[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 231 (Thursday, November 30, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71332-71333]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-30117]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[NM-010-1430-EU/1430-HN; NM 101521]


Notice of Availability of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement 
(DEIS) for a Proposed Land Exchange With the Pueblo of Santo Domingo; 
Albuquerque Field Office, New Mexico

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Albuquerque Field Office 
has completed a DEIS. This document describes and analyzes three 
alternatives for a land exchange. The exchange would involve public 
land north of County Road 252 A (formerly State Road 22) and south of 
the Santo Domingo Reservation, and private lands of equal value yet to 
be identified, within high-priority acquisition areas (as identified in 
the Rio Puerco and the Taos Resource Management Plans). The 
alternatives are: (A) Proposed Action--exchange public lands with a 
conservation easement, (B) Exchange

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public lands with no conservation easement, and (C) No Action.
    The following described public lands are being analyzed for 
disposal through exchange to the Santo Domingo Pueblo by the United 
States:

New Mexico Principal Meridian

T. 13 N., R. 6 E.,
    Sec. 1, lots 5, 6, 7, and 13.
T. 14 N., R. 6 E.,
    Sec. 9, lots 9, 10, S\1/2\;
    Sec. 10, lots 10 to 13, inclusive, S\1/2\S\1/2\;
    Sec. 11, lots 9, 10 and 11;
    sec. 13, lots 5 to 8, inclusive, S\1/2\NW\1/4\ and S\1/2\;
    Sec. 14, lot 2, NW\1/4\NE\1/4\, S\1/2\NE\1/4\, NW\1/4\, and S\1/
2\;
    Sec. 15;
    Sec. 22, lots 1, 5, and 6;
    Sec. 23, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, N\1/2\ and SE\1/4\;
    Secs. 24 and 25;
    Sec. 26, lots 1, 2, 6 to 9, inclusive, and lots 15, and 16, 
NE\1/4\;
    Sec. 35, lots 1, 2, 5 to 8, inclusive, and lot 11.
T. 13 N., R. 7 E.,
    Sec. 6, lots 5 to 12, inclusive;
    Sec. 7, lots 5, 6, 7, and 11.
T. 14 N., R. 7 E.,
    Sec. 17, lots 10 and 11;
    Sec. 18, lots 5 to 8, inclusive, SW\1/4\ and S\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 19;
    Sec. 20, lots 1 to 4, inclusive;
    Sec. 29, lots 1 and 2;
    Sec. 30, lots 1 to 5, inclusive, N\1/2\N\1/2\, SW\1/4\NW\1/4\ 
and W\1/2\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 31, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, W\1/2\W\1/2\.

    The areas described aggregate 7,376.34 acres.

    In this proposed exchange, the United States would acquire lands of 
equal value that are yet to be identified within or adjacent to BLM 
Wilderness Study Areas, Areas of Critical Environmental Concern, 
Special Management Areas and/or other BLM high-priority acquisition 
areas.

DATES: Written comments must be postmarked no later than January 15, 
2001. A public open house to discuss the alternatives will be held in 
the main conference room at the BLM Albuquerque Field Office, 435 
Montano Rd. NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on 
Monday, December 18, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should be sent to: Albuquerque Field 
Manager, BLM Albuquerque Field Office, 435 Montano Rd. NE, Albuquerque, 
New Mexico 87107-4935.
    Copies of the DEIS are available for review at the Albuquerque 
Field Office and at the following address on the Internet: 
www.nm.blm.gov. Additional copies are available at the following BLM 
New Mexico offices: State Office, 1474 Rodeo Road, Santa Fe; and Taos 
Field Office, 226 Cruz Alta Road, Taos.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Debby Lucero, BLM Albuquerque Field 
Office at the above address, or telephone (505) 761-8787, fax (505) 
761-8911.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The following issues are addressed in the 
environmental analysis: (1) Ecological Sites/Vegetation, (2) 
Threatened, Endangered and Other Special Status Species, (3) Water 
Resources, (4) Wildlife, (5) Geology/Paleontology, (6) Minerals, (7) 
Land Uses, (8) Wilderness, (9) Recreation, (10) Visual Resources, (11) 
Air Quality and Noise, (12) Hazardous Materials, (13) Cultural 
Resources, (14) American Indian Uses, (15) Rangeland Management, and 
(16) Socioeconomic Conditions.
    All public lands managed by the Albuquerque Field Office are 
identified in a lower class retention zone, so they may be disposed of 
only for lands in a higher class retention zone. The lands to be 
acquired by the BLM through this exchange are in high class retention 
areas, supporting their acquisition through exchange of lower class 
retention lands to the Pueblo.

Edwin J. Singleton,
Albuquerque Field Manager.
[FR Doc. 00-30117 Filed 11-29-00; 8:45 am]
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