80 FR 54801 - Public Land Order No. 7840; Revocation of Withdrawal Created by Executive Order No. 5732, California
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 176 (September 11, 2015)
Bureau of Land Management
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 176 (September 11, 2015)
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| FR Document | 2015-22908 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 176 (Friday, September 11, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 54801-54802] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-22908] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Land Management [LLCAC09000, L1430; CACA 008215] Public Land Order No. 7840; Revocation of Withdrawal Created by Executive Order No. 5732, California AGENCY: The Bureau of Land Management. ACTION: Public Land Order. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: This order revokes in its entirety the withdrawal created by Executive Order No. 5732 dated October 14, 1931, which withdrew 40 acres of public land from settlement, location, sale, or entry for use as a lookout station [[Page 54802]] in connection with cooperative forest protection work. The withdrawal for the lookout station is no longer needed. This action will restore the land to operation of the public land laws. DATES: Effective date: September 11, 2015. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christine Sloand, Realty Specialist, at 831-630-5022 or via email at csloand@blm.gov. Persons who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 to reach the BLM contact person. 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: The Executive Order withdrew 40 acres of land on Smith Mountain for a lookout station used by the State of California Division of Forestry. Because the land is no longer used for lookout station purposes, the Bureau of Land Management has determined that the withdrawal is no longer needed. Order By virtue of the authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior by Section 204 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 1714, it is ordered as follows: The withdrawal created by Executive Order No. 5732 of October 14, 1931, which temporarily withdrew the following described land from settlement, location, sale, or entry for use as a lookout station, is hereby revoked in its entirety: Mount Diablo Meridian T. 21 S., R. 13 E., Sec. 29, NE\1/4\NW\1/4\. The area described contains 40.00 acres, more or less, in Monterey and Fresno Counties. At 10 a.m., on October 13, 2015, the above-described land will be open to operation of the public land laws, generally, including the mining laws, and to settlement, location, sale, or entry, subject to valid existing rights, the provisions of existing withdrawals, and the requirements of applicable law. All valid applications received at or prior to 10 a.m. on October 13, 2015, shall be considered as simultaneously filed at that time. Those received thereafter shall be considered in the order of filing. Janice M. Schneider, Assistant Secretary--Land and Minerals Management. [FR Doc. 2015-22908 Filed 9-10-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310-40-P
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information/national_ pit depths would not intercept The BLM will utilize and coordinate
environmental.html. groundwater. No pit dewatering would the NEPA scoping process to help fulfill
• Email: blm_nv_bmdo_mlfo_gold_ be necessary and no pit lakes are the public involvement requirements
bar_project_eis@blm.gov. expected to form after mining under the National Historic Preservation
• Fax: 775–635–4034. operations end. The Project is expected Act (NHPA) (54 U.S.C. 306108) as
• Mail: 50 Bastian Road, Battle to employ 151 individuals comprised of provided in 36 CFR 800.2(d)(3). The
Mountain, Nevada 89820. 90 contractors and 61 staff. information about historic and cultural
Documents pertinent to this proposal Mt. Wheeler Power requested a ROW resources within the area potentially
may be examined at the Mount Lewis grant authorization to supply needed affected by the proposed Project will
Field Office. power to the Project. McEwen has assist the BLM in identifying and
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: requested three ROW grant evaluating impacts to such resources in
Joseph Moskiewicz—Project Manager, authorizations for the following: 1) the context of both NEPA and NHPA.
telephone 775–635–4000; address 50 Primary access along the Atlas Haul The BLM will consult with Indian
Bastian Road, Battle Mountain, Nevada Road; 2) Employee transport and tribes on a government-to-government
89820; email blm_nv_bmdo_mlfo_gold_ emergency secondary access along basis in accordance with Executive
bar_project_eis@blm.gov. Contact Mr. North Roberts Creek Road and GB Order 13175 and other policies. Tribal
Joseph Moskiewicz to have your name Process Road; and 3) A water supply concerns, including impacts on Indian
added to our mailing list. Persons who pipeline. trust assets and potential impacts to
use a telecommunications device for the The Gold Bar Project boundary cultural resources, will be given due
deaf (TDD) may call the Federal contains 916.5 acres of Greater Sage- consideration. Federal, State, and local
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– Grouse Preliminary Priority Habitat agencies, along with tribes and other
800–877–8339 to contact the above (PPH) on BLM-managed public lands. stakeholders that may be interested in or
individual during normal business The total mine disturbance, including affected by the proposed Project that the
hours. The FIRS is available 24 hours a the right-of-way (ROW), affecting BLM is evaluating, are invited to
day, 7 days a week, to leave a message Greater Sage-Grouse habitat on public participate in the scoping process and,
or question with the above individual. land is 294 acres of PPH and 36 acres if eligible, may request or be requested
You will receive a reply during normal of Preliminary General Habitat (PGH). by the BLM to participate in the
business hours. Since 2013, BLM biologists at the Mount development of the environmental
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: McEwen Lewis Field Office have coordinated analysis as a cooperating agency.
Mining Inc. (McEwen) proposes to with the Nevada Department of Wildlife Before including your address, phone
develop a gold mine in the southwest and the BLM State Office regarding Gold number, email address, or other
portion of the Roberts Mountains, Bar’s ROW and disturbance to Greater personal identifying information in your
approximately 30 miles northwest of Sage-Grouse habitat. Collectively, the comment, you should be aware that
Eureka, Nevada. The proposed McEwen organizations formulated best your entire comment—including your
Gold Bar Mine Project (Project) consists management practices for Greater Sage- personal identifying information—may
of a mining Plan of Operations and four Grouse and other wildlife species and be made publicly available at any time.
ROW grant authorizations to be developed measures to offset the While you can ask us in your comment
analyzed in a single NEPA analysis potential disturbance associated with to withhold your personal identifying
document. Mining would occur from the project to benefit Greater Sage- information from public review, we
the existing Gold Pick and Gold Ridge Grouse habitat. For example, as a result cannot guarantee that we will be able to
pits and the proposed Cabin Creek of this collaboration, the proposed do so.
North and South pits. Additional project’s power line was re-routed to use Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7
disturbance would be result from pre-existing routes in order to minimize
Joseph S. Moskiewicz, Jr.,
activities associated with gold mining effects to Greater Sage-Grouse habitat.
operations, including waste rock These and other measures, including Acting Field Manager, Mount Lewis Field
Office.
disposal areas, crusher and ore stockpile compliance with the Nevada and
Northeastern California Greater Sage- [FR Doc. 2015–22907 Filed 9–10–15; 8:45 am]
pad, growth media stockpiles, process
ponds, haul roads, access roads and Grouse Land Use Plan Amendment, if BILLING CODE 4310–HC–P
power lines, heap leach facility, finalized, will be among the issues
ancillary facilities, and diversion analyzed in the EIS.
channels and sediment basins. Total The purpose of the public scoping DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
proposed Project disturbance would be process is to determine relevant issues Bureau of Land Management
approximately 1,300 acres, including that will influence the scope of the
disturbance associated with the ROWs environmental analysis, including [LLCAC09000, L1430; CACA 008215]
(consisting of approximately 1,137 acres alternatives, and guide the process for
of surface disturbance on public land developing the EIS. At present, the BLM Public Land Order No. 7840;
and 163 acres of surface disturbance on has identified the following preliminary Revocation of Withdrawal Created by
private land controlled by McEwen, as issues: Water resources; air quality; Executive Order No. 5732, California
well as other private land owners); 366 vegetation resources (including noxious AGENCY: The Bureau of Land
acres of the total disturbance would weeds); wildlife (including migratory Management.
occur on areas disturbed by previous birds and Greater Sage-Grouse); special ACTION: Public Land Order.
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mining operations. The proposed status species; grazing management;
Project would take up to 17 years to land use and access; aesthetics (noise SUMMARY: This order revokes in its
complete, including: A year of pre- and visual); cultural resources; entirety the withdrawal created by
stripping and construction, 8 years of geological resources; minerals; soils; Executive Order No. 5732 dated October
mining, 4 years of reclamation following recreation; social and economic values; 14, 1931, which withdrew 40 acres of
mine closure, and 4 years of post- hazardous materials; Native American public land from settlement, location,
reclamation monitoring. The proposed cultural concerns; and wild horses. sale, or entry for use as a lookout station
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in connection with cooperative forest thereafter shall be considered in the investigation is sold at the retail level,
protection work. The withdrawal for the order of filing. representative consumer organizations
lookout station is no longer needed. have the right to appear as parties in
Janice M. Schneider,
This action will restore the land to Commission antidumping and
Assistant Secretary—Land and Minerals countervailing duty investigations. The
operation of the public land laws. Management.
Secretary will prepare a public service
DATES: Effective date: September 11, [FR Doc. 2015–22908 Filed 9–10–15; 8:45 am]
list containing the names and addresses
2015. BILLING CODE 4310–40–P of all persons, or their representatives,
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
who are parties to the investigations.
Christine Sloand, Realty Specialist, at INTERNATIONAL TRADE Background
831–630–5022 or via email at csloand@ COMMISSION On July 21, 2015, Atlas Tube, a
blm.gov. Persons who use a division of JMC Steel Group (Chicago,
telecommunications device for the deaf [Investigation Nos. 701–TA–539 and 731–
TA–1280–1282 (Preliminary)] Illinois), Bull Moose Tube Company
(TDD) may call the Federal Information (Chesterfield, Missouri), EXLTUBE
Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 (North Kansas City, Missouri), Hannibal
Heavy Walled Rectangular Welded
to reach the BLM contact person. The Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes From Industries, Inc. (Los Angeles,
FIRS is available 24 hours a day, 7 days Korea, Mexico, and Turkey; California), Independence Tube
a week, to leave a message or question Determinations Corporation (Chicago, Illinois),
with the above individual. You will Maruichi American Corporation (Santa
receive a reply during normal business On the basis of the record 1 developed Fe Springs, California), Searing
hours. in the subject investigations, the United Industries (Rancho Cucamonga,
States International Trade Commission California), Southland Tube
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The (‘‘Commission’’) determines, pursuant (Birmingham, Alabama), and Vest, Inc.
Executive Order withdrew 40 acres of to the Tariff Act of 1930 (‘‘the Act’’), (Los Angeles, California) filed petitions
land on Smith Mountain for a lookout that there is a reasonable indication that with the Commission and Commerce,
station used by the State of California an industry in the United States is alleging that an industry in the United
Division of Forestry. Because the land is materially injured by reason of imports States is materially injured and
no longer used for lookout station of heavy walled rectangular welded threatened with material injury by
purposes, the Bureau of Land carbon steel pipes and tubes from Korea, reason of LTFV and subsidized imports
Management has determined that the Mexico, and Turkey, provided for in of heavy walled rectangular welded
withdrawal is no longer needed. subheadings 7306.61.10 and 7306.61.30 carbon steel pipes and tubes from Korea,
of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of Mexico, and Turkey. Accordingly,
Order the United States, that are alleged to be effective July 21, 2015, the Commission,
By virtue of the authority vested in sold in the United States at less than fair pursuant to sections 703(a) and 733(a) of
the Secretary of the Interior by Section value (‘‘LTFV’’) and that are allegedly the Act (19 U.S.C. 1671b(a) and
204 of the Federal Land Policy and subsidized by the government of 1673b(a)), instituted countervailing duty
Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. Turkey. investigation No. 701–TA–539 and
1714, it is ordered as follows: Commencement of Final Phase antidumping duty investigation Nos.
Investigations 731–TA–1280–1282 (Preliminary).
The withdrawal created by Executive
Notice of the institution of the
Order No. 5732 of October 14, 1931, Pursuant to section 207.18 of the Commission’s investigations and of a
which temporarily withdrew the Commission’s rules, the Commission public conference to be held in
following described land from also gives notice of the commencement connection therewith was given by
settlement, location, sale, or entry for of the final phase of its investigations. posting copies of the notice in the Office
use as a lookout station, is hereby The Commission will issue a final phase of the Secretary, U.S. International
revoked in its entirety: notice of scheduling, which will be Trade Commission, Washington, DC,
published in the Federal Register as and by publishing the notice in the
Mount Diablo Meridian provided in section 207.21 of the
T. 21 S., R. 13 E.,
Federal Register of July 27, 2015 (80 FR
Commission’s rules, upon notice from 44383). The conference was held in
Sec. 29, NE1⁄4NW1⁄4. the Department of Commerce Washington, DC, on August 11, 2015,
The area described contains 40.00 acres, (‘‘Commerce’’) of affirmative and all persons who requested the
more or less, in Monterey and Fresno preliminary determinations in the opportunity were permitted to appear in
Counties. investigations under sections 703(b) or person or by counsel.
733(b) of the Act, or, if the preliminary
At 10 a.m., on October 13, 2015, the The Commission made these
determinations are negative, upon
above-described land will be open to determinations pursuant to sections
notice of affirmative final
operation of the public land laws, 703(a) and 733(a) of the Act (19 U.S.C.
determinations in those investigations
generally, including the mining laws, 1671b(a) and 1673b(a)). It completed
under sections 705(a) or 735(a) of the
and to settlement, location, sale, or and filed its determinations in these
Act. Parties that filed entries of
entry, subject to valid existing rights, investigations on September 4, 2015.
appearance in the preliminary phase of
the provisions of existing withdrawals, The views of the Commission are
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the investigations need not enter a
contained in USITC Publication 4563
and the requirements of applicable law. separate appearance for the final phase
(September 2015), entitled Heavy
All valid applications received at or of the investigations. Industrial users,
Walled Rectangular Welded Carbon
prior to 10 a.m. on October 13, 2015, and, if the merchandise under
Steel Pipes and Tubes from Korea,
shall be considered as simultaneously Mexico, and Turkey: Investigation Nos.
1 The record is defined in sec. 207.2(f) of the
filed at that time. Those received 701–TA–539 and 731–TA–1280–1282
Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (19
CFR 207.2(f)). (Preliminary).
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| Contact | Christine Sloand, Realty Specialist, at 831-630-5022 or via email at [email protected] Persons who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 to reach the BLM contact person. 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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