Bureau of Land Management July 2013 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners (State) has filed a petition for classification and application to obtain public lands and mineral estate in lieu of lands to which the State was entitled but did not receive under its Statehood Act. The State did not receive title because the lands had previously been appropriated in an Indian Reservation or National Forests. Under Section 7 of the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is proposing to classify sufficient public lands/minerals in Colorado for title transfer to the State to satisfy this obligation to the State.

As required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA), and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, as amended (FLPMA), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Prineville District Office, Prineville, Oregon, intends to prepare a Resource Management Plan (RMP) amendment with an associated Environmental Assessment (EA) in order to analyze the plan-level decision to change the Visual Resource Management (VRM) classification of approximately 45 acres at the top of Glass Buttes from a VRM class 2 to a VRM class 4. The BLM intends to concurrently analyze the implementation-level decision of whether to deny, approve, or approve with stipulations the Bonneville Power Administration's (BPA) and American Tower Corporation's (AT) requests to construct and maintain communication facilities in an existing communication site plan area atop Glass Buttes in the BLM Prineville District. This notice announces the beginning of the scoping process to solicit public comments and identify issues.