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confidentiality. If you wish to withhold

your name or street address from public

review or from disclosure under the

Freedom of Information Act, you must

state this prominently at the beginning

of your written comment. Such requests

will be honored to the extent allowed by

law. All submissions from organizations

or businesses, and from individuals

identifying themselves as

representatives or officials of

organizations or businesses, will be

made available for public inspection in

their entirety.

Public participation has occurred

throughout the RMP Amendment

process. A Notice of Intent was filed in

the Federal Register (Vol. 59, No. 73,

Page 18151–18152) on April 15, 1994.

Since that time, several public meetings,

mail-outs, and group briefings were

conducted to solicit comments and

ideas, or familiarize various groups with

the proposal and the BLM planning

process. A notice of a 60-day comment

period on the designation of the ACECs

and a Notice of Availability of the draft

RMP Amendment/preliminary FONSI

and supporting EA was published in the

Federal Register (Vol. 61, No. 102, page

26203–26204) on May 24, 1996.

Comments received during the 60-day

comment period were considered in

preparation of the Proposed RMP

Amendment and supporting EA. Single

copies of the Proposed RMP

Amendment/FONSI and supporting EA

for the Otero County ACECs may be

obtained from the BLM Las Cruces

District Office, 1800 Marquess, Las

Cruces, New Mexico 88005. Public

reading copies are available for review

at the BLM State Office, 1474 Rodeo

Rd., Santa Fe, New Mexico, and public

and university libraries in Las Cruces,

Santa Fe, and Albuquerque, New

Mexico, and El Paso, Texas.

Dated: August 13, 1997.

Stephanie Hargrove,

Acting District Manager.

[FR Doc. 97–21886 Filed 8–18–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–VC–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[NV–040–1020–001]

Mojave-Southern Great Basin

Resource Advisory Council—Notice of

Meeting Locations and Times

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management.

ACTION: Resource Advisory Council

Meeting Locations and Times.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the

Federal Land Policy and Management

Act and the Federal Advisory

Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), 5

U.S.C., the Department of the Interior,

Bureau of Land Management (BLM),

council meeting of the Mojave-Southern

Great Basin Resource Advisory Council

(RAC) will be held as indicated below.

The agenda includes a public comment

period, and discussion of public land

issues.

The Resource Advisory Council

develops recommendations for BLM

regarding the preparation, amendment,

and implementation of land use plans

for the public lands and resources

within the jurisdiction of the council.

For the Mojave-Great Basin RAC this

jurisdiction is Clark, Esmeralda, Lincoln

and Nye counties in Nevada. Except for

the purposes of long-range planning and

the establishment of resource

management priorities, the RAC shall

not provide advice on the allocation and

expenditure of Federal funds, or on

personnel issues.

The RAC may develop

recommendation for implementation of

ecosystem management concepts,

principles and programs, and assist the

BLM to establish landscape goals and

objectives.

All meetings are open to the public.

The public may present written

comments to the council. Public

comments should be limited to issues

for which the RAC may make

recommendations within its area of

jurisdiction. Depending on the number

of persons wishing to comment, and

time available, the time for individual

oral comments may be limited.

Individuals who plan to attend and

need further information about the

meetings, or need special assistance

such as sign language interpretation or

other reasonable accommodations,

should contact Michael Dwyer at the

Las Vegas District Office, 4765 Vegas

Dr., Las Vegas, NV 89108, telephone,

(702) 647–5000.

DATES, TIMES: Date is September 11,

1997, from 1:00 p.m., to approximately

4:30 p.m. and will reconvene on June

17, 1997 and meet from 8 a.m. to 4:30

p.m. The council will meet at the Las

Vegas District Office, 4765 West Vegas

Drive, Las Vegas, NV. The public

comment period will begin at 11:30 a.m.

on September 12.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dan

Netcher, District Minerals Specialist,

Ely, NV, telephone: (702) 289–1872.

Dated: August 6, 1997.

Timothy B. Reuwsaat,

Acting Ely District Manager.

[FR Doc. 97–21854 Filed 8–18–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–HC–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[MT–960–1990–00-CCAM; MTM 84500]

Public Land Order No. 7282;

Withdrawal of Federal Lands and

Minerals for Watershed Protection;

Montana

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Public Land Order.

SUMMARY: This order withdraws

approximately 22,065 acres of Federal

lands from location and entry under the

mining laws and the mineral leasing

laws, except oil and gas, for a period of

20 years to protect watersheds, water

quality, and fresh water fishery

resources. In addition, approximately

4,158 acres of non-Federal lands, if

acquired by the United States, would be

withdrawn by this order. The lands

have been and remain open to surface

uses authorized by the Forest Service.

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 19, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Cooke City Area Mineral Withdrawal

Team, PO Box 36800, Billings, Montana

59107, 406–255–0322.

By virtue of the authority vested in

the Secretary of the Interior by Section

204 of the Federal Land Policy and

Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C.

1714 (1994), it is ordered as follows:

1. Subject to valid existing rights,

Federal lands within the following

described area are hereby withdrawn

from location and entry under the

United States mining laws and the

mineral leasing laws, except oil and gas,

30 U.S.C. Ch. 2 (1994), to protect

watersheds within the drainages of the

Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone, Soda

Butte Creek, and the Stillwater River,

and the water quality and fresh water

fishery resources within Yellowstone

National Park:

Principal Meridian, Montana

Custer and Gallatin National Forests

T. 8 S., R. 14 E.,

Sec. 25 and secs. 33 to 36, inclusive, those

portions lying outside of the AbsarokaBeartooth Wilderness Boundary, partly

unsurveyed.

T. 9 S., R 14 E.,

Secs. 1 to 5, inclusive, secs. 8 to 17,

inclusive, secs. 21 to 28, inclusive, and

secs. 33 to 36, inclusive, those portions