Notice of Availability of the Proposed Winnemucca District Resource Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement, NV, 54909-54910 [2013-21766]
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Kevin K. Washburn,
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Notice of Availability of the Proposed
Winnemucca District Resource
Management Plan and Final
Environmental Impact Statement, NV
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, as amended, and the Federal Land
Policy and Management Act of 1976
(FLPMA), as amended, the Bureau of
Land Management (BLM) has prepared
a Proposed Resource Management Plan
(RMP)/Final Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) for the Winnemucca
District and by this notice is announcing
its availability.
DATES: BLM planning regulations
provide that any person who meets the
conditions as described in the
regulations may protest the BLM’s
Proposed RMP/Final EIS (43 CFR
1610.5–2). A person who meets the
conditions and files a protest must file
the protest within 30 days of the date
that the Environmental Protection
Agency publishes its notice of
availability of the Proposed RMP/Final
EIS in the Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the Proposed
RMP/Final EIS are available for public
inspection at the BLM Winnemucca
District Office, 5100 E Winnemucca
Boulevard, Winnemucca, Nevada.
Interested persons may also review the
Proposed RMP/Final EIS on the Internet
at https://www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/fo/wfo/
blm_information/rmp.html. All protests
must be in writing and mailed to one of
the following addresses:
Regular Mail: BLM Director (210),
Attention: Brenda Williams, P.O. Box
71383, Washington, DC 20024–1383.
Overnight Mail: BLM Director (210),
Attention: Brenda Williams, 20 M Street
SE., Room 2134LM, Washington, DC
20003.
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SUMMARY:
Jeff
Johnson, RMP Team Lead, telephone:
775–861–6420; address: 5100 E
Winnemucca Boulevard, Winnemucca,
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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NV 89445; email wdrmp@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: The
Winnemucca District Proposed RMP
would replace the existing 1982
Sonoma-Gerlach and Paradise-Denio
Management Framework Plans and the
1999 Paradise-Denio and SonomaGerlach Management Framework PlanLands Amendment. The Proposed RMP/
Final EIS has been developed using a
collaborative planning process.
Collaboration included working with
nine cooperating agencies, development
of alternatives using a sub-group of the
Sierra Front-Northwestern Great Basin
Resource Advisory Council, input
through coordination and consultation
with Native American/tribal interests,
and input based on public scoping and
public comments received on the Draft
Resource Management Plan/Draft
Environmental Impact Statement. The
Winnemucca District Proposed RMP
decision area encompasses
approximately 7.4 million acres of
public land administered by the BLM in
Humboldt, Pershing, and parts of
Lander, Lyon, Churchill, and Washoe
counties, Nevada. The Proposed RMP
does not include decisions on private
lands, State lands, Indian reservations,
Federal lands administered by other
agencies or lands within the District’s
Black Rock Desert-Highrock Canyon,
Emigrant Trails National Conservation
Area (NCA), except for administratively
combining portions of two wild horse
herd management areas into one herd
management area. The NCA is managed
in accordance with the 2004 Record of
Decision and Resource Management
Plan for the Black Rock Desert-High
Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National
Conservation Area and Associated
Wilderness, and other Contiguous Lands
in Nevada.
The Winnemucca District Proposed
RMP/Final EIS includes goals,
objectives and management actions for
protecting and preserving natural
resources including wildlife habitat,
sensitive and threatened or endangered
species habitat, watersheds, and wild
horses and burros. The Proposed RMP/
Final EIS also addresses protection and
preserving cultural resources, scenic
values, lands with wilderness
characteristics, National Historic Trails,
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and management of recreation. Multiple
uses are addressed including:
Management and forage allocations for
livestock grazing; delineation of lands
open, closed, or subject to special
stipulations or mitigation measures
relating to minerals; and management of
lands and realty actions, including
delineation of avoidance and exclusion
areas applicable to rights-of-ways and
land tenure adjustments. Recreation
management includes designation of offhighway vehicle management areas.
Three new areas of critical
environmental concern (ACECs) are
proposed. The ACECs are proposed to
protect natural and cultural resource
values and traditional Native American
use areas. The proposed Pine Forest
ACEC contains important wildlife
habitat values including habitat for
sensitive species. The proposed Raised
Bog ACEC contains a unique floating
bog that is useful for scientific research.
The proposed Stillwater ACEC contains
important cultural resources and many
traditional Native American use areas
including traditional cultural properties.
Management direction to protect
sensitive plant species is proposed for
the existing Osgood Mountain
Milkvetch ACEC.
The Proposed RMP/Final EIS analyzes
four management alternatives.
Alternative A is the No Action
Alternative, which is the continuation
of current management; Alternative B
emphasizes resource use; Alternative C
emphasizes preservation and protection
of ecosystems and contains two options:
Option 1 allows livestock grazing and
option 2 does not allow livestock
grazing; and Alternative D, which is the
Proposed RMP and provides a balance
between resource protection and
resource use.
Alternative D has been modified from
the proposed alternative D in the Draft
RMP/EIS based on public comments
and input from the Cooperating
Agencies. The proposed RMP balances
resource uses and environmental
protection, best fulfills the BLM’s
statutory mission and responsibilities as
required under FLPMA, and complies
with the BLM planning regulations.
The Winnemucca District worked
with nine cooperating agencies in the
development of the Proposed RMP. The
Cooperating Agencies are: U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation, Nevada Department of
Wildlife, Nevada Department of
Agriculture, Humboldt County, Pershing
County, Washoe County, City of
Winnemucca, and the N–2 Grazing
Board.
The BLM issued a Notice of Intent to
Prepare a Resource Management Plan
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and Associated Environmental Impact
Statement and initiated the public
scoping process on March 25, 2005 (70
FR 15348). The BLM accepted scoping
comments for 60 days. The draft RMP/
draft EIS was made available for a 90day public comment period on June 25,
2010 (75 FR 36435).
The BLM received 1,348 comments
and 30,617 form letters pertaining to
wild horses and burros in response to
the Draft RMP/Draft EIS. Substantive
comments were reviewed and
incorporated as appropriate into the
proposed plan.
Notable issues raised in public
comments include: Minerals, with an
emphasis on areas available for minerals
development; recreation management
and designation of off-highway vehicle
management areas; livestock grazing;
fish and wildlife, including
management of priority habitat; air
quality; management of rights-of-way
avoidance and exclusion areas; and
management of wild horses and burros.
Copies of the Proposed Winnemucca
District RMP/Final EIS have been sent
to affected tribal, Federal, State, and
local government agencies and to other
stakeholders.
Instructions for filing a protest with
the Director of the BLM regarding the
Proposed RMP/Final EIS may be found
in the ‘‘Dear Reader’’ letter of the
Winnemucca District Proposed RMP/
Final EIS and at 43 CFR 1610.5–2. All
protests must be in writing and mailed
to the appropriate address, as set forth
in the ADDRESSES section above.
Emailed protests will not be accepted as
valid protests unless the protesting
party also provides the original letter by
either regular or overnight mail
postmarked by the close of the protest
period. Under these conditions, the
BLM will consider the emailed protest
as an advance copy and it will receive
full consideration. If you wish to
provide the BLM with such advance
notification, please direct emails to
Brenda_Hudgens-Williams@blm.gov.
Before including your phone number,
email address, or other personal
identifying information in your protest,
you should be aware that your entire
protest—including your personal
identifying information—may be made
publicly available at any time. While
you can ask us in your protest to
withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
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Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR
1506.10, 43 CFR 1610.2, 43 CFR 1610.5
Amy Lueders,
State Director, Nevada.
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Notice of Public Meeting for the
Southeast Oregon Resource Advisory
Council
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Federal Land Policy and Management
Act and the Federal Advisory
Committee Act of 1972, and the U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Land Management (BLM), the Southeast
Oregon Resource Advisory Council
(RAC) will meet as indicated below:
DATES: The Southeast Oregon RAC will
hold a public meeting Thursday and
Friday, October 3 and 4, 2013. The exact
meeting time, agenda, and location will
be announced online at www.blm.gov/
or/rac/seorrac-minutes.php prior to
September 24, 2013. A public comment
period will be available each day of the
session. Unless otherwise approved by
the Southeast Oregon RAC Chair, the
public comment period will last no
longer than 30 minutes, and each
speaker may address the Southeast
Oregon RAC for a maximum of 5
minutes. Meeting times and the
duration scheduled for public comment
periods may be extended or altered
when the authorized representative
considers it necessary to accommodate
necessary business and all who seek to
be heard regarding matters before the
Southeast Oregon RAC.
ADDRESSES: The exact meeting time,
agenda, and location will be announced
online at www.blm.gov/or/rac/seorracminutes.php prior to September 24,
2013.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tara
Martinak, Public Affairs Specialist, BLM
Burns District Office, 28910 Highway 20
West, Hines, Oregon 97738–9424, (541)
573–4519, or email tmartina@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
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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: The
Southeast Oregon RAC consists of 15
members chartered and appointed by
the Secretary of the Interior. Their
diverse perspectives are represented in
commodity, conservation, and general
interests. They provide advice to BLM
and Forest Service resource managers
regarding management plans and
proposed resource actions on public
land in southeast Oregon. Tentative
agenda items for the October 3–4, 2013,
meeting include: Lands with Wilderness
Characteristics; the Wild Horse and
Burro Program; travel management
planning; forage management and
grassbanks; and planning future meeting
agendas, dates, and locations. Any other
matters that may reasonably come
before the Southeast Oregon RAC may
also be addressed. This meeting is open
to the public in its entirety. Information
to be distributed to the Southeast
Oregon RAC is requested prior to the
start of each meeting.
Before including your address, phone
number, email address, or other
personal identifying information in your
comments, please 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.
Brendan Cain,
Burns District Manager.
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AGENCY:
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Notice of Availability of the Proposed Winnemucca District
Resource Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement, NV
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, as amended, and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of
1976 (FLPMA), as amended, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has
prepared a Proposed Resource Management Plan (RMP)/Final Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS) for the Winnemucca District and by this notice
is announcing its availability.
DATES: BLM planning regulations provide that any person who meets the
conditions as described in the regulations may protest the BLM's
Proposed RMP/Final EIS (43 CFR 1610.5-2). A person who meets the
conditions and files a protest must file the protest within 30 days of
the date that the Environmental Protection Agency publishes its notice
of availability of the Proposed RMP/Final EIS in the Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the Proposed RMP/Final EIS are available for
public inspection at the BLM Winnemucca District Office, 5100 E
Winnemucca Boulevard, Winnemucca, Nevada. Interested persons may also
review the Proposed RMP/Final EIS on the Internet at https://www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/fo/wfo/blm_information/rmp.html. All protests
must be in writing and mailed to one of the following addresses:
Regular Mail: BLM Director (210), Attention: Brenda Williams, P.O.
Box 71383, Washington, DC 20024-1383.
Overnight Mail: BLM Director (210), Attention: Brenda Williams, 20
M Street SE., Room 2134LM, Washington, DC 20003.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff Johnson, RMP Team Lead,
telephone: 775-861-6420; address: 5100 E Winnemucca Boulevard,
Winnemucca, NV 89445; email wdrmp@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: The Winnemucca District Proposed RMP would
replace the existing 1982 Sonoma-Gerlach and Paradise-Denio Management
Framework Plans and the 1999 Paradise-Denio and Sonoma-Gerlach
Management Framework Plan-Lands Amendment. The Proposed RMP/Final EIS
has been developed using a collaborative planning process.
Collaboration included working with nine cooperating agencies,
development of alternatives using a sub-group of the Sierra Front-
Northwestern Great Basin Resource Advisory Council, input through
coordination and consultation with Native American/tribal interests,
and input based on public scoping and public comments received on the
Draft Resource Management Plan/Draft Environmental Impact Statement.
The Winnemucca District Proposed RMP decision area encompasses
approximately 7.4 million acres of public land administered by the BLM
in Humboldt, Pershing, and parts of Lander, Lyon, Churchill, and Washoe
counties, Nevada. The Proposed RMP does not include decisions on
private lands, State lands, Indian reservations, Federal lands
administered by other agencies or lands within the District's Black
Rock Desert-Highrock Canyon, Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area
(NCA), except for administratively combining portions of two wild horse
herd management areas into one herd management area. The NCA is managed
in accordance with the 2004 Record of Decision and Resource Management
Plan for the Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails
National Conservation Area and Associated Wilderness, and other
Contiguous Lands in Nevada.
The Winnemucca District Proposed RMP/Final EIS includes goals,
objectives and management actions for protecting and preserving natural
resources including wildlife habitat, sensitive and threatened or
endangered species habitat, watersheds, and wild horses and burros. The
Proposed RMP/Final EIS also addresses protection and preserving
cultural resources, scenic values, lands with wilderness
characteristics, National Historic Trails, and management of
recreation. Multiple uses are addressed including: Management and
forage allocations for livestock grazing; delineation of lands open,
closed, or subject to special stipulations or mitigation measures
relating to minerals; and management of lands and realty actions,
including delineation of avoidance and exclusion areas applicable to
rights-of-ways and land tenure adjustments. Recreation management
includes designation of off-highway vehicle management areas. Three new
areas of critical environmental concern (ACECs) are proposed. The ACECs
are proposed to protect natural and cultural resource values and
traditional Native American use areas. The proposed Pine Forest ACEC
contains important wildlife habitat values including habitat for
sensitive species. The proposed Raised Bog ACEC contains a unique
floating bog that is useful for scientific research. The proposed
Stillwater ACEC contains important cultural resources and many
traditional Native American use areas including traditional cultural
properties. Management direction to protect sensitive plant species is
proposed for the existing Osgood Mountain Milkvetch ACEC.
The Proposed RMP/Final EIS analyzes four management alternatives.
Alternative A is the No Action Alternative, which is the continuation
of current management; Alternative B emphasizes resource use;
Alternative C emphasizes preservation and protection of ecosystems and
contains two options: Option 1 allows livestock grazing and option 2
does not allow livestock grazing; and Alternative D, which is the
Proposed RMP and provides a balance between resource protection and
resource use.
Alternative D has been modified from the proposed alternative D in
the Draft RMP/EIS based on public comments and input from the
Cooperating Agencies. The proposed RMP balances resource uses and
environmental protection, best fulfills the BLM's statutory mission and
responsibilities as required under FLPMA, and complies with the BLM
planning regulations.
The Winnemucca District worked with nine cooperating agencies in
the development of the Proposed RMP. The Cooperating Agencies are: U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Nevada
Department of Wildlife, Nevada Department of Agriculture, Humboldt
County, Pershing County, Washoe County, City of Winnemucca, and the N-2
Grazing Board.
The BLM issued a Notice of Intent to Prepare a Resource Management
Plan
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and Associated Environmental Impact Statement and initiated the public
scoping process on March 25, 2005 (70 FR 15348). The BLM accepted
scoping comments for 60 days. The draft RMP/draft EIS was made
available for a 90-day public comment period on June 25, 2010 (75 FR
36435).
The BLM received 1,348 comments and 30,617 form letters pertaining
to wild horses and burros in response to the Draft RMP/Draft EIS.
Substantive comments were reviewed and incorporated as appropriate into
the proposed plan.
Notable issues raised in public comments include: Minerals, with an
emphasis on areas available for minerals development; recreation
management and designation of off-highway vehicle management areas;
livestock grazing; fish and wildlife, including management of priority
habitat; air quality; management of rights-of-way avoidance and
exclusion areas; and management of wild horses and burros.
Copies of the Proposed Winnemucca District RMP/Final EIS have been
sent to affected tribal, Federal, State, and local government agencies
and to other stakeholders.
Instructions for filing a protest with the Director of the BLM
regarding the Proposed RMP/Final EIS may be found in the ``Dear
Reader'' letter of the Winnemucca District Proposed RMP/Final EIS and
at 43 CFR 1610.5-2. All protests must be in writing and mailed to the
appropriate address, as set forth in the ADDRESSES section above.
Emailed protests will not be accepted as valid protests unless the
protesting party also provides the original letter by either regular or
overnight mail postmarked by the close of the protest period. Under
these conditions, the BLM will consider the emailed protest as an
advance copy and it will receive full consideration. If you wish to
provide the BLM with such advance notification, please direct emails to
Brenda_Hudgens-Williams@blm.gov.
Before including your phone number, email address, or other
personal identifying information in your protest, you should be aware
that your entire protest--including your personal identifying
information--may be made publicly available at any time. While you can
ask us in your protest to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be
able to do so.
Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1506.10, 43 CFR 1610.2, 43 CFR
1610.5
Amy Lueders,
State Director, Nevada.
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