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Livestock Grazing and Term Permit 

Renewals. 

• October 22 (Ely)—Nevada and 

Northeastern California Sub-regional 

Greater Sage-Grouse Proposed Land Use 

Plan Amendment and Final 

Environmental Impact Statement, and 

Wild Horse Population Control Pilot 

Project. 

Managers’ reports of field office 

activities will be given at each meeting. 

The Council may raise other topics at 

the meetings. 

Final agendas will be posted on-line 

at the BLM North-Eastern Great Basin 

RAC Web site at http://bit.ly/NEGBRAC 

and will be published in local and 

regional media sources at least 14 days 

before each meeting. 

Individuals who need special 

assistance such as sign language 

interpretation or other reasonable 

accommodations, or who wish to 

receive a copy of each agenda, may 

contact Chris Rose no later than 10 days 

prior to each meeting. 

Paul McGuire, 

Acting Chief, Office of Communications. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–HC–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLCAC01000 L10100000.XZ0000 

15XL1109AF LXSIOVHD0000] 

Notice of Public Meeting of the Central 

California Resource Advisory Council 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Public Meeting. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act and the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act of 1972, the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM) Central 

California Resource Advisory Council 

(RAC) will meet as indicated below. 

DATES: Business meetings will be held 

Thursday and Friday, April 23–24, 

2015, at the BLM Mother Lode Field 

Office, 5152 Hillsdale Circle, El Dorado 

Hills, CA. Members of the public are 

welcome to attend. 

On April 23, the RAC will meet from 

noon to 6 p.m. On April 24, the RAC 

will meet from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Time 

for public comment is reserved from 9 

a.m. to 10 a.m. on April 24. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

BLM Central California District Manager 

Este Stifel, (916) 978–4626; or BLM 

Public Affairs Officer David Christy, 

(916) 941–3146. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 12- 

member council advises the Secretary of 

the Interior, through the BLM, on a 

variety of planning and management 

issues associated with public land 

management in the Central California 

District, which includes the Bishop, 

Bakersfield, Hollister, Ukiah and Mother 

Lode Field Offices. At this meeting, 

agenda topics will include an update on 

resource management issues by the 

Field Managers including Lake 

Berryessa, Coast Dairies, Point Arena 

and oil and gas. Additional ongoing 

business will be discussed by the 

council. All meetings are open to the 

public. Members of the public may 

present written comments to the 

council. Each formal council meeting 

will have time allocated for public 

comments. Depending on the number of 

persons wishing to speak, and the time 

available, the time for individual 

comments may be limited. The meeting 

is open to the public. Individuals who 

plan to attend and need special 

assistance, such as sign language 

interpretation and other reasonable 

accommodations, should contact the 

BLM as provided above. 

Dated: March 31, 2015. 

Ruben Leal, 

Associate District Manager. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLCON03000 L16100000.DQ0000] 

Notice of Availability of the Proposed 

Resource Management Plan and Final 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Grand Junction Field Office, 

Colorado 

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) has prepared a 

Proposed Resource Management Plan 

(RMP) and Final Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) for the Grand Junction 

Field Office and by this notice is 

announcing its availability. 

DATES: The BLM planning regulations 

state that any person who meets the 

conditions as described in the 

regulations may protest the BLM’s 

Proposed RMP and Final EIS. A person 

who meets the conditions and files a 

protest must file the protest within 30 

days of the date that the Environmental 

Protection Agency publishes its notice 

of availability in the Federal Register. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the Grand 

Junction Field Office Proposed RMP and 

Final EIS were sent to affected Federal, 

State, and local government agencies 

and to other stakeholders and tribal 

governments. Copies of the Proposed 

RMP and Final EIS are available for 

public inspection at the Grand Junction 

Field Office, 2815 H Road, Grand 

Junction, CO 81506; Mesa County 

libraries in Grand Junction, Collbran, De 

Beque, Fruita and Gateway. Interested 

persons may also review the Proposed 

RMP and Final EIS on the Internet at 

www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/gjfo.html. All 

protests must be in writing and mailed 

to one of the following addresses: 

Regular Mail: BLM Director (210), 

Attention: Protest Coordinator, P.O. Box 

71383, Washington, DC 20024–1383. 

Overnight Delivery: BLM Director 

(210), Attention: Protest Coordinator, 20 

M Street SE., Room 2134LM, 

Washington, DC 20003. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christina Stark, Planning and 

Environmental Coordinator; telephone 

970–244–3027; 2815 H Road, Grand 

Junction, CO, 81506; email BLM_CO_

GJ_PUBLIC_COMMENTS@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, seven days a week, to leave 

a message or question with the above 

individual. You will receive a reply 

during normal business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Lands and 

Federal mineral estate managed by the 

Grand Junction Field Office within this 

RMP revision extend across most of 

Mesa County and parts of Garfield, 

Montrose and Rio Blanco counties. 

Management decisions outlined in this 

RMP revision apply to approximately 

1,061,400 acres of BLM-managed 

surface lands and Federal mineral estate 

and to approximately 169,900 acres of 

Federal mineral split-estate. When 

approved, this RMP will replace the 

1987 Grand Junction Resource Area 

RMP. 

The public comment period on the 

Draft RMP and Draft EIS began on 

January 14, 2013, and ended June 24, 

2013, which included a 60-day 

extension in response to requests from 

the public. The total comment period 

encompassed 162 days. The BLM 

developed the Proposed RMP and Final 

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EIS based on public comments on the 

Draft RMP and Draft EIS in addition to 

cooperating agency reviews, resource 

advisory council reviews, U. S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service consultation, and 

extensive internal BLM reviews. The 

BLM carefully considered and 

incorporated comments into the 

Proposed RMP as appropriate. Public 

comments assisted in the development 

of the Proposed RMP and resulted in the 

addition of clarifying text, but did not 

constitute a substantial change in the 

proposed land use plan decisions that 

would require a supplement to the Draft 

EIS. 

The Proposed RMP and Final EIS 

describes and analyzes four 

management alternatives, each of which 

include objectives and management 

actions to address new management 

challenges and issues. 

Alternative A is the no action 

alternative and is a continuation of the 

current management direction and 

prevailing conditions based on the 

existing 1987 Grand Junction Resource 

Area RMP and amendments. 

Alternative B (The Proposed RMP) 

seeks to allocate public land resources 

among competing human interests and 

land uses, with the conservation of 

natural and cultural resource values. 

Alternative B carries forward the same 

theme it had in the Draft RMP and Draft 

EIS, but includes elements of the other 

alternatives analyzed in the Draft RMP 

and Draft EIS. 

Alternative C emphasizes improving, 

rehabilitating and restoring resources; 

and sustaining the ecological integrity of 

habitats for all priority plant, wildlife 

and fish species, particularly the 

habitats needed to conserve and recover 

federally listed, proposed, or candidate 

threatened and endangered plant and 

animal species. 

Alternative D emphasizes active 

management for natural resources, 

commodity production, and public use 

opportunities by allowing a mix of 

multiple use opportunities that target 

social and economic outcomes, while 

protecting land health. Management 

direction would recognize and expand 

existing uses, and accommodate new 

uses to the greatest extent possible. 

The Proposed RMP would provide 

comprehensive, long-range decisions for 

the use and management of resources in 

the planning area administered by the 

Grand Junction Field Office, focusing on 

the principles of multiple use and 

sustained yield. 

The Proposed RMP includes: Goals, 

objectives, management actions, 

allowable use and implementation 

decisions to ensure future BLM 

management in support of 13 areas of 

critical environmental concern, five 

special recreation management areas, 

six extensive recreation management 

areas, four wilderness study areas, one 

national trail management corridor, and 

one segment found suitable for 

inclusion in the National Wild and 

Scenic River System. Maps are included 

in the Proposed RMP/FEIS to illustrate 

the Proposed RMP as well as the other 

alternatives considered in the Final EIS. 

Through the Wild and Scenic River 

study process, the BLM inventoried 514 

miles and 114 stream segments, found 

415 miles and 100 stream segments 

ineligible, and found 99 miles and 14 

stream segments eligible, of which 10.38 

miles of 1 stream are identified as 

suitable in the Proposed RMP. Three 

areas covering 44,100 acres located in 

the southern portion of the field office 

would be managed to protect lands with 

wilderness characteristics. Protective 

management of the areas would vary; 

however, all of the areas would be 

managed as right-of-way exclusion, no 

leasing for fluid minerals, no surface 

occupancy (non-fluid minerals), closed 

to non-energy leasables, closed to 

mineral material disposal, and Visual 

Resource Management Class II. 

While the RMP proposes some 

conservation management measures for 

the Greater Sage-grouse habitat, the 

Northwest Colorado Greater SageGrouse Plan Amendment and EIS will 

fully analyze applicable Greater-Sage 

grouse conservation measures, 

consistent with BLM Instruction 

Memorandum No. 2012–044. The BLM 

expects to make a comprehensive set of 

decisions for managing Greater SageGrouse on lands administered by the 

Grand Junction Field Office in the 

Record of Decision for the Northwest 

Colorado Greater Sage-Grouse Plan 

Amendment and EIS, which will update 

this proposed RMP. 

Instructions for filing a protest with 

the Director of the BLM regarding the 

Proposed RMP and FEIS may be found 

in the ‘‘Dear Reader’’ Letter of the Grand 

Junction Field Office Proposed RMP and 

Final EIS, and at 43 CFR 1610.5–2. All 

protests must be in writing and mailed 

to the appropriate address, as set forth 

in the ADDRESSES section above. 

Emailed protests will not be accepted as 

valid protests unless the protesting 

party also provides the original letter by 

either regular or overnight mail 

postmarked by the close of the protest 

period. Under these conditions, the 

BLM will consider the emailed protest 

as an advance copy and it will receive 

full consideration. If you wish to 

provide the BLM with such advance 

notification, please direct emails to 

protest@blm.gov. Unlike land use 

planning decisions, implementation 

decisions included in this Proposed 

RMP and Final EIS are not subject to 

protest under the BLM planning 

regulations. Implementation decisions 

are subject to an administrative review 

process through appeals to the Office of 

Hearings and Appeals, Interior Board of 

Land Appeals, pursuant to 43 CFR part 

4. Implementation decisions generally 

constitute the BLM’s final approval 

allowing on-the-ground actions to 

proceed. Where implementation 

decisions are made as part of the land 

use planning process, they are still 

subject to the appeals process or other 

administrative review as prescribed by 

specific resource program regulations 

once the BLM resolves the protests to 

land use planning decisions and issues 

an Approved RMP and ROD. 

Implementation decisions made in the 

plan that may be appealed to the Office 

of Hearing and Appeals are identified in 

the Proposed RMP and Final EIS. They 

will also be included in the ROD and 

Approved RMP. 

Before including your phone number, 

email address, or other personal 

identifying information in your protest, 

you should be aware that your entire 

protest—including your personal 

identifying information—may be made 

publicly available at any time. While 

you can ask us in your protest 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, 43 CFR 1610.5 

Ruth Welch, 

BLM Colorado State Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

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4500078174] 

Idaho: Filing of Plats of Survey 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Filing of Plats of 

Surveys. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) has officially filed 

the plats of survey of the lands 

described below in the BLM Idaho State 

Office, Boise, Idaho, effective 9:00 a.m., 

on the dates specified. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bureau of Land Management, 1387 

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