56482 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 186 / Tuesday, September 27, 2005 / Notices 

meetings, contact the Assistant 

Executive Director as soon as possible. 

Dated: September 21, 2005. 

Howard L. Hime, 

Acting Director of Standards, Marine Safety, 

Security and Environmental Protection. 

[FR Doc. 05–19213 Filed 9–26–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Indian Affairs 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Proposed Exploration and Drilling 

of Additional Coalbed Natural Gas and 

Conventional Gas Wells in the Riverton 

Dome Field, Wind River Indian 

Reservation, Fremont County, WY 

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice advises the public 

that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), 

in cooperation with the Eastern 

Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribes, 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA), intends to gather information 

necessary for preparing an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

for drilling additional coalbed natural 

gas wells and conventional gas wells in 

the Riverton Dome Field, Wind River 

Indian Reservation, Fremont County, 

Wyoming. The purpose of the proposed 

action is to meet the Tribes’ need to 

maximize their economic benefit from 

this trust resource. This notice also 

announces a public scoping meeting to 

identify potential issues and alternatives 

to be considered in the EIS. 

DATES: Written comments on the scope 

of the EIS or implementation of the 

proposal must arrive by October 28, 

2005. 

The public scoping meeting will be 

held October 12, 2005, from 7 p.m. to 

9:30 p.m., or until the last public 

comment is received. 

ADDRESSES: You may mail or hand carry 

written comments to Ramon A. Nation, 

Deputy Superintendent, Trust Services, 

Bureau of Indian Affairs, Wind River 

Agency, P.O. Box 158, Fort Washakie, 

Wyoming 82514. 

The public scoping meeting will be 

held at the St. Stephens Elementary 

School Cafeteria, 134 Mission Road, St. 

Stephens, Wyoming. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ray 

Nation or Charlie Dillahunty, (307) 332–

3718. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Riverton Dome Coalbed Natural Gas 

(CBNG) and Conventional Gas 

Development Project area is located in 

Township 1S, Range 4E, Sections 13, 14, 

23, 24, 25, 26, 35 and 36; Township 2S, 

Range 5E, Sections 1, 2, 11 and 12; 

Township 1S, Range 5E, Sections 17, 18, 

19, 20, 29, 30, 31, and 32; and Township 

2S, Range 5E, Sections 5, 6, 7 and 8, in 

the southeast corner of the Wind River 

Indian Reservation. The project area 

consists of approximately 13,804 acres, 

of which 12,632 are tribal and 1,172 are 

non-tribal surface and minerals. 

The proposed action consists of 

drilling up to 336 CBNG and 20 

conventional gas wells over the next 10 

years, with a life-of-project of 20 to 40 

years. Approximately 46 of the CBNG 

wells and 15 of the conventional wells 

would be drilled on existing pads. 

Economic conditions and the evaluation 

of the drilling results would determine 

the actual number of wells that would 

be drilled. In addition, the project 

would require 9000hp of new 

compression, and may require up to 

88.8 miles of rights-of-way for 

construction of flow lines, access roads 

and power lines. 

The initial disturbance from 

construction of well pads and 

compressor stations and construction 

within rights-of-way is estimated to be 

1,081 acres, or 7.8 percent of the project 

area. Long-term disturbance after 

reclamation is anticipated to be 592 

acres, or 4.3 percent of the project area. 

These disturbance values are based on 

40-acre spacing. Initial and residual 

disturbance at 80-acre spacing would be 

611 and 329 acres, respectively. 

Each CBNG well may initially 

produce approximately 500 barrels of 

water per day, which is expected to 

decline rapidly. The three water 

disposal options in order of priority are: 

(1) Evaporation pit water disposal, (2) 

underground injection well disposal, 

and (3) surface discharge. The permits 

for the evaporation pit and deep well 

disposal of produced water have been 

approved. A permit application for 

surface discharge has been filed with, 

and is being reviewed by the EPA. 

The Riverton Dome Field currently 

contains 55 oil and gas wells and 3 

CBNG wells. In addition, the BIA has 

approved a CBNG Pilot Project, in 

which up to 20 CBNG wells may be 

drilled. Some of these wells may be 

drilled within the proposed project area 

while the Riverton Dome environmental 

analysis is being conducted. The 

drilling program will be monitored by 

the BIA and BLM to ensure that 

activities do not adversely affect the 

environment or prejudice the 

completion of the environmental 

analysis. 

Public Comment Availability 

Comments, including names and 

addresses of respondents, will be 

available for public review at the 

mailing address shown in the 

ADDRESSES section during regular 

business hours, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except 

holidays. Individual respondents may 

request confidentiality. If you wish us to 

withhold your name and/or 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. 

Such requests will be honored to the 

extent allowed by law. We will not, 

however, consider anonymous 

comments. 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 inspection in 

their entirety. 

Authority: This notice is published in 

accordance with section 1503.1 of the 

Council on Environmental Quality 

regulations (40 CFR parts 1500 through 1508) 

implementing the procedural requirements of 

the National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), 

and the Department of Interior Manual (516 

DM 1–6), and is in the exercise of authority 

delegated to the Principal Deputy Assistant 

Secretary—Indian Affairs by part 209 of the 

Departmental Manual. 

Dated: September 15, 2005. 

Michael D. Olsen, 

Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary—

Indian Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 05–19329 Filed 9–26–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–W7–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: Alma 

College, Alma, MI 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Notice is here given in accordance 

with the Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act 

(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the 

completion of an inventory of human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in the possession of Alma College, 

Alma, MI. The human remains and 

associated funerary object were removed 

from Gratiot County, MI. 

This notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

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responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 

U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations 

in this notice are the sole responsibility 

of the museum, institution, or Federal 

agency that has control of the Native 

American human remains and 

associated funerary object. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains was made by Alma College 

professional staff in consultation with 

representatives of the Saginaw 

Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan. 

On March 13, 1920, human remains 

representing a minimum of one 

individual were removed from a burial 

in sec. 5, T. 11 N., R. 3 W. (site 

20GR287), Arcada Township, in Gratiot 

County, MI, by an unknown individual 

and subsequently donated to Alma 

College. No known individual was 

identified. The one associated funerary 

object is a pontel glass bottle that dates 

to circa 1740–1780. 

The location of the site is consistent 

with the historically documented 

territory of the Saginaw Chippewa 

Indian Tribe of Michigan during the 

18th and 19th centuries. 

Officials of Alma College have 

determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 

3001 (9–10), the human remains 

described above represent the physical 

remains of one individual of Native 

American ancestry. Officials of Alma 

College also have determined that, 

pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (3)(A), the 

one object described above is reasonably 

believed to have been placed with or 

near individual human remains at the 

time of death or later as part of the death 

rite or ceremony. Lastly, officials of 

Alma College have determined that, 

pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is 

a relationship of shared group identity 

that can be reasonably traced between 

the Native American human remains 

and associated funerary objects and the 

Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of 

Michigan. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains and 

associated funerary object should 

contact Mary Theresa Bonhage-Freund, 

Department of Sociology and 

Anthropology, Alma College, 614 W. 

Superior, Alma, MI 48801, telephone 

(989) 463–7186, before October 27, 

2005. Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary object 

to the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe 

of Michigan may proceed after that date 

if no additional claimants come 

forward. 

Alma College is responsible for 

notifying the Saginaw Chippewa Indian 

Tribe of Michigan that this notice has 

been published. 

Dated: August 31, 2005. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 05–19263 Filed 9–26–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–50–S 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Army Department of Defense, U.S. 

Army, Pohakuloa Training Area, U.S. 

Army Garrison, HI; Correction 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; correction. 

Notice is here given in accordance 

with the Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act 

(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the 

completion of an inventory of human 

remains in the possession of the U.S. 

Department of Defense, U.S. Army, 

Pohakuloa Training Area, U.S. Army 

Garrison, HI. The human remains were 

removed from Hawai’i Island, HI. 

This notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 

U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations 

in this notice are the sole responsibility 

of the museum, institution, or Federal 

agency that has control of the Native 

American human remains. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

This notice corrects the Notice of 

Inventory Completion published in the 

Federal Register on November 13, 2001 

(FR Doc 01–28306, page 56855). It 

corrects the consulting parties by 

deleting Koa Mana from being listed as 

a consulting party because they were 

not part of the consultation. 

This notice corrects the previously 

published Notice of Inventory 

Completion by substituting the 

following paragraph for paragraph three: 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains was made by U. S. Army 

installation staff, and U.S. Army Corps 

of Engineers, St. Louis District, MO, 

Mandatory Center of Expertise for the 

Curation and Management of 

Archaeological Collections professional 

staff in consultation with 

representatives Hui Malama I Na 

Kupuna O Hawai’i Nei, Hawai’i Island 

Burial Council, and Office of Hawaiian 

Affairs. 

The following paragraphs are 

substituted for paragraphs eight and 

nine: 

Officials of the U.S. Army have 

determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 

3001 (9–10), the human remains 

described above represent the physical 

remains of two individuals of Native 

Hawaiian ancestry. Officials of the U.S. 

Army also have determined that, 

pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), there is 

a relationship of shared group identity 

that can be reasonably traced between 

the Native Hawaiian human remains 

and the Hui Malama I Na Kupuna O 

Hawai’i Nei, Hawai’i Island Burial 

Council, and Office of Hawaiian Affairs. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe or Native Hawaiian organization 

that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains 

should contact Dr. Laurie Lucking, 

Cultural Resources Manager, 

Environmental Division, USAGHI, 

Building 105, WAAF, Schofield 

Barracks, HI 96857, telephone (808) 

656–2878, extension 1052, before 

October 27, 2005. Repatriation of the 

human remains to the Hui Malama I Na 

Kupuna O Hawai’i Nei, Hawai’i Island 

Burial Council, and Office of Hawaiian 

Affairs may begin after that date if no 

additional claimants come forward. 

U.S. Army is responsible for notifying 

the Hui Malama I Na Kupuna ‘O Hawaii 

Nei, Hawai’i Island Burial Council, and 

Office of Hawaiian Affairs that this 

notice has been published. 

Dated: August 23, 2005. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 05–19267 Filed 9–26–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–50–S 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Forest 

Service, Gila National Forest, Silver 

City, NM; Correction 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; correction. 

Notice is here given in accordance 

with the Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act 

(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the 

completion of an inventory of human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in the control of the U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, Forest Service, Gila 

National Forest, Silver City, NM; and in 

the possession of Arizona State 

Museum, University of Arizona, 

Tucson, NM; Field Museum of Natural