80 FR 8105 - Notice of Intent To Amend the Resource Management Plan for the Bureau of Land Management Gunnison Field Office and Prepare an Associated Environmental Impact Statement, Colorado
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 30 (February 13, 2015)
Bureau of Land Management
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 30 (February 13, 2015)
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| FR Document | 2015-02946 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 30 (Friday, February 13, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 8105-8107] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-02946] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Land Management [LLCOS06000 L10200000.EE0000] Notice of Intent To Amend the Resource Management Plan for the Bureau of Land Management Gunnison Field Office and Prepare an Associated Environmental Impact Statement, Colorado AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: In compliance with 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) Gunnison Field Office, Gunnison, Colorado, intends to prepare a Resource Management Plan (RMP) amendment with an associated Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and by this notice is announcing the beginning of the scoping process to solicit public comments and identify issues. DATES: This notice initiates the public scoping process for the RMP amendment with associated EIS. Comments on issues may be submitted in writing until March 16, 2015. The date(s) and location(s) of any scoping meetings will be announced at least 15 days in advance through local media, newspapers and the BLM Web site at: http://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/gfo.html. In order to be included in the Draft EIS, all comments must be received prior to the close of the 30-day scoping period or 15 days after the last public meeting, whichever is later. The BLM will provide additional opportunities for public participation as appropriate. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments on issues and planning criteria related to the Gunnison Field Office RMP amendment/EIS by any of the following methods:Email: gfo_nepa_comments@blm.gov">blm_co_gfo_nepa_comments@blm.gov. Fax: 970-642-4990. Mail: 210 West Spencer Street, Suite A, Gunnison, CO 81230. Documents pertinent to this proposal may be examined at the BLM Gunnison Field Office at the address above. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kristi Murphy, Outdoor Recreation Planner; telephone, 970-642-4955; address, 210 West Spencer Street, Suite A, Gunnison, CO 81230; email, blm_ [[Page 8106]] co_gfo_nepa_comments@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 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. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document provides notice that the BLM Gunnison Field Office intends to prepare an RMP amendment with an associated EIS for 16 domestic sheep grazing allotments, announces the beginning of the scoping process and seeks public input on issues and planning criteria. The planning area is located in Gunnison, Hinsdale, and portions of Montrose, Ouray, and San Juan counties, Colorado. The planning area encompasses approximately 115,000 acres of public land. The BLM will analyze grazing that is currently authorized by five livestock grazing permits in the planning area. The five livestock grazing permits authorize sheep grazing on twelve grazing allotments. Eight of those allotments completely or partly overlap with mapped Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep (RMBS) habitat. Livestock grazing authorized by these five permits has not yet been fully analyzed in compliance with NEPA; therefore, these permits are currently being authorized under the authority of Public Law 108-108 and Public Law 111-8. In addition, the BLM will analyze livestock grazing on four other livestock grazing allotments located in areas south and west of Lake City, Colorado, which are currently vacant (domestic livestock grazing is not currently permitted on those allotments). Although there is no demand for livestock grazing on these four vacant allotments, the risk of contact with RMBS is high if permitted. Because the BLM may change livestock grazing allocations through this process, the BLM may need to amend its Resource Management Plan. These changes could include making some areas and related allotments unavailable to livestock grazing; adjusting area-wide forage availability for livestock; and making some areas or allotments that are currently unavailable to livestock grazing available for that use. Over the past 30 years, the bighorn sheep population in the area has increased to a level indicating a healthy, stable population. New information about disease transmission between domestic sheep and RMBS indicates that contact between the species can pose a risk to the health of the RMBS population. The potential for disease transmission is a particular concern in areas where the risk of contact between species is high and design criteria or mitigation measures to achieve separation may not be effective. To fully analyze the direct, indirect and cumulative impacts of authorizing livestock grazing in bighorn sheep habitat areas, the EIS will consider the five livestock grazing permits, including the associated grazing allotments outside of RMBS habitat, as well as four allotments that are currently vacant and unpermitted. The purpose of the public scoping process is to determine relevant issues that will influence the scope of the environmental analysis, including alternatives, and guide the planning process. Preliminary issues for the plan amendment area have been identified by BLM personnel; Federal, State, and local agencies; and other stakeholders. The issues include: RMBS population health, domestic sheep grazing, socio-economics, riparian area conditions, noxious weeds, Canada lynx habitat, Gunnison Sage-Grouse habitat and upland soils. Preliminary planning criteria include: 1. The BLM will continue to manage the Gunnison Field Office in accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 1701 (et seq.), other applicable laws and regulations and all existing public land laws. 2. The RMP amendment will be developed using an interdisciplinary approach to identify alternatives and analyze resource impacts, including cumulative impacts to natural and cultural resources and the social and economic environment. 3. The amendment process will follow the FLPMA planning process and the BLM will develop an EIS analyzing the amendment, consistent with NEPA. You may submit comments on issues and planning criteria in writing to the BLM at any public scoping meeting, or you may submit them to the BLM using one of the methods listed earlier in the ADDRESSES section. To be most helpful, you should submit comments by the close of the 30- day scoping period or within 15 days after the last public meeting, whichever is later. Before including your address, phone number, email address or other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment--including your personal identifying information--may be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. The minutes and list of attendees for each scoping meeting will be available to the public and open for 30 days after the meeting to any participant who wishes to clarify the views he or she expressed. The BLM will evaluate identified issues to be addressed in the plan amendment, and will place them into one of three categories: 1. Issues to be resolved in the plan amendment; 2. Issues to be resolved through policy or administrative action; or 3. Issues beyond the scope of this plan amendment. The BLM will provide an explanation in the Draft RMP amendment/ Draft EIS as to why an issue was placed in category two or three. The public is also encouraged to help identify any management questions and concerns that should be addressed in the plan amendment. The BLM will work collaboratively with interested parties to identify the management decisions that are best suited to local, regional, and national needs and concerns. The BLM will use the NEPA public participation requirements to assist the agency in satisfying the public involvement requirements under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) (16 U.S.C. 470(f)) pursuant to 36 CFR 800.2(d)(3). The information about historic and cultural resources within the area potentially affected by the proposed action will assist the BLM in identifying and evaluating impacts to such resources in the context of both NEPA and Section 106 of the NHPA. The BLM will consult with Indian tribes on a government-to- government basis in accordance with Executive Order 13175 and other policies. Tribal concerns, including impacts on Indian trust assets and potential impacts to cultural resources, will be given due consideration. Federal, State and local agencies, along with tribes and other stakeholders that may be interested in or affected by the proposed action the BLM is evaluating, are invited to participate in the scoping process and, if eligible, may request or be requested by the BLM to participate in the development of the environmental analysis as a cooperating agency. The BLM will use an interdisciplinary approach to develop the plan amendment in order to consider the variety of resource issues and concerns identified. Specialists with expertise in the following disciplines will be involved in the planning process: rangeland management, minerals and geology, [[Page 8107]] forestry, outdoor recreation, archaeology, paleontology, wildlife and fisheries, lands and realty, hydrology, soils, sociology, and economics. Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7 and 43 CFR 1610.2 Ruth Welch, BLM Colorado State Director. [FR Doc. 2015-02946 Filed 2-12-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310-JB-P
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were made to this information Before including your address, phone accurate and complete probate file. This
collection. number, email address or other file will be forwarded to the Office of
The BIA requests your comments on personally identifiable information in Hearing and Appeals (OHA) for
this collection concerning: (a) The your comment, you should be aware disposition. Responses to these
necessity of this information collection that your entire comment—including information collection requests are
for the proper performance of the your personal identifying information— required to create a probate file for the
functions of the agency, including may be made publicly available at any decedent’s estate so that OHA can
whether the information will have time. While you can ask us in your determine the heirs of the decedent and
practical utility; (b) The accuracy of the comment to withhold your personal order distribution of the trust assets in
agency’s estimate of the burden (hours identifying information from public the decedent’s estate. A response is
and cost) of the collection of review, we cannot guarantee that we required to obtain or retain a benefit.
information, including the validity of will be able to do so. Type of Review: Extension without
the methodology and assumptions used; III. Data change of currently approved collection.
(c) Ways we could enhance the quality, Respondents: Indians, businesses, and
OMB Control Number: 1076–0169.
utility, and clarity of the information to tribal authorities.
Title: Probate of Indian Estates, Except
be collected; and (d) Ways we could Number of Respondents: 65,751.
for Members of the Osage Nation and
minimize the burden of the collection of Five Civilized Tribes. Frequency of Response: One per
the information on the respondents. Brief Description of Collection: This respondent each year with the exception
Please note that an agency may not part contains the procedures that the of tribes that may be required to provide
conduct or sponsor, and an individual Secretary of the Interior follows to enrollment information on an average of
need not respond to, a collection of initiate the probate of the trust estate for approximately 10 times/year.
information unless it has a valid OMB a deceased person who owns an interest Estimated Total Annual Responses:
Control Number. in trust or restricted property. The 76,695.
It is our policy to make all comments Secretary must perform the information Estimated Time per Response: Ranges
available to the public for review at the collection requests in this part to obtain from 0.5 hours to 45.5 hours (see table
location listed in the ADDRESSES section. the information necessary to compile an below).
Number of Hours per Total burden
CFR Section Description of info collection requirement responses response hours
per yr
15.9 ........................................ File affidavit to self-prove will, codicil, or revocation ............. 1,000 0.5 500
15.9 ........................................ File supporting affidavit to self-prove will, codicil, or revoca- 2,000 0.5 1,000
tion.
15.104 .................................... Reporting req.-death certificate ............................................. 5,850 5 29,250
15.105 .................................... Provide probate documents .................................................. 21,235 45.5 966,193
15.203 .................................... Provide tribal information for probate file .............................. 5,660 2 11,320
15.301 .................................... Reporting funeral expenses .................................................. 5,850 2 11,700
15.305 .................................... Provide info on creditor claim (6 per probate) ...................... 35,100 0.5 17,550
Total ................................ ................................................................................................ 76,695 .......................... 1,037,513
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: ACTION: Notice. gfo.html. In order to be included in the
1,037,513. Draft EIS, all comments must be
Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour SUMMARY: In compliance with the received prior to the close of the 30-day
Dollar Cost: $0. National Environmental Policy Act of scoping period or 15 days after the last
Dated: February 10, 2015.
1969, as amended (NEPA), and the public meeting, whichever is later. The
Federal Land Policy and Management BLM will provide additional
Elizabeth K. Appel,
Act of 1976, as amended (FLPMA), the opportunities for public participation as
Director, Office of Regulatory Affairs and Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Collaborative Action—Indian Affairs.
appropriate.
Gunnison Field Office, Gunnison, ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
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Colorado, intends to prepare a Resource on issues and planning criteria related
BILLING CODE 4310–W7–P Management Plan (RMP) amendment to the Gunnison Field Office RMP
with an associated Environmental amendment/EIS by any of the following
Impact Statement (EIS) and by this methods:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR notice is announcing the beginning of • Email: blm_co_gfo_nepa_
Bureau of Land Management the scoping process to solicit public comments@blm.gov.
comments and identify issues. • Fax: 970–642–4990.
[LLCOS06000 L10200000.EE0000]
DATES: This notice initiates the public • Mail: 210 West Spencer Street,
scoping process for the RMP Suite A, Gunnison, CO 81230.
Notice of Intent To Amend the Documents pertinent to this proposal
Resource Management Plan for the amendment with associated EIS.
may be examined at the BLM Gunnison
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Bureau of Land Management Gunnison Comments on issues may be submitted
in writing until March 16, 2015. The Field Office at the address above.
Field Office and Prepare an Associated
Environmental Impact Statement, date(s) and location(s) of any scoping FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Colorado meetings will be announced at least 15 Kristi Murphy, Outdoor Recreation
days in advance through local media, Planner; telephone, 970–642–4955;
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, newspapers and the BLM Web site at: address, 210 West Spencer Street, Suite
Interior. http://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/ A, Gunnison, CO 81230; email, blm_
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forestry, outdoor recreation, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For legal notice was prepared by the BLM
archaeology, paleontology, wildlife and further information contact Dan and published in the Ely Times, the
fisheries, lands and realty, hydrology, Netcher, Project Manager, telephone Eureka Sentinel, the High Desert
soils, sociology, and economics. 775–289–1872; address BLM Ely Advocate, and the Reno Gazette-Journal
Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7 and 43 CFR District, Egan Field Office, HC 33 Box informing the public of the BLM’s
1610.2 33500, Ely, NV 89301–9408; email intention to prepare the Gold Rock Mine
dnetcher@blm.gov. Persons who use a EIS. Public scoping meetings were held
Ruth Welch, telecommunications device for the deaf in September 2013 in Ely, Eureka, and
BLM Colorado State Director. (TDD) may call the Federal Information Reno, Nevada. On November 7, 2013,
[FR Doc. 2015–02946 Filed 2–12–15; 8:45 am] Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 the BLM learned that the email account
BILLING CODE 4310–JB–P to contact the above individual during set up to receive scoping comments on
normal business hours. The FIRS is the Gold Rock Mine Project EIS, along
available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with all of its contents, had disappeared
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR to leave a message or question with the during the first week of October 2013
above individual. You will receive a and was not recoverable. On March 28,
Bureau of Land Management reply during normal business hours. 2014, the BLM published a second
[LLNVL01000. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of Intent to prepare an EIS in the
L51100000.GN0000.LVEMF1402520. Midway Gold US Inc. (Midway) Federal Register, extending the scoping
241A.14X; MO#4500069499] proposes to construct and operate an period for another 30-day public input
open-pit gold mining operation on the period, inviting the public to submit
Notice of Availability of the Draft comments, and requesting that anyone
eastern side of the Pancake Mountain
Environmental Impact Statement for who submitted scoping comments by
Range, approximately 50 miles west of
the Gold Rock Mine Project, White Pine email during the initial 30-day scoping
Ely in White Pine County, Nevada. The
County, NV period (September 5, 2013, through
proposed location is 15 miles south of
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Route 50 near Newark Valley and October 7, 2013) resubmit their
Interior. the northern Railroad Valley, in the comments by mail, by fax, or through
ACTION: Notice. same geographic area as the reclaimed the ePlanning system during this 30-day
and closed Easy Junior Mine. Midway extension of the public input period. No
SUMMARY: In accordance with the submitted the Gold Rock Mine Project changes were made to the Proposed
National Environmental Policy Act of Plan of Operations on March 21, 2013. Action. No scoping meetings were held
1969, as amended, and the Federal Land The BLM’s approval of the mine plan as during this 30-day extension of the
Policy and Management Act of 1976, as proposed (the Proposed Action) would public input period, as these meetings
amended (FLPMA), the Bureau of Land authorize approximately 3,946 acres of were not affected by the technical
Management (BLM) Egan Field Office, disturbance on land administered by the difficulties with the email account. In
Ely, Nevada has prepared a Draft BLM. Under the Proposed Action, the total, 60 comment documents were
Environmental Impact Statement (Draft proposed operations and associated received during scoping. The comments
EIS) for the proposed Gold Rock Mine disturbance would include a proposed were incorporated in a Scoping
Project in White Pine County, NV, and power line extending south from the Summary Report and were considered
by this notice is announcing the Pan Mine to the west side of the in the preparation of this Draft EIS.
opening of the public comment period proposed Gold Rock Mine Project site. Concerns raised during scoping
on the Draft EIS. Also under the Proposed Action, a include: Positive and negative
DATES: To ensure comments will be county road that currently passes socioeconomic impacts on the
considered, the BLM must receive through the Gold Rock Mine Project area communities of Ely and Eureka, and to
written comments on the Draft EIS would be re-located onto existing and White Pine County; changes to the
within 45 days following the date the new BLM and county roads. An updated quantity and quality of surface water
Environmental Protection Agency inventory of lands with wilderness and groundwater; potential occurrence
publishes its Notice of Availability in characteristics was completed and of acid drainage from waste rock
the Federal Register. The BLM will found no lands with wilderness disposal areas into surface or
announce any public meetings or other characteristics in the project area. groundwater; impacts to soils through
public involvement activities at least 15 The projected life of the project is 48 reduced infiltration or increased
days in advance through public notices, years: 10 years of mining and additional erosion; potential occurrence of a
media releases, and/or mailings. time for associated construction, release of pollutants and hazardous
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments reclamation, closure, and post-closure materials to the environment during
related to the Gold Rock Mine Project by monitoring periods. Midway is operations or following closure; impacts
any of the following methods: currently conducting exploration to wild horses and their habitat; impacts
• Web site: http://on.doi.gov/ activities in the project area; which to vegetation communities, and
1zAxyW9. activities were analyzed in two separate vegetative food resources for wildlife;
• fax: 775–289–1910. environmental assessments (EAs): The short- and long-term impacts on wildlife
• mail: BLM Ely District, Egan Field Midway Gold Rock Project Final population dynamics and habitats;
Office, HC 33 Box 33500, Ely, NV Environmental Assessment (June 2012), potential impacts to population and
89301–9408. and the Environmental Assessment for habitat of greater sage-grouse; potential
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Copies of the Draft EIS are available the Midway Gold Rock Project, impacts to Native American traditional
in the Egan Field Office at the above Exploration Amendment (October and religious values regarding greater
address and on the Ely District’s Web 2012). sage-grouse, antelope traps and geologic
page at http://www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/fo/ On September 5, 2013, a Notice of and mineral resources; impacts to air
ely_field_office/blm_programs/ Intent (NOI) was published in the quality through point (equipment) and
minerals/mining_projects/gold_rock_ Federal Register inviting scoping non-point (site roads and facilities)
project.html. comments on the Proposed Action. A pollution sources; potential impacts to
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| Dates | This notice initiates the public scoping process for the RMP amendment with associated EIS. Comments on issues may be submitted in writing until March 16, 2015. The date(s) and location(s) of any scoping meetings will be announced at least 15 days in advance through local media, newspapers and the BLM Web site at: http://www.blm.gov/co/ st/en/fo/gfo.html. In order to be included in the Draft EIS, all comments must be received prior to the close of the 30-day scoping period or 15 days after the last public meeting, whichever is later. The BLM will provide additional opportunities for public participation as appropriate. | |
| Contact | Kristi Murphy, Outdoor Recreation | |
| FR Citation | 80 FR 8105 |
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