83 FR 9535 - Updates to Bureau of Indian Affairs Categorical Exclusions Under the National Environmental Policy Act
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 44 (March 6, 2018)
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 44 (March 6, 2018)
| Page Range | 9535-9538 | |
| FR Document | 2018-04513 |
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 44 (Tuesday, March 6, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 9535-9538] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-04513] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Indian Affairs [189A2100DD/AAKC001030/A0A501010.999900 253G] Updates to Bureau of Indian Affairs Categorical Exclusions Under the National Environmental Policy Act AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior. ACTION: Notice of proposed action and request for comments. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is proposing to amend its categorical exclusions (CATEXs) under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) for certain BIA actions and is seeking comment. The BIA is requesting comment on whether to revise or delete any current CATEXs or add any new CATEXs. DATES: Comments and related material must be postmarked no later than May 7, 2018. ADDRESSES: Please submit your comments by only one of the following means: (1) By mail to: Dr. BJ Howerton, MBA, Branch Chief Environmental and Cultural Resource Management C/O Department of the Interior, 12220 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 20192; or (2) by email to: bj.howerton@bia.gov. Please put ``CATEX'' in the subject line. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. BJ Howerton, (703) 390-6524, email: bj.howerton@bia.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Background The NEPA requires Federal agencies to consider the potential environmental consequences of their decisions before deciding whether and how to proceed. The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) encourages Federal agencies to use CATEXs to protect the environment more efficiently by: (a) Reducing the resources spent analyzing proposals which generally do not have potentially significant environmental impacts, and (b) focusing resources on proposals that may have significant environmental impacts. The appropriate use of CATEXs allow the NEPA review to be concluded without preparing either an environmental assessment (EA) or an environmental impact statement (EIS) (40 CFR 1500.4(p) and Sec. 1508.4). The CEQ regulations implementing NEPA define CATEXs as a category of actions that do not individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the human environment, and for which, therefore, neither an EA nor an EIS is required. (40 CFR 1508.4). The CEQ regulations encourage the use of CATEXs to reduce unnecessary paperwork and delays. A CATEX is a form of NEPA compliance; it is not an exemption from NEPA, but an exemption from requirements to prepare an EIS. Agency procedures must consider ``extraordinary circumstances,'' in which case a normally excluded action may have a significant effect and require preparation of an EA or EIS. The Department of the Interior (Interior) has established CATEXs at 43 CFR 46.210. In addition, BIA has bureau-specific CATEXs. The most recent CATEXs BIA established were three based on CATEXs currently used by the United States Forest Service (FS), as described in FS regulations 36 CFR 220, and by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), as described the Departmental Manual, 516 DM 11. The BIA relied on the experience of the FS and BLM and applied its expertise to [[Page 9536]] benchmark these CATEXs and determined these are appropriate to establish as BIA CATEXs. Because these CATEXs have important implications for actions occurring on Indian lands, the BIA initiated consultation and requested comments from all federally recognized Tribes. This consultation period began on July 23, 2014, and concluded on September 21, 2014. A notice published in the Federal Register on November 14, 2014 (79 FR 68287) solicited public comments for that CATEX and ultimately, BIA adopted the forestry CATEXs. See 80 FR 8098 (Feb. 13, 2015). This notice provides information on current BIA CATEXs and requests comment. II. Current BIA CATEXs Most of the current BIA CATEXs reside in the Departmental Manual in Part 516 Chapter 10: Managing the NEPA Process--Bureau of Indian Affairs. The majority of those exclusions in section 10.5 have an effective date of May 27, 2004. In addition, a CATEX for single family homesites at section 10.5(M)(7), became effective August 10, 2012. See 77 FR 47862. Most recently, CATEXs for forestry activities at Sections 10.5(H)(11), (12), and (13), became effective February 13, 2015. See 80 FR 8098. All of these CATEXs currently in effect are listed below: 10.5 Categorical Exclusions. A. Operation, Maintenance, and Replacement of Existing Facilities. Examples are normal renovation of buildings, road maintenance and limited rehabilitation of irrigation structures. B. Transfer of Existing Federal Facilities to Other Entities. Transfer of existing operation and maintenance activities of Federal facilities to tribal groups, water user organizations, or other entities where the anticipated operation and maintenance activities are in a signed contract, follow BIA policy, and no change in operations or maintenance is anticipated. C. Human Resources Programs. Examples are social services, education services, employment assistance, tribal operations, law enforcement and credit and financing activities not related to development. D. Administrative Actions and Other Activities Relating to Trust Resources. Examples are: Management of trust funds (collection and distribution), budget, finance, estate planning, wills and appraisals. E. Self-Determination and Self-Governance. (1) Self-Determination Act contracts and grants for BIA programs listed as categorical exclusions, or for programs in which environmental impacts are adequately addressed in earlier NEPA analysis. (2) Self-Governance compacts for BIA programs which are listed as categorical exclusions or for programs in which environmental impacts are adequately addressed in earlier NEPA analysis. F. Rights-of-Way. (1) Rights-of-Way inside another right-of-way, or amendments to rights-of-way where no deviations from or additions to the original right-of-way are involved and where there is an existing NEPA analysis covering the same or similar impacts in the right-of-way area. (2) Service line agreements to an individual residence, building or well from an existing facility where installation will involve no clearance of vegetation from the right-of-way other than for placement of poles, signs (including highway signs), or buried power/cable lines. (3) Renewals, assignments and conversions of existing rights-of-way where there would be essentially no change in use and continuation would not lead to environmental degradation. G. Minerals. (1) Approval of permits for geologic mapping, inventory, reconnaissance and surface sample collecting. (2) Approval of unitization agreements, pooling or communitization agreements. (3) Approval of mineral lease adjustments and transfers, including assignments and subleases. (4) Approval of royalty determinations such as royalty rate adjustments of an existing lease or contract agreement. H. Forestry. (1) Approval of free-use cutting, without permit, to Indian owners for on-reservation personal use of forest products, not to exceed 2,500 feet board measure when cutting will not adversely affect associated resources such as riparian zones, areas of special significance, etc. (2) Approval and issuance of cutting permits for forest products not to exceed $5,000 in value. (3) Approval and issuance of paid timber cutting permits or contracts for products valued at less than $25,000 when in compliance with policies and guidelines established by a current management plan addressed in earlier NEPA analysis. (4) Approval of annual logging plans when in compliance with policies and guidelines established by a current management plan addressed in earlier NEPA analysis. (5) Approval of Fire Management Planning Analysis detailing emergency fire suppression activities. (6) Approval of emergency forest and range rehabilitation plans when limited to environmental stabilization on less than 10,000 acres and not including approval of salvage sales of damaged timber. (7) Approval of forest stand improvement projects of less than 2000 acres when in compliance with policies and guidelines established by a current management plan addressed in earlier NEPA analysis. (8) Approval of timber management access skid trail and logging road construction when consistent with policies and guidelines established by a current management plan addressed in earlier NEPA analysis. (9) Approval of prescribed burning plans of less than 2000 acres when in compliance with policies and guidelines established by a current management plan addressed in earlier NEPA analysis. (10) Approval of forestation projects with native species and associated protection and site preparation activities on less than 2000 acres when consistent with policies and guidelines established by a current management plan addressed in earlier NEPA analysis. (11) Harvesting live trees not to exceed 70 acres, requiring no more than 0.5 mile of temporary road construction. Such activities: (a) Shall not include even-aged regeneration harvests or vegetation type conversions. (b) May include incidental removal of trees for landings, skid trails, and road clearing. (c) May include temporary roads which are defined as roads authorized by contract, permit, lease, other written authorization, or emergency operation not intended to be part of the BIA or Tribal transportation systems and not necessary for long-term resource management. Temporary roads shall be designed to standards appropriate for the intended uses, considering safety, cost of transportation, and impacts on land and resources; and (d) Shall require the treatment of temporary roads constructed or used so as to permit the reestablishment by artificial or natural means, of vegetative cover on the roadway and areas where the vegetative cover was disturbed by the construction or use of the road, as necessary to minimize erosion from the disturbed area. Such treatment shall be designed to reestablish vegetative cover as soon as practicable, but at least within 10 years after the termination of the contract. [[Page 9537]] Examples include, but are not limited to: (a) Removing individual trees for sawlogs, specialty products, or fuelwood. (b) Commercial thinning of overstocked stands to achieve the desired stocking level to increase health and vigor. (12) Salvaging dead or dying trees not to exceed 250 acres, requiring no more than 0.5 mile of temporary road construction. Such activities: (a) May include incidental removal of live or dead trees for landings, skid trails, and road clearing. (b) May include temporary roads which are defined as roads authorized by contract, permit, lease, other written authorization, or emergency operation not intended to be part of the BIA or Tribal transportation systems and not necessary for long-term resource management. Temporary roads shall be designed to standards appropriate for the intended uses, considering safety, cost of transportation, and impacts on land and resources; and (c) Shall require the treatment of temporary roads constructed or used so as to permit the reestablishment, by artificial or natural means, of vegetative cover on the roadway and areas where the vegetative cover was disturbed by the construction or use of the road, as necessary to minimize erosion from the disturbed area. Such treatment shall be designed to reestablish vegetative cover as soon as practicable, but at least within 10 years after the termination of the contract. (d) For this CE, a dying tree is defined as a standing tree that has been severely damaged by forces such as fire, wind, ice, insects, or disease, such that in the judgment of an experienced forest professional or someone technically trained for the work, the tree is likely to die within a few years. Examples include, but are not limited to: (a) Harvesting a portion of a stand damaged by a wind or ice event. (b) Harvesting fire damaged trees. (13) Commercial and noncommercial sanitation harvest of trees to control insects or disease not to exceed 250 acres, requiring no more than 0.5 miles of temporary road construction. Such activities: (a) May include removal of infested/infected trees and adjacent live uninfested/uninfected trees as determined necessary to control the spread of insects or disease and (b) May include incidental removal of live or dead trees for landings, skid trails, and road clearing. (c) May include temporary roads which are defined as roads authorized by contract, permit, lease, other written authorization, or emergency operation not intended to be part of the BIA or tribal transportation systems and not necessary for long-term resource management. Temporary roads shall be designed to standards appropriate for the intended uses, considering safety, cost of transportation, and impacts on land and resources; and (d) Shall require the treatment of temporary roads constructed or used so as to permit the reestablishment, by artificial or natural means, of vegetative cover on the roadway and areas where the vegetative cover was disturbed by the construction or use of the road, as necessary to minimize erosion from the disturbed area. Such treatment shall be designed to reestablish vegetative cover as soon as practicable, but at least within 10 years after the termination of the contract. Examples include, but are not limited to: (a) Felling and harvesting trees infested with mountain pine beetles and immediately adjacent uninfested trees to control expanding spot infestations (a buffer) and (b) Removing or destroying trees infested or infected with a new exotic insect or disease, such as emerald ash borer, Asian longhorned beetle, or sudden oak death pathogen. I. Land Conveyance and Other Transfers. Approvals or grants of conveyances and other transfers of interests in land where no change in land use is planned. J. Reservation Proclamations. Lands established as or added to a reservation pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 467, where no change in land use is planned. K. Waste Management. (1) Closure operations for solid waste facilities when done in compliance with other federal laws and regulations and where cover material is taken from locations which have been approved for use by earlier NEPA analysis. (2) Activities involving remediation of hazardous waste sites if done in compliance with applicable federal laws such as the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (Pub. L. 94-580), Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Pub. L. 96- 516) or Toxic Substances Control Act (Pub. L. 94-469). L. Roads and Transportation. (1) Approval of utility installations along or across a transportation facility located in whole within the limits of the roadway right-of-way. (2) Construction of bicycle and pedestrian lanes and paths adjacent to existing highways and within the existing rights-of-way. (3) Activities included in a ``highway safety plan'' under 23 CFR 402. (4) Installation of fencing, signs, pavement markings, small passenger shelters, traffic signals, and railroad warning devices where no substantial land acquisition or traffic disruption will occur. (5) Emergency repairs under 23 U.S.C. 125. (6) Acquisition of scenic easements. (7) Alterations to facilities to make them accessible for the elderly or handicapped. (8) Resurfacing a highway without adding to the existing width. (9) Rehabilitation, reconstruction or replacement of an existing bridge structure on essentially the same alignment or location (e.g., widening, adding shoulders or safety lanes, walkways, bikeways or guardrails). (10) Approvals for changes in access control within existing right- of-ways. (11) Road construction within an existing right-of-way which has already been acquired for a HUD housing project and for which earlier NEPA analysis has already been prepared. M. Other. (1) Data gathering activities such as inventories, soil and range surveys, timber cruising, geological, geophysical, archeological, paleontological and cadastral surveys. (2) Establishment of non-disturbance environmental quality monitoring programs and field monitoring stations including testing services. (3) Actions where BIA has concurrence or co-approval with another Bureau and the action is categorically excluded for that Bureau. (4) Approval of an Application for Permit to Drill for a new water source or observation well. (5) Approval of conversion of an abandoned oil well to a water well if water facilities are established only near the well site. (6) Approval and issuance of permits under the Archaeological Resources Protection Act (16 U.S.C. 470aa-ll) when the permitted activity is being done as a part of an action for which a NEPA analysis has been, or is being prepared. (7) Approval of leases, easements or funds for single-family homesites and associated improvements, including but not limited to, construction of homes, outbuildings, access roads, and utility lines, which encompass five acres or less of contiguous land, provided that such sites and associated improvements do not adversely affect any tribal [[Page 9538]] cultural resources or historic properties and are in compliance with applicable federal and tribal laws. Home construction may include up to four dwelling units, whether in a single building or up to four separate buildings. III. Comments Invited The BIA encourages interested persons to submit written comments on any BIA CATEX. For example, comments may address keeping, revising, or deleting current CATEXS and suggest new CATEXS for consideration. Persons submitting information should include their name, address, and other appropriate contact information. Before including such personal identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment--including your personal identifying information--may be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. You may submit your information by one of the means listed under ADDRESSES. If you submit information by mail or hand delivery, submit them in an unbound format, no larger than 8 \1/2\ by 11 inches, suitable for copying and electronic filing. If you submit information by mail and would like to know it was received, please enclose a stamped, self- addressed postcard or envelope. The BIA will consider all comments received during the comment period. Dated: January 24, 2018. John Tahsuda, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs, Exercising the Authority of the Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs. [FR Doc. 2018-04513 Filed 3-5-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4337-15-P
![Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 44 / Tuesday, March 6, 2018 / Notices 9535
any previous mortgage loan sale of (a) Serviced or held such reverse DATES: Comments and related material
HUD; mortgage loan at any time during the must be postmarked no later than May
6. An employee of HUD’s Office of six-month period prior to the bid; or 7, 2018.
Housing, a member of such employee’s (b) is any principal of any entity or ADDRESSES: Please submit your
household, or an entity owned or individual described in the preceding comments by only one of the following
controlled by any such employee or sentence; means: (1) By mail to: Dr. BJ Howerton,
member of such an employee’s (c) any employee or subcontractor of MBA, Branch Chief Environmental and
household with household to be such entity or individual during that Cultural Resource Management C/O
inclusive of the employee’s father, six-month period; or Department of the Interior, 12220
mother, stepfather, stepmother, brother, (d) any entity or individual that Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 20192;
sister, stepbrother, stepsister, son, employs or uses the services of any or (2) by email to: bj.howerton@bia.gov.
daughter, stepson, stepdaughter, other entity or individual described in Please put ‘‘CATEX’’ in the subject line.
grandparent, grandson, granddaughter, this paragraph in preparing its bid on FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in- such reverse mortgage loan. BJ Howerton, (703) 390–6524, email:
law, sister-in-law, son-in-law, daughter- Freedom of Information Act Requests bj.howerton@bia.gov.
in-law, first cousin, the spouse of any of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
the foregoing, and the employee’s HUD reserves the right, in its sole and
spouse; absolute discretion, to disclose I. Background
information regarding HVLS 2018–1, The NEPA requires Federal agencies
7. A contractor, subcontractor and/or
including, but not limited to, the to consider the potential environmental
consultant or advisor (including any
identity of any successful qualified consequences of their decisions before
agent, employee, partner, director, or
bidder and its bid price or bid deciding whether and how to proceed.
principal of any of the foregoing) who
percentage for any pool of loans or The Council on Environmental Quality
performed services for or on behalf of
individual loan, upon the closing of the (CEQ) encourages Federal agencies to
HUD in connection with the sale;
sale of all the Mortgage Loans. Even if use CATEXs to protect the environment
8. An individual or entity that HUD elects not to publicly disclose any
knowingly acquired or will acquire more efficiently by: (a) Reducing the
information relating to SFLS 2018–1, resources spent analyzing proposals
prior to the sale date material non- HUD will disclose any information that
public information, other than that which generally do not have potentially
HUD is obligated to disclose pursuant to significant environmental impacts, and
information which is made available to the Freedom of Information Act and all
Bidder by HUD pursuant to the terms of (b) focusing resources on proposals that
regulations promulgated thereunder. may have significant environmental
this Qualification Statement, about
mortgage loans offered in the sale; Scope of Notice impacts. The appropriate use of
9. An individual or entity that CATEXs allow the NEPA review to be
This notice applies to HVLS 2018–1
knowingly uses the services, directly or concluded without preparing either an
and does not establish HUD’s policy for
indirectly, of any person or entity environmental assessment (EA) or an
the sale of other mortgage loans.
ineligible under 1 through 10 to assist environmental impact statement (EIS)
Dated: February 23, 2018. (40 CFR 1500.4(p) and § 1508.4).
in preparing any of its bids on the
mortgage loans;
Dana T. Wade, The CEQ regulations implementing
General Deputy Assistant Secretary for NEPA define CATEXs as a category of
10. An individual or entity which Housing. actions that do not individually or
knowingly employs or uses the services [FR Doc. 2018–04528 Filed 3–5–18; 8:45 am] cumulatively have a significant effect on
of an employee of HUD’s Office of the human environment, and for which,
BILLING CODE 4210–67–P
Housing (other than in such employee’s therefore, neither an EA nor an EIS is
official capacity); or required. (40 CFR 1508.4). The CEQ
The Qualification Statement has regulations encourage the use of
additional representations and DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
CATEXs to reduce unnecessary
warranties which the prospective bidder Bureau of Indian Affairs paperwork and delays. A CATEX is a
must make, including but not limited to form of NEPA compliance; it is not an
the representation and warranty that the [189A2100DD/AAKC001030/ exemption from NEPA, but an
prospective bidder or its Related A0A501010.999900 253G] exemption from requirements to prepare
Entities are not and will not knowingly an EIS. Agency procedures must
use the services, directly or indirectly, Updates to Bureau of Indian Affairs
Categorical Exclusions Under the consider ‘‘extraordinary circumstances,’’
of any person or entity that is, any of the in which case a normally excluded
following (and to the extent that any National Environmental Policy Act
action may have a significant effect and
such individual or entity would prevent AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, require preparation of an EA or EIS.
the prospective bidder from making the Interior. The Department of the Interior
following representations, such ACTION: Notice of proposed action and (Interior) has established CATEXs at 43
individual or entity has been removed request for comments. CFR 46.210. In addition, BIA has
from participation in all activities bureau-specific CATEXs. The most
related to this sale and has no ability to SUMMARY: The Bureau of Indian Affairs recent CATEXs BIA established were
influence or control individuals (BIA) is proposing to amend its three based on CATEXs currently used
sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES
involved in formation of a bid for this categorical exclusions (CATEXs) under by the United States Forest Service (FS),
sale): the National Environmental Policy Act as described in FS regulations 36 CFR
(1) An entity or individual is of 1969 (NEPA) for certain BIA actions 220, and by the Bureau of Land
ineligible to bid on any included reverse and is seeking comment. The BIA is Management (BLM), as described the
mortgage loan or on the pool containing requesting comment on whether to Departmental Manual, 516 DM 11. The
such reverse mortgage loan because it is revise or delete any current CATEXs or BIA relied on the experience of the FS
an entity or individual that: add any new CATEXs. and BLM and applied its expertise to
VerDate Sep<11>2014 21:39 Mar 05, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00062 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\06MRN1.SGM 06MRN1](https://thefederalregister.org/doc/83_FR_9579/page/1.svg)
![9538 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 44 / Tuesday, March 6, 2018 / Notices
cultural resources or historic properties subsurface estates in certain lands to transmitted by facsimile will not be
and are in compliance with applicable Calista Corporation, an Alaska Native accepted as timely filed.
federal and tribal laws. Home regional corporation, pursuant to the
Chelsea Kreiner,
construction may include up to four Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of
dwelling units, whether in a single 1971, as amended (ANCSA). Land Law Examiner, Adjudication Section.
building or up to four separate [FR Doc. 2018–04474 Filed 3–5–18; 8:45 am]
DATES: Any party claiming a property
buildings. interest in the lands affected by the
BILLING CODE 4310–JA–P
III. Comments Invited decision may appeal the decision in
accordance with the requirements of 43 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
The BIA encourages interested
CFR part 4 within the time limits set out
persons to submit written comments on
in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Bureau of Land Management
any BIA CATEX. For example,
section.
comments may address keeping, [LLCAD01000 L12200000.PM0000
revising, or deleting current CATEXS ADDRESSES: You may obtain a copy of 18XL1109AF]
and suggest new CATEXS for the decision from the Bureau of Land
consideration. Persons submitting Management, Alaska State Office, 222 Meetings of the Dumont Dunes
information should include their name, West Seventh Avenue, #13, Anchorage, Subgroup of the California Desert
address, and other appropriate contact Alaska 99513–7504. District Advisory Council, CA
information. Before including such FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,
personal identifying information in your Chelsea Kreiner, BLM Alaska State Interior.
comment, you should be aware that Office, 907–271–4205, or ckreiner@
your entire comment—including your ACTION: Notice of public meetings.
blm.gov. The BLM Alaska State Office
personal identifying information—may may also be contacted via SUMMARY: In accordance with the
be made publicly available at any time. Telecommunications Device for the Deaf Federal Land Policy and Management
While you can ask us in your comment (TDD) through the Federal Relay Service Act of 1976, the Federal Advisory
to withhold your personal identifying at 1–800–877–8339. The relay service is Committee Act of 1972, and the Federal
information from public review, we available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, Lands Recreation Enhancement Act of
cannot guarantee that we will be able to to leave a message or question with the 2004 (REA), the U.S. Department of the
do so. You may submit your information BLM. The BLM will reply during Interior, Bureau of Land Management
by one of the means listed under normal business hours. (BLM) Dumont Dunes Subgroup of the
ADDRESSES. If you submit information
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As California Desert District Advisory
by mail or hand delivery, submit them Council (DAC) will meet as indicated
in an unbound format, no larger than required by 43 CFR 2650.7(d), notice is
hereby given that the BLM will issue an below.
8 1⁄2 by 11 inches, suitable for copying
and electronic filing. If you submit appealable decision to Calista DATES: The BLM’s Dumont Dunes
information by mail and would like to Corporation. The decision approves Subgroup of the California DAC will
know it was received, please enclose a conveyance of the surface and hold public meetings on March 24,
stamped, self-addressed postcard or subsurface estates in certain lands 2018, from 12:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., and
envelope. The BIA will consider all pursuant to ANCSA (43 U.S.C. 1601, et on September 18, 2018, from 12:00 p.m.
comments received during the comment seq.), as amended. The lands are located to 2:30 p.m.
period. within the Yukon Delta National ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at
Wildlife Refuge, and aggregate 122.49 the Barstow Field Office, 2601 Barstow
Dated: January 24, 2018.
acres. The BLM will also publish the Rd., Barstow, CA 92311.
John Tahsuda, notice of the decision once a week for
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary—Indian FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
four consecutive weeks in The Delta Katrina Symons, BLM Barstow Field
Affairs, Exercising the Authority of the Discovery newspaper.
Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs. Office, email: ksymons@blm.gov,
Any party claiming a property interest telephone: 760–252–6000. Persons who
[FR Doc. 2018–04513 Filed 3–5–18; 8:45 am]
in the lands affected by the decision use a telecommunications device for the
BILLING CODE 4337–15–P
may appeal the decision in accordance deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay
with the requirements of 43 CFR part 4 Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR within the following time limits: contact the above individual during
1. Unknown parties, parties unable to normal business hours. The FRS is
Bureau of Land Management be located after reasonable efforts have available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,
been expended to locate, parties who to leave a message or question with the
[AA–9381, AA–9414, AA–9415, AA–9419,
AA–9420, AA–9429, AA–9430, AA–9437, fail or refuse to sign their return receipt, above individual. You will receive a
AA–9699, AA–9722; 18X.LLAK944000. and parties who receive a copy of the reply during normal hours.
L14100000.HY0000.P] decision by regular mail which is not SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
certified, return receipt requested, shall Dumont Dunes Subgroup operates
Alaska Native Claims Selection have until April 5, 2018 to file an under the authority of the DAC and
appeal. provides input to the BLM regarding
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,
2. Parties receiving service of the issues pertinent to the Dumont Dunes
sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES
Interior.
decision by certified mail shall have 30 Off-Highway Vehicle Area. Meetings are
ACTION: Notice.
days from the date of receipt to file an open to the public. Proposed agenda
SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land appeal. items for the two public meetings
Management (BLM) hereby provides Parties who do not file an appeal in include holiday volunteer scheduling
constructive notice that it will issue an accordance with the requirements of 43 and BLM updates on management of the
appealable decision approving CFR part 4 shall be deemed to have Area, according to the principles of
conveyance of the surface and waived their rights. Notices of appeal multiple use and sustained yield. The
VerDate Sep<11>2014 21:39 Mar 05, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00065 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\06MRN1.SGM 06MRN1](https://thefederalregister.org/doc/83_FR_9579/page/4.svg)
Document Created: 2018-11-01 08:48:52
Document Modified: 2018-11-01 08:48:52
| Category | Regulatory Information | |
| Collection | Federal Register | |
| sudoc Class | AE 2.7: GS 4.107: AE 2.106: | |
| Publisher | Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration | |
| Section | Notices | |
| Action | Notice of proposed action and request for comments. | |
| Dates | Comments and related material must be postmarked no later than May 7, 2018. | |
| Contact | Dr. BJ Howerton, (703) 390-6524, email: [email protected] | |
| FR Citation | 83 FR 9535 |
2025 Federal Register | Disclaimer | Privacy Policy
USC | CFR | eCFR