6200 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 22 / Friday, February 1, 2008 / Notices 

to Congress and OMB or at least 30 days 

from the date this notice is published in 

the Federal Register, whichever is later, 

providing no comments are received 

which would result in a contrary 

determination. 

The matching program will be in 

effect and continue for 18 months with 

an option to renew for 12 additional 

months unless one of the parties to the 

agreement advises the other in writing 

to terminate or modify the agreement. 

Dated: January 18, 2008. 

Stanley Buch, 

Acting Deputy Chief Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. E8–1697 Filed 1–31–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[1220–AL] 

Notice of Availability of Truckhaven 

Geothermal Leasing Area Final 

Environmental Impact Statement, 

California 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and 

the Federal Land Policy and 

Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA, 43 

U.S.C. 1701 et seq.),the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) has prepared a 

Final Environmental Impact Statement 

(EIS) for the Truckhaven Geothermal 

Leasing Area, Imperial County, managed 

by the El Centro Field Office. 

DATES: BLM will issue a Record of 

Decision (ROD) 30 days after the date of 

publication of this notice (40 CFR 

1506.10(b)(2)). 

ADDRESSES: A copy of the FEIS has been 

sent to affected Federal, State, and local 

government agencies and interested 

parties. The document will be available 

electronically at the following 

Truckhaven Geothermal Leasing Area, 

Imperial County EIS Web site: http:// 

www.ca.blm.gov/elcentro. Copies of the 

FEIS will be available for public 

inspection at the following locations: 

• Bureau of Land Management, 

California State Office, 2800 Cottage 

Way, Suite W–1834, Sacramento, CA 

95825. 

• Bureau of Land Management, El 

Centro Field Office, 1661 S. 4th Street, 

El Centro, CA 92243. 

• Bureau of Land Management, 

California Desert District, 22835 Calle 

San Juan De Los Lagos, Moreno Valley, 

CA 92553 

FOR FURTHER IINFORMATION CONTACT: 

John Dalton, Truckhaven Geothermal 

Leasing Area EIS Project Manager, at 

(951) 691–5200, Bureau of Land 

Management, 22835 Calle San Juan De 

Los Lagos, Moreno Valley, CA 92553; 

john_dalton@ca.blm.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Truckhaven Geothermal Leasing Area 

encompasses approximately 14,731 

acres of Federal minerals in western 

Imperial County, California, north of 

State Route 78 and generally west and 

south of County Highway S–22. The 

area is part of the California Desert 

Conservation Area. The main issues 

addressed in the Final EIS are 

geothermal resource leasing, recreation, 

and special status species. Three 

alternatives are analyzed in the Final 

EIS: (1) No action, which would not 

lease any geothermal resources; (2) 

leasing only lands with existing 

noncompetitive lease applications; and 

(3) the proposed action, which would 

offer all BLM managed lands within this 

area for lease, subject to certain 

stipulations and mitigation measures to 

be applied at the development stage. 

Comments on the Truckhaven 

Geothermal Leasing Area Draft EIS 

received from the public and via 

internal BLM review were incorporated 

into the Final EIS. These comments 

resulted in corrections, clarifying text, 

and the addition of new data used in the 

analysis of impacts. The Final EIS 

includes measures to mitigate impacts 

to off-highway vehicle restriction. The 

Final EIS addresses comprehensive, 

long-range decisions for the use and 

management of geothermal resources in 

the planning area and management of 

other resources and uses potentially 

affected by geothermal resource 

management decisions. The reasonable 

foreseeable development scenario for 

the area projects a potential for two 25–

Megawatt geothermal power plants, 

with a total surface disturbance of 

502.25 acres of the 14,731 acres 

proposed for leasing that are 

administered by the BLM. The ROD for 

this project will address only BLM’s 

decisions for public lands and resources 

administered by the BLM. 

Alan Stein, 

Acting Field Manager. 

[FR Doc. E8–1763 Filed 1–31–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[MT–066–07–1610–DQ–024E] 

Notice of Availability of Proposed 

Resource Management Plan and Final 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Upper Missouri River Breaks 

National Monument, Montana 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and 

the Federal Land Policy and 

Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA, 43 

U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) has prepared a 

Proposed Resource Management Plan 

(PRMP) and Final Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS) for the Upper 

Missouri River Breaks National 

Monument. 

DATES: The BLM Planning Regulations 

(43 CFR 1610.5–2) state that any person 

who participated in the planning 

process, and has an interest which is or 

may be adversely affected, may protest 

the BLM’s approval of an RMP. Protests 

must be filed within 30 days of the date 

that the Environmental Protection 

Agency publishes its Notice of 

Availability in the Federal Register. 

Instructions for filing protests are 

described in the Dear Reader letter of 

the Proposed RMP and Final EIS for the 

Upper Missouri River Breaks National 

Monument and in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jerry 

Majerus, RMP Project Manager, Bureau 

of Land Management, 920 Northeast 

Main Street, P.O. Box 1160, Lewistown, 

MT 59457; or by telephone at (406) 538–

1924. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Upper 

Missouri River Breaks National 

Monument is located in northcentral 

Montana in Blaine, Chouteau, Fergus, 

and Phillips Counties. The planning 

area addressed in the Proposed RMP 

comprises about 375,000 acres of public 

land and 42,800 acres of existing oil and 

gas leases administered by the BLM 

Lewistown Field Office. The State of 

Montana and Blaine, Chouteau, Fergus, 

and Phillips Counties participated in 

development of the plan as cooperating 

agencies. The Proposed RMP and Final 

EIS were developed through 

collaborative planning and consider six 

alternatives. The Proposed RMP and 

Final EIS address the following six 

major questions: (1) How will human 

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