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week, to contact the Bureau of Land 

Management. 

Robert Childers, 

Land Law Examiner, Land Transfer 

Adjudication II. 

[FR Doc. E8–24133 Filed 10–9–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–JA–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[UT030–4310–DS] 

Notice of Availability of Draft 

Monument Management Plan 

Amendment and Draft Rangeland 

Health Environmental Impact 

Statement for the Grand StaircaseEscalante National Monument 

Planning Area in Kane and Garfield 

Counties, UT and Coconino County, 

AZ 

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 Draft 

Monument Management Plan 

Amendment and Draft Rangeland 

Health Environmental Impact Statement 

(DEIS) (hereafter referred to as the ‘Draft 

Rangeland Health Amendment’) and by 

this notice is announcing the opening of 

the comment period. 

DATES: To ensure that comments will be 

considered, the BLM must receive 

written comments on the Draft 

Rangeland Health Amendment within 

90 days following the date the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

publishes the Notice of Availability in 

the Federal Register. The BLM will 

announce future meetings or hearings 

and any other public involvement 

activities at least 15 days in advance 

through public notices, media news 

releases, and/or mailings. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• E-mail: UT_GSENM_NEPA@

blm.gov. 

• Fax: (435) 644–4350. 

• Mail: Draft Rangeland Health 

Amendment Comments—Attention Paul 

Chapman, Grand Staircase-Escalante 

National Monument, Bureau of Land 

Management, 190 East Center Street, 

Kanab, Utah 84741. 

Copies of the Draft Rangeland Health 

Amendment are available in the BLM 

Grand Staircase-Escalante National 

Monument main office at the above 

address; the BLM Utah State Office in 

Salt Lake City; and may be viewed and 

downloaded in PDF format at http:// 

www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/prog/planning/ 

existing_plans.html. Please note that 

public comments and information 

submitted including names, street 

addresses, and email addresses of 

respondents will be available for public 

review and disclosure at the above 

address during regular business hours (8 

a.m. to 4 p.m.), Monday through Friday, 

except holidays. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, e-mail address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information and/or to have your 

name added to the planning project 

mailing list, contact Paul Chapman, 

Grand Staircase-Escalante National 

Monument, Bureau of Land 

Management, 190 East Center Street, 

Kanab, Utah 84741, telephone: (435) 

644–4309, or e-mail: 

UT_GSENM_NEPA@blm.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Escalante, Paria, Vermilion and Zion 

Management Framework Plans (MFPs) 

provided the planning analysis baseline 

for this Draft EIS. This baseline will be 

carried forward as the Rangeland Health 

Amendment into the Grand StaircaseEscalante National Monument 

Management Plan (MMP) through a Plan 

Amendment. Once approved, the 

Record of Decision (ROD) for the 

Rangeland Health Amendment will 

modify or replace all existing livestock 

management determinations for the 

planning area. 

The planning area includes all of the 

public land grazing allotments managed 

or administered by the Grand StaircaseEscalante National Monument in Kane 

and Garfield Counties, Utah and 

Coconino County, Arizona. The 

planning area encompasses public lands 

currently managed under the Grand 

Staircase-Escalante National MMP, and 

portions of lands managed or 

administered under the Escalante, Paria, 

Vermilion, and Zion MFPs. Under 

Public Law 92–593, the Grand StaircaseEscalante National Monument 

administers grazing on a portion of the 

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, 

which is managed by the National Park 

Service under the Glen Canyon National 

Recreation Area General Management 

Plan. The planning area includes 

approximately 2.2 million acres of lands 

on which BLM administers livestock 

grazing in the three county areas, 

including approximately 250,000 acres 

in the Glen Canyon National Recreation 

Area. 

The Draft Rangeland Health 

Amendment analyzes five alternatives. 

The alternatives present differing 

management balances between the 

various resources and uses, and vary in 

both context and intensity. The 

alternatives are: 

Alternative A (No Action): The 

current level of resource use and 

protection would be maintained. 

Grazing permits would be renewed with 

existing Terms and Conditions. 

Alternative B: Rangeland Health 

Standards, with minimal stocking 

adjustments and improved livestock 

distribution and management, would be 

emphasized. Rangeland restoration and 

the future installation of structural 

improvements would be assessed. 

Grazing permits would be renewed with 

modified Terms and Conditions 

consistent with the actions proposed in 

this alternative. 

Alternative C (Preferred Alternative): 

Rangeland Health Standards would be 

achieved over the life of the MMP by 

making allotment specific modifications 

to grazing management. These 

management changes would include 

distribution of adjustments, stocking 

adjustments, and temporary 

suspensions on less than 10% of 

allotments when Rangeland Health 

Standards assessments and monitoring 

indicate such actions are needed to meet 

resource objectives. This alternative 

includes the range restoration and 

future structural improvements assessed 

under Alternative B. Grazing permits 

would be renewed with modified Terms 

and Conditions consistent with the 

actions proposed in this alternative. 

Alternative D: Rangeland Health 

Standards would be achieved over the 

life of the MMP by making 

modifications to grazing management 

including temporary grazing 

suspensions on allotments which fail to 

meet Utah BLM’s Rangeland Health 

Standards for upland soils or desired 

specifics. Range restoration and the 

installation of structural range 

improvements would be assessed under 

this alternative, but to a lesser degree 

than in Alternatives B and C. Grazing 

permits would be renewed with 

modified Terms and Conditions 

consistent with the actions proposed in 

this alternative. 

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Alternative E: Rangeland Health 

Standards would be achieved over the 

life of the MMP by making 

modifications to grazing management 

including temporary grazing 

suspensions on allotments which fail 

Utah BLM’s Rangeland Health 

Standards for upland soils, desired 

species, and riparian/wetland 

functionality. This alternative proposes 

an emphasis on vegetation restoration 

activity without structural range 

improvements. Grazing permits would 

be renewed with modified Terms and 

Conditions consistent with the actions 

proposed in this alternative. 

Potentially impacted resources and 

conditions include: Livestock 

management, compliance with 

Standards and Guidelines for Rangeland 

Health, socio-economics, cultural 

resources, and recreation. 

Jeff Rawson, 

Associate Utah State Director. 

[FR Doc. E8–23958 Filed 10–9–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–DQ–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[CO–100–1610–DP] 

Notice of Availability of the Additional 

Air Quality Impact Assessment To 

Support the Little Snake Draft 

Resource Management Plan and 

Environmental Impact Statement (RMP/ 

EIS), Moffat and Routt Counties, CO 

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 an 

Additional Air Quality Impact 

Assessment to Support the Draft 

Resource Management Plan Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement 

(DRMP/DEIS) for the Little Snake Field 

Office and by this notice is announcing 

the opening of the comment period. 

DATES: To assure that they will be 

considered, BLM must receive written 

comments on the Additional Air Quality 

Impact Assessment within 45 days 

following the date the Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) publishes their 

Notice of Availability (NOA) in the 

Federal Register. Additional 

announcements are being made through 

local media by news releases and 

information will be posted on the Little 

Snake RMP Web site: http:// 

www.co.blm.gov/lsra/rmp. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• E-mail: colsrmp@blm.gov. 

• Fax: (970) 826–5002. 

• Mail: Jeremy Casterson,BLM—Little 

Snake Field Office,455 Emerson 

St.,Craig, CO 81625. 

Copies of the Additional Air Quality 

Impact Assessment are available at the 

Little Snake Field Office at the above 

address. Copies will also be posted on 

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

st/en/fo/lsfo/plans/rmp_revision/ 

rmp_docs.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jeremy Casterson, Planning and 

Environmental Coordinator, BLM— 

Little Snake Field Office, 455 Emerson 

St., Craig, CO 81625. Phone: (970) 826– 

5071. E-mail: 

Jeremy_Casterson@blm.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

planning area is located in Northwest 

Colorado in Moffat, Routt, and Rio 

Blanco Counties. The plan will provide 

a framework to guide subsequent 

management decisions on 

approximately 1.3 million acres of BLMadministered public lands and 1.1 

million acres of subsurface mineral 

estate administered by the BLM. The 

Little Snake Field Office is currently 

being managing under its 1989 RMP, 

which has been amended for Oil and 

Gas Leasing (1991), Black-Footed Ferret 

Reintroduction (1996) and Land Health 

Standards (1997). 

On May 16, 2007, the public comment 

period on the Little Snake DRMP/DEIS 

ended. During the public comment 

period, the EPA, in consultation with 

BLM, identified areas where additional 

air quality information would improve 

the existing analysis in the DEIS. 

As a result, the BLM has prepared an 

additional air quality analysis to inform 

the public and allow public comment 

on the data and conclusions. BLM will 

only accept comments from the public 

pertaining to the new air quality 

information. Comments that are 

substantive and in relation to the 

material contained in the Additional Air 

Quality Impact Assessment will be 

responded to in the Final EIS if received 

within the 45 days after the NOA is 

published in the Federal Register. 

Please note that public comments and 

information submitted regarding the 

Additional Air Quality Impact 

Assessment, including names, street 

addresses, and e-mail addresses of the 

respondents, will be available for public 

review and disclosure at the above 

address during regular business hours 

(7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.), Monday 

through Friday, except holidays. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, e-mail address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Sally Wisely, 

State Director, Colorado. 

[FR Doc. E8–23952 Filed 10–9–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–JB–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of a Meeting for Gates of the 

Arctic National Park Subsistence 

Resource Commission 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of a meeting for Gates of 

the Arctic National Park Subsistence 

Resource Commission. 

SUMMARY: The Gates of the Arctic 

National Park Subsistence Resource 

Commission (SRC) will meet to develop 

and continue work on National Park 

Service (NPS) subsistence hunting 

program recommendations and other 

related subsistence management issues. 

This meeting is open to the public and 

will have time allocated for public 

testimony. The public is welcomed to 

present written or oral comments to the 

SRC. This meeting will be recorded and 

meeting minutes will be available upon 

request from the park superintendent for 

public inspection approximately six 

weeks after each meeting. The NPS 

subsistence resource commission 

program is authorized under Title VIII, 

Section 808 of the Alaska National 

Interest Lands Conservation Act, Public 

Law 96–487, to operate in accordance 

with the provisions of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dave Krupa, Subsistence Manager, Tel. 

(907) 455–0631, Address: Gates of the 

Arctic National Park and Preserve, 4175 

Geist Road, Fairbanks, AK 99709 or 

Clarence Summers, Subsistence 

Coordinator, Tel. (907) 644–3603. 

Proposed Meeting Date: The SRC 

meeting will be held on Thursday, 

November 13 and Friday, November 14, 

2008, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Location: Anaktuvuk Pass Community 

Hall, Anaktuvuk Pass, AK. The meeting 

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