Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 165 / Friday, August 26, 2005 / Notices 50397

Permit number Applicant Receipt of application Federal Register notice Permit issuance 

date 

098679 ............... Brian J. Hansen ........................... 70 FR 7295; February 11, 2005 ........................................................ May 17, 2005. 

102654 ............... James J. Weyand ........................ 70 FR 29362; May 20, 2005 .............................................................. July 20, 2005. 

102694 ............... John J. Keslar .............................. 70 FR 29362, May 20, 2005 .............................................................. July 22, 2005. 

Dated: August 5, 2005. 

Michael L. Carpenter, 

Senior Permit Biologist, Branch of Permits, 

Division of Management Authority.

[FR Doc. 05–17009 Filed 8–25–05; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management 

National Park Service 

[ID 231 1610 DQ 051D] 

Notice of Availability of the Proposed 

Management Plan and Final 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

for the Craters of the Moon National 

Monument and Preserve

AGENCIES: Bureau of Land Management 

(BLM) and National Park Service (NPS).

ACTION: Reissuance of a Notice of 

Availability of a Final EIS for a 

Proposed Resource Management Plan / 

General Management Plan (hereinafter, 

Proposed Plan/Final EIS), for the Craters 

of the Moon National Monument and 

Preserve. The Monument is located in 

Blaine, Butte, Lincoln, Minidoka, and 

Power Counties, in Idaho. (This Notice 

of Availability was prematurely released 

on August 12, 2005 and retracted.) 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act of 1976, the National Park and 

Recreation Act of 1978, and the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the 

Bureau of Land Management and the 

National Park Service have jointly 

prepared a Proposed Plan/Final EIS for 

the Craters of the Moon National 

Monument and Preserve. The Final EIS 

discusses public and agency comments 

received on the draft EIS. It describes 

and analyzes four alternative 

management strategies, each presenting 

a different approach to resolving issues 

identified through public scoping. 

Alternative A is the ‘‘no action’’ or 

continuation of present management 

alternative. Alternative B would 

promote more travel and access within 

the Monument. Alternative C would 

emphasize retention and enhancement 

of the Monument’s primitive character. 

The Proposed Plan is Alternative D, the 

agency preferred alternative from the 

draft Plan/EIS, refined by public 

comment. Alternative D, which 

emphasizes protection and restoration 

of physical and biological resources, is 

also considered to be the 

environmentally preferred alternative.

DATES: No decision on the proposed 

plan will be made for at least 30 days 

after the Environmental Protection 

Agency publishes its notice of 

availability of this final EIS in the 

Federal Register. BLM regulations (43 

CFR 1610.5–2) state that any person 

who participated in the planning 

process and has an interest that may be 

adversely affected may protest those 

proposed decisions that would be 

implemented on BLM-administered 

lands. The protest must be filed within 

30 days of the date that the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

publishes its notice of availability. 

The National Park Service regulations 

do not provide a formal protest process. 

However, persons wishing to 

communicate with the Regional Director 

of the NPS during the 30 days after the 

Environmental Protection Agency’s 

notice is published may do so by 

sending correspondence to Jonathan B. 

Jarvis, Regional Director, National Park 

Service, 1111 Jackson Street, Oakland 

CA 94607. 

Instructions for filing protests with 

the BLM are included in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this notice.

ADDRESSES: The Proposed Plan/FEIS is 

posted on Web sites at http://

www.id.blm.gov/planning/craters/

index.htm or http://www.nps.gov/crmo

and has been mailed to those who have 

indicated that they want to receive it in 

hard copy or on a compact disk. 

Additional copies in both paper and 

digital format are available in limited 

numbers. To receive a copy, write or 

call one of the individuals identified in 

the next paragraph.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Richard VanderVoet, Monument 

Manager, Bureau of Land Management, 

Shoshone Field Office, 400 West F 

Street, Shoshone, ID 83352–1522, phone 

(208) 732–7200 or John Apel Acting 

Superintendent, National Park Service, 

P.O. Box 29, Arco, ID 83213, phone 

(208) 527–3257.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Established in 1924, the Craters of the 

Moon National Monument was 

expanded by Presidential Proclamation 

7373 on November 9, 2000, for the 

purpose of protecting the entire Great 

Rift volcanic zone and associated lava 

features, all objects of scientific interest. 

On August 21, 2002, Public Law 107–

213 re-designated the National Park 

Service portion of the expanded 

Monument as a National Preserve. The 

Bureau of Land Management and 

National Park Service are managing the 

National Monument and Preserve 

cooperatively and are preparing one 

management plan to be implemented by 

both agencies. 

The key components of the Proposed 

Plan are as follows: 

• Promotes use of partnerships at offsite facilities such as visitor centers and 

state parks to provide Monument 

information and interpretation. 

• Emphasizes protection of vegetation 

resources in North Laidlaw Park. 

• Maintains a road network suitable 

for aggressive fire suppression and 

restoration activities within the 

Monument. 

• Encourages outfitter and guide 

services in the expanded portion of the 

Monument, instead of new agencyprovided services and facilities.

• Promotes a proactive Integrated 

Weed Management Program. 

• Proactively protects and restores 

sagebrush steppe communities. 

• Continues to focus visitor 

experience within the Monument on the 

existing lands and facilities located at 

the north end of the Monument. 

• Continues management of the 

wilderness area within the original 

National Monument boundary and the 

wilderness study areas that are awaiting 

Congressional action. Proposes a joint 

NPS/BLM wilderness/WSA 

management plan. 

Protests regarding proposed decisions 

affecting BLM-administered lands must 

be in writing and filed with the BLM 

Director. Protests may raise only those 

issues that were submitted for the 

record during the planning process. Email and faxed 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 email or faxed protest as an advance 

copy, and it will receive full 

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consideration. If you wish to provide 

the BLM with such advance 

notification, please direct faxed protests 

to the attention of the BLM Protest 

Coordinator at (202) 452–5112 and emails to Brenda_HudgensWilliams@blm.gov. Please direct the 

follow-up letters to the appropriate 

address provided below. To be 

considered complete, your protest must 

contain at minimum, the following 

information: (1) The name, mailing 

address, telephone number and interest 

of the person filing the protest; (2) a 

statement of the issue or issues being 

protested; (3) a statement of the part or 

parts of the plan being protested; (4) a 

copy of all documents addressing the 

issue or issues that were submitted 

during the planning process by the 

protesting party or an indication of the 

date the issue or issues were discussed 

for the record; and (5) a concise 

statement explaining why the State 

Director’s decision is believed to be 

wrong. A protest merely expressing 

disagreement with the State Director’s 

proposed decision without providing 

any supporting data will not be 

considered a valid protest. 

All written protests must be mailed to 

one of the following addresses:

Regular Mail, Director, WO–210/LS–

1075, Bureau of Land Management, 

Attn: Brenda Hudgens-Williams, 

Department of the Interior, P.O. Box 

66538, Washington, DC 20035, or 

Overnight Mail, Director, WO–210/LS–

1075, Bureau of Land Management, 

Attn: Brenda Hudgens-Williams, 

Department of the Interior, 1610 L 

Street, NW., Suite 1075, Washington, 

DC 20036.

To be considered timely, your protest 

must be postmarked no later than the 

last day of the protest period. Though 

not a requirement, it is suggested that 

protests be sent by certified mail, return 

receipt requested. You are also 

encouraged, but not required, to forward 

a copy of your protest to the Monument 

Manager at the address listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION above. This may 

allow the BLM to resolve the protest 

through clarification of intent or 

discussion with the protestor. 

Please note that protests, including 

names and street addresses, are 

available for public review and/or 

release under the Freedom of 

Information Act (FOIA). Individual 

respondents may request 

confidentiality. Respondents who wish 

to withhold their name and/or street 

address from public review or from 

disclosure under FOIA must state so 

prominently at the beginning of the 

written correspondence. Such requests 

will be honored to the extent allowed by 

law. All submissions from organizations 

or businesses, and from individuals 

identifying themselves as representing 

organizations or businesses, will be 

made available for public inspection in 

their entirety. 

Following resolution of any protests 

of the proposed decision, a joint record 

of decision will be signed by the 

Regional Director of the Pacific West 

Region of the National Park Service and 

the State Director of the Bureau of Land 

Management for Idaho. A notice of 

availability of the record of decision 

will be published in the Federal 

Register and through local news media.

Dated: August 19, 2005. 

K. Lynn Bennett, 

Bureau of Land Management, Idaho State 

Director.

Dated: August 17, 2005. 

Patricia L. Neubacher, 

National Park Service, Acting Regional 

Director, Pacific West Region.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management 

[NV–060–3809] 

Notice of Availability for the Ruby Hill 

Mine Expansion—East Archimedes 

Project Final Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement; A 

Proposed Expansion of Existing Gold 

Mining/Processing Operations in 

Eureka County, NV

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management. 

Cooperating Agencies: Nevada 

Department of Wildlife and Eureka 

County.

ACTION: Notice of availability for the 

Ruby Hill Mine Expansion—East 

Archimedes Final Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(c) 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act of 1969 and the Council on 

Environmental Quality Regulations 

found at 40 CFR 1500–1508, notice is 

hereby given of the availability of the 

Final Supplemental Environmental 

Impact Statement for comment, 

prepared by the Battle Mountain Field 

Office of the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM). The statement 

analyzes the environmental effects of 

the Proposed Action and the No Action 

Alternatives.

DATES: Written comments must be postmarked or otherwise delivered by 4:30 

p.m. (Pacific time zone) by no later than 

30 days after the date of publication of 

this Notice in the Federal Register. 

Comments, including names and 

addresses or respondents, will be 

available for public review at the above 

address during regular business hours, 

Monday–Friday, excluding holidays. 

Individual respondents may request 

confidentiality. If you wish to withhold 

your name or street address from public 

review or from disclosure under the 

Freedom of Information Act, you must 

state this prominently at the beginning 

of your written comment. However, we 

will not consider anonymous 

comments. Such requests to withhold 

your name or street address from public 

review will be honored to the extent 

allowed by law. All submissions from 

organizations or business, and from 

individuals identifying themselves as 

representatives of officials of 

organizations or businesses, will be 

available for public inspection in their 

entirety. A limited number of copies of 

the Final Supplemental EIS may be 

obtained at the Battle Mountain BLM 

Field Office.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be addressed to the Bureau of Land 

Management, attn: Caleb Hiner, Battle 

Mountain Field Office, 50 Bastian Road, 

Battle Mountain, Nevada 89820.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Caleb Hiner, Battle Mountain BLM at 

(775) 635–4052.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Proposed Action would develop the 

East Archimedes deposit which was 

defined in the original EIS (approved 

February 3, 1997) as a Reasonably 

Foreseeable Future Action. The 

Proposed Action would consist of an 

extension of the existing pit, expansion 

of the existing west and east waste rock 

disposal areas, the expansion of the 

existing heap leach pad, and 

construction of dewatering facilities. 

Under the Proposed Action an estimated 

additional 744 acres of disturbance 

would occur, all disturbance proposed 

under the expansion falls within the 

footprint of the project boundary as 

analyzed in the original EIS.

Gerald M. Smith, 

Field Manager.

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