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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

Lake Champlain Sea Lamprey Control 

Alternatives Workgroup 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (Service), announce a 

meeting of the Lake Champlain Sea 

Lamprey Control Alternatives 

Workgroup (Workgroup). The 

Workgroup’s purpose is to provide, in 

an advisory capacity, recommendations 

and advice on research and 

implementation of sea lamprey control 

techniques alternative to lampricide that 

are technically feasible, cost effective, 

and environmentally safe. The primary 

objective of the meeting will be to 

discuss potential focus research 

initiatives that may enhance alternative 

sea lamprey control techniques. The 

meeting is open to the public. 

DATES: The Lake Champlain Sea 

Lamprey Control Alternatives 

Workgroup will meet on Monday, June 

4, 2007, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the State University of New York, 

Valcour Educational Conference Center, 

3712 Route 9—Lakeshore, Plattsburgh, 

NY 12901. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dave Tilton, Designated Federal Officer, 

Lake Champlain Sea Lamprey Control 

Alternatives Workgroup, Lake 

Champlain Fish and Wildlife Resources 

Office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 

11 Lincoln Street, Essex Junction, VT 

05452 (U.S. mail); 802–872–0629 

(telephone); or Dave_Tilton@fws.gov 

(electronic mail). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We 

publish this notice under section 

10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.). The 

Workgroup’s specific responsibilities 

are to provide advice regarding the 

implementation of sea lamprey control 

methods alternative to lampricides, to 

recommend priorities for research to be 

conducted by cooperating organizations 

and demonstration projects to be 

developed and funded by State and 

Federal agencies, and to assist Federal 

and State agencies with the 

coordination of alternative sea lamprey 

control research to advance the state of 

the science in Lake Champlain and the 

Great Lakes. 

Dated: April 25, 2007. 

Linda Repasky, 

Acting Regional Director, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, Hadley, Massachusetts. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Notice of Availability of the Final 

Environmental Impact Statement 

(FEIS) for the Buckman Water 

Diversion Project, Santa Fe County, 

New Mexico 

AGENCIES: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior and Forest Service, Department 

of Agriculture. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA), as amended, (Pub. L. 91–

190, 43 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) the Bureau 

of Land Management (BLM), Taos Field 

Office and USDA Forest Service (Forest 

Service), Santa Fe National Forest, 

announce the availability of the FEIS for 

the Buckman Water Diversion Project. 

The FEIS analyzes the environmental 

consequences of a proposal to divert 

water from the Rio Grande. 

DATES: The Buckman Water Diversion 

Project FEIS will be available for review 

and comment for 30 calendar days 

starting on the date the Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) publishes the 

Notice of Availability (NOA) in the 

Federal Register. The BLM and Forest 

Service can best utilize your comments 

and resource information submissions 

within that 30-day comment period. 

ADDRESSES: Comments on the FEIS may 

be submitted as follows: 

1. Electronic comments may be 

submitted at 

NM_Comments@nm.blm.gov. Please do 

not use special characters or 

attachments, as the BLM e-mail security 

system may not accept them. 

2. Written comments may be mailed 

or delivered to the BLM at: Buckman 

Water Diversion Project FEIS, Project 

Manager, Bureau of Land Management, 

Taos Field Office, 226 Cruz Alta Rd., 

Taos, NM 87571. 

The BLM will only accept comments 

on the Buckman Water Diversion Project 

FEIS if they are submitted using one of 

the methods described above. To be 

given consideration, all FEIS comment 

submittals must include the 

commenter’s name and address. 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 your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us to withhold your 

personal identifying information from 

public review, we cannot guarantee that 

we will be able to do so. Our practice 

is to make comments available for 

public review at the BLM—Taos Field 

Office during business hours (7:45 a.m. 

to 4:30 p.m.), Monday through Friday, 

except for Federal holidays. Copies of 

the FEIS have been sent to affected 

Federal, State, and local government 

agencies, Tribal governments, and 

interested parties. The document will be 

available electronically at the following 

Web site: http://www.blm.gov/nm. 

Copies of the FEIS will also be 

available at the following locations: 

• Bureau of Land Management, New 

Mexico State Office, 1474 Rodeo Road, 

Santa Fe, NM 87505. 

• Bureau of Land Management, Taos 

Field Office, 226 Cruz Alta Rd., Taos, 

NM 87571. 

• Forest Service, Santa Fe National 

Forest, 1474 Rodeo Road, Santa Fe, NM 

87505. 

• Forest Service, Espanola Ranger 

District, 1710 North Riverside Dr., 

Espanola, NM 87533. 

• City of Santa Fe, Sangre de Cristo 

Water Division, 801 West San Mateo, 

Santa Fe, NM 87504. 

• Santa Fe County, Utilities 

Department, 205 Montezuma Ave., 

Santa Fe, NM 87501. 

• USDI Bureau of Reclamation, 555 

Broadway Ave. Albuquerque NM 87102. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Sher Churchill, Bureau of Land 

Management, Planning and 

Environmental Coordinator, Taos Field 

Office, 226 Cruz Alta Rd., Taos, NM 

87571 or Mr. Sanford Hurlocker, Forest 

Service, District Ranger, Espanola 

Ranger District, P.O. Box 3307, 

Espanola, NM 87533. Ms. Churchill and 

Mr. Hurlocker can be reached by 

telephone at 505.751.4725 and 

505.753.7331, respectively. Requests for 

information may be submitted 

electronically at http://www.blm.gov/ 

nm. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

project area is located northwest of 

Santa Fe, New Mexico. If authorized, 

the project would be predominantly 

located on public lands administered by 

the Bureau of Land Management and the 

Forest Service; a relatively small portion 

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on private lands and Bureau of Land 

Management lands leased to the City of 

Santa Fe. The Forest Service and Bureau 

of Land Management are joint lead 

agencies for this project; the Department 

of Interior Bureau of Reclamation 

(contributing funds), City of Santa Fe, 

and Santa Fe County are cooperating 

agencies. The City of Santa Fe, Santa Fe 

County, and Las Companas Limited 

Partnership are the ‘‘Project 

Applicants.’’ The proposed Buckman 

Water Diversion Project is designed to 

address the immediate need for a 

sustainable means of accessing water 

supplies for the Project Applicants. 

Most of the water would be derived 

from the San Juan-Chama Project, a U.S. 

Bureau of Reclamation inter-basin 

transfer project. The remainder would 

be ‘‘native’’ water rights owned by the 

Project Applicants, and diverted from 

the Rio Grande. The Project Applicants 

propose to construct and operate a 

surface water diversion facility at the 

Rio Grande near the western terminus of 

Buckman Road located within the Santa 

Fe National Forest, near the existing 

Buckman Well Field. The water would 

be pumped to the Santa Fe vicinity, 

where it would serve municipal and 

community water supply customers. 

The Buckman Water Diversion is 

proposed to be constructed with the 

capacity necessary to meet the near-term 

need for water, based on physical, 

technical, and environmental 

limitations. The proposed project has an 

independent use from the long-term 

water management strategy being 

undertaken by the City and the County. 

On July 22, 2002, the BLM and Forest 

Service published a Notice of Intent to 

prepare an EIS for the Buckman Water 

Diversion Project in the Federal 

Register. Scoping meetings were held in 

August and September 2002. Issues and 

concerns identified during scoping and 

throughout the NEPA process were 

addressed in the Draft EIS. On 

December 17, 2004, the BLM and Forest 

Service published the Notice of 

Availability of the Draft EIS for this 

project in the Federal Register. The 60- 

day comment period ended on February 

14, 2005. Thirteen (13) comments were 

received from individuals, 

organizations, and agencies. Specific 

comment responses are provided in the 

FEIS, and issues and concerns raised 

during the review and prior to 

completion of the FEIS are addressed in 

the FEIS. 

The Buckman Water Diversion Project 

FEIS provides detailed analyses of the 

No Action Alternative, the Proposed 

Action, and several alternatives. The No 

Action Alternative would result in the 

agencies not authorizing permits for the 

construction and operation of a water 

diversion and associated infrastructure. 

The Proposed Action includes a 

diversion structure at the Rio Grande; 

water transmission facilities, including 

pumps and booster station buildings, 

water tanks, settling ponds and pipes; 

water treatment facilities; electric power 

improvements; and road improvements 

necessary to build and operate the 

facilities. While analyzing the Proposed 

Action, it was determined that there 

were alternatives for different 

infrastructure, and the effects of these 

alternatives were analyzed for possible 

inclusion in a composite preferred 

alternative. Therefore, three sediment 

facility alternatives, two raw water 

pipeline alternatives, three treated water 

pipeline alternatives, and two power 

upgrade alternatives were analyzed in 

detail. The FEIS discloses details of 

these infrastructural alternatives and the 

environmental consequences of 

implementing them. 

The BLM’s and Forest Service’s 

Preferred Alternative is to authorize 

rights-of-way and easements to the 

Applicants so that they may construct, 

operate, and maintain the road 

improvements and major facilities and 

their locations as described in the 

Proposed Action, plus one of the 

alternatives for each of the following: 

the sediment facility, the raw water 

pipeline, the treated water pipeline, and 

the power upgrade facility. The 

Preferred Alternative also includes 

mitigation and monitoring requirements 

to protect resources. The Preferred 

Alternative will avoid disturbance to the 

historic Buckman town site, minimize 

visual impacts on viewers from White 

Rock Overlook and along Buckman 

Road, and avoid creating new utility 

corridors. The alternatives, including 

the agencies’ Preferred Alternative, 

conform to existing laws and 

regulations, and provide for resource 

protection. 

In compliance with Section 7(c) of the 

Endangered Species Act, as amended, 

the FEIS includes a biological 

assessment for the purpose of 

identifying endangered or threatened 

species, which may be affected by the 

Preferred Alternative. A Biological 

Opinion is forthcoming and will be 

included in the formulation of the final 

decision. 

Dated: March 12, 2007. 

Sam Des Georges, 

BLM–Taos Field Office Manager. 

Daniel J. Jiron, 

Santa Fe National Forest, Forest Supervisor. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[AZ–910–0777–XP–241A] 

State of Arizona Resource Advisory 

Council Meeting 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Arizona Resource Advisory 

Council Meeting notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act and the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act of 1972, the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management, Arizona Resource 

Advisory Council (RAC), will meet on 

June 8, 2007, in Phoenix, Arizona, at the 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 

National Training Center located at 9828 

North 31st Avenue in Phoenix from 8 

a.m. and conclude at 4:30 p.m. Morning 

agenda items include: Review of the 

March 8, 2007, Meeting Minutes for 

RAC and RRAC business; BLM State 

Director’s Update on Statewide Issues; 

Presentations on Proposed Tri-State 

Shooting Range and Arizona Water 

Rights; RAC Questions on BLM Field 

Managers Rangeland Resource Team 

Proposals; and, Reports by RAC 

Working Groups. A public comment 

period will be provided at 11:30 a.m. on 

June 8, 2007, for any interested publics 

who wish to address the Council on 

BLM programs and business. 

Under the Federal Recreation 

Enhancement Act, the RAC has been 

designated the Recreation Resource 

Advisory Council (RRAC), and has the 

authority to review all BLM and Forest 

Service (FS) recreation fee proposals in 

Arizona. The afternoon meeting agenda 

on June 8, will include discussion and 

review of the Recreation Enhancement 

Act (REA) Working Group Report, 

updated 4th Quarter Schedule of Fiscal 

Year 2007 BLM and FS recreation fee 

proposals, and two FS fee proposals in 

Arizona: 

(1) Alto Pit OHV Use Area (Prescott 

National Forest): Ten minutes from 

downtown Prescott, and 2 hours from 

Phoenix and Flagstaff, this fee proposal 

would add a campground fee at a rate 

of $10 per night per campsite for single 

sites and $20 per night for a double site. 

Improvements include 10 single family 

sites and one double family site, three 

toilets, picnic tables, fire rings, loading 

and unloading area, 9 miles of internal 

designated trail system, additional 

external connection trails, 20 acres of 

designated cross county area, children’s 

OHV play area, and year-round on site 

host. 


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