Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 228 / Tuesday, November 29, 2005 / Notices 71555 

The 320.00 acre tract contains an estimated 

3.6 million tons of recoverable coal reserves. 

The application will be processed in 

accordance with the provisions of the 

Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as 

amended (30 U.S.C. 181, et seq.), and 

the implementing regulations at 43 CFR 

3400. A decision to allow leasing of the 

coal reserves in said tract will result in 

a competitive lease sale to be held at a 

time and place to be announced through 

publication pursuant to 43 CFR Part 

3422. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: BNI Coal 

is the lessee and operator of the Center 

Mine. The entire area included within 

this lease application lies within the 

Center Mine BNCR–9702 permit area. 

The area applied for would be mined 

as an extension of the Center Mine and 

would utilize the same methods as those 

currently being used. The lease being 

applied for can extend the life of the 

mine by about 10 months. And enable 

recovery of coal that might never be 

mined if not mined as a logical 

extension of current pits. 

Notice of Availability: The application 

is available for review between the 

hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the Bureau 

of Land Management, Montana State 

Office, 5001 Southgate Drive, Billings, 

Montana 59101, and at the Bureau of 

Land Management, Dakotas District 

Office, whose address is 2033 Third 

Avenue West, Dickinson, North Dakota 

58601–2619, between the hours of 8 

a.m. and 4 p.m. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rebecca Spurgin, Coal Coordinator, at 

telephone 406–896–5080, Bureau of 

Land Management, Montana State 

Office, 5001 Southgate Drive, P.O. Box 

36800, Billings, Montana 59107–6800. 

Dated: November 17, 2005. 

Edward L. Hughes, 

Acting Chief, Branch of Solid Minerals. 

[FR Doc. E5–6643 Filed 11–28–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[ID–400–1010–MU] 

Notice of Public Meeting, Coeur 

d’Alene District Resource Advisory 

Council Meeting; Idaho 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act (FLPMA) and the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM) Coeur d’Alene 

District Resource Advisory Council 

(RAC) will meet as indicated below. 

DATES: December 14, 2005. The meeting 

will start at 10:30 a.m. and end by 5 

p.m. The public comment period will be 

from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. The meeting will 

be held in the conference room at the 

Idaho Labor and Commerce Career 

Center office located at 1350 Troy Road 

in Moscow, Idaho. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephanie Snook, RAC Coordinator, 

BLM Coeur d’Alene District, 1808 N. 

Third Street, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 

83814 or telephone (208) 769–5004. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 15- 

member Council advises the Secretary 

of the Interior, through the Bureau of 

Land Management, on a variety of 

planning and management issues 

associated with public land 

management in Idaho. The agenda for 

the December 14th meeting will 

include: Welcoming the new RAC 

members; updates on the Resource 

Management Plans being prepared for 

the Cottonwood and Coeur d’Alene 

Field Offices; the proposed extension of 

the Lower Salmon River mineral 

withdrawal; and election of officers. 

All meetings are open to the public. 

The public may present written 

comments to the Council. Each formal 

Council meeting will also have time 

allocated for receiving public 

comments. Depending on the number of 

persons wishing to comment and time 

available, the time for individual oral 

comments may be limited. Individuals 

who plan to attend and need special 

assistance, such as sign language 

interpretation or other reasonable 

accommodations, should contact the 

BLM as provided above. 

Dated: November 21, 2005. 

Lewis M. Brown, 

District Manager. 

[FR Doc. 05–23423 Filed 11–28–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–GG–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[CA–310–0777–XX] 

Notice of Public Meeting: Northeast 

California Resource Advisory Council 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act of 1976 (FLPMA), and the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act of 1972 

(FACA), the U.S. Department of the 

Interior, Bureau of Land Management 

(BLM) Northeast California Resource 

Advisory Council will meet as indicated 

below. 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

Thursday and Friday, Jan. 5 and 6, 2006, 

in the Conference Room of the Bureau 

of Land Management Alturas Field 

Office, 708 W. 12 St., Alturas, CA. The 

meeting runs from 1 to 5 p.m. Jan. 5 and 

from 8 a.m. to noon on Jan. 6. Time for 

public comment is reserved on Friday, 

Jan. 6. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tim 

Burke, BLM Alturas Field Office 

manager, (530) 233–4666; or BLM 

Public Affairs Officer Joseph J. Fontana, 

(530) 252–5332. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 15- 

member council advises the Secretary of 

the Interior, through the BLM, on a 

variety of planning and management 

issues associated with public land 

management in Northeast California and 

the northwest corner of Nevada. At this 

meeting, agenda topics will include an 

update on draft resource management 

plans for the Alturas, Eagle Lake and 

Surprise field offices, a status report on 

development of the Sagebrush Steppe 

Ecosystem Restoration Plan and 

information on the Sierra Nevada 

Conservancy. All meetings are open to 

the public. Members of the public may 

present written comments to the 

council. Each formal council meeting 

will have time allocated for public 

comments. Depending on the number of 

persons wishing to speak, and the time 

available, the time for individual 

comments may be limited. Members of 

the public are welcome on field tours, 

but they must provide their own 

transportation and lunch. Individuals 

who plan to attend and need special 

assistance, such as sign language 

interpretation and other reasonable 

accommodations, should contact the 

BLM as provided above. 

Dated: November 22, 2005. 

Joseph J. Fontana, 

Public Affairs Officer. 

[FR Doc. 05–23452 Filed 11–28–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–40–M 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Availability of the Draft 

General Management Plan and Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

Pea Ridge National Military Park, AR 

AGENCY: National Park Service. 

71556 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 228 / Tuesday, November 29, 2005 / Notices 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act of 1969, the National Park Service 

(NPS) announces the availability of the 

draft general management plan and 

environmental impact statement (GMP/ 

EIS) for Pea Ridge National Military 

Park (Park). 

DATES: The GMP/EIS will remain 

available for public review for 60 days 

following the publishing of the notice of 

availability in the Federal Register by 

the Environmental Protection Agency. 

Public meetings will be held at the Park 

visitor center, Arkansas. Meeting places 

and times will be announced through 

the local media and on the Park Web 

site at: http://www.nps.gov.gov/peri. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the GMP/EIS are 

available by request by writing to the 

superintendent at Pea Ridge National 

Military Park, 15930 Highway 62, 

Garfield, Arkansas, 72732. The 

document is also available to be 

reviewed in person at park headquarters 

with an appointment, which can be 

scheduled at 479–451–8122. Finally, the 

document can be found on the Internet 

at: http://parkplanning.nps.gov/. This 

Web site allows the public to review 

and comment directly on this 

document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Superintendent, Pea Ridge National 

Military Park, 15930 Highway 62, 

Garfield, Arkansas, 72732. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Park 

is a unit of the national park system and 

was established to commemorate the 

national significance of the Battle of Pea 

Ridge, the largest Civil War battle fought 

west of the Mississippi. The Park 

protects and preserves nearly 90 percent 

of the actual battlefield. 

The draft GMP/EIS describes and 

analyzes the environmental impacts of 

the proposed management action 

(preferred alternative) and two other 

action alternatives for the future 

management direction of the Park, 

including the impacts of the boundary 

modifications. A no-action management 

alternative is also evaluated. 

Persons wishing to comment may do 

so by any one of several methods. They 

may attend the public meetings noted 

above. They may mail comments to the 

Pea Ridge Planning Team, National Park 

Service, Denver Service Center, P.O. 

Box 25287, Denver, Colorado 80225. 

They also may comment via the Internet 

at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/. Finally, 

they may hand-deliver comments to the 

Pea Ridge National Military Park 

headquarters at 15930 Highway 62, 

Garfield, Arkansas, 72732. 

Our practice is to make comments, 

including names and home addresses of 

respondents, available for public 

review. Individual respondents may 

request that we withhold their home 

address from the record, which we will 

honor to the extent allowable by law. 

There may also be circumstances where 

we would withhold from the record a 

respondent’s identity, as allowable by 

law. If you wish us to withhold your 

name and/or address, you must state 

this prominently at the beginning of 

your comment. However, we will not 

consider anonymous comments. We 

will make all submissions from 

organizations or businesses, and from 

individuals identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials or 

organizations or businesses, available 

for public inspection in their entirety. 

The responsible official is Ernest 

Quintana, Regional Director, Midwest 

Region. 

Dated: October 20, 2005. 

Ernest Quintana, 

Regional Director, Midwest Region. 

[FR Doc. 05–23382 Filed 11–28–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–BY–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Final Supplemental Environmental 

Impact Statement; Elwha River 

Ecosystem Restoration 

Implementation; Olympic National 

Park, Clallam County, WA; Notice of 

Approval of Record of Decision 

Summary: Pursuant to section 

102(2)(C) of the National Environmental 

Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(c)) 

and the regulations promulgated by the 

Council on Environmental Quality (40 

CFR Part 1505.2), the Department of the 

Interior, National Park Service has 

prepared and approved a Record of 

Decision for the Final Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement (Final 

SEIS) for Elwha River ecosystem 

restoration at Olympic National Park. 

The Final SEIS supplements the 1996 

implementation EIS, and will serve as a 

blueprint in guiding implementation of 

the Elwhat River ecosystem restoration 

initiative as called for in the 1992 Elwha 

River Ecosystem and Fisheries 

Restoration Act. The Environmental 

Protection Agency’s Federal Register 

published notification of the filing of 

the Final EIS on September 2, 2005. 

Decision: As soon as practical 

Olympic National Park will begin to 

implement the restoration strategies, 

mitigations, and projects identified and 

analyzed as the Preferred Alternative 

contained in the Final SEIS. This course 

of action and alternative options were 

addressed in the Final and Draft SEIS 

(the availability of the latter for public 

review was announced in the Federal 

Register on November 16, 2004). The 

full range of foreseeable environmental 

consequences were assessed, and 

appropriate mitigation measures 

identified. Both a No Action alternative 

and ‘‘environmentally preferred’’

options were identified and analyzed. 

Copies: Interested parties desiring to 

review the Record of Decision may 

obtain a copy by contacting the 

Superintendent, Olympic National Park, 

600 East Park Ave., Port Angeles, WA 

98362; or via telephone request at (360) 

565–3000. 

Dated: October 21, 2005. 

Jonathan B. Jarvis, 

Regional Director, Pacific West Region. 

[FR Doc. 05–23398 Filed 11–28–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–KS–M 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National 

Historical Park Advisory Commission; 

Notice of Public Meeting 

Notice is hereby given in accordance 

with the Federal Advisory Committee 

Act that a meeting of the Chesapeake 

and Ohio Canal National Historical Park 

Advisory Commission will be held at 

9:30 a.m. on Friday, January 20, 2006, 

at park headquarters, 1850 Dual 

Highway, Hagerstown, Maryland. 

The Commission was established by 

Public Law 91–664 to meet and consult 

with the Secretary of the Interior on 

general policies and specific matters 

related to the administration and 

development of the Chesapeake and 

Ohio Canal National Historical Park. 

The members of the Commission are 

as follows: 

Mrs. Sheila Rabb Weidenfeld, 

Chairman. 

Mr. Charles J. Weir. 

Mr. Barry A. Passett. 

Mr. Terry W. Hepburn. 

Ms. JoAnn M. Spevacek. 

Mrs. Mary E. Woodward. 

Mrs. Donna Printz. 

Mrs. Ferial S. Bishop. 

Ms. Nancy C. Long. 

Mrs. Reynolds. 

Dr. James H. Gilford. 

Brother James Kirkpatrick. 

Topics that will be presented during 

the meeting include: 

1. Update on park operations. 

2. Update on major construction/ 

development projects. 

3. Update on partnership projects. 

The meeting will be open to the 

public. Any member of the public may