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Dear Reader: 

The Wyoming Greater Sage-Grouse Draft Land Use Plan Amendment (LUPA) and Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is available for your review and comment. The Bureau 

of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) prepared this document in 

consultation with cooperating agencies and in accordance with the National Environmental 

Policy Act of 1969, as amended, the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, as 

amended, the National Forest Management Act of 1976, implementing regulations, the BLM's 

Land Use Planning Handbook (H-1601-1), the Forest Service's Land Management Manual 1900, 

and other applicable law and policy. 

The planning area is the BLM Wyoming Casper, Kemmerer, Newcastle, Pinedale, Rawlins, and 

Rock Springs Field Offices, and the USFS Bridger Teton National Forest, Medicine Bow 

National Forest, and Thunder Basin National Grassland Planning Units. The planning area 

encompasses approximately 16 million surface acres administered by the BLM and USFS and 

approximately 23 million subsurface (mineral estate) in Albany, Campbell, Carbon, Converse, 

Crook, Fremont, Goshen, Laramie, Lincoln, Natrona, Niobrara, Platte, Sublette, Sweetwater, 

Teton, Uinta, and Weston counties in Wyoming. 

The BLM and USFS encourage the public to provide information and comments regarding the 

analysis presented in the Draft LUPA and Draft EIS. We are particularly interested in comments 

concerning the adequacy and accuracy of the proposed alternatives, the analysis of their 

respective management decisions, and any new information that would help the BLM and USFS, 

as it continues to develop the LUP A. Comments will be more helpful if they include suggested 

changes, sources or methodologies, and reference to a section or page number. Comments that 

contain only opinions will be considered and included as part of the decision making process, 

although they will not receive a formal response. 

In developing the Proposed LUP AfFinal EIS, which is the next phase of the planning process, 

the BLM decision maker may select management decisions from each of the alternatives 

analyzed in the Draft LUP AfEIS for the purpose of creating a management strategy that best 

meets the needs of the resources and values in this area under the BLM multiple-use and 

sustained-yield mandate. As a member of the public, your timely comments on the Draft 

LUP AfEIS will help formulate the Proposed LUP AfFinal EIS. 

Comments will be accepted for 90 calendar days following the Environmental Protection 

Agency's (EPA) publication of its Notice of Availability in the Federal Register. The BLM can 

best utilize your comments and resource information submissions if received within the review 

period. 

United States Department of the Interior 

BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT 

Wyoming State Office 

P.O. Box 1828 

Cheyenne, Wyoming 82003- 1828 
Written comments may be submitted as follows (submittal of electronic comments is 

encouraged): 

1. Written comments may be submitted electronically via email to: 

Sagegrouse_Amendment_ WY@blm.gov 

2. Written comments may be submitted during public meetings. 

3. Written comments may be mailed directly, or delivered to, the BLM at: 

Lisa Solberg Schwab 

Bureau of Land Management Pinedale Field Office 

P.O. Box 768 

1625 West Pine Street 

Pinedale, Wyoming 82941 

To facilitate analysis of comments and information submitted, we strongly encourage you to 

submit comments in an electronic fOimat through email. There is no need to submit the same 

comment more than once or in more than one format. 

Public meetings will be held at various locations around the planning area to provide the public 

with opportunities to submit comments and seek additional information. The locations, dates 

and times of these meetings will be announced at least 15 days prior to the first meeting via a 

press release and on the project website: 

http://www.blm.gov/wy/stleniprograms/Planning/amendments/sage-grouse.html. 

Comments, including names and street addresses of respondents, will be available for public 

review following the comment period in their entirety at the Pinedale Field Office during regular 

business hours (7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.), Monday through Friday, except holidays, and will be 

published as part of the Proposed RMP and Final EIS. 

Before including your address, phone number, e-mail address, or other personal identifying 

information in your comment, be advised that your entire comment - including your personal 

identifying information - may be made publicly available at any time. While you may 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. 

Copies ofthe Draft LUPA and Draft EIS have been sent to affected Federal, State, and local 

government agencies and to those persons who indicated that they wished to receive a copy. A 

limited number of hard copies have been printed. Viewing the document electronically from the 

project website or from a CD is encouraged. Copies of the Draft LUP A and Draft EIS are 

available on the project website and for public inspection at the following BLM locations: 

Bureau of Land Management Bureau of Land Management 

Wyoming State Office Pinedale Field Office 

5353 Yellowstone Road 1625 West Pine Street 

Cheyelme, Wyoming Pinedale, Wyoming 

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Project website: 

http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/eniprograms/Planning/amendments/sage-grouse.html 

We thank the cooperating agencies that have participated in the planning process and helped to 

complete this document. We look forward to your continued interest and participation. 

For additional information or clarification regarding this document or the planning process, 

please contact Project Manager Lisa Solberg Schwab at (307) 367-5340. 

Sincerely, 

Donald A. Simpson 

State Director 

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