70024 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 220 / Tuesday, November 16, 2010 / Notices 

Heads of Federal Agencies: Cooperating 

Agencies in Implementing the 

Procedural Requirements of the NEPA. 

A copy of this document is available at 

http://ceq.hss.doe.gov/nepa/regs/ 

cooperating/ 

cooperatingagenciesmemorandum.html 

and http://ceq.hss.doe.gov/nepa/regs/ 

cooperating/ 

cooperatingagencymemofactors.html. 

The BOEMRE, as the lead agency, will 

not provide financial assistance to 

cooperating agencies. Even if an 

organization is not a cooperating 

agency, opportunities will exist to 

provide information and comments to 

BOEMRE during the normal public 

input phases of the NEPA/EIS process. 

If further information about cooperating 

agency status is needed, please contact 

Mr. Gary Goeke at (504) 736–3233. 

5. Comments 

Public meetings will be held in 

locations near these areas in to mid 

November 2010. The meetings are being 

planned for, but not necessarily limited 

to: 

• Tuesday, November 16, 2010, New 

Orleans, Louisiana, Hilton New Orleans 

Airport, 901 Airline Drive Kenner, 

Louisiana 70062, 1 p.m. CST. 

• Wednesday, November 17, 2010, 

Houston, Texas, Houston Airport 

Marriott at George Bush 

Intercontinental, 18700 John F. Kennedy 

Boulevard, Houston, Texas 77032, 1 

p.m. CST. 

• Thursday, November 18, 2010, 

Mobile, Alabama, The Battle House 

Renaissance Mobile Hotel and Spa, 26 

North Royal Street, Mobile, Alabama 

36602 1 p.m. CST. 

These scoping meetings may also 

accept comments on the EIS being 

prepared for the Proposed 2012–2017 5- 

Year OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program 

and the EIS addressing proposed lease 

sales in the Central and Western GOM 

in the 2012–2017 OCS Program. The 

BOEMRE will use and coordinate the 

NEPA commenting process to satisfy the 

public involvement process for Section 

106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470f) as 

provided for in 36 CFR 800.2(d)(3). 

Federal, State, local government 

agencies, and other interested parties 

are requested to send their written 

comments on the scope of the SEIS, 

significant issues that should be 

addressed, and alternatives that should 

be considered in one of the following 

ways: 

1. Electronically to the BOEMRE email address: 

GOMRSEIS@BOEMRE.GOV. 

2. In written form, delivered by hand 

or by mail, enclosed in an envelope 

labeled ‘‘SEIS Comments’’ to the 

Regional Supervisor, Leasing and 

Environment (MS 5410), Bureau of 

Ocean Energy Management, Regulation 

and Enforcement, Gulf of Mexico OCS 

Region, 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, 

New Orleans, Louisiana 70123–2394. 

Comments should be submitted no 

later than January 3, 2011. 

Dated: November 10, 2010. 

L. Renee Orr, 

Acting Associate Director for Offshore Energy 

and Minerals Management. 

[FR Doc. 2010–28868 Filed 11–10–10; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLUT920–09–L13300000–EN000, UTU– 

XXXX] 

Notice of Expansion of the Lisbon 

Valley Known Potash Leasing Area, 

Utah 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Potash is a trade name for 

potassium bearing minerals used mainly 

for fertilizer. Potash and certain other 

non-energy solid minerals found on 

Federal lands may be leased for 

development in either of two ways: (1) 

If it is unknown whether an area 

contains valuable potash deposits, an 

interested party may obtain a 

prospecting permit, which grants it the 

exclusive right to explore for potash, 

and, if a valuable deposit is found, that 

party may qualify for a noncompetitive 

lease; or (2) If the BLM has access to 

information which shows that valuable 

deposits of potash exist in an area, the 

area may be classified and designated a 

Known Potash Leasing Area (KPLA), 

where prospecting permits may not be 

issued, and any leasing must be done on 

a competitive basis. 

In 1960, the United States Geological 

Survey (USGS) established the Lisbon 

Valley KPLA, based on mineral land 

classification standards established in 

1957. In 1983, under Secretarial Order 

3087, the authority to designate KPLAs 

was transferred to the BLM. Recent 

advances in drilling technology have 

provided the capability to extract deep 

potash deposits using dissolution. Based 

on this new technology, the BLM 

approved new mineral land 

classification standards for the Utah 

portion of the Paradox Basin geologic 

province, which includes Lisbon Valley 

in 2009. The BLM Utah State Office 

used the new standards and the analysis 

of available drilling information to 

determine that the Lisbon Valley KPLA 

should be expanded to include deep 

solution-mineable potash deposits. 

Additional information regarding this 

KPLA expansion, including maps and 

the Potash Master Title Plats, are 

available in the Public Room of the BLM 

Utah State Office and at the following 

Web site: 

http://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/prog/more/ 

Land_Records.html. The lands included 

in the Lisbon Valley KPLA expansion, 

located in San Juan County, Utah, are 

described as follows: 

Salt Lake Base Meridian, Utah 

T. 29 S., R. 24 E., 

Sec. 29, SW1⁄4SW1⁄4; 

Sec. 30, E1⁄2SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 31, E1⁄2E1⁄2, SE1⁄4SW1⁄4, W1⁄2SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 32, W1⁄2W1⁄2, E1⁄2SW1⁄4, S1⁄2SE1⁄4; and 

Sec. 33, E1⁄2, SE1⁄4NW1⁄4, E1⁄2SW1⁄4, 

SW1⁄4SW1⁄4. 

Containing 1,200.00 acres. 

T. 291⁄2 S., R. 24 E., 

Sec. 27, lots 2–4; 

Sec. 28, lots 1–4; 

Sec. 29, lots 1–4; 

Sec. 32, N1⁄2, E1⁄2SW1⁄4, SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 33, all; and 

Sec. 34, W1⁄2NE1⁄4, W1⁄2, SE1⁄4. 

Containing 1,980.68 acres. 

T. 30 S., R. 24 E., 

Sec. 2, W1⁄2SW1⁄4; 

Sec. 3, all; 

Sec. 4, all; 

Sec. 5, lots 1, 2, S1⁄2NE1⁄4, SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 8, E1⁄2, SE1⁄4SW1⁄4; 

Sec. 9, all; 

Sec. 10, all; 

Sec. 11, SW1⁄4NE1⁄4, W1⁄2, W1⁄2SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 13, W1⁄2SW1⁄4; 

Sec. 14, all; 

Sec. 15, all; 

Sec. 16, N1⁄2, N1⁄2S1⁄2, S1⁄2SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 17, NE1⁄4, E1⁄2NW1⁄4, N1⁄2S1⁄2; 

Sec. 21, E1⁄2E1⁄2; 

Sec. 22, all; 

Sec. 23, all; 

Sec. 24, W1⁄2; 

Sec. 25, W1⁄2NE1⁄4, SE1⁄4NE1⁄4, W1⁄2, SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 26, all; 

Sec. 27, N1⁄2, N1⁄2S1⁄2, SE1⁄4SW1⁄4, S1⁄2SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 28, N1⁄2, N1⁄2S1⁄2; 

Sec. 35, N1⁄2N1⁄2, S1⁄2NE1⁄4; and 

Sec. 36, N1⁄2, N1⁄2S1⁄2, SE1⁄4SW1⁄4, S1⁄2SE1⁄4. 

Containing 10,997.82 acres. 

T. 31 S., R. 24 E., 

Sec. 1, lots 1–3, S1⁄2NE1⁄4, NE1⁄4SE1⁄4. 

Containing 253.75 acres. 

T. 30 S., R. 25 E., 

Sec. 30, lots 2–4, SE1⁄4SW1⁄4, SW1⁄4SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 31, all; 

Sec. 32, W1⁄2NE1⁄4, SE1⁄4NE1⁄4, NW1⁄4, S1⁄2; 

Sec. 33, SW1⁄4NE1⁄4, S1⁄2NW1⁄4, S1⁄2; 

Sec. 34, S1⁄2NE1⁄4, SE1⁄4NW1⁄4, S1⁄2; and 

Sec. 35, SW1⁄4, SW1⁄4SE1⁄4 . 

Containing 2,517.75 acres. 

T. 31 S., R 25 E., 

Sec. 2, lots 3, 4, SW1⁄4NW1⁄4; 

Sec. 3, lots 1–4, S1⁄2N1⁄2, N1⁄2SW1⁄4, 

SW1⁄4SW1⁄4, NE1⁄4;SE1⁄4; 

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Sec. 4, all; 

Sec. 5, all; and 

Sec. 6, lots 1–6, S1⁄2NE1⁄4, SE1⁄4NW1⁄4, 

NE1⁄4SW1⁄4, SE1⁄4. 

Containing 2,495.23 acres. 

Containing an aggregate acreage of: 

19,445.23. 

DATES: This mineral land classification 

will become effective upon date of 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register. 

ADDRESSES: Inquiries should be sent to 

the State Director (UT–923), Bureau of 

Land Management, Utah State Office, 

440 West 200 South, Suite 500, Salt 

Lake City, Utah 84101. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Competitive leasing within the KPLA 

will be initiated based on expressions of 

interest. Any competitive leases issued 

will be subject to the oil and gas leasing 

stipulations contained in the 2008 Moab 

and Monticello Resource Management 

Plans (Moab RMP, Appendix A and 

Monticello RMP, Appendix B). 

Competitive potash leases will also be 

subject to additional conditions of 

approval developed as part of sitespecific National Environmental Policy 

Act of 1969 (NEPA) compliance. 

In accordance with Departmental 

Manual (DM) 516, Chapter 11.9 J(12), 

the classification of a KPLA is an action 

that is categorically excluded from 

NEPA analysis, provided that there are 

no ‘‘extraordinary circumstances’’ as 

described in 43 CFR 46.215. The 

proposed Lisbon Valley KPLA 

expansion was reviewed and was 

determined to have no ‘‘extraordinary 

circumstances’’ as documented in DOI– 

BLM–UT–9230–2010–0003–CX. Further 

NEPA review will be done for site 

specific proposals within the KPLA. 

This notice will be published in the 

Moab Times Independent for 2 

consecutive weeks after publication in 

the Federal Register. 

Pursuant to the authority in the Act of 

March 3, 1879, (43 U.S.C. 31), as 

supplemented by Reorganization Plan 

No. 3 of 1950 (43 U.S.C. 1451, note) and 

235 Departmental Manual 1.1L, and the 

Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as 

amended (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.), the 

Lisbon Valley KPLA of May 18, 1960, is 

expanded to include the lands listed 

above effective on November 16, 2010. 

Kent Hoffman, 

Acting State Director. 

[FR Doc. 2010–28724 Filed 11–15–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–DQ–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[2253–665] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Reclamation, Pacific Northwest 

Region, Boise, ID, and Colville Tribal 

Repository, Nespelem, WA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Notice is hereby given in accordance 

with the Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act 

(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the 

completion of an inventory of human 

remains in the control of the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Reclamation, Pacific Northwest Region, 

Boise, ID, and in the physical custody 

of the Colville Tribal Repository, 

Nespelem, WA. The human remains 

were removed from Grant County, WA. 

This notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 

U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in 

this notice are the sole responsibility of 

the museum, institution, or Federal 

agency that has control of the Native 

American human remains. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains was made by Bureau of 

Reclamation professional staff with 

assistance from a Central Washington 

University physical anthropologist and 

professional staff from Washington State 

University, the National Park Service, 

and the History/Archaeology 

Department of the Confederated Tribes 

of the Colville Reservation, Washington. 

From the winter of 1963 to 1964, 

human remains representing a 

minimum of eight individuals were 

removed from a location, which was 

later designated as the Steamboat Rock 

Mass Grave (45–GR–98), near the mouth 

of Barker Canyon at Banks Lake, Grant 

County, WA. A member of the general 

public reported a mass grave had been 

exposed by receding waters at Banks 

Lake. Members of Washington State 

University’s Department of Sociology 

and Anthropology excavated the 

remains in an effort to protect them 

from vandalism and theft. The remains 

were accessioned at Washington State 

University. The human remains were 

moved, most likely in 1967, to the 

Alfred Bowers Laboratory of 

Anthropology at the University of Idaho. 

At an unknown date, the remains were 

loaned to the Arizona State Museum, 

University of Arizona, for analysis, and 

this analysis occurred in 1967. There is 

no documentation indicating if the loan 

originated while the remains were at 

Washington State University or after 

they had been moved to the University 

of Idaho, nor is there documentation of 

which institution they were returned to 

following analysis. However, the human 

remains were stored at the University of 

Idaho until 2000, when they were 

moved back to Washington State 

University. In 2006, they were 

transferred to the Colville Tribal 

Repository for curation pending 

repatriation. No known individuals 

were identified. No associated funerary 

objects are present. 

No physical description of the 

remains was prepared at the time of 

recovery. In 1967, the Arizona State 

Museum documented the partial 

remains of six individuals. In 2005, the 

Bureau of Reclamation completed a 

physical description of the remains. All 

individuals identified in 1967 were 

present in the collection at the time of 

the 2005 inventory, and isolated 

elements representing two additional 

individuals were identified. 

The osteological evidence as 

described by archeologists and physical 

anthropologists indicate the human 

remains described above are Native 

American. The geographic location of 

the site is within the Plateau Culture 

Area. The site is within the judicially 

established aboriginal territory of the 

Confederated Tribes of the Colville 

Reservation. Tribal oral tradition and 

anthropological and historical research 

indicate the site lies within an area 

occupied by the Sanpoil and the 

Nespelem Tribes or Bands, who are 

legally represented by the Confederated 

Tribes of the Colville Reservation, 

Washington. 

Officials of the Bureau of 

Reclamation, Pacific Northwest Region, 

have determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 

3001(9), that the human remains 

described above represent the physical 

remains of eight individuals of Native 

American ancestry. Officials of the 

Bureau of Reclamation, Pacific 

Northwest Region, have also 

determined, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 

3001(2), that there is a relationship of 

shared group identity that can be 

reasonably traced between the Native 

American human remains and the 

Confederated Tribes of the Colville 

Reservation, Washington. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains 

should contact Ms. Lynne MacDonald, 

Regional Archeologist, Pacific 

Northwest Region, Bureau of 

Reclamation, 1150 N. Curtis Road, 

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