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permit issuance date by searching in 

www.regulations.gov under the permit 

number listed in this document (e.g., 

PRT–12345c). 

V. Authority 

Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 

U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). 

Joyce Russell, 

Government Information Specialist, Branch 

of Permits, Division of Management 

Authority. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[17XL.LLIDT03100.L17110000.

DF0000.241A00; 4500109142] 

Notice of Availability of Record of 

Decision for the Craters of the Moon 

National Monument and Preserve 

Monument Management Plan 

Amendment, Idaho 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) announces the 

availability of the Record of Decision 

(ROD) for the Approved Monument 

Management Plan (MMP) for the Craters 

of the Moon National Monument and 

Preserve located in south-central Idaho. 

The Idaho State Director signed the ROD 

on July 31, 2017, which constitutes the 

final decision of the BLM and makes the 

Approved MMP effective immediately. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the ROD/ 

Approved MMP are available upon 

request from the Monument Manager, 

Shoshone Field Office, Bureau of Land 

Management, 400 West F St., Shoshone, 

ID 83352, or online at https://

www.blm.gov/programs/planning-andnepa/plans-in-development/idaho/ 

craters-of-moon. Copies of the ROD/ 

Approved MMP are available for public 

inspection at the Shoshone Field Office. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Holly Crawford, BLM Monument 

Manager, telephone 208–732–7200; 

address 400 West F Street, Shoshone, ID 

83352; email hcrawford@blm.gov. 

Persons who use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD) may call the 

Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1–800– 

877–8339 to to leave a message or 

question for Ms. Crawford. The FRS is 

available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 

You will receive a reply during normal 

business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BLM 

Craters of the Moon National Monument 

and Preserve (hereafter, Monument) 

Approved Management Plan 

Amendment and Record of Decision 

(MMPA/ROD) are now available. The 

BLM prepared this document in 

consultation with Cooperating Agencies 

and in accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as 

amended, the Federal Land Policy and 

Management Act of 1976, as amended 

(FLPMA), implementing regulations, the 

BLM Land Use Planning Handbook (H– 

1601–1), the BLM National 

Environmental Policy Act Handbook 

(H–1790–1), and other applicable law 

and policy, including Instruction 

Memorandum No. 2016–105—Land Use 

Planning and Environmental Policy Act 

Compliance within Greater Sage-Grouse 

Approved Resource Management Plans 

and Plan Amendments Decision Area. 

The planning area comprises about 

753,200 acres of land, which includes 

275,100 acres managed by the BLM 

Shoshone, Burley, and Upper Snake 

Field Offices. Based on analysis in the 

Final Environmental Impact Statement 

(EIS) for the project, the MMP is 

amended and will guide livestock 

grazing management on BLM-managed 

public lands within the Monument into 

the future. 

The Monument is part of the BLM’s 

National Conservation Lands system 

and is jointly managed with the 

National Park Service. This Monument 

was created in 1924 and expanded to its 

current acreage in 2000. 

The BLM completed a Final EIS to 

determine the appropriate management 

of livestock grazing on approximately 

275,100 acres of BLM-administered 

lands within the Monument. This Final 

EIS analyzed management options not 

previously addressed by the 2007 MMP 

as amended by the 2015 Sage-Grouse 

Approved Resource Management Plan 

Amendment (ARMPA). This Approved 

MMPA/ROD amends the 2007 plan but 

will not amend the ARMPA. Among the 

most important decisions the BLM made 

through this plan amendment are which 

lands should be available for livestock 

grazing and with what protections for 

Greater sage-grouse and their sagebrush 

habitat. 

The purpose of this Approved 

MMPA/ROD is to make the 2007 MMP’s 

grazing management direction 

consistent with current laws, 

regulations, and policies regarding 

Greater sage-grouse habitat 

conservation. More specifically, it 

considers a range of FLPMA-compliant 

management options for livestock 

grazing and Greater sage-grouse on 

BLM-managed lands in the planning 

area in a manner that maintains the 

Monument values identified in 

Proclamation 7373. In addition, this 

Approved MMPA/ROD is needed to 

cure deficiencies in the 2007 MMP/EIS 

identified by the U.S. District Court for 

Idaho. The Court found that BLM had 

failed to adequately address current 

science and the agency’s policies 

designed to protect sage-grouse habitat, 

primarily with regard to managing 

livestock grazing in the Monument. 

After the 2007 MMP/EIS was signed, 

the Greater sage-grouse was deemed 

warranted for listing, but was precluded 

from the Threatened and Endangered 

Species list. More recently, the BLM 

completed the Greater Sage-Grouse 

Approved Resource Plan ARMPA for 

Idaho and Southwestern Montana, 

which resulted in a determination that 

listing the Greater sage-grouse was not 

warranted. The ARMPA amended the 

2007 MMP/EIS, thereby addressing 

several of the deficiencies identified by 

the Court with regard to Greater sagegrouse conservation in the Monument. 

The Final EIS for this plan 

amendment, prepared after release of 

the 2015 ARMPA, analyzed five 

alternatives that provide a range of 

livestock grazing availability and sagegrouse protections. Alternative C is the 

BLM’s selected alternative. 

Alternative A is the No Action 

alternative, which would continue the 

management established in the 2007 

MMP/EIS. Under this alternative, 

273,900 acres would be available for 

livestock grazing, with 38,187 animal 

unit months (AUMs) available. 

Alternative B would reduce AUMs by 

75 percent and close 5 areas to grazing: 

Little Park kipuka (an island of older 

land surrounded by lava flows), the 

North Pasture of Laidlaw Park 

Allotment, Larkspur Park kipuka, the 

North Pasture of Bowl Crater Allotment, 

and Park Field kipuka. This alternative 

would adjust two allotment boundaries 

and make 21,000 acres unavailable for 

livestock grazing for the protection of 

sage-grouse and other Monument 

values. 

Alternative C, the Approved Plan, 

makes 273,600 acres available for 

livestock grazing and adjusts two 

allotment boundaries, which would set 

the maximum number of AUMs at 

37,792. Where appropriate, livestock 

grazing will be used as a tool to improve 

and/or protect wildlife habitat. 

Guidelines for livestock grazing 

management will be set based on 

vegetation and wildlife habitat 

conditions and needs identified in the 

2007 MMP and current agency 

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Alternative D would eliminate 

livestock grazing from BLM-managed 

lands within the Monument boundary 

and adjust two allotment boundaries. 

All livestock-related developments 

would be removed, and some fences 

would be required to exclude livestock 

from the Monument. 

Alternative E would reduce AUMs by 

approximately 50 percent and close 

Larkspur Park kipuka to grazing. This 

alternative would adjust two allotment 

boundaries and make 272,800 acres 

available for grazing. No net gain in 

livestock-related infrastructure would 

be allowed. 

The land use planning process was 

initiated on June 28, 2013, through a 

Notice of Intent published in the 

Federal Register (78 FR 39009), 

notifying the public of a formal scoping 

period and soliciting public 

participation in the planning process. 

Four scoping meetings were held in July 

2013 in the communities of Arco, Carey, 

Rupert, and American Falls. During the 

scoping period the public provided the 

BLM with input on relevant issues to 

consider in the planning process. Based 

on this input and the BLM’s goals and 

objectives, the five alternatives 

described above were formulated for 

consideration and analysis in the Draft 

EIS. Because Area of Critical 

Environmental Concern (ACEC) 

nominations were previously analyzed 

in the 2007 MMP/EIS, no new ACEC 

nominations were solicited during 

scoping. 

Comments on the Draft EIS received 

from the public, Cooperating Agencies, 

and through internal BLM review were 

considered and incorporated as 

appropriate into the Proposed Plan and 

Final EIS, published on May 26, 2017 

(82 FR 24387). Public comments on the 

Draft EIS resulted in the addition of 

clarifying text but did not significantly 

change proposed land use plan 

decisions. 

Two protests were receieved on the 

Final EIS, and the issues raised have 

been resolved. As a result, only minor 

editorial modifications were made in 

preparing the Approved MMPA. These 

modifications provided further 

clarification of some of the decisions. 

The Idaho Governor’s consistency 

review identified that the ARMPA is 

inconsistent with the State of Idaho 

Sage Grouse Plan but identified no 

inconsistences with the Approved 

MMPA. The Approved MMPA/ROD are 

in compliance with the current BLM 

policy on mitigation, but because the 

management actions are programmatic 

in nature, the mitigation hierarchy 

(avoid, minimize, or compensate) will 

be applied during site-specific NEPA 

analysis at the implementation stage 

following the ROD. 

Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6. 

Peter J. Ditton, 

Acting BLM Idaho State Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NRNHL–24753; 

PPWOCRADI0, PCU00RP14.R50000] 

National Register of Historic Places; 

Notification of Pending Nominations 

and Related Actions 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The National Park Service is 

soliciting comments on the significance 

of properties nominated before 

December 9, 2017, for listing or related 

actions in the National Register of 

Historic Places. 

DATES: Comments should be submitted 

by January 19, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent via 

U.S. Postal Service and all other carriers 

to the National Register of Historic 

Places, National Park Service, 1849 C St. 

NW, MS 7228, Washington, DC 20240. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

The properties listed in this notice are 

being considered for listing or related 

actions in the National Register of 

Historic Places. Nominations for their 

consideration were received by the 

National Park Service before December 

9, 2017. 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. 

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. 

Nominations submitted by State 

Historic Preservation Officers: 

ILLINOIS 

Bureau County 

Princeton North Main Street Historic District, 

Primarily 900–1000 blks. of N Main & 000 

blk. of W Long Sts., Princeton, 

SG100001968 

Princeton South Main Street—Courthouse 

Square Historic District, Primarily 500 & 

600 blks. of S Main St. & Courthouse Sq., 

Princeton, SG100001969 

Cook County 

Promontory Point, 5491 S Shore Dr., Chicago, 

SG100001970 

IOWA 

Clarke County 

Osceola Commercial Historic District, S 

Fillmore, N & S Main, E & W Jefferson & 

E & W Washington Sts., Osceola, 

SG100001971 

Scott County 

Davenport Bag and Paper Company Building, 

301 E 2nd St., Davenport, SG100001972 

MINNESOTA 

Hennepin County 

Northrop Mall Historic District, Roughly 

bounded by Pillsbury Drive SE, E River, & 

Union & Delaware Sts. SE, Minneapolis, 

SG100001973 

Ramsey County 

Schmidt, Jacob, Brewing Company Historic 

District, Roughly bounded by line between 

Lots 17 & 18 of Stinson & Ramsey’s 

subdiv., W James Ave, Toronto & W 

Jefferson Sts., St Paul, SG100001974 

PENNSYLVANIA 

Allegheny County 

Boys’ Club of Pittsburgh, 212 45th St., 

Pittsburgh, SG100001976 

UTAH 

Carbon County 

Great Hunt Panel, The, (Nine Mile Canyon, 

Utah MPS), Nine Mile Canyon Rd., Price 

vicinity, MP100001978 

Davis County 

Layton Oregon Short Line Railroad Station, 

200 S Main St., Layton, SG100001979 

Salt Lake South East and North West Base 

Monuments (Salt Lake Base Line), 1002 S 

3200 West & 209 South 4500 West, Layton 

vicinity, SG100001980 

Utah County 

Coddington, Thomas and Elizabeth, House, 

(American Fork, Utah MPS), 190 North 300 

East, American Fork, MP100001982 

Herbert, James and Emily, House, (American 

Fork, Utah MPS), 388 W Main St., 

American Fork, MP100001983 

Singleton, Robert and Mary Ann, House, 

(American Fork, Utah MPS), 740 East 40 

South, American Fork, MP100001984 

Singleton, Thomas and Eliza Jane, House, 

(American Fork, Utah MPS), 778 East 50 

South, American Fork, MP100001985 

A request for removal has been made for 

the following resource: 


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