81_FR_62705 81 FR 62530 - Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision for the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Vegetation Treatments Using Herbicides on Bureau of Land Management Lands in 17 Western States

81 FR 62530 - Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision for the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Vegetation Treatments Using Herbicides on Bureau of Land Management Lands in 17 Western States

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 175 (September 9, 2016)

Page Range62530-62531
FR Document2016-21446

Pursuant to Section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) hereby gives notice that the Record of Decision is available for the Final National Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (Final EIS) on vegetation treatments involving the use of aminopyralid, fluroxypyr, and rimsulfuron herbicides on public lands administered by the BLM in 17 western states, including Alaska.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 175 (Friday, September 9, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 175 (Friday, September 9, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62530-62531]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-21446]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[WO-220-16-1020-JA-VEIS]


Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision for the Final 
Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Vegetation Treatments 
Using Herbicides on Bureau of Land Management Lands in 17 Western 
States

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) hereby 
gives notice that the Record of Decision is available for the Final 
National Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (Final EIS) on 
vegetation treatments involving the use of aminopyralid, fluroxypyr, 
and rimsulfuron herbicides on public lands administered by the BLM in 
17 western states, including Alaska.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the Record of Decision are available in hard copy 
or CD upon request at the BLM Washington Office, 20 M Street SE., Room 
2134, Washington, DC 20003, or at BLM State, District, and Field Office 
public rooms, or you can review or download the document from the BLM 
public Web site: http://blm.gov/3vkd.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gina Ramos, Senior Weeds Specialist, 
telephone 202-912-7226 or Kim Anderson, Project Manager, telephone 206-
438-2337. 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 individuals during normal business hours. 
The FIRS is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to leave a 
message or question with the above individuals. You will receive a 
reply during normal business hours.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Final EIS provides a comprehensive 
analysis of BLM's use of chemical herbicides in its various vegetation 
treatment programs related to hazardous fuels reduction, noxious weeds, 
invasive terrestrial and aquatic plant species

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management, resource rehabilitation following catastrophic fires, and 
other disturbances. The BLM served as the lead Federal agency for the 
preparation of the Final EIS. Alternative B in the Final EIS identifies 
three herbicides selected for use: Aminopyralid, fluroxypyr, and 
rimsulfuron. The Record of Decision identifies best management 
practices, standard operating procedures, and mitigation measures for 
all vegetation treatment projects involving the use of aminopyralid, 
fluroxypyr, and rimsulfuron.
    The Final EIS addresses human health and ecological risk for the 
use of chemical herbicides on public lands and provides a cumulative 
impact analysis of the use of chemical herbicides in conjunction with 
other treatment methods.
    The decision area includes surface estate public lands administered 
by 11 BLM State offices: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, 
Montana (North Dakota/South Dakota), New Mexico (Oklahoma/Texas/
Nebraska), Nevada, Oregon (Washington), Utah, and Wyoming.
    The BLM issued a Notice of Availability of the Draft Programmatic 
Environmental Impact Statement Using Aminopyralid, Fluroxypyr, and 
Rimsulfuron (Draft EIS) on June 19, 2015 (80 FR 35394).
    The BLM responded to 98 individual public comments during the Draft 
EIS public review period.
    Comment responses and subsequent changes to the impact analysis are 
documented in the Final EIS. In addition, the FEIS contains Subsistence 
analysis required under Section 801(a) of the Alaska National Interest 
Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA).

    Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1606.10.

Kit Muller,
Acting Assistant Director, Resources and Planning, Bureau of Land 
Management.
[FR Doc. 2016-21446 Filed 9-8-16; 8:45 am]
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Bryant, Tabernacle, the Alabama (=inflated) heelsplitter Bureau of Land Management NJ (Potamilus inflatus) and southern clubshell (Pleurobema decisum) for [WO–220–16–1020–JA–VEIS] The applicant requests a permit to presence/absence surveys in Alabama, take (enter hibernacula and maternity and continue those same activities with Notice of Availability of the Record of roost caves, capture with mist nets and the following freshwater mussels in Decision for the Final Programmatic harp traps, salvage, handle, measure, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Mississippi: Environmental Impact Statement for take hair samples, swab, wing-punch, Pink mucket (Lampsilis abrupta), fat Vegetation Treatments Using band, and radio-tag) Indiana bats pocketbook (Potamilus capax), turgid- Herbicides on Bureau of Land (Myotis sodalis) and northern long-eared blossom (Epioblasma turgidula), ring- Management Lands in 17 Western bats (Myotis septentrionalis) in pink (Obovaria retusa), and orange- States Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, footed (Plethobasus cooperianus). AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Interior. Permit Application Number: TE Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, ACTION: Notice. 183402–1 Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Applicant: U.S. Army, Fort Jackson, SC SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(C) Oklahoma, South Carolina, South of the National Environmental Policy Dakota, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and The applicant requests renewal of Act of 1969 (NEPA), the Bureau of Land Wyoming for presence/absence surveys their permit to continue to collect seeds Management (BLM) hereby gives notice and white-nose syndrome surveillance. 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AR rimsulfuron herbicides on public lands Permit Application Number: TE administered by the BLM in 17 western The applicant requests a permit to 087194–4 states, including Alaska. take (enter hibernacula and maternity ADDRESSES: Copies of the Record of roost caves, capture with mist nets and Applicant: Goethe State Forest, Decision are available in hard copy or harp traps, handle, measure, salvage, Dunellon, FL CD upon request at the BLM collect hair samples, swab, wing-punch, The applicant requests renewal of Washington Office, 20 M Street SE., band, and radio-tag) gray bats (Myotis their permit to continue to take Room 2134, Washington, DC 20003, or grisescens), Indiana bats (Myotis (construct and monitor artificial nest at BLM State, District, and Field Office sodalis), northern long-eared bats cavities and restrictors, capture, band, public rooms, or you can review or (Myotis septentrionalis), and Ozark big- translocate) red-cockaded woodpeckers download the document from the BLM eared bats (Corynorhinus (=Plecotus) (Picoides borealis) in Goethe State public Web site: http://blm.gov/3vkd. townsendii ingens) throughout the Forest and other State forest lands in FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gina species’ ranges for presence/absence Florida for population management and Ramos, Senior Weeds Specialist, surveys and white-nose syndrome monitoring purposes. telephone 202–912–7226 or Kim surveillance. Anderson, Project Manager, telephone Permit Application Number: TE 206–438–2337. Persons who use a Permit Application Number: TE 812344–6 telecommunications device for the deaf 130300–5 (TDD) may call the Federal Information Applicant: Pennington and Associates, Applicant: Paul D. Johnson, Alabama Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 Inc., Cookeville, TN Aquatic Biodiversity Center, Marion, to contact the above individuals during AL The applicant requests renewal of normal business hours. The FIRS is their permit to continue to take (capture, available 24 hours a day, seven days a The applicant requests renewal of his identify, release) the Nashville crayfish week, to leave a message or question permit to continue to take (collect, (Orconectes shoupi), Anthony’s with the above individuals. 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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 175 / Friday, September 9, 2016 / Notices 62531 management, resource rehabilitation DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 4350 Cliffs Drive, Pocatello, ID 83204, following catastrophic fires, and other telephone 208–236–7503, fax 208–478– disturbances. The BLM served as the Bureau of Land Management 6376. Persons who use a lead Federal agency for the preparation [15XL LLIDI02000 L71220000.EO0000– telecommunications device for the deaf of the Final EIS. Alternative B in the LVTFDX508400 241A 4500080287] (TDD) may call the Federal Information Final EIS identifies three herbicides Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 selected for use: Aminopyralid, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE to contact the above individual. The fluroxypyr, and rimsulfuron. The FIRS is available 24 hours a day, 7 days Record of Decision identifies best Forest Service a week, to leave a message or question management practices, standard with the above individual. You will Notice of Availability of Final receive a reply during normal business operating procedures, and mitigation Environmental Impact Statement for hours. measures for all vegetation treatment the Proposed Rasmussen Valley projects involving the use of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Nu-West Phosphate Mine, Caribou County, Industries, Inc., doing business as aminopyralid, fluroxypyr, and Idaho rimsulfuron. Agrium Conda Phosphate Operations AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, (Agrium), has submitted a mine and The Final EIS addresses human health reclamation plan for the Rasmussen Interior, United States Forest Service, and ecological risk for the use of Valley Mine to exercise their contractual Agriculture. chemical herbicides on public lands and rights to recover phosphate ore reserves provides a cumulative impact analysis ACTION: Notice of availability. contained within Federal Phosphate of the use of chemical herbicides in SUMMARY: In accordance with the Lease I–05975 (the Lease). The mine conjunction with other treatment National Environmental Policy Act of would be located in Caribou County methods. 1969, as amended (NEPA), the Bureau of approximately 18 miles northeast of The decision area includes surface Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Soda Springs, Idaho, on the estate public lands administered by 11 Department of Agriculture, Forest southwestern flank of Rasmussen Ridge BLM State offices: Alaska, Arizona, Service (USFS), Caribou-Targhee and adjacent to Rasmussen Valley near California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana National Forest (CTNF), have prepared the headwaters of the Blackfoot River. (North Dakota/South Dakota), New a Final Environmental Impact Statement Agrium proposes to develop the (EIS) for the proposed Rasmussen Valley Rasmussen Valley Mine within the Mexico (Oklahoma/Texas/Nebraska), Phosphate Mine, and by this Notice are Lease on a combination of BLM- Nevada, Oregon (Washington), Utah, announcing the opening of the review managed lands managed by the and Wyoming. and availability of the document. A Pocatello Field Office, National Forest The BLM issued a Notice of Draft USFS Record of Decision (ROD) is System (NFS) lands administered by the Availability of the Draft Programmatic also available for review and objection Soda Springs Ranger District, the Environmental Impact Statement Using as described in the Summary section. Blackfoot River Wildlife Management Aminopyralid, Fluroxypyr, and DATES: The BLM and USFS will issue Area (WMA) administered by the Idaho Rimsulfuron (Draft EIS) on June 19, coordinated RODs for this project. The Department of Fish and Game (IDFG), 2015 (80 FR 35394). Final EIS is now available for public and on split estate lands (private land The BLM responded to 98 individual review, as is the Draft USFS ROD. The with Federal minerals). The Lease grants public comments during the Draft EIS BLM ROD will be released and the lessee, Agrium, exclusive rights to announced separately, no sooner than mine and otherwise dispose of the public review period. the end of the Final EIS availability federally-owned phosphate deposit. The Comment responses and subsequent proposed Rasmussen Valley Mine changes to the impact analysis are period on October 11, 2016. A legal notice published in the newspaper of would also include some development documented in the Final EIS. In outside the Lease on private lands, NFS record of the Final USFS ROD will be addition, the FEIS contains Subsistence lands, WMA lands, and on State lands released no sooner than five business analysis required under Section 801(a) administered by the Idaho Department days following the end of the 45 day of the Alaska National Interest Lands objection period after the Draft USFS of Lands (IDL). Agrium has also Conservation Act (ANILCA). ROD has been announced and made requested lease modifications in three Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1606.10. available. locations to accommodate recovering phosphate outside the existing Lease Kit Muller, ADDRESSES: CD–ROM and print copies area, or to accommodate disposal of Acting Assistant Director, Resources and of the Rasmussen Valley Mine Final EIS mine waste on NFS lands. Planning, Bureau of Land Management. and the Draft USFS ROD are available The BLM, as the Federal Lease [FR Doc. 2016–21446 Filed 9–8–16; 8:45 am] in the BLM Pocatello Field Office at the administrator, is the lead agency for the following address: 4350 Cliffs Drive, Final EIS. The USFS is the joint-lead BILLING CODE 4310–84–P Pocatello, ID 83204. In addition, an agency, and the Idaho Department of electronic copy of the Final EIS is Environmental Quality and the U.S. available online at BLM Planning and Army Corps of Engineers are NEPA Register: http://on.doi.gov/ cooperating agencies. The IDL, IDFG, asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES 1GpGxyW and an electronic copy of the Idaho Department of Water Resources, Final EIS and the Draft USFS ROD are and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have available online at CTNF Current and also participated in the preparation of Recent Projects: http://www.fs.usda.gov/ the Final EIS. The Final EIS provides projects/ctnf/landmanagement/projects. the analysis upon which the BLM, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: USFS, and other involved agencies will William (Bill) Volk, Bureau of Land base their decisions regarding the Management, Pocatello Field Office, proposed Rasmussen Valley Mine. VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:11 Sep 08, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00062 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\09SEN1.SGM 09SEN1


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ActionNotice.
ContactGina Ramos, Senior Weeds Specialist, telephone 202-912-7226 or Kim Anderson, Project Manager, telephone 206- 438-2337. 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 individuals during normal business hours. The FIRS is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to leave a message or question with the above individuals. You will receive a reply during normal business hours.
FR Citation81 FR 62530 
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