62138 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 208 / Friday, October 28, 2005 / Notices 

Dated: August 19, 2005. 

Martin C. Ott, 

State Director. 

[FR Doc. 05–21569 Filed 10–27–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–$$—P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[CO–923; COC–69155] 

Notice of Proposed Withdrawal and 

Transfer of Jurisdiction; Colorado 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy has filed an application 

requesting the Secretary of the Interior 

to withdraw from surface entry and 

mining and transfer jurisdiction of 160 

acres of public land in Moffat County, 

Colorado, to be utilized as a uranium 

mill tailings disposal site. This notice 

segregates the land for a period of 2 

years from surface entry and mining. 

DATES: Comments and requests for a 

public meeting must be received 

January 26, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: Correspondence should be 

addressed to the State Director, BLM 

Colorado State Office, 2850 Youngfield 

Street, Lakewood, Colorado 80215. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Doris E. Chelius, BLM Colorado State 

Office, 303–239–3706. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. 

Department of Energy has filed an 

application with the Bureau of Land 

Management to withdraw from surface 

entry and mining and transfer to them, 

subject to valid existing rights, the 

jurisdiction of the following described 

public land: 

Sixth Principal Meridian 

T. 7 N., R. 95 W., 

sec. 24, S1⁄2NW1⁄4 and N1⁄2SW1⁄4. 

The area described contains 160 acres in 

Moffat County. 

The purpose of the proposed 

withdrawal is to transfer jurisdiction of 

the land to the U.S. Department of 

Energy for perpetual administration as a 

hazardous material site under authority 

of the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation 

Control Act of 1978, 42 U.S.C. 7901, et 

seq. 

For a period of 90 days from the date 

of publication of this notice, all persons 

who wish to submit comments, 

suggestions, or objections in connection 

with the proposed action may present 

their views in writing to the Colorado 

State Director, BLM, at the above 

address. 

Comments, including names and 

street addresses of respondents, and 

records relating to the proposed 

withdrawal will be available for public 

review at BLM Colorado State Office, 

during regular business hours. 

Individual respondents may request 

confidentiality. If you wish to withhold 

your name or 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 representatives or 

officials of organizations or businesses, 

will be made available for public 

inspection in their entirety. 

This application will be processed in 

accordance with the regulations set 

forth in 43 CFR 2300. 

Effective on the date of publication, 

this land is segregated from all forms of 

appropriation under the public land 

laws, including the mining laws, and 

the mineral leasing laws. The 

segregative effect of this application will 

terminate 2 years from the date of this 

publication unless final withdrawal 

action is taken or the application is 

denied or cancelled prior to that date 

(43 CFR 2310.2). Notice of any action 

will be published in the Federal 

Register. 

Public meetings will be held in 

connection with the proposed 

withdrawal action during the 

preparation of the Environmental 

Impact Statement that will analyze 

options for permanent disposal of the 

uranium tailings. A notice of the time 

and place will be published by the U.S. 

Department of Energy in the Federal 

Register at least 30 days prior to the 

scheduled date of the meetings. 

(Authority: 43 CFR 2310.3–1) 

Dated: October 7, 2005. 

John D. Beck, 

Acting Chief, Branch of Lands and Realty. 

[FR Doc. 05–21568 Filed 10–27–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–JB–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[CO–923; COC–68632] 

Notice of Proposed Withdrawal; 

Scheduled Public Meeting; Colorado 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Secretary of Agriculture 

has filed an application requesting the 

Secretary of the Interior to withdraw 

approximately 14,919 acres of National 

Forest System lands in Douglas, Teller, 

Park, and Jefferson Counties, Colorado. 

This notice segregates the lands from 

location and entry under the U.S. 

Mining Laws for up to 2 years. This 

notice also establishes the time and 

place of the public meeting. 

DATES: Comments on this proposed 

action must be received on or before 

January 26, 2006. 

The public meeting will be held at 7 

p.m. on December 15, 2005 at the USDA 

Forest Service Workcenter, State 

Highway 126, Buffalo Creek, Colorado 

80425. 

Requests to be heard at the public 

meeting should be received by close of 

business on December 8, 2005. 

ADDRESSES: Comments and/or requests 

to be heard should be submitted to the 

State Director, Colorado State Office, 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM), 

2850 Youngfield Street, Lakewood, 

Colorado 80215, or David Crumley, 

USDA, Forest Service, 2040 Kachina 

Drive, Pueblo, Colorado 81008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Doris E. Chelius, BLM, 303–239–3706, 

in Denver, or David Crumley, USDA 

Forest Service, 719–553–1591 in Pueblo. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

United States Department of 

Agriculture, acting through the Forest 

Service, filed an application with the 

Bureau of Land Management to 

withdraw the following identified lands 

from location and entry under the 

mining laws, subject to valid existing 

rights. The outer limit of the area 

requested is a line drawn in such a 

manner that each point of it is 1⁄4-mile 

(U.S. Foot) each side from the middle of 

the main channels of the South Platte 

and the North Fork of the South Platte 

Rivers comprising a 1⁄2-mile wide 

corridor aggregating a length of 

approximately 71.4 miles. The lands 

proposed to be withdrawn are described 

in the following three segments: 

Sixth Principal Meridian 

Pike—San Isabel National Forest 

Segment 1: Elevenmile Canyon Reservoir to 

Cheesman Lake 

Beginning at a point on the South Platte 

River at the outlet in the Elevenmile 

Reservoir Dam in sec. 20, T. 13 S., R. 72 W., 

thence northeasterly along the middle of the 

main channel of the South Platte River 

approximately 25.9 miles, ending at a point 

where the South Platte River exits the east 

boundary of sec. 22. T. 10 S., R. 71 W. 

Segment 2: Cheesman Dam to the High Water 

Line of the Strontia Springs Reservoir 

Beginning on the South Platte River from 

the stream gage below Cheesman Dam in sec.