80 FR 32591 - Notice of Public Meeting; Central Montana Resource Advisory Council
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 110 (June 9, 2015)
Bureau of Land Management
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 110 (June 9, 2015)
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| FR Document | 2015-14022 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 110 (Tuesday, June 9, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 32591-32592] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-14022] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Land Management [LLMTM00000.L111100000.XP0000 15XL1109AF MO#4500080076] Notice of Public Meeting; Central Montana Resource Advisory Council AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior. ACTION: Notice of public meeting. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: 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) Central Montana Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet as indicated below. DATES: The Central Montana Resource Advisory Council Meeting will be held July 15-16, 2015 in Lewistown, Montana. The July 15 meeting will begin at 10 a.m. with a 30-minute public comment period and will adjourn at 5 p.m. The July 16 meeting will begin at 8 a.m. with a 30- minute public comment period beginning at 10 a.m. and will adjourn at 12 p.m. ADDRESSES: The meetings will be in the Bureau of Land Management, Central Montana District Office, Lewistown Field Office Conference Room at 920 NE Main, Lewistown, Montana. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Albers, HiLine District Manager, Great Falls Field Office, 1101 15th Street North, Great Falls, MT 59401, (406) 791-7789, [email protected]. Persons who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-677-8339 to contact the above individual during normal [[Page 32592]] business hours. 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: This 15-member council advises the Secretary of the Interior, through the BLM, on a variety of management issues associated with public land management in Montana. During these meetings the council is scheduled to participate in/discuss/act upon these topics/activities: A roundtable discussion among council members and the BLM; election of officers; update on BLM efforts to restore access to the Bullwhacker area and District Managers' updates. All RAC meetings are open to the public. Each formal RAC meeting will also have time allocated for hearing public comments. Depending on the number of persons wishing to comment and time available, the time for individual oral comments may be limited. Authority: 43 CFR 1784.4-2. Mark K. Albers, HiLine District Manager. [FR Doc. 2015-14022 Filed 6-8-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310-DN-P
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The proposed plan amendment/final prepared and implemented to avoid or advance notification, please direct
EIS and EIR evaluates the potential minimize the Project’s potential to cause emails to protest@blm.gov.
impacts of the proposed Soda Mountain or result in additional erosion and Before including your phone number,
Solar Project on air quality, biological sedimentation. email address, or other personal
resources, cultural resources, water • Air quality: Water would be applied identifying information in your protest,
resources, geological resources and to disturbed and actively-used areas you should be aware that your entire
hazards, land use, noise, paleontological during both construction and operation. protest—including your personal
resources, public health, A dust-control plan would be prepared identifying information—may be made
socioeconomics, soils, traffic and and implemented pursuant to the publicly available at any time. While
transportation, visual resources, and Mojave Desert Air Quality Management you can ask us in your protest to
other resources. District’s Rule 403.2. withhold your personal identifying
Mitigation measures would be • Groundwater: A draft groundwater information from public review, we
implemented to avoid, minimize, monitoring and mitigation plan has cannot guarantee that we will be able to
rectify, reduce, or compensate for been prepared that includes trigger do so.
adverse impacts of the Project. These points to avoid adverse impacts Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR
include: associated with groundwater 1506.10, 43 CFR 1610.2; 43 CFR 1610.5.
• Wildlife: The acquisition of drawdown.
compensatory mitigation land at a 1:1 Thomas Pogacnik,
• Visual: All structures would be
ratio would be required for all desert painted with BLM-approved colors;
Deputy State Director, California.
tortoise habitat and all active burrowing nighttime lighting would be minimized; [FR Doc. 2015–13925 Filed 6–5–15; 4:15 pm]
owl territories disturbed. Wildlife and a glint and glare assessment, BILLING CODE 4310–40–P
would be avoided or relocated (e.g.,
mitigation, and monitoring plan would
burrowing owls) to the extent feasible
be prepared and implemented.
and trenching would be managed to DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
The BLM published a Notice of Intent
minimize wildlife entrapment. An avian
to prepare an EIS and EIR for the project Bureau of Land Management
monitoring program will be
in the Federal Register on October 23,
implemented with an adaptive [LLMTM00000.L111100000.XP0000
2012 (77 FR 64824). The BLM and San
management program that would 15XL1109AF MO#4500080076]
identify and implement project-specific Bernardino County held joint public
mitigation measures to reduce bird scoping meetings in Barstow on Notice of Public Meeting; Central
mortality that may occur as a result of November 14, 2012. The formal scoping Montana Resource Advisory Council
the Project. Additional water sources for period ended on December 14, 2012.
The BLM published a Notice of AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,
bighorn sheep would be required in
coordination with the California Availability of the draft plan Interior.
Department of Fish and Wildlife and the amendment/draft EIS and EIR for the ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
National Park Service. An adaptive Project in the Federal Register on
November 29, 2013 (78 FR 71640). The SUMMARY: In accordance with the
management strategy aimed at Federal Land Policy and Management
maintaining existing foraging, BLM and San Bernardino County held
three public meetings: two in Barstow Act (FLPMA) and the Federal Advisory
movement, and feeding opportunities Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), the U.S.
for bighorn sheep would be required on January 8 and 9, 2014, and a third
in Yucca Valley on January 11, 2014, to Department of the Interior, Bureau of
with the goal of improving Land Management (BLM) Central
opportunities to restore sheep provide additional information to the
public regarding the analysis. Montana Resource Advisory Council
movement and connectivity. The (RAC) will meet as indicated below.
adaptive management strategy would Comments on the draft plan
amendment/draft EIS and EIR received DATES: The Central Montana Resource
include funding for a 10-year bighorn
sheep study to examine the response of from agencies, members of the public, Advisory Council Meeting will be held
sheep to the project and to inform and internal lead and cooperating July 15–16, 2015 in Lewistown,
adaptive management actions, including agency review were considered and Montana. The July 15 meeting will
culvert crossing improvements, incorporated as appropriate into the begin at 10 a.m. with a 30-minute public
temporary water sources near culverts, proposed plan amendment/final EIS and comment period and will adjourn at 5
measures to minimize the effects of EIR. Instructions for filing a protest with p.m. The July 16 meeting will begin at
human activities on bighorn sheep, and the Director of the BLM regarding the 8 a.m. with a 30-minute public
funding for additional regional proposed Plan Amendment/final EIS comment period beginning at 10 a.m.
connectivity projects for bighorn sheep. and EIR may be found in the ‘‘Dear and will adjourn at 12 p.m.
Mitigation measures would also include Reader’’ Letter of the proposed plan ADDRESSES: The meetings will be in the
monitoring for bighorn sheep during amendment/final EIS and EIR and at 43 Bureau of Land Management, Central
construction and compensation for loss CFR 1610.5–2. All protests must be in Montana District Office, Lewistown
of bighorn sheep foraging habitat. writing and mailed to the appropriate Field Office Conference Room at 920 NE
• Cultural/Paleontological Resources: address, as set forth in the ADDRESSES Main, Lewistown, Montana.
Impacts to onsite and any nearby section above. Emailed protests will not FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
cultural, archaeological, and be accepted as valid protests unless the Mark Albers, HiLine District Manager,
paleontological resources, if discovered, protesting party also provides the Great Falls Field Office, 1101 15th
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would be avoided by having original letter by either regular or Street North, Great Falls, MT 59401,
archeological, paleontological, and overnight mail postmarked by the close (406) 791–7789, malbers@blm.gov.
Native American participants onsite of the protest period. Under these Persons who use a telecommunications
during construction. conditions, the BLM will consider the device for the deaf (TDD) may call the
• Hydrology: A comprehensive emailed protest as an advance copy and Federal Information Relay Service
drainage, stormwater, and it will receive full consideration. If you (FIRS) at 1–800–677–8339 to contact the
sedimentation control plan would be wish to provide the BLM with such above individual during normal
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business hours. The FIRS is available 24 associated funerary objects to the lineal History and Description of the Remains
hours a day, 7 days a week to leave a descendants, Indian tribes, or Native In 1969, human remains representing,
message or question with the above Hawaiian organizations stated in this at minimum, two individuals were
individual. You will receive a reply notice may proceed. removed from site NA10555 in San Juan
during normal business hours. County, UT, during unauthorized
DATES: Lineal descendants or
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 15- excavations by park visitors and
representatives of any Indian tribe or
member council advises the Secretary of subsequent inspection of the site by
Native Hawaiian organization not
the Interior, through the BLM, on a Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
identified in this notice that wish to
variety of management issues associated officials. No known individuals were
request transfer of control of these
with public land management in identified. The 50 associated funerary
Montana. During these meetings the human remains and associated funerary
objects should submit a written request objects are 2 cradleboards, 1 frame, 4
council is scheduled to participate in/ pieces of padding, 2 hoods, 1 cloth, 1
discuss/act upon these topics/activities: with information in support of the
request to Glen Canyon National animal hide, 1 blanket, 1 blanket
A roundtable discussion among council fragment, 3 pieces of worked wood, 1
members and the BLM; election of Recreation Area at the address in this
notice by July 9, 2015. tumpstrap, 14 pieces of cordage, 2
officers; update on BLM efforts to pieces of raw fiber, 2 bundles, 1 rope
restore access to the Bullwhacker area ADDRESSES: Todd Brindle, segment, 2 knots, 3 sandals, 1 ladle
and District Managers’ updates. All RAC Superintendent, Glen Canyon National fragment, 7 squash seeds, and 1 Kayenta
meetings are open to the public. Recreation Area, P.O. Box 1507, Page, Black-on-white bowl.
Each formal RAC meeting will also AZ 86040, telephone (928) 608–6200, The cradleboard construction style
have time allocated for hearing public email Todd_Brindle@nps.gov. and the associated ceramics indicate
comments. Depending on the number of that the remains are Kayenta Ancestral
persons wishing to comment and time SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is Puebloan and are dated between A.D.
available, the time for individual oral here given in accordance with the 1200 and 1250.
comments may be limited. Native American Graves Protection and In 1975, human remains representing,
Authority: 43 CFR 1784.4–2. Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. at minimum, two individuals were
3003, of the completion of an inventory removed from site NA14080 in San Juan
Mark K. Albers, of human remains and associated County, UT by a park visitor. No known
HiLine District Manager. funerary objects under the control of the individuals were identified. The one
[FR Doc. 2015–14022 Filed 6–8–15; 8:45 am] U.S. Department of the Interior, associated funerary object is a yucca
BILLING CODE 4310–DN–P National Park Service, Glen Canyon knot.
National Recreation Area, Page, AZ. The Site NA14080 is a one room structure
human remains and associated funerary whose style of masonry architecture
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR objects were removed from within the indicates occupation during the
boundaries of Glen Canyon National Puebloan period (A.D. 800–1300) and
National Park Service Recreation Area, in Garfield, Kane, and association with the Kayenta culture.
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–18273]; San Juan Counties, UT. In 1976 and 1977, human remains
[PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] This notice is published as part of the representing, at minimum, two
National Park Service’s administrative individuals were removed from site
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 42SA5379 in San Juan County, UT,
Department of the Interior, National responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in during legally authorized excavations.
Park Service, Glen Canyon National No known individuals were identified.
Recreation Area, Page, AZ this notice are the sole responsibility of
the Superintendent, Glen Canyon No associated funerary objects are
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. National Recreation Area. present.
ACTION: Notice. Site 42SA5379 is a single habitation
Consultation room on an alluvial terrace. Artifact
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the types and radiocarbon dating identify
Interior, National Park Service, Glen A detailed assessment of the human the site as Kayenta or Mesa Verde
Canyon National Recreation Area has remains was made by Glen Canyon Ancestral Puebloan, dated between A.D.
completed an inventory of human National Recreation Area professional 1000 and 1300.
remains and associated funerary objects, staff in consultation with In 1983, human remains representing,
in consultation with the appropriate representatives of the Havasupai Tribe at minimum, three individuals were
Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian of the Havasupai Reservation, Arizona; removed from site 42KA2661 in Kane
organizations, and has determined that Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Hualapai Indian County, UT, after the site was inundated
there is a cultural affiliation between the Tribe of the Hualapai Indian and disturbed by high water levels in
human remains and associated funerary Reservation, Arizona; Kaibab Band of Lake Powell. Human remains found on
objects and present-day Indian tribes or Paiute Indians of the Kaibab Indian the surface by park visitors were turned
Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal Reservation, Arizona; Navajo Nation, over to Glen Canyon National
descendants or representatives of any Arizona, New Mexico, & Utah; Ohkay Recreation Area officials and additional
Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian Owingeh, New Mexico (previously remains were removed during
organization not identified in this notice listed as the Pueblo of San Juan); Pueblo subsequent legally authorized
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that wish to request transfer of control of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo of excavations. No known individuals
of these human remains and associated Pojoaque, New Mexico; San Juan were identified. The 39 associated
funerary objects should submit a written Southern Paiute Tribe of Arizona; Ute funerary objects are 1 projectile point, 1
request to Glen Canyon National Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain knife (made up of two fragments, 9
Recreation Area. If no additional Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico, & biface fragments, 1 piece of debitage, 2
requestors come forward, transfer of Utah; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni shell beads, 24 pieces of cordage, and 1
control of the human remains and Reservation, New Mexico. yucca knot.
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| Dates | The Central Montana Resource Advisory Council Meeting will be held July 15-16, 2015 in Lewistown, Montana. The July 15 meeting will begin at 10 a.m. with a 30-minute public comment period and will adjourn at 5 p.m. The July 16 meeting will begin at 8 a.m. with a 30- minute public comment period beginning at 10 a.m. and will adjourn at 12 p.m. | |
| Contact | Mark Albers, HiLine District Manager, Great Falls Field Office, 1101 15th Street North, Great Falls, MT 59401, (406) 791-7789, [email protected] Persons who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-677-8339 to contact the above individual during normal business hours. 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. | |
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