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major advance in technology that would 

allow the extraction of UXOs without 

massive ground disturbance or impact 

to wildlife, then additional cleanup 

might warrant further consideration at 

that time. 

3. We included language in our 

Habitat Management and Protection 

summary in Chapter 4 of the final CCP 

(page 4–14) and biological rationales 

[Objectives 1.1 (page 4–19) and 1.2 

(page 4–24)] to work with the 

Massachusetts Natural Heritage and 

Endangered Species Program to evaluate 

the appropriateness of altering the 

frequency of prescription burns to 

incorporate rare plant management, and 

for tern restoration efforts. 

4. We added language to several 

sections in Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 in 

the final CCP to incorporate more life 

history information and to refine our 

biological objectives and management 

actions for piping plover (pages 3–33, 

3–35, 4–21, 4–23, and 4–24). This is due 

to the presence of a breeding pair on the 

island for the first time in 30 years. 

5. We corrected typographical and 

grammatical errors identified by 

reviewers. 

Selected Alternative 

After considering the comments we 

received on our EA/draft CCP, we have 

selected Alternative C for 

implementation, for several reasons. 

Alternative C comprises the mix of 

actions that, in our professional 

judgment, works best toward achieving 

refuge purposes, our vision and goals, 

and the goals of other State and regional 

conservation plans, and it is most 

consistent with the principles of sound 

fish and wildlife management. We also 

believe it most effectively addresses the 

key issues raised during the planning 

process. The basis of our decision is 

detailed in Appendix K, Finding of No 

Significant Impact, in the final CCP. 

Public Availability of Documents 

You can view or obtain documents as 

indicated under ADDRESSES. 

Dated: September 9, 2010. 

James G. Geiger, 

Acting Regional Director, Northeast Region, 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Hadley, MA 

01035. 

[FR Doc. 2010–25393 Filed 10–7–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Indian Affairs 

Draft Environmental Impact Statement 

for the Proposed Manzanita Band of 

Kumeyaay Indians Fee-to-Trust 

Transfer and Casino Project, Calexico, 

CA 

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Indian Affairs 

(BIA), as lead agency, and the National 

Indian Gaming Commission, the City of 

Calexico, and the Manzanita Band of 

Kumeyaay Indians as cooperating 

agencies, intend to file a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) 

with the Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) for the Tribe’s proposed 

60.8-acre fee-to-trust transfer and casino 

project to be located in Calexico, 

California, and that the DEIS is now 

available for public review and 

comment. This notice provides a 75-day 

public comment period, which adds a 

30-day extension to the normal 45-day 

public comment period. 

DATES: The DEIS will be available for 

public comment beginning October 8, 

2010. Written comments on the DEIS 

must arrive by December 22, 2010. A 

public hearing will be held on 

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 from 

6 p.m. to 9 p.m. or until the last public 

comment is received. 

ADDRESSES: You may mail or hand carry 

written comments to Dale Risling, 

Acting Regional Director, Pacific 

Regional Office, Bureau of Indian 

Affairs, 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, 

California 95825. A public hearing will 

be held at: City of Calexico, 608 Heber 

Avenue, Calexico, California 92231. See 

the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section 

of this notice for directions on 

submitting comments and for locations 

where the DEIS will be available for 

review. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Rydzik (916) 978–6051. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Tribe 

proposes that 60.8 acres of land be taken 

into trust for the purpose of developing 

a casino facility. The property is located 

at the northernmost gateway to the City 

of Calexico, a California/Mexico border 

city of growing importance in 

international trade. The project site is 

situated at the southwest quadrant of 

State Highway 111 and Jasper Road and 

is bounded on the south and west by the 

Central Main and Dogwood Canals. The 

60.8-acre parcel is undeveloped former 

agricultural land and is located within 

the City of Calexico’s proposed 111 

Calexico Place project site, a 

commercial highway development 

project that was approved by the City of 

Calexico City Council on May 5, 2010. 

The proposed action consists of the 

fee-to-trust transfer of the project site, 

Federal review (by the National Indian 

Gaming Commission) of the 

development and management contract, 

and development of the proposed 

project. The proposed project includes a 

459,621-square-foot casino facility on 

the 60.8-acre parcel. The casino facility 

would include an approximately 

93,880-square-foot casino; 63,000 square 

feet of food/beverage and retail 

components; a 38,660-square-foot 

entertainment venue; and 218,081 

square feet of other operational facilities 

(e.g., back of house area, central plant). 

In addition, there will be a 46,000- 

square-foot banquet/meeting hall and 

200-room hotel. The casino will have 

2,000 slot machines and 45 gaming 

tables. There will be three guest 

restaurants and one employee dining 

room. A swimming pool and 6,000- 

space parking facility will also be 

developed within the project area. 

BIA, serving as the lead agency for 

compliance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 

published a Notice of Intent to prepare 

the EIS for the proposed action in the 

Federal Register on March 6, 2008. In 

addition, BIA held a public scoping 

meeting on March 27, 2008, at the 

County of Imperial’s Board of 

Supervisors Chamber Room in the City 

of El Centro, California. From that 

scoping meeting, a range of project 

alternatives were developed and 

subsequently analyzed in the DEIS, 

including: (1) Alternative A—Proposed 

Action, (2) Alternative B—Reduced 

Casino, and (3) Alternative C—No 

Action. Environmental issues addressed 

in the DEIS include land resources, 

water resources, air quality, biological 

resources, cultural and paleontological 

resources, socioeconomic conditions, 

transportation, land use and agriculture, 

public services, noise, hazardous 

materials, visual resources, 

environmental justice, growth inducing 

effects, indirect effects, cumulative 

effects, and mitigation measures. 

Directions for Submitting Comments 

Please include on the first page of 

your written comments your name, 

return address, and the phrase ‘‘DEIS 

Comments, Manzanita Band of 

Kumeyaay Indians, 60.8-Acre Fee-toTrust Casino Project, Calexico, 

California.’’ 


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Availability of DEIS for Review 

The DEIS will be available to view at 

Holtville Branch—Meyer Memorial 

Library, 101 E. 6th Street, Holtville, CA 

92250 and at the City of Calexico— 

Camarena Memorial Library, 850 

Encinas Avenue, Calexico, CA 92231. 

General information for the Holtville 

Branch—Meyer Memorial Library can 

be obtained by calling (760) 356–2385 

and the City of Calexico—Camarena 

Memorial Library by calling (760) 768– 

2170. An electronic version of the DEIS 

can also be viewed at: http:// 

www.manazanita.com/eis.html. 

To obtain a compact disk copy of the 

DEIS, please provide your name and 

address in writing or by voicemail to 

John Rydzik, Chief of the Division of 

Environmental, Cultural Resources 

Management and Safety, at the 

telephone number provided in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 

this notice. Individual paper copies of 

the DEIS will be provided upon 

payment of applicable printing expenses 

by the requestor for the number of 

copies requested. 

Public Comment Availability 

Written comments, including the 

names and addresses of respondents, 

will be available for public review at the 

BIA address shown in the ADDRESSES

section, during regular business hours, 

8 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. 

Authority 

This notice is published pursuant to 

section 1503.1 of the Council of 

Environmental Quality regulations 

(40 CFR parts 1500 through 1508) 

implementing the procedural 

requirements of NEPA of 1969, as 

amended (42 U.S.C. 4371 et seq.), the 

Department of the Interior Manual (516 

DM 1–6) and is in the exercise of 

authority delegated to the Assistant 

Secretary—Indian Affairs by 209 DM 8. 

Dated: September 28, 2010. 

Larry Echo Hawk, 

Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2010–25417 Filed 10–7–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–W7–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, 

Regulation and Enforcement 

[Docket No. BOEM–2010–0036] 

Notice of Intent To Conduct a Review 

of Categorical Exclusions for Outer 

Continental Shelf Decisions 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Regulation and 

Enforcement (BOEMRE), Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Conduct a 

Review of BOEMRE Outer Continental 

Shelf (OCS) Categorical Exclusions 

under the National Environmental 

Policy Act (NEPA). 

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Interior (DOI), Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Regulation and 

Enforcement (BOEMRE) is announcing 

its intent to conduct a broad review of 

its categorical exclusions (CEs) for Outer 

Continental Shelf (OCS) decisions. This 

review is being conducted in 

accordance with section 102 of the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA), as amended, 42 U.S.C. 

4332; the Council on Environmental 

Quality (CEQ) Regulations for 

Implementing the Procedural Provisions 

of NEPA, 40 CFR parts 1500–1508 (Nov. 

1978); the CEQ Draft Guidance on 

Establishing and Applying Categorical 

Exclusions under NEPA (February 18, 

2010); and consistent with 

recommendations provided by CEQ in 

their ‘‘Report Regarding the Minerals 

Management Service’s National 

Environmental Policy Act Policies, 

Practices, and Procedures as They 

Relate to Outer Continental Shelf Oil 

and Gas Exploration and Development’’ 

(August 16, 2010). Furthermore, this 

notice provides the public an 

opportunity to comment on the issues 

that should be addressed by BOEMRE 

during the review of its CEs and their 

application to OCS decisionmaking. The 

BOEMRE will use and coordinate a 

commenting process to ensure public 

involvement. 

Authority: The National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 

1969, as amended, established a 

national policy to protect the 

environment and also established the 

President’s Council on Environmental 

Quality (CEQ). CEQ regulations at 40 

CFR 1507.3 require Federal agencies to 

adopt procedures to implement NEPA, 

to consult with CEQ during their 

development, to provide an opportunity 

for public review, and to revise 

procedures as necessary to ensure full 

compliance with the purposes and 

provisions of the Act. The CEQ 

regulations are available at http:// 

ceq.hss.doe.gov/nepa/regs/ceq/ 

toc_ceq.htm. 

The Department of the Interior NEPA 

procedures were promulgated as 

regulations and published in the 

Federal Register on October 15, 2008 

(73 FR 61292). They can be found at 

(http://www.doi.gov/oepc/nepafr/docs/

Federal%20Register%20October%

2015,%202008%20NEPA.pdf). These 

regulations identify categories of actions 

taken throughout the Department that 

under normal circumstances do not 

have, and are not expected to have, 

significant individual or cumulative 

environmental impacts; therefore, the 

Bureau is not required to prepare an 

environmental assessment or 

environmental impact statement. These 

regulations also identify the 

extraordinary circumstances which 

nullify the use of the CE in particular 

circumstances. The CEQ regulations 

define ‘‘categorical exclusion’’ at 40 CFR 

1508.4: 

‘‘Categorical exclusion’’ means a category of 

actions which do not individually or 

cumulatively have a significant effect on the 

human environment and which have been 

found to have no such effect in procedures 

adopted by a Federal agency in 

implementation of these regulations 

(§ 1507.3) and for which, therefore, neither 

an environmental assessment nor an 

environmental impact statement is required. 

An agency may decide in its procedures or 

otherwise, to prepare environmental 

assessments for the reasons stated in Sec. 

1508.9 even though it is not required to do 

so. Any procedures under this section shall 

provide for extraordinary circumstances in 

which a normally excluded action may have 

a significant environmental effect. 

The Minerals Management Service 

(MMS, now BOEMRE) identified 

additional categories of actions 

designated as CEs, which include those 

related specifically to OCS activities. 

BOEMRE’s CEs (Departmental Manual 

at 516 DM 15.4) can be found at 

http://elips.doi.gov/app_dm/act_

getfiles.cfm?relnum=3625 and are listed 

below: 

A. General 

(1) Inventory, data, and information 

collection, including the conduct of 

environmental monitoring and 

nondestructive research programs. 

(2) Actions for which MMS has 

concurrence or co-approval with 

another Bureau if the action is a 

categorical exclusion for that Bureau. 

B. Internal Program Initiatives 

(1) All resource evaluation activities 

including surveying, mapping, and 

geophysical surveying which do not use 

solid or liquid explosives. 


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