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specific dates and times established in

advance by a Notice to Airmen. The effective

date and time will thereafter be continuously

published in the Airport/Facility Directory.

* * * * *

Paragraph 5000 Class D Airspace

* * * * *

AWP AZ D Glendale, AZ [Revised]

Glendale Municipal Airport, AZ

(Lat. 33°31′38′′ N, long. 112°17′42′′ W)

That airspace extending upward from the

surface to including 3,100 feet MSL within a

3-mile radius of the Glendale Municipal

Airport excluding that portion west of a line

beginning at lat. 33°29′00′′ N, long.

112°19′26′′ W; to lat. 33°29′29′′ N, long.

112°19′29′′ W; to lat. 33°33′24′′ N, long.

112°18′04′′ W; to lat. 33°34′32′′ N, long.

112°16′43′′ W. This class D airspace area is

effective during the specific dates and times

established in advance by a Notice to

Airmen. The effective date and time will

thereafter be continuously published in the

Airport/Facility Director.

* * * * *

Issued in Los Angeles, California, on

March 3, 1995.

Dennis T. Koehler,

Acting Manager, Air Traffic Division,

Western-Pacific Region.

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BILLING CODE 4910–13–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation

and Enforcement

30 CFR Part 926

Montana Regulatory Program

AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining

Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM),

Interior.

ACTION: Proposed rule; public comment

period and opportunity for public

hearing on proposed amendment.

SUMMARY: OSM is announcing the

receipt of a proposed amendment to the

Montana regulatory program

(hereinafter, the ‘‘Montana program’’)

under the Surface Mining Control and

Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA). The

proposed amendment consist of

revisions to Title 26, Chapter 4,

Subchapters 3 through 12 of the

Administrative Rules of Montana

(ARM). The amendment is intended to

revise the Montana program to be

consistent with the corresponding

Federal regulations, incorporate the

additional flexibility afforded by the

revised Federal regulations, clarify

ambiguities, and improve operational

efficiency

This document sets forth the times

and locations that the Montana program

and proposed amendment to that

program are available for public

inspection, the comment period during

which interested persons may submit

written comments on the proposed

amendment, and procedures that will be

followed regarding the public hearing if

one is requested.

DATES: Written comments must be

received by 4:00 p.m., m.s.t. April 14,

1995. If requested, a public hearing on

the proposed amendment will be held

on April 10, 1995. Requests to present

oral testimony at the hearing must be

received by 4:00 p.m., m.s.t. on March

30, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should

be mailed or hand delivered to Guy

Padgett at the address listed below.

Copies of the Montana program, the

proposed amendment, and all written

comments received in response to this

notice will be available for public

review at the addresses listed below

during normal business hours, Monday

through Friday, excluding holidays.

Each requester may receive one free

copy of the proposed amendment by

contacting OSM’s Casper Field Office.

Guy Padgett, Director, Casper Field

Office, Office of Surface Mining

Reclamation and Enforcement, 100

East B Street, Room 2128, Casper, WY

82601–1918, Casper, WY 82601–1918,

Telephone: (307) 261–5776.

Gary Amestoy, Administrator, Montana

Department of State Lands,

Reclamation Division, Capitol Station,

1625 Eleventh Avenue, Helena,

Montana 59620, (406) 444–2074.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Guy V. Padgett, Telephone: (307) 261–

5776.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background on the Montana Program

On April 1, 1980, the Secretary of the

Interior conditionally approved the

Montana program as administered by

the Department of State Lands. General

background information on the Montana

program, including the Secretary’s

findings, the disposition of comments,

and conditions of approval of the

Montana program can be found in the

April 1, 1980, Federal Register (45 FR

21560). Subsequent actions concerning

Montana’s program and program

amendments can be found at 30 CFR

926.15 and 926.16.

II. Proposed Amendment

By letters dated February 1, 1995, and

February 28, 1995, Montana submitted a

proposed amendment to its program

pursuant to SMCRA (Administrative

Record Nos. MT–12–01 and MT–12–05,

State Program Amendment Tracking

System (SPATS) No. MT–003–FOR).

Montana’s proposed amendment consist

of changes to the Montana program as

required by 30 CFR 926.16; in response

to program deficiency letters from OSM

dated April 29, 1985, May 11, 1989, and

March 29, 1990; and on its own

initiative. The Montana proposed

amendment consists of changes to Title

26, Chapter 4, Subchapters 3 through 12

of the State’s ARM. The proposed

revisions and rule changes are located

at: ARM 26.4.301, definitions; ARM

26.4.304, legal, financial, compliance

related information; ARM 26.4.304,

baseline information for environmental

resources; Arm 26.4.308, operation

plans; ARM 26.314, plans for protection

of the hydrologic balance; ARM

26.4.321, transportation facilities plans;

ARM 26.4.304, review of applications;

ARM 26.4.405, findings and notices of

decision; ARM 26.4.405A,

improvidently issued permits general

requirements; ARM 26.4.405B,

improvidently issued permits:

revocation; ARM 26.4.407, conditions of

permits; ARM 26.4.410, permit renewal;

ARM 26.4.501A, final grading

requirements; ARM 26.4.505, burial and

treatment of waste materials; ARM

26.4.519A, thick overburden and excess

spoil; ARM 26.4.524, signs and markers;

ARM 26.4.601, general requirements for

road and railroad loop construction;

ARM 26.4.602, location of roads and

railroad loops; ARM 26.4.603,

embankments; ARM 26.4.605,

Hydrologic impacts of roads and

railroad loops; ARM 26.4.623, blasting

schedules; ARM 26.4.633, water quality

performance standards; ARM 26.4.634,

reclamation of drainages; ARM 26.4.638,

sediment control measures; ARM

26.4.639, sedimentation ponds and

other treatment facilities; ARM 26.4.642,

permanent and temporary

impoundments; ARM 26.4.645, ground

water monitoring; ARM 26.4.646,

surface water monitoring; ARM

26.4.702, redistribution and stockpiling

of soil; ARM 26.4.711, establishment of

vegetation; ARM 26.4.711, eradication

of rills and gullies; ARM 26.4.724, use

of revegetation comparison standards;

ARM 26.4.726, vegetation production,

cover, diversity, density, and utility

requirements; ARM 26.4.821, alternate

reclamation: submission of plan; ARM

26.4.825, alternate reclamation:

Alternate revegetation; ARM 26.4.924,

disposal of underground development

waste: general requirements; ARM

26.4.927, disposal of underground

development waste: durable rock fills;

ARM 26.4.930, placement and disposal

of coal processing waste: special

application requirements; ARM
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26.4.923, disposal of coal processing

waste; ARM 26.4.1001, permit

requirements; ARM 26.4.1001A, notice

of intent to prospect; ARM 26.4.1002,

information and monthly reports; ARM

26.4.1005, drill holes; ARM 26.4.1006,

roads and other transportation facilities;

ARM 26.4.107, grading, soil salvage,

storage, and redistribution; ARM

26.4.1009, diversions; ARM 26.4.1011,

hydrologic balance; ARM 26.4.1014, test

pits: application requirements, review

procedures, bonding and additional

performance standards; ARM 26.4.1116,

bonding: criteria and schedule for

release of bond; ARM 26.4.1116A,

reassertion of jurisdiction; ARM

26.4.1141, designation of lands

unsuitable; ARM 26.4.1206, notices,

orders of abatement and cessation

orders: issuance and service; and ARM

26.4.1212, point system for civil

penalties and waivers.

Specifically, Montana proposes to:

—Revise ARM 26.4.301 to add the

definitions of ‘‘Owned or controlled’’

and ‘‘Waste disposal structure;’’ to

modify the definition of ‘‘Test pit;’’

and to recodify the numbering of

definitions affected by this action.

—Revise ARM 26.4.303 to require new

information on ownership and

control, and status of violations in the

permit application requirements.

—Revise ARM 26.4.304 to clarify

baseline informational needs

regarding groundwater and surface

water resources in the permit

application.

—Revise ARM 26.4.308 to require cross

sections, design drawings, and other

specifications for other support

facilities.

—Revise ARM 26.4.314 to provide a list

of considerations when summarizing

the probable hydrologic consequences

of the proposed mining operation.

—Revise ARM 26.4.321 to demonstrate

that transportation facilities are in

compliance with performance

standards.

—Revise ARM 26.4.404 to identify

under what situations the department

would conditionally issued a permit.

—Revise ARM 26.4.405 to require the

applicant to provide any new

information regarding ownership/

control and violations prior to making

a decision to approve the permit

application.

—Provide new rule requirements at

ARM 26.4.405A to allow the

department to consider, if it has

reason to believe, that a permit has

been improvidently issued.

—Provide new rule requirements at

ARM 26.4.405B concerning

revocation of an improvidently issued

permit.

—Revise ARM 26.4.407 to require

certain information from the

permittee when a cessation order has

been issued.

—Revise ARM 26.4.410 to clarify when

a permit need not be renewed.

—Revise ARM 26.4.501A to require that

grading and backfilling may not be

more than four rather than two spoil

ridges behind the pit being worked.

—Revise 26.4.505 concerning waste

disposal structure location, design

criteria, and inspection requirements.

—Revise 26.4.519A to delete the

requirement that all highwalls and

depressions must be eliminated when

mining in thick overburden.

—Revise ARM 26.4.524 to require

identification of the mine safety and

health administration number and

contractor identification (if

applicable) on mine area access signs.

—Revise ARM 26.4.601 to require a

report that roads have been

constructed or reconstructed in

accordance with the approved plan.

—Revise ARM 26.4.602 to identify

when stream fords can be used.

—Revise ARM 26.4.603 to remove the

ability for a registered land surveyor

to design and certify embankments

and require all embankments to have

a minimum seismic safety factor of

1.2.

—Revise ARM 26.4.605 to require that

all roads used to haul coal or spoil or

be retained in the post mining land

use, must meet certain design criteria

for water-control structures.

—Revise ARM 26.4.623 to allow the

department to impose more restrictive

conditions when explosives are to be

detonated.

—Revise ARM 26.4.633, to correct an

incorporated cite regarding

revegetation performance

requirements as related to sediment

control through BTCA practices.

—Revise ARM 26.4.634 to clarify

drainage systems/drainage channel

reclamation requirements and when

detailed reclamation plans prior to

reclaiming a drainage channel is

required.

—Revise ARM 26.4.638 to correct an

incorporated citation on revegetation

performance standards in relation to

sedimentation control measures.

—Revise ARM 26.4.639 to allow for a

single spillway in the construction of

sedimentation ponds, provide design

criteria/size relationship when a

spillway is not needed, require that a

sediment pond constructed per 30

CFR 77.216(a) must meet certain

spillway discharge standards, and

delete certain requirement before a

sedimentation pond can be removed.

—Revise ARM 26.4.642 to clarify when

inspection reports are needed for

dams and embankments.

—Revise ARM 26.4.645 and .646 to

require that sampling and water

quality analysis be conducted in

accordance with ‘‘Circular WOB–7,

Montana Numeric Water Quality

Standards.’’

—Revise ARM 26.4.702 to require the

determination of the physicochemical

nature of surficial spoil material in

soil prior to redistribution and to

scarify soil to a minimum 12-inch

depth when replaced.

—Revise ARM 26.4.711 to require

consultation and approval by certain

State agencies concerning cover,

planting, and stocking of vegetation

on certain land uses.

—Revise ARM 26.4.721 to require

treatment of rills and gullies under

certain conditions.

—Revise ARM 26.4.724 to delete special

success of revegetation considerations

on operations of less than 100 acres.

—Revise ARM 26.4.726 to require ‘‘live’’

vegetative cover.

—Revise ARM 26.4.821 to allow

technical standards derived from

historical data for comparison when

releasing bond for alternate

revegetation areas.

—Revise ARM 26.4.825 to specify what

performance standard criteria is to be

used on special use pasture.

—Revise ARM 26.4.924 to clarify the

applicability for use of waste disposal

structures plus design criteria that

must be met.

—Revise ARM 26.4.927 to require that

durable rock fills meet a minimum

safety factor of 1.5, rather than this

minimum factor at the end of

construction.

—Revise ARM 26.4.930 to provide

design information and impoundment

operation, demonstration of

compliance with performance

standards, results and analysis of

geotechnical investigations, stability

analysis, and description

assumptions/calculations of design

options and considerations in

selection of specific design

parameters for coal processing waste

impoundments.

—Revise ARM 26.4.932 to clarify the

inspection requirements for coal

processing waste disposal areas.

—Revise ARM 26.4.1001 to clarify that

a prospecting permit will be required

when areas designated as unsuitable

for mining are involved; that

ethnological values, pits and disposal

areas for extracted materials, and

roads/access routes must be

identified; that the yearly prospecting

permit is subject to renewal,
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suspension, and revocation; and that

a copy of the permit must be available

for review by the department upon

request.

—Provide new rule requirements at

ARM 26.4.1001 for filing of a notice

of intent to prospect.

—Revise ARM 26.4.1002 to clarify

informational requirements and report

requirements concerning prospecting

activities.

—Revise ARM 26.4.1005 to specify

requirements for treatment of drill

holes upon completion of exploration

when circulation is not lost and detail

description requirements for wells

and drill holes that are to be retained

after exploration.

—Revise ARM 26.4.1006 to include

consideration and performance

requirements for other transportation

facilities involved in prospecting.

—Revise ARM 26.4.1007 to require that

excavations or embankments created

during prospecting must be reclaimed

to the approximate original contour.

—Revise ARM 26.4.1009 to require that

diversions needed in prospecting,

meet applicable performance

standards at ARM 26.4.635 and .636.

—Revise ARM 26.4.10011 to require

that the prevailing hydrologic balance

in prospecting be minimized in

accordance with ARM 26.4.631

through .634 and .638 through .651.

—Revise ARM 26.4.1014 to demonstrate

that a test pit is necessary and include

such information as the name of the

firm doing the testing, types of tests,

amount of mineral needed, that

sufficient reserves are available for

future markets, and why other means

of prospecting are not adequate to

determine feasibility.

—Revise ARM 26.4.1116 to incorporate

revegetation performance standards

that need to be met for bond release.

—Provide new rule at ARM 26.4.1116A

to allow the department reassertion of

jurisdiction.

—Revise ARM 26.4.1141 to correct the

definition of ‘‘national’’ to ‘‘natural’’

hazard lands.

—Revise ARM 26.4.1206 to require the

department to notify owners and

controllers that a cessation order or

noncompliance notice has been

issued the mining operation.

—Revise ARM 26.4.1212 to clarify when

a violation must be counted in the

‘‘history of recent violations’’ review

during the assessment of penalties.

II. Public Comment Procedures

In accordance with the provisions of

30 CFR 732.17(h), OSM is seeking

comments on whether the proposed

amendment satisfies the applicable

program approval criteria of 30 CFR

732.15. If the amendment is deemed

adequate, it will become part of the

Montana program.

Written Comments

Written comments should be specific,

pertain only to the issues proposed in

this rulemaking, and include

explanations in support of the

commenter’s recommendations.

Comments received after the time

indicated under DATES or at locations

other than the Casper Field Office will

not necessarily be considered in the

final rulemaking or included in the

administrative record.

Public Hearing

Persons wishing to testify at the

public hearing should contact the

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT by 4:00 p.m.,

m.s.t. March 30, 1995. Any disabled

individual who has need for a special

accommodation to attend a public

hearing should contact the individual

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. The location and time of the

hearing will be arranged with those

persons requesting the hearing. If no one

requests an opportunity to testify at the

public hearing, the hearing will not be

held.

Filing of a written statement at the

time of the hearing is requested as it

will greatly assist the transcriber.

Submission of written statements in

advance of the hearing will allow OSM

officials to prepare adequate responses

and appropriate questions.

The public hearing will continue on

the specified date until all persons

scheduled to comment have been heard.

Persons in the audience who have not

been scheduled to testify, and who wish

to do so, will be heard following those

who have been scheduled. The hearing

will end after all persons scheduled to

testify and persons present in the

audience who wish to testify have been

heard.

Public Meeting

If only one person requests an

opportunity to testify at a hearing, a

public meeting, rather than a public

hearing, may be held. Persons wishing

to meet with OSM representatives to

discuss the proposed amendment may

request a meeting by contacting the

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. All such meetings

will be open to the public and, if

possible, notices of meetings will be

posted at the locations listed under

ADDRESSES. A written summary of each

meeting will be made a part of the

administrative record.

IV. Procedural Determinations

Executive Order 12866

This rule is exempted from review by

the Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) under Executive Order 12866

(Regulatory Planning and Review).

Executive Order 12778

The Department of the Interior has

conducted the reviews required by

section 2 of Executive Order 12778

(Civil Justice Reform) and has

determined that, this rule meets the

applicable standards of subsection (a)

and (b) of that section. However, these

standards are not applicable to the

actual language of State regulatory

programs and program amendments

since each such program is drafted and

promulgated by a specific State, not by

OSM. Under sections 503 and 505 of

SMCRA (30 U.S.C. 1253 and 1255) and

the Federal regulations at 30 CFR

730.11, 732.15, and 732.17(h)(1)),

decisions on proposed State regulatory

programs and program amendments

submitted by the States must be based

solely on a determination of whether the

submittal is consistent with SMCRA and

its implementing Federal regulations

and whether the other requirements of

30 CFR Parts 730, 731, and 732 have

been met.

National Environmental Policy Act

No environmental impact statement is

required for this rule since section

702(d) of SMCRA [30 U.S.C. 1292(d)]

provides that agency decisions on

proposed State regulatory program

provisions do not constitute major

Federal actions within the meaning of

section 102(2)(C) of the National

Environmental Policy Act (42 U.S.C.

4332(2)(C)).

Paperwork Reduction Act

This rule does not contain

information collection requirements that

require approval by the Office of

Management and Budget under the

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.

3507 et seq.).

Regulatory Flexibility Act

The Department of the Interior has

determined that this rule will not have

a significant economic impact on a

substantial number of small entities

under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5

U.S.C. 601 et seq.). The State submittal

that is the subject of this rule is based

upon counterpart Federal regulations for

which an economic analysis was

prepared and certification made that

such regulations would not have a

significant economic effect upon a

substantial number of small entities.
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Accordingly, this rule will ensure that

existing requirements previously

promulgated by OSM will be

implemented by the State. In making the

determination as to whether this rule

would have a significant economic

impact, the Department relied upon the

data and assumptions for the

counterpart Federal regulations.

List of Subjects in 30 CFR Part 926

Intergovernmental relations, Surface

mining, Underground mining.

Dated: March 8, 1995.

Charles E. Sandberg,

Acting Assistant Director, Western Support

Center.

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30 CFR Part 944

Utah Regulatory Program

AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining

Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM),

Interior.

ACTION: Proposed rule; public comment

period and opportunity for public

hearing on proposed amendment.

SUMMARY: OSM is announcing receipt of

a proposed amendment to the Utah

regulatory program (hereinafter, the

‘‘Utah program’’) under the Surface

Mining Control and Reclamation Act of

1977 (SMCRA). The proposed

amendment consists of revisions to

rules pertaining to permit application

requirements and normal husbandry

practices and Utah’s ‘‘Vegetation

Information Guidelines.’’ The

amendment is intended to improve

operational efficiency.

DATES: Written comments must be

received by 4:00 p.m., m.d.t. April 14,

1995. If requested, a public hearing on

the proposed amendment will be held

on April 10, 1995. Requests to present

oral testimony at the hearing must be

received by 4:00 p.m., m.s.t. on March

30, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should

be mailed or hand delivered to Thomas

E. Ehmett at the address listed below.

Copies of the Utah program, the

proposed amendment, and all written

comments received in response to this

document will be available for public

review at the addresses listed below

during normal business hours, Monday

through Friday, excluding holidays.

Each requester may receive one free

copy of the proposed amendment by

contacting OSM’s Albuquerque Field

Office.

Thomas E. Ehmett, Acting Director,

Albuquerque Field Office, Office of

Surface Mining Reclamation and

Enforcement, 505 Marquette Avenue,

NW., Suite 1200, Albuquerque, New

Mexico 87102

Utah Coal Regulatory Program, Division

of Oil, Gas, and Mining, 355 West

North Temple, 3 Triad Center, Suite

350, Salt Lake City, Utah 84180–1203,

Telephone: (801) 538–5340.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Thomas E. Ehmett, Telephone: (505)

766–1486.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background on the Utah Program

On January 21, 1981, the Secretary of

the Interior conditionally approved the

Utah program. General background

information on the Utah program,

including the Secretary’s findings, the

disposition of comments, and the

conditions of approval of the Utah

program can be found in the January 21,

1981, Federal Register (46 FR 5899).

Subsequent actions concerning Utah’s

program and program amendments can

be found at 30 CFR 944.15, 944.16, and

944.30.

II. Proposed Amendment

By letter dated February 6, 1995, Utah

submitted a proposed amendment to its

program pursuant to SMCRA

(administrative record No. UT–1025).

Utah submitted the proposed

amendment at its own initiative. Utah

proposes to revise its Coal Mining Rules

at Utah Administrative (Utah Admin.

R.) 645–301–321.100 and .200, 645–

301–322.332, and 645–301–342.352,

concerning permit application

requirements, and Utah Admin. R. 645–

301–357.300 through 365, concerning

normal husbandry practices. Utah also

proposes to revise its ‘‘Vegetation

Information Guidelines,’’ concerning a

Bibliography of referenced publications

for the proposed normal husbandry

practices.

Specifically, Utah proposes to revise

Utah Admin. R. 645–301–321.100 and

.200, 645–301–322.332, and 645–301–

342.352 by adding the terms ‘‘surface

coal mining and reclamation activities’’

and/or ‘‘underground coal mining and

reclamation activities;’’ Utah Admin. R.

645–301–357.300 by deleting existing

general information concerning Utah’s

authority to approve selective

husbandry practices; and Utah Admin.

R. 645–301–357.301 through .365 by

adding, as proposed normal husbandry

practices, (1) Limited reseeding or

replanting of trees or shrubs, (2)

chemical, mechanical , and biological

weed control and associated

revegetation, (3) control of pests

including big game, small mammals,

and insects, (4) reseeding and/or

replanting as a result of third-party

interference or natural disasters,

excluding climatic variation and

including vandalism which is not

caused by any lack of planning, design,

or implementation of the mining and

reclamation plan, wildfires, earth

quakes, and mass movement originating

outside the disturbed area, (5) limited

irrigation, and (6) limited repair of

highly erodible areas and rills and

gullies. Utah also proposes to revise its

‘‘Vegetation Information Guidelines’’ by

adding Appendix C, a bibliography of

referenced publications supporting the

proposed normal husbandry practices.

III. Public Comment Procedures

In accordance with the provisions of

30 CFR 732.17(h), OSM is seeking

comments on whether the proposed

amendment satisfies the applicable

program approval criteria of 30 CFR

732.15. If the amendment is deemed

adequate, it will become part of the

Utah program.

1. Written Comments

Written comments should be specific,

pertain only to the issues proposed in

this rulemaking, and include

explanations in support of the

commenter’s recommendations.

Comments received after the time

indicated under DATES or at locations

other than the Albuquerque Field Office

will not necessarily be considered in the

final rulemaking or included in the

administrative record.

2. Public Hearing

Persons wishing to testify at the

public hearing should contact the

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT by 4:00 p.m.,

m.s.t. on March 30, 1995. Any disabled

individual who has need for a special

accommodation to attend a public

hearing should contact the individual

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. The location and time of the

hearing will be arranged with those

persons requesting the hearing. If no one

requests an opportunity to testify at the

public hearing, the hearing will not be

held.

Filing of a written statement at the

time of the hearing is requested as it

will greatly assist the transcriber.

Submission of written statements in

advance of the hearing will allow OSM

officials to prepare adequate responses

and appropriate questions.

The public hearing will continue on

the specified date until all persons

scheduled to testify have been heard.

Persons in the audience who have not

been scheduled to testify, and who wish