82 FR 45606 - Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Leavitt Reservoir Expansion Project, Big Horn County, Wyoming
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 188 (September 29, 2017)
Bureau of Land Management
Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 188 (September 29, 2017)
| Page Range | 45606-45607 | |
| FR Document | 2017-21140 |
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 188 (Friday, September 29, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 45606-45607] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-21140] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Land Management [LLWYR02000 L14400000.ER0000.17X, WYW-166003] Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Leavitt Reservoir Expansion Project, Big Horn County, Wyoming AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior. ACTION: Notice of Intent. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA), and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, as amended (FLPMA), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), through the Cody Field Office, Cody, Wyoming, intends to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed Leavitt Reservoir Expansion Project (Project) in Big Horn County, Wyoming. The BLM is announcing the beginning of the scoping process to solicit public comments and identify issues. DATES: Comments may be submitted in writing until November 13, 2017. In order to be included in the analysis, all comments must be received prior to the close of the 45-day scoping period or 15 days after the last public meeting, whichever is later. The BLM will provide additional opportunities for public participation as appropriate. The dates and locations of any scoping meetings will be announced at least 15 days in advance through the local news media, newspapers, and the BLM ePlanning Web site at: http://bit.ly/Leavitt_Reservoir_EIS_2bcgpgW. ADDRESSES: You may submit written comments by any of the following methods:Email: [email protected]. Fax: 307-578-5939. Mail: NEPA Coordinator, BLM Cody Field Office, 1002 Blackburn Street, Cody, Wyoming 82414. Documents pertinent to this proposal are available for public review at the BLM Cody Field Office and on the BLM ePlanning Web site at: http://bit.ly/Leavitt_Reservoir_EIS_2bcgpgW. [[Page 45607]] FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bradley Johnson, Planning & Environmental Coordinator, telephone: 307-578-5928; address: 1002 Blackburn Street, Cody, Wyoming 82414; email: [email protected]. Persons who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1-800-877-8339 to contact Mr. Johnson during normal business hours. The FRS 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. You may call either of these numbers to have your name added to the project mailing list. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Notice initiates the public scoping process for the EIS. The BLM intends to prepare an EIS to support the decision making for the proposed Project and conduct a public scoping period to seek input on the preliminary issues identified regarding this proposal. The Wyoming Water Development Commission proposes to enlarge the water storage capacity of Leavitt Reservoir to a total capacity of 6,604 acre feet for the purposes of multiple use that include late season irrigation, flood attenuation and recreation. A 1.5-mile sub-surface pipeline from Beaver Creek will divert water to the reservoir inlet via a 42-inch diameter pipeline across private lands. A permanent sub-surface transfer pipeline, approximately three miles long, is proposed downstream in the Beaver Creek drainage to efficiently convey reservoir release water to irrigation infrastructure.The proposal area is between the towns of Greybull and Shell, Wyoming, in the Sixth Principal Meridian, Wyoming, T. 54 N., R. 92 W., sec. 13, NW1/4SW1/4 and SW1/4SW1/4; sec. 14, NE1/4SE1/4 and SE1/ 4SE1/4; sec. 23, NE1/4NE1/4 and SE1/4NE1/4; sec. 24, lots 3 and 4, SW1/ 4NW1/4, SE1/4NW1/4, NW1/4SW1/4, NE1/4SW1/4, and SW1/4SE1/4. Preliminary issues include: Potential impacts to wetlands and cultural sites (properties), ground and surface waters, mineral development, wildlife habitat, and the county road right-of-way. The BLM will identify, analyze, and require mitigation, as appropriate, to address the reasonably foreseeable impacts to resources from the approval of this Project. Mitigation may include avoidance, minimization, rectification, reduction or elimination over time, and compensatory mitigation; and may be considered at multiple scales, including the landscape-scale. The BLM seeks resource information and data for public land values (e.g., air quality, cultural and historic resources, fire/fuels, fisheries, forestry, lands and realty, non-energy minerals and geology, oil and gas, paleontology, rangeland management, recreation, soil, water, and wildlife) in the project area. As proposed, approximately 48 percent of the project area would take place on BLM-managed public lands. The proposed dam and nearly the entirety of the expanded reservoir would reside on BLM lands. The proposed pipeline and borrow areas both cross or take place nearly in their entirety on private lands. The purpose of this request is to ensure that the project analysis has sufficient information and data to consider a reasonable range of resource uses, management options, and alternatives for managing public lands. Please submit information to the Cody Field Manager at the address above. The BLM will treat proprietary information submissions marked as ``Confidential'' in accordance with the laws and regulations governing the confidentiality of such information. To provide the public with an opportunity to review the proposal and associated information, as well as any proposed plan amendments, the BLM will host meetings before October 30, 2017. The BLM will notify the public of meetings and any other opportunities for the public to be involved in the process for this proposal at least 15 days prior to the event. Meeting dates, locations and times will be announced by a news release to the media, individual emailings, and postings on the project Web site. The purpose of the public scoping process is to determine relevant issues that will influence the scope of the environmental analysis, including alternatives, and guide the process for developing the EIS. The BLM will use and coordinate the NEPA commenting process to help fulfill the public involvement process under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) (54 U.S.C. 306108), as provided for in 36 CFR 800.2(d)(3). The information about historic and cultural resources in the area potentially affected by the proposal will assist the lead agency in identifying and evaluating impacts to such resources in the context of both NEPA and Section 106 of the NHPA. Native American tribal consultations will be conducted in accordance with policy, and tribal concerns will be given due consideration. Federal, state and local agencies, along with other stakeholders that may be interested or affected by the BLM's decisions on this proposal, are invited to participate in the scoping process and, if eligible, may request or be requested by the BLM to participate as a cooperating agency. 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 may 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 1501.7. Mary Jo Rugwell, BLM Wyoming State Director. [FR Doc. 2017-21140 Filed 9-28-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310-22-P
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information was published on July 26, development, tourism, energy, resource The authority for this action is the
2017 (82 FR 34686). No comments were development and transportation. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
received. This is an annual program whose U.S.C. 3501 et seq).
We are again soliciting comments on primary objective is to create jobs and
foster economic activity within Tribal Elizabeth K. Appel,
the proposed ICR that is described
communities. The DED will administer Director, Office of Regulatory Affairs and
below. We are especially interested in Collaborative Action—Indian Affairs.
public comment addressing the the program within IEED; and studies
and plans as described herein will be [FR Doc. 2017–20932 Filed 9–28–17; 8:45 am]
following issues: (1) Is the collection
necessary to the proper functions of the sole discretionary projects DED will BILLING CODE 4337–15–P
BIA; (2) will this information be consider or fund absent a competitive
processed and used in a timely manner; bidding process. When funding is
available, DED will solicit proposals for DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
(3) is the estimate of burden accurate;
(4) how might the BIA enhance the studies and plans. To receive these
Bureau of Land Management
quality, utility, and clarity of the funds, Tribes may use the contracting
information to be collected; and (5) how mechanism established by Public Law [LLWYR02000 L14400000.ER0000.17X,
might the BIA minimize the burden of 93–638, the Indian Self-Determination WYW–166003]
this collection on the respondents, Act or may obtain adjustments to their
funding from the Office of Self- Notice of Intent To Prepare an
including through the use of Environmental Impact Statement for
information technology. Governance. See 25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.
Interested applicants must submit a the Leavitt Reservoir Expansion
Comments that you submit in Project, Big Horn County, Wyoming
Tribal resolution requesting funding, a
response to this notice are a matter of
statement of work describing the project AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,
public record. Before including your
for which the study is requested or the Interior.
address, phone number, email address,
scope of the plan envisioned, the
or other personal identifying ACTION: Notice of Intent.
identity of the academic institution or
information in your comment, you
other entity the applicant wishes to SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National
should be aware that your entire
retain (if known) and a budget Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as
comment—including your personal indicating the funding amount
identifying information—may be made amended (NEPA), and the Federal Land
requested and how it will be spent. The Policy and Management Act of 1976, as
publicly available at any time. While DED expressly retains the authority to
you can ask us in your comment to amended (FLPMA), the Bureau of Land
reduce or otherwise modify proposed Management (BLM), through the Cody
withhold your personal identifying budgets and funding amounts.
information from public review, we Field Office, Cody, Wyoming, intends to
Applications for funding will be
cannot guarantee that we will be able to prepare an Environmental Impact
juried and evaluated on the basis of a
do so. Statement (EIS) for the proposed Leavitt
proposed project’s potential to generate
Abstract: The Division of Economic Reservoir Expansion Project (Project) in
jobs and economic activity on the
Development (DED), within the Office of Big Horn County, Wyoming. The BLM is
reservation.
Indian Energy and Economic Title of Collection: Native American announcing the beginning of the
Development (IEED), established the Business Development Institute scoping process to solicit public
Native American Business Development (NABDI) Funding Solicitations and comments and identify issues.
Institute (NABDI) to provide technical Reporting. DATES: Comments may be submitted in
assistance funding to federally OMB Control Number: 1076–0178. writing until November 13, 2017. In
recognized American Indian Tribes Form Number: None. order to be included in the analysis, all
seeking to retain universities and Type of Review: Extension without comments must be received prior to the
colleges, private consulting firms, non- change of currently approved collection. close of the 45-day scoping period or 15
academic/non-profit entities, or others Respondents/Affected Public: Indian days after the last public meeting,
to prepare studies of economic Tribes with trust or restricted land. whichever is later. The BLM will
development opportunities or plans. Total Estimated Number of Annual provide additional opportunities for
These studies and plans will empower Respondents: 20 applicants per year; 20 public participation as appropriate. The
American Indian Tribes and Tribal project participants each year, on dates and locations of any scoping
businesses to make informed decisions average. meetings will be announced at least 15
regarding their economic futures. Total Estimated Number of Annual days in advance through the local news
Studies may concern the viability of an Responses: 40. media, newspapers, and the BLM
Estimated Completion Time per ePlanning Web site at: http://bit.ly/
economic development project or
Response: 50 hours per application; 1.5 Leavitt_Reservoir_EIS_2bcgpgW.
business or the practicality of a
hours per progress report.
technology a Tribe may choose to Total Estimated Number of Annual ADDRESSES: You may submit written
pursue. The DED will specifically Burden Hours: 1,030 hours (1,000 for comments by any of the following
exclude from consideration proposals applications and 30 for final reports). methods:
for research and development projects, Respondent’s Obligation: Response is • Email: blm_wy_cody_comments@
requests for funding of salaries for required to obtain a benefit. blm.gov.
• Fax: 307–578–5939.
asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES
Tribal government personnel, funding to Frequency of Collection: Once per
pay legal fees, and requests for funding year for applications and final report. • Mail: NEPA Coordinator, BLM Cody
for the purchase or lease of structures, Total Estimated Annual Nonhour Field Office, 1002 Blackburn Street,
machinery, hardware or other capital Burden Cost: $0. Cody, Wyoming 82414.
items. Plans may encompass future An agency may not conduct or Documents pertinent to this proposal
periods of five years or more and sponsor and a person is not required to are available for public review at the
include one or more economic respond to a collection of information BLM Cody Field Office and on the BLM
development factors including but not unless it displays a currently valid OMB ePlanning Web site at: http://bit.ly/
limited to land and retail use, industrial control number. Leavitt_Reservoir_EIS_2bcgpgW.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The BLM seeks resource information process and, if eligible, may request or
Bradley Johnson, Planning & and data for public land values (e.g., air be requested by the BLM to participate
Environmental Coordinator, telephone: quality, cultural and historic resources, as a cooperating agency.
307–578–5928; address: 1002 Blackburn fire/fuels, fisheries, forestry, lands and Before including your address, phone
Street, Cody, Wyoming 82414; email: realty, non-energy minerals and geology, number, email address or other personal
bbjohnson@blm.gov. Persons who use a oil and gas, paleontology, rangeland identifying information in your
telecommunications device for the deaf management, recreation, soil, water, and comment, you should be aware that
(TDD) may call the Federal Relay wildlife) in the project area. As your entire comment—including your
Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to proposed, approximately 48 percent of personal identifying information—may
contact Mr. Johnson during normal the project area would take place on be made publicly available at any time.
business hours. The FRS is available 24 BLM-managed public lands. The While you may ask us in your comment
hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a proposed dam and nearly the entirety of to withhold your personal identifying
message or question with the above the expanded reservoir would reside on information from public review, we
individual. You will receive a reply BLM lands. The proposed pipeline and cannot guarantee that we will be able to
during normal business hours. You may borrow areas both cross or take place do so.
call either of these numbers to have nearly in their entirety on private lands. Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7.
your name added to the project mailing The purpose of this request is to ensure
that the project analysis has sufficient Mary Jo Rugwell,
list.
information and data to consider a BLM Wyoming State Director.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This reasonable range of resource uses, [FR Doc. 2017–21140 Filed 9–28–17; 8:45 am]
Notice initiates the public scoping management options, and alternatives BILLING CODE 4310–22–P
process for the EIS. The BLM intends to for managing public lands.
prepare an EIS to support the decision Please submit information to the Cody
making for the proposed Project and Field Manager at the address above. The DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
conduct a public scoping period to seek BLM will treat proprietary information
input on the preliminary issues submissions marked as ‘‘Confidential’’ Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
identified regarding this proposal. The in accordance with the laws and [Docket No. BOEM–2017–0059;
Wyoming Water Development regulations governing the MMAA104000]
Commission proposes to enlarge the confidentiality of such information. To
water storage capacity of Leavitt provide the public with an opportunity Record of Decision for the Cape Wind
Reservoir to a total capacity of 6,604 to review the proposal and associated Energy Project
acre feet for the purposes of multiple information, as well as any proposed
plan amendments, the BLM will host AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy
use that include late season irrigation, Management, Interior.
flood attenuation and recreation. A 1.5- meetings before October 30, 2017. The
BLM will notify the public of meetings ACTION: Notice of availability of a
mile sub-surface pipeline from Beaver
and any other opportunities for the Record of Decision.
Creek will divert water to the reservoir
inlet via a 42-inch diameter pipeline public to be involved in the process for SUMMARY: The Bureau of Ocean Energy
across private lands. A permanent sub- this proposal at least 15 days prior to Management (BOEM) is announcing the
surface transfer pipeline, approximately the event. Meeting dates, locations and availability of a Record of Decision
three miles long, is proposed times will be announced by a news (ROD) for the Cape Wind Energy Project
downstream in the Beaver Creek release to the media, individual Final Supplemental Environmental
drainage to efficiently convey reservoir emailings, and postings on the project Impact Statement (SEIS) in this Notice
release water to irrigation Web site. The purpose of the public
of Availability (NOA). The SEIS was
infrastructure.The proposal area is scoping process is to determine relevant
prepared in response to a 2016 remand
between the towns of Greybull and issues that will influence the scope of
order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for
Shell, Wyoming, in the Sixth Principal the environmental analysis, including
the District of Columbia Circuit in
Meridian, Wyoming, T. 54 N., R. 92 W., alternatives, and guide the process for
Public Employees for Environmental
sec. 13, NW1/4SW1/4 and SW1/4SW1/ developing the EIS.
The BLM will use and coordinate the Responsibility v. Hopper, 827 F.3d 1077
4; sec. 14, NE1/4SE1/4 and SE1/4SE1/4; (D.C. Cir. 2016), in which the Court
NEPA commenting process to help
sec. 23, NE1/4NE1/4 and SE1/4NE1/4; vacated the 2009 Cape Wind Energy
fulfill the public involvement process
sec. 24, lots 3 and 4, SW1/4NW1/4, SE1/ Project Final Environmental Impact
under Section 106 of the National
4NW1/4, NW1/4SW1/4, NE1/4SW1/4, Statement (EIS) and ordered BOEM to
Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) (54
and SW1/4SE1/4. U.S.C. 306108), as provided for in 36 supplement the EIS with adequate
Preliminary issues include: Potential CFR 800.2(d)(3). The information about geological surveys before Cape Wind
impacts to wetlands and cultural sites historic and cultural resources in the Associates LLC (Cape Wind) may begin
(properties), ground and surface waters, area potentially affected by the proposal construction. The SEIS presented two
mineral development, wildlife habitat, will assist the lead agency in identifying alternatives: The Proposed Action
and the county road right-of-way. The and evaluating impacts to such (affirming BOEM’s issuance of the
BLM will identify, analyze, and require resources in the context of both NEPA existing lease) and the No Action
Alternative (requiring BOEM to rescind
asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES
mitigation, as appropriate, to address and Section 106 of the NHPA. Native
the reasonably foreseeable impacts to American tribal consultations will be lease issuance). BOEM has decided to
resources from the approval of this conducted in accordance with policy, select the Proposed Action Alternative.
Project. Mitigation may include and tribal concerns will be given due ADDRESSES: The ROD and associated
avoidance, minimization, rectification, consideration. Federal, state and local information are available on BOEM’s
reduction or elimination over time, and agencies, along with other stakeholders Web site at https://www.boem.gov/
compensatory mitigation; and may be that may be interested or affected by the Massachusetts-Cape-Wind/.
considered at multiple scales, including BLM’s decisions on this proposal, are FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
the landscape-scale. invited to participate in the scoping more information on the ROD, you may
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| Dates | Comments may be submitted in writing until November 13, 2017. In order to be included in the analysis, all comments must be received prior to the close of the 45-day scoping period or 15 days after the last public meeting, whichever is later. The BLM will provide additional opportunities for public participation as appropriate. The dates and locations of any scoping meetings will be announced at least 15 days in advance through the local news media, newspapers, and the BLM ePlanning Web site at: http://bit.ly/Leavitt_Reservoir_EIS_2bcgpgW. | |
| Contact | Bradley Johnson, Planning & | |
| FR Citation | 82 FR 45606 |
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