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internal BLM review are incorporated 

into the Final EIS. Public comments 

resulted in the addition of clarifying 

text, but did not significantly change the 

proposed decisions. Copies of the 

Proposed RMPA and Final EIS for the 

CCMA have been sent to affected 

Federal, State, and local government 

agencies and to interested parties. 

Copies of the document are also 

available for public inspection at: BLM 

Hollister Field Office, 20 Hamilton 

Court, Hollister, CA; and BLM 

California State Office, 2800 Cottage 

Way, Sacramento, CA. Instructions for 

filing a protest with the Director of the 

BLM regarding the Proposed Plan/Final 

EIS may be found at 43 CFR 1610.5. A 

protest may only raise those issues with 

plan-level decisions that were submitted 

for the record during the planning 

process. E-mail 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, BLM will consider the 

e-mail or faxed protest as an advance 

copy and it will receive full 

consideration. If you wish to provide 

BLM with such advance notification, 

please direct faxed protests to the 

attention of the BLM protest coordinator 

at (202) 452–5112, and e-mails to 

Brenda_Hudgens-Williams@blm.gov. 

Please direct the follow-up letter to 

the appropriate address provided below. 

The protest must contain: 

a. The name, mailing address, 

telephone number, and interest of the 

person filing the protest. 

b. A statement of the part or parts of 

the plan and the issue or issues being 

protested. 

c. A copy of all documents addressing 

the issue(s) that the protesting party 

submitted during the planning process 

or a statement of the date they were 

discussed for the record. 

d. A concise statement explaining 

why the protestor believes the State 

Director’s decision is wrong. 

All protests must be in writing and 

mailed to the following address: 

Regular Mail: Director (210), Attention: 

Brenda Williams, P.O. Box 66538, 

Washington, DC 20035. 

Overnight Mail: Director (210), 

Attention: Brenda Williams, 1620 L 

Street, NW., Suite 1075, Washington, 

DC 20036. 

The Director will promptly render a 

decision on the protest. The decision 

will be in writing and will be sent to the 

protesting party by certified mail, return 

receipt requested. The decision of the 

Director shall be the final decision of 

the Department of the Interior. 

Dated: July 14, 2005. 

Robert Beehler, 

Hollister Field Office Manager. 

[FR Doc. 05–19588 Filed 9–29–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–40–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[AZ 330–05–1610–DP–082A–241E] 

Notice of Availability of Lake Havasu 

Field Office Draft Resource 

Management Plan and Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of Lake 

Havasu Field Office (Arizona) Draft 

Resource Management Plan and Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 

planning regulations, title 43 Code of 

Federal Regulations (CFR) 1610.2(f)(3) 

and the Council on Environmental 

Quality Regulations, title 40 CFR 

1502.9(a), the BLM hereby gives notice 

that the Lake Havasu Field Office Draft 

Resource Management Plan and Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement 

(DRMP/DEIS) is available for public 

review and comment. The planning area 

encompasses more than 1.3 million 

acres of the BLM-administered lands. 

DATES: Written comments on the DRMP/ 

DEIS will be accepted for 90 days 

following the date the Environmental 

Protection Agency publishes its Notice 

of Availability in the Federal Register. 

Future meetings or hearings and any 

other public involvement activities will 

be announced at least 15 days in 

advance through local media. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 

mailed to Tim Smith, Lake Havasu Field 

Manager, Resource Management Plan, 

Lake Havasu Field Office, 2610 

Sweetwater, Lake Havasu City, Arizona 

86406. You may also comment using the 

following e-mail address: 

Lake_havasu@blm.gov. Finally, you may 

hand-deliver comments to the above 

listed address. A minimum of five 

public meetings will be held during the 

90-day public review and comment 

period during which oral and written 

comments will be accepted. Exact dates, 

places, and times of public meetings 

will be announced using local media, 

and may be posted on the Arizona BLM 

Web page, or you may contact Gina 

Trafton at (928) 505–1273 for further 

information. 

Public comments, including names 

and street addresses of respondents, will 

be available for public review at the 

BLM Lake Havasu Field Office, 2610 

Sweetwater, Lake Havasu City, Arizona 

86406, during regular business hours (8 

a.m. to 4:30 p.m.), Monday through 

Friday, except 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 comments. Such requests will be 

honored to the extent allowed by law. 

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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gina 

Trafton, Planning and Environmental 

Coordinator, Bureau of Land 

Management, 2610 Sweetwater, Lake 

Havasu City, Arizona 86406, telephone 

(928) 505–1273. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A copy of 

the Lake Havasu Field Office Draft 

Resource Management Plan and Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement is 

available for review via the Internet 

from a link at http://www.az.blm.gov 

(subject to change). You may also obtain 

an electronic (on CD–ROM), or paper 

copy at the Bureau of Land 

Management, Lake Havasu Field Office 

at the address listed previously or by 

contacting Gina Trafton at (928) 505–

1273. 

The Lake Havasu Field Office Draft 

Resource Management Plan/Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement is 

being developed by the BLM. The 

DRMP/DEIS includes strategies for 

protecting and preserving the biological, 

cultural, recreational, geological, 

educational, scientific, and scenic 

values that balance multiple uses of the 

BLM-administered lands throughout the 

Lake Havasu Field Office planning area. 

The preferred alternative attempts to 

accomplish the above in coordination 

with the Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service, Arizona 

Department of Transportation, Arizona 

State Land Department, Arizona Game 

and Fish Department, California 

Department of Fish and Game, the BLM 

and other land managing agencies 

within the boundaries of the planning 

area. The range of alternatives in this 

draft incorporates planning decisions 

brought forward from the current BLM 

planning documents, the Yuma District 

Resource Management Plan (1987), 

Kingman Resource Area Resource 

Management Plan (1995), Lower Gila 

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South Resource Management Plan 

(1988) and Lower Gila North 

Management Framework Plan (1983). 

The preferred alternative identifies five 

potential Areas of Critical 

Environmental Concern (ACEC): Beale 

Slough Riparian and Cultural ACEC 

(2,395 acres); Bullhead Bajada Natural 

and Cultural ACEC (7,090 acres); 

Crossman Peak Scenic ACEC (48,855 

acres); Swansea Historic District ACEC 

(5,973 acres); and, Three Rivers Riparian 

ACEC (2,246 acres). There are up to four 

additional potential ACECs in one or 

more of the other alternatives: Black 

Peak Cultural ACEC (740 acres); Cienega 

Mining District Historic ACEC (6,649 

acres); Lake Havasu Aubrey Hills 

Natural Area ACEC (19,088 acres); and, 

Whipple Wash Natural Area ACEC 

(10,962 acres). The following types of 

resource use limitations would 

generally apply to these ACECs: (1) 

Design grazing prescriptions to achieve 

the desired plant community objectives; 

(2) Recreation facilities would be 

limited to projects that protect ACEC 

values; (3) Camping would be limited to 

developed or signed sites; (4) Travel 

would be permitted only on designated 

open and signed routes. For detailed 

information see Chapter 2, Description 

of Alternatives, Special Area 

Designations section. 

A Proposed Resource Management 

Plan and Final Environmental Impact 

Statement will be prepared by the BLM 

for the Resource Management Plan 

accordance with planning regulations at 

43 CFR 1610 and NEPA at 40 CFR 1502. 

The Lake Havasu Field Office Resource 

Management Plan affects only the BLMadministered Federal lands and Federal 

interests located within the planning 

area boundary. 

Dated: September 16, 2005. 

Elaine Y. Zielinski, 

Arizona State Director. 

[FR Doc. 05–19493 Filed 9–29–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–32–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[NM–923–1430–ET; NMNM 055653] 

Public Land Order No. 7645; Partial 

Revocation of Public Land Order No. 

2051; New Mexico 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Public land order. 

SUMMARY: This order partially revokes a 

Public Land Order insofar as if affects 

40.16 acres of public land withdrawn 

for use by the New Mexico College of 

Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, now 

New Mexico State University, for 

research purposes in connection with 

Federal programs. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 31, 2005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gilda Fitzpatrick, BLM New Mexico 

State Office, 1474 Rodeo Road, Santa Fe, 

New Mexico 87502, 505–438–7597. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The land 

has been patented to a mining claimant. 

Since the land has been conveyed out of 

Federal ownership this is a recordclearing action only. 

Order 

By virtue of the authority vested in 

the Secretary of the Interior by Section 

204 of the Federal Land Policy and 

Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 

1714 (2000), it is ordered as follows: 

Public Land Order No. 2051, which 

withdrew public land for use by the 

New Mexico College of Agriculture and 

Mechanic Arts, now New Mexico State 

University, for research purposes in 

connection with Federal programs, is 

hereby revoked insofar as it affects the 

following described land: 

New Mexico Principal Meridian 

T. 23 S., R. 2 E., 

Sec. 23, lots 19 and 20 (formerly described 

as S1⁄2 of lots 3 and 4). 

The area described contains 40.16 acres in 

Dona Ana County. 

Dated: September 13, 2005. 

Rebecca W. Watson, 

Assistant Secretary—Land and Minerals 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 05–19645 Filed 9–29–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–FB–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[NM–930–1430–ET; NMNM 56994, NMNM 

56995, NMNM 56996, NMNM 56997, NMNM 

56998, NMNM 56999, and NMNM 57000] 

Public Land Order No. 7646; 

Revocation of Coal Classification 

Withdrawals; NM 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Public land order. 

SUMMARY: This order revokes 7 

Executive Orders in their entireties as to 

approximately 512,380 acres withdrawn 

for coal classification purposes. This 

order opens the lands to surface entry 

and nonmetalliferous mining. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 31, 2005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gilda Fitzpatrick, BLM New Mexico 

State Office, 1474 Rodeo Road, Santa Fe, 

New Mexico 87502, (505) 438–7597. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The lands 

were originally withdrawn to protect the 

potential coal resources from mining 

claims, but since coal is now a leaseable 

mineral the withdrawals are no longer 

needed. Copies of the original 

withdrawal orders containing legal 

descriptions of the lands involved are 

available from the BLM New Mexico 

State Office at the address listed above. 

Order 

By virtue of the authority vested in 

the Secretary of the Interior by Section 

204 of the Federal Land Policy and 

Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 

1714 (2000), it is ordered as follows: 

1. The Executive Orders dated 

December 23, 1910, February 6, 1911, 

April 22, 1911, May 18, 1911, August 

25, 1915, October 14, 1915, and July 30, 

1917, which withdrew lands for coal 

classification purposes, are hereby 

revoked in their entireties. 

2. At 10 a.m. on October 31, 2005, the 

lands referenced in Paragraph 1 will be 

opened to the operation of the public 

land laws generally, subject to valid 

existing rights, the provisions of existing 

withdrawals, other segregations of 

record, and the requirements of 

applicable law. All valid applications 

received at or prior to 10 a.m. on 

October 31, 2005, shall be considered as 

simultaneously filed at that time. Those 

received thereafter shall be considered 

in the order of filing. 

3. At 10 a.m. on October 31, 2005 the 

lands referenced in Paragraph 1 will be 

opened to nonmetalliferous mineral 

location and entry under the United 

States mining laws, subject to valid 

existing rights, the provisions of existing 

withdrawals, other segregations of 

record, and the requirements of 

applicable law. Appropriation of any of 

the lands under the general mining laws 

prior to the date and time of restoration 

is unauthorized. Any such attempted 

appropriation, including attempted 

adverse possession under 30 U.S.C. 38 

(2000), shall vest no rights against the 

United States. Acts required to establish 

a location and to initiate a right of 

possession are governed by State law 

where not in conflict with Federal law. 

The Bureau of Land Management will 

not intervene in disputes between rival 

locators over possessory rights since 

Congress has provided for such 

determinations in local courts.