[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 139 (Friday, July 18, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 41374]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-16359]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[UT-110-1610-029J]
Notice of Availability of the Kanab Field Office Proposed
Resource Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement
(PRMP/FEIS)
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of
1969 and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, the Bureau
of Land Management (BLM) has prepared a Proposed Resource Management
Plan/Final Environmental Impact Statement (PRMP/FEIS) for the Kanab
Field Office.
DATES: The BLM planning regulations (43 CFR 1610.5-2) state that any
person who meets the conditions as described in the regulations may
protest the BLM's PRMP/FEIS. A person who meets the conditions and
files a protest must file the protest within 30 days of the date that
the Environmental Protection Agency publishes this notice in the
Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the Kanab Field Office PRMP/FEIS were sent to
affected Federal, state, and local government agencies and to
interested parties. Copies of the PRMP/FEIS are available for public
inspection at:
Kanab Field Office, 318 East 100 North, Kanab, UT 84741
Utah State Office, 440 West 200 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84145
Interested persons may also review the PRMP/FEIS on the Internet at
http://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/fo/kanab/planning.html. All protests must
be in writing and mailed to the following addresses:
Regular Mail: BLM Director (210), Attention: Brenda Hudgens-Williams,
P.O. Box 66538, Washington, DC 20035
Overnight Mail: BLM Director (210), Attention: Brenda Hudgens-Williams,
1620 L Street, NW., Suite 1075, Washington, DC 20036
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Keith Rigtrup, Kanab Field Office,
318 East 100 North, Kanab, UT 84741; phone: (435) 644-4600; or e-mail
at: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Kanab RMP planning area is located in
south-central Utah. The BLM administers approximately 0.6 million acres
of surface estate and 0.7 million acres of Federal mineral estate
within the planning area.
The Kanab RMP will provide future broad-scale management direction
for land use allocations and allowable uses on public lands within the
planning area. Implementation of the decisions of the PRMP/FEIS would
apply only to BLM-administered public lands and Federal mineral estate.
In the Kanab Field Office Draft RMP/EIS (DRMP/DEIS), which was released
for a 90-day public review and comment period in October 2007, four
alternatives were analyzed, including a No Action alternative. These
alternatives were developed through issue identification during the
scoping process. Such issues included: non-WSA lands with wilderness
characteristics, recreation, transportation, minerals and energy
resources, ACECs, and WSAs.
The PRMP/FEIS would designate no new Areas of Critical
Environmental Concern (ACECs), and the continuation of one existing
ACEC, totaling 3,800 acres. Resource use limitations that apply to the
proposed ACECs include a range of different prescriptions as described
in Table 1 below.
Table 1.--Evaluation of Areas of Critical Environmental Concern
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Area name Values of concern Resource use limitations Acres
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Cottonwood Canyon....................... Scenic, Cultural, Hazard/ VRM Class II...... 3,800
Safety/Public Welfare. OHV limited to
designated routes..
Open to oil and
gas leasing subject to No
Surface Occupancy..
Closed to mineral
material.
Recommend
withdrawal from mineral
entry.
Close the Water
Canyon allotment (48 AUMs)
to livestock grazing for
the life of the plan.
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Comments on Kanab Field Office the DRMP/DEIS received from the
public and internal BLM review were considered and incorporated as
appropriate into the PRMP/FEIS. Public comments resulted in the
addition of clarifying text, but did not significantly change proposed
land use plan decisions.
Instructions for filing a protest with the Director of the BLM
regarding the PRMP/FEIS may be found in the Dear Reader Letter of the
PRMP/FEIS and at 43 CFR 1610.5-2. E-mail and faxed protests will not be
accepted as valid protests unless the protesting party also provides
the original letter by either regular or overnight mail postmarked by
the close of the protest period. Under these conditions, the BLM will
consider the e-mail or faxed protest as an advance copy and it will
receive full consideration. If you wish to provide the BLM with such
advance notification, please direct faxed protests to the attention of
the BLM protest coordinator at 202-452-5112, and e-mails to [email protected].
All protests, including the follow-up letter (if e-mailing or
faxing) must be in writing and mailed to the appropriate address, as
set forth in the ADDRESSES section above.
Before including your phone number, e-mail address, or other
personal identifying information in your protest, you should be aware
that your entire protest--including your personal identifying
information--may be made publicly available at any time. While you can
ask us in your protest to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be
able to do so.
Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 43 CFR 1610.2, 43 CFR 1610.5-1.
Dated: June 5, 2008.
Selma Sierra,
Utah State Director.
[FR Doc. E8-16359 Filed 7-17-08; 8:45 am]
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