Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 67 / Wednesday, April 8, 2015 / Notices 18865 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLOR–936000–L14300000–ET0000– 

14XL1116AF; HAG–14–0109; WAOR–50706] 

Public Land Order No. 7832 Extension 

of Public Land Order No. 7133; 

Washington 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Public Land Order. 

SUMMARY: This order extends the 

duration of the withdrawal created by 

Public Land Order 7133 for an 

additional 20-year period. This 

extension is necessary to continue 

protection of the Brown Mountain, Pal 

Moore Meadows, Teepee, Cedar Creek, 

and Flowery Trail Seed Orchards, 

located in the Colville and Kaniksu 

National Forests, which will expire on 

April 12, 2015, unless extended. 

DATE: Effective Date: April 13, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael L. Barnes, Bureau of Land 

Management Oregon/Washington State 

Office, 503–808–6155, or Candice 

Polisky, U.S. Forest Service Pacific 

Northwest Region, 503–808–2479. 

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. 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: The 

purpose for which the withdrawal was 

first made requires this extension to 

continue protection of the investments 

made in the Brown Mountain, Pal 

Moore Meadows, Teepee, Cedar Creek, 

and Flowery Trail Seed Orchards in 

Colville and Kaniksu National Forests. 

The withdrawal extended by this order 

will expire on April 12, 2035, unless, as 

a result of a review conducted prior to 

the expiration date pursuant to Section 

204(f) of the Federal Land Policy and 

Management Act of 1976 43 U.S.C. 

1714, the Secretary of the Interior 

determines that the withdrawal shall be 

further extended. 

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: 

Public Land Order No. 7133 (60 FR 

18777(1995)), which withdrew 496.22 

acres of National Forest System lands 

from location and entry under the 

United States mining laws (30 U.S.C. 

Ch. 2), but not from leasing under the 

mineral leasing laws, to protect the 

investment at the Brown Mountain, Pal 

Moore Meadows, Teepee, Cedar Creek, 

and Flowery Trail Seed Orchards, is 

hereby extended for an additional 20- 

year period until April 12, 2035. 

Dated: March 23, 2015. 

Janice M. Schneider, 

Assistant Secretary—Land and Minerals 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2015–08009 Filed 4–7–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–11–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–PWR–PWRO–17645; 

PX.P0206452B.00.1] 

Final Environmental Impact Statement 

for Wilderness Stewardship Plan, 

Sequoia and Kings Canyon National 

Parks, Fresno and Tulare Counties, 

California 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability. 

SUMMARY: The National Park Service 

(NPS) has prepared a Wilderness 

Stewardship Plan and Environmental 

Impact Statement (Final WSP/EIS). The 

Final WSP/EIS identifies and analyzes 

five alternatives that will provide 

direction for the NPS to make decisions 

regarding the future use and protection 

of the Sequoia-Kings Canyon and John 

Krebs Wilderness within Sequoia and 

Kings Canyon National Parks. 

DATES: The NPS will execute a Record 

of Decision not sooner than 30 days 

from the date of publication of the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency’s 

notice of availability for the Final EIS in 

the Federal Register. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nancy Hendricks, Environmental 

Compliance and Planning Coordinator, 

Sequoia and Kings Canyon National 

Parks, 47050 Generals Highway, Three 

Rivers, CA 93271, (559) 565–3102. 

Electronic versions of the complete 

document are available online at http:// 

parkplanning.nps.gov/sekiwild. Request 

printed documents or CDs through 

email (seki_planning@nps.gov) (type 

‘‘Final WSP/EIS’’ in the subject line) or 

telephone (559) 565–3102. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

purposes of the WSP/EIS include 

implementing the long-term vision for 

protecting wilderness character that is 

contained in the parks’ Final General 

Management Plan (GMP)/Final 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), 

as well as enhancing established 

programs and actions for managing 

these areas as wilderness. A variety of 

controversial or long-standing issues are 

addressed in the WSP/EIS, including 

visitor capacity, wilderness permitting, 

party (group) size limits for people and 

stock, campfire regulations, camping 

locations and regulations, food-storage 

requirements, human-waste 

management, stock access, stock 

grazing, maintenance of facilities and 

trails, and management of frontcountry 

facilities that support wilderness use. 

The WSP/EIS also analyzes and 

determines the types and levels of 

commercial services that may be 

performed for activities that are proper 

for realizing the recreational or other 

wilderness purposes of the areas, as 

required by § 4(d)(5) of the Wilderness 

Act (Extent Necessary Determination). 

The WSP/EIS considers five 

alternatives that would manage the 

overall character of the parks’ 

wilderness, including key aspects such 

as wilderness use levels, access and 

trails, stock use and grazing, 

recreational and administrative 

infrastructure, and the extent to which 

those activities proper for realizing 

wilderness purposes may be supported 

by commercial services. The main 

differences between these alternatives 

lie in the key elements of wilderness 

management—use levels, access and 

trails, stock use and grazing, and 

infrastructure, both recreational and 

administrative. These differences are 

driven by the different approach to 

management that each alternative offers. 

Each alternative serves visitor and/or 

operational needs in different ways, and 

would preserve natural resources in a 

condition that is consistent with the 

purposes of the Wilderness Act. 

Alternative 1 (No-action/Status Quo) 

would continue to implement the 

existing Backcountry Management Plan 

(BMP) and the Stock Use and Meadow 

Management Plan (SUMMP) to guide 

wilderness management. The BMP 

establishes trailhead quotas, a 

wilderness permit system, and 

management objectives for campfires, 

campsites, sanitation, food storage, 

special-use limits, area closures, stock 

use and grazing, education and 

interpretation, trails and travel, signs, 

commercial operations, ranger stations, 

administrative policies, and monitoring 

(e.g., meadows monitoring). The 

SUMMP establishes the management 

system and tools for stock use and 

includes site-specific opening dates for 

grazing, grazing management, use levels, 

protection of Sierra Nevada bighorn 

sheep ewe-lamb ranges, installation of 


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