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FLPMA. Until completion of the 

disposal action, the BLM is no longer 

accepting land use applications 

affecting the identified public land, 

except applications for the amendment 

of previously filed right-of-way 

applications or existing authorizations 

to increase the term of the grants in 

accordance with 43 CFR 2807.15 and 

2886.15. The segregative effect will 

terminate upon issuance of a patent, 

publication in the Federal Register of a 

termination of the segregation, or on 

March 25, 2011 unless extended by the 

BLM State Director in accordance with 

43 CFR 2711.1–2(d) prior to the 

termination date. 

Public Comments: During the initial 

stages of project development the FAA 

and the Airport Authority conducted 

several public meetings. The results of 

those meetings will be incorporated into 

the BLM MFP amendment process and 

additional public involvement will 

occur through the submission of written 

comments. While additional public 

meetings are not identified at this point, 

if additional meetings are scheduled, a 

notice in the local newspapers will 

announce the date and time at least 15 

days prior to any public meeting. For a 

period extending until May 11, 2009, 

interested parties and the general public 

may submit in writing any comments 

concerning the BLM’s MFP amendment 

or the public land being considered for 

disposal including notification of any 

encumbrances or other claims relating 

to the identified land. Please submit 

comments to Ms. Morgan, with a copy 

sent to Ms. Armstrong at the addresses 

listed above. In order to ensure 

consideration in the environmental 

analysis of the proposed project, 

comments must be in writing and 

postmarked or delivered no later than 

May 11, 2009. Comments transmitted 

via e-mail will not be accepted. 

Comments, including names and street 

addresses of respondents, will be 

available for public review at the BLM 

Shoshone Field Office during regular 

business hours, except holidays. 

Individual respondents may request 

confidentiality. Before including your 

address, phone number, e-mail 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. If you wish to have your name or 

address withheld from public disclosure 

under the Freedom of Information Act, 

you must state this prominently at the 

beginning of your comments. Any 

determination by the FAA or the BLM 

to release or withhold the names and/ 

or addresses of those who comment will 

be made on a case-by-case basis. Such 

requests will be honored to the extent 

allowed by law. The FAA and the BLM 

will make available for public review, in 

their entirety, all comments submitted 

by businesses or organizations, 

including comments by individuals in 

their capacity as an official or 

representative of a business or 

organization. 

Authority: 43 CFR 2711.1–2; 43 CFR 1610.5– 

2) 

Further information about the EIS will 

be posted when available at the 

following Web site: http:// 

www.airportsites.net/SUN-EIS. 

Lori A. Armstrong, 

Shoshone Field Manager. 

[FR Doc. E9–6583 Filed 3–24–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLCOS02000; L10200000.EE0000] 

Notice of Intent To Amend the San 

Juan/San Miguel Resource 

Management Plan and Prepare the 

Beaver Meadows-Sauls Creek Travel 

Management Plan 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) intends to amend 

the San Juan/San Miguel Resource 

Management Plan (RMP) to limit OffHighway Vehicle (OHV) use to 

designated roads and motorized trails 

on lands within the Beaver MeadowsSauls Creek Travel Management 

Landscape. The Landscape project 

analysis area encompasses 

approximately 797 acres of BLM lands 

and approximately 54,397 acres of 

Forest Service lands on the Columbine 

Field Office/Ranger District in the 

vicinity of Bayfield, Colorado. Both 

agencies will conduct a joint 

Environmental Assessment (EA) which 

will also determine designated 

motorized routes within the landscape 

in addition to the San Juan/San Miguel 

RMP amendment. 

DATES: Initial scoping has been 

conducted as described below in 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. Additional 

scoping comments will be accepted 

through April 24, 2009 if they relate to 

the scope of issues regarding the 

proposal to amend the San Juan/San 

Miguel RMP for the 797-acre BLM 

parcel, and if the issues have not 

already been identified below. An 

additional 30-day public comment 

period will be announced with the 

release of a Pre-Decisional EA, and will 

be advertised in the local media and San 

Juan Public Lands Center Web site at 

http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/sanjuan/ 

projects/projects.shtml. This is 

anticipated to occur in the spring of 

2009. 

ADDRESSES: Comments regarding the 

proposal to amend the San Juan/San 

Miguel RMP for the BLM parcel should 

be sent to Nancy Berry, Recreation 

Forester, Columbine Field Office, P.O. 

Box 439, Bayfield, CO 81122 or 

nberry@fs.fed.us. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nancy Berry at the above address or email, telephone number 970–375–3304. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BLM 

recognizes the use of motorized and 

non-motorized vehicles as acceptable 

uses of the public lands. In response to 

Presidential Executive Orders 11644 

and 11989, and in accordance with the 

BLM National Strategy for OHV Use on 

Public Lands, and 43 CFR 8342, this EA 

proposes to amend the San Juan/San 

Miguel RMP to limit motorized use to 

designated routes and will designate 

routes within the landscape. This EA 

analysis is being conducted jointly by 

the BLM and the Forest Service under 

authority as a Service First office. 

This notice is required under BLM 

regulations for the proposed amendment 

of the San Juan/San Miguel RMP which 

would change the travel management 

designation for 797 acres of BLM land 

from ‘‘open’’ to ‘‘limited.’’ This notice is 

not required for the project-level route 

designations on either BLM or Forest 

Service lands. For this reason, this 

notice is seeking scoping comments 

only as they relate to the proposal to 

amend the San Juan/San Miguel RMP. 

Initial scoping was conducted through 

direct mailings, public meetings, public 

field trips, and newspaper 

announcements during the fall of 2008. 

Scoping replies resulted in the 

identification of a scope of issues to be 

analyzed in the EA. These issues are: 

1. Impacts to Resources, including 

erosion, noxious weeds, wildlife, air 

quality, roadless areas; 

2. Impacts to social niches, including 

noise, safety, providing for motorized 

and non-motorized opportunities, and 

requests for certain specific routes; 


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3. Impacts to adjacent residents, 

including Forest Lakes, Deer Valley, and 

Pine Springs Ranch subdivisions. 

Other issues are not to be included in 

the analysis because they were 

determined to be outside the scope of 

the proposed action; already decided by 

law, regulation, plan, or higher level 

decision; irrelevant to the decision to be 

made; opinion, conjectural, or not 

supported by factual evidence; or purely 

supportive of the proposed action. 

These issues led to the development 

of four alternatives that will be analyzed 

in the EA: Alternative 1—No Action— 

existing travel management designation 

would remain in place; Alternative 2— 

cross-country motorized travel would 

no longer be allowed and all motorized 

travel would be restricted to existing 

open system roads and trails; 

Alternative 3—would provide 

motorized opportunities on designated 

roads and trails utilizing some closed 

roads and some user created routes, in 

addition to the existing open roads and 

trails in Alternative 2, while protecting 

the resources from impacts; Alternative 

4—would be similar to Alternative 3, 

with additional miles of designated 

motorized trails. These alternatives will 

be described in detail when the PreDecisional EA is released. 

Dated: March 20, 2009. 

Matthew Janowiak, 

Acting Field Office Manager. 

[FR Doc. E9–6636 Filed 3–24–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–JB–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[OR–63495; LLORC00000: L14300000 

EU0000; HAG–09–0074] 

Notice of Realty Action: Receipt of 

Application for the Conveyance of 

Federally-Owned Mineral Interests; 

Oregon 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of realty action. 

SUMMARY: This action informs the public 

of the receipt of an application from the 

surface estate owner for the acquisition 

of the Federally-owned mineral estate. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul 

Rodriguez, Realty Specialist, Coos Bay 

District, 1300 Airport Lane, North Bend, 

Oregon 97459, at (541) 751–4462. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given pursuant to Section 209 of 

the Act of October 21, 1976 (90 Stat. 

2757), William H. Hitner Jr. and Pamela 

J. Hitner has filed an application to 

purchase the Federally-owned mineral 

estate in the land described below: 

Willamette Meridian 

T. 28 S., R. 12 W., 

Sec. 29, NW1⁄4NE1⁄4. 

The area described contains 36.01 acres, 

more or less, in Coos County, Oregon. 

On March 25, 2009, the mineral 

interest described above will be 

segregated to the extent that it will not 

be open to appropriation under the 

public land laws including the mining 

laws. The segregative effect of the 

application shall terminate either upon 

issuance of a patent or other document 

of conveyance of such mineral interests, 

or upon rejection of the application, or 

two years from the date of filing of the 

application, February 9, 2006, 

whichever comes first. Due to a delay in 

processing the application as a result of 

mutual interest in coalbed methane 

exploration, the two year segregative 

effect will begin on March 25, 2009, as 

agreed to by the applicant and the 

Bureau of Land Management. 

(Authority: 43 CFR 2720.1–1(2)(b)) 

Dated: March 19, 2009. 

Roberta B. Estes, 

Acting District Manager. 

[FR Doc. E9–6571 Filed 3–24–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–33–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[NM 115588 LLNMF01000 

L14300000.ES0000] 

Recreation and Public Purpose (R&PP) 

Classification; San Juan County, NM 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of realty action. 

SUMMARY: The following described 

public land is determined suitable for 

classification for leasing and patenting 

to the San Juan County, Aztec, New 

Mexico, under the provisions of the 

R&PP Act, as amended (44 Stat. 741, as 

amended; 43 U.S.C. 869 et seq.). San 

Juan County proposes to use the land for 

a regional fire station. 

New Mexico Principal Meridian 

T. 29 N., R. 12 W., 

Sec. 2: N1⁄2 NW1⁄4SW1⁄42; 

Containing 20 acres, more or less. 

DATES: On or before 45 days from 

publication date, interested parties may 

submit comments regarding the 

proposed leasing and conveyance, or 

classification of the lands to the Bureau 

of Land Management at the following 

address. Any adverse comments will be 

reviewed by the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM), Farmington Field 

Manager, 1235 La Plata Highway, Suite 

A, Farmington, NM 87401, who may 

sustain, vacate, or modify this realty 

action. In the absence of any adverse 

comments, this realty action becomes 

the final determination of the 

Department of the Interior and is 

effective 60 days from publication date. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Albert Gonzales, Realty Specialist, 

Bureau of Land Management, 

Farmington Field Office, 1235 La Plata 

Highway, Suite A, Farmington, NM 

87401, at 505–599–6334. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Publication of this notice segregates the 

public land described above from all 

other forms of appropriation under the 

public land laws, including the general 

mining laws, except for leasing and 

conveyance under the R&PP Act and 

leasing under the mineral leasing laws 

for a period of 2 years from date of this 

publication in the Federal Register. The 

segregation affect will terminate upon 

issuance of the lease and patent to San 

Juan County, or 2 years from the date of 

this publication, whichever occurs first. 

The lease, when issued, will be 

subject to the following terms: 

1. Provisions of the R&PP Act and to 

all applicable regulations of the 

Secretary of the Interior. 

2. Provisions of the Resource 

Conservation and Recovery Act of 197 

as amended, 42 U.S.C. 6901–6987 and 

the Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation and Liability 

Act of 1980 as amended, 42 U.S.C. 9601 

and all applicable regulations. 

3. Provisions of Title VI of the Civil 

Rights Act of 1964. 

4. Provisions that the lease be 

operated in compliance with the 

approved Development Plan. 

The patent, when issued, will be 

subject to the following terms: 

1. Reservation to the United States of 

a right-of-way for ditches and canals in 

accordance with 43 U.S.C. 945. 

2. Reservation to the United States of 

all minerals. 

3. All valid existing rights, e.g., rightsof-way and leases of record. 

4. Provisions that if the patentee or its 

successor attempts to transfer title to or 

control over the land to another or the 

land is devoted to a use other than that 

for which the land was conveyed, 

without the consent of the Secretary of 

the Interior or his delegate, or prohibits 

or restricts, directly or indirectly, or 

permits it agents, employees, 

contractors, or subcontractors, including 

without limitation, lessees, sublessees 

and permittees), to prohibit or restrict, 


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