46330 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 154 / Friday, August 8, 2008 / Notices 

President 

CERTIFICATION 

The foregoing Ordinance was enacted 

by the Legislative Council of the Jicarilla 

Apache Nation on the 5th day of 

December 2007, by a vote of 8 for, 0 

against, and 0 abstaining, at a duly 

called meeting at which a quorum of the 

Legislative Council members were 

present. 

ATTEST: 

/signed/ 

Secretary of the Nation 

[FR Doc. E8–18287 Filed 8–7–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–4J–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[UT–050–1610–012J] 

Notice of Availability of Richfield Field 

Office Proposed Resource 

Management Plan and Final 

Environmental Impact Statement 

(PRMP/FEIS) 

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 Richfield 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 Richfield 

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: 

Richfield Field Office, 150 East 900 

North, Richfield, UT 84701. 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/ 

richfield/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: 

John Russell, Richfield Field Office, 150 

East 900 North, Richfield, UT 84701; 

phone: (435)896–1500; or e-mail at: 

John_Russell@blm.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Richfield RMP planning area is located 

in central Utah. The BLM administers 

approximately 2.1 million acres of 

surface estate and 3.0 million acres of 

Federal mineral estate within the 

planning area. 

The Richfield 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 

Draft RMP/EIS (DRMP/DEIS), which 

was released for public review and 

comment in October 2007, five 

alternatives were analyzed, including a 

No Action alternative. These 

alternatives were developed through 

issue identification during the scoping 

process. Such issues included: visual 

resources, non-WSA lands with 

wilderness characteristics, livestock 

grazing, recreation, travel management 

(OHVs), minerals and energy resources, 

and special designations (ACECs and 

WSRs). 

The PRMP/FEIS would designate one 

new Area of Critical Environmental 

Concern (ACEC), and the continuation 

of one existing ACEC, totaling 2,530 

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 

North Caineville Mesa ................ Relict vegetation ......................... No surface occupancy for oil and gas, recommend withdrawal 

from mineral entry, unsuitable for surface coal mining, unavailable for livestock grazing, closed to OHV use.

2,200 

Old Woman Front ....................... Relict vegetation ......................... No wildlife habitat manipulation; prohibit introduction or 

spread of exotic animal species; no logging or harvest of 

woodland products, fuelwood gathering, or Christmas tree 

cutting; unavailable for livestock grazing; no range improvements; no special recreation permits; closed to OHV use; 

no new roads, trails, or physical improvements; no surface 

occupancy for oil and gas; recommend withdrawal from 

mineral entry.

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Comments on the Richfield 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 Richfield Field 

Office 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 email 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 e-mails 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, 


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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. 

Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 43 CFR 1610.2, 

43 CFR 1610.5–1. 

Selma Sierra, 

State Director. 

[FR Doc. E8–18192 Filed 8–7–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–DQ–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[ID–400–1010–MU–241A] 

Notice of Public Meeting, Coeur 

d’Alene District Resource Advisory 

Council Meeting and Recreation 

Subcommittee Meeting; Idaho 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act (FLPMA), the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), and the 

Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement 

Act of 2004 (FLREA), the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM) Coeur d’Alene 

District Resource Advisory Council 

(RAC) and Recreation RAC 

Subcommittee will meet as indicated 

below. 

DATES: September 9, 2008. The meeting 

will start at 10 a.m. and end no later 

than 4 p.m. The public comment period 

will be from 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. The 

meeting will be held at the Idaho 

Department of Labor and Commerce, 

1350 Troy Rd, Moscow, ID. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lisa 

Wagner, RAC Coordinator, BLM Coeur 

d’Alene District, 3815 Schreiber Way, 

Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 83815 or 

telephone at (208) 769–5014. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 15- 

member RAC advises the Secretary of 

the Interior, through the Bureau of Land 

Management, on a variety of planning 

and management issues associated with 

public land management in Idaho. The 

agenda will include the following topic: 

Forest Service recreation fee proposals 

(Recreation RAC Subcommittee). 

Additional topics may be added and 

will be included in local media 

announcements. More information is 

available at http://www.blm.gov/rac/id/ 

id_index.htm. 

All meetings are open to the public. 

The public may present written 

comments to the RAC in advance of or 

at the meeting. Each formal RAC 

meeting will also have time allocated for 

receiving public comments. Depending 

on the number of persons wishing to 

comment and time available, the time 

for individual oral comments may be 

limited. Individuals who plan to attend 

and need special assistance, such as 

sign language interpretation or other 

reasonable accommodations, should 

contact the BLM as provided above. 

Dated: August 4, 2008. 

Gary D. Cooper, 

District Manager. 

[FR Doc. E8–18293 Filed 8–7–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–GG–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[ID–420–1610–DQ–034D] 

Notice of Availability of the Proposed 

Cottonwood Resource Management 

Plan and Final Environmental Impact 

Statement; Idaho 

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/ 

Final Environmental Impact Statement 

(PRMP/FEIS) for the Cottonwood Field 

Office, Idaho. 

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 

BLM’s approval of a Resource 

Management Plan. You must file a 

protest within 30 days of the date that 

the Environmental Protection Agency 

publishes their Notice of Availability in 

the Federal Register. Instructions for 

filing of protests are described in the 

Dear Reader letter of the Cottonwood 

PRMP/FEIS and in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of this notice. To 

ensure compliance with the protest 

regulations, please consult BLM’s 

Planning Regulations at 43 CFR 1610.5–

2. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dean Huibregtse, RMP Team Lead, BLM 

Cottonwood Field Office, 1 Butte Drive, 

Cottonwood, ID 83522; (208) 962–3784; 

or Dean_Huibregtse@blm.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

planning area covers approximately 

143,830 acres of public lands within the 

following Idaho Counties: Latah, 

Clearwater, Nez Perce, Lewis, Idaho and 

Adams. The Cottonwood RMP, when 

completed, will provide management 

guidance for use and protection of the 

resources managed by the Cottonwood 

Field Office. The Draft Cottonwood 

RMP/EIS was published for public 

comment on August 25, 2006. During 

the 90-day public comment period BLM 

received 30 comment letters, e-mails, 

and faxes containing 376 individual 

comments. Comments on the Draft 

RMP/EIS from the public and internal 

BLM review comments were 

incorporated into the proposed plan. 

Public comments resulted in the 

addition of clarifying text and minor 

changes to the Preferred Alternative, but 

did not significantly change proposed 

land use decisions. The planning issues 

addressed in the PRMP/FEIS include: 

invasive plant species, forest vegetation, 

special status species, watershed 

management, transportation and travel 

management, commercial land uses, 

fuels reduction treatments, public land 

management and recreational demands. 

Copies of the Cottonwood PRMP/FEIS 

have been sent to affected Federal, State 

and Local Government agencies and to 

interested parties. Copies of the PRMP/ 

FEIS are available for public inspection 

at the BLM Cottonwood Field Office at 

the address shown above. Interested 

persons may review the PRMP/FEIS on 

the Internet at http://www.blm.gov/rmp/ 

id/cottonwood/. You may also obtain a 

copy on CD–ROM, or paper copy at the 

BLM Cottonwood Office at the address 

listed above, or by contacting Dean 

Huibregtse at (208) 962–3784. 

As noted above, instructions for filing 

a protest with the Director of the BLM 

regarding the PRMP/FEIS may be found 

at 43 CFR 1610.5–2. A protest may only 

raise those issues which were submitted 

for the record during the planning 

process. 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, BLM will consider the email or faxed protest as an advance copy 


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