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would encourage the use of the refuge 

to demonstrate restoration and best 

adaptive management practices. 

We would enhance opportunities for 

all six priority public uses, and 

emphasize two of them—wildlife 

observation and photography. We 

would seek new partnerships, such as 

those with environmental educators, to 

encourage their use of the refuge as a 

living laboratory and help us improve 

our programs. The seasonal closures in 

some areas would continue to protect 

nesting or wintering birds. Outreach and 

Service visibility on the refuge and in 

the local community would improve. 

We would station two additional staff at 

Eastern Neck NWR, but, as in alternative 

A, access to all refuge complex staff 

would continue to be available as 

needed. 

Alternative C (Emphasis on Tidal 

Wetlands and Forest Habitat) 

As in alternatives A and B, the highest 

priority in alternative C is to protect and 

restore the refuge shoreline and tidal 

marsh. However, its emphasis on 

managing forest habitat in the refuge 

uplands to benefit forest-dependent 

species distinguishes it from 

alternatives A and B. We would 

eliminate the cropland program, and 

would not construct new moist soil 

units. Instead, we would allow those 

lands to revert through natural 

succession to forest, and intervene with 

treatments when necessary to ensure 

that a native, healthy, diverse forest 

results. 

We would not begin any other 

significant new inventorying or 

monitoring, except established protocols 

when required by mandates on Federal 

trust species or when recommended by 

the Regional biologist. We would permit 

compatible research programs requested 

by our partners on refuge lands, but 

would limit our involvement. As in 

alternative B, we would encourage the 

use of the refuge to demonstrate 

restoration and best adaptive 

management practices. 

Under alternative C, we would offer 

more visitor services programs and 

build more infrastructure than in 

alternatives A or B. We would open for 

public access the areas previously 

closed to protect wintering waterfowl. 

The suitability of those areas for 

waterfowl would diminish greatly as 

they revert to forest. We would improve 

our programs for environmental 

education, interpretation, and wildlife 

observation and photography. We 

would hold teacher workshops, become 

actively involved in developing local 

school programs using the refuge, and 

promote senior education programs. We 

would consider a new trail and boat 

launch at the south end of the island, 

and would expand the turkey hunt by 

opening it to adult hunters for a limited 

time. As in alternative B, we would 

improve Service outreach and visibility, 

and station two new staff at the refuge. 

Public Meetings 

We will give the public opportunities 

to provide input at one public meeting 

in Rock Hall, Maryland. You can obtain 

the schedule from the project leader or 

natural resource planner (see ADDRESSES

or FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, 

above). You may also submit comments 

at any time during the planning process, 

by any means shown in the ADDRESSES

section. 

Public Availability of Comments 

Before including your address, phone 

number, e-mail address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comments, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

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. 

Dated: August 7, 2009. 

Salvatore M. Amato, 

Acting Regional Director, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, Hadley, MA 01035. 

[FR Doc. E9–21737 Filed 9–8–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLUTG01100–09–L13100000–EJ0000] 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Greater Chapita Wells Natural Gas 

Infill Project, Uintah County, UT 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM), Vernal Field Office, 

Vernal, Utah, intends to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

for the proposed Greater Chapita Wells 

Natural Gas Infill Project, and by this 

notice is announcing the beginning of 

the scoping process and soliciting input 

on the identification of issues. 

DATES: A public scoping period will end 

on October 9, 2009. The BLM will 

announce public scoping meetings to 

identify relevant issues through local 

news media, newsletters, and the BLM 

Web site http://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/ 

info/newsroom.2.html at least 15 days 

prior to each meeting. We will provide 

additional opportunities for public 

participation upon publication of the 

Draft EIS, including a 45-day public 

comment period. 

ADDRESSES: Comments on issues related 

to the Greater Chapita Wells EIS may be 

submitted through any of the following 

methods: 

• E-mail: 

UT_Vernal_Comments@blm.gov. 

• Fax: (435) 781–4410. 

• Mail: 170 South 500 East, Vernal, 

Utah 84078. 

Documents pertinent to this proposal 

may be examined at the Vernal Field 

Office. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information and/or to have your 

name added to the mailing list, contact 

Stephanie Howard by telephone: (435) 

781–4469; or e-mail: 

Stephanie_Howard@blm.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

document provides notice that the BLM 

Field Office, Vernal, Utah intends to 

prepare an EIS for the Greater Chapita 

Wells project and announces the 

beginning of the scoping process and 

seeks public input on issues and 

planning criteria. The Greater Chapita 

Wells Natural Gas Infill Project Area 

(GCWPA) consists of 42,027 acres in a 

developed gas-producing area, located 

approximately 30 miles southeast of 

Vernal and 12 miles east of Ouray, Utah. 

The GCWPA is located in the Uinta 

Basin in Uintah County. The GCWPA 

includes 32,823 acres (78 percent) of 

Federal lands administered by the BLM; 

1,914 acres (five percent) of State lands 

administered by the State of Utah 

School and Institutional Trust Lands 

Administration; 6,727 acres (16 percent) 

of Northern Ute Tribal and allotted 

lands administered by the Bureau of 

Indian Affairs; and 563 acres (one 

percent) of privately owned lands. 

EOG Resources, Inc. (EOG) plans to 

drill up to 7,028 new infill natural gas 

wells to fully develop all currently 

known productive formations beneath 

EOG’s leased acreage. EOG proposes to 

drill wells at an average rate of 

approximately 469 wells per year over 

a period of 15 years, or until the 

resource base is fully developed. The 

productive life of each well would be 

approximately 40 years, and EOG 

expects all wells to be productive. EOG 

would use the existing infrastructure to 

the greatest possible extent by drilling 

vertical and directional wells. Well pads 

within the GCWPA would contain from 

one to six wells, with most well pads 


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containing more than one well. EOG 

would construct up to approximately 

700 new well pads and access roads and 

would expand approximately 979 

existing or previously authorized well 

pads. If fully developed, each section 

would contain 32 well pads such that 

optimal surface density would be one 

well pad every 20 acres. EOG would 

directionally drill wells to produce from 

bottom hole locations spaced at 

approximately five to 10 acres. 

The project would be supported by 

existing produced water disposal and 

treatment facilities, produced water 

pipelines, natural gas pipelines, and gas 

compression and processing facilities. 

EOG would construct and install 

support facilities where needed, 

including new well pad access roads, 

new or expanded well pads, new gasgathering lines, and new produced 

water-injection wells. 

Potential issues include impacts to 

local and regional air quality and air 

quality related values; surface water and 

groundwater resources; floodplains; 

cultural and paleontological resources; 

soils; special status plant and animal 

species; range management; recreation; 

and socioeconomics. Alternatives 

identified at this time include the 

proposed action and the no action 

alternative. Additional alternatives will 

be developed as a result of issues and 

concerns identified through the scoping 

process. 

The BLM Vernal Field Office Record 

of Decision and Approved Resource 

Management Plan (RMP) (October 2008) 

directs the management of the BLMadministered public lands within the 

GCWPA. The RMP provides for energy 

resource exploration and development 

including a variety of oil and gas 

operations and geophysical 

explorations, unless precluded by other 

program prescriptions and surfacedisturbance related stipulations (RMP, 

pp. 96 and 97). 

Comments on issues and planning 

criteria may be submitted in writing to 

the BLM at any public scoping meeting, 

or using one of the methods listed in the 

ADDRESSES section above. To be most 

helpful, comments should be submitted 

by the end of the public scoping period 

(within 30 days from the BLM’s 

publication in the Federal Register). 

Before including an address, phone 

number, e-mail address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, be aware that the entire 

comment—including personal 

identifying information—may be made 

publicly available at any time. While a 

request can be made to withhold 

personal identifying information from 

public review, it cannot be guaranteed. 

Jeff Rawson, 

Acting State Director. 

[FR Doc. E9–21661 Filed 9–8–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–DQ–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Concessions Management Advisory 

Board, Meeting 

AGENCY: Department of the Interior, 

National Park Service. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that a 

meeting of the Concessions Management 

Advisory Board will be held on October 

21–22, starting at 9 a.m. each day at The 

Ahwahnee Hotel, Yosemite National 

Park, California. 

DATES: Wednesday, October 21 and 

Thursday, October 22, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Tudor Room of The 

Ahwahnee Hotel, Yosemite National 

Park, California 95389. Park phone 

number: (209) 372–0200. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

National Park Service, WASO 

Commercial Services Program, 1201 Eye 

Street, NW., 11th Floor, Washington, DC 

20005, telephone: 202/513–7150. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Concessions Management Advisory 

Board (the Board) was established by 

Title IV, Section 409 of the National 

Parks Omnibus Management Act of 

1998, November 13, 1998 (Pub. L. 105– 

391). The purpose of the Board is to 

advise the Secretary and the National 

Park Service on matters relating to 

management of concessions in the 

National Park System. The Board will 

meet at 9 a.m. Wednesday, October 21, 

and 9 a.m. on Thursday, October 22, for 

the regular business meeting and 

continued discussion on a number of 

subjects that will include: 

• Concession Contracting Status 

Update. 

• Regional Reports. 

• Rate Approval Review and 

Standards, Evaluations, and Rate 

Approval Project Update. 

• Cooperating Association Steering 

Committee Report. 

• Report on Professionalization of 

Commercial Services Program—Human 

Capital Strategy. 

• New business. 

The meeting will be open to the 

public, however, facilities and space for 

accommodating members of the public 

are limited, and persons will be 

accommodated on a first-come-firstserved basis. 

Assistance to Individuals With 

Disabilities at the Public Meeting 

The meeting site is accessible to 

individuals with disabilities. If you plan 

to attend and will require an auxiliary 

aid or service to participate in the 

meeting (e.g., interpreting service, 

assistive listening device, or materials in 

an alternate format), notify the contact 

person listed in this notice at least 2 

weeks before the scheduled meeting 

date. Attempts will be made to meet any 

request(s) we receive after that date, 

however, we may not be able to make 

the requested auxiliary aid or service 

available because of insufficient time to 

arrange for it. 

Anyone may file with the Board a 

written statement concerning matters to 

be discussed. The Board may also 

permit attendees to address the Board, 

but may restrict the length of the 

presentations, as necessary to allow the 

Board to complete its agenda within the 

allotted time. Such requests should be 

made to the Director, National Park 

Service, Attention: Chief, Commercial 

Services Program, at least 7 days prior 

to the meeting. Draft minutes of the 

meeting will be available for public 

inspection approximately 6 weeks after 

the meeting, at the Commercial Services 

Program office located at 1201 Eye 

Street, NW., 11th Floor, Washington, 

DC. 

Dated: August 26, 2009. 

Daniel N. Wenk, 

Acting Director. 

[FR Doc. E9–21632 Filed 9–8–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE M 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLIDB00000 L11500000.CB0000 

LXSS024D0000: 4500008921] 

Notice of Public Meeting: Resource 

Advisory Council to the Boise District, 

Bureau of Land Management, U.S. 

Department of the Interior 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

U.S. Department of the Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act (FLPMA) and the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM) Boise District 

Resource Advisory Council (RAC), will 

hold a meeting as indicated below. 


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