Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision for the Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment/Environmental Impact Statement for Recreational Target Shooting in the Sonoran Desert National Monument, Arizona, 42137-42138 [2018-17877]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR–7001–N–45]
30-Day Notice of Proposed Information
Collection: Energy and Performance
Information Center (EPIC)
Office of the Chief Information
Officer, HUD.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
HUD submitted the proposed
information collection requirement
described below to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review, in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act. The purpose
of this notice is to allow for 30 days of
public comment.
DATES: Comments Due Date: September
19, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Comments should refer to
the proposal by name and/or OMB
Control Number and should be sent to:
HUD Desk Officer, Office of
Management and Budget, New
Executive Office Building, Washington,
DC 20503; fax:202–395–5806, Email:
OIRASubmission@omb.eop.gov
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Colette Pollard, Reports Management
Officer, QMAC, Department of Housing
and Urban Development, 451 7th Street
SW, Washington, DC 20410; email
Colette.Pollard@hud.gov, or telephone
202–402–3400. This is not a toll-free
number. Person with hearing or speech
impairments may access this number
through TTY by calling the toll-free
Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–8339.
Copies of available documents
submitted to OMB may be obtained
from Ms. Pollard.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice informs the public that HUD is
seeking approval from OMB for the
information collection described in
Section A.
The Federal Register notice that
solicited public comment on the
information collection for a period of 60
days was published on April 19, 2018
83 FR 17424.
SUMMARY:
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A. Overview of Information Collection
Title of Information Collection:
Energy and Performance Information
Center (EPIC).
OMB Approved Number: 2577–0274.
Type of Request: Revision of currently
approved collection.
Form Number: N/A—all information
collected electronically.
Description of the need for the
information and proposed use: The
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EPIC data system automates the
previous paper collection of the fiveyear plan and annual statement forms
from grantees. These are required forms
were collected in hard copy on Forms
HUD 50075.1 and HUD 50075.2 under
collection OMB control number 2577–
0157. These forms also collect data on
the eventual, actual use of funds; this
data will be gradually collected
electronically through the EPIC data
system as well. Electronic collection
will enable the Department to aggregate
information about the way grantees are
using Federal funding. Additionally,
PHA grantees will be able to submit
Replacement Housing Factor fund
plans, the mechanism by which PHAs
are allowed to accumulate special funds
received based on units removed from
the inventory from year to year. This
information is presently collected in
hard copy at the field office level; the
EPIC data system will automate and
centralize this collection in order to
streamline the process and improve
transparency. Furthermore, the EPIC
data system will be loaded with
Physical Needs Assessment (‘‘PNA’’)
data. This data being in the system
coupled with the electronic planning
process will streamline grantee
planning. The EPIC data system will
collect information about the Energy
Performance Contract (‘‘EPC’’) process,
including the energy efficiency
improvements. As the Department
moves to shrink its energy footprint in
spite of rising energy costs, clear and
comprehensive data on this process will
be crucial to its success. Tracking of the
use of Federal funds paid through the
Public Housing Capital Fund, the only
Federal funding stream dedicated to the
capital needs of the nation’s last resort
housing option, is crucial to
understanding how the Department can
properly and efficiently assist grantees
in meeting this goal as well as assessing
the Department’s own progress. The
EPIC data system will track
development of public housing with
Federal funds and through other means,
including mixed-finance development.
Respondents (i.e., affected public):
Members of Affected Public: State, Local
or Local Governments and Non-profit
organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
2,950.
Estimated Number of Responses:
22,149.78.
Frequency of Response: 7.5084.
Average Hours per Response: 1.83724.
Total Estimated Burdens: 40,694.46
hours.
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B. Solicitation of Public Comment
This notice is soliciting comments
from members of the public and affected
parties concerning the collection of
information described in Section A on
the following:
(1) Whether the proposed collection
of information is necessary for the
proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) The accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information;
(3) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) Ways to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond: Including through
the use of appropriate automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of responses.
HUD encourages interested parties to
submit comment in response to these
questions.
Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35.
Dated: August 8, 2018.
Colette Pollard,
Department Reports Management Officer,
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[AZ–P040–2017–1711–PH–1000–241A
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Notice of Availability of the Record of
Decision for the Approved Resource
Management Plan Amendment/
Environmental Impact Statement for
Recreational Target Shooting in the
Sonoran Desert National Monument,
Arizona
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) announces the
availability of the Record of Decision
(ROD) for the approved Resource
Management Plan (RMP) Amendment/
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
for Recreational Target Shooting in the
Sonoran Desert National Monument
(SDNM) in Arizona.
DATES: This decision became operative
on March 5, 2018.
ADDRESSES: The complete text of the
ROD, along with the EIS and supporting
SUMMARY:
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documents, is available on the BLM
website at https://go.usa.gov/xnFJm.
Copies of the ROD for Recreational
Target Shooting in the SDNM have been
sent to affected Federal, State, and local
government agencies and to other
stakeholders, and are available for
public inspection at Lower Sonoran
Field Office 21605 North 7th Avenue,
Phoenix, Arizona 85027.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Darrel Wayne Monger, Monument
Manager, telephone: 623–580–5683;
address: Lower Sonoran Field Office,
21605 North 7th Avenue, Phoenix,
Arizona 85027; email: blm_az_
sdnmtargetshooting@blm.gov. Persons
who use a telecommunications device
for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal
Relay Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339
to contact the above individual during
normal business hours. FRS 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.
The
planning area covers nearly 496,400
surface acres of south-central Arizona
and lies within Maricopa and Pinal
Counties. Population centers adjacent to
the planning area include metropolitan
Phoenix, and the communities of Ajo,
Goodyear, Buckeye, Gila Bend, Mobile,
and Maricopa. The planning area
encompasses Federal- and Stateadministered lands as well as private
lands. The BLM’s authority is limited to
BLM-managed public lands and
federally-owned minerals within the
planning area. The BLM manages
486,400 surface acres of public lands in
the planning area, as well as 461,000
acres of (sub-surface) mineral estate.
The State of Arizona manages 3,900
surface acres in the planning area, with
the remaining 6,100 surface acres being
privately owned land.
The BLM prepared the Proposed RMP
Amendment/Final EIS to address
management of recreational target
shooting in the SDNM. The Proposed
RMP Amendment/Final EIS was
required to analyze recreational target
shooting in the SDNM due to a ruling
by the U.S. District Court-District of
Arizona that vacated portions of the
2012 ROD, Approved RMP, and Final
EIS related to recreational target
shooting throughout the SDNM, and
remanded the decision to the BLM for
reconsideration. The Court also required
the BLM to ensure the Final EIS
analyzed mitigation measures and
cumulative impacts consistent with the
order, with a deadline of March 5, 2018,
to issue the ROD. The BLM Arizona
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State Director signed the ROD on March
5, 2018.
The Proposed RMP Amendment/Final
EIS evaluated five alternatives in detail,
including the No Action Alternative
(Alternative A) and four action
alternatives (Alternatives B, C, D, and
E), based on public input and on
analysis of the impacts of each of the
alternatives. The five alternatives ranged
from making the entire monument
available for target shooting to making
the entire monument unavailable for
target shooting. All alternatives required
compliance with a hierarchy of
mitigation that includes: (1) Avoiding
impacts to the maximum extent
compatible with the goals of the
alternative; (2) Minimizing any impacts
that are not avoidable; and (3) Providing
a range of responses commensurate with
the level of unavoidable impacts.
Alternative C was the BLM’s proposed
amendment. The Proposed RMP
Amendment and Final EIS were
published in the Federal Register on
October 20, 2017 (84 FR 48847).
As a result of continued work with
stakeholders and in response to
comments from the public and
cooperating agencies, the BLM
determined that approximately 2,600
acres of additional land in the area is
suitable for recreational target shooting.
As such, the ROD approves a modified
version of Alternative C, which
identifies approximately 435,700 acres
of land as available for recreational
target shooting in the SDNM. The
additional approximately 2,600 acres
are located along the northern boundary
of the SDNM within the Juan Bautista
de Anza Recreation Management Zone,
and were analyzed in Alternative A as
available for recreational target
shooting.
During the 30-day protest period, the
BLM Director received five protest
letters. All protests were resolved prior
to issuance of the ROD.
No comments regarding potential
inconsistencies with State and local
plans, programs, and policies were
received from the Governor’s Office
during the Governor’s Consistency
Review process.
(Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1506.10,
43 CFR 1610.2, 43 CFR 1610.5)
Edward J. Kender,
Field Manager, Lower Sonoran Field Office.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[12X.LLAK942000.L54200000.FR0000.
LVDIL12L0530; FF097215]
Notice of Application for a Recordable
Disclaimer of Interest for Lands
Underlying the Fortymile River System,
Alaska
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The State of Alaska (State) has
filed an application with the Bureau of
Land Management (BLM) for a
Recordable Disclaimer of Interest (RDI)
from the United States in those lands
underlying the Fortymile River System
located in the upper Yukon subregion,
Alaska. The State asserts that the
Fortymile River System was navigable
and unreserved at the time of Alaska
Statehood in 1959.
DATES: The BLM should receive all
comments to this action on or before
November 19, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by mail or email on the State of Alaska’s
application for an RDI or on the BLM
draft ‘‘Summary Report on Federal
Interest in Lands underlying the
Fortymile River System in Alaska.’’
(Report) To file comments by mail, send
to: RDI Program Manager (AK–942),
Division of Lands and Cadastral, BLM
Alaska State Office, 222 West 7th
Avenue, #13, Anchorage, AK 99513. To
submit comments by email, send to
anichols@blm.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Angie Nichols, RDI Program Manager,
222 West 7th Avenue, #13, Anchorage,
AK 99513; 907–271–3359; anichols@
blm.gov; or visit the BLM RDI website
at https://www.blm.gov/basic/programslands-and-realty-alaska-rdi-fortymilefortymile-river.
People who use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD) may call the
Federal Relay System (FRS) at 1–800–
877–8339 to contact the above
individual during normal business
hours. The FRS is available 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week, to leave a message
or a question with the above individual.
You will receive a reply during normal
business hours.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May
11, 2017, the State filed an application
(FF–97215) for an RDI pursuant to
Section 315 of the Federal Land Policy
and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA)
and the regulations contained in 43 CFR
Subpart 1864 for the lands underlying
the Fortymile River System.
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[AZ-P040-2017-1711-PH-1000-241A 14X.LLAZP04000.L1711.PH0000]
Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision for the Approved
Resource Management Plan Amendment/Environmental Impact Statement for
Recreational Target Shooting in the Sonoran Desert National Monument,
Arizona
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces the availability
of the Record of Decision (ROD) for the approved Resource Management
Plan (RMP) Amendment/Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for
Recreational Target Shooting in the Sonoran Desert National Monument
(SDNM) in Arizona.
DATES: This decision became operative on March 5, 2018.
ADDRESSES: The complete text of the ROD, along with the EIS and
supporting
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documents, is available on the BLM website at https://go.usa.gov/xnFJm.
Copies of the ROD for Recreational Target Shooting in the SDNM have
been sent to affected Federal, State, and local government agencies and
to other stakeholders, and are available for public inspection at Lower
Sonoran Field Office 21605 North 7th Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85027.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Darrel Wayne Monger, Monument Manager,
telephone: 623-580-5683; address: Lower Sonoran Field Office, 21605
North 7th Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85027; email:
[email protected]. Persons who use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at
1-800-877-8339 to contact the above individual during normal business
hours. FRS 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 planning area covers nearly 496,400
surface acres of south-central Arizona and lies within Maricopa and
Pinal Counties. Population centers adjacent to the planning area
include metropolitan Phoenix, and the communities of Ajo, Goodyear,
Buckeye, Gila Bend, Mobile, and Maricopa. The planning area encompasses
Federal- and State-administered lands as well as private lands. The
BLM's authority is limited to BLM-managed public lands and federally-
owned minerals within the planning area. The BLM manages 486,400
surface acres of public lands in the planning area, as well as 461,000
acres of (sub-surface) mineral estate. The State of Arizona manages
3,900 surface acres in the planning area, with the remaining 6,100
surface acres being privately owned land.
The BLM prepared the Proposed RMP Amendment/Final EIS to address
management of recreational target shooting in the SDNM. The Proposed
RMP Amendment/Final EIS was required to analyze recreational target
shooting in the SDNM due to a ruling by the U.S. District Court-
District of Arizona that vacated portions of the 2012 ROD, Approved
RMP, and Final EIS related to recreational target shooting throughout
the SDNM, and remanded the decision to the BLM for reconsideration. The
Court also required the BLM to ensure the Final EIS analyzed mitigation
measures and cumulative impacts consistent with the order, with a
deadline of March 5, 2018, to issue the ROD. The BLM Arizona State
Director signed the ROD on March 5, 2018.
The Proposed RMP Amendment/Final EIS evaluated five alternatives in
detail, including the No Action Alternative (Alternative A) and four
action alternatives (Alternatives B, C, D, and E), based on public
input and on analysis of the impacts of each of the alternatives. The
five alternatives ranged from making the entire monument available for
target shooting to making the entire monument unavailable for target
shooting. All alternatives required compliance with a hierarchy of
mitigation that includes: (1) Avoiding impacts to the maximum extent
compatible with the goals of the alternative; (2) Minimizing any
impacts that are not avoidable; and (3) Providing a range of responses
commensurate with the level of unavoidable impacts. Alternative C was
the BLM's proposed amendment. The Proposed RMP Amendment and Final EIS
were published in the Federal Register on October 20, 2017 (84 FR
48847).
As a result of continued work with stakeholders and in response to
comments from the public and cooperating agencies, the BLM determined
that approximately 2,600 acres of additional land in the area is
suitable for recreational target shooting. As such, the ROD approves a
modified version of Alternative C, which identifies approximately
435,700 acres of land as available for recreational target shooting in
the SDNM. The additional approximately 2,600 acres are located along
the northern boundary of the SDNM within the Juan Bautista de Anza
Recreation Management Zone, and were analyzed in Alternative A as
available for recreational target shooting.
During the 30-day protest period, the BLM Director received five
protest letters. All protests were resolved prior to issuance of the
ROD.
No comments regarding potential inconsistencies with State and
local plans, programs, and policies were received from the Governor's
Office during the Governor's Consistency Review process.
(Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1506.10, 43 CFR 1610.2, 43 CFR
1610.5)
Edward J. Kender,
Field Manager, Lower Sonoran Field Office.
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