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(ROD) has been prepared. The ROD 

documents decisions by the Trustees 

under OPA: (1) Selection of the 

Preferred Alternative for the 

Programmatic Early Restoration Plan; 

and (2) selection of 44 projects for the 

Final Phase III Early Restoration Plan, 

subject to completing remaining 

permitting and consultation 

requirements, as specifically identified 

in Section 9 of the ROD. The Trustees’ 

selection of the 44 early restoration 

projects for the Final Phase III ERP/PEIS 

continues the process of using early 

restoration funding to restore natural 

resources, and ecological services, and 

to compensate for recreational use 

services injured or lost as a result of the 

Deepwater Horizon oil spill. 

These projects are not intended to, 

and do not fully address all injuries 

caused by the spill or provide the extent 

of restoration needed to make the public 

and the environment whole. The 

Trustees anticipate that additional early 

restoration projects will be proposed as 

the early restoration process continues. 

Administrative Record 

An Administrative Record has been 

established and can be viewed 

electronically at http://www.doi.gov/

deepwaterhorizon/adminrecord/

index.cfm. 

Authorities 

The authorities for this action are the 

Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 

2701 et seq.), the implementing Natural 

Resource Damage Assessment 

regulations found at 15 CFR part 990, 

the National Environmental Policy Act 

of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), and the 

Framework Agreement. 

Debora L. McClain, 

Deputy DOI Deepwater Horizon NRDAR Case 

Manager. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLES002000 L16100000 DP0000 

LXSS051M0000] 

Notice of Availability of the 

Southeastern States Draft Resource 

Management Plan and Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969, as amended, and the Federal Land 

Policy and Management Act of 1976, as 

amended, the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) has prepared a Draft 

Resource Management Plan (RMP) and 

Draft Environmental Impact Statement 

(EIS) for the Southeastern States 

Planning Area 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 RMP/EIS 

within 90 days following the date the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

publishes its Notice of Availability of 

the Draft RMP/EIS in the Federal 

Register. The BLM will announce future 

meetings or hearings and any other 

public participation activities at least 15 

days in advance through public notices, 

media releases, and/or mailings. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

related to the Southeastern States Draft 

RMP and Draft EIS by any of the 

following methods: 

• Email: SSFO_RMP@blm.gov. 

• Fax: 601–977–5440. 

• Mail: BLM Southeastern States 

Field Office, 411 Briarwood Drive, Suite 

404, Jackson, MS 39206. 

Copies of the Southeastern States 

Draft RMP/EIS are available in the 

Southeastern States Field Office, at the 

above address, or may be viewed at 

http://www.blm.gov/es/st/en/fo/

Jackson_Home_Page/planning/

southeastern_rmp.html. A limited 

number of hard copies and DVD copies 

are available upon request while 

supplies last. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary 

Taylor, Planning and Environmental 

Coordinator, telephone 601–977–5413; 

address 411 Briarwood Drive, Suite 404, 

Jackson, MS 39206; email, gtaylor@

blm.gov. Persons who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 

to contact Mr. Taylor during normal 

business hours. The service is available 

24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave 

a message or question for Mr. Taylor. 

You will receive a reply during normal 

business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

planning area for the Southeastern 

States Draft RMP/EIS includes the States 

of Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, 

Louisiana, North Carolina, South 

Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. The 

RMP will replace previous BLM plans 

including the Florida RMP (1995), the 

Arkansas Planning Analysis (2002), the 

Louisiana Planning Analysis (2002), and 

the Meadowood Farm (Virginia) 

Planning Analysis (2003). 

Within the planning area, the 

decision-making scope of the RMP is 

limited to the decision area. The 

decision area includes 2,991 acres of 

BLM-administered surface land. In 

addition to BLM-administered surface 

land, the BLM is generally responsible 

for administration of Federal mineral 

estate, including mineral estate 

underlying other Federal agencies’ 

lands. 

Within the planning area there are 

approximately 19 million acres of 

Federal land ownership, including 

approximately 10.3 million acres 

administered by the U.S. Forest Service 

(USFS), 3.7 million acres by the 

National Park Service (NPS), 2.4 million 

acres by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service (USFWS), and 2.5 million acres 

by the Department of Defense (DOD). 

The RMP will not make mineral leasing 

decisions for USFS lands, except to say 

that leasing of mineral estate underlying 

National Forests would be conducted by 

the BLM consistent with USFS land use 

plans and leasing analyses. Within the 

planning area there are 28 National 

Forests, all of which are covered by 

existing Forest Plans. These plans 

include mineral leasing decisions where 

potential for mineral development was 

identified, and typically deferred 

mineral leasing decisions if there was 

no potential for mineral development. 

Forest Plans are revised, as needed; 

BLM is currently a Cooperating Agency 

on three Forest Plan revisions. 

The BLM will not make mineral 

leasing decisions in this RMP for BLM 

mineral estate in areas identified as 

having no reasonably foreseeable 

development potential, based on 

Reasonably Foreseeable Development 

Scenario (RFDS) analyses completed by 

the BLM prior to the planning effort. 

Therefore, the decision area includes 

742,505 subsurface acres where the 

surface is administered by other Federal 

agencies (mostly DOD, including the 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) and 

mineral development is reasonably 

foreseeable. The decision area also 

includes 280,680 acres of Federal 

mineral estate where the surface is nonFederal (i.e. State or local government, 

or private ownership). 

The total decision area includes 

1,026,176 acres of subsurface with BLMadministered surface on 2,991 of those 

acres. There is no decision area acreage 

in the states of Georgia, North Carolina, 

or South Carolina, as these states have 

no BLM-administered surface acreage 

and the RFDS showed no reasonably 

foreseeable development of Federal 

minerals in these states. 

On October 8, 2008, the BLM issued 

a Notice of Intent in the Federal 


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Register to prepare the Southeastern 

States RMP (73 FR 58976), which 

initiated public scoping. Planning issues 

identified during scoping include 

management of energy and mineral 

resources and land ownership 

adjustments. During scoping, the BLM 

requested input from federally 

recognized tribes that have ancestral 

tribal homelands within the planning 

area. 

Four alternatives were developed in 

response to the issues identified during 

the planning process. The ‘‘No Action’’ 

alternative represents current 

management, and is identified as 

Alternative A. Alternative B is the 

BLM’s Preferred Alternative; it provides 

opportunities to use and develop 

Federal minerals while providing 

protection of natural resources. 

Alternative C places more emphasis on 

the protection of natural resources, and 

Alternative D emphasizes Federal 

mineral development. 

Pursuant to 43 CFR 1610.7–2(b), this 

notice also announces the public 

comment period on proposed Areas of 

Critical Environmental Concern 

(ACECs). The Draft RMP/EIS evaluates 

and proposes designation for three 

ACECs. The resource use limitations 

which would apply to these areas, if 

formally designated, are described 

below. 

The existing ACEC designation of 

54.33 acres on the Jupiter Inlet 

Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area 

would continue in Alternative A. 

Alternatives B, C and D propose 

increasing the size of the Jupiter Inlet 

Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area 

ACEC to 85.83 acres. Values associated 

with this proposed ACEC include 

threatened, endangered, and sensitive 

wildlife and plants, rare vegetation 

communities, and Native American and 

maritime cultural resources. The 

resource use limitations which would 

occur are as follows: Closed to mining, 

mineral leasing and mineral material 

sale; right-of-way avoidance area; limit 

travel to designated routes; and Visual 

Resource Management (VRM) Class III. 

Alternatives B and C propose 

designating The Lathrop Bayou tract 

ACEC (183.03 acres). This proposed 

ACEC is a peninsula with adjacent small 

islands containing upland longleaf pine 

and slash pine forests and habitat for 

red cockaded woodpecker, among other 

species. Values associated with this 

proposed ACEC include threatened, 

endangered, and sensitive wildlife and 

plants, and rare vegetation 

communities. The resource-use 

limitations which would occur if this 

proposed ACEC is formally designated 

are as follows: Closed to mining, 

mineral leasing and mineral material 

sale; right-of-way avoidance area; limit 

travel to designated routes. 

Alternatives B and C propose 

designating the Egmont Key tract ACEC 

(55 acres). This proposed ACEC is the 

northern end of the key, located at the 

mouth of Tampa Bay, and contains 

beach transitioning to vegetated uplands 

with a lighthouse and remnants of an 

historic fort. Values associated with this 

proposed ACEC include threatened, 

endangered, and sensitive wildlife and 

plants, and historic cultural resources. 

The resource use limitations which 

would occur if this proposed ACEC is 

formally designated are as follows: 

Closed to mining, mineral leasing and 

mineral material sale; right-of-way 

avoidance area; limit travel to 

designated routes; and VRM Class III. 

The BLM will respond to each 

substantive comment received during 

the public review and comment period 

by making appropriate revisions to the 

document, or explaining why the 

comment did not warrant a change. 

Notice of the availability of the 

Proposed RMP/Final EIS will be posted 

in the Federal Register. 

In order to reduce the use of paper 

and control costs, the BLM strongly 

encourages the public to submit 

comments electronically via email. 

Comments submitted must include the 

commenter’s name and street address. 

Whenever possible, please include 

reference to either the page or section in 

the Draft RMP/EIS to which the 

comment applies. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email 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: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1506.10, 

43 CFR 1610.2. 

Bruce Dawson, 

Manager, Southeastern States Field Office. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–GJ–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[15X 1109AF LLUT980300– 

L11500000.PH0000–24–1A] 

Utah Recreation Resource Advisory 

Council Meeting/Conference Call 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting/conference 

call. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act, the Federal Advisory Committee 

Act, and the Federal Lands Recreation 

Enhancement Act, the Bureau of Land 

Management’s (BLM) Utah Recreation 

Resource Advisory Council (RecRAC) 

will host a meeting/conference call. 

DATES: The BLM-Utah RecRAC will host 

a meeting/conference call on Tuesday, 

Nov. 25, 2014, from 9:00 a.m.–11:00 

a.m., Mountain Standard Time. 

ADDRESSES: Those attending in person 

must meet at the BLM-Utah State Office, 

Monument A Conference Room, 440 

West 200 South, Fifth Floor, Salt Lake 

City, Utah 84101. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you wish to listen to the teleconference, 

orally present material during the 

teleconference, or submit written 

material for the RecRAC to consider 

during the teleconference, please notify 

Sherry Foot, Special Programs 

Coordinator, Bureau of Land 

Management, Utah State Office, 440 

West 200 South, Suite 500, Salt Lake 

City, Utah 84101; phone (801) 539– 

4195; or, sfoot@blm.gov no later than 

Friday, Nov. 21. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Agenda 

topics will consist of the Amended 

Business Plan for the San Juan River 

(proposes moving the San Juan River 

non-commercial boating permit lottery 

and reservation system to 

www.recreation.gov to improve 

customer service and permitting 

efficiency) and the Draft Business Plan 

for Recreation Use Permits in the BLMRichfield Field Office (proposes to 

modify camping fees at Starr Spring, 

McMillan Spring, and Lonesome Beaver 

Campgrounds). A half-hour public 

comment period will take place from 

10:30–11:00 a.m. The meeting is open to 

the public; however, transportation, 

lodging, and meals are the responsibility 

of the participating individuals. 

Persons who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 

to leave a message or question for the 


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