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The plat, in four sheets, representing 

the dependent resurvey and survey in 

Township 5 South, Range 13 West, of 

the Indian Meridian, accepted 

September 24, 2009, for Group 80 OK. 

The plat, in three sheets, representing 

the dependent resurvey and survey, in 

Township 5 South, Range 15 West, of 

the Indian Meridian, accepted 

September 24, 2009, for Group 82 OK. 

The plat, in two sheets, representing 

the dependent resurvey and survey, in 

Township 24 North, Range 2 East, of the 

Indian Meridian, accepted November 

19, 2009, for Group 159 OK. 

If a protest against a survey, as shown 

on any of the above plats is received 

prior to the date of official filing, the 

filing will be stayed pending 

consideration of the protest. A plat will 

not be officially filed until the day after 

all protests have been dismissed and 

become final or appeals from the 

dismissal affirmed. 

A person or party who wishes to 

protest against any of these surveys 

must file a written protest with the New 

Mexico State Director, Bureau of Land 

Management, stating that they wish to 

protest. 

A statement of reasons for a protest 

may be filed with the notice of protest 

to the State Director, or the statement of 

reasons must be filed with the State 

Director within thirty (30) days after the 

protest is filed. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

These plats will be available for 

inspection in the New Mexico State 

Office, Bureau of Land Management, 

P.O. Box 27115, Santa Fe, New Mexico 

87502–0115. Copies may be obtained 

from this office upon payment. Contact 

Marcella Montoya at 505–438–7537, or 

Marcella_Montoya@nm.blm.gov, for 

assistance. 

Stephen W. Beyerlein, 

Acting, Chief, Branch of Cadastral, Survey/ 

GeoSciences. 

[FR Doc. 2010–3828 Filed 2–24–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLCOS05000 2009] 

Notice of Intent To Prepare a Resource 

Management Plan for the 

Uncompahgre Field Office and 

Associated Environmental Impact 

Statement 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) of 1969, as amended, and the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act (FLPMA) of 1976, as amended, the 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 

Uncompahgre Field Office (UFO), 

Montrose, Colorado intends to prepare a 

Resource Management Plan (RMP) with 

an associated Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) for the UFO and by this 

notice is announcing the beginning of 

the scoping process to solicit public 

comments and identify issues. The RMP 

will replace the existing 1985 San Juan/ 

San Miguel RMP and the 1989 

Uncompahgre Basin RMP. 

DATES: This notice initiates the public 

scoping process for the RMP and the 

associated EIS. Comments on issues and 

planning criteria may be submitted in 

writing until March 29, 2010 

Scoping meetings were held recently 

in the following locations: 

Hotchkiss, CO, January 12, 2010. 

Delta, CO, January 13, 2010. 

Montrose, CO, January 14, 2010. 

Ridgway, CO, January 19, 2010. 

Norwood, CO, January 20, 2010. 

Naturita, CO, January 21, 2010. 

Telluride, CO, February 3, 2010. 

The dates and locations of all scoping 

meetings were announced 15 days in 

advance through local media, a 

newsletter and the BLM Web site at: 

http://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/ufo/ 

uncompahgre_rmp.html. Comments 

received during scoping meetings held 

in January and February, 2010 will be 

incorporated in the record and 

considered by the BLM. In order to be 

included in the Draft EIS, all comments 

must be received prior to the close of 

the 30-day scoping period. The BLM 

will provide additional opportunities 

for public participation upon 

publication of the Draft EIS. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

on issues and planning criteria by any 

of the following methods: 

• Web site: http://www.blm.gov/co/st/ 

en/fo/ufo/uncompahgre_rmp.html. 

• E-mail: uformp@blm.gov. 

• Fax: (970) 240–5367. 

• Mail: BLM Uncompahgre Field 

Office, RMP Project Manager, 2465 S. 

Townsend Ave., Montrose, Colorado 

81401. 

Documents pertinent to this proposal 

may be examined at the UFO during 

regular business hours (from 8 a.m. to 

4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, 

except holidays). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information and/or to have your 

name added to our mailing list, contact 

Bruce Krickbaum, RMP Project 

Manager, telephone (970) 240–5300; 

address BLM Uncompahgre Field Office 

2465 South Townsend Ave, Montrose, 

Colorado 81401; e-mail 

uformp@blm.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

document: provides notice that the BLM 

UFO, Montrose, Colorado, intends to 

prepare an RMP with an associated EIS 

for the UFO; announces the beginning of 

the scoping process; and seeks public 

input on issues and planning criteria. 

The planning area is located in Delta, 

Gunnison, Mesa, Montrose, Ouray and 

San Miguel counties, Colorado, 

encompasses approximately 675,677 

acres of public land, and excludes the 

Gunnison Gorge National Conservation 

Area and the Dominguez-Escalante 

National Conservation Area, which are 

managed under separate RMPs. 

The purpose of the public scoping 

process is to determine relevant issues 

that will influence the scope of the 

environmental analysis, including 

alternatives, and guide the planning 

process. Preliminary issues for the 

planning area have been identified by 

BLM personnel, Federal, State, and local 

agencies, and other stakeholders. The 

issues include: 

• Managing vegetative and water 

resources, terrestrial and aquatic habitat 

and special management areas, while 

sustaining biological diversity and 

native species populations; 

• Managing mineral, renewable and 

nonrenewable energy resources; 

• Managing increasing numbers and 

types of human activities and uses; 

• Managing land tenure adjustments, 

withdrawals and utility/energy 

corridors; 

• Managing and protecting cultural, 

historical and paleontological resources 

and Native American religious 

concerns; and 

• Managing public lands and 

resources, including authorized and 

permitted land uses, for a growing 

population and expanding urban 

interface, with consideration for 

community values and needs. 

Preliminary planning criteria include: 

• Compliance with the FLPMA, the 

NEPA and other applicable laws and 

regulations. 

• Incorporation of the Colorado BLM 

Standards for Public Land Health. 

• Continued management of 

Wilderness Study Areas under the 

Interim Management Policy for Lands 

under Wilderness Review until 

Congress acts on a designation or 

releases lands from consideration. 

• Decisions will be made that affect 

all BLM lands, including the subsurface 

mineral estate, within the planning area. 

• Recognition of valid existing rights. 


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• Inclusion of adaptive management 

criteria to deal with future issues. 

Public participation will be encouraged 

throughout the process. The BLM will 

collaborate and build relationships with 

tribes, State and local governments, 

Federal agencies, local stakeholders and 

others within the community of interest 

for the RMP. 

You may submit comments on issues 

and planning criteria in writing to the 

BLM at any public scoping meeting, or 

you may submit them to the BLM using 

one of the methods listed in the 

ADDRESSES section above. To be most 

helpful, you should submit comments 

within the 30-day scoping period. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, e-mail address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including you 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can 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. The BLM will evaluate identified 

issues to be addressed in the plan and 

place them into one of three categories: 

1. Issues to be resolved in the plan; 

2. Issues to be resolved through policy 

or administrative action; or 

3. Issues beyond the scope of this 

plan. 

The BLM will provide an explanation in 

the Draft RMP/EIS regarding why an 

issue was placed in category two or 

three. The public is also encouraged to 

help identify any management questions 

and concerns that should be addressed 

in the plan. The BLM will work 

collaboratively with the interested 

parties to identify the management 

decisions that are best suited to local, 

regional, and national needs and 

concerns. 

The BLM will use an interdisciplinary 

approach to develop the plan in order 

to consider the variety of resource issues 

and concerns identified. Specialists 

with expertise in the following 

disciplines will be involved in the 

planning process: Wildlife; Threatened 

and Endangered Species; Vegetation; 

Riparian and Wetlands; Soils; Invasive 

and Noxious Weeds; Rangeland 

Management; Fire Ecology and 

Management; Cultural Resources and 

Native American Concerns; Hydrology; 

Geology and Minerals; Lands and 

Realty; Recreation; Visual Resource 

Management; Public Safety; Law 

Enforcement; and Geographic 

Information Systems. 

Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7 and 43 CFR 

1610.2. 

Dave Hunsaker, 

Acting State Director. 

[FR Doc. 2010–3846 Filed 2–24–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Intent to Repatriate a Cultural 

Item: Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard 

University, Cambridge, MA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Notice is here given in accordance 

with the Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act 

(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent 

to repatriate a cultural item in the 

possession of the Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard 

University, Cambridge, MA, that meets 

the definition of ‘‘unassociated funerary 

object’’ under 25 U.S.C. 3001. 

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 cultural 

items. The National Park Service is not 

responsible for the determinations in 

this notice. 

The item is a coiled, cylindrical 

basket with black linear designs. 

At an unknown date, this basket was 

collected by Grace Nicholson at an 

unknown locality, but likely in 

California. It was donated to the 

Peabody Museum by Lewis Farlow in 

1905. Museum documentation states 

that this item was ‘‘rescued from pyral 

fire.’’ The description of ‘‘pyral fire’’ 

indicates that this item was intended to 

be burned as part of a funeral rite. The 

Peabody Museum is not in possession of 

the human remains. 

Museum documentation describes 

this item as ‘‘probably Moquelumnan 

stock.’’ The term ‘‘Moquelumnan’’ was 

used to describe Miwok people. 

Consultation evidence indicates that 

present-day groups which represent 

Miwok people are the Buena Vista 

Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of 

California; California Valley Miwok 

Tribe, California; Chicken Ranch 

Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of 

California; Federated Indians of Graton 

Rancheria, California; Ione Band of 

Miwok Indians of California; Jackson 

Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of 

California; Shingle Springs Band of 

Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs 

Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; 

Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of 

the Tuolumne Rancheria of California; 

United Auburn Indian Community of 

the Auburn Rancheria of California; and 

Wilton Rancheria, California. 

Officials of the Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology have 

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

3001 (3)(B), the one cultural item 

described above is reasonably believed 

to have been placed with or near 

individual human remains at the time of 

death or later as part of the death rite 

or ceremony and is believed, by a 

preponderance of the evidence, to have 

been removed from a specific burial site 

of an Native American individual. 

Officials of the Peabody Museum of 

Archaeology and Ethnology also have 

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

3001 (2), there is a relationship of 

shared group identity that can be 

reasonably traced between the 

unassociated funerary object and the 

Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk 

Indians of California; California Valley 

Miwok Tribe, California; Chicken Ranch 

Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of 

California; Federated Indians of Graton 

Rancheria, California; Ione Band of 

Miwok Indians of California; Jackson 

Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of 

California; Shingle Springs Band of 

Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs 

Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; 

Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of 

the Tuolumne Rancheria of California; 

United Auburn Indian Community of 

the Auburn Rancheria of California; and 

Wilton Rancheria, California. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the unassociated funerary 

object should contact Patricia Capone, 

Repatriation Coordinator, Peabody 

Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 

11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138, 

telephone (617) 496–3702, before March 

29, 2010. Repatriation of the 

unassociated funerary object to the 

Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk 

Indians of California; California Valley 

Miwok Tribe, California; Chicken Ranch 

Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of 

California; Federated Indians of Graton 

Rancheria, California; Ione Band of 

Miwok Indians of California; Jackson 

Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians of 

California; Shingle Springs Band of 

Miwok Indians, Shingle Springs 

Rancheria (Verona Tract), California; 

Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of 

the Tuolumne Rancheria of California; 

United Auburn Indian Community of 

the Auburn Rancheria of California; and 

Wilton Rancheria, California may 


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