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Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1506.10 

and 43 CFR 1610.2. 

Edwin L. Roberson, 

State Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[18X 1109AF LLUT930000 

L16100000.DS0000.LXSSJ0650000] 

Notice of Availability of the Draft Bears 

Ears National Monument Indian Creek 

and Shash Ja ́a Units Monument 

Management Plans and Associated 

Environmental Impact Statement, Utah 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969, as amended, and the Federal Land 

Policy and Management Act of 1976, as 

amended, the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) Canyon Country 

District Office, in coordination with the 

United States Forest Service (USFS), 

Manti-La Sal National Forest, has 

prepared Draft Monument Management 

Plans (MMPs) and an Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS) for the Bears 

Ears National Monument (BENM) 

Indian Creek and Shash Ja ́a Units. By 

this Notice, the BLM is announcing the 

opening of the public comment period. 

DATES: To ensure that comments will be 

considered, the BLM must receive 

written comments on the BENM Draft 

MMPs/Draft EIS within 90 days of the 

date the Environmental Protection 

Agency publishes its Notice of 

Availability of the BENM Draft MMPs/ 

Draft EIS in the Federal Register. The 

BLM will announce future meetings or 

hearings and any other public 

involvement activities at least 15 days 

in advance through public notices, 

media releases and/or mailings. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

on the BENM Draft MMPs/EIS by either 

of these methods: 

• Email: blm_ut_monticello_

monuments@blm.gov 

• Mail: BLM, Canyon Country District 

Office, 82 East Dogwood, Moab, Utah 

84532, Attn: Lance Porter 

Copies of the BENM Draft MMPs/ 

Draft EIS are available at the following 

locations: 

• Bureau of Land Management, Utah 

State Office, 440 West 200 South, 

Suite 500, Salt Lake City, Utah 

• Bureau of Land Management, 

Monticello Field Office, 365 North 

Main, Monticello, Utah 

• Bureau of Land Management, Canyon 

Country District Office, 82 E 

Dogwood, Moab, Utah 

• Manti-La-Sal National Forest, 559 

West Price River Drive, Price, Utah 

The BENM Draft MMPs/Draft EIS and 

accompanying background documents 

are available on the ePlanning website 

at: https://goo.gl/uLrEae. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lance Porter, District Manager, BLM 

Canyon Country District Office, 82 East 

Dogwood, Moab, UT 84532, telephone 

435–259–2100 or email l50porte@

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. The FRS is 

available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 

to leave a message or question for the 

above individual. You will receive a 

reply during normal business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

December 4, 2017, President Donald 

Trump signed Proclamation 9681 

modifying the Bears Ears National 

Monument designated by Proclamation 

9558 to exclude from its designation 

and reservation approximately 

1,150,860 acres of land. The revised 

BENM boundary includes two units— 

Shash Ja ́a and Indian Creek Units—that 

are reserved for the care and 

management of the objects of historic 

and scientific interest within their 

boundaries. The planning area is located 

entirely in San Juan County, Utah and 

encompasses 169,289 acres of BLMmanaged lands and 32,587 acres of 

National Forest System Lands. All of the 

National Forest System Lands are 

within the Shash Ja ́a Unit. 

The BLM is the lead agency for the 

preparation of the EIS, and the Forest 

Service is participating as a cooperating 

agency. 

This planning effort is needed to 

identify goals, objectives, and 

management actions necessary for the 

conservation, protection, restoration, or 

enhancement of the resources, objects, 

and values identified in Proclamation 

9558, as modified by Proclamation 

9681. The BENM is jointly managed by 

the BLM and USFS under the 

Monticello Resource Management Plan 

(BLM 2008), as amended, and the Manti 

La-Sal Land and Resource Management 

Plan (LRMP), as amended (USFS 1986). 

The MMPs would replace the existing 

Monticello RMP for the BLMadministered lands within the BENM, 

and would amend the existing Manti LaSal LRMP for USFS-administered lands 

within the BENM. 

Each agency will continue to manage 

their lands within the monument 

pursuant to their respective applicable 

legal authorities. The responsible 

official for the BLM is the Utah State 

Director; the responsible official for the 

USFS is the Manti-La Sal Forest 

Supervisor. The USFS intends to use the 

BLM’s EIS to make its decision for the 

part of the Shash Ja ́a Unit MMP it 

administers. The USFS will use the 

BLM’s administrative review 

procedures, as provided by the USFS 

2012 Planning Rule, at 36 CFR 

219.59(b). 

The BLM and USFS have reviewed 

public scoping comments to identify 

planning issues that directed the 

formulation of alternatives and framed 

the scope of analysis in the Draft MMPs/ 

Draft EIS. Issues identified include 

management of cultural resources, 

including protection of American Indian 

sacred sites, traditional cultural 

properties, and access by members of 

Indian tribes for traditional cultural and 

customary uses; recreation and access; 

livestock grazing; and wildlife, water, 

vegetation, and soil resources. This 

planning effort also considers 

management of lands with wilderness 

characteristics. 

The Draft MMPs/Draft EIS evaluate 

four alternatives in detail. Alternative A 

is the No Action alternative, which is a 

continuation of existing decisions in the 

Monticello RMP and in the Manti-La Sal 

Forest Plan, to the extent that those 

decisions are compatible with the 

proclamations. Alternative B 

emphasizes resource protection and 

conservation. It is the alternative which 

imposes the greatest restrictions on 

recreation and other uses. The BLM and 

USFS would take a more active 

management approach to ensure that 

objects and values are conserved, 

protected and restored. Alternative C 

represents a balance among levels of 

restriction on recreation and other uses 

and emphasizes adaptive management 

to protect the long-term sustainability of 

Monument objects and values while 

providing for other multiple uses. 

Alternative D is the alternative with the 

least restrictive management 

prescriptions and utilizes a more 

passive management strategy, with the 

aim of minimizing the number of 

changes in the BENM. The agencies 

would focus on management actions 

that preserve objects and values but do 

not alter the existing character of the 

landscape or limit future agency 

discretion. 

The BLM and USFS have identified 

Alternative D as the preferred 


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alternative for purposes of public 

comment and review. Identification of 

this alternative, however, does not 

represent final agency direction, and the 

Proposed MMPs/Final EIS may include 

management actions described in the 

other analyzed alternatives. 

BLM Utah and the USFS are soliciting 

comments on the entire Draft MMPs/ 

Draft EIS. Please note that public 

comments and information submitted 

including names, street addresses, and 

email addresses of persons who submit 

comments will be available for public 

review and disclosure at addresses 

provided in the ADDRESSES section of 

this notice 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 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 may request to withhold your 

personal identifying information from 

public review, we cannot guarantee that 

we will be able to do so. 

Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 

1506.10, 43 CFR 1610.2, and 36 CFR 219.59. 

Edwin L. Roberson, 

State Director. 

[FR Doc. 2018–17750 Filed 8–16–18; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Bureau of Labor Statistics 

Proposed Collection, Comment 

Request 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as 

part of its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden, 

conducts a pre-clearance consultation 

program to provide the general public 

and Federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

and/or continuing collections of 

information in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA95). This program helps to ensure 

that requested data can be provided in 

the desired format, reporting burden 

(time and financial resources) is 

minimized, collection instruments are 

clearly understood, and the impact of 

collection requirements on respondents 

can be properly assessed. The Bureau of 

Labor Statistics (BLS) is soliciting 

comments concerning the proposed 

extension for the collection of the ‘‘BLS 

Data Sharing Program.’’ A copy of the 

proposed information collection request 

(ICR) can be obtained by contacting the 

individual listed below in the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice on or 

before October 16, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Erin 

Good, BLS Clearance Officer, Division 

of Management Systems, Bureau of 

Labor Statistics, Room 4080, 2 

Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington, 

DC 20212. Written comments may be 

transmitted by fax to 202–691–5111. 

(This is not a toll free number.) 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin 

Good, BLS Clearance Officer, 202–691– 

7763. (See ADDRESSES section.) 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

An important aspect of the mission of 

the BLS is to disseminate to the public 

the maximum amount of information 

possible. Not all data are publicly 

available because of the importance of 

maintaining the confidentiality of BLS 

data. However, the BLS has 

opportunities available on a limited 

basis for eligible researchers to access 

confidential data for purposes of 

conducting valid statistical analyses that 

further the mission of the BLS as 

permitted in the Confidential 

Information Protection and Statistical 

Efficiency Act of 2002 (CIPSEA). The 

BLS makes confidential data available to 

eligible researchers through three major 

programs: 

1. The Census of Fatal Occupational 

Injuries (CFOI), as part of the BLS 

occupational safety and health statistics 

program, compiles a count of all fatal 

work injuries occurring in the U.S. in 

each calendar year. Multiple sources are 

used in order to provide as complete 

and accurate information concerning 

workplace fatalities as possible. A 

research file containing CFOI data is 

made available offsite to eligible 

researchers. 

2. The National Longitudinal Surveys 

of Youth (NLSY) is designed to 

document the transition from school to 

work and into adulthood. The NLSY 

collects extensive information about 

youths’ labor market behavior and 

educational experiences over time. The 

NLSY includes three different cohorts: 

The National Longitudinal Survey of 

Youth 1979 (NLSY79), the NLSY79 

Young Adult Survey, and the National 

Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 

(NLSY97). NLSY data beyond the public 

use data are made available in greater 

detail through an offsite program to 

eligible researchers. 

3. Additionally, the BLS makes 

available data from several employment, 

compensation, prices, and working 

conditions surveys to eligible 

researchers for onsite use. Eligible 

visiting researchers can access these 

data in researcher rooms at the BLS 

national office in Washington, DC or at 

a Federal Statistical Research Data 

Center (FSRDC). 

II. Current Action 

Office of Management and Budget 

clearance is being sought for the BLS 

Data Sharing Program. In order to 

provide access to confidential data, the 

BLS must determine that the 

researcher’s project will be exclusively 

statistical in nature and that the 

researcher is eligible based on 

guidelines set out in CIPSEA, the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

implementation guidance on CIPSEA, 

and BLS policy. This information 

collection provides the vehicle through 

which the BLS will obtain the necessary 

details to ensure all researchers and 

projects comply with appropriate laws 

and policies. 

III. Desired Focus of Comments 

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is 

particularly interested in comments 

that: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility. 

• Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used. 

• Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected. 

• Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submissions 

of responses. 

Type of Review: Revision. 

Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

Title: BLS Data Sharing Program. 

OMB Number: 1220–0180. 

Affected Public: Individuals. 


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