83_FR_394 83 FR 392 - Notice of Temporary Closure on Public Lands for the Annual King of the Hammers Race, San Bernardino County, CA

83 FR 392 - Notice of Temporary Closure on Public Lands for the Annual King of the Hammers Race, San Bernardino County, CA

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 2 (January 3, 2018)

Page Range392-393
FR Document2017-28393

As authorized under the provisions of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, as amended, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is giving notice that certain public lands located near Johnson Valley, California, within the Johnson Valley Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Area, will be temporarily closed to all public use to enhance public safety during Hammerking Productions' annual King of the Hammers desert race authorized under a Special Recreation Permit (SRP). This action is in effect for King of the Hammers, which takes place annually, during a 9-day period.

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 2 (Wednesday, January 3, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 3, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 392-393]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-28393]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[LLCAD08000.18XL1109AF. L12200000.EA0000.LXSSB0280000]


Notice of Temporary Closure on Public Lands for the Annual King 
of the Hammers Race, San Bernardino County, CA

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of temporary closure.

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SUMMARY: As authorized under the provisions of the Federal Land Policy 
and Management Act of 1976, as amended, the Bureau of Land Management 
(BLM) is giving notice that certain public lands located near Johnson 
Valley, California, within the Johnson Valley Off-Highway Vehicle 
Recreation Area, will be temporarily closed to all public use to 
enhance public safety during Hammerking Productions' annual King of the 
Hammers desert race authorized under a Special Recreation Permit (SRP). 
This action is in effect for King of the Hammers, which takes place 
annually, during a 9-day period.

DATES: This Notice is effective from February 2, 2018, through February 
10, 2018. The Hammerking Productions SRP for this event is valid until 
February 22, 2022.

ADDRESSES: The BLM will post the temporary closure notice and a map of 
the temporary closure area on the BLM website at: https://www.blm.gov/california; and at the following BLM offices: California Desert 
District Office, 22835 Calle San Juan De Los Lagos, Moreno Valley, CA 
92553; and Barstow Field Office, 2601 Barstow Road, Barstow, CA 92311. 
Notice of the 9-day temporary closure period for subsequent races will 
be published in annual news releases and posted on the BLM website at 
least 30-days in advance of the event.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Beth Ransel, District Manager, 
California Desert District, telephone: 951-697-5200, email: 
[email protected]; or Katrina Symons, Barstow Field Manager, telephone: 
760-252-6004, email: [email protected]. Persons who use a 
telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay 
Service at 1-800-877-8339 to contact the above individuals during 
normal business hours. The Service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days 
a week, to leave a message or question with the above individuals. You 
will receive a reply during normal hours.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The dates for King of the Hammers, the dates 
of the temporary closure, and a map of the closure area will be posted 
at the California Desert District Office, the Barstow Field Office, and 
on the BLM website at the addresses provided above every year at least 
30 days prior to the event. The dates are also available upon request.
    This temporary closure applies to all public use, including 
pedestrian use and vehicles. The BLM will also post the temporary 
closure notice and map of the temporary closure area at the main entry 
points into the Johnson Valley Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Area. The 
annual temporary closure will comply with the management plan for the 
area, ensuring that when the annual temporary closure period includes a 
Saturday or Sunday, a minimum of three staging areas within the Johnson 
Valley Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Area will remain open to the 
public on those weekend days.
    Exclusive Use: The area will be for exclusive use of King of the 
Hammers participants, registered spectators for the King of the 
Hammers, and other authorized users with an authorized SRP valid for 
activities within the temporary closure area. For the temporary closure 
area, anyone without a SRP authorizing use within the temporary closure 
area during the temporary closure period is prohibited from using the 
area.
    Exceptions: Temporary closure restrictions do not apply to medical 
and rescue personnel in the performance of their official duties; 
official United

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States military and Federal, State, and local law enforcement; Federal, 
State and local officers and employees in the performance of their 
official duties; King of the Hammers event officials and race 
participants; vendors with a valid BLM SRP; and registered event 
spectators.
    Enforcement: Any person who violates the temporary closure order 
may be tried before a United States Magistrate and fined in accordance 
with 18 U.S.C. 3571, imprisoned no more than 12 months under 43 U.S.C. 
1733(a) and 43 CFR 8360.0-7, or both. In accordance with 43 CFR 8365.1-
7, State or local officials may also impose penalties for violations of 
California law.

    Authority: 43 CFR 8360.0-7 and 8364.1

Beth Ransel,
California Desert District Manager.
[FR Doc. 2017-28393 Filed 1-2-18; 8:45 am]
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392 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 2 / Wednesday, January 3, 2018 / Notices Applicant’s Proposal identifying information—may be made california; and at the following BLM Lavaca Pipeline Company has publicly available at any time. While offices: California Desert District Office, requested to purchase a 30-foot-wide you may request in your comment that 22835 Calle San Juan De Los Lagos, pipeline easement across a 203-foot-long we withhold your personal identifying Moreno Valley, CA 92553; and Barstow section of the San Bernard National information from public review, we Field Office, 2601 Barstow Road, Wildlife Refuge NWR in Brazoria cannot guarantee that we will be able to Barstow, CA 92311. Notice of the 9-day County, Texas. The (ROW) permit do so. We will not consider anonymous temporary closure period for subsequent would enable the applicant to install, comments. All submissions from races will be published in annual news own, and operate a 16-inch-diameter organizations or businesses, and from releases and posted on the BLM website steel pipeline to transport ethane gas. individuals identifying themselves as at least 30-days in advance of the event. The requested ROW overlies an existing representatives or officials of FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Beth ROW easement, and the pipeline would organizations or businesses, will be Ransel, District Manager, California be laid parallel to an already existing made available for public disclosure in Desert District, telephone: 951–697– pipeline. The applicant’s pipeline their entirety. 5200, email: bransel@blm.gov; or would be installed by means of a Authority Katrina Symons, Barstow Field conventional bore technique under Manager, telephone: 760–252–6004, refuge land; therefore, the process We provide this notice under the email: ksymons@blm.gov. Persons who would not require trenching on refuge Migratory Bird Conservation Act (16 use a telecommunications device for the lands. No additional easement U.S.C. 715d). deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay boundaries beyond the existing ROW Dated: November 6, 2017. Service at 1–800–877–8339 to contact are required. The bore holes will be Lueders, the above individuals during normal located 300 feet outside the refuge Regional Director, Southwest Region, U.S. business hours. The Service is available property line on adjacent private lands. Fish and Wildlife Service. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave Background [FR Doc. 2017–28385 Filed 1–2–18; 8:45 am] a message or question with the above BILLING CODE 4333–15–P individuals. You will receive a reply Lavaca Pipeline Company is during normal hours. constructing a 16-inch-diameter SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The dates pipeline for the transportation of ethane DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR for King of the Hammers, the dates of through Galveston, Brazoria, Matagorda, the temporary closure, and a map of the and Wharton Counties in Southeast Bureau of Land Management closure area will be posted at the Texas. Lavaca Pipeline is making efforts [LLCAD08000.18XL1109AF. California Desert District Office, the to co-locate the pipeline within existing L12200000.EA0000.LXSSB0280000] Barstow Field Office, and on the BLM pipeline ROW corridors. Lavaca website at the addresses provided above Pipeline has requested to cross the San Notice of Temporary Closure on Public every year at least 30 days prior to the Bernard NWR along an existing ROW. Lands for the Annual King of the event. The dates are also available upon Although a new ROW is being Hammers Race, San Bernardino request. requested, an existing ROW and County, CA This temporary closure applies to all pipeline are already in place. The public use, including pedestrian use existing pipeline ROW is not an AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, and vehicles. The BLM will also post exclusive easement; therefore, Interior. the temporary closure notice and map of additional ROWs and pipelines can be ACTION: Notice of temporary closure. the temporary closure area at the main installed within the same cleared entry points into the Johnson Valley Off- corridor. The requested permit would SUMMARY: As authorized under the Highway Vehicle Recreation Area. The allow for the pipeline to cross a narrow provisions of the Federal Land Policy (203-foot-wide) strip of refuge that annual temporary closure will comply and Management Act of 1976, as connects two larger parcels and is with the management plan for the area, amended, the Bureau of Land commonly referred to as the Sulfur ensuring that when the annual Management (BLM) is giving notice that Ditch. temporary closure period includes a certain public lands located near Saturday or Sunday, a minimum of Compatibility Determination Johnson Valley, California, within the three staging areas within the Johnson Johnson Valley Off-Highway Vehicle In our compatibility determination, Valley Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Recreation Area, will be temporarily which was approved on July 26, 2017, Area will remain open to the public on closed to all public use to enhance we determined that placing the pipeline those weekend days. public safety during Hammerking Exclusive Use: The area will be for across this narrow (203-foot-wide) strip Productions’ annual King of the would minimize the impact to other exclusive use of King of the Hammers Hammers desert race authorized under participants, registered spectators for refuge lands. Several options were a Special Recreation Permit (SRP). This evaluated, but it was determined that the King of the Hammers, and other action is in effect for King of the authorized users with an authorized they would have resulted in greater Hammers, which takes place annually, impact than this proposal. SRP valid for activities within the during a 9-day period. temporary closure area. For the Public Availability of Comments DATES: This Notice is effective from temporary closure area, anyone without Written comments we receive become February 2, 2018, through February 10, sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES a SRP authorizing use within the part of the public record associated with 2018. The Hammerking Productions temporary closure area during the this action. Before including your SRP for this event is valid until temporary closure period is prohibited address, phone number, email address, February 22, 2022. from using the area. or other personal identifying ADDRESSES: The BLM will post the Exceptions: Temporary closure information in your comment, you temporary closure notice and a map of restrictions do not apply to medical and should be aware that your entire the temporary closure area on the BLM rescue personnel in the performance of comment—including your personal website at: https://www.blm.gov/ their official duties; official United VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:13 Jan 02, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00051 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\03JAN1.SGM 03JAN1

Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 2 / Wednesday, January 3, 2018 / Notices 393 States military and Federal, State, and disabled individual who needs 10.25 million tons of low-sulfur local law enforcement; Federal, State reasonable accommodation to attend the subbituminous coal. If DEQ approves and local officers and employees in the public meeting, please contact the the permit and a Federal mining plan performance of their official duties; person listed under FOR FURTHER for the Project is approved as proposed, King of the Hammers event officials and INFORMATION CONTACT after we publish at the current rate of production, the race participants; vendors with a valid the notice of the specific meeting operational life of the Rosebud Mine BLM SRP; and registered event location and date. would be extended by 8 years. Mining spectators. ADDRESSES: The Draft EIS is available operations in the project area, which Enforcement: Any person who for review at: https:// would commence after all permits and violates the temporary closure order www.wrcc.osmre.gov/initiatives/ approvals have been secured and a may be tried before a United States westernEnergy/documentLibrary.shtm. reclamation and performance bond has Magistrate and fined in accordance with Paper and computer compact disk (CD) been posted, would last 19 years. 18 U.S.C. 3571, imprisoned no more copies of the Draft EIS are available for Western Energy estimates that 70.8 than 12 months under 43 U.S.C. 1733(a) review at the OSMRE Western Region million tons of recoverable coal reserves and 43 CFR 8360.0–7, or both. In Office, 1999 Broadway Street, Suite exist in the project area and would be accordance with 43 CFR 8365.1–7, State 3320, Denver, Colorado 80202. In removed during the 19-year operations or local officials may also impose addition, a paper and CD copy of the period. As with other permit areas of the penalties for violations of California Draft EIS is available for review at each Rosebud Mine, all coal would be law. of the following locations: combusted locally at the Colstrip and Authority: 43 CFR 8360.0–7 and 8364.1 Rosebud Power Plants. Rosebud County Library, 201 North Western Energy is required to obtain Beth Ransel, 9th Avenue, Forsyth, MT 59327. a surface coal mine operating permit Between the hours of 11:00 a.m. (pursuant to the Montana Strip and California Desert District Manager. and 7:00 p.m. Monday through Underground Mine Reclamation Act [FR Doc. 2017–28393 Filed 1–2–18; 8:45 am] Thursday; 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (MSUMRA), Section 82–4–221 et seq., BILLING CODE 4310–40–P Friday; 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Montana Code Annotated) and approval Saturday (Closed Sunday) of a Federal surface mining plan (30 Montana DEQ Headquarters (Lee CFR 746) for proposed permit Area F. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Metcalf Building), 1520 East 6th OSMRE’s purpose for the Project is to Office of Surface Mining Reclamation Avenue, Helena, MT 59620. review and make a recommendation to and Enforcement Between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and the Assistant Secretary for Land and 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday Minerals Management (ASLM) in the [S1D1S SS08011000 SX064A000 (Closed Saturday and Sunday) 189S180110; S2D2S SS08011000 form of a Mining Plan Decision BLM Miles City Field Office, 111 Document to approve, disapprove, or SX064A000 18XS501520] Garryowen Road, Miles City, MT approve with conditions, the proposed 59301. Between the hours of 7:45 Federal surface mining plan for the Notice of Availability of the Western a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Project. The ASLM will decide whether Energy Company’s Rosebud Mine Area Friday (Closed Saturday and the mining plan is approved, F Draft Environmental Impact Sunday) disapproved, or approved with Statement BLM State Office, Billings, MT, 5001 conditions. AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining Southgate Drive, Billings, MT DEQ’s purpose for the Project is to Reclamation and Enforcement, U.S. 59101. Between the hours of 8:00 review and make a decision on Western Department of the Interior. a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Monday through Energy’s surface mine operating permit ACTION: Notice of availability. Friday (Closed Saturday and application under MSUMRA and to Sunday) review and make decisions on the SUMMARY: In accordance with the following related permits: (1) An FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: National Environmental Policy Act application for a new Montana Pollutant Logan Sholar, OSMRE Project (NEPA) of 1969, as amended, the Office Discharge Elimination System (MPDES) Coordinator; Telephone: 303–293–5036; of Surface Mining Reclamation and permit, and (2) an application to modify Address: 1999 Broadway Street, Suite Enforcement (OSMRE) has prepared a Montana Air Quality Permit #1570*07 3320, Denver, Colorado 80202–3050; Draft Environmental Impact Statement to include the project area. The Bureau email: lsholar@osmre.gov. (EIS) for the Western Energy Company’s of Land Management (BLM) is a Rosebud Mine Area F (Project) in SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Project Purpose cooperating agency on the Draft EIS. southeastern Montana and by this notice The Draft EIS evaluates the direct, II. Background on the Rosebud Mine is announcing the opening of the III. Background on the Project indirect, and cumulative effects of the comment period. The Montana IV. Alternative Proposed Action and alternatives on the Department of Environmental Quality environment. (DEQ) is a co-lead on this EIS process. I. Project Purpose OSMRE is complying with Section DATES: To ensure comments will be The purpose of the Project is to 106 of the National Historic considered, OSMRE will accept consider continued operations at the Preservation Act (NHPA Section 106)(16 electronic or written comments on or Rosebud Mine by permitting and U.S.C. 470f), as provided in 36 CFR before 45 days from the date that the developing a new surface mine permit 800.2(d)(3), concurrently with the NEPA sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES U.S. Environmental Protection Agency area, known as permit Area F. Western process, including public involvement publishes the Notice of Availability for Energy submitted a permit application requirements and consultation with the the Draft EIS in the Federal Register. to DEQ for the proposed 6,746-acre State Historic Preservation Officer and OSMRE will publish in the Federal permit Area F (also referred to as the Historic Preservation Officers with Register and/or local newspapers the project area) at the Rosebud Mine, Tribal nations. Native American Tribal date, time, and location of the public which is an existing 25,455-acre surface consultations are ongoing and have been meeting on the Draft EIS. If you are a coal mine annually producing 8.0 to conducted in accordance with VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:13 Jan 02, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00052 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\03JAN1.SGM 03JAN1


Document Created: 2018-10-26 09:28:58
Document Modified: 2018-10-26 09:28:58
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 temporary closure.
DatesThis Notice is effective from February 2, 2018, through February 10, 2018. The Hammerking Productions SRP for this event is valid until February 22, 2022.
ContactBeth Ransel, District Manager, California Desert District, telephone: 951-697-5200, email: [email protected]; or Katrina Symons, Barstow Field Manager, telephone: 760-252-6004, email: [email protected] Persons who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339 to contact the above individuals during normal business hours. The Service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a message or question with the above individuals. You will receive a reply during normal hours.
FR Citation83 FR 392 
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