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forestry, outdoor recreation, 

archaeology, paleontology, wildlife and 

fisheries, lands and realty, hydrology, 

soils, sociology, and economics. 

Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7 and 43 CFR 

1610.2 

Ruth Welch, 

BLM Colorado State Director. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02946 Filed 2–12–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–JB–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLNVL01000. 

L51100000.GN0000.LVEMF1402520. 

241A.14X; MO#4500069499] 

Notice of Availability of the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Gold Rock Mine Project, White Pine 

County, NV 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

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 (FLPMA), the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) Egan Field Office, 

Ely, Nevada has prepared a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (Draft 

EIS) for the proposed Gold Rock Mine 

Project in White Pine County, NV, and 

by this notice is announcing the 

opening of the public comment period 

on the Draft EIS. 

DATES: To ensure comments will be 

considered, the BLM must receive 

written comments on the Draft EIS 

within 45 days following the date the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

publishes its Notice of Availability in 

the Federal Register. The BLM will 

announce any public meetings or other 

public involvement activities at least 15 

days in advance through public notices, 

media releases, and/or mailings. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

related to the Gold Rock Mine Project by 

any of the following methods: 

• Web site: http://on.doi.gov/

1zAxyW9. 

• fax: 775–289–1910. 

• mail: BLM Ely District, Egan Field 

Office, HC 33 Box 33500, Ely, NV 

89301–9408. 

Copies of the Draft EIS are available 

in the Egan Field Office at the above 

address and on the Ely District’s Web 

page at http://www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/fo/ 

ely_field_office/blm_programs/

minerals/mining_projects/gold_rock_

project.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information contact Dan 

Netcher, Project Manager, telephone 

775–289–1872; address BLM Ely 

District, Egan Field Office, HC 33 Box 

33500, Ely, NV 89301–9408; email 

dnetcher@blm.gov. Persons who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

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

to contact the above individual during 

normal business hours. The FIRS 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: 

Midway Gold US Inc. (Midway) 

proposes to construct and operate an 

open-pit gold mining operation on the 

eastern side of the Pancake Mountain 

Range, approximately 50 miles west of 

Ely in White Pine County, Nevada. The 

proposed location is 15 miles south of 

U.S. Route 50 near Newark Valley and 

the northern Railroad Valley, in the 

same geographic area as the reclaimed 

and closed Easy Junior Mine. Midway 

submitted the Gold Rock Mine Project 

Plan of Operations on March 21, 2013. 

The BLM’s approval of the mine plan as 

proposed (the Proposed Action) would 

authorize approximately 3,946 acres of 

disturbance on land administered by the 

BLM. Under the Proposed Action, the 

proposed operations and associated 

disturbance would include a proposed 

power line extending south from the 

Pan Mine to the west side of the 

proposed Gold Rock Mine Project site. 

Also under the Proposed Action, a 

county road that currently passes 

through the Gold Rock Mine Project area 

would be re-located onto existing and 

new BLM and county roads. An updated 

inventory of lands with wilderness 

characteristics was completed and 

found no lands with wilderness 

characteristics in the project area. 

The projected life of the project is 48 

years: 10 years of mining and additional 

time for associated construction, 

reclamation, closure, and post-closure 

monitoring periods. Midway is 

currently conducting exploration 

activities in the project area; which 

activities were analyzed in two separate 

environmental assessments (EAs): The 

Midway Gold Rock Project Final 

Environmental Assessment (June 2012), 

and the Environmental Assessment for 

the Midway Gold Rock Project, 

Exploration Amendment (October 

2012). 

On September 5, 2013, a Notice of 

Intent (NOI) was published in the 

Federal Register inviting scoping 

comments on the Proposed Action. A 

legal notice was prepared by the BLM 

and published in the Ely Times, the 

Eureka Sentinel, the High Desert 

Advocate, and the Reno Gazette-Journal 

informing the public of the BLM’s 

intention to prepare the Gold Rock Mine 

EIS. Public scoping meetings were held 

in September 2013 in Ely, Eureka, and 

Reno, Nevada. On November 7, 2013, 

the BLM learned that the email account 

set up to receive scoping comments on 

the Gold Rock Mine Project EIS, along 

with all of its contents, had disappeared 

during the first week of October 2013 

and was not recoverable. On March 28, 

2014, the BLM published a second 

Notice of Intent to prepare an EIS in the 

Federal Register, extending the scoping 

period for another 30-day public input 

period, inviting the public to submit 

comments, and requesting that anyone 

who submitted scoping comments by 

email during the initial 30-day scoping 

period (September 5, 2013, through 

October 7, 2013) resubmit their 

comments by mail, by fax, or through 

the ePlanning system during this 30-day 

extension of the public input period. No 

changes were made to the Proposed 

Action. No scoping meetings were held 

during this 30-day extension of the 

public input period, as these meetings 

were not affected by the technical 

difficulties with the email account. In 

total, 60 comment documents were 

received during scoping. The comments 

were incorporated in a Scoping 

Summary Report and were considered 

in the preparation of this Draft EIS. 

Concerns raised during scoping 

include: Positive and negative 

socioeconomic impacts on the 

communities of Ely and Eureka, and to 

White Pine County; changes to the 

quantity and quality of surface water 

and groundwater; potential occurrence 

of acid drainage from waste rock 

disposal areas into surface or 

groundwater; impacts to soils through 

reduced infiltration or increased 

erosion; potential occurrence of a 

release of pollutants and hazardous 

materials to the environment during 

operations or following closure; impacts 

to wild horses and their habitat; impacts 

to vegetation communities, and 

vegetative food resources for wildlife; 

short- and long-term impacts on wildlife 

population dynamics and habitats; 

potential impacts to population and 

habitat of greater sage-grouse; potential 

impacts to Native American traditional 

and religious values regarding greater 

sage-grouse, antelope traps and geologic 

and mineral resources; impacts to air 

quality through point (equipment) and 

non-point (site roads and facilities) 

pollution sources; potential impacts to 


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public health and safety resulting from 

increased traffic; impacts to general 

health of the rangeland resources; 

increase in light pollution in the area 

and direct visual impacts from mine 

facilities; potential impacts to cultural 

resource sites listed on or eligible for the 

National Register of Historic Places if 

they exist in or near the project area; 

and cumulative impacts to wildlife, 

wild horses, cultural, air, water, and 

vegetation resources, pine nut gathering, 

and Native American traditional and 

religious values. 

The Draft EIS describes and analyzes 

the proposed project’s site-specific 

impacts (including cumulative impacts) 

on all affected resources. The Proposed 

Action, six action alternatives, and the 

No Action Alternative were analyzed. 

Five of the six action alternatives were 

developed to help reduce impacts to 

greater sage-grouse: Two power line 

route alternatives, two main access 

route alternatives, and one county road 

re-route alternative. One tailings storage 

facility location alternative was also 

considered to minimize impacts to mule 

deer crucial winter range. Mitigation 

measures have also been identified to 

show how impacts on resources could 

be minimized. 

The BLM has prepared the Draft EIS 

in conjunction with its four Cooperating 

Agencies: The Duckwater Shoshone 

Tribe, Eureka County Board of 

Commissioners, the Nevada Department 

of Wildlife, and the White Pine County 

Board of County Commissioners. 

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 the above address during 

regular business hours (8:00 a.m. to 4:00 

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 can ask us in your comment 

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 

Jill A. Moore, 

Egan Field Office Manager. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02950 Filed 2–12–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–HC–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NRNHL–17590; 

PPWOCRADI0, PCU00RP14.R50000] 

National Register of Historic Places; 

Notification of Pending Nominations 

and Related Actions 

Nominations for the following 

properties being considered for listing 

or related actions in the National 

Register were received by the National 

Park Service before January 24, 2015. 

Pursuant to section 60.13 of 36 CFR part 

60, written comments are being 

accepted concerning the significance of 

the nominated properties under the 

National Register criteria for evaluation. 

Comments may be forwarded by United 

States Postal Service, to the National 

Register of Historic Places, National 

Park Service, 1849 C St. NW., MS 2280, 

Washington, DC 20240; by all other 

carriers, National Register of Historic 

Places, National Park Service, 1201 Eye 

St. NW., 8th floor, Washington, DC 

20005; or by fax, 202–371–6447. Written 

or faxed comments should be submitted 

by March 2, 2015. 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 can ask us in your comment to 

withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Dated: January 30, 2015. 

James Gabbert, 

Acting Chief, National Register of Historic 

Places/National Historic Landmarks Program. 

COLORADO 

Eagle County 

Notch Mountain Shelter, Notch Mtn. 

Summit, White River NF, Minturn, 

15000059 

Tigiwon Community House, FSR 707, Holy 

Cross Dist., White River NF, Minturn, 

15000060 

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

District of Columbia 

Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) 

Historic District, 6900 Georgia Ave. NW., 

Washington, 15000061 

FLORIDA 

Orange County 

Gary-Morgan House, 1041 Osceola Ave., 

Winter Park, 15000062 

OKLAHOMA 

Kay County 

First Church of Christ, Scientist, 300 N. 3rd 

St., Ponca City, 15000063 

St. John Baptist Church and Rectory, 1009 S. 

11th St., Ponca City, 15000064 

Pittsburg County 

McAlester Downtown Historic District, 

Bounded by Business 69, E. Carl Albert 

Pkwy., N. 5th St. & RR tracks, McAlester, 

15000065 

Tulsa County 

First National Bank, 123 E. W.C. Rogers 

Blvd., Skiatook, 15000066 

Oklahoma Iron Works—Bethlehem Supply 

Company Building, 118 N. Lansing Ave., 

Tulsa, 15000067 

[FR Doc. 2015–02995 Filed 2–12–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–51–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation No. 337–TA–930] 

Certain Laser Abraded Denim 

Garments; Notice of Commission 

Decision Amending the Notice of 

Investigation and Extending the Target 

Date 

AGENCY: U.S. International Trade 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the U.S. International Trade 

Commission has determined not to 

review the presiding administrative law 

judge’s (‘‘ALJ’’) initial determination 

(‘‘ID’’) (Order No. 20) granting a motion 

to amend the complaint and notice of 

investigation to add new respondents, 

and to extend the target date for 

completion of the above-captioned 

investigation by four months. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sidney A. Rosenzweig, Office of the 

General Counsel, U.S. International 

Trade Commission, 500 E Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20436, telephone (202) 

708–2532. Copies of non-confidential 

documents filed in connection with this 

investigation are or will be available for 

inspection during official business 

hours (8:45 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.) in the 

Office of the Secretary, U.S. 

International Trade Commission, 500 E 

Street SW., Washington, DC 20436, 

telephone (202) 205–2000. General 

information concerning the Commission 

may also be obtained by accessing its 

Internet server at http://www.usitc.gov. 

The public record for this investigation 

may be viewed on the Commission’s 

electronic docket (EDIS) at http://

edis.usitc.gov. Hearing-impaired 


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