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hereby given that the BLM will issue an
appealable decision to Kuukpik
Corporation. The decision approves
conveyance of the surface estate in
certain lands pursuant to ANCSA (43
U.S.C. 1601, et seq.). As provided by
ANCSA, the subsurface estate in the
same lands will be conveyed to Arctic
Slope Regional Corporation when the
surface estate is conveyed to Kuukpik
Corporation. The lands are located in
the vicinity of Nuiqsut, Alaska, and are
described as:
Umiat Meridian, Alaska
T. 10 N., R. 2 E.,
Secs. 31 and 32.
Containing 1,262.68 acres.
The decision addresses public access
easements, if any, to be reserved to the
United States pursuant to Sec. 17(b) of
ANCSA (43 U.S.C. 1616(b)), in the lands
described above.
The BLM will also publish notice of
the decision once a week for four
consecutive weeks in the ‘‘Anchorage
Daily News’’ newspaper.
Any party claiming a property interest
in the lands affected by the decision
may appeal the decision in accordance
with the requirements of 43 CFR part 4
within the following time limits:
1. Unknown parties, parties unable to
be located after reasonable efforts have
been expended to locate, parties who
fail or refuse to sign their return receipt,
and parties who receive a copy of the
decision by regular mail which is not
certified, return receipt requested, shall
have until July 17, 2023 to file an
appeal.
2. Parties receiving service of the
decision by certified mail shall have 30
days from the date of receipt to file an
appeal.
Parties who do not file an appeal in
accordance with the requirements of 43
CFR part 4 shall be deemed to have
waived their rights. Notices of appeal
transmitted by facsimile will not be
accepted as timely filed.
Eileen Ford,
Chief, Branch of Adjudication.
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Bureau of Land Management
[BLM_OR_FRN_MO4500169742]
Notice of Availability of the Proposed
Southeastern Oregon Resource
Management Plan Amendment and
Final Environmental Impact Statement
AGENCY:
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
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ACTION:
Notice of availability.
In accordance with the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, as amended, and the Federal Land
Policy and Management Act of 1976, as
amended, the Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) has prepared a
Proposed Resource Management Plan
(RMP) Amendment/Final
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
for the 2002 Southeastern Oregon RMP,
and by this notice is announcing the
start of a 30-day protest period of the
Proposed RMP Amendment.
DATES: This notice announces the
beginning of a 30-day protest period to
the BLM on the Proposed RMP
Amendment. Protests must be
postmarked or electronically submitted
on the BLM’s ePlanning site within 30
days of the date that the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) publishes its
Notice of Availability (NOA) in the
Federal Register. The EPA usually
publishes its NOAs on Fridays.
ADDRESSES: The Proposed RMP
Amendment/Final EIS is available on
the BLM’s ePlanning page at https://
eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/
project/87435/510. On the project
summary page, click on ‘‘Documents’’
on the left side of the screen to find the
electronic version of the Proposed RMP
Amendment/Final EIS. Hard copies of
the Proposed RMP Amendment/Final
EIS are also available for public
inspection at the BLM Vale District
Office, 100 Oregon Street, Vale, Oregon
97918, telephone: (541) 473–3144.
Instructions for filing a protest with
the BLM for the Proposed RMP
Amendment/Final EIS for the 2002
Southeastern Oregon RMP can be found
at: https://www.blm.gov/programs/
planning-and-nepa/publicparticipation/filing-a-plan-protest and
at 43 CFR 1610.5–2.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brent Grasty, Planning and
Environmental Coordinator, Vale
District Office; telephone: (541) 473–
3144; email: bgrasty@blm.gov.
Individuals in the United States who are
deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have
a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY,
TDD, or TeleBraille) to access
telecommunications relay services for
contacting Mr. Grasty. Individuals
outside the United States should use the
relay services offered within their
country to make international calls to
the point-of-contact in the United
States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The RMP
amendment would change the existing
2002 Southeastern Oregon RMP. The
Southeastern Oregon planning area
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covers approximately 4.6 million acres
of public lands in Malheur, Grant,
Harney, and Baker counties. The area is
characterized by a basin and range
topography with remote canyons,
desert, and mountain systems. The Final
EIS evaluates six alternatives that
address lands with wilderness
characteristics; determine open, limited,
and closed off-highway vehicle area
allocations; provide livestock grazing
management practices related to areas
that fail to meet the BLM’s Standards for
Rangeland Health; and address
voluntary livestock grazing permit
relinquishments. Resource uses not
addressed by the alternatives in this
focused amendment will continue to be
managed under the direction of the 2002
Southeastern Oregon RMP and Record
of Decision, as amended by the 2015
and 2019 Approved Oregon Greater
Sage-Grouse RMP Amendments.
The Proposed RMP Amendment/Final
EIS responds to comments the BLM
received on the Draft EIS during the 90day public comment period that began
on May 29, 2019. During the public
comment period, the BLM held open
houses in Ontario and Jordan Valley,
Oregon, and McDermitt, Nevada. A
summary of the comments received
during the public comment period and
responses to those comments can be
found in Appendix P of the Proposed
RMP Amendment/Final EIS.
Under the Proposed RMP
Amendment, the BLM would protect 33
of the 76 areas the BLM identified as
having wilderness characteristics. These
33 areas, which total 417,190 acres, are
the units that were prioritized for
protection under Alternative D in the
Draft RMP Amendment/Draft EIS. The
33 units were identified using criteria
established by the BLM’s Southeast
Oregon Resource Advisory Council that
emphasized vegetative conditions,
hydrologic function, and the proximity
to other protected areas. The Proposed
RMP Amendment would also designate
these 33 protected areas as: Visual
Resource Management Class II public
lands, which only allows for low levels
of change to the landscapes’ visual
character; Land Tenure Zone 1, where
the BLM would retain these lands in
public ownership for the life of the
RMP; exclusion areas for major rightsof-way and commercial renewable
energy projects; and lands where no
surface occupancy for the development
and extraction of leasable and saleable
minerals, including new mineral
material sites, would be authorized. The
Proposed RMP Amendment would
establish a 250-foot setback area from
the protected areas’ boundaries to
provide the BLM with management
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flexibility to maintain the long-term
sustainability of the public lands while
still maintaining or enhancing the
wilderness characteristics within the
protected areas.
The Proposed RMP Amendment
would also change 319,501 acres of offhighway vehicle (OHV) area allocations
within the planning area from open to
limited OHV areas, which would limit
OHV travel to existing routes and
prohibit cross-country travel. This
would create a total of 4.5 million acres
within the planning area where OHV
use would be limited to existing routes,
and all of the protected lands with
wilderness characteristics are within
this limited OHV area category. The
Proposed RMP Amendment would
retain two open OHV areas totaling
40,368 acres and maintain the current
15,829 acres of closed OHV areas.
The Proposed RMP Amendment
would provide additional guidance on
the implementation of the BLM’s
Standards for Rangeland Health and the
processing of voluntary grazing permit
relinquishments. The Proposed RMP
Amendment calls for the consideration
of taking appropriate action in areas that
are not meeting Standards for Rangeland
Health even if existing livestock grazing
is not a causal factor for non-attainment
of the standard. The Proposed RMP
Amendment also clarifies that the BLM
would not permit increases to animal
unit months if analysis finds that doing
so could cause negative impacts to other
resources in an area where there is
either no rangeland health assessment
and evaluation or if the evaluation no
longer represents the existing resource
conditions. The Proposed RMP
Amendment calls for the BLM to review
the compatibility of livestock grazing
use with other existing resources in the
permitted area when a voluntary permit
relinquishment is received. If livestock
grazing is found to be incompatible, the
area could become unavailable to
grazing and the forage allocation would
be made to another resource. If grazing
is found to be compatible with the other
resource considerations, then the area
would remain available to livestock
grazing, and/or could be designated as
a reserve common allotment.
The other alternatives evaluated in
the Final EIS are the No Action
Alternative and Alternatives A, B, C,
and D. These alternatives vary in the
acreages of lands with wilderness
characteristics identified for protection;
the acreages of open, limited, and closed
OHV area allocations; and various
livestock grazing management
approaches for implementing the
Standards for Rangeland Health and
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processing voluntary permit
relinquishments.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Protest of the Proposed RMP
Amendment
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036003;
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BLM planning regulations state that
any person who participated in the
preparation of the RMP and has an
interest that will or might be adversely
affected by approval of the Proposed
RMP Amendment may protest its
approval to the BLM. Protest on the
Proposed RMP Amendment constitutes
the final opportunity for administrative
review of the proposed land use
planning decisions prior to the BLM
adopting an approved RMP
Amendment. Instructions for filing a
protest with the BLM regarding the
Proposed RMP Amendment may be
found online (see ADDRESSES). All
protests must be in writing and mailed
to the appropriate address or submitted
electronically through the BLM
ePlanning project website (see
ADDRESSES). Protests submitted
electronically by any means other than
the ePlanning project website or by fax
will be invalid unless a hard copy of the
protest is also submitted. The BLM will
render a written decision on each
protest. The protest decision of the BLM
shall be the final decision of the
Department of the Interior. Responses to
valid protest issues will be compiled
and documented in a Protest Resolution
Report made available following the
protest resolution online at: https://
www.blm.gov/programs/planning-andnepa/public-participation/protestresolution-reports. Upon resolution of
protests, the BLM will issue a Record of
Decision and Approved RMP
Amendment.
Before including your address, 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 from public review your
personal identifying information, 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)
Barry R. Bushue,
State Director, Oregon/Washington.
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Notice of Inventory Completion:
University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign, Champaign, IL
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the
University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign has completed an inventory
of human remains and associated
funerary objects and has determined
that there is a cultural affiliation
between the human remains and
associated funerary objects and Indian
Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations
in this notice. The human remains and
associated funerary objects were
removed from Stanley County, SD.
DATES: Repatriation of the human
remains and associated funerary objects
in this notice may occur on or after July
17, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Krystiana Krupa, University
of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 601 E.
John Street, Champaign, IL 61820,
telephone (217) 244–2587, email
klkrupa@illinois.edu.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA. The
determinations in this notice are the
sole responsibility of the University of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The
National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
Additional information on the
determinations in this notice, including
the results of consultation, can be found
in the inventory or related records held
by the University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign.
SUMMARY:
Description
In 1927, human remains representing,
at minimum, two individuals were
removed from Stanley County, SD.
Between 1918 and 1927, W.H. Over,
then Director of the University of South
Dakota Museum-Vermillion (now
known as the W.H. Over Museum),
excavated at Stony Point Village and its
associated cemetery. During three visits
to the site (in 1918, 1919, and 1927),
Over collected human remains
belonging to 23 individuals as well as
the associated funerary objects. (Also,
Over uncovered and reburied the
human remains of three infants.)
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[BLM_OR_FRN_MO4500169742]
Notice of Availability of the Proposed Southeastern Oregon
Resource Management Plan Amendment and Final Environmental Impact
Statement
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, as amended, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared a
Proposed Resource Management Plan (RMP) Amendment/Final Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS) for the 2002 Southeastern Oregon RMP, and by
this notice is announcing the start of a 30-day protest period of the
Proposed RMP Amendment.
DATES: This notice announces the beginning of a 30-day protest period
to the BLM on the Proposed RMP Amendment. Protests must be postmarked
or electronically submitted on the BLM's ePlanning site within 30 days
of the date that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) publishes
its Notice of Availability (NOA) in the Federal Register. The EPA
usually publishes its NOAs on Fridays.
ADDRESSES: The Proposed RMP Amendment/Final EIS is available on the
BLM's ePlanning page at https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/87435/510. On the project summary page, click on ``Documents'' on the
left side of the screen to find the electronic version of the Proposed
RMP Amendment/Final EIS. Hard copies of the Proposed RMP Amendment/
Final EIS are also available for public inspection at the BLM Vale
District Office, 100 Oregon Street, Vale, Oregon 97918, telephone:
(541) 473-3144.
Instructions for filing a protest with the BLM for the Proposed RMP
Amendment/Final EIS for the 2002 Southeastern Oregon RMP can be found
at: https://www.blm.gov/programs/planning-and-nepa/public-participation/filing-a-plan-protest and at 43 CFR 1610.5-2.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brent Grasty, Planning and
Environmental Coordinator, Vale District Office; telephone: (541) 473-
3144; email: [email protected]. Individuals in the United States who are
deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability may dial
711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access telecommunications relay
services for contacting Mr. Grasty. Individuals outside the United
States should use the relay services offered within their country to
make international calls to the point-of-contact in the United States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The RMP amendment would change the existing
2002 Southeastern Oregon RMP. The Southeastern Oregon planning area
covers approximately 4.6 million acres of public lands in Malheur,
Grant, Harney, and Baker counties. The area is characterized by a basin
and range topography with remote canyons, desert, and mountain systems.
The Final EIS evaluates six alternatives that address lands with
wilderness characteristics; determine open, limited, and closed off-
highway vehicle area allocations; provide livestock grazing management
practices related to areas that fail to meet the BLM's Standards for
Rangeland Health; and address voluntary livestock grazing permit
relinquishments. Resource uses not addressed by the alternatives in
this focused amendment will continue to be managed under the direction
of the 2002 Southeastern Oregon RMP and Record of Decision, as amended
by the 2015 and 2019 Approved Oregon Greater Sage-Grouse RMP
Amendments.
The Proposed RMP Amendment/Final EIS responds to comments the BLM
received on the Draft EIS during the 90-day public comment period that
began on May 29, 2019. During the public comment period, the BLM held
open houses in Ontario and Jordan Valley, Oregon, and McDermitt,
Nevada. A summary of the comments received during the public comment
period and responses to those comments can be found in Appendix P of
the Proposed RMP Amendment/Final EIS.
Under the Proposed RMP Amendment, the BLM would protect 33 of the
76 areas the BLM identified as having wilderness characteristics. These
33 areas, which total 417,190 acres, are the units that were
prioritized for protection under Alternative D in the Draft RMP
Amendment/Draft EIS. The 33 units were identified using criteria
established by the BLM's Southeast Oregon Resource Advisory Council
that emphasized vegetative conditions, hydrologic function, and the
proximity to other protected areas. The Proposed RMP Amendment would
also designate these 33 protected areas as: Visual Resource Management
Class II public lands, which only allows for low levels of change to
the landscapes' visual character; Land Tenure Zone 1, where the BLM
would retain these lands in public ownership for the life of the RMP;
exclusion areas for major rights-of-way and commercial renewable energy
projects; and lands where no surface occupancy for the development and
extraction of leasable and saleable minerals, including new mineral
material sites, would be authorized. The Proposed RMP Amendment would
establish a 250-foot setback area from the protected areas' boundaries
to provide the BLM with management
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flexibility to maintain the long-term sustainability of the public
lands while still maintaining or enhancing the wilderness
characteristics within the protected areas.
The Proposed RMP Amendment would also change 319,501 acres of off-
highway vehicle (OHV) area allocations within the planning area from
open to limited OHV areas, which would limit OHV travel to existing
routes and prohibit cross-country travel. This would create a total of
4.5 million acres within the planning area where OHV use would be
limited to existing routes, and all of the protected lands with
wilderness characteristics are within this limited OHV area category.
The Proposed RMP Amendment would retain two open OHV areas totaling
40,368 acres and maintain the current 15,829 acres of closed OHV areas.
The Proposed RMP Amendment would provide additional guidance on the
implementation of the BLM's Standards for Rangeland Health and the
processing of voluntary grazing permit relinquishments. The Proposed
RMP Amendment calls for the consideration of taking appropriate action
in areas that are not meeting Standards for Rangeland Health even if
existing livestock grazing is not a causal factor for non-attainment of
the standard. The Proposed RMP Amendment also clarifies that the BLM
would not permit increases to animal unit months if analysis finds that
doing so could cause negative impacts to other resources in an area
where there is either no rangeland health assessment and evaluation or
if the evaluation no longer represents the existing resource
conditions. The Proposed RMP Amendment calls for the BLM to review the
compatibility of livestock grazing use with other existing resources in
the permitted area when a voluntary permit relinquishment is received.
If livestock grazing is found to be incompatible, the area could become
unavailable to grazing and the forage allocation would be made to
another resource. If grazing is found to be compatible with the other
resource considerations, then the area would remain available to
livestock grazing, and/or could be designated as a reserve common
allotment.
The other alternatives evaluated in the Final EIS are the No Action
Alternative and Alternatives A, B, C, and D. These alternatives vary in
the acreages of lands with wilderness characteristics identified for
protection; the acreages of open, limited, and closed OHV area
allocations; and various livestock grazing management approaches for
implementing the Standards for Rangeland Health and processing
voluntary permit relinquishments.
Protest of the Proposed RMP Amendment
BLM planning regulations state that any person who participated in
the preparation of the RMP and has an interest that will or might be
adversely affected by approval of the Proposed RMP Amendment may
protest its approval to the BLM. Protest on the Proposed RMP Amendment
constitutes the final opportunity for administrative review of the
proposed land use planning decisions prior to the BLM adopting an
approved RMP Amendment. Instructions for filing a protest with the BLM
regarding the Proposed RMP Amendment may be found online (see
ADDRESSES). All protests must be in writing and mailed to the
appropriate address or submitted electronically through the BLM
ePlanning project website (see ADDRESSES). Protests submitted
electronically by any means other than the ePlanning project website or
by fax will be invalid unless a hard copy of the protest is also
submitted. The BLM will render a written decision on each protest. The
protest decision of the BLM shall be the final decision of the
Department of the Interior. Responses to valid protest issues will be
compiled and documented in a Protest Resolution Report made available
following the protest resolution online at: https://www.blm.gov/programs/planning-and-nepa/public-participation/protest-resolution-reports. Upon resolution of protests, the BLM will issue a Record of
Decision and Approved RMP Amendment.
Before including your address, 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 from public review your personal
identifying information, 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)
Barry R. Bushue,
State Director, Oregon/Washington.
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