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The plan will fulfill the needs and 

obligations set forth by the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act (FLPMA), and BLM management 

policies. The BLM will ask the Park 

County Commissioners and the 

Colorado Division of Wildlife to be 

cooperators on the plan amendment. 

BLM will work with interested parties 

to identify the management decisions 

that are best suited to local, regional, 

and national needs. The public scoping 

process will identify planning issues 

and develop planning criteria. The BLM 

will prepare the land tenure plan 

through coordination with other federal, 

state and local agencies, and affected 

users of BLM-administered lands.

ADDRESSES: Please send written 

comments to Bureau of Land 

Management, Royal Gorge Field Office, 

ATTN: South Park Land Tenure Plan, 

3170 East Main Street, Canon City, CO 

81212; FAX 719–269–8599.

DATES: This notice initiates the public 

scoping process. Comments on issues 

and concerns can be submitted in 

writing to the address listed above and 

will be accepted throughout the creation 

of the Draft RMP amendment/EA. All 

public meetings will be announced 

through the local news media, 

newsletters, and the BLM Web site at: 

http://www.co.blm.gov/ccdo/canon.htm,

at least 15 days prior to the event. The 

minutes and list of attendees for each 

meeting will be available in the Field 

Office and at the Web site, and they will 

be open for 30 days to any participant 

who wishes to clarify the views they 

expressed.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information and/or to have your 

name added to the mailing list, contact 

Pete Zwaneveld, Co-Team Leader, at the 

Royal Gorge Field Office address listed 

above or by calling (719) 269–8559, or 

e-mail at rgfo_comments@blm.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BLM 

will hold public meetings during the 

plan scoping period. Early participation 

is encouraged and will help determine 

the future land tenure status of the 

BLM-administered lands involved in 

this amendment. In addition to the 

ongoing public participation process, 

the BLM will provide formal 

opportunities for public participation by 

requesting comments upon BLM’s 

publication of the draft RMP 

amendment, the EA, and the (unsigned) 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

(FONSI). The BLM will notify the 

Governor of Colorado, the Park County 

Commissioners, adjacent landowners, 

and potentially affected members of the 

public on the proposed changes in land 

tenure. Documents pertinent to this 

proposal may be examined at the Royal 

Gorge Field Office. Comments, 

including names and street addresses of 

respondents, will be available for public 

review at the Royal Gorge Field Office 

during regular business hours (8 a.m. to 

4:30 p.m.), Monday through Friday, 

except holidays, and may be published 

as part of the EA. Individual 

respondents may request 

confidentiality. If you wish to withhold 

your name or street address from public 

review or from disclosure under the 

Freedom of Information Act, you must 

state this prominently at the beginning 

of your written comment. Such requests 

will be honored to the extent allowed by 

law. All submissions from organizations 

or businesses, and from individuals 

identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, will be 

available for public inspection in their 

entirety. 

The BLM-managed lands in Park 

County are scattered and, in many cases, 

difficult to manage and hard for the 

public to access or use. The current 

RMP decisions call for disposal of most 

of these lands. Since approval of the 

RMP in 1996, several new issues have 

arisen that bring into question the 

disposal of some of these lands. These 

issues include an expression by local 

citizens and the Park County 

Commissioners of the value of the BLMadministered lands to the public as a 

whole; the status of the mountain plover 

as a BLM sensitive species; the 

recognition by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife 

Service of the importance of fens 

(wetlands of concern); and the 

completion of a Strategic Master Plan 

for Park County. The plover and fen 

issues restrict BLM in the disposal of 

BLM-administered lands. Consolidation 

of BLM-administered lands to 

accommodate these issues has become a 

more desirable option. To do this, BLM 

would have to amend the Royal Gorge 

RMP with new decisions on land 

tenure. 

Preliminary issues and management 

concerns have been identified by BLM 

personnel, other agencies, and in 

meetings with individuals, the Park 

County Commissioners, and user 

groups. They represent the BLM’s 

knowledge to date on the existing issues 

and concerns with current management. 

The preliminary issues include: impacts 

to users of BLM-administered lands and 

adjacent private landowners; impacts to 

wildlife habitat; and impacts to water 

quality, vegetation, including riparian 

and wetland areas, and soils. These 

issues, along with others that may be 

identified through public participation, 

will be considered in the planning 

process. After gathering public 

comments on what issues the plan 

amendment should address, the 

suggested issues will be placed in one 

of three categories: 

1. Issues to be resolved in the plan 

amendment; 

2. Issues resolved through policy or 

administrative action; or 

3. Issues beyond the scope of this plan 

amendment. 

Rationale will be provided in the plan 

for each issue placed in category two or 

three. In addition to these major issues, 

a number of management questions and 

concerns will be addressed in the plan 

amendment. The public is encouraged 

to help identify these questions and 

concerns during the scoping phase. 

An interdisciplinary approach will be 

used to develop the plan amendment in 

order to consider the variety of resource 

issues and concerns identified. 

Disciplines involved in the planning 

process will include specialists with 

expertise in rangeland management, 

minerals and geology, forestry, outdoor 

recreation, law enforcement, 

archaeology, wildlife and fisheries, 

lands and realty, hydrology, soils, 

vegetation, and fire.

Roy L. Masinton, 

Field Manager.

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BILLING CODE 4310–JB–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management 

[NM–910–04–1020–PH] 

New Mexico Resource Advisory 

Council, Notice of Call for Nominations

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act and the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act of 1972, the U. S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management, New Mexico 

Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will 

meet as indicated below.

DATES: The meeting dates are February 

26–27, 2004, has been moved from 

Marbob Energy, 2208 West Main, 

Artesia, New Mexico. The new location 

is the Artesia Country Club, 2701 W. 

Ritchie, Artesia, New Mexico. The 

meeting begins at 8 a.m. on both days 

and will adjourn at approximately 5 

p.m. on Thursday and 11:30 a.m. on 

Friday. The three established RAC 

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working groups may have a late 

afternoon or an evening meeting on 

Thursday, February 26, 2004. 

An optional field trip is planned for 

Wednesday, February 25, 2004. The 

public comment period is scheduled for 

Wednesday, February 25, from 6–8 p.m. 

at the Best Western Pecos Inn, 2209 

West Main Street. The public may 

present written comments to the RAC. 

Depending on the number of 

individuals wishing to comment and 

time available, oral comments may be 

limited.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 15-

member RAC advises the Secretary of 

the Interior, through the Bureau of Land 

Management, on a variety of planning 

and management issues associated with 

public land management in New 

Mexico. All meetings are open to the 

public. At this meeting, topics for 

discussion include: 

Rehabilitation of older oil and gas 

well sites, access issues on Cooke’s 

Peak, oil and gas and cultural 

management in the Carlsbad Area, the 

Preferred Upstream Management 

Practices (PUMP) III Project (a cultural 

resources Geographic Information 

System database focused on oil and gas 

fields), update on noxious weeds 

program, and proposed RAC initiatives.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Theresa Herrera, New Mexico State 

Office, Office of External Affairs, Bureau 

of Land Management, P.O. Box 27115, 

Santa Fe, New Mexico 87502–0115, 

(505) 438–7517.

Dated: February 3, 2004. 

Ron Dunton, 

Acting State Director.

[FR Doc. 04–2672 Filed 2–6–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–FB–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management 

[ES–960–1430–BJ] ES–052046, Group 43, 

Illinois 

Notice of Filing of Plat of Survey; 

Illinois 

The Bureau of Land Management 

(BLM) will officially file the plat of the 

dependent resurvey of a portion of the 

subdivisional lines and the survey of a 

portion of the subdivision of section 17, 

which define the Great River National 

Wildlife Refuge acquisition boundary in 

Township 7 South, Range 5 West, 

Fourth Principal Meridian, Illinois, 

accepted on January 29, 2004, in the 

Eastern States Office, Springfield, 

Virginia, 30 calendar days from the date 

of publication in the Federal Register. 

The survey was requested by the U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service. 

All inquiries or protests concerning 

the technical aspects of the survey must 

be submitted in writing to the Chief 

Cadastral Surveyor, Eastern States, 

Bureau of Land Management, 7450 

Boston Boulevard, Springfield, Virginia 

22153, prior to the date of the official 

filing. 

We will place a copy of the plat we 

described in the open files. Copies of 

the plat will be made available upon 

request and prepayment of the 

appropriate fee.

Dated: January 29, 2004. 

Stephen D. Douglas, 

Chief Cadastral Surveyor.

[FR Doc. 04–2675 Filed 2–6–04; 8:45 am] 

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation No. 332–458] 

Commercial Availability of Apparel 

Inputs (2004): Effect of Providing 

Preferential Treatment to Apparel From 

Sub-Saharan African, Caribbean Basin, 

and Andean Countries

AGENCY: United States International 

Trade Commission.

ACTION: Institution of investigation.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 2, 2004.

SUMMARY: Following receipt of a request 

from the United States Trade 

Representative (USTR) on January 27, 

2004, the Commission instituted 

investigation No. 332–458, Commercial 

Availability of Apparel Inputs (2004): 

Effect of Providing Preferential 

Treatment to Apparel from Sub-Saharan 

African, Caribbean Basin, and Andean 

Countries. The Commission instituted 

the investigation under section 332(g) of 

the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 

1332(g)) to provide advice regarding the 

probable economic effect of granting 

preferential treatment to apparel made 

from fabrics or yarns that are the subject 

of petitions filed in 2004 with the 

Committee for the Implementation of 

Textile Agreements (CITA) under the 

‘‘commercial availability’’ provisions of 

the African Growth and Opportunity 

Act (AGOA), the United StatesCaribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act 

(CBTPA), and the Andean Trade 

Promotion and Drug Eradication Act 

(ATPDEA). The Commission conducted 

similar investigations in the years 2001–

03 to provide advice with respect to 

petitions filed in those years.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

general information, contact Jackie W. 

Jones (202–205–3466, jones@usitc.gov) 

of the Office of Industries; for 

information on legal aspects, contact 

William Gearhart (202–205–3091, 

wgearhart@usitc.gov) of the Office of the 

General Counsel. The media should 

contact Margaret O’Laughlin, Public 

Affairs Officer (202–205–1819). Hearing 

impaired individuals may obtain 

information on this matter by contacting 

the Commission’s TDD terminal on 202–

205–1810. Persons with mobility 

impairments who will need special 

assistance in gaining access to the 

Commission should contact the Office 

of the Secretary at 202–205–2000. 

General information about the 

Commission may be obtained by 

accessing its Internet server (http://

www.usitc.gov). The public record for 

this investigation may be viewed on the 

Commission’s electronic docket (EDIS) 

http://edis.usitc.gov.

Background: The Commission will 

follow procedures similar to those 

followed in the commercial availability 

reviews in 2003 under investigation No. 

332–450. Thus, in 2004, the 

Commission will provide advice for 

each commercial availability review 

under one investigation number. In 

addition, the Commission will post a 

notification letter announcing the 

initiation of each review on its Internet 

site (http://www.usitc.gov) and send the 

notification letter to a list of interested 

parties who wish to be automatically 

notified via facsimile about any requests 

for which the Commission initiated 

analysis. Interested parties may be 

added to this list by notifying Jackie W. 

Jones (202–205–3466, jones@usitc.gov). 

The notification letter will specify the 

article(s) under consideration, the 

deadline for submission of public 

comments on the proposed preferential 

treatment, and the name, telephone 

number, and Internet e-mail address of 

a staff contact for additional 

information. The Commission has a 

special area on its Internet site (http://

www.usitc.gov/332s/shortsup/

shortsupintro.htm) to provide the public 

with information on the status of each 

request for which the Commission 

initiated analysis. CITA publishes a 

summary of each request from 

interested parties in the Federal 

Register and posts them on its Internet 

site (U.S. Department of Commerce, 

Office of Textiles and Apparel, at 

http://otexa.ita.doc.gov/fr.htm). 

The Commission will submit its 

reports to the USTR not later than the 

42nd day after receiving a request for 

advice. The Commission will issue a 

public version of each report as soon as 

possible thereafter, with any