all;
Sec. 16, N\1/2\, N\1/2\S\1/2\, S\1/2\SE\1/4\;
Sec. 17, NE\1/4\, E\1/2\NW\1/4\, N\1/2\S\1/2\;
Sec. 21, E\1/2\E\1/2\;
Sec. 22, all;
Sec. 23, all;
Sec. 24, W\1/2\;
Sec. 25, W\1/2\NE\1/4\, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\, W\1/2\, SE\1/4\;
Sec. 26, all;
Sec. 27, N\1/2\, N\1/2\S\1/2\, SE\1/4\SW\1/4\, S\1/2\SE\1/4\;
Sec. 28, N\1/2\, N\1/2\S\1/2\;
Sec. 35, N\1/2\N\1/2\, S\1/2\NE\1/4\; and
Sec. 36, N\1/2\, N\1/2\S\1/2\, SE\1/4\SW\1/4\, S\1/2\SE\1/4\.
Containing 10,997.82 acres.
T. 31 S., R. 24 E.,
Sec. 1, lots 1-3, S\1/2\NE\1/4\, NE\1/4\SE\1/4\.
Containing 253.75 acres.
T. 30 S., R. 25 E.,
Sec. 30, lots 2-4, SE\1/4\SW\1/4\, SW\1/4\SE\1/4\;
Sec. 31, all;
Sec. 32, W\1/2\NE\1/4\, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\, NW\1/4\, S\1/2\;
Sec. 33, SW\1/4\NE\1/4\, S\1/2\NW\1/4\, S\1/2\;
Sec. 34, S\1/2\NE\1/4\, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, S\1/2\; and
Sec. 35, SW\1/4\, SW\1/4\SE\1/4\ .
Containing 2,517.75 acres.
T. 31 S., R 25 E.,
Sec. 2, lots 3, 4, SW\1/4\NW\1/4\;
Sec. 3, lots 1-4, S\1/2\N\1/2\, N\1/2\SW\1/4\, SW\1/4\SW\1/4\,
NE\1/4\;SE\1/4\;
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Sec. 4, all;
Sec. 5, all; and
Sec. 6, lots 1-6, S\1/2\NE\1/4\, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, NE\1/4\SW\1/4\,
SE\1/4\.
Containing 2,495.23 acres.
Containing an aggregate acreage of: 19,445.23.
DATES: This mineral land classification will become effective upon date
of publication of this notice in the Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Inquiries should be sent to the State Director (UT-923),
Bureau of Land Management, Utah State Office, 440 West 200 South, Suite
500, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Competitive leasing within the KPLA will be
initiated based on expressions of interest. Any competitive leases
issued will be subject to the oil and gas leasing stipulations
contained in the 2008 Moab and Monticello Resource Management Plans
(Moab RMP, Appendix A and Monticello RMP, Appendix B). Competitive
potash leases will also be subject to additional conditions of approval
developed as part of site-specific National Environmental Policy Act of
1969 (NEPA) compliance.
In accordance with Departmental Manual (DM) 516, Chapter 11.9
J(12), the classification of a KPLA is an action that is categorically
excluded from NEPA analysis, provided that there are no ``extraordinary
circumstances'' as described in 43 CFR 46.215. The proposed Lisbon
Valley KPLA expansion was reviewed and was determined to have no
``extraordinary circumstances'' as documented in DOI-BLM-UT-9230-2010-
0003-CX. Further NEPA review will be done for site specific proposals
within the KPLA.
This notice will be published in the Moab Times Independent for 2
consecutive weeks after publication in the Federal Register.
Pursuant to the authority in the Act of March 3, 1879, (43 U.S.C.
31), as supplemented by Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1950 (43 U.S.C.
1451, note) and 235 Departmental Manual 1.1L, and the Mineral Leasing
Act of 1920, as amended (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.), the Lisbon Valley KPLA
of May 18, 1960, is expanded to include the lands listed above
effective on November 16, 2010.
Kent Hoffman,
Acting State Director.
[FR Doc. 2010-28724 Filed 11-15-10; 8:45 am]
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