Notice of Filing of Plats of Survey; Montana, 11261-11262 [2011-4518]
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equipment staging area and haul roads,
and approximately 110.1 acres of
disturbance are off-lease for haul roads,
a county road re-route, growth media
stockpiles and storm water retention
ponds.
Of the 110.1 total acres of off-lease
disturbance, 31.3 acres are proposed to
be disturbed on private land, and 13.6
acres are proposed to be disturbed on
National Forest System Lands within
the 170-acre proposed lease
modification. Off-lease disturbance on
National Forest System Lands of
approximately 30.8 acres for the haul
road, storm water retention ponds, and
growth media stockpiles is proposed to
be permitted by a 71-acre Special Use
Permit (SUP) rather than a lease
modification. Off-lease disturbance of
approximately 7.4 acres is proposed by
Agrium on the Idaho Fish and Game’s
Blackfoot Wildlife Management Area,
primarily for storm water retention
ponds and the county road realignment. Approximately 26.6 acres of
disturbance off-lease on private land,
but not within the lease modification, is
proposed for the haul road, storm water
retention ponds, and growth media
stockpiles. Approximately 0.4 acres of
proposed off-lease disturbance for the
haul road is on land managed by the
Idaho Department of Lands. Mining is
proposed to begin at the southern end
of the Rasmussen Valley Mine deposit,
continuing northwest through the
deposit to the extent of the lease.
Initially, overburden from the pit would
be placed in an external overburden
storage area located on-lease directly to
the west of the pit. As mining progresses
northwest, overburden would be placed
either back in the mined-out portion of
the pit, or in additional external
overburden storage areas located onlease to the west of the pit.
Agrium has proposed management
practices in its mine and reclamation
plan to reduce environmental impacts.
Reclamation would be conducted
concurrently with mining. Agrium’s
plan emphasizes the backfill of mine
pits and limiting the amount of
overburden placed in permanent
external storage areas. To reduce the
potential for contaminant release to
water or uptake into reclamation
vegetation, Agrium is proposing to limit
the amount of time that seleniferous
overburden is exposed to the elements,
to return all seleniferous overburden
material to the mine pits, and to cap
overburden with low-seleniferous
material consisting of approximately 3
feet of cherty material, overlain by 2 feet
of growth media.
Agrium has proposed to build
associated new facilities including an
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ore stockpile and groundwater supply
well(s). To assist personnel needs and
mobile equipment operation, a small
support staging facility would be
constructed at the active mining site
immediately west of the pit. This
facility provides electrical power, fuel
and grease storage within secondary
containment, communication, safety
structures, and a temporary shift change
building.
Off-lease facilities would include haul
roads and storm water control features,
and growth media stockpiles. Trucks
would be used to transport ore to the
Wooley Valley rail head and overburden
to a permanent disposal area.
Potential impacts to surface resources
and water quality include erosion, an
increase in stream sediment load, and
contamination from dissolved metals
and selenium. Agrium has proposed to
implement practices designed to reduce,
eliminate, or mitigate these impacts.
Suitable growth media would be
salvaged from disturbed areas for use in
reclamation. Mine reclamation would
include removal of facilities and
equipment, backfilling pits as mining
progresses, grading slopes, capping
overburden disposal areas and pit
backfill, restoring drainages, spreading
growth media, stabilizing surfaces,
revegetation, and testing and treatment
for any remaining contaminants.
Environmental monitoring will be
performed to ensure impacts do not
exceed those authorized.
Issues initially identified for the
proposed mining of the Rasmussen
Valley phosphate lease include
potential effects on groundwater and
surface water quantity and quality;
vegetation, soil and mineral resources;
air quality; wildlife and their habitats
(including fisheries); livestock grazing;
wetlands and riparian habitat;
recreation; and socio-economics such as
employment and the continued
operation of a fertilizer plant and
support businesses; Native American
rights, treaties, and land uses; visual
resources; and cumulative effects.
The EIS will analyze the Proposed
Action and the No Action Alternative.
Other alternatives may be considered
that could provide mitigation of
potential impacts.
The tentative EIS project schedule is
as follows:
• Begin public scoping period and
meetings: Winter 2011.
• Estimated date for draft EIS and
associated comment period: Spring
2013.
• Final EIS publication: Winter 2014.
• Record of Decision: Winter 2014.
At least three ‘‘open-house’’ style public
scoping meetings will be held which
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will include displays explaining the
project and providing a forum for
commenting on the project.
Meetings are planned to be held in
Pocatello, Fort Hall, and Soda Springs,
Idaho. The dates, times, and locations of
the public scoping meetings will be
announced in mailings and public
notices issued by the BLM (see DATES
above).
Authorities: 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.; 40 CFR
parts 1500–1508; 43 CFR part 46; 43 U.S.C.
1701; and 43 CFR part 3590.
Joe Kraayenbrink,
District Manager, Idaho Falls District, Bureau
of Land Management.
Brent Larson,
Forest Supervisor, Caribou-Targhee National
Forest.
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Notice of Filing of Plats of Survey;
Montana
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of filing of plats of
survey.
AGENCY:
The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) will file the plat of
survey of the lands described below in
the BLM Montana State Office, Billings,
Montana, on March 31, 2011.
DATES: Protests of the survey must be
filed before March 31, 2011 to be
considered.
SUMMARY:
Protests of the survey
should be sent to Branch of Cadastral
Survey, Bureau of Land Management,
5001 Southgate Drive, Billings, Montana
59101–4669.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Steve Toth, Cadastral Surveyor, Branch
of Cadastral Survey, Bureau of Land
Management, 5001 Southgate Drive,
Billings, Montana 59101–4669,
telephone (406) 896–5121 or (406) 896–
5009.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
survey was executed at the request of
the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Rocky
Mountain Region, Billings, Montana,
and was necessary to determine
individual and tribal trust lands.
The lands we surveyed are:
ADDRESSES:
Principal Meridian, Montana
T. 27 N., R. 48 E.
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The plat, in two sheets, representing
the dependent resurvey of a portion of
the subdivisional lines, the corrective
dependent resurvey of the line between
sections 18 and 19, the dependent
resurvey of a portion of the subdivision
of sections 19 and 21, the adjusted
original meanders of the former left
bank of the Missouri River, downstream,
through section 19, a certain division of
accretion line, and the subdivision of
sections 19 and 21, and the survey of
the meanders of the present left bank
and the informative traverse of the
present left bank of the Missouri River,
downstream, through section 19,
Township 27 North, Range 48 East,
Principal Meridian, Montana, was
accepted February 16, 2011.
We will place a copy of the plat, in
two sheets, and related field notes we
described in the open files. They will be
available to the public as a matter of
information. If the BLM receives a
protest against this survey, as shown on
this plat, in two sheets, prior to the date
of the official filing, we will stay the
filing pending our consideration of the
protest. We will not officially file this
plat, in two sheets, until the day after
we have accepted or dismissed all
protests and they have become final,
including decisions or appeals.
Authority: 43 U.S.C. Chap. 3.
Dated: February 23, 2011.
James D. Claflin,
Chief Cadastral Surveyor, Division of
Resources.
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Notice of Realty Action: Conveyance of
Public Lands for Airport Purposes in
Clark County, NV
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Realty Action.
AGENCY:
The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) has examined and
found 160 acres of public land in the
City of Henderson, Clark County,
Nevada, as suitable for conveyance for
airport purposes under the authority of
Section 516 of the Airport and Airway
Improvement Act of 1982.
DATES: Interested parties may submit
written comments regarding the
proposed conveyance of the lands until
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April 15, 2011. The requested lands will
not be conveyed for at least 60 days after
the date of the publication of this notice
in the Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Mail written comments to
the BLM Field Manager, Las Vegas Field
Office, 4701 N. Torrey Pines Drive, Las
Vegas, NV 89130–2301.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Philip Rhinehart, (702) 515–5182, or
prhineha@blm.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Clark
County Department of Aviation has
requested the conveyance of 160 acres
of public land for a fully operational
airport known as the Henderson
Executive Airport. The lands are legally
described as:
Mount Diablo Meridian
T. 23 S. R. 61 E.
Sec. 10, S1⁄2SE1⁄4NE1⁄4 NE1⁄4,
S1⁄2NE1⁄4SE1⁄4NE1⁄4, SE1⁄4SE1⁄4NE1⁄4,
SW1⁄4SE1⁄4NE1⁄4, N1⁄2NE1⁄4NE1⁄4SE1⁄4,
NW1⁄4NE1⁄4SE1⁄4, N1⁄2SE1⁄4NE1⁄4SE1⁄4;
Sec. 11, W1⁄2NW1⁄4, NW1⁄4;NW1⁄4;SW1⁄4,
NE1⁄4;NW1⁄4;SW1⁄4,
N1⁄2;SW1⁄4;NW1⁄4;SW1⁄4,
N1⁄2;SE1⁄4NW1⁄4SW1⁄4.
The area described contains 160 acres,
more or less, in Clark County.
The Clark County Department of
Aviation currently holds an airport lease
for 140 acres of the 160 acres found
suitable for conveyance. The 140-acre
lease will be terminated prior to the
proposed conveyance. As part of the
processing of the lease action on August
20, 1999, a Notice of Realty Action was
published in the Federal Register (64
FR 161: 45562), noticing that certain
public lands in Clark County, Nevada,
had been examined and found suitable
for public airport lease purposes under
the provisions of the Airport and
Airway Improvement Act of 1982, as
amended (49 U.S.C., Appendix 211–
213). The additional 20 acres requested
for conveyance are needed for the
continued operations of the Henderson
Executive Airport. The additional 20
acres have been found suitable for
conveyance for airport purposes but are
not currently under lease to Clark
County. The lands identified for
conveyance are segregated from mineral
entry under the Southern Nevada Public
Lands Management Act of 1998 (Pub. L.
105–263). Conveyance of the subject
lands is consistent with the BLM, Las
Vegas Resource Management Plan dated
October 5, 1998, and would be in the
public interest. Under regulations found
at 49 U.S.C. Section 47125, Clark
County is entitled to a fee simple, no
cost conveyance of the subject property.
Conveyance of the land is consistent
with applicable Federal and county land
use plans and will help meet the needs
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of the community. The conveyance will
enhance safety, capacity, security and
environmental protection at the
Henderson Executive Airport. The land
is not required for any other Federal
purposes.
Additional detailed information
pertaining to this request for
conveyance, plan of development, and
site plan is contained in case file N–
57230, which is located in the BLM Las
Vegas Field Office at the above address.
Conveyance of the public land shall
be subject to limitations prescribed by
law and regulation and prior to patent
issuance, a holder of any right-of-way
within the conveyance area may be
given the opportunity to amend the
right-of-way for conversion to a new
term, including perpetuity, if
applicable.
The patent, when issued, will be
subject to the provisions of the Airport
and Airways Improvement Act of 1982
and applicable regulations of the
Secretary of the Interior, and will
contain the following rights,
reservations, covenants, terms and
conditions to the United States:
1. A right-of-way thereon for ditches
or canals constructed by the authority of
the United States, Act of August 30,
1890 (43 U.S.C. 945).
2. All minerals shall be reserved to
the United States, together with the
right to prospect for, mine and remove
such deposits from the same under
applicable law and such regulations as
the Secretary of the Interior may
prescribe.
Conveyance of the public land will be
subject to:
1. Valid existing rights.
2. A right-of-way for a road, drainage,
and municipal utilities (water and
sewer) granted to the City of Henderson,
Nevada, its successors or assigns, by
right-of-way N–62099, pursuant to the
Act of October 21, 1976 (43 U.S.C.
1761).
3. A right-of-way to construct,
operate, maintain, and terminate an
underground water pipeline, a pressure
reducing valve station, and maintenance
area to the City of Henderson, Nevada,
its successors or assigns, by right-of-way
N–63254, pursuant to the Act of October
21, 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1761).
4. A right-of-way to improve,
construct, operate, maintain and
terminate roads, municipal utilities
(water and sewer) and drainage
purposes to the City of Henderson,
Nevada, its successors or assigns, by
right-of-way N–77148, pursuant to the
Act of October 21, 1976 (43 U.S.C.
1761).
5. A right-of-way for underground 4
inch, 6 inch, and 8 inch diameter
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLMT926000-11-L19100000-BJ0000-LRCME0R04763]
Notice of Filing of Plats of Survey; Montana
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of filing of plats of survey.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will file the plat of
survey of the lands described below in the BLM Montana State Office,
Billings, Montana, on March 31, 2011.
DATES: Protests of the survey must be filed before March 31, 2011 to be
considered.
ADDRESSES: Protests of the survey should be sent to Branch of Cadastral
Survey, Bureau of Land Management, 5001 Southgate Drive, Billings,
Montana 59101-4669.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steve Toth, Cadastral Surveyor, Branch
of Cadastral Survey, Bureau of Land Management, 5001 Southgate Drive,
Billings, Montana 59101-4669, telephone (406) 896-5121 or (406) 896-
5009.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This survey was executed at the request of
the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Rocky Mountain Region, Billings, Montana,
and was necessary to determine individual and tribal trust lands.
The lands we surveyed are:
Principal Meridian, Montana
T. 27 N., R. 48 E.
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The plat, in two sheets, representing the dependent resurvey of a
portion of the subdivisional lines, the corrective dependent resurvey
of the line between sections 18 and 19, the dependent resurvey of a
portion of the subdivision of sections 19 and 21, the adjusted original
meanders of the former left bank of the Missouri River, downstream,
through section 19, a certain division of accretion line, and the
subdivision of sections 19 and 21, and the survey of the meanders of
the present left bank and the informative traverse of the present left
bank of the Missouri River, downstream, through section 19, Township 27
North, Range 48 East, Principal Meridian, Montana, was accepted
February 16, 2011.
We will place a copy of the plat, in two sheets, and related field
notes we described in the open files. They will be available to the
public as a matter of information. If the BLM receives a protest
against this survey, as shown on this plat, in two sheets, prior to the
date of the official filing, we will stay the filing pending our
consideration of the protest. We will not officially file this plat, in
two sheets, until the day after we have accepted or dismissed all
protests and they have become final, including decisions or appeals.
Authority: 43 U.S.C. Chap. 3.
Dated: February 23, 2011.
James D. Claflin,
Chief Cadastral Surveyor, Division of Resources.
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