81_FR_35903 81 FR 35796 - Notice of Availability of the Draft Medford District Resource Management Plan Amendment and Environmental Assessment: Table Rocks Area of Critical Environmental Concern Proposed Boundary Change and Supplementary Rules

81 FR 35796 - Notice of Availability of the Draft Medford District Resource Management Plan Amendment and Environmental Assessment: Table Rocks Area of Critical Environmental Concern Proposed Boundary Change and Supplementary Rules

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 107 (June 3, 2016)

Page Range35796-35798
FR Document2016-13130

In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended, and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, as amended, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared a Draft Resource Management Plan (RMP) Amendment and Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) titled Medford District RMP Amendment and EA: Table Rocks Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) Proposed Boundary Change and Supplementary Rules and, by this notice, is announcing the opening of the comment period.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 107 (Friday, June 3, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 107 (Friday, June 3, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35796-35798]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-13130]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

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Notice of Availability of the Draft Medford District Resource 
Management Plan Amendment and Environmental Assessment: Table Rocks 
Area of Critical Environmental Concern Proposed Boundary Change and 
Supplementary Rules

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 
1969, as amended, and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 
1976, as amended, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared a 
Draft Resource Management Plan (RMP) Amendment and Draft Environmental 
Assessment (EA) titled Medford District RMP Amendment and EA: Table 
Rocks Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) Proposed Boundary 
Change and Supplementary Rules and, by this notice, is announcing the 
opening of the comment period.

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DATES: To ensure that comments will be considered, the BLM must receive 
written comments on the Draft RMP Amendment/Draft EA within 60 days 
following the date the BLM publishes its notice of the Draft RMP 
Amendment/Draft EA in the Federal Register. The BLM will announce 
future meetings or hearings and any other public participation 
activities at least 15 days in advance through public notices, media 
releases, and/or mailings.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments related to the Medford District RMP 
Amendment and EA: Table Rocks ACEC Proposed Boundary Change and 
Supplementary Rules by any of the following methods:
     Web site: https://eplanning.blm.gov/epl-front-office/eplanning/nepa/nepa_register.do.
     Email: [email protected].
     Fax: (541) 618-2400.
     Mail: 3040 Biddle Road, Medford, OR 97504.
    Copies of the Medford District RMP Amendment and EA: Table Rocks 
ACEC Proposed Boundary Change and Supplementary Rules are available in 
the Medford District Office at the above address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anthony Kerwin, District Planning and 
Environmental Coordinator; telephone (541) 618-2402; address 3040 
Biddle Road, Medford, OR 97504; email [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 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: The proposed action includes the following:
     Add to Table Rocks ACEC designation 863 acres the BLM has 
acquired since the original 1986 ACEC designation. The parcels include 
40 acres on Lower Table Rock in Township 36 South, Range 2 West, 
Section 4; 557 acres on Upper Table Rock in Township 35 South, Range 2 
West, Sections 25, 26, 35, & 36; and 266 acres on Upper Table Rock in 
Township 36 South, Range 2 West, Section 2.
     Remove from ACEC designation 0.9 acres located in Township 
36 South, Range 2 West, Section 1, located across Modoc Road from the 
Upper Table Rock trailhead parking lot (Map 2 inset).
     Establish the ACEC boundary around an area totaling 4,864 
acres which would encompass contiguous BLM and TNC lands and lands 
under conservation easement. The establishment of the larger ACEC 
boundary would not establish an ACEC or authorize any BLM decisions or 
actions on non-BLM lands (including existing TNC lands).
     In the future, incorporate lands acquired within or 
adjacent to the expanded ACEC boundary if they meet the relevance and 
importance criteria for the Table Rocks ACEC and require special 
management attention.
     Establish the following supplemental rules:
    a. No discharge of firearms, or discharge of gas or air powered 
weapons, including paintball and paintball-like weapons.
    b. No motorized vehicles or non-motorized mechanized vehicles that 
are propelled or powered by any means.
    c. No dogs or other domestic animals outside of trailhead parking 
areas, except on trails signed as allowing leashed dogs in the Camp 
White zone.
    d. No metal detectors or digging, scraping, disturbing, or removing 
natural land features for any purpose.
    e. No campfires or overnight camping.
    The ACEC boundary and designation changes would amend the 1995 
Medford RMP. The adoption of the supplementary rules is an 
implementation-level action.
    The supplementary rules would make permanent the Temporary 
Restrictions that were implemented in 2014 to protect the resource 
values of the 1,243 acres of ACEC lands and the 852 acres of acquired 
BLM lands. Those restrictions were published in the Federal Register on 
March 26, 2014, and prohibited the above-mentioned activities in the 
Table Rocks ACEC and associated, acquired lands.
    The Table Rocks ACEC was designated in 1986 by an amendment to the 
Medford District Management Framework Plan. The area, which includes 
1,003 acres on Upper Table Rock and 240 acres on Lower Table Rock, was 
designated an ACEC to recognize and protect botanical and geological 
features, threatened and endangered and special status species, and 
natural systems. The vernal pools, ecology, Limnanthes pumila ssp. 
pumila (plant species: Dwarf woolly meadowfoam), and geology met the 
criteria for relevance and importance to qualify the area as an ACEC.
    Between 1979 and 2009, TNC acquired several parcels on the Table 
Rocks which they have managed as the Table Rocks Preserve. In 1980, TNC 
was granted a perpetual conservation easement on 795 acres of private 
land on Lower Table Rock. In 2009, TNC purchased a parcel with funds 
provided in part by the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (OWEB). As a 
condition of the OWEB grant, TNC granted OWEB a perpetual easement on 
898 acres of the purchased lands on both Table Rocks. The Nature 
Conservancy's management objectives are to protect ecological diversity 
and to provide scenic and biologic continuity between the Table Rocks 
and the Rogue River while protecting the area from potential 
development.
    As of 2012, the BLM and TNC own all vernal pool habitats on the 
summits and most of the flanks of the Table Rocks, totaling 4,864 
acres. Since the 1986 ACEC designation, the BLM has acquired three 
parcels from TNC--40 acres on Lower Table Rock to develop trailhead 
facilities and 823 acres in two separate parcels on Upper Table Rock. 
The BLM anticipates acquiring a fourth acquisition from TNC in 2016 
consisting of five parcels totaling 221 acres. These parcels were 
evaluated in 2013 in an ACEC review and were determined to contain 
ecological, historical, cultural and scenic resources, and potential 
recreational values similar and supplemental to the original ACEC. They 
meet the criteria for relevance and importance for an ACEC and are 
under temporary management consistent with management of the rest of 
the Table Rocks ACEC until they are officially designated as part of 
the ACEC. While these lands are within the proposed ACEC boundary, they 
will not be part of the ACEC; however, this allows the BLM to 
incorporate lands we expect to acquire in the future within this 
boundary into the ACEC without having to prepare another RMP Amendment.
    The BLM issued a Notice of Intent to Prepare an RMP Amendment on 
September 8, 2014. Publication of the Notice of Intent initiated the 
public scoping process, with public comments accepted until October 8, 
2014. The BLM also sent 366 letters to various agencies, organizations, 
and landowners located within the planning area. Over 70 responses were 
received, and many requested a public meeting. On October 16, 
approximately 50 people attended an evening open house held at the BLM 
Medford District Office. Because of the interest in the project, the 
public comment period was extended to November 25, 2015. Another 26 
comments were received. The main issue raised by the public during 
scoping was opposition to the scale and scope of the proposed 13,556-
acre ACEC and concern over what the proposed ACEC boundary would mean 
to private property rights within the boundary. In response, the BLM 
decreased the size of

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the proposed boundary in the current proposed action to only include 
BLM- and TNC-administered lands. No other unresolved issues were 
identified during scoping.
    Scoping conducted for the Table Rocks Temporary Restrictions EA in 
2013 was also considered during development of the Draft Plan Amendment 
and EA. Scoping for the temporary restrictions included visitor surveys 
conducted at the Table Rocks in 2011 by the Southern Oregon Research 
Center at Southern Oregon University; discussing hunting issues with 
representatives from Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Rocky 
Mountain Elk Foundation, and Oregon Hunters Association; and meeting 
with the Jackson County Commissioners, who submitted a comment that 
generated local newspaper and television interest. One comment on the 
EA was received from the Jackson County Office of County Council which 
proposed that the BLM should consider implementing temporary 
restrictions only on the BLM lands that were previously owned by TNC.
    This notice begins the 30-day comment period for the Draft Medford 
District RMP Amendment and EA: Table Rocks Area of Critical 
Environmental Concern (ACEC) Proposed Boundary Change and Supplementary 
Rules. Please note that public comments and information submitted--
including names, street addresses, and email addresses of persons who 
submit comments--will be available for public review and disclosure at 
the above-address during regular business hours (8:00 a.m. to 4:00 
p.m.), Monday through Friday, except holidays.
    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.

    Authority:  40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1506.10, 43 CFR 1610.2

Jamie E. Connell,
Acting State Director, Oregon/Washington.
[FR Doc. 2016-13130 Filed 6-2-16; 8:45 am]
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35796 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 107 / Friday, June 3, 2016 / Notices fences, as needed) to protect sites; allow breeding sage-grouse; follow protect sensitive species and their camping only in designated sites and recommendations in San Miguel Basin habitats; allow camping only in areas; prohibit target shooting; close to Gunnison Sage-Grouse Conservation designated sites and areas; NSO for fluid rock climbing; issue no Special Plan (San Miguel Basin Gunnison Sage- minerals; NGD for non-fluid mineral Recreation Permits (SRP); NSO for fluid Grouse Working Group 2009); manage activities. minerals; NGD for non-fluid mineral vegetation for optimal Gunnison Sage- Please note that public comments and activities. Grouse habitat; provide adequate information submitted including names, • Roubideau-Potter-Monitor ACEC, protection (signs, use stipulations, street addresses, and email addresses of 20,430 acres, Alternative B: ROW barricades and fences, as needed) to persons who submit comments will be exclusion; recommend for withdrawal protect sensitive species and their available for public review and from locatable mineral entry; close to habitats; close to leasing for fluid disclosure at the above address during mineral materials disposal; close to non- minerals; NGD for non-fluid mineral regular business hours (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.), energy solid mineral leasing; VRM Class activities. Monday through Friday, except II; limit motorized and mechanized • Sims-Cerro Gunnison Sage-Grouse holidays. travel to designated routes; provide ACEC, 25,620 acres, Alternative B: ROW Before including your address, phone adequate protection (signs, use exclusion; recommend for withdrawal number, email address, or other stipulations, barricades and fences, as from locatable mineral entry; close to personal identifying information in your needed) to protect sensitive species and mineral materials disposal; close to non- comment, you should be aware that their habitats; issue no SRP for energy solid mineral leasing; VRM Class your entire comment—including your competitive events; prohibit target III; manage vegetation for optimal personal identifying information—may shooting; close to wood product sales Gunnison Sage-Grouse habitat; limit be made publicly available at any time. and/or harvest and Christmas tree motorized and mechanized travel to While you can ask us in your comment cutting; close to recreational mining; designated routes; close to motorized to withhold your personal identifying close to fluid mineral leasing; NGD for and mechanized travel April 1 to July 15 information from public review, we non-fluid mineral activities. (during sage-grouse strutting, nesting cannot guarantee that we will be able to • Roubideau Corridors ACEC, 8,720 and brood-rearing season); provide do so. acres, Alternative D: ROW avoidance; adequate protection (signs, use recommend for withdrawal from stipulations, barricades and fences, as Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR locatable mineral entry; close to mineral 1506.10, 43 CFR 1610.2, 43 CFR 1610.5. needed) to protect sensitive species and materials disposal; close to non-energy their habitats; develop a Sims-Cerro Ruth Welch, solid mineral leasing; VRM Class III; Gunnison Sage-Grouse Conservation BLM Colorado State Director. limit motorized and mechanized travel Plan; close to leasing for fluid minerals; [FR Doc. 2016–13131 Filed 6–2–16; 8:45 am] to designated routes; provide adequate NGD for non-fluid mineral activities. BILLING CODE 4310–JB–P protection (signs, use stipulations, • Tabeguache Pueblos and barricades and fences, as needed) to Tabeguache Caves ACEC, 26,400 acres, protect sensitive species and their Alternative B: ROW exclusion; DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR habitats; close to wood product sales recommend for withdrawal from and/or harvest and Christmas tree locatable mineral entry; close to mineral Bureau of Land Management cutting; NSO for fluid minerals; SSR for materials disposal; close to non-energy non-fluid mineral activities. solid mineral leasing; VRM Class I [LLORM05000.L63340000.DU0000. • Salt Desert Shrub Ecosystem ACEC, (5,260 acres),VRM Class II (21,140 16XL1116AF; HAG 16–0047] 34,510 acres, Alternative B: ROW acres); limit motorized and mechanized exclusion; recommend for withdrawal travel to designated routes; provide Notice of Availability of the Draft from locatable mineral entry; close to adequate protection (signs, use Medford District Resource mineral materials disposal; close to non- stipulations, barricades and fences, as Management Plan Amendment and energy solid mineral leasing; VRM Class needed) to protect sensitive sites; NSO Environmental Assessment: Table III; limit motorized and mechanized for fluid minerals; NGD for non-fluid Rocks Area of Critical Environmental travel to designated routes; provide such mineral activities. Concern Proposed Boundary Change facilities as informational and • Tabeguache Creek ACEC, 560 acres, and Supplementary Rules interpretive signs, barricades and Alternative A: VRM Class II; close to fences, as needed to protect resources; Off-Road Vehicle use; NSO for fluid AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, manage for day use only: Prohibit minerals. Interior. camping and open campfires (require • West Paradox ACEC, 5,190 acres, ACTION: Notice. use of stoves or grills); prohibit wood Alternative B: ROW exclusion; collecting; close to coal leasing; NSO for recommend for withdrawal from SUMMARY: In accordance with the fluid minerals; NGD for non-fluid locatable mineral entry; close to mineral National Environmental Policy Act of mineral activities. materials disposal; close to non-energy 1969, as amended, and the Federal Land • San Miguel Gunnison Sage-Grouse solid mineral leasing; VRM Class III; Policy and Management Act of 1976, as ACEC, 470 acres, Alternative B: ROW limit motorized and mechanized travel amended, the Bureau of Land exclusion; recommend for withdrawal to designated routes; close to rock Management (BLM) has prepared a Draft from locatable mineral entry; close to climbing during peregrine falcon Resource Management Plan (RMP) mineral materials disposal; close to non- breeding season (March 1 to August 15) Amendment and Draft Environmental mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES energy solid mineral leasing; manage as if birds are present; provide facilities Assessment (EA) titled Medford District VRM Class III; limit motorized and (e.g., informational and interpretive RMP Amendment and EA: Table Rocks mechanized travel to designated routes; signs, designated trail systems, camping Area of Critical Environmental Concern close to motorized and mechanized areas and restrooms, as needed) for (ACEC) Proposed Boundary Change and travel April 1 to July 15 (during sage- resource protection; provide adequate Supplementary Rules and, by this grouse strutting, nesting and brood- protection (signs, use stipulations, notice, is announcing the opening of the rearing season) to prevent disturbance to barricades and fences, as needed) to comment period. 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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 107 / Friday, June 3, 2016 / Notices 35797 DATES: To ensure that comments will be BLM and TNC lands and lands under purchased a parcel with funds provided considered, the BLM must receive conservation easement. The in part by the Oregon Watershed written comments on the Draft RMP establishment of the larger ACEC Enhancement Board (OWEB). As a Amendment/Draft EA within 60 days boundary would not establish an ACEC condition of the OWEB grant, TNC following the date the BLM publishes its or authorize any BLM decisions or granted OWEB a perpetual easement on notice of the Draft RMP Amendment/ actions on non-BLM lands (including 898 acres of the purchased lands on Draft EA in the Federal Register. The existing TNC lands). both Table Rocks. The Nature BLM will announce future meetings or • In the future, incorporate lands Conservancy’s management objectives hearings and any other public acquired within or adjacent to the are to protect ecological diversity and to participation activities at least 15 days expanded ACEC boundary if they meet provide scenic and biologic continuity in advance through public notices, the relevance and importance criteria between the Table Rocks and the Rogue media releases, and/or mailings. for the Table Rocks ACEC and require River while protecting the area from ADDRESSES: You may submit comments special management attention. potential development. related to the Medford District RMP • Establish the following As of 2012, the BLM and TNC own all Amendment and EA: Table Rocks ACEC supplemental rules: vernal pool habitats on the summits and Proposed Boundary Change and a. No discharge of firearms, or most of the flanks of the Table Rocks, Supplementary Rules by any of the discharge of gas or air powered totaling 4,864 acres. Since the 1986 following methods: weapons, including paintball and ACEC designation, the BLM has • Web site: https://eplanning.blm. paintball-like weapons. acquired three parcels from TNC—40 gov/epl-front-office/eplanning/nepa/ b. No motorized vehicles or non- acres on Lower Table Rock to develop nepa_register.do. motorized mechanized vehicles that are trailhead facilities and 823 acres in two • Email: BLM_OR_MD_Mail@blm.gov. propelled or powered by any means. separate parcels on Upper Table Rock. • Fax: (541) 618–2400. c. No dogs or other domestic animals The BLM anticipates acquiring a fourth • Mail: 3040 Biddle Road, Medford, outside of trailhead parking areas, acquisition from TNC in 2016 consisting OR 97504. except on trails signed as allowing of five parcels totaling 221 acres. These Copies of the Medford District RMP leashed dogs in the Camp White zone. parcels were evaluated in 2013 in an Amendment and EA: Table Rocks ACEC d. No metal detectors or digging, ACEC review and were determined to Proposed Boundary Change and scraping, disturbing, or removing contain ecological, historical, cultural Supplementary Rules are available in natural land features for any purpose. and scenic resources, and potential e. No campfires or overnight camping. recreational values similar and the Medford District Office at the above The ACEC boundary and designation address. supplemental to the original ACEC. changes would amend the 1995 They meet the criteria for relevance and FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Medford RMP. The adoption of the importance for an ACEC and are under Anthony Kerwin, District Planning and supplementary rules is an temporary management consistent with Environmental Coordinator; telephone implementation-level action. management of the rest of the Table (541) 618–2402; address 3040 Biddle The supplementary rules would make Rocks ACEC until they are officially Road, Medford, OR 97504; email BLM_ permanent the Temporary Restrictions designated as part of the ACEC. While OR_MD_Mail@blm.gov. Persons who that were implemented in 2014 to these lands are within the proposed use a telecommunications device for the protect the resource values of the 1,243 ACEC boundary, they will not be part of deaf (TDD) may call the Federal acres of ACEC lands and the 852 acres the ACEC; however, this allows the Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– of acquired BLM lands. Those BLM to incorporate lands we expect to 800–877–8339 to contact the above restrictions were published in the acquire in the future within this individual during normal business Federal Register on March 26, 2014, boundary into the ACEC without having hours. The FIRS is available 24 hours a and prohibited the above-mentioned to prepare another RMP Amendment. day, 7 days a week, to leave a message activities in the Table Rocks ACEC and The BLM issued a Notice of Intent to or question with the above individual. associated, acquired lands. Prepare an RMP Amendment on You will receive a reply during normal The Table Rocks ACEC was September 8, 2014. Publication of the business hours. designated in 1986 by an amendment to Notice of Intent initiated the public SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The the Medford District Management scoping process, with public comments proposed action includes the following: Framework Plan. The area, which accepted until October 8, 2014. The • Add to Table Rocks ACEC includes 1,003 acres on Upper Table BLM also sent 366 letters to various designation 863 acres the BLM has Rock and 240 acres on Lower Table agencies, organizations, and landowners acquired since the original 1986 ACEC Rock, was designated an ACEC to located within the planning area. Over designation. The parcels include 40 recognize and protect botanical and 70 responses were received, and many acres on Lower Table Rock in Township geological features, threatened and requested a public meeting. On October 36 South, Range 2 West, Section 4; 557 endangered and special status species, 16, approximately 50 people attended acres on Upper Table Rock in Township and natural systems. The vernal pools, an evening open house held at the BLM 35 South, Range 2 West, Sections 25, 26, ecology, Limnanthes pumila ssp. pumila Medford District Office. Because of the 35, & 36; and 266 acres on Upper Table (plant species: Dwarf woolly interest in the project, the public Rock in Township 36 South, Range 2 meadowfoam), and geology met the comment period was extended to West, Section 2. criteria for relevance and importance to November 25, 2015. Another 26 • Remove from ACEC designation 0.9 qualify the area as an ACEC. comments were received. The main mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES acres located in Township 36 South, Between 1979 and 2009, TNC issue raised by the public during Range 2 West, Section 1, located across acquired several parcels on the Table scoping was opposition to the scale and Modoc Road from the Upper Table Rock Rocks which they have managed as the scope of the proposed 13,556-acre ACEC trailhead parking lot (Map 2 inset). Table Rocks Preserve. In 1980, TNC was and concern over what the proposed • Establish the ACEC boundary granted a perpetual conservation ACEC boundary would mean to private around an area totaling 4,864 acres easement on 795 acres of private land property rights within the boundary. In which would encompass contiguous on Lower Table Rock. In 2009, TNC response, the BLM decreased the size of VerDate Sep<11>2014 21:20 Jun 02, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00065 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\03JNN1.SGM 03JNN1

35798 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 107 / Friday, June 3, 2016 / Notices the proposed boundary in the current DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR to meet the Nation’s energy needs as proposed action to only include BLM- rapidly as possible; to balance orderly and TNC-administered lands. No other Bureau of Safety and Environmental energy resource development with unresolved issues were identified Enforcement protection of human, marine, and during scoping. [Docket ID: BSEE–2016–0007; OMB Control coastal environments; to ensure the Number 1014–0006; 16XE1700DX public a fair and equitable return on the Scoping conducted for the Table EX1SF0000.DAQ000 EEEE500000] resources of the OCS; and to preserve Rocks Temporary Restrictions EA in and maintain free enterprise 2013 was also considered during Information Collection Activities: competition. development of the Draft Plan Sulphur Operations, Proposed Section 5(a) of the OCS Lands Act Amendment and EA. Scoping for the Collection; Comment Request requires the Secretary to prescribe rules temporary restrictions included visitor and regulations ‘‘to provide for the surveys conducted at the Table Rocks in AGENCY: Bureau of Safety and prevention of waste, and conservation of 2011 by the Southern Oregon Research Environmental Enforcement, Interior. the natural resources of the Outer Center at Southern Oregon University; ACTION: 60-day Notice. Continental Shelf, and the protection of discussing hunting issues with correlative rights therein’’ and to representatives from Oregon Department SUMMARY: To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 include provisions ‘‘for the prompt and of Fish and Wildlife, Rocky Mountain efficient exploration and development (PRA), BSEE is inviting comments on a Elk Foundation, and Oregon Hunters of a lease area.’’ These authorities and collection of information that we will Association; and meeting with the submit to the Office of Management and responsibilities are among those Jackson County Commissioners, who Budget (OMB) for review and approval. delegated to BSEE to ensure that submitted a comment that generated The information collection request (ICR) operations in the OCS will meet local newspaper and television interest. concerns a renewal to the paperwork statutory requirements; provide for One comment on the EA was received requirements in the regulations under, safety and protection of the from the Jackson County Office of Subpart P, Sulphur Operations. environment; and result in diligent County Council which proposed that exploration, development, and DATES: You must submit comments by the BLM should consider implementing production of OCS leases. August 2, 2016. temporary restrictions only on the BLM In addition to the general rulemaking ADDRESSES: You may submit comments authority of the OCSLA at 43 U.S.C. lands that were previously owned by by either of the following methods listed TNC. 1334, section 301(a) of the Federal Oil below. and Gas Royalty Management Act This notice begins the 30-day • Electronically: Go to (FOGRMA), 30 U.S.C. 1751(a), grants comment period for the Draft Medford www.regulations.gov and search for authority to the Secretary to prescribe District RMP Amendment and EA: Table BSEE–2016–0007. Follow the such rules and regulations as are Rocks Area of Critical Environmental instructions to submit public comments reasonably necessary to carry out Concern (ACEC) Proposed Boundary and view all related materials. We will FOGRMA’s provisions. While the Change and Supplementary Rules. post all comments. majority of FOGRMA is directed to Please note that public comments and • Email: regs@bsee.gov. Mail or hand- royalty collection and enforcement, information submitted—including carry comments to the Department of some provisions apply to offshore names, street addresses, and email the Interior; BSEE; Regulations and operations. For example, section 108 of addresses of persons who submit Standards Branch; Attention: Kelly FOGRMA, 30 U.S.C. 1718, grants the comments—will be available for public Odom; 45600 Woodland Road, Suite Secretary broad authority to inspect review and disclosure at the above- 105, Sterling, VA 20166. Please lease sites for the purpose of address during regular business hours reference ICR 1014–0006 in your determining whether there is comment and include your name and compliance with the mineral leasing (8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.), Monday return address. laws. Section 109(c)(2) and (d)(1), 30 through Friday, except holidays. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: U.S.C. 1719(c)(2) and (d)(1), impose Before including your address, phone Kelly Odom, Regulations and Standards substantial civil penalties for failure to number, email address, or other Branch at (703) 787–1775 to request permit lawful inspections and for personal identifying information in your additional information about this ICR. knowing or willful preparation or comment, you should be aware that submission of false, inaccurate, or SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: your entire comment—including your Title: 30 CFR 250, Subpart P, Sulphur misleading reports, records, or other personal identifying information—may Operations. information. Because the Secretary has be made publicly available at any time. OMB Control Number: 1014–0006. delegated some of the authority under While you can ask us in your comment Abstract: The Outer Continental Shelf FOGRMA to BSEE, 30 U.S.C. 1751 is to withhold your personal identifying (OCS) Lands Act, as amended (43 U.S.C. included as additional authority for information from public review, we 1331 et seq. and 43 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), these requirements. cannot guarantee that we will be able to authorizes the Secretary of the Interior This ICR addresses the regulations at do so. to prescribe rules and regulations 30 CFR 250, Subpart P, Sulphur Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR necessary for the administration of the Operations, and any associated leasing provisions of that Act related to supplementary Notices to Lessees and mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES 1506.10, 43 CFR 1610.2 mineral resources on the OCS. Such Operators (NTLs) intended to provide Jamie E. Connell, rules and regulations will apply to all clarification, description, or explanation Acting State Director, Oregon/Washington. operations conducted under a lease. of these regulations. [FR Doc. 2016–13130 Filed 6–2–16; 8:45 am] Operations on the OCS must preserve, Currently, there are no active sulphur BILLING CODE 4310–33–P protect, and develop mineral resources lease operations on the OCS. Therefore, in a manner that is consistent with the this ICR and its relevant hours represent need to make such resources available one potential respondent. VerDate Sep<11>2014 21:20 Jun 02, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00066 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\03JNN1.SGM 03JNN1


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DatesTo ensure that comments will be considered, the BLM must receive written comments on the Draft RMP Amendment/Draft EA within 60 days following the date the BLM publishes its notice of the Draft RMP Amendment/Draft EA in the Federal Register. The BLM will announce future meetings or hearings and any other public participation activities at least 15 days in advance through public notices, media releases, and/or mailings.
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