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American sacred sites; a unique 

community of Wyoming sensitive plant 

species; high-quality paleontological 

resources; open space and dispersed 

recreation opportunities; and unique 

geology and unstable soils. The ACEC 

would be unavailable for oil and gas 

leasing and closed to the placement of 

new communication sites. Off-road 

vehicle use would be limited to 

designated roads and trails. Surface 

occupancy and disturbance would be 

prohibited on erosive soils, sensitive 

plant species habitats, and on slopes 

greater than 10 percent. 

• CCC Ponds ACEC (5,530 acres 

[Alternative 3]): Values of concern are a 

wildlife migration bottleneck on a welldefined mule deer migration route and 

recreational values including a 

developed, non-motorized trail system, 

fishing ponds, and interpretive 

facilities. The ACEC would be 

unavailable for oil and gas leasing and 

would be closed to mineral location and 

land disposal. Off-road vehicle use 

would be limited to designated roads 

and trails. 

Alternative 1 proposes to maintain the 

status of the two existing ACECs 

identified in the 1988 Pinedale RMP. 

Alternative 2 proposes to eliminate the 

two existing ACECs, and establish a new 

ACEC at Trapper’s Point (550 acres). 

Alternative 3 proposes to maintain the 

existing Rock Creek and Beaver Creek 

ACECs, and establish all of the new 

ACECs listed above (6), for a total of 

eight ACECs. 

As a result of public scoping and the 

alternative development process, 

Alternative 4 (Agency Preferred 

Alternative) proposes the following 

ACECs: Maintain the status of one 

existing ACEC (Beaver Creek); maintain 

and reduce slightly in size one existing 

ACEC (Rock Creek); and establish two 

new ACECs: Trapper’s Point (4,000 

acres) and New Fork Potholes (1,800 

acres). 

Comments received 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 but did not significantly 

change proposed land use decisions. 

After careful consideration of both 

public and internal comments received 

on the Draft RMP/EIS, adjustments and 

clarifications have been made to 

Alternative 4, the Preferred Alternative. 

As modified, Alternative 4 is now 

presented as the Pinedale Proposed 

RMP in the Final EIS. 

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 Pinedale PRMP/ 

FEIS and at 43 CFR 1610.5. 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 those conditions, the 

BLM will consider the e-mail or faxed 

protests 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) 557–3599, 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 availability 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. 

Jamie E. Connell, 

Acting Associate State Director. 

[FR Doc. E8–19534 Filed 8–21–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[UT–080–1610–010J] 

Notice of Availability of Vernal 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 Vernal 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 Vernal 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: 

Vernal Field Office, 170 South 500 East, 

Vernal, UT 84078 

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/vernal/ 

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: 

Kelly Buckner, Vernal Field Office, 170 

South 500 East, Vernal, UT 84078; 

phone: (435) 781–4400; or e-mail at: 

Kelly_Buckner@blm.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Vernal RMP planning area is located in 

northeast Utah. The BLM administers 

approximately 1.7 million acres of 

surface estate and 2.8 million acres of 

Federal mineral estate within the 

planning area. 

The Vernal 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 Vernal 

Field Office Draft RMP/EIS (DRMP/ 

DEIS), which was released for a 90-day 

public review and comment period in 

January 2005, four alternatives were 

analyzed, including a No Action 

alternative. These alternatives were 

developed through issue identification 

during the scoping process. Such issues 

included: special designations (ACECs 

and WSRs), minerals and energy 

development, and recreational (OHV) 

use. In October 2007 a Supplemental 

DEIS was issued which considered an 

additional alternative emphasizing the 

protection of non-WSA lands with 

Wilderness Characteristics. 

The PRMP/FEIS would designate no 

new Areas of Critical Environmental 

Concern (ACECs), and the continuation 

of six existing ACECs, totaling 123,227 


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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 

Browns Park ............................... Cultural, wildlife, habitat, and 

scenic views.

Closed to OHV use, or limited to designated routes .................. 18,474 

Red Mountain—Dry Fork ........... Watershed, relict vegetation, 

and big game habitat.

No surface occupancy, or timing/controlled surface use for oil 

and gas; OHV use limited to designated routes.

24,285 

Nine-Mile Canyon ...................... Cultural, and special status 

plant species.

The area would be open subject to standard lease terms or 

managed as NSO for oil and gas leasing; OHV use would be 

limited to designated routes.

44,181 

Lears Canyon ............................. Relict vegetation ....................... No surface occupancy for oil and gas, closed to mineral material sales.1,375 

Pariette ....................................... Wetland, wildlife, and plant 

habitat.

No surface occupancy for oil and gas, closed to mineral material sales.10,437 

Red Creek .................................. Watershed and wildlife habitat No surface occupancy and controlled surface use; OHV use is 

limited to designated routes.

24,475 

Comments on the Vernal 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 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 e-mailing 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. 

Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 43 CFR 1610.2, 

43 CFR 1610.5–1. 

Selma Sierra, 

Utah State Director. 

[FR Doc. E8–19394 Filed 8–21–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–DQ–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[WY–090–08–1610–DQ] 

Notice of Availability of the Kemmerer 

Proposed Resource Management Plan 

and Final Environmental Impact 

Statement, Wyoming 

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) with its 

cooperating agencies has prepared a 

Proposed Resource Management Plan/ 

Final Environmental Impact Statement 

(PRMP/FEIS) for the Kemmerer Field 

Office planning area. 

DATES: 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 

Proposed RMP. 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 its notice of 

availability in the Federal Register. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the Kemmerer 

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 following 

locations: 

Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming 

State Office, 5353 Yellowstone Road, 

Cheyenne, Wyoming 82009 

Bureau of Land Management, Kemmerer 

Field Office, 312 HWY 189 N, 

Kemmerer, Wyoming 83101 

Interested persons may also review 

the PRMP/FEIS on the Internet at 

http://www.blm.gov.rmp/kemmerer. All 

protests must be in writing and mailed 

to one of the following addresses: 

Regular Mail: Director (210), Attention: 

Brenda Williams, P.O. Box 66538, 

Washington, DC 20036. 

Overnight Mail: Director (210), 

Attention: Brenda Williams, 1620 L 

Street, NW., Suite 1075, Washington, 

DC 20035. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michele Easley, RMP Team Leader, 

BLM Kemmerer Field Office, 312 HWY 

189 N, Kemmerer, Wyoming 83101; 

telephone—(307) 828–4524; e-mail 

Kemmerer_wymail@blm.gov with 

‘‘Kemmerer RMP’’ in the subject line. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Kemmerer Field Office planning area is 

located in Lincoln, Uinta, and 

Sweetwater Counties, Wyoming. It 

includes approximately 1.4 million 

acres of public land surface and 1.6 

million acres of Federal mineral estate 

administered by the BLM. 

The Draft RMP/EIS was made 

available for public review for a 90-day 

period on July 13, 2007. The Draft RMP/ 

EIS described and analyzed four 

alternatives for the management of the 

public lands and resources, including 

the Federal mineral estate, administered 

by the BLM Kemmerer Field Office: 

Alternative A: (No Action): 

Continuation of the current management 

goals, objectives, and direction specified 

in the Kemmerer RMP and ROD (1986). 


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