81_FR_44455 81 FR 44325 - Notice of Public Meeting: Resource Advisory Council (RAC) to the Boise District, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior

81 FR 44325 - Notice of Public Meeting: Resource Advisory Council (RAC) to the Boise District, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 130 (July 7, 2016)

Page Range44325-44326
FR Document2016-16080

In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Boise District Resource Advisory Council (RAC), will hold a meeting as indicated below.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 130 (Thursday, July 7, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 130 (Thursday, July 7, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44325-44326]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-16080]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

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Notice of Public Meeting: Resource Advisory Council (RAC) to the 
Boise District, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the 
Interior

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act 
(FLPMA) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), the U.S. 
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Boise 
District Resource Advisory Council (RAC), will hold a meeting as 
indicated below.

DATES: The meeting will be held August 3, 2016, at the Boise District 
Office, 3948 Development Avenue, Boise, Idaho

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83705 beginning at 9:00 a.m. and adjourning by 4:00 p.m. Members of the 
public are invited to attend. A public comment period will be held from 
11:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry Ridenhour, Public Affairs 
Specialist and RAC Coordinator, BLM Boise District, 3948 Development 
Ave., Boise, Idaho 83705, telephone (208) 384-3393.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 15-member Council advises the Secretary 
of the Interior, through the BLM, on a variety of planning and 
management issues associated with public land management in 
southwestern Idaho. During the August meeting the Boise District RAC 
will receive updates on Soda Fire emergency stabilization and 
rehabilitation actions, sage-grouse conservation implementation 
efforts, programmatic assessments for herbicide treatments and 
vegetation seeding projects and management actions associated with 
Skinny Dipper Hot Springs. The RAC's subcommittee on the proposed Tri-
State Fuel Breaks Project will report on their meetings to date. Agenda 
items and location may be modified due to changing circumstances. The 
public may present written or oral comments to members of the Council. 
At each full RAC meeting, time is provided in the agenda for hearing 
public comments. Depending on the number of persons wishing to comment 
and time available, the time for individual oral comments may be 
limited. Individuals who plan to attend and need special assistance 
should contact the BLM Coordinator as provided above. Persons who use a 
telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339. The FIRS is 
available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a message or 
questions. You will receive a reply during normal business hours.

    Dated: June 30, 2016.
Lara Douglas,
District Manager.
[FR Doc. 2016-16080 Filed 7-6-16; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 130 / Thursday, July 7, 2016 / Notices 44325 Alternatives EIS process. It is anticipated that the incorporate all mandated environmental Four alternatives, including the No tiered NEPA document in most review requirements, but would not Action Alternative, were analyzed in the instances will be an EA. If there extend beyond them. Easement PEIS and are briefly described below. appeared to be a potential for new exchanges would occur for wind energy More detailed information on the significant environmental impacts, projects as presented by developers based on the project description and site without consideration of best alternatives may be found in the Final location, then a tiered EIS process management practice and other issues to PEIS, which can be accessed from the would be initiated. limit environmental impacts. Web site provided above. Project-specific ESA Section 7 No Action Alternative consultations would utilize the Decision Programmatic BA so long as the The Service has determined that Under the No Action Alternative, the applicable best management practices, Alternative 1, the agency-preferred Service would continue to consider minimization measures, mitigation alternative, best meets the agency’s requests for easement exchanges to measures, and monitoring requirements needs. Alternative 1 is also the accommodate wind energy project established in the Programmatic BA environmentally preferred alternative, requests under the procedures currently were implemented. Project proponents and would afford the greatest protection used to evaluate and address the who could not agree to the requirements for environmental resources that would environmental impacts associated with in the Programmatic BA would be be impacted by future wind energy wind energy projects. Requests would required to conduct a separate ESA be processed, reviewed, and evaluated projects. Therefore, it is the Service’s Section 7 consultation with the Service. decision to implement Alternative 1, on a case-by-case basis, including NHPA section 106 and related tribal separate NEPA, section 7, and section and use the program defined by that consultation would continue unchanged alternative for all applicable future wind 106 reviews performed for each specific from the present practices; since project. energy project affecting Service cultural resources issues are very site easements in the UGP Region. This Alternative 1 (Preferred Alternative)— specific, it was not possible to address decision is based on the information Programmatic Regional Wind Energy them programmatically beyond contained in the Upper Great Plains Development Evaluation Process for including general avoidance and Wind Energy Final PEIS. The ROD was Western and the Service protection measures and committing to prepared pursuant to the requirements the established processes and of the CEQ regulations for implementing The Service has decided to adopt a procedures. The primary objective of Programmatic Regional Wind Energy NEPA at 42 U.S.C. 1505.2 and the Alternative 1 was to collect relevant Department of the Interior’s Development Process to address natural resources information; evaluate requests for Service easement exchanges implementing regulations in part 46 of the typical impacts of wind energy title 43 of the Code of Federal to accommodate wind energy projects and associated facilities on development. Under Alternative 1, the Regulations (43 CFR 46.205, 46.210, and those resources; identify effective best 46.215). Service will adopt a standardized management practices, minimization structured process for collecting measures, and mitigation measures that Matt Hogan, information and evaluating and could reduce impacts; provide Deputy Regional Director, Mountain-Prairie reviewing environmental impacts of information about areas that would be Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. wind energy requests. Best management more sensitive to development impacts [FR Doc. 2016–16078 Filed 7–6–16; 8:45 am] practices and mitigation measures and encourage avoidance of siting BILLING CODE 4333–15–P developed in the PEIS programmatic projects in these areas; and have all this process would be employed to minimize material available to support site- the potential environmental impacts of specific tiered environmental reviews. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR wind energy projects. Project-specific The parallel Programmatic BA would NEPA analyses, either environmental similarly expedite the ESA section 7 Bureau of Land Management assessments (EAs) or streamlined EISs, consultation by having previously [16X LLIDB00100.LF1000000.HT0000. would tier off (eliminate repetitive established minimization measures, LXSS024D0000.241A00] discussions of the same issues) the mitigation measures, and monitoring analyses in the Final PEIS as long as the requirements, by species, that if Notice of Public Meeting: Resource appropriate identified conservation committed to and implemented would Advisory Council (RAC) to the Boise measures were implemented as part of constitute compliance with ESA section District, Bureau of Land Management, proposed projects. In accordance with 7 without a separate consultation. U.S. Department of the Interior 40 CFR 1502.20, these project-specific NEPA documents would summarize the Alternative 2: Programmatic Regional AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, information and issues covered in the Wind Energy Development Evaluation U.S. Department of the Interior. Final PEIS or incorporate relevant Process for Western and No Wind ACTION: Notice of public meeting. discussions by reference. This approach Energy Development Allowed on would allow for more efficient NEPA USFWS Easements SUMMARY: In accordance with the documents that would properly focus Alternative 2 would not allow Federal Land Policy and Management on local or site-specific issues. The easement exchanges to accommodate Act (FLPMA) and the Federal Advisory decision to pursue a tiered EA or EIS Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), the U.S. srobinson on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES wind energy facilities. would be made similar to any other Department of the Interior, Bureau of proposal. If the potential for new Alternative 3: Regional Wind Energy Land Management (BLM) Boise District significant impacts appeared low, then Development Evaluation Process for Resource Advisory Council (RAC), will an EA process could be initiated, with Western and the USFWS, With No hold a meeting as indicated below. the understanding that the identification Programmatic Requirements DATES: The meeting will be held August of any potentially new significant In essence, Alternative 3 is a 3, 2016, at the Boise District Office, impact would require transition to an minimalist approach that would 3948 Development Avenue, Boise, Idaho VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:23 Jul 06, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00068 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\07JYN1.SGM 07JYN1

44326 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 130 / Thursday, July 7, 2016 / Notices 83705 beginning at 9:00 a.m. and ACTION: Notice. San Bernardino Meridian, California adjourning by 4:00 p.m. Members of the T. 3 N., R. 26 E., the dependent public are invited to attend. A public SUMMARY: The plats of survey of lands resurvey of a portion of the east comment period will be held from 11:00 described below are scheduled to be boundary and a portion of the a.m. to 11:15 a.m. officially filed in the Bureau of Land subdivisional lines, the subdivision of FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Management, California State Office, section 13, and the survey of the Larry Ridenhour, Public Affairs Sacramento, California. meanders of the full-pool line of a Specialist and RAC Coordinator, BLM portion of Lake Havasu Reservoir, DATES: August 8, 2016. Boise District, 3948 Development Ave., accepted March 9, 2016. Boise, Idaho 83705, telephone (208) ADDRESSES: A copy of the plats may be T. 3 N., R. 27 E., the dependent 384–3393. obtained from the California State resurvey of a portion of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 15- Office, Bureau of Land Management, subdivisional lines, the subdivision of member Council advises the Secretary 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, section 18, and the survey of the of the Interior, through the BLM, on a California 95825, upon required meanders of the full-pool line of a variety of planning and management payment. portion of Lake Havasu Reservoir, issues associated with public land accepted March 9, 2016. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: management in southwestern Idaho. T. 3 S., R. 2 E., the supplemental plat During the August meeting the Boise Chief, Branch of Geographic Services, showing parcels 1 through 6 of Tract 9 District RAC will receive updates on Bureau of Land Management, California in section 6, accepted March 28, 2016. Soda Fire emergency stabilization and State Office, 2800 Cottage Way W–1623, T. 9 N., R. 23 E., the supplemental rehabilitation actions, sage-grouse Sacramento, California 95825, 1–916– plat showing a corrected distance conservation implementation efforts, 978–4310. Persons who use a measurement on the west boundary of programmatic assessments for herbicide telecommunications device for the deaf Lot 6 in the NW. 1⁄4 of the NE. 1⁄4 of treatments and vegetation seeding (TDD) may call the Federal Information section 31, accepted April 11, 2016. projects and management actions Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 T. 10 N., R. 4 E., the dependent associated with Skinny Dipper Hot to contact the above individual during resurvey of a portion of the Springs. The RAC’s subcommittee on normal business hours. The FIRS is subdivisional lines and a portion of the the proposed Tri-State Fuel Breaks available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, Camp Cady Military Reservation Project will report on their meetings to to leave a message or question with the boundary and the subdivision of section date. Agenda items and location may be above individual. You will receive a 20, accepted June 21, 2016. modified due to changing reply during normal business hours. Authority: 43 U.S.C., chapter 3. circumstances. The public may present SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A person written or oral comments to members of Dated: June 22, 2016. or party who wishes to protest a survey the Council. At each full RAC meeting, Jon L. Kehler, must file a notice that they wish to time is provided in the agenda for (Acting) Chief Cadastral Surveyor, California. protest with the Chief, Branch of hearing public comments. Depending on Geographic Services. A statement of [FR Doc. 2016–16081 Filed 7–6–16; 8:45 am] the number of persons wishing to reasons for a protest may be filed with BILLING CODE 4310–40–P comment and time available, the time the notice of protest and must be filed for individual oral comments may be with the Chief, Branch of Geographic limited. Individuals who plan to attend DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Services within thirty days after the and need special assistance should protest is filed. If a protest against the contact the BLM Coordinator as National Park Service survey is received prior to the date of provided above. Persons who use a official filing, the filing will be stayed [NPS–WASO–NRNHL–21349; telecommunications device for the deaf pending consideration of the protest. A PPWOCRADI0, PCU00RP14.R50000] (TDD) may call the Federal Information plat will not be officially filed until the Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877– National Register of Historic Places; day after all protests have been 8339. The FIRS is available 24 hours a Notification of Pending Nominations dismissed or otherwise resolved. Before day, 7 days a week, to leave a message and Related Actions including your address, phone number, or questions. You will receive a reply email address, or other personal AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. during normal business hours. identifying information in your ACTION: Notice. Dated: June 30, 2016. comment, you should be aware that Lara Douglas, your entire comment—including your SUMMARY: The National Park Service is District Manager. personal identifying information—may soliciting comments on the significance [FR Doc. 2016–16080 Filed 7–6–16; 8:45 am] be made publicly available at any time. of properties nominated before June 18, BILLING CODE 4310–GG–P While you can ask us in your comment 2016, for listing or related actions in the to withhold your personal identifying National Register of Historic Places. information from public review, we DATES: Comments should be submitted DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR cannot guarantee that we will be able to by July 22, 2016. do so. ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent via Bureau of Land Management U.S. Postal Service to the National srobinson on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Mount Diablo Meridian, California Register of Historic Places, National [LLCA942000 L57000000.BX0000 15X T. 33 N., R. 5 W., the dependent Park Service, 1849 C St. NW., MS 2280, L5017AR] resurvey of a portion of the Washington, DC 20240; by all other Filing of Plats of Survey: California subdivisional lines, the subdivision of carriers, National Register of Historic sections 25 and 26, and the metes-and- Places, National Park Service, 1201 Eye AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, bounds survey of Tract 37 and certain St. NW., 8th floor, Washington, DC Interior. lots in section 25, accepted June 6, 2016. 20005; or by fax, 202–371–6447. VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:23 Jul 06, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00069 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\07JYN1.SGM 07JYN1


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CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of public meeting.
DatesThe meeting will be held August 3, 2016, at the Boise District Office, 3948 Development Avenue, Boise, Idaho 83705 beginning at 9:00 a.m. and adjourning by 4:00 p.m. Members of the public are invited to attend. A public comment period will be held from 11:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
ContactLarry Ridenhour, Public Affairs Specialist and RAC Coordinator, BLM Boise District, 3948 Development Ave., Boise, Idaho 83705, telephone (208) 384-3393.
FR Citation81 FR 44325 
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