75340 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 241 / Thursday, December 16, 2004 / Notices 

comment period and have agreed to 

extend the period to January 31, 2005.

DATES: Please send your comments no 

later than January 31, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Please hand-deliver written 

comments: To Nick Douglas, Suite 700, 

1620 L Street, NW., Washington, DC. 

This is also the FedEx address. Mail 

written comments to BLM (Attention: 

Nick Douglas), Minerals, Realty and 

Resource Protection, Mail Stop: LS 700, 

1849 C Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20240. Electronic Mail: You may send 

comments through the Internet to BLM 

at: Nick_Douglas@blm.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nick 

Douglas, Senior Policy Advisor, 

Minerals, Realty and Resource 

Protection, Bureau of Land 

Management, Mail Stop: LS 700, 1849 C 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20240 at 

(202) 452–0374.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: BLM 

published a Notice of Request for 

Comments on Potential for Oil Shale 

Development on November 22, 2004; 

see 69 FR 67935. The purpose of this 

notice is to extend the comment period 

from December 22, 2004 to January 31, 

2005. The United States holds over 50 

percent of the world’s oil shale 

resources, which contain 2.6 trillion 

barrels of oil. These resources include 

the oil shale deposits in the Green River 

formation in the Western United States.

Dated: December 9, 2004. 

Thomas P. Lonnie, 

Assistant Director, Minerals Realty, and 

Resource Protection.

[FR Doc. 04–27533 Filed 12–15–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–AG–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management 

[ES–960–1910–BJ–4489, ES–052572, Group 

No. 37, Missouri] 

Eastern States: Filing of Plat of Survey

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of filing of plat of survey; 

Missouri. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) will file the plat of 

survey of the lands described below in 

the BLM-Eastern States, Springfield, 

Virginia, 30 calendar days from the date 

of publication in the Federal Register.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Bureau of Land Management, 7450 

Boston Boulevard, Springfield, Virginia 

22153. Attn: Cadastral Survey.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

survey was requested by the U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers. 

The lands we surveyed are: 

Fifth Principal Meridian, Missouri, 

T. 49 and 50 N., Rs. 2 and 3 E. 

The plat of survey represents the 

dependent resurvey of portions of the 

township boundaries, portions of the 

subdivisional lines and portions of 

various U.S. Surveys and the survey of 

the Lock and Dam No. 25 acquisition 

boundary, in Townships 49 and 50 

North, Ranges 2 and 3 East, of the Fifth 

Principal Meridian, in the State of 

Missouri, and was accepted on 

November 30, 2004. 

We will place a copy of the plat we 

described in the open files. It will be 

made available to the public as a matter 

of information.

Dated: November 30, 2004. 

Stephen D. Douglas, 

Chief Cadastral Surveyor.

[FR Doc. 04–27517 Filed 12–15–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–GJ–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation 

Closure Order Establishing 

Prohibitions at Keswick Lake, 

California

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of closure.

SUMMARY: Purpose Of Closure Order:

This closure order is issued to provide 

for the protection of federal property 

and to ensure public safety at 

Reclamation facilities. 

Closure Areas: The following 

facilities, lands, and waters are closed to 

the public: Keswick Dam Road crossing 

the crest of Keswick Dam, and adjacent 

property, buildings, and facilities under 

the control of Reclamation. The closure 

area includes the area within 500 feet 

upstream and 600 feet downstream of 

Keswick Dam for the entire width of the 

reservoir surface at high mean water 

upstream, and 600 feet on either side of 

the entire width of the dam 

downstream.

DATES: The entire closure area is to 

remain closed effective December 31, 

2004, and remain closed indefinitely 

except as permitted as described below.

ADDRESSES: A map is available for 

inspection at Reclamation’s Northern 

Area Office, located at 16349 Shasta 

Dam Blvd., Shasta Lake, California, 

96019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Bureau of Reclamation, Mid-Pacific 

Region Public Affairs Office at 916–978–

5100.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Prohibited Acts: The following acts 

are prohibited in the closure area. 

A. Operating a motorized vehicle of 

any kind, including stopping, standing, 

or parking in the closure area. 

Limited Exceptions: Motor vehicles 

may be operated across the crest of 

Keswick Dam 24 hours a day in 

compliance with all signs and other 

directions posted or disclosed. This 

limited exception to the closure order 

may be revoked at any time to meet 

operational, security, or safety concerns 

as determined by the area manager or 

his/her designee. 

General Exception: Reclamation 

employees acting within the scope of 

their employment; operations, 

maintenance, and construction 

personnel that have express written 

authorization from Reclamation; law 

enforcement and fire department 

officials; ambulances and others who 

have received express written 

authorization to enter the closure area. 

B. Entering the closure area on foot, 

on bicycle, or by any other means. 

Limited Exceptions: Pedestrians and 

bicyclist may enter that portion of the 

closure area that crosses the crest of 

Keswick Dam on the roadway or 

walkway across the dam. All persons 

shall comply with all signs and other 

directions as posted or disclosed. This 

limited exception to the closure order 

may be revoked at any time to meet 

operational, security, or safety concerns 

as determined by the area manager or 

his/her designee. Reclamation 

employees acting within the scope of 

their employment; operations, 

maintenance, and construction 

personnel that have express 

authorization from Reclamation; law 

enforcement and fire department 

officials; and others who have received 

express written authorization from 

Reclamation to enter the closure area. 

C. Operating a vessel or watercraft of 

any kind, swimming, or scuba diving. 

Limited Exceptions: Reclamation 

employees acting within the scope of 

their employment; operations, 

maintenance, and construction 

personnel that have express 

authorization from Reclamation; law 

enforcement and fire department 

officials; and other who have received 

express written authorization from 

Reclamation to enter the closure area. 

D. Carrying or discharging firearms. 

Exceptions: Law Enforcement, i.e.

Federal, state, and local agencies and