52438 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 170 / Friday, September 2, 2005 / Notices 

Office, are located in Cochise, Gila, 

Pima, Pinal, and Santa Cruz Counties, 

Arizona. This planning activity 

encompasses approximately 465,000 

acres of public land. The plan will 

fulfill the needs and obligations set forth 

by the National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA), the Federal Land Policy 

and Management Act (FLPMA), and 

BLM management policies. The BLM 

will work collaboratively with 

interested parties to identify the 

management decisions that are best 

suited to local, regional, and national 

needs and concerns. Interested 

governmental entities will be given the 

opportunity to request Cooperating 

Agency status in the planning process. 

The purpose of the public scoping 

process is to determine relevant issues 

that will influence the scope of the 

environmental analysis and RMP/EIS 

alternatives. These issues also guide the 

planning process. Comments on issues 

and planning criteria can be submitted 

in writing to the BLM at any public 

scoping meetings, or they may be 

mailed to the BLM at the address listed 

above. 

The changing needs and interests of 

the public necessitate a revision to the 

existing Safford District and Phoenix 

RMPs for this area. Preliminary issues 

and management concerns have been 

identified by BLM personnel, other 

agencies, and in meetings with 

individuals and user groups. The major 

issue themes that will be addressed in 

the plan effort include: (1) Protecting 

and sustaining cultural and natural 

resources; (2) accommodating public 

demands for resources and providing for 

appropriate uses; and, (3) providing 

direct community services. After 

gathering public comments on what 

issues the plan should address, the 

suggested issues will be placed in one 

of three categories. 

1. Issues to be resolved in the plan. 

2. Issues resolved through policy or 

administrative action. 

3. Issues beyond the scope of this 

plan. 

In addition to these major issues, a 

number of management questions and 

concerns will be addressed in the plan. 

The public is encouraged to help 

identify these questions and concerns 

during the scoping phase. 

An interdisciplinary approach will be 

used to develop the plan in order to 

consider the variety of resource issues 

and concerns identified. Disciplines 

involved in the planning process will 

include specialists with expertise in 

rangeland management, minerals and 

geology, outdoor recreation, 

archaeology, paleontology, wildlife and 

fisheries, threatened and endangered 

species, wilderness, lands and realty, 

hydrology, soils, interpretation and 

education, sociology and economics. 

Joanie Losacco, 

Acting Arizona State Director. 

[FR Doc. 05–17505 Filed 9–1–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–32–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[CO–200–1220–DU] 

Final Supplementary Rules Regarding 

Operation of Motorized Vehicles and 

Bicycles and Closure of Public Lands 

to Recreational Target Shooting 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management; 

Royal Gorge Field Office, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of final supplementary 

rules for public lands within El Paso, 

Fremont, Park and Teller Counties, 

Colorado. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM)’s Royal Gorge Field 

Office is implementing supplementary 

rules. These supplementary rules 

implement three decisions from the 

Gold Belt Travel Management Plan, 

approved August 18, 2004. The rules 

apply to the public lands within the 

Gold Belt Travel Management Plan area 

under the management of the Royal 

Gorge Field Office, in El Paso, Fremont, 

Park, and Teller Counties, Colorado. 

The rules are needed in order to protect 

the area’s natural resources and provide 

for public health and safety. 

DATES: The rules are effective October 3, 

2005. 

ADDRESSES: You may send inquiries or 

suggestions to the Bureau of Land 

Management, Royal Gorge Field Office, 

3170 East Main Street, Can ̃ on City, 

Colorado 81212. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Roy 

L. Masinton, Field Manager, or Leah 

Quesenberry, Outdoor Recreation 

Planner, Royal Gorge Field Office, 3170 

East Main Street, Can ̃ on City, Colorado 

81212, telephone 719–269–8500. 

Individuals who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may contact them individually 

through the Federal Information Relay 

Service at 1–800/877–8339, 24 hours a 

day, seven days a week. 

I. Background 

II. Discussion of the Supplementary Rules 

III. Procedural Matters 

I. Background 

A ‘‘Notice of Intent To Prepare the 

Gold Belt Travel Management Plan 

(TMP) and Amend the Royal Gorge 

Resource Management Plan’’ was 

announced in the Federal Register on 

June 18, 2002 (67 FR 41442). The 

completion of the Gold Belt Travel 

Management Plan Environmental 

Assessment led to a 30-day public 

comment period, starting on January 15, 

2004. Following analysis of the public 

comments, a decision on the Gold Belt 

TMP was issued on August 18, 2004. 

The decision restricts Off-Highway 

Vehicle use to designated roads and 

trails in the TMP area and provides for 

the supplementary rules. 

II. Discussion of Supplementary Rules 

These supplementary rules apply to 

the public lands within the Gold Belt 

Travel Management Plan area. This area 

consists of 138,600 acres of public lands 

within El Paso, Fremont, Park, and 

Teller Counties, Colorado, in the 

following described townships: 

Colorado, Sixth Principal Meridian 

T. 15 S., R. 70 W. through 72 W. 

T. 16 S., R. 68 W. through 72 W. 

T. 17 S., R. 68 W. through 72 W. 

T. 18 S., R. 68 W. through 71 W. 

These supplementary rules 

implement three decisions from the 

Gold Belt Travel Management Plan, 

approved August 18, 2004. They 

include: 

(1) A supplementary rule limiting 

motorized travel for parking, camping, 

and retrieving game to a maximum of 

100 feet from designated roads and trails 

in the Gold Belt Travel Management 

Plan area (138,600 acres of public 

lands). 

(2) A supplementary rule restricting 

mountain bikes to designated roads and 

trails in the Gold Belt Travel 

Management Plan area (138,600 acres of 

public lands). 

(3) The closure of approximately 

13,200 acres of public lands to 

recreational target shooting in the 

following areas: Garden Park Fossil Area 

(3,000 acres), the Shelf Road 

campgrounds and climbing area (2,900 

acres), a one-quarter mile wide corridor 

along Phantom Canyon Road (4,200 

acres), and Penrose Commons (3,100 

acres). Licensed hunters in legitimate 

pursuit of game during the proper 

season with appropriate firearms, as 

defined by the Colorado Division of 

Wildlife, are exempt from this closure. 

BLM has determined that these rules 

are necessary to prevent damage to 

public lands and natural resources, 

reduce user conflicts, protect public 

safety, and reduce vandalism to public 

and private property. 

The proposed supplementary rules 

were published in the Federal Register 

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on March 8, 2005 (70 FR 11264). We 

received no comments on the proposed 

supplementary rules, and therefore 

publish them unchanged as final 

supplementary rules. The 

supplementary rules were also 

inadvertently published in the Federal 

Register on April 20, 2005 (70 FR 

20591). The supplementary rules are 

being published and implemented 

under the authority of 43 CFR 8341.1, 

8364.1, and 8365.1–6. This notice, with 

detailed maps, will be posted at the 

Royal Gorge Field Office. 

III. Procedural Matters 

Executive Order 12866, Regulatory 

Planning and Review 

These supplementary rules are not a 

significant regulatory action and are not 

subject to review by Office of 

Management and Budget under 

Executive Order 12866. These 

supplementary rules will not have an 

effect of $100 million or more on the 

economy. They will not adversely affect 

in a material way the economy, 

productivity, competition, jobs, the 

environment, public health or safety, or 

state, local, or tribal governments or 

communities. These supplementary 

rules will not create a serious 

inconsistency or otherwise interfere 

with an action taken or planned by 

another agency. These supplementary 

rules do not alter the budgetary effects 

of entitlements, grants, user fees, or loan 

programs or the rights or obligations of 

their recipients; nor do they raise novel 

legal or policy issues. They merely 

impose limitations on certain 

recreational activities on certain public 

lands to protect natural resources and 

human health and safety. 

National Environmental Policy Act 

BLM prepared an environmental 

assessment (EA) in support of the Gold 

Belt Travel Management Plan and found 

that the supplementary rules 

implementing the plan decisions would 

not constitute a major Federal action 

significantly affecting the quality of the 

human environment under section 

102(2)(C) of the National Environmental 

Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 

4332(2)(C). A detailed statement under 

NEPA is not required. BLM has placed 

the EA, Finding of No Significant 

Impact (FONSI), and Decision Record 

on file in the BLM Administrative 

Record at the address specified in the 

ADDRESSES section. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act 

Congress enacted the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act of 1980 (RFA), as 

amended, 5 U.S.C. 601–612, to ensure 

that Government regulations do not 

unnecessarily or disproportionately 

burden small entities. The RFA requires 

a regulatory flexibility analysis if a rule 

would have a significant economic 

impact, either detrimental or beneficial, 

on a substantial number of small 

entities. These supplementary rules 

should have no effect on business 

entities of whatever size. They merely 

would impose reasonable restrictions on 

certain recreational activities on certain 

public lands to protect natural resources 

and the environment, and human health 

and safety. Therefore, BLM has 

determined under the RFA that these 

rules would not have a significant 

economic impact on a substantial 

number of small entities. 

Small Business Regulatory Enforcement 

Fairness Act (SBREFA) 

These supplementary rules are not a 

‘‘major rule’’ as defined at 5 U.S.C. 

804(2). They would not result in an 

effect on the economy of $100 million 

or more, in an increase in costs or 

prices, or in significant adverse effects 

on competition, employment, 

investment, productivity, innovation, or 

on the ability of United States-based 

enterprises to compete with foreignbased enterprises in domestic and 

export markets. They would merely 

impose reasonable restrictions on 

certain recreational activities on certain 

public lands to protect natural resources 

and the environment, and human health 

and safety. 

Unfunded Mandates Reform Act 

These supplementary rules do not 

impose an unfunded mandate on state, 

local, or tribal governments or the 

private sector of more than $100 million 

per year; nor do these supplementary 

rules have a significant or unique effect 

on state, local, or tribal governments or 

the private sector. They would merely 

impose reasonable restrictions on 

certain recreational activities on certain 

public lands to protect natural resources 

and the environment, and human health 

and safety. Therefore, BLM is not 

required to prepare a statement 

containing the information required by 

the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (2 

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

Executive Order 12630, Governmental 

Actions and Interference With 

Constitutionally Protected Property 

Rights (Takings) 

The supplementary rules do not 

represent a government action capable 

of interfering with constitutionally 

protected property rights. The 

reasonable restrictions that would be 

imposed by these supplementary rules 

would not deprive anyone of property 

or interfere with anyone’s property 

rights. Therefore, the Department of the 

Interior has determined that these 

supplementary rules would not cause a 

taking of private property or require 

further discussion of takings 

implications under this Executive 

Order. 

Executive Order 13132, Federalism 

The supplementary rules will not 

have a substantial direct effect on the 

states, on the relationship between the 

national government and the states, or 

on the distribution of power and 

responsibilities among the various 

levels of government. Government 

vehicles are expressly excluded from 

the effect of the vehicle restrictions. The 

shooting restrictions in these 

supplementary rules do not apply to 

hunting with a state hunting license. 

Therefore, in accordance with Executive 

Order 13132, BLM has determined that 

these supplementary rules do not have 

sufficient Federalism implications to 

warrant preparation of a Federalism 

Assessment. 

Executive Order 12988, Civil Justice 

Reform 

Under Executive Order 12988, the 

Office of the Solicitor has determined 

that these supplementary rules would 

not unduly burden the judicial system 

and that they meet the requirements of 

sections 3(a) and 3(b) (2) of the Order. 

Executive Order 13175, Consultation 

and Coordination With Indian Tribal 

Governments 

In accordance with Executive Order 

13175, we have found that these 

supplementary rules do not include 

policies that have tribal implications. 

Formal consultation with 16 tribes was 

completed for the Gold Belt Travel 

Management Plan. 

Executive Order 13211, Actions 

Concerning Regulations That 

Significantly Affect Energy Supply, 

Distribution, or Use 

In accordance with Executive Order 

13211, BLM has determined that the 

supplementary rules will not have 

substantial direct effects on energy 

supply, distribution or use, including 

any shortfall in supply or price increase. 

The restrictions on vehicle use should 

have no substantial effect on fuel 

consumption, and no other provision in 

the supplementary rules has any 

relationship to energy supply, 

distribution, or use. 

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Paperwork Reduction Act 

These supplementary rules do not 

contain information collection 

requirements that the Office of 

Management and Budget must approve 

under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. 

Author 

The principal author of these 

supplementary rules is Leah 

Quesenberry, Outdoor Recreation 

Planner, Royal Gorge Field Office, 

Bureau of Land Management. 

Supplementary Rules for the Gold Belt 

Travel Management Plan Area 

Under 43 CFR 8341.1, 8364.1, and 

8365.1–6, the Bureau of Land 

Management will enforce the following 

rules on the public lands within the 

Gold Belt Travel Management Plan area, 

Royal Gorge Field Office, Colorado. You 

must follow these rules: 

Rules 

1. In the Gold Belt Travel 

Management Plan area (138,600 acres of 

public land)—

a. You must not park a motorized 

vehicle farther than 100 feet from a 

designated road or trail; 

b. You must not use a motorized 

vehicle for camping more than 100 feet 

from a designated road or trail; 

c. You must not use a motorized 

vehicle for retrieving game more than 

100 feet from a designated road and 

trail. 

2. You must not ride mountain bikes 

other than on designated roads and 

trails on public lands in the Gold Belt 

Travel Management Plan area. 

3. You must not engage in recreational 

target shooting on public lands in the 

following areas: Garden Park Fossil Area 

(3,000 acres), the Shelf Road 

campgrounds and climbing area (2,900 

acres), a one-quarter mile wide corridor 

along Phantom Canyon Road (4,200 

acres), and Penrose Commons (3,100 

acres). 

Exceptions 

These supplementary rules do not 

apply to emergency, law enforcement, 

and Federal or other government 

vehicles while being used for official or 

other emergency purposes, or to any 

other vehicle use that is expressly 

authorized or otherwise officially 

approved by BLM. The prohibition of 

target shooting in rule 3 has no effect on 

hunting by licensed hunters in 

legitimate pursuit of game during the 

proper season with appropriate 

firearms, as defined by the Colorado 

Division of Wildlife. 

Penalties 

Under section 303(a) of the Federal 

Land Policy and Management Act of 

1976 (43 U.S.C. 1733(a)) and 43 CFR 

8360.0–7 if you violate any of these 

supplementary rules on public lands 

within the boundaries established in the 

rules, you may be tried before a United 

States Magistrate and fined no more 

than $1,000 or imprisoned for no more 

than 12 months, or both. Such 

violations may also be subject to the 

enhanced fines provided for by 18 

U.S.C. 3571. 

Ron Wenker, 

State Director, Colorado State Office. 

[FR Doc. 05–17503 Filed 9–1–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–JB–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[AZ–411–1232–FH] 

Floating Permit To Change at Gila Box 

Riparian National Conservation Area 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Change the permit required for 

floating the Gila River from a Recreation 

Use Permit to a Special Recreation 

Permit. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Lands Recreation 

Enhancement Act (FLREA) requires that 

the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 

change its fee collection at the Gila Box 

Riparian National Conservation Area 

(RNCA) from Recreation Use Permits to 

Special Recreation Permits. This change 

will only affect the Gila River floatboat 

put-in facility along the Gila River. The 

fee remains the same. 

DATES: This change becomes effective 

immediately upon termination of the 

required 30-day public notification 

process following publication of this 

Notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff 

Wilbanks, BLM Safford Field Office, 711 

14th Avenue, Safford, AZ 85546; call 

(928) 348–4573; or e-mail 

Jeff_Wilbanks@blm.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Congress 

passed the FLREA in 2004 as Public 

Law 108–447. 

Dated: July 7, 2005. 

Bonnie Winslow, 

Acting Field Manager. 

[FR Doc. 05–17506 Filed 9–1–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–32–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[UT–020–1220–MA] 

Establishment of Special Recreation 

Management Special Recreation 

Permit Fee Area, and Interim Final 

Supplementary Rules on Public Lands 

Within the Knolls Special Recreation 

Management Area Managed by the Salt 

Lake Field Office, UT 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Establishment of Special 

Recreation Management Special 

Recreation Permit Fee Area, and Interim 

Final Supplementary Rules with request 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Knolls 

Recreation Area Management Plan, the 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM), 

Salt Lake Field Office, is establishing a 

special recreation permit fee area, and 

issuing interim final supplementary 

rules and requesting comments. These 

interim final supplementary rules will 

apply to public lands within the Knolls 

Special Recreation Management Area 

(SRMA) and will be effective until the 

publication of a final supplementary 

rule. The BLM has determined these 

interim final supplementary rules are 

necessary to enhance the safety of 

visitors, protect natural resources, 

improve recreation opportunities, and 

protect public health. 

DATES: The interim final supplementary 

rules are effective September 2, 2005. 

We invite comments until November 1, 

2005. 

ADDRESSES: Mail or hand deliver all 

comments concerning the interim final 

supplementary rules to the Bureau of 

Land Management, Salt Lake Field 

Office, 2370 S. 2300 W. Salt Lake City, 

Utah 84119 or e-mail comments to 

Mail_UT-Salt_Lake@ut.blm.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mandy Rigby, Outdoor Recreation 

Planner, 2370 S. 2300 W. Salt Lake City, 

Utah 84119, 801–977–4300. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Public Comment Procedures 

Written comments on the interim 

final supplementary rules should be 

specific, confined to issues pertinent to 

the interim final supplementary rules, 

and should explain the reason for any 

recommended change. Where possible, 

comments should reference the specific 

section or paragraph of the proposal 

which the comment is addressing. BLM 

may not necessarily consider or include 

in the Administrative Record for the