69388 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 228 / Monday, November 29, 2004 / Notices 

with members of the public and affected 

agencies concerning each proposed 

collection of information * * *’’

Agencies must specifically solicit 

comments to: (a) Evaluate whether the 

proposed collection of information is 

necessary for the agency to perform its 

duties, including whether the 

information is useful; (b) evaluate the 

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information; (c) enhance the quality, 

usefulness, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (d) 

minimize the burden on the 

respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Furthermore, we are interested in any 

comments you may have to increase 

response rates.

To comply with the public 

consultation process, on May 10, 2004, 

we published a Federal Register Notice 

(Volume 69, Number 90, page 25916–

25918) announcing that we would 

submit this renewal/extension request 

to OMB for approval. The notice 

provided the required 60-day comment 

period. One public comment was 

received during the comment period 

and we have addressed the individual’s 

concern by responding directly to him 

and making appropriate revisions to our 

renewal/extension request. 

If you wish to comment in response 

to this notice, send your comments 

directly to the offices listed under the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice. OMB 

has up to 60 days to approve or 

disapprove the information collection, 

but may respond after 30 days. 

Therefore, to ensure maximum 

consideration, OMB should receive 

public comments by December 29, 2004. 

Public Comment Policy: Our practice 

is to make comments, including names 

and home addresses of respondents, 

available for public review during 

regular business hours. Individual 

respondents may request that we 

withhold their home address from the 

record, which we will honor to the 

extent allowable by law. There may be 

circumstances in which we would 

withhold from the record a respondent’s 

identity, as allowable by law. If you as 

a commenter, wish us to withhold your 

name and/or address, you must state 

this prominently at the beginning of 

your comment. However, we will not 

consider anonymous comments. We 

will make all submissions from 

organizations or business, and from 

individuals identifying themselves as 

representatives of organizations or 

businesses, available for public 

inspection in their entirety. 

DOI Information Collection Contact:

Office of Planning and Performance 

Management (202) 208–1818.

Dated: November 17, 2004. 

Richard T. Beck, 

Director, Office of Planning and Performance 

Management.

[FR Doc. 04–26228 Filed 11–26–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–RK–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management 

[CA–180] 

Notice of Intent To Prepare a Resource 

Management Plan and Associated 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Folsom Field Office

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of intent.

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) Field Office in 

Folsom, California, intends to prepare a 

Resource Management Plan (RMP) with 

an associated Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) to guide management 

activities for the public lands and 

resources under its jurisdiction. The 

public scoping process will begin with 

the publication of this notice. Public 

scoping meetings, to identify relevant 

issues and concerns, will be announced 

in advance through BLM’s Web site and 

in local news media.

DATES: Public meetings will be held 

throughout the planned scoping and 

preparation period. In order to ensure 

local community participation and 

input, several meetings will be held, at 

least one for each watershed. Written 

comments sent to the address listed 

below will be accepted until further 

notice. The time and location of public 

scoping meetings, public comment 

periods, and comment closing dates will 

be announced through local news 

media, direct mailings, and on the 

Folsom Field Office Web site at http://

www.ca.blm.gov/folsom within 15 days 

of the meetings.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be sent to ‘‘RMP Comments,’’ BLM, 

Folsom Field Office, 63 Natoma Street, 

Folsom, CA 95630, or sent by fax to 

(916) 985–3259. Documents pertinent to 

this planning project may be examined 

at the Folsom Field Office. Comments, 

including names and street addresses of 

respondents, will be available for public 

review at the Folsom Field Office during 

regular business hours, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

holidays, and may be published as part 

of the RMP/EIS. Individuals who wish 

to withhold their name or street address 

from public review or from disclosure 

under the Freedom of Information Act 

must state this prominently at the 

beginning of their written comments. 

Such requests will be honored to the 

extent allowed by law. The BLM will 

not consider anonymous comments. All 

submissions from organizations and 

businesses, and from individuals 

identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, will be 

available for public inspection in their 

entirety.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rick 

Cooper, RMP Coordinator, BLM, Folsom 

Field Office, 63 Natoma Street, Folsom, 

CA 95630, phone (916) 985–4474. To 

add a name to the RMP mailing list, 

contact Lou Cutajar, Public Contact 

Specialist, in the Folsom Field Office.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Folsom Field Office is responsible for 

the management of approximately 

230,000 acres of public land within 

fourteen California counties: Colusa, 

Yuba, Nevada, Sutter, Placer, El Dorado, 

Sacramento, San Joaquin, Amador, 

Calaveras, Merced, Stanislaus, 

Tuolumne, and Mariposa. The BLM will 

work collaboratively with interested 

parties to identify the management 

decisions that are best suited to local, 

regional, and national needs and 

concerns. 

Preliminary issues and management 

concerns have been identified by BLM 

personnel, other agencies, and in 

meetings with individuals and user 

groups. The preliminary issues include: 

Management of public land resources at 

the watershed level; management of 

ecosystems and riparian areas to 

maintain and improve properly 

functioning conditions; management 

and protection of sensitive, rare, 

threatened, or endangered species; 

management of Wild and Scenic River 

corridors; implementation of the Federal 

Wildland Fire Policy; fluid and solid 

mineral development; meeting the 

needs of local and regional communities 

and the effects of a growing urban 

interface; land tenure adjustments, 

consideration of lands for special 

management designation; cultural 

resource identification, protection, and 

interpretation; and the provision of 

recreation opportunities to meet a 

growing and diverse demand. 

These preliminary issues will be 

further defined by direct input through 

active public participation. Through the 

plan scoping process, the public will 

help identify issues, questions, and 

concerns to be addressed by the RMP. 

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An interdisciplinary approach will be 

used to develop the plan in order to 

consider the variety of resource issues 

and concerns identified during the 

scoping process. The interdisciplinary 

team involved with the RMP process 

includes specialists with expertise in 

minerals and geology, forestry, range, 

fire and fuels management, outdoor 

recreation, archaeology, paleontology, 

botany, wildlife and fisheries, 

hydrology, lands and realty, soils, air 

quality, sociology, and economics. 

The Folsom Field Office is currently 

managed under the Sierra Planning Area 

Management Framework Plan as 

Amended in 1988. Management under 

this document will continue until the 

RMP is approved.

Dated: October 4, 2004. 

Deane K. Swickard, 

Field Manager.

[FR Doc. 04–26324 Filed 11–26–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–40–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management 

[AK–930–1310–DB–CPAI] 

Notice of Availability of the Record of 

Decision for the Alpine Satellite 

Development Plan

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability of record 

of decision (ROD). 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) announces the 

availability of the Alpine Satellite 

Development Plan Environmental 

Impact Statement (ASDP EIS) Record of 

Decision (ROD). The ASDP ROD 

approves satellite oil drilling and 

production pads and associated 

structures (roads, pipelines, gravel 

mine) and certain other activities 

proposed by ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc. 

(CPAI) on BLM-managed lands in the 

National Petroleum Reserve—Alaska. 

Assistant Secretary Rebecca Watson 

signed the ROD on November 8, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the ROD are 

available at the Alaska State Office, 

Public Information Center at 222 West 

7th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, 99513–

7599 or upon request from that office by 

phoning (907) 271–5960 or Jim Ducker, 

Bureau of Land Management, Alaska 

State Office (931) 222 West 7th Avenue, 

Anchorage, Alaska 99513–7599; (907) 

271–3130. The ROD may be viewed on 

BLM-Alaska’s Web site at http://

www.ak.blm.us.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim 

Ducker, BLM Alaska State Office, (907) 

271–3130.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The ASDP 

EIS analyzed CPAI’s proposal to 

develop oil accumulations from five 

satellite drilling and production pads, 

two of which would be on BLMmanaged federal lands. The decisions in 

this ROD are limited to federal lands. 

BLM will issue permits and rights-ofway for the ASDP on federal lands 

following the State of Alaska’s 

completion of its review of CPAI’s 

coastal zone consistency certification 

and issuance of concurrence. 

Authorizations for development on nonfederal lands will be issued by the U.S. 

Corps of Engineers (USACE), the U.S. 

Coast Guard (USCG), the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA), and the State of Alaska. In 

addition, these agencies will make 

decisions, within their respective 

authorities, on federal lands.

Dated: November 18, 2004. 

Henri R. Bisson, 

State Director.

[FR Doc. 04–26321 Filed 11–26–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–AG–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management 

[NM–920–1310–05; NMNM 106535] 

Proposed Reinstatement of Terminated 

Oil and Gas Lease NMNM 106535

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of reinstatement of 

terminated oil and gas lease. 

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of Pub. 

L. 97–451, a petition for reinstatement 

of oil and gas lease NMNM 106535 for 

lands in Eddy County, New Mexico, was 

timely filed and was accompanied by all 

required rentals and royalties accruing 

from September 1, 2003, the date of 

termination.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Bernadine T. Martinez, BLM, New 

Mexico State Office, (505) 438–7530.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: No valid 

lease has been issued affecting the 

lands. The lessees have agreed to new 

lease terms for rentals and royalties at 

rates of $10.00 per acre or fraction 

thereof and 162⁄3 percent, respectively. 

The lessees have paid the required 

$500.00 administrative fee and has 

reimbursed the Bureau of Land 

Management for the cost of this Federal 

Register notice. 

The lessees have met all the 

requirements for reinstatement of the 

lease as set out in Sections 31(d) and (e) 

of the Mineral Lease Act of 1920 (30 

U.S.C. 188), and the Bureau of Land 

Management is proposing to reinstate 

the lease effective September 1, 2003, 

subject to the original terms and 

conditions of the lease and the 

increased rental and royalty rates cited 

above.

Bernadine T. Martinez, 

Land Law Examiner, Fluids Adjudication 

Team.

[FR Doc. 04–26322 Filed 11–26–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–FB–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management 

[OR–035–04–1430–EU; GP–04–0247] 

Direct Sale of Public Land, OR 55881

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management 

(BLM), Vale District, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of realty action.

SUMMARY: An 11.25 acre parcel of public 

land in Baker County, Oregon, is being 

considered for direct sale to George and 

Joanne Voile, the adjoining landowners, 

to resolve an inadvertent unauthorized 

use that was initiated many decades ago 

by the former owners. 

This land is difficult and uneconomic 

to manage as part of the public lands 

and is not suitable for management by 

another Federal agency. No significant 

resource values will be affected by this 

disposal. The parcel proposed for sale is 

identified as suitable for disposal in the 

Baker Resource Management Plan, dated 

July 2, 1989.

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

January 13, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Address all written 

comments concerning this Notice to 

Penelope Dunn Woods, Field Manager, 

BLM Baker Field Office, 3165 10th 

Street, Baker City, Oregon 97814. 

Electronic format submittal will not be 

accepted.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Steve Davidson, Realty Specialist, at 

(541) 523–1349.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

following described public land in 

Baker County, Oregon, is suitable for 

sale under Sections 203 and 209 of the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act (FLPMA) of 1976, (43 U.S.C. 1713 

and 1719). The parcel proposed for sale 

is described as follows:

Willamette Meridian, Oregon 

T. 8 S., R. 42 E.