Notice of Intent To Establish a Campground Fee on Public Land in Carbon County, WY, 51602-51603 [2014-20631]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLWYD030000–L12320000–DA0000]
Notice of Intent To Establish a
Campground Fee on Public Land in
Carbon County, WY
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of intent.
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AGENCY:
The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM), Rawlins Field
Office, Rawlins, Wyoming, intends to
establish an overnight camping fee at
Corral Creek Campground within the
North Platte River Special Recreation
Management Area (SRMA).
DATES: Comments on the proposed fee
changes must be received or postmarked
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by November 28, 2014 and include a
legible full name and address. Effective
February 25, 2015, the BLM will initiate
fee collection at Corral Creek
Campground, unless the BLM publishes
a Federal Register notice to the
contrary. Comments received after the
close of the comment period or
delivered to an address other than the
one listed in this notice may not be
considered or included in the
administrative record for the proposed
fee.
ADDRESSES: Documents may be
reviewed at the Rawlins Field Office,
1300 North Third Street, P.O. Box 2407,
Rawlins, WY 82301–2407. Written
comments may be mailed or delivered
to the same address; faxed to 307–328–
4224; or emailed to BLM_WY_Corral_
Creek@blm.gov with ‘‘Corral Creek Fee
Proposal’’ referenced in the subject line.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John
Russell, Project Manager, at the address
above or phone (307) 328–4252. The
business plan and information
concerning the proposed fee schedule
are available at www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/
info/NEPA/documents/rfo/n_platte_
ramp.html. 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 John Russell during normal
business hours. The FIRS is available 24
hours a day, seven 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
planning area for the 5,060-acre North
Platte River Recreation Area
Management Plan (Plan) includes
parcels of public land within the SRMA
boundary from the Prospect Creek
confluence to Seminoe Reservoir
covering 110 river miles. Approximately
10 percent of the surface area is public
land with the remainder predominantly
private and State lands. The Corral
Creek Campground is within the SRMA
approximately 33 miles northeast of the
Encampment, Wyoming, and is a
popular recreation site for both day-use
and overnight visits. The Federal Lands
Recreation Enhancement Act (REA), 16
U.S.C. 6801–6814, authorizes the
Secretary of the Interior to establish,
modify, charge and collect recreation
fees at specified categories of Federal
recreation lands and waters. The REA
also contains specific provisions
addressing public involvement when
establishing recreation fees. The
authority of the Secretary to carry out
these provisions expires 11 years after
December 8, 2005 (16 U.S.C. 6809
amended). The public involvement
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provisions of the REA include a
requirement that Recreation Resource
Advisory Committees or councils be
given opportunities to make
recommendations regarding the
establishment of recreation fees. In
Wyoming, the Recreation Action Team
(REACT) fulfills the public involvement
requirements of the REA. REACT is
comprised of State and Federal land
management agencies that meet
regularly to discuss issues of interest to
recreationists in the State. REACT also
reviews all fee increase proposals on all
State and Federal Government sites in
Wyoming. The Corral Creek
Campground qualifies as a site where
visitors can be charged an Expanded
Amenity Fee in accordance with REA
criteria at 43 U.S.C. 6802(g)(2). The BLM
completed the North Platte River
Recreation Area Management Plan and
Environmental Assessment Decision
Record on September 24, 2013, and
fulfilled REA requirements, involved
the public, and gathered input on the
fee proposal and alternatives.
The Plan addresses the following: (1)
Visitor use density; (2) River access
issues and the establishment of a new
campground; (3) Pursuit of a
campground fee and improvements; (4)
Special Recreation Permit allocations
and limits; and (5) Resource impacts
caused by peak visitor use on public
lands along the North Platte River.
Mitigation and reclamation for approved
projects in the Plan have been designed
to positively benefit social and
environmental conditions. The BLM has
already analyzed the potential impacts
of implementing a campground fee, and
considered necessary mitigations in the
North Platte River Recreation Area
Management Plan and Environmental
Assessment. Therefore, establishment of
the campground fee would be an
administrative action implementing the
Sept. 24, 2013 Decision Record.
In accordance with BLM policy, the
Rawlins Field Office has prepared a
business plan that explains the fee
collection process for the Corral Creek
Campground and how the fees would be
used. The proposed fee structure
includes the implementation of a $10
fee for each overnight stay per campsite
at the campground. No fees would be
charged for extra vehicles. New fees
would be used to supplement the
appropriated recreation maintenance
and operations budget and diversify
funding for watershed restoration,
habitat, soils, environmental
interpretation/education and other
projects which would benefit the Corral
Creek Recreation Site. Within the
SRMA, the BLM has charged Expanded
Amenity fees of $10 for overnight
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camping per campsite at Bennett Peak
and Encampment River campgrounds. A
day-use fee is not being charged on
BLM-administered recreation sites
within the SRMA.
A fee collection station, including
envelopes and a fee tube, would be
located at the trailhead and day-use
parking area adjacent to an existing
interpretive kiosk that would display
the fee schedule and supplementary
rules. The fee receipt must be
prominently displayed at each occupied
site. Those holding the America the
Beautiful—The National Parks and
Federal Recreational Lands Pass (i.e.,
the Interagency Annual Pass,
Interagency Senior Pass, Interagency
Access Pass and Interagency Volunteer
Pass), the National Parks Pass with
golden eagle hologram and the Golden
Eagle, Golden Age or Golden Access
passports would be entitled to a fee
reduction. The pass type and number
would be required to be written on the
fee envelope.
The fee schedule and business plan
are available at the Rawlins Field Office.
Public comments submitted for this fee
proposal, including names and street
addresses of respondents, will be
available for public review in their
entirety after the 90-day comment
period closes at the Rawlins Field Office
during regular business hours,
7:45 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except for holidays.
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 proposal of an overnight camping
fee at Corral Creek Campground was
analyzed in the 2013 Plan
Environmental Assessment (EA) (DOI–
BLM–WY–030–2013–0094–EA). This
EA included development of
recreational infrastructure to meet
current BLM fee site standards and
proposed the pursuit of a fee program at
Corral Creek Campground.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 6803(b).
Buddy Green,
Acting State Director, Wyoming.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–WASO–NRSS–EQD–SSB–16553;
PPWONRADE3, PPMRSNR1Y.NM000]
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request: Programmatic
Review and Clearance Process for
NPS-Sponsored Public Surveys
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
We (National Park Service)
are asking the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) to approve the
Information Collection Request (ICR)
described below. The National Park
Service (NPS) is requesting renewal of a
currently approved collection (OMB
Control Number 1024–0224). This
Programmatic Review and Clearance
Process for NPS-Sponsored Public
Surveys simplifies and streamlines the
information collection requests to OMB
in a manner that allows the NPS to
submit and request up to five times as
many requests per year as we would
through the regular submission route.
To comply with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 and as a part of
our continuing efforts to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden, we
invite the general public and other
Federal agencies to comment on this
ICR. A Federal agency may not conduct
or sponsor and a person is not required
to respond to a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number.
DATES: To ensure that your comments
on this ICR are considered, OMB must
receive them on or before September 29,
2014.
ADDRESSES: Please submit written
comments on this information
collection directly to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Attention: Desk Officer for the
Department of the Interior, via email to
OIRA_Submission@omb.eop.gov or fax
at 202–395–5806; and identify your
submission as 1024–0224. Please also
send a copy of your comments to
Phadrea Ponds, Information Collection
Coordinator, National Park Service,
1201 Oakridge Drive, Fort Collins, CO
80525 (mail); or phadrea_ponds@
nps.gov (email). Please reference
Information Collection 1024–0224 in the
subject line.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Phadrea Ponds, Information Collection
Review Coordinator, National Park
Service, 1201 Oakridge Drive, Fort
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Collins, CO 80525 (mail); or phadrea_
ponds@nps.gov (email). Please reference
Information Collection 1024–0224 in the
subject line. You may also access this
ICR at www.reginfo.gov.
I. Abstract
The National Park Service (NPS) is
requesting a one year extension for the
Programmatic Review and Clearance
Process for NPS-Sponsored Public
Surveys (OMB Control Number 1024–
0224). The request to extend the current
expiration date (August 31, 2014) for
one year is for the purpose of revising
the current Pool of Known Questions
that serves as a primary component of
this process. This request is also based
upon requests from human dimensions
and natural resource professionals that
we update the current list of questions
and topic areas that are more than 20
years old. This extension is needed to
work collaboratively with other
researchers in this field to increase the
Pool of Known Questions usability as an
effective tool in this process. During the
extension we will continue to submit
collections for FY15 (based upon the
currently approved documents) and we
will also host a series of workshops to
facilitate the revision of the topic areas
and questions.
II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1024–0224.
Title: Programmatic Review and
Clearance Process for NPS-Sponsored
Public Surveys.
Type of Request: Renewal.
Affected Public: General public;
individual households.
Respondent Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: One time.
Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 53,500.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours:
17,080 hours.
Estimated Annual Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’: None.
III. Request for Comments
On May 27, 2014, we published a
Federal Register notice (79 FR 30162)
announcing that we would submit this
ICR to OMB for approval. Public
comments were solicited for 60 days
ending July 28, 2014. We did not receive
any public comments in response to that
notice. In addition, individuals who had
served as principal investigators of NPSsponsored public surveys in FY 2012–
13 were informed that the 60-day
Federal Register notice was published.
However, we requested that several
social scientists and natural resource
researchers provide a review of the Pool
of Known Questions. Several of the
reviewers suggested that it is time to
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLWYD030000-L12320000-DA0000]
Notice of Intent To Establish a Campground Fee on Public Land in
Carbon County, WY
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of intent.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Rawlins Field Office,
Rawlins, Wyoming, intends to establish an overnight camping fee at
Corral Creek Campground within the North Platte River Special
Recreation Management Area (SRMA).
DATES: Comments on the proposed fee changes must be received or
postmarked by November 28, 2014 and include a legible full name and
address. Effective February 25, 2015, the BLM will initiate fee
collection at Corral Creek Campground, unless the BLM publishes a
Federal Register notice to the contrary. Comments received after the
close of the comment period or delivered to an address other than the
one listed in this notice may not be considered or included in the
administrative record for the proposed fee.
ADDRESSES: Documents may be reviewed at the Rawlins Field Office, 1300
North Third Street, P.O. Box 2407, Rawlins, WY 82301-2407. Written
comments may be mailed or delivered to the same address; faxed to 307-
328-4224; or emailed to
BLMWYCorralCreek@blm.gov with ``Corral Creek
Fee Proposal'' referenced in the subject line.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John Russell, Project Manager, at the
address above or phone (307) 328-4252. The business plan and
information concerning the proposed fee schedule are available at
www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/info/NEPA/documents/rfo/
nplatteramp.html. 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 John
Russell during normal business hours. The FIRS is available 24 hours a
day, seven 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 planning area for the 5,060-acre North
Platte River Recreation Area Management Plan (Plan) includes parcels of
public land within the SRMA boundary from the Prospect Creek confluence
to Seminoe Reservoir covering 110 river miles. Approximately 10 percent
of the surface area is public land with the remainder predominantly
private and State lands. The Corral Creek Campground is within the SRMA
approximately 33 miles northeast of the Encampment, Wyoming, and is a
popular recreation site for both day-use and overnight visits. The
Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act (REA), 16 U.S.C. 6801-6814,
authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to establish, modify, charge
and collect recreation fees at specified categories of Federal
recreation lands and waters. The REA also contains specific provisions
addressing public involvement when establishing recreation fees. The
authority of the Secretary to carry out these provisions expires 11
years after December 8, 2005 (16 U.S.C. 6809 amended). The public
involvement provisions of the REA include a requirement that Recreation
Resource Advisory Committees or councils be given opportunities to make
recommendations regarding the establishment of recreation fees. In
Wyoming, the Recreation Action Team (REACT) fulfills the public
involvement requirements of the REA. REACT is comprised of State and
Federal land management agencies that meet regularly to discuss issues
of interest to recreationists in the State. REACT also reviews all fee
increase proposals on all State and Federal Government sites in
Wyoming. The Corral Creek Campground qualifies as a site where visitors
can be charged an Expanded Amenity Fee in accordance with REA criteria
at 43 U.S.C. 6802(g)(2). The BLM completed the North Platte River
Recreation Area Management Plan and Environmental Assessment Decision
Record on September 24, 2013, and fulfilled REA requirements, involved
the public, and gathered input on the fee proposal and alternatives.
The Plan addresses the following: (1) Visitor use density; (2)
River access issues and the establishment of a new campground; (3)
Pursuit of a campground fee and improvements; (4) Special Recreation
Permit allocations and limits; and (5) Resource impacts caused by peak
visitor use on public lands along the North Platte River. Mitigation
and reclamation for approved projects in the Plan have been designed to
positively benefit social and environmental conditions. The BLM has
already analyzed the potential impacts of implementing a campground
fee, and considered necessary mitigations in the North Platte River
Recreation Area Management Plan and Environmental Assessment.
Therefore, establishment of the campground fee would be an
administrative action implementing the Sept. 24, 2013 Decision Record.
In accordance with BLM policy, the Rawlins Field Office has
prepared a business plan that explains the fee collection process for
the Corral Creek Campground and how the fees would be used. The
proposed fee structure includes the implementation of a $10 fee for
each overnight stay per campsite at the campground. No fees would be
charged for extra vehicles. New fees would be used to supplement the
appropriated recreation maintenance and operations budget and diversify
funding for watershed restoration, habitat, soils, environmental
interpretation/education and other projects which would benefit the
Corral Creek Recreation Site. Within the SRMA, the BLM has charged
Expanded Amenity fees of $10 for overnight
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camping per campsite at Bennett Peak and Encampment River campgrounds.
A day-use fee is not being charged on BLM-administered recreation sites
within the SRMA.
A fee collection station, including envelopes and a fee tube, would
be located at the trailhead and day-use parking area adjacent to an
existing interpretive kiosk that would display the fee schedule and
supplementary rules. The fee receipt must be prominently displayed at
each occupied site. Those holding the America the Beautiful--The
National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass (i.e., the
Interagency Annual Pass, Interagency Senior Pass, Interagency Access
Pass and Interagency Volunteer Pass), the National Parks Pass with
golden eagle hologram and the Golden Eagle, Golden Age or Golden Access
passports would be entitled to a fee reduction. The pass type and
number would be required to be written on the fee envelope.
The fee schedule and business plan are available at the Rawlins
Field Office. Public comments submitted for this fee proposal,
including names and street addresses of respondents, will be available
for public review in their entirety after the 90-day comment period
closes at the Rawlins Field Office during regular business hours, 7:45
a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except for holidays.
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 proposal of an overnight camping fee at Corral Creek Campground
was analyzed in the 2013 Plan Environmental Assessment (EA) (DOI-BLM-
WY-030-2013-0094-EA). This EA included development of recreational
infrastructure to meet current BLM fee site standards and proposed the
pursuit of a fee program at Corral Creek Campground.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 6803(b).
Buddy Green,
Acting State Director, Wyoming.
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