83_FR_56314 83 FR 56096 - Notice of Availability of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Ho-Chunk Nation Fee-to-Trust and Casino Project, City of Beloit, Rock County, Wisconsin

83 FR 56096 - Notice of Availability of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Ho-Chunk Nation Fee-to-Trust and Casino Project, City of Beloit, Rock County, Wisconsin

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 218 (November 9, 2018)

Page Range56096-56097
FR Document2018-24598

This notice advises the public that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) as lead agency, with the City of Beloit, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Ho-Chunk Nation (Nation), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) serving as cooperating agencies, intends to file a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) with the EPA in connection with the Nation's application for acquisition in trust by the United States of approximately 33 acres for gaming and other purposes to be located in the City of Beloit, Rock County, Wisconsin. This notice also announces that the DEIS is now available for public review and that a public hearing will be held to receive comments on the DEIS.

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 218 (Friday, November 9, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 218 (Friday, November 9, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56096-56097]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-24598]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Indian Affairs

[189A2100DD/AAKC001030/A0A501010.999900]


Notice of Availability of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement 
for the Ho-Chunk Nation Fee-to-Trust and Casino Project, City of 
Beloit, Rock County, Wisconsin

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: This notice advises the public that the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs (BIA) as lead agency, with the City of Beloit, Wisconsin 
Department of Transportation, Ho-Chunk Nation (Nation), and the U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) serving as cooperating agencies, 
intends to file a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) with the 
EPA in connection with the Nation's application for acquisition in 
trust by the United States of approximately 33 acres for gaming and 
other purposes to be located in the City of Beloit, Rock County, 
Wisconsin. This notice also announces that the DEIS is now available 
for public review and that a public hearing will be held to receive 
comments on the DEIS.

DATES: Written comments on the DEIS must arrive within 45 days after 
EPA publishes its Notice of Availability in the Federal Register. The 
date and location of the public hearing on the DEIS will be announced 
at least 15 days in advance through a notice to be published in local 
newspapers (The Daily News, The Janesville Gazette, and The Rockford 
Register Star) and online at: http://www.ho-chunkbeloiteis.com.

ADDRESSES: You may mail or hand-deliver written comments to the Midwest 
Regional Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Midwest Region, Norman 
Pointe II, Building, 5600 West American Boulevard, Suite 500, 
Bloomington, MN 55347. Please include your name, return address, and 
the caption: ``DEIS Comments, Ho-Chunk Nation Fee-to-Trust and Casino 
Project,'' on the first page of your written comments. See the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice for addresses where 
the DEIS is available for review.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Timothy Guyah, Archaeologist, 
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Midwest Region, Norman Pointe II Building, 
5600 West American Boulevard, Suite 500, Bloomington, MN 55347; phone: 
(612) 725-4512; email: [email protected]. Information is also 
available online at: http://www.ho-chunkbeloiteis.com.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public review of the DEIS is part of the 
administrative process for the evaluation of the Tribe's application 
for the acquisition in trust of approximately 33 acres in the City of 
Beloit, Rock County, Wisconsin. The Nation proposes to develop a 
casino, hotel, parking, and supporting facilities. A Notice of Intent 
to prepare an EIS was published in the Federal Register on November 26, 
2012, and in The Daily News, The Janesville Gazette, and The Rockford 
Register Star. The BIA held a public scoping meeting for the proposed 
project on December 13, 2012, at Aldrich Middle School, 1859 Northgate 
Drive, Beloit, Wisconsin 53511.
    Background: The proposed project consists of the following 
components: (1) The Department's transfer of the approximately 33-acre 
fee property into trust status; (2) issuance of a determination by the 
Secretary of the Interior pursuant to the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act 
25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.; and (3) the Nation's proposed development of 
the trust parcel and its adjacent fee land, totaling approximately 73.5 
acres. The proposed casino-hotel resort would include a hotel, 
convention center, outdoor amphitheater, several restaurant facilities, 
retail buildings, and parking facilities. Access to the project site 
would be provided via three driveways; one along Willowbrook Road and 
two along Colley Road.
    The following alternatives are considered in the DEIS: (1) Proposed 
Project; (2) Reduced Casino and Commercial Development; (3) Retail 
Development; and (4) No Action/No Development. Environmental issues 
addressed in the DEIS include geology and soils, water resources, air 
quality, biological resources, cultural and paleontological resources, 
socio-economic conditions (including environmental justice), 
transportation and circulation, land use, public

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services, noise, hazardous materials, aesthetics, cumulative effects, 
and indirect and growth-inducing effects.
    Locations where the DEIS is available for review: The DEIS will be 
available for review at the Beloit Public Library located at 605 
Eclipse Blvd., Beloit, Wisconsin 53511, and online at http://www.ho-chunkbeloiteis.com. To obtain a compact disk copy of the DEIS, please 
provide your name and address in writing to Timothy Guyah, Bureau of 
Indian Affairs, Midwest Regional Office. Contact information is listed 
in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this notice. 
Individual paper copies of the DEIS will be provided only 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 at the 
BIA address shown in the ADDRESSES section, during regular business 
hours, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays. 
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 can 
ask in your comment that your personal identifying information be 
withheld from public review, the BIA cannot guarantee that this will 
occur.
    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.

    Dated: November 6, 2018.
Tara Sweeney,
Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2018-24598 Filed 11-8-18; 8:45 am]
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Form Number of Frequency of Responses Burden hour Total burden Hourly cost Information collection Annual cost respondents response per annum per response hours per responses HUD–5879 ................... 40.00 200.00 8,000.00 0.2 1,600.00 $36.00 $57,600.00 Total ...................... 40.00 200.00 8,000.00 0.2 1,600.00 36.00 57,600.00 B. Solicitation of Public Comment SUMMARY: This notice advises the public online at: http://www.ho- This notice is soliciting comments that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) chunkbeloiteis.com. from members of the public and affected as lead agency, with the City of Beloit, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public parties concerning the collection of Wisconsin Department of review of the DEIS is part of the information described in Section A on Transportation, Ho-Chunk Nation administrative process for the the following: (Nation), and the U.S. Environmental evaluation of the Tribe’s application for (1) Whether the proposed collection Protection Agency (EPA) serving as the acquisition in trust of approximately of information is necessary for the cooperating agencies, intends to file a 33 acres in the City of Beloit, Rock proper performance of the functions of Draft Environmental Impact Statement County, Wisconsin. The Nation the agency, including whether the (DEIS) with the EPA in connection with proposes to develop a casino, hotel, information will have practical utility; the Nation’s application for acquisition parking, and supporting facilities. A (2) The accuracy of the agency’s in trust by the United States of Notice of Intent to prepare an EIS was estimate of the burden of the proposed approximately 33 acres for gaming and published in the Federal Register on collection of information; other purposes to be located in the City November 26, 2012, and in The Daily (3) Ways to enhance the quality, of Beloit, Rock County, Wisconsin. This News, The Janesville Gazette, and The utility, and clarity of the information to notice also announces that the DEIS is Rockford Register Star. The BIA held a be collected; and now available for public review and that public scoping meeting for the proposed (4) Ways to minimize the burden of a public hearing will be held to receive project on December 13, 2012, at the collection of information on those comments on the DEIS. Aldrich Middle School, 1859 Northgate who are to respond: including through DATES: Written comments on the DEIS Drive, Beloit, Wisconsin 53511. the use of appropriate automated must arrive within 45 days after EPA Background: The proposed project collection techniques or other forms of publishes its Notice of Availability in consists of the following components: information technology, e.g., permitting the Federal Register. The date and (1) The Department’s transfer of the electronic submission of responses. location of the public hearing on the approximately 33-acre fee property into HUD encourages interested parties to DEIS will be announced at least 15 days trust status; (2) issuance of a submit comment in response to these in advance through a notice to be determination by the Secretary of the questions. published in local newspapers (The Interior pursuant to the Indian Gaming Authority: Section 3507 of the Paperwork Daily News, The Janesville Gazette, and Regulatory Act 25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.; Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35. The Rockford Register Star) and online and (3) the Nation’s proposed Dated: October 23, 2018. at: http://www.ho-chunkbeloiteis.com. development of the trust parcel and its adjacent fee land, totaling Colette Pollard, ADDRESSES: You may mail or hand- approximately 73.5 acres. The proposed Department Reports Management Officer, deliver written comments to the casino-hotel resort would include a Office of the Chief Information Officer. Midwest Regional Director, Bureau of hotel, convention center, outdoor [FR Doc. 2018–24491 Filed 11–8–18; 8:45 am] Indian Affairs, Midwest Region, Norman amphitheater, several restaurant BILLING CODE 4210–67–P Pointe II, Building, 5600 West American facilities, retail buildings, and parking Boulevard, Suite 500, Bloomington, MN facilities. Access to the project site 55347. Please include your name, return would be provided via three driveways; DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR address, and the caption: ‘‘DEIS one along Willowbrook Road and two Comments, Ho-Chunk Nation Fee-to- along Colley Road. Bureau of Indian Affairs Trust and Casino Project,’’ on the first The following alternatives are [189A2100DD/AAKC001030/ page of your written comments. See the considered in the DEIS: (1) Proposed A0A501010.999900] SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of Project; (2) Reduced Casino and this notice for addresses where the DEIS Commercial Development; (3) Retail Notice of Availability of a Draft is available for review. Development; and (4) No Action/No Environmental Impact Statement for FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Development. Environmental issues khammond on DSK30JT082PROD with NOTICES the Ho-Chunk Nation Fee-to-Trust and Timothy Guyah, Archaeologist, Bureau addressed in the DEIS include geology Casino Project, City of Beloit, Rock of Indian Affairs, Midwest Region, and soils, water resources, air quality, County, Wisconsin Norman Pointe II Building, 5600 West biological resources, cultural and AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, American Boulevard, Suite 500, paleontological resources, socio- Interior. Bloomington, MN 55347; phone: (612) economic conditions (including 725–4512; email: timothy.guyah@ environmental justice), transportation ACTION: Notice of availability. bia.gov. Information is also available and circulation, land use, public VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:36 Nov 08, 2018 Jkt 247001 PO 00000 Frm 00051 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\09NON1.SGM 09NON1

Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 218 / Friday, November 9, 2018 / Notices 56097 services, noise, hazardous materials, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR lease terms, conditions, special aesthetics, cumulative effects, and stipulations, required operating indirect and growth-inducing effects. Bureau of Land Management procedures, and directions about how to Locations where the DEIS is available [18X.LLAK930000.L13100000.EI0000.241A] submit bids. If you plan to submit a for review: The DEIS will be available bid(s), please note that all bids must be Notice of National Petroleum Reserve sealed in accordance with the for review at the Beloit Public Library in Alaska 2018 Oil and Gas Lease Sale; provisions identified in the Detailed located at 605 Eclipse Blvd., Beloit, Notice of Availability of the Detailed Statement of Sale. Wisconsin 53511, and online at http:// The United States reserves the right to Statement of Sale for the NPR–A 2018 www.ho-chunkbeloiteis.com. To obtain withdraw any tract from this sale prior Oil and Gas Lease Sale a compact disk copy of the DEIS, please to issuance of a written acceptance of a provide your name and address in AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, bid. writing to Timothy Guyah, Bureau of Interior. Authority: 43 CFR 3131.4–1 and 42 U.S.C. Indian Affairs, Midwest Regional Office. ACTION: Notice. 6506a. Contact information is listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Ted A. Murphy, this notice. Individual paper copies of Management (BLM) Alaska State Office Acting State Director, Alaska. the DEIS will be provided only upon will hold an oil and gas lease sale bid [FR Doc. 2018–24586 Filed 11–8–18; 8:45 am] payment of applicable printing expenses opening for 254 tracts in the National BILLING CODE 4310–JA–P by the requestor for the number of Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR–A). copies requested. DATES: The oil and gas lease sale bid opening will be at 10 a.m. (AKST) on DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Public comment availability: Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018. The BLM Comments, including names and must receive all sealed bids by 4 p.m. Bureau of Land Management addresses of respondents, will be (AKST), Monday, Dec. 10, 2018. The [LLNMA02000.L51010000.ER0000.17X available for public review at the BIA Detailed Statement of Sale for the NPR– LVRWG17G1360; NMNM 136976] address shown in the ADDRESSES A Oil and Gas Lease Sale 2018 will be section, during regular business hours, 8 available to the public on November 9, Notice of Intent To Prepare a Resource a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through 2018. Management Plan Amendment and Friday, except holidays. Before ADDRESSES: Sealed bids must be Environmental Impact Statement for including your address, phone number, received at the BLM Alaska State Office, the Borderlands Wind Project in email address, or other personal ATTN: Carol Taylor (AK932); 222 West Catron County, New Mexico; and identifying information in your 7th Avenue, #13; Anchorage, Alaska Notice of Public Lands Segregation comment, you should be aware that 99513–7504. You may see the Detailed AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, your entire comment—including your Statement of Sale from the BLM Alaska Interior. personal identifying information—may website at https://www.blm.gov/alaska, ACTION: Notice of intent. be made publicly available at any time. or request a copy from the BLM Alaska While you can ask in your comment that Public Information Center (Public SUMMARY: In compliance with the your personal identifying information Room), 222 West 7th Avenue, #13; National Environmental Policy Act of be withheld from public review, the BIA Anchorage, Alaska 99513–7504; 907– 1969, as amended (NEPA), and the cannot guarantee that this will occur. 271–5960. Federal Land Policy and Management Authority: This notice is published FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Act of 1976, as amended, the Bureau of pursuant to Sec. 1503.1 of the Council Wayne Svejnoha, telephone 907–271– Land Management (BLM) Socorro Field of Environmental Quality Regulations 4407. People who use a Office will prepare an Environmental telecommunications device for the deaf Impact Statement (EIS), which includes (40 CFR parts 1500 through 1508) and (TDD) may call the Federal Relay a potential Plan Amendment to the 2010 Sec. 46.305 of the Department of the Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to Socorro Field Office Resource Interior Regulations (43 CFR part 46), contact the above individual during Management Plan (RMP) for a proposed implementing the procedural normal business hours. The FRS is commercial wind energy project located requirements of the NEPA of l969, as available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on public lands in Catron County, New amended (42 U.S.C. 4371, et seq.), and to leave a message or question with the Mexico. Publication of this Notice is in the exercise of authority delegated above individual. You will receive a initiates the scoping process and opens to the Assistant Secretary—Indian reply during normal business hours. a 30-day public comment period to Affairs by 209 DM 8. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The solicit public comments and identify Dated: November 6, 2018. December 2018 NPR–A Oil and Gas issues. Publication of this Notice also Tara Sweeney, Lease Sale will include 254 tracts serves to segregate the public lands from (approximately 2.85 million acres) appropriation under the public land Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs. available for leasing under the NPR–A laws, including location under the [FR Doc. 2018–24598 Filed 11–8–18; 8:45 am] Integrated Activity Plan/Environmental Mining Law, but not the Mineral BILLING CODE 4337–15–P Impact Statement Record of Decision Leasing Act or the Materials Act, subject to valid existing rights. This Notice khammond on DSK30JT082PROD with NOTICES (ROD) finalized in February 2013. The opening and reading of the bids initiates the public scoping process and for the 2018 NPR–A lease sale will be the public lands segregation. available via video livestreaming at DATES: This notice initiates a 30-day http://www.blm.gov/live. public scoping period that will assist in The Detailed Statement of Sale will preparation of the Draft EIS. Comments include a description of the areas the on issues may be submitted in writing BLM is offering for lease, as well as the until December 10, 2018. VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:36 Nov 08, 2018 Jkt 247001 PO 00000 Frm 00052 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\09NON1.SGM 09NON1


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sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of availability.
DatesWritten comments on the DEIS must arrive within 45 days after EPA publishes its Notice of Availability in the Federal Register. The date and location of the public hearing on the DEIS will be announced at least 15 days in advance through a notice to be published in local newspapers (The Daily News, The Janesville Gazette, and The Rockford Register Star) and online at: http://www.ho-chunkbeloiteis.com.
ContactMr. Timothy Guyah, Archaeologist, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Midwest Region, Norman Pointe II Building, 5600 West American Boulevard, Suite 500, Bloomington, MN 55347; phone: (612) 725-4512; email: [email protected] Information is also available online at: http://www.ho-chunkbeloiteis.com.
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