Bureau of Land Management July 2006 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as amended (Pub. L. 91-190, 42 U.S.C. 4321-4347), and 40 CFR parts 1500-1508, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), together with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), hereby gives notice that the Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report (EIS/EIR) for the Southern California Edison Company (SCE) Devers-Palo Verde No. 2 Transmission Line Project is available for public review and comment. The BLM is the lead Federal agency for the preparation of this EIS in compliance with the requirements of NEPA. The CPUC is the lead State of California agency for the preparation of this EIR in compliance with the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). This notice serves as an invitation for the public and other cooperating agencies to provide comments on the scope and content of the Draft EIS/EIR.

Under the provisions of 30 U.S.C. 188(d) and (e), and 43 CFR 3108.2-3(a) and (b)(1), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) received a petition for reinstatement of oil and gas lease COC68483 from Western Energy Resources Inc. for lands in Gunnison County, Colorado. The petition was filed on time and was accompanied by all the rentals due since the date the lease terminated under the law.

In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972, the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management Eastern Washington Resource Advisory Council will meet as indicated below.

The August 1, 2006 PAWG meeting has been cancelled. Another PAWG meeting will be announced when new PAWG members have been appointed.

In accordance with the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act of 2000 (43 U.S.C. 2303) (FLTFA), this notice provides the public the opportunity to nominate lands within the State of Arizona for possible acquisition by the Federal agencies identified below. Such lands must be (1) inholdings within a federally designated area or (2) lands that are adjacent to federally designated areas and contain exceptional resources.

This order extends Public Land Order No. 6619 for an additional 20-year period. This extension is necessary to allow the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to continue to manage the land as part of the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge.

Notice is hereby given that the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah State Office will offer certain coal resources described below as the Mill Fork West Tract (UTU-84285) in Emery County, Utah, for competitive sale by sealed bid, in accordance with the provisions for competitive lease sale notices in 43 CFR 3422.2(a), and the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as amended and supplemented (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq).

In accordance with Section 202 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA) the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), in cooperation with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Park Service (NPS), State of Wyoming, county governments, and conservation districts located in the planning area, has prepared a draft revision to the Casper RMP and associated environmental impact statement. By this notice, the BLM announces the availability of the Draft Casper RMP/EIS for public review and the opening of the period during which the public may submit their comments to the BLM. Consistent with Federal regulations, the BLM announces that a public hearing regarding coal leasing will be scheduled during the public review period and prior to the approval of the final RMP.

This notice announces the cancellation of the Notice of Realty Action published in the Federal Register on March 14, 2006.

In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act and the National Environmental Policy Act, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces the availability of the Record of Decision (ROD) for the Jack Morrow Hills Coordinated Activity Plan (CAP) and Green River Resource Management Plan (RMP) Amendment. The ROD documents the BLM's decision to approve a land use plan amendment that addresses approximately 585,000 acres of public land located in Sweetwater, Sublette, and Fremont counties in southwestern Wyoming. The JMH CAP/ Green River RMP Amendment contains land-use plan decisions that supersede previous land-use planning decisions made in the Green River RMP and completes decisions deferred in the Green River RMP. The CAP/ ROD went into effect on the date the Wyoming State Director signed the ROD. Publication of this NOA today announces and commences the 30-day appeal period for a project implementation included in the ROD.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has officially filed the plats of survey of the lands described below in the BLM Idaho State Office, Boise, Idaho, effective 9 a.m., on the dates specified.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has examined and found suitable for classification for lease or conveyance to Washoe County, Nevada under the authority of the Recreation and Public Purposes Act (R&PP), as amended, approximately 110 acres of land in Washoe County, Nevada. Washoe County proposes to use the land for a public archery range.

The purpose of this notice is to inform the public and interested State and local government officials of the filing of Plats of Survey in Nevada.

This order partially revokes a Public Land Order insofar as it affects 160 acres of public lands within national forests, which were withdrawn and reserved for use of the Forest Service as administrative sites, recreation areas, and a roadside zone.

Pursuant to section 2(b) of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as amended by section 4 of the Federal Coal Leasing Amendments Act of 1976, 90 Stat. 1083, 30 U.S.C. 201 (b), and to the regulations adopted as 43 CFR part 3410, interested parties are hereby invited to participate with Black Butte Coal Company on a pro rata cost sharing basis in its program for the exploration of coal deposits owned by the United States of America in the following-described lands in Sweetwater County, WY:

Pursuant to section 2(b) of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as amended by section 4 of the Federal Coal Leasing Amendments Act of 1976, 90 Stat. 1083, 30 U.S.C. 201(b), and to the regulations adopted as 43 CFR part 3410, all interested parties are hereby invited to participate with Kiewit Mining Properties Inc. on a pro rata cost sharing basis in its program for the exploration of coal deposits owned by the United States of America in the following-described lands in Campbell County, WY:

In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA, 43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared a proposed Resource Management Plan/ Final Environmental Impact Statement (PRMP/FEIS) for certain public lands managed by the Hollister Field Office.

The plats of survey of the following described land will be officially filed in the Colorado State Office, Bureau of Land Management, Lakewood, Colorado, effective 10 a.m., July 5, 2006. All inquiries should be sent to the Colorado State Office (CO-956), Bureau of Land Management, 2850 Youngfield Street, Lakewood, Colorado 80215- 7093. The plat and field notes, of Mineral Survey 20931, in protracted Township 45 North, Range 6 West, New Mexico Principal Meridian, Colorado, and was accepted on April 5, 2006. The supplemental plat of a portion of sections 7 and 8, Township 1 North, Range 71 West, of the Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado, creating new lot 100 in the NE\1/4\SE\1/4\ of section 7, and creating new lots 192 through 198, in the SW\1/4\ of section 8, was requested by the Canon City Field Office Land Surveyor and was accepted on April 12, 2006. The supplemental plat of the NW\1/4\ of Section 1, in Township 3 South, Range 73 West, Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado, corrects the supplemental plat accepted May 6, 1963 by assigning new lot number 41, to the erroneously duplicated numbered lot 39. Lot 39 of section 1, had previously been created and depicted on the plats of the survey accepted May 19, 1930. This supplemental plat was requested by the Canon City Field Office and was accepted on April 17, 2006. The supplemental plat of section 22, in Township 1 North, Range 71 West, Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado, creating new Lots 27 to 36 in the SW\1/4\ SW\1/4\ of Section 22, was requested by the Canon City Field Office, and was accepted on May 5, 2006. The plat and field notes, of the dependent resurvey in Section 9, Township 12 South, Range 71 West, Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado, was requested by the Land Surveyor, Pike and San Isabel National Forests, in order to identify National Forest in conjunction with the Hayman Fire Rehabilitation Project, and was accepted on May 18, 2006. The plat and field notes of the dependent resurvey and survey, in Section 18, Township 33 North, Range 7 West, New Mexico Principal Meridian, Colorado, was requested by the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, in order to identify a portion of the mineral estate of Southern Ute tribal trust lands, and was accepted on June 13, 2006. The plat, of the entire record, of the dependent resurvey and survey, in Township 1 South, Range 72 West, and the plat (in two sheets) and field notes, of the dependent resurvey and survey in Township 1 North, Range 72 West, Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado, was requested by the Land Surveyor, Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forest, in order to locate certain forest service boundaries that pertain to fuel reduction projects in the James Creek area, and were accepted on June 19, 2006. The plat and field notes, of the dependent resurvey in Sections 11 and 14, Township 11 South, Range 69 West, Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado, was requested by the Land Surveyor, Pike and San Isabel National Forests, in order to identify National Forest boundaries for proposed fuel reduction areas in the Manitou Experimental Forest, and was accepted on June 26, 2006. The plat and field notes, of the dependent resurveys and surveys, in Township 8 North, Range 95 West, Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado, was requested, dated April 18, 2005, by the Little Snake Field Office, Craig, Colorado, in order to identify Public Land boundaries, and was accepted on June 26, 2006.

In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) of 1976, the BLM has prepared a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) to analyze and undertake the Eastside Township Fuels and Vegetation Project, and by this notice is announcing the opening of the comment period.

In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Front Range Resource Advisory Council (RAC), will meet as indicated below.

Under the provisions of 30 U.S.C. 188(d) and (e), and 43 CFR 3108.2-3(a) and (b)(1), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) received a petition for reinstatement from Pathfinder Energy and Wellstar Corporation for noncompetitive oil and gas lease WYW72460 for land in Johnson County, Wyoming. The petition was filed on time and was accompanied by all the rentals due since the date the lease terminated under the law.