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release, and salvage shed skins) of
Eastern indigo snake (Drymarchon
corais couperi) and take tail clips of
larval reticulated flatwoods and frosted
salamanders for presence/absence
surveys and genetic analyses.
Permit Application Number: TE
02166C–0
Applicant: Zoe D. Bryant, Tabernacle,
NJ
The applicant requests a permit to
take (enter hibernacula and maternity
roost caves, capture with mist nets and
harp traps, salvage, handle, measure,
take hair samples, swab, wing-punch,
band, and radio-tag) Indiana bats
(Myotis sodalis) and northern long-eared
bats (Myotis septentrionalis) in
Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana,
Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi,
Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North
Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio,
Oklahoma, South Carolina, South
Dakota, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and
Wyoming for presence/absence surveys
and white-nose syndrome surveillance.
Permit Application Number: TE
02167C–0
Applicant: James W. Gore, Paragould,
AR
The applicant requests a permit to
take (enter hibernacula and maternity
roost caves, capture with mist nets and
harp traps, handle, measure, salvage,
collect hair samples, swab, wing-punch,
band, and radio-tag) gray bats (Myotis
grisescens), Indiana bats (Myotis
sodalis), northern long-eared bats
(Myotis septentrionalis), and Ozark bigeared bats (Corynorhinus (=Plecotus)
townsendii ingens) throughout the
species’ ranges for presence/absence
surveys and white-nose syndrome
surveillance.
Permit Application Number: TE
130300–5
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Applicant: Paul D. Johnson, Alabama
Aquatic Biodiversity Center, Marion,
AL
The applicant requests renewal of his
permit to continue to take (collect,
transport, hold in captivity for more
than 45 consecutive days, release,
translocate, and euthanize) endangered
species of freshwater mussels,
gastropods, and fish for presence/
absence surveys, captive propagation,
reintroduction, and scientific research
purposes in Alabama, Georgia,
Mississippi, and Tennessee.
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Permit Application Number: TE
03305C–0
Applicant: U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Memphis, TN
The applicant requests amendment of
their permit (formerly TE 061069–2) to
add authorization to take (capture,
identify, hold temporarily, and release)
the Alabama (=inflated) heelsplitter
(Potamilus inflatus) and southern
clubshell (Pleurobema decisum) for
presence/absence surveys in Alabama,
and continue those same activities with
the following freshwater mussels in
Arkansas, Kentucky, and Mississippi:
Pink mucket (Lampsilis abrupta), fat
pocketbook (Potamilus capax), turgidblossom (Epioblasma turgidula), ringpink (Obovaria retusa), and orangefooted (Plethobasus cooperianus).
Dated: September 2, 2016.
Leopoldo Miranda,
Assistant Regional Director, Ecological
Services, Southeast Region.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[WO–220–16–1020–JA–VEIS]
Notice of Availability of the Record of
Decision for the Final Programmatic
Environmental Impact Statement for
Vegetation Treatments Using
Herbicides on Bureau of Land
Management Lands in 17 Western
States
Permit Application Number: TE
183402–1
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
Applicant: U.S. Army, Fort Jackson, SC
SUMMARY:
The applicant requests renewal of
their permit to continue to collect seeds
(remove and reduce to possession) of
the smooth coneflower (Echinacea
laevigata) on Fort Jackson Military
Reservation and sow the seeds in
adjacent areas to expand and increase
existing populations.
Permit Application Number: TE
087194–4
Applicant: Goethe State Forest,
Dunellon, FL
The applicant requests renewal of
their permit to continue to take
(construct and monitor artificial nest
cavities and restrictors, capture, band,
translocate) red-cockaded woodpeckers
(Picoides borealis) in Goethe State
Forest and other State forest lands in
Florida for population management and
monitoring purposes.
Permit Application Number: TE
812344–6
Applicant: Pennington and Associates,
Inc., Cookeville, TN
The applicant requests renewal of
their permit to continue to take (capture,
identify, release) the Nashville crayfish
(Orconectes shoupi), Anthony’s
riversnail (Athearnia anthonyi), Royal
marstonia (Pyrgulopsis ogmorhaphe),
and several species of endangered and
threatened fish and take (capture,
identify, release, and salvage relic
shells) several species of freshwater
mussels in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky,
North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia
for presence/absence surveys.
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AGENCY:
Pursuant to Section 102(2)(C)
of the National Environmental Policy
Act of 1969 (NEPA), the Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) hereby gives notice
that the Record of Decision is available
for the Final National Programmatic
Environmental Impact Statement (Final
EIS) on vegetation treatments involving
the use of aminopyralid, fluroxypyr, and
rimsulfuron herbicides on public lands
administered by the BLM in 17 western
states, including Alaska.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the Record of
Decision are available in hard copy or
CD upon request at the BLM
Washington Office, 20 M Street SE.,
Room 2134, Washington, DC 20003, or
at BLM State, District, and Field Office
public rooms, or you can review or
download the document from the BLM
public Web site: https://blm.gov/3vkd.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gina
Ramos, Senior Weeds Specialist,
telephone 202–912–7226 or Kim
Anderson, Project Manager, telephone
206–438–2337. 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 individuals 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 individuals. You will
receive a reply during normal business
hours.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Final
EIS provides a comprehensive analysis
of BLM’s use of chemical herbicides in
its various vegetation treatment
programs related to hazardous fuels
reduction, noxious weeds, invasive
terrestrial and aquatic plant species
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management, resource rehabilitation
following catastrophic fires, and other
disturbances. The BLM served as the
lead Federal agency for the preparation
of the Final EIS. Alternative B in the
Final EIS identifies three herbicides
selected for use: Aminopyralid,
fluroxypyr, and rimsulfuron. The
Record of Decision identifies best
management practices, standard
operating procedures, and mitigation
measures for all vegetation treatment
projects involving the use of
aminopyralid, fluroxypyr, and
rimsulfuron.
The Final EIS addresses human health
and ecological risk for the use of
chemical herbicides on public lands and
provides a cumulative impact analysis
of the use of chemical herbicides in
conjunction with other treatment
methods.
The decision area includes surface
estate public lands administered by 11
BLM State offices: Alaska, Arizona,
California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana
(North Dakota/South Dakota), New
Mexico (Oklahoma/Texas/Nebraska),
Nevada, Oregon (Washington), Utah,
and Wyoming.
The BLM issued a Notice of
Availability of the Draft Programmatic
Environmental Impact Statement Using
Aminopyralid, Fluroxypyr, and
Rimsulfuron (Draft EIS) on June 19,
2015 (80 FR 35394).
The BLM responded to 98 individual
public comments during the Draft EIS
public review period.
Comment responses and subsequent
changes to the impact analysis are
documented in the Final EIS. In
addition, the FEIS contains Subsistence
analysis required under Section 801(a)
of the Alaska National Interest Lands
Conservation Act (ANILCA).
Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1606.10.
Kit Muller,
Acting Assistant Director, Resources and
Planning, Bureau of Land Management.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Notice of Availability of Final
Environmental Impact Statement for
the Proposed Rasmussen Valley
Phosphate Mine, Caribou County,
Idaho
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior, United States Forest Service,
Agriculture.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, as amended (NEPA), the Bureau of
Land Management (BLM) and the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Forest
Service (USFS), Caribou-Targhee
National Forest (CTNF), have prepared
a Final Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS) for the proposed Rasmussen Valley
Phosphate Mine, and by this Notice are
announcing the opening of the review
and availability of the document. A
Draft USFS Record of Decision (ROD) is
also available for review and objection
as described in the Summary section.
DATES: The BLM and USFS will issue
coordinated RODs for this project. The
Final EIS is now available for public
review, as is the Draft USFS ROD. The
BLM ROD will be released and
announced separately, no sooner than
the end of the Final EIS availability
period on October 11, 2016. A legal
notice published in the newspaper of
record of the Final USFS ROD will be
released no sooner than five business
days following the end of the 45 day
objection period after the Draft USFS
ROD has been announced and made
available.
SUMMARY:
CD–ROM and print copies
of the Rasmussen Valley Mine Final EIS
and the Draft USFS ROD are available
in the BLM Pocatello Field Office at the
following address: 4350 Cliffs Drive,
Pocatello, ID 83204. In addition, an
electronic copy of the Final EIS is
available online at BLM Planning and
NEPA Register: https://on.doi.gov/
1GpGxyW and an electronic copy of the
Final EIS and the Draft USFS ROD are
available online at CTNF Current and
Recent Projects: https://www.fs.usda.gov/
projects/ctnf/landmanagement/projects.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
William (Bill) Volk, Bureau of Land
Management, Pocatello Field Office,
ADDRESSES:
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4350 Cliffs Drive, Pocatello, ID 83204,
telephone 208–236–7503, fax 208–478–
6376. 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. 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: Nu-West
Industries, Inc., doing business as
Agrium Conda Phosphate Operations
(Agrium), has submitted a mine and
reclamation plan for the Rasmussen
Valley Mine to exercise their contractual
rights to recover phosphate ore reserves
contained within Federal Phosphate
Lease I–05975 (the Lease). The mine
would be located in Caribou County
approximately 18 miles northeast of
Soda Springs, Idaho, on the
southwestern flank of Rasmussen Ridge
and adjacent to Rasmussen Valley near
the headwaters of the Blackfoot River.
Agrium proposes to develop the
Rasmussen Valley Mine within the
Lease on a combination of BLMmanaged lands managed by the
Pocatello Field Office, National Forest
System (NFS) lands administered by the
Soda Springs Ranger District, the
Blackfoot River Wildlife Management
Area (WMA) administered by the Idaho
Department of Fish and Game (IDFG),
and on split estate lands (private land
with Federal minerals). The Lease grants
the lessee, Agrium, exclusive rights to
mine and otherwise dispose of the
federally-owned phosphate deposit. The
proposed Rasmussen Valley Mine
would also include some development
outside the Lease on private lands, NFS
lands, WMA lands, and on State lands
administered by the Idaho Department
of Lands (IDL). Agrium has also
requested lease modifications in three
locations to accommodate recovering
phosphate outside the existing Lease
area, or to accommodate disposal of
mine waste on NFS lands.
The BLM, as the Federal Lease
administrator, is the lead agency for the
Final EIS. The USFS is the joint-lead
agency, and the Idaho Department of
Environmental Quality and the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers are
cooperating agencies. The IDL, IDFG,
Idaho Department of Water Resources,
and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have
also participated in the preparation of
the Final EIS. The Final EIS provides
the analysis upon which the BLM,
USFS, and other involved agencies will
base their decisions regarding the
proposed Rasmussen Valley Mine.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[WO-220-16-1020-JA-VEIS]
Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision for the Final
Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Vegetation Treatments
Using Herbicides on Bureau of Land Management Lands in 17 Western
States
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) hereby
gives notice that the Record of Decision is available for the Final
National Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (Final EIS) on
vegetation treatments involving the use of aminopyralid, fluroxypyr,
and rimsulfuron herbicides on public lands administered by the BLM in
17 western states, including Alaska.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the Record of Decision are available in hard copy
or CD upon request at the BLM Washington Office, 20 M Street SE., Room
2134, Washington, DC 20003, or at BLM State, District, and Field Office
public rooms, or you can review or download the document from the BLM
public Web site: https://blm.gov/3vkd.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gina Ramos, Senior Weeds Specialist,
telephone 202-912-7226 or Kim Anderson, Project Manager, telephone 206-
438-2337. 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 individuals 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 individuals. You will receive a
reply during normal business hours.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Final EIS provides a comprehensive
analysis of BLM's use of chemical herbicides in its various vegetation
treatment programs related to hazardous fuels reduction, noxious weeds,
invasive terrestrial and aquatic plant species
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management, resource rehabilitation following catastrophic fires, and
other disturbances. The BLM served as the lead Federal agency for the
preparation of the Final EIS. Alternative B in the Final EIS identifies
three herbicides selected for use: Aminopyralid, fluroxypyr, and
rimsulfuron. The Record of Decision identifies best management
practices, standard operating procedures, and mitigation measures for
all vegetation treatment projects involving the use of aminopyralid,
fluroxypyr, and rimsulfuron.
The Final EIS addresses human health and ecological risk for the
use of chemical herbicides on public lands and provides a cumulative
impact analysis of the use of chemical herbicides in conjunction with
other treatment methods.
The decision area includes surface estate public lands administered
by 11 BLM State offices: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho,
Montana (North Dakota/South Dakota), New Mexico (Oklahoma/Texas/
Nebraska), Nevada, Oregon (Washington), Utah, and Wyoming.
The BLM issued a Notice of Availability of the Draft Programmatic
Environmental Impact Statement Using Aminopyralid, Fluroxypyr, and
Rimsulfuron (Draft EIS) on June 19, 2015 (80 FR 35394).
The BLM responded to 98 individual public comments during the Draft
EIS public review period.
Comment responses and subsequent changes to the impact analysis are
documented in the Final EIS. In addition, the FEIS contains Subsistence
analysis required under Section 801(a) of the Alaska National Interest
Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA).
Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1606.10.
Kit Muller,
Acting Assistant Director, Resources and Planning, Bureau of Land
Management.
[FR Doc. 2016-21446 Filed 9-8-16; 8:45 am]
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