83 FR 58283 - Notice of Availability of the Draft Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas Joint Environmental Impact Statement/Bureau of Land Management Resource Management Plan and Bureau of Indian Affairs Integrated Resource Management Plan
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
Bureau of Indian Affairs Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 223 (November 19, 2018)
Bureau of Land Management
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 223 (November 19, 2018)
| Page Range | 58283-58285 | |
| FR Document | 2018-25130 |
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 223 (Monday, November 19, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 58283-58285] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-25130] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Land Management Bureau of Indian Affairs [LLNM004400. L16100000.DO0000. LXSSG0690000 18XL1109AF] Notice of Availability of the Draft Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas Joint Environmental Impact Statement/Bureau of Land Management Resource Management Plan and Bureau of Indian Affairs Integrated Resource Management Plan AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior; and Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior. ACTION: Notice of availability. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), as amended, and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, as amended, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) have prepared a Draft Joint Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)/BLM Draft Resource Management Plan (RMP) and BIA Integrated Resource Management Plan (IRMP) for the BLM Oklahoma Field Office, BIA Southern Plains Region, and BIA Eastern Oklahoma Region, and by this Notice is announcing the opening of the public comment period. DATES: To ensure that comments will be considered, the BLM and BIA must receive written comments on the Draft Joint EIS/BLM RMP and BIA IRMP within 90-days of the date the Environmental Protection Agency publishes its Notice of Availability for the Draft Joint EIS/BLM RMP and BIA IRMP in the Federal Register. The BLM and BIA will announce future public meetings, hearings, or other public participation activities at least 15 days in advance, through public notices, media releases, and/or direct mailings. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments related to the Draft Joint EIS/BLM RMP and BIA IRMP through either of the following methods:Project Website: https://www.blm.gov/programs/planning-and-nepa/plans-in-development/new-mexico/oklahoma-rmp. Email: [email protected]. Fax: 405-579-7101, Attn.: Mr. Patrick Rich, RMP Team Lead. Mail: Bureau of Land Management, Oklahoma Field Office, Attn.: Patrick Rich, RMP Team Lead, 201 Stephenson Parkway, Suite 1200, Norman, Oklahoma 73072. Mail: BIA Eastern Oklahoma Regional Office, Attn.: RMP Comments, P.O. Box 8002, Muskogee, Oklahoma 74402-4600. Mail: BIA Southern plains Regional Office, Attn.: RMP Comments, P.O. Box 368, Anadarko, Oklahoma 73005-0368. Copies of the Draft Joint EIS/BLM RMP and BIA IRMP are available from the BLM and the BIA at the following locations: BLM Oklahoma Field Office, 201 Stephenson Parkway, Suite 1200, Norman, Oklahoma 73072 BIA Eastern Oklahoma Regional Office, 3100 Peak Blvd., Muskogee, Oklahoma 74401 BIA Eastern Oklahoma Regional Office, 100 Riverside Drive, Anadarko, Oklahoma 73005 BLM New Mexico State Office, 301 Dinosaur Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508 The Draft Joint EIS/BLM RMP and BIA IRMP background documents are available on the ePlanning website at: https://www.blm.gov/programs/planning-and-nepa/plans-in-development/new-mexico/oklahoma-rmp. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patrick Rich, RMP Team Lead; telephone: 405-579-7154; address: 201 Stephenson Parkway, Suite 1200, Norman, Oklahoma 73072; or 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 the above individual 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. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Draft Joint EIS/BLM RMP and BIA IRMP, the BLM and BIA analyze the environmental consequences of four alternatives under consideration for managing Federal lands and minerals within the Oklahoma-Kansas-Texas planning area. The BLM Oklahoma Field Office administers approximately 15,100 acres of public lands, including approximately 11,800 acres at the Cross Bar Management Area near Amarillo, Texas; about 3,300 acres of small tracts scattered across the planning area; and Federal lands along the 116-mile stretch of the Red River between the North Fork of the Red River and the 98th Meridian (Red River area). No exact acreages of Federal lands along the Red River are available at this time, because the full 116-mile stretch of land has not been surveyed. The Oklahoma Field Office also administers approximately 4,810,900 acres of subsurface Federal mineral estate across the planning area, including approximately 3,991,100 acres underlying surface estate managed by other Federal agencies, such as U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, and National Park Service, and approximately 408,000 acres of split-estate, where Federal minerals underlie private surface estate. The RMP only pertains to Federal lands and has no effect on the boundary of the Federal lands. The BIA decision area includes approximately 394,200 surface acres and 2,033,500 mineral estate acres for the BIA Eastern Oklahoma Regional Office. Approximately 1,474,500 acres of the BIA Eastern Oklahoma Regional Office jurisdictional area is limited to [[Page 58284]] coal or other minerals in Osage County. The BIA decision area also includes approximately 457,500 surface acres and 632,000 mineral estate acres for the BIA Southern Plains Regional Office. This includes lands and mineral estate in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, and Richardson County, Nebraska. The BLM is the lead agency in developing the land use plan, while the BIA is a co-lead partner in this joint, integrated planning effort. The Draft Joint EIS/BLM RMP and BIA IRMP provides a land use plan that will replace the BLM's current 1994 Oklahoma RMP, the 1991 Kansas RMP, and the 1996 Texas RMP, as amended. RMP revision and consolidation is necessary due to the numerous changes, including renewable energy, recreation, special status species, visual resources, and wildlife habitat that have occurred across the BLM Oklahoma Field Office planning area since publication. New resource data are available for consideration, and new policies, guidelines, and laws have been established. Land use planning and NEPA regulations require the BLM and BIA to formulate a reasonable range of alternatives to consider different management scenarios and different means of addressing resource or resource-use conflicts. Established planning criteria, as outlined in 43 CFR part 1610, guide the alternatives-development process. This pursuit provides the BLM, BIA, and the public with an understanding of the various ways in which challenges associated with resources and resource uses might be resolved. This draft land use plan offers the BLM State Director for New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas; the BIA Eastern Oklahoma Regional Director; and the BIA Southern Plains Regional Director a reasonable range of alternatives from which to make informed decisions. The four alternatives analyzed in the Draft Joint EIS/BLM RMP and BIA IRMP are generally described as follows: Alternative A (No Action) is a continuation of existing land use management actions under the current Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas RMPs and associated amendments; Alternative B (Agency Preferred) represents a balanced mix of land use management actions intended to address current and future land use management issues, including provisions for energy development, recreational opportunities, and conservation of natural resources; Alternative C represents land use management strategies intended primarily to preserve and protect ecosystem health and resource values across the planning area; and Alternative D represents land use management strategies intended primarily to develop resources and promote economic development across the decision area, such as livestock grazing, energy and mineral development, and recreation. The BLM is considering areas of critical environmental concern (ACEC) during this planning process, and has proposed one ACEC in the Draft RMP to protect certain resource values. Pertinent information regarding this ACEC, including proposed designation acreage, resource- use limitations, if designated, and the alternatives affected are summarized below. Cross Bar Management Area ACEC: Alternative C proposes a 10,500- acre ACEC for the Cross Bar Management Area. This ACEC would be managed to protect important biological, cultural, scenic, and historic resources that meet the criteria for relevance and importance. The resource use limitations which would occur if this ACEC is formally designated are as follows: Closed to off-highway vehicle use and mechanized travel, except for the main access road and administrative use; Non-mechanized trail use limited to designated trails; No surface occupancy stipulation for fluid minerals development; Closed to mineral material disposal and non-energy leasable mineral development; Managed as a right-of-way exclusion zone; Visual resources would be managed as visual resource management class II and III (camping areas); Vegetation management would emphasize high-priority habitats identified in state wildlife action plans; Maintain cover for wildlife and migratory birds; Reduce impacts on paleontological resources from ground disturbance and access; and Available for livestock grazing. The land use planning process was initiated on July 26, 2013, through a Notice of Intent published in the Federal Register (78 FR 45266), notifying the public of a formal scoping period. Seventy-two cooperating agencies expressed interest in collaborating with the BLM and BIA during the NEPA process, and the following agencies signed a formal cooperating agency agreement: 1. Adair County Commissioners, OK 2. Barton County Commissioners, KS 3. Bureau of Reclamation Nebraska-Kansas Area Office 4. Brazos River Authority 5. Caddo County Commissioners, OK 6. Choctaw County Commissioners, OK 7. Citizen Potawatomi Nation 8. Clay County, TX 9. Cleveland County Commissioners, OK 10. Coal County Commissioners, OK 11. Cotton County Commissioners, OK 12. Creek County Commissioners, OK 13. Denton County Commissioners, TX 14. Douglas County Commissioners, KS 15. Hamilton County Commissioners, KS 16. Hughes County Commissioners, KS 17. Kansas Corporation Commission 18. Kansas Water Office 19. Latimer County Commissioners, OK 20. Lincoln County Commissioners, OK 21. Love County Commissioners, OK 22. Marion County Commissioners, TX 23. Montague County Commissioners, TX 24. Moore County Commissioners, TX 25. Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation 26. Scurry County Commissioners, TX 27. Wichita County, TX 28. Kansas Corporation Commission 29. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2 30. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma by and through the Oklahoma Climatological Survey 31. Young County Commissioners, TX 32. Sequoyah County Commissioners, OK 33. Sumner County Commissioners, KS 34. Tonkawa Tribe of Oklahoma 35. Red River Authority of Texas 36. Muscogee (Creek) Nation 37. Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board 38. Texas General Land Office 39. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Mid-Continent Region 40. Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality 41. Oklahoma Department of Mines 42. Okfuskee County Commissioners, OK 43. Oklahoma Geologic Survey 44. Osage Nation 45. Payne County Commissioners, OK 46. Pontotoc County Commissioners, OK 47. Pushmataha County Commissioners, OK 48. Tulsa County Commissioners, OK 49. Collin County Commissioners Court 50. Natural Resources Conservation Service Meade Service Center 51. LeFlore County Commissioners, OK 52. United States Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 [[Page 58285]] 53. Wilbarger County, TX 54. Murray County Commissioner, District 2 55. National Forest and Grasslands of Texas 56. Johnson County, KS 57. Texas Railroad Commission 58. United States Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth 59. Cooke County Commissioners, TX 60. Cherokee Nation 61. Cherokee County Commissioners, KS 62. Jackson County Commissioners, KS 63. McConnell Air Force Base 64. Altus Air Force Base 65. Vance Air Force Base 66. The Kansas Natural Resource Coalition 67. Tinker Air Force Base 68. Dyess Air Force Base 69. Goodfellow Air Force Base 70. Joint Base San Antonio, TX 71. Laughlin Air Force Base 72. Sheppard Air Force Base The BLM and BIA held 17 scoping meetings between November 2013 and January 2014, throughout Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, with stakeholders, interest groups, and the public. During the scoping period, the public provided the BLM Oklahoma Field Office with input on relevant issues to consider in the planning process. Additional information was collected during three additional workshops, one each in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas with the public and cooperating agencies. Based on these issues, conflicts, information, and the BLM and BIA goals and objectives for this planning effort, the BLM-BIA Interdisciplinary Team formulated action alternatives for consideration and analysis in the Draft Joint EIS/BLM RMP and BIA IRMP. Following the close of the public comment period, the BLM and BIA will use any substantive public comments to revise the Draft Joint EIS/BLM RMP and BIA IRMP in preparation for its release to the public as the Proposed Resource Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement (Proposed RMP/Final EIS). The BLM and BIA will respond to each substantive comment received during the public review and comment period by making appropriate revisions to the document, or by explaining why the comment did not warrant a change. Notice of the Availability of the Proposed RMP/Final EIS will be published in the Federal Register. Please note that public comments and other submitted information, including names, street addresses, and email addresses of persons submitting comments will be available for public review and disclosure by using one of the methods listed in the ADDRESSES section of this notice during regular business hours 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.), Monday through Friday, except holidays. To be included in the analysis, all comments must be received before the close of the 90-day public comment period or 15 days after the last public meeting, whichever is later. Before including your address, phone number, email address, and/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 request in your comment that we withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1506.10, 43 CFR 1610.2. Aden L. Seidlitz, Acting BLM New Mexico State Director. Eddie Streater, BIA Eastern Oklahoma Regional Director. James Schock, BIA Southern Plains Regional Director. [FR Doc. 2018-25130 Filed 11-16-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310-FB-P
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ADDRESSES section. Comments, SUMMARY: In accordance with the • BLM New Mexico State Office, 301
including names and street addresses of National Environmental Policy Act of Dinosaur Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico
respondents, will be available for public 1969 (NEPA), as amended, and the 87508
review at the BLM Southern Nevada Federal Land Policy and Management The Draft Joint EIS/BLM RMP and
District Office, during regular business Act of 1976, as amended, the Bureau of BIA IRMP background documents are
hours, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday Land Management (BLM) and Bureau of available on the ePlanning website at:
through Friday, except Federal holidays. Indian Affairs (BIA) have prepared a https://www.blm.gov/programs/
Before including your address, phone Draft Joint Environmental Impact planning-and-nepa/plans-in-
number, email address, or other Statement (EIS)/BLM Draft Resource development/new-mexico/oklahoma-
personal identifying information in your Management Plan (RMP) and BIA rmp.
comment, you should be aware that Integrated Resource Management Plan FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
your entire comment, including your (IRMP) for the BLM Oklahoma Field Patrick Rich, RMP Team Lead;
personal identifying information, may Office, BIA Southern Plains Region, and telephone: 405–579–7154; address: 201
be made publicly available at any time. BIA Eastern Oklahoma Region, and by Stephenson Parkway, Suite 1200,
While you can ask to withhold your this Notice is announcing the opening of Norman, Oklahoma 73072; or email:
personal identifying information from the public comment period. prich@blm.gov. Persons who use a
public review, we cannot guarantee that DATES: To ensure that comments will be telecommunications device for the deaf
we will be able to do so. considered, the BLM and BIA must
Notice is hereby given that an (TDD) may call the Federal Relay
receive written comments on the Draft Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to
opportunity for a public meeting may be
Joint EIS/BLM RMP and BIA IRMP contact the above individual during
afforded in connection with the
within 90-days of the date the normal business hours. The FRS is
proposed withdrawal extension. All
Environmental Protection Agency available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,
interested persons who desire a public
publishes its Notice of Availability for to leave a message or question with the
meeting for the purpose of being heard
the Draft Joint EIS/BLM RMP and BIA above individual. You will receive a
on the withdrawal extension application
IRMP in the Federal Register. The BLM reply during normal business hours.
must submit a written request to the
and BIA will announce future public SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the
BLM District Manager, Southern Nevada
meetings, hearings, or other public Draft Joint EIS/BLM RMP and BIA
District Office at the address in the
participation activities at least 15 days IRMP, the BLM and BIA analyze the
ADDRESSES section, by February 19,
in advance, through public notices, environmental consequences of four
2019. If the authorized officer
media releases, and/or direct mailings. alternatives under consideration for
determines that a public meeting will be
held, a notice of the date, time, and ADDRESSES: You may submit comments managing Federal lands and minerals
place will be published in the Federal related to the Draft Joint EIS/BLM RMP within the Oklahoma-Kansas-Texas
Register, local newspapers, and posted and BIA IRMP through either of the planning area. The BLM Oklahoma
on the BLM website at: https:// following methods: Field Office administers approximately
www.blm.gov/media/press-releases at • Project Website: https:// 15,100 acres of public lands, including
least 30 days before the scheduled date www.blm.gov/programs/planning-and- approximately 11,800 acres at the Cross
of the meeting. nepa/plans-in-development/new- Bar Management Area near Amarillo,
The withdrawal extension application mexico/oklahoma-rmp. Texas; about 3,300 acres of small tracts
will be processed in accordance with • Email: BLM_NM_OKT_RMP@ scattered across the planning area; and
the regulations set forth in 43 CFR blm.gov. Federal lands along the 116-mile stretch
2310.4. • Fax: 405–579–7101, Attn.: Mr. of the Red River between the North Fork
Patrick Rich, RMP Team Lead. of the Red River and the 98th Meridian
Brian C. Amme, (Red River area). No exact acreages of
• Mail: Bureau of Land Management,
Acting Nevada State Director. Federal lands along the Red River are
Oklahoma Field Office, Attn.: Patrick
[FR Doc. 2018–25163 Filed 11–16–18; 8:45 am] Rich, RMP Team Lead, 201 Stephenson available at this time, because the full
BILLING CODE 4310–HC–P Parkway, Suite 1200, Norman, 116-mile stretch of land has not been
Oklahoma 73072. surveyed. The Oklahoma Field Office
• Mail: BIA Eastern Oklahoma also administers approximately
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 4,810,900 acres of subsurface Federal
Regional Office, Attn.: RMP Comments,
P.O. Box 8002, Muskogee, Oklahoma mineral estate across the planning area,
Bureau of Land Management including approximately 3,991,100
74402–4600.
• Mail: BIA Southern plains Regional acres underlying surface estate managed
Bureau of Indian Affairs by other Federal agencies, such as U.S.
Office, Attn.: RMP Comments, P.O. Box
[LLNM004400. L16100000.DO0000. 368, Anadarko, Oklahoma 73005–0368. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest
LXSSG0690000 18XL1109AF] Service, and National Park Service, and
Copies of the Draft Joint EIS/BLM approximately 408,000 acres of split-
Notice of Availability of the Draft RMP and BIA IRMP are available from estate, where Federal minerals underlie
Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas Joint the BLM and the BIA at the following private surface estate. The RMP only
Environmental Impact Statement/ locations: pertains to Federal lands and has no
Bureau of Land Management Resource • BLM Oklahoma Field Office, 201 effect on the boundary of the Federal
Management Plan and Bureau of Stephenson Parkway, Suite 1200,
khammond on DSK30JT082PROD with NOTICES
lands.
Indian Affairs Integrated Resource Norman, Oklahoma 73072 The BIA decision area includes
Management Plan • BIA Eastern Oklahoma Regional approximately 394,200 surface acres
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Office, 3100 Peak Blvd., Muskogee, and 2,033,500 mineral estate acres for
Interior; and Bureau of Indian Affairs, Oklahoma 74401 the BIA Eastern Oklahoma Regional
Interior. • BIA Eastern Oklahoma Regional Office. Approximately 1,474,500 acres
Office, 100 Riverside Drive, of the BIA Eastern Oklahoma Regional
ACTION: Notice of availability.
Anadarko, Oklahoma 73005 Office jurisdictional area is limited to
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53. Wilbarger County, TX comments will be available for public received at the address listed below no
54. Murray County Commissioner, review and disclosure by using one of later than December 19, 2018.
District 2 the methods listed in the ADDRESSES ADDRESSES: Grand Staircase-Escalante
55. National Forest and Grasslands of section of this notice during regular National Monument Headquarters
Texas business hours 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.), Office, 669 South Highway 89A, Kanab,
56. Johnson County, KS Monday through Friday, except Utah 84741, Attention: MAC
57. Texas Railroad Commission holidays. To be included in the analysis, Nominations.
58. United States Army Corps of all comments must be received before FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Engineers, Fort Worth the close of the 90-day public comment Larry Crutchfield, Public Affairs Officer,
59. Cooke County Commissioners, TX period or 15 days after the last public GSENM Headquarters Office, 669 South
60. Cherokee Nation meeting, whichever is later. Highway 89A, Kanab, Utah 84741;
61. Cherokee County Commissioners, Before including your address, phone phone (435) 644–1209, or email:
KS number, email address, and/or other lcrutchf@blm.gov.
62. Jackson County Commissioners, KS personal identifying information in your
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
63. McConnell Air Force Base comment, you should be aware that
Secretary of the Interior established the
64. Altus Air Force Base your entire comment—including your GSENM MAC pursuant to section 309 of
65. Vance Air Force Base personal identifying information—may the Federal Land Policy and
66. The Kansas Natural Resource be made publicly available at any time. Management Act (FLPMA) of 1976 (43
Coalition While you can request in your comment U.S.C. 1739) and Presidential
67. Tinker Air Force Base that we withhold your personal Proclamation 9682 in conformity with
68. Dyess Air Force Base identifying information from public the Federal Advisory Committee Act
69. Goodfellow Air Force Base review, we cannot guarantee that we (FACA) of 1972 (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2).
70. Joint Base San Antonio, TX will be able to do so. The 15 appointed members of the
71. Laughlin Air Force Base Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR GSENM MAC perform several primary
72. Sheppard Air Force Base 1506.10, 43 CFR 1610.2. tasks: (1) Provide information and
The BLM and BIA held 17 scoping advice on the development of
Aden L. Seidlitz,
meetings between November 2013 and management plans for the Grand
January 2014, throughout Kansas, Acting BLM New Mexico State Director.
Staircase, Kaiparowits, and Escalante
Oklahoma, and Texas, with Eddie Streater,
Canyons Units and, as appropriate,
stakeholders, interest groups, and the BIA Eastern Oklahoma Regional Director. management of the Monument; (2)
public. James Schock, Assist BLM in developing
During the scoping period, the public BIA Southern Plains Regional Director. recommendations for implementation of
provided the BLM Oklahoma Field [FR Doc. 2018–25130 Filed 11–16–18; 8:45 am] ecosystem approaches to management
Office with input on relevant issues to BILLING CODE 4310–FB–P by advising BLM in establishing goals
consider in the planning process. and objectives within the Monument;
Additional information was collected (3) Advise BLM regarding ongoing local
during three additional workshops, one DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR efforts to develop and achieve
each in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas collaborative approaches to
with the public and cooperating Bureau of Land Management management of the Monument; (4)
agencies. Based on these issues, Consult and make recommendations on
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conflicts, information, and the BLM and issues such as protocols for specific
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BIA goals and objectives for this projects; e.g., vegetation restoration
planning effort, the BLM–BIA Call for Nominations for the Grand methods and treatments, livestock
Interdisciplinary Team formulated Staircase-Escalante National grazing, standards for excavation and
action alternatives for consideration and Monument Advisory Committee, Utah curation of artifacts and objects; (5)
analysis in the Draft Joint EIS/BLM RMP Advise BLM on opportunities to
and BIA IRMP. Following the close of AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, enhance and expand existing
the public comment period, the BLM Interior. partnerships and volunteer efforts; (6)
and BIA will use any substantive public ACTION: Notice. Advise BLM on opportunities to
comments to revise the Draft Joint EIS/ enhance and expand existing
BLM RMP and BIA IRMP in preparation SUMMARY: The purpose of this Notice is educational outreach efforts; (7) Provide
for its release to the public as the to request public nominations for 15 recommendations for implementation of
Proposed Resource Management Plan members to the Grand Staircase- Secretary’s Order 3347: Conservation
and Final Environmental Impact Escalante National Monument Advisory Stewardship and Outdoor Recreation,
Statement (Proposed RMP/Final EIS). Committee (GSENM MAC). The GSENM and Secretary’s Order 3356: Hunting,
The BLM and BIA will respond to each MAC provides information and advice Fishing, Recreational Shooting, and
substantive comment received during regarding the development and Wildlife Conservation Opportunities
the public review and comment period implementation of management plans and Coordination with States, Tribes,
by making appropriate revisions to the for the Grand Staircase, Kaiparowits, and Territories; (8) Provide
document, or by explaining why the and Escalante Canyons Units and, as recommendations for implementation of
comment did not warrant a change. appropriate, management of the the regulatory reform initiatives and
khammond on DSK30JT082PROD with NOTICES
Notice of the Availability of the Monument. The Grand Staircase- policies specified in section 2 of
Proposed RMP/Final EIS will be Escalante National Monument (GSENM) Executive Order 13777: Reducing
published in the Federal Register. will accept public nominations for 30 Regulation and Controlling Regulatory
Please note that public comments and days from the date this Notice is posted. Costs; Executive Order 12866:
other submitted information, including DATES: A completed application and Regulatory Planning and Review, as
names, street addresses, and email accompanying nomination/ amended; and section 6 of Executive
addresses of persons submitting recommendation letters must be Order 13563: Improving Regulation and
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| Dates | To ensure that comments will be considered, the BLM and BIA must receive written comments on the Draft Joint EIS/BLM RMP and BIA IRMP within 90-days of the date the Environmental Protection Agency publishes its Notice of Availability for the Draft Joint EIS/BLM RMP and BIA IRMP in the Federal Register. The BLM and BIA will announce future public meetings, hearings, or other public participation activities at least 15 days in advance, through public notices, media releases, and/or direct mailings. | |
| Contact | Patrick Rich, RMP Team Lead; | |
| FR Citation | 83 FR 58283 |
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