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documents, is available on the BLM 

website at https://go.usa.gov/xnFJm. 

Copies of the ROD for Recreational 

Target Shooting in the SDNM have been 

sent to affected Federal, State, and local 

government agencies and to other 

stakeholders, and are available for 

public inspection at Lower Sonoran 

Field Office 21605 North 7th Avenue, 

Phoenix, Arizona 85027. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Darrel Wayne Monger, Monument 

Manager, telephone: 623–580–5683; 

address: Lower Sonoran Field Office, 

21605 North 7th Avenue, Phoenix, 

Arizona 85027; email: blm_az_

sdnmtargetshooting@blm.gov. Persons 

who use a telecommunications device 

for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Relay Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339 

to contact the above individual during 

normal business hours. FRS is available 

24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave 

a message or question with the above 

individual. You will receive a reply 

during normal business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

planning area covers nearly 496,400 

surface acres of south-central Arizona 

and lies within Maricopa and Pinal 

Counties. Population centers adjacent to 

the planning area include metropolitan 

Phoenix, and the communities of Ajo, 

Goodyear, Buckeye, Gila Bend, Mobile, 

and Maricopa. The planning area 

encompasses Federal- and Stateadministered lands as well as private 

lands. The BLM’s authority is limited to 

BLM-managed public lands and 

federally-owned minerals within the 

planning area. The BLM manages 

486,400 surface acres of public lands in 

the planning area, as well as 461,000 

acres of (sub-surface) mineral estate. 

The State of Arizona manages 3,900 

surface acres in the planning area, with 

the remaining 6,100 surface acres being 

privately owned land. 

The BLM prepared the Proposed RMP 

Amendment/Final EIS to address 

management of recreational target 

shooting in the SDNM. The Proposed 

RMP Amendment/Final EIS was 

required to analyze recreational target 

shooting in the SDNM due to a ruling 

by the U.S. District Court-District of 

Arizona that vacated portions of the 

2012 ROD, Approved RMP, and Final 

EIS related to recreational target 

shooting throughout the SDNM, and 

remanded the decision to the BLM for 

reconsideration. The Court also required 

the BLM to ensure the Final EIS 

analyzed mitigation measures and 

cumulative impacts consistent with the 

order, with a deadline of March 5, 2018, 

to issue the ROD. The BLM Arizona 

State Director signed the ROD on March 

5, 2018. 

The Proposed RMP Amendment/Final 

EIS evaluated five alternatives in detail, 

including the No Action Alternative 

(Alternative A) and four action 

alternatives (Alternatives B, C, D, and 

E), based on public input and on 

analysis of the impacts of each of the 

alternatives. The five alternatives ranged 

from making the entire monument 

available for target shooting to making 

the entire monument unavailable for 

target shooting. All alternatives required 

compliance with a hierarchy of 

mitigation that includes: (1) Avoiding 

impacts to the maximum extent 

compatible with the goals of the 

alternative; (2) Minimizing any impacts 

that are not avoidable; and (3) Providing 

a range of responses commensurate with 

the level of unavoidable impacts. 

Alternative C was the BLM’s proposed 

amendment. The Proposed RMP 

Amendment and Final EIS were 

published in the Federal Register on 

October 20, 2017 (84 FR 48847). 

As a result of continued work with 

stakeholders and in response to 

comments from the public and 

cooperating agencies, the BLM 

determined that approximately 2,600 

acres of additional land in the area is 

suitable for recreational target shooting. 

As such, the ROD approves a modified 

version of Alternative C, which 

identifies approximately 435,700 acres 

of land as available for recreational 

target shooting in the SDNM. The 

additional approximately 2,600 acres 

are located along the northern boundary 

of the SDNM within the Juan Bautista 

de Anza Recreation Management Zone, 

and were analyzed in Alternative A as 

available for recreational target 

shooting. 

During the 30-day protest period, the 

BLM Director received five protest 

letters. All protests were resolved prior 

to issuance of the ROD. 

No comments regarding potential 

inconsistencies with State and local 

plans, programs, and policies were 

received from the Governor’s Office 

during the Governor’s Consistency 

Review process. 

(Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1506.10, 

43 CFR 1610.2, 43 CFR 1610.5) 

Edward J. Kender, 

Field Manager, Lower Sonoran Field Office. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–32–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[12X.LLAK942000.L54200000.FR0000. 

LVDIL12L0530; FF097215] 

Notice of Application for a Recordable 

Disclaimer of Interest for Lands 

Underlying the Fortymile River System, 

Alaska 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The State of Alaska (State) has 

filed an application with the Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM) for a 

Recordable Disclaimer of Interest (RDI) 

from the United States in those lands 

underlying the Fortymile River System 

located in the upper Yukon subregion, 

Alaska. The State asserts that the 

Fortymile River System was navigable 

and unreserved at the time of Alaska 

Statehood in 1959. 

DATES: The BLM should receive all 

comments to this action on or before 

November 19, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by mail or email on the State of Alaska’s 

application for an RDI or on the BLM 

draft ‘‘Summary Report on Federal 

Interest in Lands underlying the 

Fortymile River System in Alaska.’’ 

(Report) To file comments by mail, send 

to: RDI Program Manager (AK–942), 

Division of Lands and Cadastral, BLM 

Alaska State Office, 222 West 7th 

Avenue, #13, Anchorage, AK 99513. To 

submit comments by email, send to 

anichols@blm.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Angie Nichols, RDI Program Manager, 

222 West 7th Avenue, #13, Anchorage, 

AK 99513; 907–271–3359; anichols@

blm.gov; or visit the BLM RDI website 

at https://www.blm.gov/basic/programslands-and-realty-alaska-rdi-fortymilefortymile-river. 

People who use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD) may call the 

Federal Relay System (FRS) at 1–800– 

877–8339 to contact the above 

individual during normal business 

hours. The FRS is available 24 hours a 

day, 7 days a week, to leave a message 

or a question with the above individual. 

You will receive a reply during normal 

business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 

11, 2017, the State filed an application 

(FF–97215) for an RDI pursuant to 

Section 315 of the Federal Land Policy 

and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA) 

and the regulations contained in 43 CFR 

Subpart 1864 for the lands underlying 

the Fortymile River System. 


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The State asserts that this river system 

was navigable at the time of Alaska 

Statehood. As such, the State contends 

that ownership of the lands underlying 

this river system automatically passed 

from the United States to the State in 

1959 at the time of Statehood under the 

Equal Footing Doctrine; the Submerged 

Lands Act of 1953; the Alaska Statehood 

Act of 1959; and other title navigability 

law. Section 315 of FLPMA authorizes 

the BLM to issue an RDI when it 

determines that a record interest of the 

United States in lands has terminated by 

law or is otherwise invalid, and a 

disclaimer will help remove a cloud on 

title to such lands. 

The State’s application is for an RDI 

for all submerged lands underlying the 

portion of the Fortymile River System 

described below. Specifically, these are 

all submerged lands between the 

ordinary high water marks of the left 

and right banks of the Fortymile River, 

beginning sixty feet upstream of the 

international border with Canada, 

upstream to the confluence of the North 

and South Forks of the Fortymile River 

within section 10, township 8 south, 

range 30 east, Fairbanks Meridian, 

Alaska; all submerged lands between 

the ordinary high water marks of the left 

and right banks of the South Fork of the 

Fortymile River beginning at the 

confluence with the North Fork of the 

Fortymile River upstream to the 

confluence of the Mosquito and 

Dennison Forks of the Fortymile River 

within section 8, township 26 north, 

range 18 east, Fairbanks Meridian, 

Alaska; and all submerged lands 

between the ordinary high water marks 

of the left and right banks of the North 

Fork of the Fortymile River, beginning 

at its confluence with the South Fork of 

the Fortymile River, upstream to the 

dead-end slough which is a remnant of 

the Knik in section 20, township 6 

south, range 29 east, Fairbanks 

Meridian, Alaska. The State listed the 

main stem of the Fortymile River’s 

coverage on the USGS 1:63,360 series 

topographic map Eagle A–2 (1956), 

Eagle B–1 (1956) and Eagle B–2 (1956); 

for the North Fork of the Fortymile 

River, Eagle A–2 (1956), Eagle B–2 

(1956) and Eagle B–3 (1956); and the 

South Fork of the Fortymile River is 

shown on the Eagle A–2 (1956) 

quadrangle. 

Over time, the precise location of the 

submerged lands described above may 

vary between townships due to the 

ambulatory nature of these water bodies. 

An RDI is a legal document through 

which the BLM disclaims the United 

States’ interest in, or ownership of, 

specified lands, but the disclaimer does 

not grant, convey, transfer, or renounce 

any title or interest in the lands, nor 

does it release any tax, judgment, or 

lien. This Notice of Application is to 

inform the public of the pending 

application and the State’s supporting 

evidence, as well as to provide the 

opportunity to comment or provide 

additional information to the BLM. 

The BLM will not make a final 

decision on the merits of the State’s 

application before November 19, 2018. 

During this 90-day period, interested 

parties may comment on the State’s 

application, FF–97215, and supporting 

evidence. Interested parties may also 

comment on the BLM’s draft report, 

which is available on the BLM’s RDI 

website (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT above). 

Copies of the State’s application, 

supporting evidence, the BLM draft 

report, and comments, including names 

and street addresses of commenters, will 

be available for public review at the 

BLM Alaska Public Information Center 

(Public Room), 222 West 8th Avenue, 

Anchorage, Alaska, during regular 

business hours 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except holidays. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personally identifying information in 

your comment, you should be aware 

that your entire comment—including 

your personally identifiable 

information—may be made publicly 

available at any time. While you can ask 

the BLM in your comment to withhold 

your personally identifiable information 

from public review, we cannot 

guarantee that we will be able to do so. 

If the BLM determines the State’s 

evidence and any additional 

information the agency receives 

concerning the State’s application is 

sufficient to reach a favorable 

determination, and neither the records 

nor a valid objection discloses a reason 

not to disclaim, the BLM may decide to 

approve the application for the RDI. 

Authority: 43 CFR 1864.2. 

Erika L. Reed, 

Deputy State Director, Division of Lands and 

Cadastral, Alaska. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–JA–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[18X.LLID933000.L14400000.ET0000; IDI– 

38117] 

Public Land Order No. 7872; 

Withdrawal of National Forest System 

Land for the Dump Creek Diversion 

Ditch, Idaho 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Public Land Order. 

SUMMARY: This Order withdraws 107.02 

acres of National Forest System land 

from location and entry under the 

United States mining laws for a period 

of 20 years to protect the Dump Creek 

Diversion Ditch within the Salmon 

National Forest. The purpose of this 

withdrawal is to ensure the continued 

conservation of the aquatic and riparian 

habitats, and to protect the Federal 

watershed investments in the Salmon 

River Drainage. 

DATES: This Public Land Order takes 

effect on August 20, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff 

Cartwright, Bureau of Land Management 

(BLM), Idaho State Office (208) 373– 

3885. Persons who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Relay 

Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to 

reach the Bureau of Land Management 

contact during normal business hours. 

The FRS is available 24 hours a day, 7 

days a week, to leave a message or 

question with the above individual. You 

will receive a reply during normal 

business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This order 

withdraws the land on behalf of the 

United States Forest Service for the 

purpose of preserving the existing 

groundwater regime and to protect the 

integrity of the reclamation and 

watershed stabilization and investment 

of Federal funds within the Dump Creek 

project. 

Order 

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, it is ordered as follows: 

1. Subject to valid existing rights, the 

following described National Forest 

System land is hereby withdrawn from 

location and entry under the United 

States mining laws for a period of 20 

years to preserve the existing 

groundwater regime and to protect the 

integrity of the reclamation and 

watershed stabilization and investment 


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