Notice of Intent To Amend the Resource Management Plan for the Rawlins Field Office and Associated Environmental Assessment, Wyoming, 21803-21804 [2012-8683]
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(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to contact the
BLM during normal business hours. In
addition, the FIRS is available 24 hours
a day, 7 days a week, to leave a message
or question with the BLM. The BLM
will reply during normal business
hours.
Dina L. Torres,
Land Transfer Resolution Specialist, Branch
of Land Transfer Adjudication II.
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reserves to be offered consist of all D
seam reserves recoverable by
underground mining methods in the
following described lands located in
Gunnison County, Colorado:
Sixth Principal Meridian
T. 13 S. R. 90 W.,
Sec. 3, lots 8, 9, and 16;
Sec. 4, lots 5 to 16, inclusive;
Sec. 5, lots 12, 13, 20, and 24.
Containing approximately 725.90 acres,
more or less.
The tract contains an estimated 3.96
million tons of recoverable coal
reserves. The underground minable coal
is ranked as bituminous B coal. The
estimated coal quality on an as-received
basis for the seam is as follows:
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LVEMC09CC005, COC–70615]
Notice of Competitive Coal Lease Sale,
Colorado
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that
certain coal reserves in the Elk Creek
East Tract described below in Gunnison
County, Colorado, will be offered for
competitive lease by sealed bid in
accordance with the provisions of the
Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as
amended.
DATES: The lease sale will be held at 10
a.m., May 15, 2012. The sealed bid must
be submitted on or before 10 a.m., May
15, 2012.
ADDRESSES: The lease sale will be held
in the Second Floor Conference Room of
the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Colorado State Office, 2850 Youngfield
Street, Lakewood, Colorado 80215.
Sealed bids must be submitted to the
Cashier, BLM Colorado State Office, at
the address given above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kurt
Barton, Land Law Examiner, at 303–
239–3714, or kbarton@blm.gov. Persons
who use a telecommunications device
for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–
800–877–8339 to contact the above
individual during normal business
hours. The FIRS is available 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week, to leave a message
or question with the above individual.
You will receive a reply during normal
business hours.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This coal
lease sale is being held in response to
a lease by application (LBA) filed by
Oxbow Mining, LLC. The Federal coal
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Steven Hall,
Acting State Director.
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The tract will be leased to the
qualified bidder of the highest cash
amount provided that the high bid
meets or exceeds the BLM’s estimate of
the fair market value of the tract. The
minimum bid for the tract is $100 per
acre or fraction thereof. The minimum
bid is not intended to represent fair
market value. The fair market value will
be determined by the authorized officer
after the sale.
The sealed bids should be sent by
certified mail, return-receipt requested,
or be hand delivered to the Cashier,
BLM Colorado State Office, at the
address given above and clearly marked
‘‘Sealed Bid for COC–70615 Coal Sale—
Not to be opened before 10 a.m., May
15, 2012.’’ The cashier will issue a
receipt for each hand-delivered bid.
Bids received after 10 a.m., May 15,
2012, will not be considered. If identical
high bids are received, the tying high
bidders will be requested to submit
follow-up sealed bids until a high bid is
received. All tie-breaking sealed-bids
must be submitted within 15 minutes
following the sale official’s
announcement at the sale that identical
high bids have been received.
Prior to lease issuance, the high
bidder, if other than the applicant, must
pay to the BLM the cost recovery fees in
the amount of $10,347.10 in addition to
all processing costs the BLM incurs after
the date of this sale notice (43 CFR
3473.2).
A lease issued as a result of this
offering will provide for payment of an
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annual rental of $3 per acre, or fraction
thereof, and a royalty payable to the
United States of 8 percent of the value
of coal mined by underground methods.
Bidding instructions for the LBA tract
offered and the terms and conditions of
the proposed coal lease are included in
the Detailed Statement of Lease Sale and
available from the BLM Colorado State
Office at the address above. Case file
documents, COC–70615, are available
for inspection at the BLM Colorado
State Office Public Room.
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Notice of Intent To Amend the
Resource Management Plan for the
Rawlins Field Office and Associated
Environmental Assessment, Wyoming
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Intent.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969 (NEPA), as amended, and the
Federal Land Policy and Management
Act of 1976 (FLPMA), as amended, the
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Rawlins Field Office (RFO), Rawlins,
Wyoming, intends to prepare a Resource
Management Plan (RMP) amendment
with an associated Environmental
Assessment (EA) for the RFO and by
this notice is announcing the beginning
of the scoping process to solicit public
comments and identify issues.
DATES: This notice initiates the public
scoping process for the RMP
amendment with associated EA.
Comments on issues may be submitted
in writing until May 11, 2012. The dates
and locations of any scoping meetings
will be announced at least 15 days in
advance through the local news media,
newspapers, and the BLM Web site at:
https://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/programs/
Planning/rmps/rawlins.html. In order to
be included in the analysis, all
comments must be received prior to the
close of the 30-day scoping period or 30
days after the last public meeting,
whichever is later. The BLM will
provide additional opportunities for
public participation, as appropriate.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
on issues and planning criteria related
to the Rawlins RMP Visual Resource
SUMMARY:
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Management Amendment and Areas of
Critical Environmental Concern
Documentation/EA by any of the
following methods:
• Web site: https://www.blm.gov/wy/
st/en/programs/Planning/rmps/
rawlins.html.
• Email:
BLM_WY_RL_RMP_VRM@blm.gov.
Please reference ‘‘Rawlins VRM
Review’’ in the subject line.
• Fax: 307–328–4224
• Mail: Bureau of Land Management,
Rawlins Field Office, 1300 North Third
Street, P.O. Box 2407, Rawlins,
Wyoming 82301–2407.
All comments must include a legible
full name and address on the envelope,
letter, fax, postcard, or email.
Documents pertinent to this proposal
may be examined at the Rawlins Field
Office, 1300 North Third Street,
Rawlins, Wyoming.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Or
to have your name added to our mailing
list, contact John Spehar, Rawlins Field
Office Plan Amendment Team Leader,
telephone 307–328–4200; address,
Bureau of Land Management, Rawlins
Field Office, 1300 North Third Street,
P.O. Box 2407, Rawlins, Wyoming
82301–2407; email, jspehar@blm.gov.
Persons who use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD) may call the
Federal Information Relay Service
(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to contact the
above individual during normal
business hours. The FIRS is available 24
hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a
message or question with the above
individual. You will receive a reply
during normal business hours.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
document provides notice that the BLM
RFO, Rawlins, Wyoming, intends to
prepare an RMP amendment with an
associated EA for the RFO, announces
the beginning of the scoping process,
and seeks public input on issues and
planning criteria. The planning area is
located in Albany, Carbon, Laramie and
eastern Sweetwater counties, Wyoming,
and encompasses approximately 3.5
million acres of BLM-administered
public land and 4.5 million acres of
Federal sub-surface mineral estate.
The BLM completed the Rawlins RMP
revision in December 2008. However,
the BLM’s resolution of two protest
issues—one regarding visual resource
management (VRM) and the other
regarding Areas of Critical
Environmental Concern (ACECs)—
required the RFO to conduct additional
planning. In response to the first issue,
the RFO has updated the visual
resources inventory within the planning
area. The BLM will use this updated
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inventory as a baseline to consider,
analyze, and designate VRM classes for
BLM-administered lands in the
planning area.
This review will not include the
decision area for the Chokecherry/Sierra
Madre wind energy project, however, as
a VRM amendment to the Rawlins RMP
is being separately considered in the
NEPA process associated with that
project’s review. Second, the BLM
received nominations for ACECs from
the public that were not reviewed or
considered during the RMP revision
process. The BLM will use this planning
process to review and consider these
nominations for potential designation as
ACECs.
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 plan
amendment area have been identified by
BLM personnel; Federal, State, and local
agencies; and other stakeholders. The
issues include: Energy development;
special designations; resource
accessibility; public land-urban
interface; special status species; water
quality; vegetation management;
recreation, cultural resource, and
paleontological resource management.
Preliminary planning criteria include:
• The RMP amendment will focus
only on VRM class designations and
review of previously submitted ACEC
nominations;
• The RMP amendment will comply
with NEPA, FLPMA, and other
applicable laws, executive orders,
regulations and policy;
• The RMP amendment will
recognize valid existing rights;
• Lands covered in the EA for the
plan amendment include any/all lands
that may affect, or be affected by, the
management occurring on the BLMadministered public lands in the RFO.
However, planning decisions in the
RMP and the VRM-targeted amendment
will apply only to the BLMadministered public lands and Federal
mineral estate in the planning area; and
• A collaborative and multijurisdictional approach will be used,
where possible, to jointly determine the
desired future condition and
management direction for the public
lands. To the extent possible and within
legal and regulatory parameters, the
BLM management and planning
decisions will complement the planning
and management decisions of other
agencies, State and local governments,
and Native American tribes, with
jurisdictions intermingled with, and
adjacent to, the planning area.
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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
by the close of the 30-day scoping
period or within 30 days of the last
public meeting, whichever is later.
Before including your address, phone
number, email 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 may 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
plan, 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 this plan
amendment.
The BLM will provide an explanation
in the Draft RMP Amendment/EA 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 plan
amendment. 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 during the plan amendment
process 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: Air
quality, cultural resources, fire and fuels
management, forest management, lands
and realty, rangeland management,
minerals and geology, outdoor
recreation, paleontology, wildlife and
fisheries, lands and realty, hydrology,
soils, sociology and economics, and
wild horses.
Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7, 43 CFR 1610.2
Larry Claypool,
Acting State Director, Wyoming.
[FR Doc. 2012–8683 Filed 4–10–12; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
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Notice of Intent To Amend the Resource Management Plan for the
Rawlins Field Office and Associated Environmental Assessment, Wyoming
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Intent.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of
1969 (NEPA), as amended, and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act
of 1976 (FLPMA), as amended, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Rawlins Field Office (RFO), Rawlins, Wyoming, intends to prepare a
Resource Management Plan (RMP) amendment with an associated
Environmental Assessment (EA) for the RFO and by this notice is
announcing the beginning of the scoping process to solicit public
comments and identify issues.
DATES: This notice initiates the public scoping process for the RMP
amendment with associated EA. Comments on issues may be submitted in
writing until May 11, 2012. The dates and locations of any scoping
meetings will be announced at least 15 days in advance through the
local news media, newspapers, and the BLM Web site at: https://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/programs/Planning/rmps/rawlins.html. In order to
be included in the analysis, all comments must be received prior to the
close of the 30-day scoping period or 30 days after the last public
meeting, whichever is later. The BLM will provide additional
opportunities for public participation, as appropriate.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments on issues and planning criteria
related to the Rawlins RMP Visual Resource
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Management Amendment and Areas of Critical Environmental Concern
Documentation/EA by any of the following methods:
Web site: https://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/programs/Planning/rmps/rawlins.html.
Email: BLM_WY_RL_RMP_VRM@blm.gov. Please reference
``Rawlins VRM Review'' in the subject line.
Fax: 307-328-4224
Mail: Bureau of Land Management, Rawlins Field Office,
1300 North Third Street, P.O. Box 2407, Rawlins, Wyoming 82301-2407.
All comments must include a legible full name and address on the
envelope, letter, fax, postcard, or email.
Documents pertinent to this proposal may be examined at the Rawlins
Field Office, 1300 North Third Street, Rawlins, Wyoming.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Or to have your name added to our
mailing list, contact John Spehar, Rawlins Field Office Plan Amendment
Team Leader, telephone 307-328-4200; address, Bureau of Land
Management, Rawlins Field Office, 1300 North Third Street, P.O. Box
2407, Rawlins, Wyoming 82301-2407; email, jspehar@blm.gov. Persons who
use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 to contact the above
individual during normal business hours. The FIRS is available 24 hours
a day, 7 days a week, to leave a message or question with the above
individual. You will receive a reply during normal business hours.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document provides notice that the BLM
RFO, Rawlins, Wyoming, intends to prepare an RMP amendment with an
associated EA for the RFO, announces the beginning of the scoping
process, and seeks public input on issues and planning criteria. The
planning area is located in Albany, Carbon, Laramie and eastern
Sweetwater counties, Wyoming, and encompasses approximately 3.5 million
acres of BLM-administered public land and 4.5 million acres of Federal
sub-surface mineral estate.
The BLM completed the Rawlins RMP revision in December 2008.
However, the BLM's resolution of two protest issues--one regarding
visual resource management (VRM) and the other regarding Areas of
Critical Environmental Concern (ACECs)--required the RFO to conduct
additional planning. In response to the first issue, the RFO has
updated the visual resources inventory within the planning area. The
BLM will use this updated inventory as a baseline to consider, analyze,
and designate VRM classes for BLM-administered lands in the planning
area.
This review will not include the decision area for the Chokecherry/
Sierra Madre wind energy project, however, as a VRM amendment to the
Rawlins RMP is being separately considered in the NEPA process
associated with that project's review. Second, the BLM received
nominations for ACECs from the public that were not reviewed or
considered during the RMP revision process. The BLM will use this
planning process to review and consider these nominations for potential
designation as ACECs.
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 plan amendment area have been identified by BLM
personnel; Federal, State, and local agencies; and other stakeholders.
The issues include: Energy development; special designations; resource
accessibility; public land-urban interface; special status species;
water quality; vegetation management; recreation, cultural resource,
and paleontological resource management.
Preliminary planning criteria include:
The RMP amendment will focus only on VRM class
designations and review of previously submitted ACEC nominations;
The RMP amendment will comply with NEPA, FLPMA, and other
applicable laws, executive orders, regulations and policy;
The RMP amendment will recognize valid existing rights;
Lands covered in the EA for the plan amendment include
any/all lands that may affect, or be affected by, the management
occurring on the BLM-administered public lands in the RFO. However,
planning decisions in the RMP and the VRM-targeted amendment will apply
only to the BLM-administered public lands and Federal mineral estate in
the planning area; and
A collaborative and multi-jurisdictional approach will be
used, where possible, to jointly determine the desired future condition
and management direction for the public lands. To the extent possible
and within legal and regulatory parameters, the BLM management and
planning decisions will complement the planning and management
decisions of other agencies, State and local governments, and Native
American tribes, with jurisdictions intermingled with, and adjacent to,
the planning area.
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 by the close of the 30-day
scoping period or within 30 days of the last public meeting, whichever
is later.
Before including your address, phone number, email 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 may
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 plan, 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 this plan amendment.
The BLM will provide an explanation in the Draft RMP Amendment/EA
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 plan amendment. 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 during the plan
amendment process 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: Air quality,
cultural resources, fire and fuels management, forest management, lands
and realty, rangeland management, minerals and geology, outdoor
recreation, paleontology, wildlife and fisheries, lands and realty,
hydrology, soils, sociology and economics, and wild horses.
Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7, 43 CFR 1610.2
Larry Claypool,
Acting State Director, Wyoming.
[FR Doc. 2012-8683 Filed 4-10-12; 8:45 am]
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