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implement hunting permit fees. Under 

FLREA provisions, the refuge will 

identify and post the specific hunting 

fees. Unless we publish a notice in the 

Federal Register withdrawing this 

action, we will implement the fees on 

the date in the DATES section. 

Hunting Permit Fees 

Under section 3 of the FLREA, we 

will implement the hunting permit fees 

in table 1. 

TABLE 1—ANNUAL HUNTING PERMIT

FEES; GREEN RIVER NATIONAL

WILDLIFE REFUGE

Hunter type Permit fee 

Adult (16–64 years of age) ... $20.00 

Youth (under 16 years of 

age).

Free 

Youth—Quota Hunt ............... 10.00 

Veteran .................................. 10.00 

Adult over 65 years of age ... 10.00 

The implementation of these fees will 

provide the refuge with funds to offset 

expenses related to managing the hunt 

program, other visitor services, law 

enforcement salaries, and expansion 

and improvements of visitor amenities. 

It is our policy to allow only activities 

that are appropriate and compatible 

with the refuge’s purposes. 

Background 

In accordance with regulations 

governing the National Wildlife Refuge 

System (50 CFR part 25, subpart E) a 

refuge may implement fees and other 

reasonable charges for public 

recreational use of lands administered 

by that refuge. When considering fees, a 

refuge is required by our regulations to 

evaluate the following: 

• The direct and indirect cost to the 

Government; 

• The benefits to the permit holder; 

• The public policy or interest served; 

• The comparable fees charged by 

non-Federal public agencies; and 

• The economic and administrative 

feasibility of fee collection. 

The National Wildlife Refuge System 

Administration Act of 1966, as amended 

by the National Wildlife Refuge System 

Improvement Act of 1997 (16 U.S.C. 

668dd–668ee), allows National Wildlife 

Refuges to provide wildlife-dependent 

recreation to visitors, but these laws 

require refuges to manage for the 

conservation of fish, wildlife, and 

habitat for current as well as future 

generations of Americans. To fulfill 

these obligations, Green River National 

Wildlife Refuge plans to use collected 

fees to defray costs associated with 

visitor amenities. 

Public Comments 

Submitting Comments 

Please make your comments as 

specific as possible and explain the 

basis for them. In addition, please 

include sufficient information with your 

comments to allow us to authenticate 

any scientific or commercial data you 

reference or provide. Such information 

may lead to a final decision that differs 

from this proposal. 

Public Availability of Comments 

If you submit a comment at https://

www.regulations.gov, your entire 

comment, including any personal 

identifying information, will be posted 

on the website. If you submit a 

hardcopy comment that includes 

personal identifying information, such 

as your address, phone number, or 

email address, you may request at the 

top of your document that we withhold 

this information from public review; 

however, we cannot guarantee that we 

will be able to do so. Moreover, all 

submissions from organizations or 

businesses, and from individuals 

identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, will be 

made available for public disclosure in 

their entirety. 

Next Steps 

If public comments were to provide 

substantive reasons why we should not 

implement the proposed hunting permit 

fee program at the refuge, we would 

reevaluate our plan and publish a 

subsequent notice in the Federal 

Register withdrawing this action. 

Otherwise, we will implement the 

proposed fee program at the Green River 

National Wildlife Refuge on the date 

specified in the DATES section of this 

document, and the refuge will post fee 

amounts and expenditures on site. 

Authority 

Federal Lands Recreation 

Enhancement Act (16 U.S.C. 6801– 

6814). 

Michael Oetker, 

Regional Director, Southeast Region, U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[PO4820000251] 

Notice of Availability of the Record of 

Decision for the Tri-State Fuel Breaks 

Project 

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 Final Environmental 

Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Tri-state 

Fuel Breaks Project located in 

southeastern Oregon. The ROD 

constitutes the decision of the BLM. 

DATES: The ROD was signed on 

December 13, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: The ROD is available online 

at https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanningui/project/2034234/510. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Larisa Bogardus, Public Affairs 

Specialist, telephone (541) 523–1407; 

address 100 Oregon Street Vale, OR 

97918; email lbogardus@blm.gov. 

Individuals in the United States who are 

deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have 

a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY, 

TDD, or TeleBraille) to access 

telecommunications relay services. 

Individuals outside the United States 

should use the relay services offered 

within their country to make 

international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BLM 

has determined that the analysis 

contained within the FEIS is adequate to 

reach an informed decision regarding 

implementation of the Project in 

Oregon. The BLM selects Alternative 5, 

with minor route segments selected 

from other alternatives as described in 

the FEIS, for construction and 

maintenance of approximately 26,585 

acres of fuel breaks, along 

approximately 552 miles of roads and 

within approximately 332 miles of the 

roadbed through mechanical, chemical, 

and/or biological (i.e., targeted grazing) 

treatments on BLM-administered lands 

in Oregon. Alternative 5 was developed 

in response to public comments. 

Individually, Alternatives 2, 3, and 4 

each primarily benefit a single resource. 

Alternative 5 blends elements of 

Alternatives 2, 3, and 4 to provide a 

strategic benefit to firefighters while 

minimizing disturbance to natural and 

cultural resources. A phased 

implementation of actions will occur to 

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effectiveness and adapt subsequent 

implementation actions and will also 

provide an opportunity for additional 

coordination with Oregon Department 

of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) prior to 

fuel break construction along lesstraveled roads. During the first phase, 

the BLM will focus on well-traveled 

routes in order to further enhance the 

knowledge base on successful treatment 

timing and techniques, ecological 

impacts of treatments, and adaptive 

management responses. Treatments and 

methods in Oregon will be the same as 

those identified and analyzed in the 

FEIS. Up to four new mineral material 

sites will be developed as the first phase 

of fuel break development is nearing 

completion. 

All practicable means to avoid or 

minimize environmental harm from the 

Project that were analyzed in the FEIS 

have been adopted in this decision and 

are included as appendices. Design 

features provide implementation timing 

restrictions and other protections to 

minimize impacts to wildlife. These 

features include buffers for sensitive 

plant occurrences from non-native 

seeded species, mechanical treatment 

avoidance buffers to protect riparian 

resources, and treatment buffers no 

more than 200 feet from either side of 

centerline along roads to conform to the 

2024 Southeastern Oregon Resource 

Management Plan Amendment, which 

established 250-foot setbacks for 

Wilderness Study Areas. 

The Project includes a robust 

monitoring and adaptive management 

plan to manage invasive annual species 

and noxious weeds within fuel breaks, 

collect ecological trend data to provide 

information on the ecological effects of 

vegetative treatments, and outline 

appropriate management responses. The 

Project also includes management 

direction and required design features 

from the 2015 Oregon Greater Sagegrouse Approved Resource Management 

Plan Amendment, as described in 

Appendix 3 to the ROD. A 

programmatic agreement (Appendix 4 to 

the ROD) describes how BLM will meet 

its responsibilities under Section 106 of 

the National Historic Preservation Act 

and avoid or minimize adverse impacts 

to cultural resources during Project 

implementation and maintenance. 

There have been no changes made to 

the selected alternative between the 

publication of the FEIS and the ROD. 

The Department of the Interior has 

approved the BLM’s decision. Approval 

of the Record of Decision therefore 

constitutes the final decision of the 

Department of the Interior and is not 

subject to appeal under Departmental 

regulations at 43 CFR part 4. 

Barry R. Bushue, 

BLM Oregon/Washington State Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[PO4820000251] 

Notice of Availability of the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for P4 

Production LLC’s Caldwell Canyon 

Revised Mine and Reclamation Plan 

Project, Caribou County, Idaho 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969, as amended (NEPA), and the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act of 1976, as amended (FLPMA), the 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 

announces the availability of the draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

for P4 Production LLC’s (P4) Caldwell 

Canyon Revised Mine and Reclamation 

Plan Project (Project) in Caribou County, 

Idaho. 

DATES: To afford the BLM the 

opportunity to consider comments in 

the Draft EIS, please ensure that the 

BLM receives your comments within 45 

days following the date the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

publishes its Notice of Availability 

(NOA) of the draft EIS in the Federal 

Register. The EPA usually publishes its 

NOAs on Fridays. 

ADDRESSES: The draft EIS and associated 

documents are available for review on 

the BLM project website at https://

eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/ 

project/2026858/510. 

Written comments related to the 

Project may be submitted by any of the 

following methods: 

• BLM’s National NEPA Register 

(ePlanning) at: https://

eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/ 

project/2026858/510. 

• Email: BLM_ID_

CaldwellRevisedMRP_EIS@blm.gov. 

• Mail: Caldwell Canyon Revised 

Mine EIS, C/O Stantec Consulting 

Services Inc., 2890 East Cottonwood 

Parkway, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 

84121. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Barry Myers, project lead, at telephone 

(208) 559–3662; address 4350 Cliffs 

Drive, Pocatello, ID 83204; or email 

bmyers@blm.gov. Individuals in the 

United States who are deaf, deafblind, 

hard of hearing, or have a speech 

disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or 

TeleBraille) to access 

telecommunications relay services for 

contacting Mr. Myers. Individuals 

outside the United States should use the 

relay services offered within their 

country to make international calls to 

the point-of-contact in the United 

States. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose and Need 

The purpose of the EIS is to evaluate 

and respond to the Revised Mine and 

Reclamation Plan (RMRP) submitted for 

the recovery of phosphate ore contained 

within Federal phosphate leases IDI–02, 

IDI–014080, and IDI–013738, and to 

modify leases, in accordance with the 

Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as 

amended. 

The need for the Project is to develop 

the phosphate ore resource in 

accordance with established 

requirements (including, but not limited 

to, applicable Federal and State laws 

and regulations, lease terms, and land 

use plans) using an economically viable 

method, and to allow P4 the ability to 

exercise its right under the Mineral 

Leasing Act to develop the leases. 

Proposed Action 

P4’s application proposes mining of 

existing Federal phosphate leases IDI– 

02, IDI–014080, and IDI–013738, and 

State of Idaho Mineral Lease E07959, by 

constructing two open pits, partially 

backfilling the inactive Dry Valley Mine 

South Extension Panel D pit with initial 

overburden materials, constructing haul 

and access roads, installing various 

utility lines, and constructing water 

management features, monitoring wells, 

shop and office facilities, while 

implementing environmental protection 

measures and reclamation. 

Portions of the two open pits, the 

North and South Pits, would extend 

beyond the existing Federal and State 

lease boundaries. To accommodate 

those portions of the pits that extend 

outside the current Federal and State 

leases, P4 proposes expanding their 

leases in accordance with 43 CFR 

Subpart 3510. Operations would be 

conducted over an estimated 40-year 

period and would occur on public lands 

administered by the BLM, on National 

Forest System lands, on lands 

administered by the Idaho Department 

of Lands, and on private lands. 

Total disturbance for the Project 

would be approximately 1,832 acres, 

with approximately 418 acres of 


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