82 FR 27278 - Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the 2015 Integrated Resource Management Plan for the Colville Indian Reservation, Nespelem, Washington
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 113 (June 14, 2017)
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 113 (June 14, 2017)
| Page Range | 27278-27278 | |
| FR Document | 2017-12288 |
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 113 (Wednesday, June 14, 2017)] [Notices] [Page 27278] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-12288] [[Page 27278]] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Indian Affairs [178A2100DD/AAKC001030/A0A501010.999900] Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the 2015 Integrated Resource Management Plan for the Colville Indian Reservation, Nespelem, Washington AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior. ACTION: Notice of availability. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: This notice advises the public that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) as lead agency, with the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (Tribes) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) serving as cooperating agencies, has prepared a Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the 2015 Colville Reservation Integrated Resource Management Plan (IRMP). This notice announces that the DEIS is now available for public review. DATES: Any comments on the DEIS must arrive on or before the date 45 days after the EPA publishes a Notice of Availability of the DEIS in the Federal Register. ADDRESSES: The DEIS is available for public review online at http://www.colvilletribes.com/irmp and in hard copy at the following locations:Omak Public Library, 30 S Ash St., Omak, Washington 98841 Omak Senior Meal Site, 511 E. Benton Street, Omak, Washington 98841 Nespelem Resource Center, 12 Lakes St., Nespelem, Washington 99155 Nespelem Senior Meal site, 322 10th Street, Nespelem, Washington 99155 Keller Resource Center, 11673 S. Hwy 21, Keller, Washington 99140 Keller Senior Meal Site, 7 Jim James Road, Keller, Washington 99140 Inchelium Resource Center, 12 Community Center Loop, Inchelium, Washington 99138 Inchelium Senior Meal Site, 16 Shortcut Road, Inchelium, Washington 99138 You may mail or hand-deliver written comments to Mr. Stanley Speaks, Northwest Regional Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 911 Northeast 11th Avenue Portland, Oregon 97232-4169. You may also mail comments to BIA Colville Agency Superintendent Debra Wulff, P.O. Box 111, Nespelem, Washington 99155-0111 or hand deliver to the Superintendent's office at 10 Nez Perce Street, Nespelem, Washington. You can also submit comments by email to: [email protected]. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Debra Wulff, Superintendent, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Colville Agency, P.O. Box 111, Nespelem, Washington 99155-0111, (509) 634-2316. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Tribes have prepared an IRMP for the natural and cultural resources of the Colville Reservation. The plan updates the original IRMP that was prepared and implemented in 2000. The IRMP incorporates management goals and objectives for the commercial forest, rangeland and agricultural lands of the Reservation. The Tribes' forest products industry, livestock grazing, and agriculture have the potential to impact the natural and human environments of the Reservation. The DEIS analyzes the potential impacts associated with these activities. These include impacts to land resources such as geology, minerals, and soils, watershed function, surface and groundwater resources, air quality, biological resources, cultural and paleontological resources, socioeconomic conditions, transportation and forest access roads, land use, public services, noise, aesthetics, recreation, climate change, cumulative effects, and indirect and growth inducing effects. The DEIS considers five management alternatives developed by the Tribes' IRMP Core Team. The interdisciplinary team developed these management alternatives for consideration and analysis and designated a preferred alternative (Alternative 2) that was approved by the Colville Business Council in June 2014. The team also conducted a community survey in 2014 that asked community members to choose a preferred alternative. All groups were unanimous in selecting Alternative 2 as the preferred alternative. The alternatives are: 1. Continue the Current Management Strategy 2. Enhance and Improve the Current Management Strategy (Preferred Alternative) 3. Concentrate on Forest and Rangeland Health Problems 4. Expand Forest and Livestock Production 5. Eliminate Timber Harvesting and Livestock Grazing A Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare an EIS was released in the Federal Register on November 21, 2014. Public scoping meetings were held in four Reservation communities in October 2015 and a Scoping Meetings Report was released in March 2016. An administrative draft DEIS was prepared and reviewed by the IRMP Core Team and appropriate revisions were incorporated along with supplemental information. Directions for submitting comments: Please include your name, return address, and the caption: ``DEIS Comments, Colville Reservation IRMP,'' on the first page of your written comments. If emailing comments, please use ``DEIS Comments, Colville Reservation IRMP,'' as the subject of your email. Locations where the DEIS is available for review: The DEIS is available for review during regular business hours at the addresses noted above in the ADDRESSES section of this notice. The DEIS is also available online at http://www.colvilletribes.com/irmp. To obtain a compact disc copy of the DEIS, please provide your name and address in writing or by voicemail to Debra Wulff, Bureau of Indian Affairs, at the address or phone number above in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this notice. Individual paper copies of the DEIS 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 during regular business hours at the BIA mailing address shown in the ADDRESSES section of this notice. 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 Sec. 1503.1 of the Council of Environmental Quality Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500 through 1508) and Sec. 46.305 of the Department of the Interior Regulations (43 CFR part 46), implementing the procedural requirements of the NEPA of l969, 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. This notice is also published in accordance with federal general conformity regulations (40 CFR part 93). Dated: May 15, 2017. Michael S. 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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. revisions were incorporated along with
Debra Wulff, Superintendent, Bureau of supplemental information.
Bureau of Indian Affairs Indian Affairs, Colville Agency, P.O. Directions for submitting comments:
[178A2100DD/AAKC001030/ Box 111, Nespelem, Washington 99155– Please include your name, return
A0A501010.999900] 0111, (509) 634–2316. address, and the caption: ‘‘DEIS
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Tribes Comments, Colville Reservation IRMP,’’
Draft Programmatic Environmental have prepared an IRMP for the natural on the first page of your written
Impact Statement for the 2015 and cultural resources of the Colville comments. If emailing comments, please
Integrated Resource Management Plan Reservation. The plan updates the use ‘‘DEIS Comments, Colville
for the Colville Indian Reservation, original IRMP that was prepared and Reservation IRMP,’’ as the subject of
Nespelem, Washington implemented in 2000. The IRMP your email.
AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, incorporates management goals and
Locations where the DEIS is available
Interior. objectives for the commercial forest,
for review: The DEIS is available for
rangeland and agricultural lands of the
ACTION: Notice of availability. review during regular business hours at
Reservation.
the addresses noted above in the
SUMMARY: This notice advises the public The Tribes’ forest products industry,
ADDRESSES section of this notice. The
that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) livestock grazing, and agriculture have
DEIS is also available online at http://
as lead agency, with the Confederated the potential to impact the natural and
www.colvilletribes.com/irmp.
Tribes of the Colville Reservation human environments of the Reservation.
(Tribes) and the United States The DEIS analyzes the potential impacts To obtain a compact disc copy of the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) associated with these activities. These DEIS, please provide your name and
serving as cooperating agencies, has include impacts to land resources such address in writing or by voicemail to
prepared a Draft Programmatic as geology, minerals, and soils, Debra Wulff, Bureau of Indian Affairs, at
Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) watershed function, surface and the address or phone number above in
for the 2015 Colville Reservation groundwater resources, air quality, the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
Integrated Resource Management Plan biological resources, cultural and section of this notice. Individual paper
(IRMP). This notice announces that the paleontological resources, copies of the DEIS will be provided
DEIS is now available for public review. socioeconomic conditions, upon payment of applicable printing
DATES: Any comments on the DEIS must transportation and forest access roads, expenses by the requestor for the
arrive on or before the date 45 days after land use, public services, noise, number of copies requested.
the EPA publishes a Notice of aesthetics, recreation, climate change, Public comment availability:
Availability of the DEIS in the Federal cumulative effects, and indirect and Comments, including names and
Register. growth inducing effects. addresses of respondents, will be
The DEIS considers five management available for public review during
ADDRESSES: The DEIS is available for
alternatives developed by the Tribes’ regular business hours at the BIA
public review online at http://
IRMP Core Team. The interdisciplinary mailing address shown in the
www.colvilletribes.com/irmp and in
team developed these management ADDRESSES section of this notice. Before
hard copy at the following locations:
alternatives for consideration and including your address, telephone
• Omak Public Library, 30 S Ash St., analysis and designated a preferred
Omak, Washington 98841 number, email address, or other
alternative (Alternative 2) that was personal identifying information in your
• Omak Senior Meal Site, 511 E. Benton
approved by the Colville Business comment, you should be aware that
Street, Omak, Washington 98841
• Nespelem Resource Center, 12 Lakes Council in June 2014. The team also your entire comment—including your
St., Nespelem, Washington 99155 conducted a community survey in 2014 personal identifying information—may
• Nespelem Senior Meal site, 322 10th that asked community members to be made publicly available at any time.
Street, Nespelem, Washington 99155 choose a preferred alternative. All While you can ask us in your comment
• Keller Resource Center, 11673 S. Hwy groups were unanimous in selecting to withhold your personal identifying
21, Keller, Washington 99140 Alternative 2 as the preferred information from public review, we
• Keller Senior Meal Site, 7 Jim James alternative. The alternatives are: cannot guarantee that we will be able to
Road, Keller, Washington 99140 1. Continue the Current Management do so.
• Inchelium Resource Center, 12 Strategy
Authority: This notice is published
Community Center Loop, Inchelium, 2. Enhance and Improve the Current
pursuant to Sec. 1503.1 of the Council of
Washington 99138 Management Strategy (Preferred Environmental Quality Regulations (40 CFR
• Inchelium Senior Meal Site, 16 Alternative) parts 1500 through 1508) and Sec. 46.305 of
Shortcut Road, Inchelium, 3. Concentrate on Forest and Rangeland the Department of the Interior Regulations
Washington 99138 Health Problems (43 CFR part 46), implementing the
You may mail or hand-deliver written 4. Expand Forest and Livestock procedural requirements of the NEPA of l969,
comments to Mr. Stanley Speaks, Production as amended (42 U.S.C. 4371, et seq.), and is
Northwest Regional Director, Bureau of 5. Eliminate Timber Harvesting and in the exercise of authority delegated to the
Indian Affairs, 911 Northeast 11th Livestock Grazing Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs by 209
Avenue Portland, Oregon 97232–4169. A Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare an DM 8. This notice is also published in
You may also mail comments to BIA EIS was released in the Federal Register accordance with federal general conformity
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Colville Agency Superintendent Debra on November 21, 2014. Public scoping regulations (40 CFR part 93).
Wulff, P.O. Box 111, Nespelem, meetings were held in four Reservation Dated: May 15, 2017.
Washington 99155–0111 or hand deliver communities in October 2015 and a
Michael S. Black,
to the Superintendent’s office at 10 Nez Scoping Meetings Report was released
Perce Street, Nespelem, Washington. in March 2016. An administrative draft Acting Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs.
You can also submit comments by email DEIS was prepared and reviewed by the [FR Doc. 2017–12288 Filed 6–13–17; 8:45 am]
to: debra.wulff@bia.gov. IRMP Core Team and appropriate BILLING CODE 4337–15–P
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| Dates | Any comments on the DEIS must arrive on or before the date 45 days after the EPA publishes a Notice of Availability of the DEIS in the Federal Register. | |
| Contact | Ms. Debra Wulff, Superintendent, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Colville Agency, P.O. Box 111, Nespelem, Washington 99155-0111, (509) 634-2316. | |
| FR Citation | 82 FR 27278 |
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