81_FR_42497 81 FR 42372 - Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Seminole Tribe of Florida Fee-to-Trust Project, City of Coconut Creek, Broward County, Florida

81 FR 42372 - Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Seminole Tribe of Florida Fee-to-Trust Project, City of Coconut Creek, Broward County, Florida

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 125 (June 29, 2016)

Page Range42372-42373
FR Document2016-15429

This notice advises the public that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) as lead agency, with the Seminole Tribe of Florida (STOF), City of Coconut Creek (City), and Broward County (County) serving as cooperating agencies, intends to file a Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the Seminole Tribe of Florida Fee-to-Trust Project, City of Coconut Creek, Florida, Broward County, Florida. This notice announces that the FEIS is now available for public review.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 125 (Wednesday, June 29, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 125 (Wednesday, June 29, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42372-42373]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-15429]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Indian Affairs

[167 A2100DD/AAKC001030/A0A501010.999900]


Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Seminole 
Tribe of Florida Fee-to-Trust Project, City of Coconut Creek, Broward 
County, Florida

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: This notice advises the public that the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs (BIA) as lead agency, with the Seminole Tribe of Florida 
(STOF), City of Coconut Creek (City), and Broward County (County) 
serving as cooperating agencies, intends to file a Final Environmental 
Impact Statement (FEIS) with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
(EPA) for the Seminole Tribe of Florida Fee-to-Trust Project, City of 
Coconut Creek, Florida, Broward County, Florida. This notice announces 
that the FEIS is now available for public review.

DATES: The Record of Decision on the proposed action will be issued on 
or after 30 days from the date the EPA publishes its Notice of 
Availability in the Federal Register. Any comments on the FEIS must 
arrive on or before 30 days following the date the EPA publishes its 
notice of availability in the Federal Register.

ADDRESSES: You may mail or hand-deliver written comments to Mr. 
Franklin Keel, Eastern Regional Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 545 
Marriott Drive, Suite 700, Nashville, Tennessee 37214. Please include 
your name, return address, and the caption: ``FEIS Comments, Seminole 
Tribe of Florida Fee-to-Trust Project,'' on the first page of your 
written comments.
    Locations where the FEIS is Available for Review: The FEIS is 
available for review at the Broward County Northwest Regional Library 
located at 3151 University Drive, Coral Springs, Florida 33065, and the 
City of Coconut Creek City Hall located at 4800 W. Copans Road, Coconut 
Creek, Florida 33063. The FEIS is also available online at: http://www.seminoleeis.com.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Chester McGhee, Regional 
Environmental Scientist, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Eastern Region, 545 
Marriott Drive, Suite 700, Nashville, Tennessee 37214; fax (615) 564-
6701; telephone (615) 564-6830.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Background: STOF has requested that the Secretary of the Interior 
acquire approximately 45 acres of Tribal-owned land in Federal trust 
for STOF in the City of Coconut Creek, Florida. The project site is 
located northeast of the intersection of U.S. Highway 7/US-441 and 
Sample Road. The property surrounds on three sides the existing 
Seminole Coconut Creek Trust Property, currently containing the Coconut 
Creek Casino. The Proposed Action consists of transferring the 45+ 
acres of property into Federal trust and the subsequent development of 
a hotel/resort and other ancillary uses (Proposed Project). At full 
build-out, the proposed hotel/resort facility would include 
approximately 47,000 square-feet (sf) of retail space, 54,000 sf of 
dining, a 2,500 seat showroom, and a 1,000-room hotel. The

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hotel tower would not exceed 275 feet above ground level. Access to the 
project site would be provided via one driveway along Sample Road, one 
driveway along SR-7/US-441, and one driveway along NW 54th Avenue. 
Alternatives considered in the FEIS include Alternative A--Proposed 
Project; Alternative B--Reduced Intensity Alternative; and Alternative 
C --No Action by Federal Government. Environmental issues addressed in 
the FEIS include geology and soils, water resources, air quality, 
biological resources, cultural and paleontological resources, 
socioeconomic conditions (including environmental justice), 
transportation and circulation, land use, public services, noise, 
hazardous materials, aesthetics, cumulative effects, and indirect and 
growth inducing effects.
    The BIA serves as the Lead Agency for compliance with the National 
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The BIA held a public scoping meeting 
for the project on September 15, 2010, at the Coral Springs High School 
Auditorium, in Coral Springs, Florida. A notice of availability for the 
Draft EIS was published in the Federal Register on August 31, 2012 (77 
FR 53225), and announced a 45-day review period ending on October 15, 
2012. A public hearing on the Draft EIS was held on October 9, 2012, in 
the City of Coconut Creek.
    To obtain a compact disk copy of the FEIS, please provide your name 
and address in writing or by voicemail to Mr. Chester McGhee, Regional 
Environmental Scientist, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Eastern Regional 
Office. Contact information is listed above in the FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this notice. Individual paper copies of 
the FEIS will be provided upon payment of applicable printing expenses 
by the requestor for the number of copies requested.
    Public Comment Availability: Comments, including names and 
addresses of respondents, will be available for public review at the 
BIA mailing address shown in the ADDRESSES section of this notice, 
during regular business hours, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through 
Friday, except holidays. Before including your address, telephone 
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: This notice is published pursuant to the Council of 
Environmental Quality Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500 through 1508) 
and the Department of the Interior Regulations (43 CFR part 46), 
implementing the procedural requirements of the NEPA, as amended (42 
U.S.C. 4371, et seq.), and is in the exercise of authority delegated 
to the Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs by 209 DM 8.

    Dated: June 22, 2016.
Lawrence S. Roberts,
Acting Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2016-15429 Filed 6-28-16; 8:45 am]
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42372 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 125 / Wednesday, June 29, 2016 / Notices ADDRESSES: Please submit your written displays a currently valid OMB control (County) serving as cooperating comments on this IC directly to the number and current expiration date. agencies, intends to file a Final Office of Management and Budget, Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) III. Request for Comments Office of Information and Regulatory with the U.S. Environmental Protection Affairs, Attention: Desk Officer for the On February 26, 2016, a 60-day Agency (EPA) for the Seminole Tribe of Department of the Interior, at OIRA_ Federal Register notice (81 FR 9878) Florida Fee-to-Trust Project, City of SUBMISSION@omb.eop.gov (email); or was published announcing this Coconut Creek, Florida, Broward (202) 395–5806 (fax). Please also information collection. Public County, Florida. This notice announces forward a copy of your comments to the comments were solicited for 60 days that the FEIS is now available for public Information Collection Clearance ending April 26, 2016. We did not review. Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 807 receive any public comments in DATES: The Record of Decision on the National Center, 12201 Sunrise Valley response to that notice. We again invite proposed action will be issued on or Drive, Reston, VA 20192 (mail); 703– comments as to: (a) Whether the after 30 days from the date the EPA 648–7195 (fax); or gs-info_collections@ proposed collection of information is publishes its Notice of Availability in usgs.gov (email). Reference necessary for the agency to perform its the Federal Register. Any comments on ‘‘Information Collection 1028–0060, duties, including whether the the FEIS must arrive on or before 30 Mine, Development, and Mineral information is useful; (b) the accuracy of days following the date the EPA Exploration Supplement’’ in all the agency’s estimate of the burden time publishes its notice of availability in the correspondence. to the proposed collection of Federal Register. information; (c) how to enhance the ADDRESSES: You may mail or hand- FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: quality, usefulness, and clarity of the Shonta Osborne at 703–648–7960 deliver written comments to Mr. information to be collected; and (d) how Franklin Keel, Eastern Regional (telephone); sosborne@usgs.gov (email); to minimize the burden on the or by mail at U.S. Geological Survey, Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 545 respondents, including the use of Marriott Drive, Suite 700, Nashville, 985 National Center, 12201 Sunrise automated collection techniques or Valley Drive, Reston, VA 20192. You Tennessee 37214. Please include your other forms of information technology. name, return address, and the caption: may also find information about this Please note that the comments Information Collection Request (ICR) at ‘‘FEIS Comments, Seminole Tribe of submitted in response to this notice are www.reginfo.gov. Florida Fee-to-Trust Project,’’ on the a matter of public record. Before SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: first page of your written comments. including your personal mailing Locations where the FEIS is Available address, phone number, email address, for Review: The FEIS is available for I. Abstract or other personally identifiable review at the Broward County Respondents to this form supply the information in your comment, you USGS with domestic production, Northwest Regional Library located at should be aware that your entire 3151 University Drive, Coral Springs, exploration, and mine development data comment, including your personally for nonfuel mineral commodities. This Florida 33065, and the City of Coconut identifiable information, may be made Creek City Hall located at 4800 W. information will be published as an publicly available at any time. While Annual Report for use by Government Copans Road, Coconut Creek, Florida you can ask us in your comment to 33063. The FEIS is also available online agencies, industry, education programs, withhold your personally identifiable and the general public. at: http://www.seminoleeis.com. information from public view, we FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. II. Data cannot guarantee that it will be done. Chester McGhee, Regional OMB Control Number: 1028–0060. Michael J. Magyar, Environmental Scientist, Bureau of Form Number: USGS Form 9–4000–A. Associate Director, National Minerals Indian Affairs, Eastern Region, 545 Title: Mine, Development, and Information Center. Marriott Drive, Suite 700, Nashville, Mineral Exploration Supplement. [FR Doc. 2016–15301 Filed 6–28–16; 8:45 am] Tennessee 37214; fax (615) 564–6701; Type of Request: Extension without BILLING CODE 4338–11–P telephone (615) 564–6830. change of a currently approved SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: collection. Background: STOF has requested that Affected Public: Business or Other- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR the Secretary of the Interior acquire For-Profit Institutions: U.S. nonfuel approximately 45 acres of Tribal-owned minerals producers and exploration Bureau of Indian Affairs land in Federal trust for STOF in the operations. [167 A2100DD/AAKC001030/ City of Coconut Creek, Florida. The Respondent Obligation: Participation A0A501010.999900] project site is located northeast of the is voluntary. intersection of U.S. Highway 7/US–441 Frequency of Collection: Annually. Final Environmental Impact Statement and Sample Road. The property Estimated Number of Annual for the Proposed Seminole Tribe of surrounds on three sides the existing Responses: 324. Florida Fee-to-Trust Project, City of Seminole Coconut Creek Trust Property, Estimated Time per Response: 45 Coconut Creek, Broward County, currently containing the Coconut Creek minutes. Florida Casino. The Proposed Action consists of Annual Burden Hours: 243 hours. AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, transferring the 45+ acres of property Estimated Reporting and into Federal trust and the subsequent mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES Interior. Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’ ACTION: Notice of availability. development of a hotel/resort and other Burden: There are no ‘‘non-hour cost’’ ancillary uses (Proposed Project). At full burdens associated with this IC. SUMMARY: This notice advises the public build-out, the proposed hotel/resort Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) facility would include approximately (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides that an as lead agency, with the Seminole Tribe 47,000 square-feet (sf) of retail space, agency may not conduct or sponsor a of Florida (STOF), City of Coconut 54,000 sf of dining, a 2,500 seat collection of information unless it Creek (City), and Broward County showroom, and a 1,000-room hotel. The VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:18 Jun 28, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00065 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\29JNN1.SGM 29JNN1

Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 125 / Wednesday, June 29, 2016 / Notices 42373 hotel tower would not exceed 275 feet review, we cannot guarantee that we Order above ground level. Access to the will be able to do so. By virtue of the authority vested in project site would be provided via one Authority: This notice is published the Secretary of the Interior by Section driveway along Sample Road, one pursuant to the Council of Environmental 204 of the Federal Land Policy and driveway along SR–7/US–441, and one Quality Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500 Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. driveway along NW 54th Avenue. through 1508) and the Department of the Interior Regulations (43 CFR part 46), 1714, it is ordered as follows: Alternatives considered in the FEIS Public Land Order No. 7209 (61 FR include Alternative A—Proposed implementing the procedural requirements of the NEPA, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4371, et 38783 (1996)), which withdrew 3.25 Project; Alternative B—Reduced seq.), and is in the exercise of authority acres of public land at Cape Johnson, Intensity Alternative; and Alternative C delegated to the Assistant Secretary—Indian Washington, from settlement, sale, —No Action by Federal Government. Affairs by 209 DM 8. location, or entry under the general land Environmental issues addressed in the laws, including the United States Dated: June 22, 2016. FEIS include geology and soils, water mining laws and leasing under the Lawrence S. Roberts, resources, air quality, biological mineral leasing laws, is hereby extended resources, cultural and paleontological Acting Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs. [FR Doc. 2016–15429 Filed 6–28–16; 8:45 am] for an additional 20-year period. The resources, socioeconomic conditions withdrawal extended by this order will (including environmental justice), BILLING CODE 4337–15–P expire on July 24, 2036, unless, as a transportation and circulation, land use, result of a review conducted prior to the public services, noise, hazardous expiration date pursuant to Section materials, aesthetics, cumulative effects, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 204(f) of the Federal Land Policy and and indirect and growth inducing Bureau of Land Management Management Act of 1976 43 U.S.C. effects. 1714, the Secretary determines that the The BIA serves as the Lead Agency for [LLOR936000.L14400000.ET0000. 16XL1109AF; HAG 15–0118; WAOR–50699] withdrawal shall be further extended. compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The Dated: June 20, 2016. Public Land Order No. 7853; Extension Janice M. Schneider, BIA held a public scoping meeting for of Public Land Order No. 7209, Cape the project on September 15, 2010, at Assistant Secretary—Land and Minerals Johnson; Washington Management. the Coral Springs High School Auditorium, in Coral Springs, Florida. A AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, [FR Doc. 2016–15382 Filed 6–28–16; 8:45 am] notice of availability for the Draft EIS Interior. BILLING CODE 3410–15–P was published in the Federal Register ACTION: Public land order. on August 31, 2012 (77 FR 53225), and announced a 45-day review period SUMMARY: This order extends the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ending on October 15, 2012. A public duration of the withdrawal created by hearing on the Draft EIS was held on Public Land Order No. 7209 for an Bureau of Land Management October 9, 2012, in the City of Coconut additional 20-year period, which would Creek. otherwise expire on July 24, 2016. This [LLWYD09000.L14400000.EU0000; WYW– To obtain a compact disk copy of the extension is necessary to continue to 171467] protect the fragile, unique, and FEIS, please provide your name and endangered natural and cultural Notice of Intent To Amend the address in writing or by voicemail to resources at Cape Johnson, which is Kemmerer Resource Management Plan Mr. Chester McGhee, Regional located adjacent to the Olympic and Prepare an Environmental Environmental Scientist, Bureau of National Park in Clallam County, Assessment; and Notice of Realty Indian Affairs, Eastern Regional Office. Washington. Action: Classification and Proposed Contact information is listed above in DATES: This Public Land Order is Direct Sale of Public Land in Lincoln the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT effective on July 25, 2016. County, Wyoming section of this notice. Individual paper copies of the FEIS will be provided FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, upon payment of applicable printing Jacob Childers, Land Law Examiner, at Interior. expenses by the requestor for the 503–808–6225, Bureau of Land ACTION: Notice of intent and notice of number of copies requested. Management, Oregon/Washington State realty action. Public Comment Availability: Office, P.O. Box 2965, Portland, Oregon Comments, including names and 97208–2965. Persons who use a SUMMARY: In compliance with sections addresses of respondents, will be telecommunications device for the deaf 203 and 209 of the Federal Land Policy available for public review at the BIA (TDD) may call the Federal Information and Management Act (FLPMA), as mailing address shown in the Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 amended, and the National ADDRESSES section of this notice, during to reach the above contact. The FIRS is Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of regular business hours, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 1969, as amended, the Bureau of Land p.m., Monday through Friday, except to leave a message or question with the Management’s (BLM) Kemmerer Field holidays. Before including your address, above individual. You will receive a Office proposes to amend the May 24, telephone number, email address, or reply during normal business hours. 2010, Kemmerer Resource Management other personal identifying information SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Plan (RMP) and prepare an mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES in your comment, you should be aware purpose for which the withdrawal was environmental assessment (EA), to that your entire comment, including first made requires this extension to identify and allow the direct sale of an your personal identifying information, continue to protect the fragile, unique, isolated parcel of public land totaling may be made publicly available at any and endangered natural and cultural 2.80 acres to the adjacent landowner time. While you can ask us in your resources located at Cape Johnson, (Teichert Brothers, LLC) in Lincoln comment to withhold your personal Washington, at the request of the County, Wyoming, at the appraised fair identifying information from public National Park Service. market value (FMV) of $1,470. VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:18 Jun 28, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00066 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\29JNN1.SGM 29JNN1


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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of availability.
DatesThe Record of Decision on the proposed action will be issued on or after 30 days from the date the EPA publishes its Notice of Availability in the Federal Register. Any comments on the FEIS must arrive on or before 30 days following the date the EPA publishes its notice of availability in the Federal Register.
ContactMr. Chester McGhee, Regional Environmental Scientist, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Eastern Region, 545 Marriott Drive, Suite 700, Nashville, Tennessee 37214; fax (615) 564- 6701; telephone (615) 564-6830.
FR Citation81 FR 42372 
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