Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 149 / Friday, August 1, 2008 / Notices 45051 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[UT–060–1610–016J] 

Notice of Availability of Moab Field 

Office Proposed Resource 

Management Plan and Final 

Environmental Impact Statement 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 and the Federal Land Policy and 

Management Act of 1976, the Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM) has prepared 

a Proposed Resource Management Plan/ 

Final Environmental Impact Statement 

(PRMP/FEIS) for the Moab Field Office. 

DATES: The BLM planning regulations 

(43 CFR 1610.5–2) state that any person 

who meets the conditions as described 

in the regulations may protest the BLM’s 

PRMP/FEIS. A person who meets the 

conditions and files a protest must file 

the protest within 30 days of the date 

that the Environmental Protection 

Agency publishes this notice in the 

Federal Register. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the Moab Field 

Office PRMP/FEIS were sent to affected 

Federal, state, and local government 

agencies and to interested parties. 

Copies of the PRMP/FEIS are available 

for public inspection at: 

Moab Field Office, 82 East Dogwood, 

Moab, UT, 84532. 

Utah State Office, 440 West 200 

South, Salt Lake City, UT 84145. 

Interested persons may also review 

the PRMP/FEIS on the Internet at 

http://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/fo/moab/ 

planning.html. All protests must be in 

writing and mailed to the following 

addresses: 

Regular Mail: BLM Director (210), 

Attention: Brenda Hudgens-Williams, 

P.O. Box 66538, Washington, DC 20035. 

Overnight Mail: BLM Director (210), 

Attention: Brenda Hudgens-Williams, 

1620 L Street, NW., Suite 1075, 

Washington, DC 20036. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: 

Brent Northrup, Moab Field Office, 82 

East Dogwood, Moab, UT, 84532; phone: 

(435)259–2100; or e-mail at: 

Brent_Northrup@blm.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Moab 

RMP planning area is located in 

southeastern Utah. The BLM 

administers approximately 1.8 million 

acres of surface estate and 1.9 million 

acres of Federal mineral estate within 

the planning area. 

The Moab RMP will provide future 

broad-scale management direction for 

land use allocations and allowable uses 

on public lands within the planning 

area. Implementation of the decisions of 

the PRMP/FEIS would apply only to 

BLM-administered public lands and 

Federal mineral estate. In the Moab 

Field Office Draft RMP/EIS (DRMP/ 

DEIS), which was released for a 90-day 

public review and comment period in 

August 2007, four alternatives were 

analyzed, including a No Action 

alternative. These alternatives were 

developed through issue identification 

during the scoping process. Such issues 

included: travel management, 

recreation, special designations, 

minerals, non-WSA lands with 

wilderness characteristics. 

The PRMP/FEIS would designate five 

new Areas of Critical Environmental 

Concern (ACECs), and the continuation 

of no existing ACECs, totaling 63,232 

acres. Resource use limitations that 

apply to the proposed ACECs include a 

range of different prescriptions as 

described in Table 1 below. 

TABLE 1—EVALUATION OF AREAS OF CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN

Area name Values of concern Resource use limitations Acres 

Behind the Rocks ...................................... Threatened, sensitive and endangered 

plants, cultural, scenic.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 ................................... 5,201 

Cottonwood Diamond Watershed ............. Natural systems ........................................ 4, 5 (outside WSA), 6 (outside WSA), 9, 

10, 11 (inside WSA), 12, 13, 14 (inside 

WSA).

35,830 

Highway 279 Shafer Basin/Long Canyon Cultural, scenic, natural systems, wildlife 3, 5, 6, 7, 27 (except Highway 279 and 

Long Canyon, 1), 28.

13,500 

Mill Creek Canyon .................................... Cultural, scenic, natural systems .............. 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 

22.

3,721 

Ten Mile Wash .......................................... Cultural, natural systems, natural hazards, wildlife.5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (downstream from Dripping 

Springs), 12, 23 (at Dripping Springs), 

24, 25 (at Green River), 26.

4,980 

1. VRM Class I. 

2. No Vegetation treatments. 

3. Vehicle-based camping, campfires only in campgrounds. 

4. No new motorized or mechanized routes. 

5. Motorized/ mechanized use limited to designated routes. 

6. No surface occupancy for oil and gas leasing. 

7. Preclude surface use. 

8. No collection of woodland products. 

9. Not available for livestock grazing. 

10. Closed to vehicle use at the end of Class-B road system. 

11. Closed to mechanized and motorized travel. 

12. No competitive events. 

13. Suspend commercial permits. 

14. Closed to oil and gas leasing. 

15. No vehicle-based camping. 

16. No campfires in riparian areas. 

17. No motorized competitive events. 

18. Recreational events confined to designated roads. 

19. Recreation facility limited to day-use only. 

20. No recreational mining. 

21. No fuel wood harvesting permits. 

22. Campfire wood gathering in upland areas only. 

23. Camping in designated sites only. 

24. Establish speed limits. 

25. Restrict vehicle access. 

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26. Permits required for groups larger than 25 vehicles or if monitoring indicates long-term damage. 

27. VRM Class I. 

28. Permitted activities would be confined to main roads within crucial bighorn lambing habitat from April 1 through June 15. This restriction 

would not apply to filming if the filming meets the minimum impact criteria. 

Comments on the Moab Field Office 

DRMP/DEIS received from the public 

and internal BLM review were 

considered and incorporated as 

appropriate into the PRMP/FEIS. Public 

comments resulted in the addition of 

clarifying text, but did not significantly 

change proposed land use plan 

decisions. 

Instructions for filing a protest with 

the Director of the BLM regarding the 

PRMP/FEIS may be found in the Dear 

Reader Letter of the PRMP/FEIS and at 

43 CFR 1610.5–2. E-mail and faxed 

protests will not be accepted as valid 

protests unless the protesting party also 

provides the original letter by either 

regular or overnight mail postmarked by 

the close of the protest period. Under 

these conditions, the BLM will consider 

the e-mail or faxed protest as an 

advance copy and it will receive full 

consideration. If you wish to provide 

the BLM with such advance 

notification, please direct faxed protests 

to the attention of the BLM protest 

coordinator at 202–452–5112, and emails to Brenda_HudgensWilliams@blm.gov. All protests, 

including the follow-up letter (if emailing or faxing) must be in writing 

and mailed to the appropriate address, 

as set forth in the ADDRESSES section 

above. 

Before including your phone number, 

e-mail address, or other personal 

identifying information in your protest, 

you should be aware that your entire 

protest—including your personal 

identifying information—may be made 

publicly available at any time. While 

you can ask us in your protest to 

withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Selma Sierra, 

Utah State Director. 

Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 43 CFR 1610.2, 

43 CFR 1610.5–1. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–DQ–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[MT–926–1910–BJ–5RSD] 

Montana: Filing of Plat of Survey 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Montana State Office, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of filing of plat of survey. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) will file the plat of 

survey of the lands described below in 

the BLM Montana State Office, Billings, 

Montana, (30) days from the date of 

publication in the Federal Register. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Marvin Montoya, Cadastral Surveyor, 

Branch of Cadastral Survey, Bureau of 

Land Management, 5001 Southgate 

Drive, Billings, Montana 59101–4669, 

telephone (406) 896–5124 or (406) 896–

5009. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

survey was executed at the request of 

the Fort Peck Agency, through the 

Rocky Mountain Regional Director, 

Bureau of Indian Affairs, and was 

necessary to determine Trust and Tribal 

land. 

The lands we surveyed are: 

Principal Meridian, Montana 

T. 3 S., R. 33 E. 

The plat, in 2 sheets, representing the 

dependent resurvey of a portion of the 

Buffalo Creek Guide Meridian, through 

Township 3 South, a portion of the 

subdivisional lines, a portion of the 

subdivision of section 18, the adjusted 

original meanders of the former right 

and left banks of the Big Horn River, 

downstream, through section 18, and 

the subdivision of section 18, and the 

survey of a portion of the meanders of 

the present right bank of the Big Horn 

River, downstream, through section 18, 

the meanders of the former right and left 

banks of two relicted channels of the Big 

Horn River, downstream, through 

section 18, the limits of erosion, through 

section 18, the medial line of two 

relicted channels of the Big Horn River, 

through section 18, and certain division 

of accretion and partition lines 

Township 3 South, Range 33 East, 

Principal Meridian, Montana, was 

accepted July 18, 2008. 

We will place a copy of the plat, in 

2 sheets, and related field notes we 

described in the open files. They will be 

available to the public as a matter of 

information. 

If BLM receives a protest against this 

survey, as shown on this plat, in two 

sheets, prior to the date of the official 

filing, we will stay the filing pending 

our consideration of the protest. 

We will not officially file this plat, in 

two sheets, until the day after we have 

accepted or dismissed all protests and 

they have become final, including 

decisions or appeals. 

Dated: July 24, 2008. 

Michael T. Birtles, 

Chief Cadastral Surveyor, Division of 

Resources. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–$$–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[ID 100 1150 MR 241A: DBG081010] 

Notice of Public Meeting: Off-Highway 

Vehicle and Recreation Transportation 

Management Sub-Group of the 

Resource Advisory Council to the 

Boise District, Bureau of Land 

Management, U.S. Department of the 

Interior 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

U.S. Department of the 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) Boise District, 

Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) and 

Recreation Transportation Management 

Sub-group of the Resource Advisory 

Council, will hold meetings as indicated 

below. 

DATES: The first meeting will be held 

August 11, 2008, beginning at 7 p.m. 

and adjourning at 9 p.m. The meeting 

will be held in a meeting room at the 

Owyhee County Historical Museum in 

Murphy Idaho. A public comment 

period will be held before the 

conclusion of the meeting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: MJ 

Byrne, Public Affairs Officer and RAC 

Coordinator, BLM Boise District, 3948 

Development Ave., Boise, ID 83705, 

Telephone (208) 384–3393. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The fivemember Sub-group provides advice to 

the 15-member Council in the form of 

recommendations that relate to public 

concerns regarding Off-Highway Vehicle 

(OHV) and Recreation Transportation 

Management actions and issues related 

to the BLM-managed public lands 

located in the Boise District. This advice 

is then forwarded to the Secretary of the 

Interior, through the BLM, in the form 

of recommendations. Items on the 

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