7784 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 27 / Thursday, February 9, 1995 / Notices

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Lynn Pettit, Project Manager, at (702)

635–4000.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Battle

Mountain Gold Mining Company has

recently submitted a proposal to

develop a mining facility at the south

end of the Battle Mountain Range, in

Lander County, Nevada, approximately

15 miles southwest of Battle Mountain.

The proposed mining development will

involve an expansion of the current

heap leaching and tailings facilities, and

a new mill. One extracted from

proposed open pits will be processed for

gold recovery by milling and heap

leaching processes. Dewatering will be

necessary in order to mine several of the

proposed open pits. To prevent

anticipated pit lake quality problems

due to the composition of the host rock

in one of the pits, Battle Mountain Gold

is proposing a permanent ground water

conveyance system that would begin at

an entry way within the pit, travel

downgradient through an underground

drainage system to a portal opening and

from there travel via an above ground

channel to a location that would serve

as an infiltration basin and/or wetland.

The majority of the waste rock will be

partially, or completely, backfilled into

open pits and used to cap existing

copper leach run-of -mine dumps. The

total land disturbance (private + public)

over the life of the mine could reach

1,909 acres. Land previously disturbed

by mining related activity would make

up 1,278 of these acres.

Potentially significant and significant

direct, indirect, cumulative and residual

impacts from the proposal will be

analyzed in the EIS. Significant issues to

be addressed in the EIS include those

relating to air quality, surface and

ground water resources, geochemistry,

reclamation, and social and economic

values, and cumulative impacts.

Additional significant issues to be

addressed may arise during the scoping

process. Federal, state, and local

agencies and other individuals or

organizations who may be interested in

or affected by the BLM’s decision on

this plan of operation are invited to

participate in the scoping process.

Dated: January 30, 1995.

Michael C. Mitchel,

Acting District Manager.

[FR Doc. 95–3275 Filed 2–8–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–HC–M

[ID–056–1610–00]

Notice of Intent to Prepare a

Supplement to the Draft Environmental

Impact Statement for the Bennett Hills

Draft Resource Management Plan and

Amendment to the Jarbridge Resource

Management Plan, Idaho

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management;

Interior.

ACTION: The Shoshone District Bureau of

Land Management announces the intent

to prepare a supplement to the Bennett

Hills Draft Resource Management Plan/

Draft Environmental Impact Statement,

and Amendment to the Jarbridge

Resource Management Plan.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to 40 CFR 1502.9(c)

implementing the National

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the

Bureau of Land Management’s Idaho

State Director has determined the need

to prepare a supplement to the Draft

Environmental Impact Statement for the

Bennett Hills Draft Resource

Management Plan issued for public

comment on April 1, 1994. This action

is taken to allow the agency to fully

consider and incorporate comments

received on the draft.

DATES: No date has been set for the

release of the Supplement. Notification

of release will be made in the Federal

Register and local news media. The

Supplement will be circulated for an

additional 90-day public comment

period.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Project Manager William H. West,

Shoshone District Bureau of Land

Management, P.O. 2–B, Shoshone, Idaho

83352, telephone (208) 886–7203.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On

September 20, 1990, the Shoshone

District Bureau of Land Management

published a Notice of Intent to prepare

a Draft Resource Management Plan/Draft

Environmental Impact Statement for the

Bennett Hills Resource Area. On March

25, 1992, the Boise District of the

Bureau of Land Management published

a Notice of Intent to prepare an

Amendment to the Jarbridge Resource

Management Plan to be incorporated in

the Draft Environmental Impact

Statement for the Bennett Hills Draft

Resource Management Plan. On April 1,

1994, a Notice of Availability of the

Draft Environmental Impact Statement

was published in the Federal Register

and the public was invited to comment.

The public comment period ended on

July 1, 1994, with 170 comment letters

received containing over 400 individual

comments. The comments identified

new actions, standards and guidelines

not contained in the Draft. The

comments include specific suggestions

for livestock management prescriptions

in riparian areas, proposals for new

Areas of Critical Environmental

Concern, and land exchanges to

accommodate recent community

expansion needs that were not

contained or analyzed in the Draft.

The comments also provided clarity

and focus to the public’s desires and

needs not found in the original scoping

for the Draft in 1990. At the time of the

original scoping, five open houses were

held at different locations in the valley;

however, less than 30 people attended

and, despite concerted efforts to solicit

public opinion, only 66 total comments

were received during the formal scoping

period. The scoping comments were

very broad in nature and often dealt

with general BLM policy questions not

directed toward actions within the

jurisdiction of the RMP. Comments

received on the Draft were directed

toward management actions on the

planning area and within the scope of

a Resource Management Plan decision.

Additionally, because of the long lag

time from the scoping to the publication

of the Draft, the public’s wishes for

management of the public land had

changed.

Dated: January 31, 1995.

Robert D. Cordell,

Area Manager, Bennett Hills Resource Area.

[FR Doc. 95–3274 Filed 2–8–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–GG–M

[CO–056–1430–00]

Seasonal Road Closure

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given in

accordance with 43 CFR 8364.1(a)

Closure and Restriction. Pursuant to 43

CFR 8364.1 the following Bureau of

Land Management (BLM) roads in

Conejos, Rio Grande, and Saquache

Counties will be temporarily closed to

motorized vehicle use to protect roads

and fragile resources during the wet

conditions of the spring thaw.

Conejos County: Cumbres Toltec Rd.

(#5035), Bighorn Rd. (#5041), Las Mestas

Rd. (#5048), Poso Loop Rd. (#5046),

RaJadero Rd. (#5065), Posito Creek Rd.

(#5075), Capulin Peak Rd. (#5060) and

Cinder Pits Rd. (#5055).

Rio Grande County: Bronson Peak Rd.

(#5100), Spring Gulch Rd. (#5105), and

the Nine Mile Road access onto BLM

Rd. #5100.

Saquache County: Poncha Loop Rd.

(#5325), Clover Creek Rd. (#5330),

Dorsey Creek Rd. (#5331), Noland Gulch

Loop Rd. (#5305), Clayton Cone Rd.
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(#5310), Findley Gulch Rd. (#5290),

Poison-Dry Loop Rd. (#5275), Cabin

Draw Rd. (#5265), Ward Gulch Rd.

(#5260), Antelope Creek Rd. (#5250),

Trickle Mountain Rd. (#5255), Big Dry

Gulch Rd. (#5242), Taylor Canyon Rd.

(#5248), Decker Creek Rd. (#5335) and

Squaw Creek Rd. (#5245).

DATES: This closure is in effect from

March 1 through May 31 and shall

remain in effect unless revised, revoked

or amended.

ADDRESSES: Comments can be directed

to the Area Manager, San Luis Resource

Area, 1921 State Street, Alamosa, CO

81101 or District Manager, Canon City

District Office, 3170 E. Main, Canon

City, CO 81212.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Julie Howard, Area Manager at (719)

589–4975.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Roads will

be reopened to travel when dry soil

conditions allow. These restrictions do

not apply to emergency, law

enforcement and Federal, State or other

government personnel who are in the

area for official or emergency purposes

and who are expressly authorized or

otherwise officially approved by BLM.

Any person who fails to comply with

this closure order will be subject to the

penalties provided by 43 CFR 8360.0–7

which includes fines not to exceed

$1000 and/or imprisonment not to

exceed 12 months. Notice of this closure

will be posted at the San Luis Resource

Area Office and the Canon City District

Office.

Donnie R. Sparks,

District Manager.

[FR Doc. 95–3169 Filed 2–8–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–JB–M

[NM–930–1430–01;KSNM 94549]

Notice of Proposed Modification of

Public Land Order (PLO) 5605;

Transfer of Jurisdiction in

Leavenworth County, Kansas

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management

(BLM), Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The United States Department

of Justice (DOJ) has requested a

modification of PLO 5605 to formally

change the use and benefitting agency of

24 acres from a part of a Federal

correction facility for the DOJ to a

Frontier Army Museum under the

Department of Army. The land has been

and remains closed to surface entry and

mining but not from leasing under the

mineral leasing laws.

DATES: Comments should be received by

May 10, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Clarence Hougland, BLM, New Mexico

State Office, P.O. Box 27115, Santa Fe,

New Mexico, 87502–0115, 505–438–

7593.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The DOJ

proposes to modify the withdrawal

made by PLO 5605 dated October 13,

1976, which withdrew the following

described land from all forms of

appropriation under the public land

laws, including the mining laws, but not

from leasing under the mineral leasing

laws:

Sixth Principal Meridian

T. 8 S., R. 23 E.,

A tract of land situated in the N1⁄2NE1⁄4 of

sec. 26, more particularly described as

follows:

Beginning at a concrete monument (#29)

located in the NE1⁄4 of sec. 26 on the Fort

Leavenworth Military Reservation;

thence S. 19°45′13′′ E., 657.44 ft. along

the reservation boundary, which is

contiguous to the easterly boundary of

the Federal Penitentiary under the

jurisdiction of the DOJ, to a 4-inch bolt

in Grant Avenue, said bolt being in the

easterly boundary of said Federal

Penitentiary, from which said bolt the

bearing and distance to a reference iron

pin formally in the north boundary line

of the City of Leavenworth is S.

19°45′13′′ E., 104.28 ft.; thence Westerly,

approximately 914 ft. along the north

right-of-way line of Metropolitan Avenue

to the east line of the Kansas Power and

Light (KPL) easement; thence N.

01°14′34′′ E., 461.11 ft. along the east

line of said KPL easement; thence N.

86°25′25′′ E., 48.09 ft. along the east line

of said KPL easement; thence N.

05°27′41′′ W., 388.76 ft. to a point in the

old boundary of the Fort Leavenworth

Military Reservation the same being the

east line of the said KPL easement;

thence N. 71°55′09′′ W., 409.20 ft. along

said KPL easement and along said old

boundary of said reservation to a point;

thence Northerly along said KPL

easement approximately 1000 ft., parallel

to the north line of Metropolitan Avenue,

to a point in the present boundary of Fort

Leavenworth Military Reservation, said

point being in the center of Corral Creek;

thence in a Southerly direction

upstream, along the center of the ditch,

approximately 643 ft. along the present

reservation boundary to a point, said

point being in the old reservation

boundary; thence Southeasterly,

approximately 161 ft., along the present

reservation boundary to the point of

beginning.

The area described contains 24 acres more

or less, in Leavenworth County.

On October 13, 1976, 269.60 acres

within the Fort Leavenworth Military

Reservation were withdrawn and

reserved for use of the DOJ for use by

the Bureau of Prisons in connection

with the operation of the Leavenworth

Federal Penitentiary. The DOJ has

determined that 24 acres of this

withdrawal is no longer needed for the

Federal correction facility and has

agreed to a transfer of the 24 acres to the

Department of Army for the Frontier

Army Museum. No change is proposed

in the segregative effect of the

withdrawal.

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 modification of use

and transfer of jurisdiction may present

their views in writing to the Deputy

State Director, Resource Planning, Use,

and Protection, BLM, at the above

address.

Dated: January 25, 1995.

Gilbert J. Lucero,

State Director.

[FR Doc. 95–3171 Filed 2–8–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–FB–P

Fish and Wildlife Service

Availability of a Habitat Conservation

Plan, Environmental Assessment, and

Receipt of an Application for an

Incidental Take Permit of Desert

Tortoise Related to the Use of the

Tuacahn School and Performing Arts

Center Access Road, Ivins,

Washington County, Utah

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: Heritage Arts Foundation

(Applicant) has applied to the Fish and

Wildlife Service for an incidental take

permit pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(B) of

the Endangered Species Act (Act) of

1973. The Applicant has been assigned

Permit Number PRT–798634. The

requested permit, which is for a period

not to exceed 2 years, would authorize

the incidental take of the threatened

desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii). The

proposed take would occur as a result

of further improvement and continued

use of an access road to the Tuacahn

School and Performing Arts Center

(Tuacahn Center) in Ivins, Washington

County, Utah. The road was constructed

by the Applicant but has been deeded

to the city of Ivins. It is anticipated that

the road will be paved and will serve

employees, students, and visitors of the

Tuacahn Center.

The Applicant has prepared a habitat

conservation plan and an environmental

assessment for the incidental take

permit application. This notice is

provided pursuant to section 10(c) of