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approved, the standard will be

developed following the FGDC

standards development and approval

process. If the standard is adopted by

the FGDC, it must be followed by all

Federal agencies portraying geologic

data in map form directly or indirectly

(through grants, partnerships, or

contracts).

In its assigned Federal leadership in

the development of the National Spatial

Data Infrastructure (NSDI), the FGDC

recognizes that FGDC standards must

also meet the needs and recognize the

views of State and local governments,

academia, industry, and the public. The

purpose of this notice is to solicit such

views. The FGDC invites the community

to review the proposal and comment on

the objectives, scope, approach, and

usability of the proposed standard;

identify existing related standards; and

indicate their interest in participating in

the development of the standard.

DATES: Comments must be received on

or before December 19, 1997.

CONTACT AND ADDRESSES: The complete

proposal is included in this notice. It is

also posted at Internet address: http://

www.fgdc.gov/Standards/Documents/

Proposals/geosym.html.

Comments may be submitted via

Internet mail or by submitting an

electronic copy on diskette. Send

comments via Internet to: gdcgeosym@www.fgdc.gov. Comments emailed as attachments must be in ASCII

format.

A soft copy version may be submitted

on a 3.5 x 3.5 diskette in Word Perfect

5.0 or 6.0/6.1 format, along with one

hardcopy version of the comments, to

the FGDC Secretariat (attn: Jennifer Fox)

at U.S. Geological Survey, 590 National

Center, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive,

Reston, Virginia, 20192.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Following

is the complete proposal for the ‘‘FGDC

Standard for Geologic Map

Symbolization.’’

Project Title: FGDC Standard for

Geologic Map Symbolization.

Date of Proposal: April 18, 1997,

revised: July 14, 1997.

Type of Standard Proposed: Data

Symbology.

Submitting Organization: FGDC

Geologic Data Subcommittee.

Point of Contact: David R. Soller,

USGS.

Objectives: The objective is to provide

a national standard for geologic map

symbols, colors, and patterns in order to

provide geologic map products that

have a standard appearance.

Scope: The scope of this project

covers cartographic symbols and

patterns that are on geologic maps. The

scope includes colors that are used to

convey areas of particular formation,

age, or lithology.

Justification/Benefits: Geologic maps

are produced by various State and

Federal agencies, according to various

locally-developed guidelines for content

and form. National or regional standards

for symbolizing geologic map elements

do not exist. Locally developed

standards or guidelines used by a

geologic mapping agency have not been

widely adopted. A national standard is

needed to provide a standard

cartographic product to the end-user.

Because most new maps are produced

from digital files, this standard must be

robust enough to be implemented in

digital form on a variety of hardcopy

output devices.

Development Approach: This

standard will be based on symbolization

contained in USGS Open-file Report 95–

525 ‘‘(draft) Cartographic and digital

standard for geologic map information.’’

The approach will be as follows:

• Conduct a review of USGS OFR95–

525 to determine elements of the

document that should be further

developed as a FGDC draft standard

(this review was released as USGS

Open-file Report 96–725 and is

available on-line at http://

ncgmp.usgs.gov/ngmdbproject/

standards/carto/OFR95–

525review.html).

• The review concluded that the

symbols, colors, and patterns in the

document should be converted to digital

form for consideration as a FGDC

standard and for general use within the

USGS. This conversion is underway

within the USGS.

• The digital symbols will form the

basis of a draft standards document to

be prepared by the Geologic Data

Subcommittee late in 1997.

• The document will then be

submitted to FGDC for review.

Related Standards: The proposed

standard will be based on symbolization

contained in USGS Open-file Report 95–

525 ‘‘(draft) Cartographic and digital

standard for geologic map information.’’

Potential relation to ISO Standard 710,

1974, Parts 1–7 will be evaluated.

Development and Completion

Schedule:

• In late summer, 1997, the USGS

will finish a first draft of the digital

symbols to be contained in the standard.

• The Geologic Data Subcommittee

will evaluate those symbols, and in late

1997, the Geologic Data Subcommittee

will begin compiling the digital symbols

into a draft FGDC standards document.

• In the first quarter of 1998, the

document will be submitted to FGDC for

review.

Resources Required: The USGS is

supporting development of the

standards document and the

implementation.

Potential Participants: The USGS, the

Association of American State

Geologists, the Geologic Data

Subcommittee, professional societies,

and private companies.

Other Targeted Authorization Bodies:

None.

Dated: November 25, 1997.

John Fischer,

Acting Chief, National Mapping Division.

[FR Doc. 97–31811 Filed 12–4–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–31–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Indian Affairs

Indian Gaming

ACTION: Notice of Approved

Amendment to Tribal-State Compact.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 11 of the

Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988,

Pub. L. 100–497, 25 U.S.C. 2710, the

Secretary of the Interior shall publish, in

the Federal Register, notice of approved

amendments to Tribal-State Compacts

for the purpose of engaging in Class III

(casino) gaming on Indian reservations.

The Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs,

Department of the Interior, through his

delegated authority, has approved

Amendment IV to the Gaming Compact

Between the Confederated Tribes of the

Umatilla Indian Reservation and the

State of Oregon, which was executed on

September 3, 1997.

DATES: This action is effective December

5, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Thomas H. Hartman, Acting Director,

Indian Gaming Management Staff,

Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington,

D.C. 20240, (202) 219–4068.

Dated: November 21, 1997.

Michael J. Anderson,

Deputy Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs.

[FR Doc. 97–31918 Filed 12–4–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–12–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[WY–030–1990–00]

Carbon Basin Area; Potential Federal

Coal Planning Decisions; Carbon Co.,

WY

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.
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ACTION: Notice of Availability of an

Environmental Assessment for a

Planning Review of the Carbon Basin

Area, Carbon County, Wyoming, and

Potential Federal Coal Planning

Decisions for the area.

SUMMARY: The Carbon Basin planning

review area is located approximately 40

miles east of the town of Rawlins and

12 miles southeast of the town of

Hanna, all located in Carbon County,

Wyoming. The planning review is being

conducted because an application to

lease Federal coal in the Carbon Basin

area has been submitted and Federal

coal planning decisions were not made

for the area during development of the

Great Divide Resource Management

Plan (RMP).

DATES: The 45 day comment/review

period for the environmental assessment

will begin the day following the

publication of this notice.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be

addressed in writing to the Great Divide

Resource Area, Bureau of Land

Management, Attn: Karla Swanson, Area

Manager, 1300 North Third Street,

Rawlins, Wyoming 82301.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Interested parties may direct questions

or concerns to obtain further

information from Brenda VosikaNeuman or John Spehar, who can be

visited at the above address or reached

by telephone: 307–328–4200.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Ark Land

Company, St. Louis, Missouri, has filed

an application with the Bureau of Land

Management (BLM) to obtain a coal

lease on approximately 4,145 acres of

Federal coal lands located in the Carbon

Basin area. Ark Land Company, through

its affiliate, Arch of Wyoming, Inc.,

(Arch) has conducted coal mining

operations in the Hanna Basin Region of

Carbon County since 1972. The

depletion of recoverable coal reserves in

the Hanna Basin has led Arch to

identify additional (local) coal resources

in the Carbon Basin area that could

utilize the existing infrastructure and

meet existing contracts and/or long-term

commitments. The Carbon Basin area is

in close proximity to the Hanna Basin

coal fields and provides a logical

continuation of the Hanna Basin mining

operations.

In 1982, a Federal coal lease was

issued for approximately 60 percent of

the Federal coal lands located in the

Carbon Basin. Because this lease was

still in effect at the time the current

BLM land use plan (the Great Divide

Resource Management Plan RMP–1990)

covering the Carbon Basin area was

prepared, it was exempt from the coal

screening/planning requirements.

However, development of this lease was

never pursued and the lease expired in

1992. Also, at the time the Great Divide

RMP was prepared, there was no other

interest expressed by industry in

obtaining Federal coal leases in the area.

As a result of these two factors, the coal

screening/planning process was not

conducted on the area and there were

no coal planning decisions for any of

the Federal coal lands in the Carbon

Basin area included in the Great Divide

RMP.

The Federal Coal Leasing

Amendments Act of 1976 requires that

Federal coal lands must first be

identified in a comprehensive land use

plan before they can be considered for

leasing. Because no coal planning

decisions were made for the Carbon

Basin coal area in the Great Divide RMP,

a planning review, which includes

conducting the coal screening/planning

process and an environmental analysis,

must be completed and documented

before the BLM can consider leasing

Federal coal in the Carbon Basin. The

Ark Land Company coal lease

application, or any future applications

to lease coal in the Carbon Basin, cannot

be given consideration until a planning

review is conducted on the Federal coal

lands involved and a determination is

made that some or all of the lands are

open to consideration for coal leasing

and development.

Dated: November 26, 1997.

Alan L. Kesterke,

Associate State Director.

[FR Doc. 97–31909 Filed 12–4–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–22–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[CO–010–07–1020–00–241A]

Northwest Colorado Resource

Advisory Council Meeting

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: The next meeting of the

Northwest Colorado Resource Advisory

Council will be held on Friday, January

9, 1998, in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

DATE: Friday, January 9, 1998.

ADDRESSES: For further information,

contact Joann Graham, Bureau of Land

Management (BLM), Grand Junction

District Office, 2815 H Road, Grand

Junction, Colorado 81506; telephone

(970) 244–3037.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

meeting will be held at the Garfield

County Courthouse, 109 8th Street,

Room 301, Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

Agenda items include subcommittee

reports and status of the roadless

inventory review.

All resource advisory council

meetings are open to the public.

Interested persons may make oral

statements at the meetings or submit

written statements following the

meetings. Per-person time limits for oral

statements may be set to allow all

interested persons an opportunity to

speak.

Summary minutes of council

meetings are maintained in both the

Grand Junction and Craig District

Offices. They are available for public

inspection and reproduction during

regular business hours within thirty (30)

days following the meeting.

Dated: November 24, 1997.

Mark T. Morse,

District Manager, Craig and Grand Junction

Districts.

[FR Doc. 97–31851 Filed 12–4–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–70–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[OR–014–08–3110–00–H040, GP8–0049]

Notice of Direct Sale of Public Lands

in Klamath County, Oregon—

Correction

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Correction.

SUMMARY: In the Notice of Direct Sale of

Public Lands in Klamath County,

Oregon beginning on page 53019 in the

issue of Friday, October 10, 1997

Volume 62, Number 197 make the

following correction:

On page 53019 in the third column,

the first sentence in paragraph one of

the Summary lists the appraised fair

market value as $645,000.00. The

appraised fair market value should be

changed to $625,400.00.

Dated: November 25, 1997.

A. Barron Bail,

Area Manager, Klamath Falls Resource Area.

[FR Doc. 97–31850 Filed 12–4–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–33–P