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Project name Location Project purpose FONSI Lead Federal agency 

Raccoon Island Shore Protection/Marsh Creation Project 

Phase B.

Gulf of Mexico, offshore 

Terrebonne Parish, LA.

Marsh creation ....................... 5/20/2009 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources 

Conservation Service. 

Brevard County (South 

Reach) Shore Protection 

Project.

Atlantic Ocean, offshore Cape 

Canaveral and Brevard 

County, FL.

Beach nourishment ................ 8/20/2009 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District. 

Charleston Offshore Dredge 

Material Disposal Site Sand 

Borrow Project.

Atlantic Ocean, offshore 

Charleston, SC.

Terminal expansion ............... 10/16/2009 MMS. 

The MMS has concluded that the 

respective proposed actions will not 

significantly affect the quality of the 

human environment and the 

preparation of EISs is not required. 

Mitigation measures identified during 

the NEPA process will be applied for 

each proposal to ensure environmental 

protection and safety. 

Dated: November 30, 2009. 

Chris C. Oynes, 

Associate Director for Offshore Energy and 

Minerals Management. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

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Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Proposed 3-Bars Ecosystem and 

Landscape Restoration Project, Eureka 

County, NV 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA), as amended, and the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act of 1976 (FLPMA), as amended, the 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM), 

Battle Mountain District, Mount Lewis 

Field Office, Battle Mountain, Nevada, 

intends to prepare an Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS) and by this 

notice is announcing the beginning of 

the scoping process to solicit public 

comments and identify issues. 

DATES: This notice initiates the public 

scoping process for the EIS. Comments 

on issues may be submitted in writing 

until February 24, 2010. The date(s) and 

location(s) of any scoping meetings will 

be announced at least 15 days in 

advance through local new media, 

newspapers and the BLM Web site at: 

http://www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/fo/battle_

mountain_field.html. In order to be 

considered as part of the Draft EIS, all 

comments must be received prior to the 

close of the scoping period or 15 days 

after the last public meeting, whichever 

is later. The BLM will provide 

additional opportunities for public 

participation upon publication of the 

Draft EIS. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

on issues related to the proposed 3-Bars 

Ecosystem and Landscape Restoration 

Project by the following methods: 

• E-mail: 3bars_project@blm.gov. 

• Fax: (775) 635–4034, Attention: 3- 

Bars Project Manager. 

• Mail: BLM, Mount Lewis Field 

Office, Attn: 3-Bars Project Manager, 50 

Bastian Road, Battle Mountain, NV 

89820. 

Documents pertinent to this project 

may be examined at the Mount Lewis 

Field Office. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information and/or to have your 

name added to the mailing list, contact 

Donovan Walker, (775) 635–4000, or email: 3bars_project@blm.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BLM 

is proposing to conduct the 3-Bars 

Ecosystem and Landscape Restoration 

Project located primarily on public 

lands and on non-Federal lands where 

partnerships exist in Eureka County, 

Nevada. The project area encompasses 

approximately 724,000 acres. Individual 

areas ranging from several acres to 

several thousand acres will be treated 

with a variety of methods including 

mechanical, fire, biological, chemical 

and physical, depending on specific 

project and resource management goals 

and desired outcomes. The project will 

be conducted in conformance with the 

Shoshone-Eureka Resource Management 

Plan (RMP) and Record of Decision 

approved February 26, 1986, and its 

subsequent amendments. 

The purpose of the public scoping 

process is to determine relevant issues 

that will influence the scope of the 

environmental analysis, including 

alternatives, and guide the process for 

developing the EIS. At present, the BLM 

has identified the following preliminary 

issues: 

• Multiple key habitats within the 

sagebrush-steppe are declining and in 

need of restoration, maintenance or 

protection. 

• Key species in multiple vegetative 

communities are declining as species 

diversity declines with ecological 

succession. 

• Pinyon and juniper species are 

encroaching in native habitats and are 

expanding into adjacent, non-native 

habitats causing a net loss of important 

wildlife habitat and fragmentation. 

• Greater than 70 percent of key 

wildlife habitats such as sage grouse, 

mule deer and Lahontan cutthroat trout 

(LCT) habitat are at a high, very high or 

extreme risk of catastrophic fire. 

• Excessive fuel loadings are 

contributing to catastrophic fire 

potential. Hazardous fuel situations are 

caused by continuous closed canopy 

stands and excessive ladder fuels. 

• Greater than 75 percent of riparian/ 

wetland areas are not considered to be 

in Proper Functioning Condition. 

• Less than optimal habitat 

conditions exist for LCT, a Federally 

listed ‘‘threatened’’ species currently 

occupying two streams. 

• The project area has an active 

yearly fire occurrence and has had 

significant catastrophic fires in the 

recent past. Rehabilitation efforts have 

been less than fully successful as 

evidenced by cheatgrass monocultures 

in some wildfire scars. 

• Range conditions have degraded 

and native plant communities have 

deteriorated as a result of past livestock 

management practices such as ‘‘hotseason’’ grazing or uneven livestock and 

wild horse distribution due to the lack 

of available water. 

• Wild horse populations exceed 

appropriate management levels. The 

wild horses have poor body conditions 

as a result of excess numbers of wild 

horses in areas with degraded range 

conditions, limited water sources and 

restricted distribution. Permanent and 

temporary fences throughout two herd 

management areas hinder the free 

roaming abilities of wild horses. 

• Permitted activities such as 

livestock grazing, mining and 


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exploration and recreational offhighway vehicle use contribute to 

habitat decline in the absence of active 

management, maintenance and 

restorative activities. 

• The distribution and abundance of 

traditional/edible, medicinal plants is 

declining. There is a continued decrease 

in pinion tree vigor and pine nut 

production as stand densities increase. 

• The unresolved eligibility status 

and ongoing degradation of the National 

Historic Pony Express Trail which 

bisects the 3-Bars Project Area, needs to 

be considered and mitigated 

appropriately in the EIS. These and 

other areas of prehistoric and historic 

use have not been fully recorded or 

analyzed within the project area. 

The BLM will use the NEPA 

commenting process to satisfy the 

public involvement requirements for 

Section 106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470f) as 

provided for in 36 CFR 800.2(d)(3). 

Native American Tribal consultations 

will be conducted in accordance with 

policy, and Tribal concerns will be 

given due consideration. Federal, State, 

and local agencies, as well as 

individuals, organizations or tribes that 

may be interested or affected by the 

BLM’s decision on this project are 

invited to participate in the scoping 

process and, if eligible, may request or 

be requested by the BLM to participate 

as a cooperating agency. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, e-mail address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Douglas W. Furtado, 

Field Manager, Mount Lewis Field Office. 

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Notice of Public Meeting, Northwest 

Colorado Resource Advisory Council 

Meeting 

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) Northwest 

Colorado Resource Advisory Council 

(RAC) will meet as indicated below. 

DATES: The Northwest Colorado RAC 

has scheduled its first 2010 meeting for 

February 25, 2010. Meetings for the 

remainder of 2010 will be scheduled at 

this meeting. 

ADDRESSES: The Northwest Colorado 

RAC meeting will be held in Silt, 

Colorado, at the BLM Field Office, 2300 

River Frontage Rd. 

The meeting will begin at 8 a.m. and 

adjourn at approximately 3 p.m., with 

public comment periods regarding 

matters on the agenda at 10 a.m. and 2 

p.m. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Boyd, Public Affairs Specialist, 

Colorado River Valley Field Office, 2300 

River Frontage Road, Silt, CO, (970) 

876–9008. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Northwest Colorado RAC advises the 

Secretary of the Interior, through the 

Bureau of Land Management, on a 

variety of public land issues in 

Colorado. 

Topics of discussion during 

Northwest Colorado RAC meetings may 

include the BLM National Sage Grouse 

Conservation Strategy, working group 

reports, recreation, fire management, 

land use planning, invasive species 

management, energy and minerals 

management, travel management, 

wilderness, wild horse herd 

management, land exchange proposals, 

cultural resource management, and 

other issues as appropriate. 

These meetings are open to the 

public. The public may present written 

comments to the RACs. Each formal 

RAC meeting will also have time, as 

identified above, allocated for hearing 

public comments. Depending on the 

number of persons wishing to comment 

and time available, the time for 

individual oral comments may be 

limited. 

Steve Bennett, 

Acting Designated Federal Officer for the 

Northwest Colorado RAC. 

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Notice of Partial Cancellation of 

Proposed Withdrawal; California 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the 

Navy (Navy) has requested partial 

cancellation of its application of August 

13, 2008, which requested the Secretary 

of the Interior to process a proposed 

legislative withdrawal and reservation 

of public lands and public mineral 

estate for its use. These lands were to be 

withdrawn on behalf of the proposed 

expansion of the U. S. Marine Corps’ Air 

Ground Combat Center at Twentynine 

Palms. The Navy has requested that the 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 

remove approximately 33,488 acres of 

public lands from its application. The 

initial application was for the transfer of 

jurisdiction and the withdrawal of 

approximately 365,906 acres of public 

land and approximately 507 acres of 

Federal subsurface mineral estate from 

all forms of appropriation under the 

public land laws, including surface 

entry, mining, mineral leasing, and the 

Materials Act of 1947. This notice 

terminates the temporary two-year 

segregation from settlement, sale, 

location, or entry under the public land 

laws, including the mining laws, and 

the operation of the mineral leasing 

laws and the Materials Act of 1947 of 

the public lands and mineral estate 

described below. In addition, the initial 

application provisionally identified the 

surface estate of 507 acres of federallyowned mineral estate and the surface 

and mineral estates of approximately 

72,186 acres of non-federally owned 

property in the proposed withdrawal 

area. If these acres were ever acquired 

by or returned to the United States by 

any means, they were also to be 

included in the proposed withdrawal 

and subject to the temporary segregation 

authorized by the initial notice. The 

Navy has requested that the BLM 

remove surface and mineral estates of 

approximately 28,871 acres of the nonfederally owned property. 

DATES: Effective Date: January 25, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Roxie Trost, Field Manager, BLM 

Barstow Field Office, 2601 Barstow 

Road, Barstow, California 92311, (760) 

252–6000; or Joseph Ross, Range 

Expansion Program Manager, USMC 

MAGTFTC, MCAGCC, Bldg. 1554, Box 


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