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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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