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the public. The Advisory Group for the 

Neotropical Migratory Bird 

Conservation Act (NMBCA) grants 

program (Advisory Group) also will 

meet. This meeting is also open to the 

public, and interested persons may 

present oral or written statements. 

About the Council 

In accordance with NAWCA (Pub. L. 

101–233, 103 Stat. 1968, December 13, 

1989, as amended), the State-privateFederal Council meets to consider 

wetland acquisition, restoration, 

enhancement, and management projects 

for recommendation to, and final 

funding approval by, the Commission. 

The North American Wetlands 

Conservation Act of 1989 provides 

matching grants to organizations and 

individuals who have developed 

partnerships to carry out wetlands 

conservation projects in the United 

States, Canada, and Mexico. These 

projects must involve long-term 

protection, restoration, and/or 

enhancement of wetlands and 

associated uplands habitats for the 

benefit of all wetlands-associated 

migratory birds. Project proposal due 

dates, application instructions, and 

eligibility requirements are available on 

the NAWCA Web site at http://

www.fws.gov/birdhabitat/Grants/

NAWCA. 

About the Advisory Group 

In accordance with NMBCA (Pub. L. 

106–247, 114 Stat. 593, July 20, 2000), 

the Advisory Group will hold its 

meeting to discuss the strategic 

direction and management of the 

NMBCA program and provide advice to 

the Director of the Fish and Wildlife 

Service. 

The Neotropical Migratory Bird 

Conservation Act of 2000 promotes 

long-term conservation of Neotropical 

migratory birds and their habitats 

through a competitive grants program by 

promoting partnerships, local 

conservation efforts, and achieving 

habitat protection in 36 countries. The 

goals of the Neotropical Migratory Bird 

Conservation Act include perpetuating 

healthy bird populations, providing 

financial resources for bird 

conservation, and fostering international 

cooperation. Because the greatest need 

is south of the U.S. border, at least 75 

percent of NMBCA funding supports 

projects outside the United States. 

Project proposal due dates, 

application instructions, and eligibility 

requirements are available on the 

NMBCA Web site at http://

www.fws.gov/birdhabitat/Grants/

NMBCA. 

Public Input 

If you wish to: 

You must contact the Council Coordinator 

(see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 

CONTACT) no later than 

(1) Attend the Council or Advisory Group meeting November 26, 2014. 

(2) Submit written information or questions before the Council or Advisory Group meeting for consideration during the meeting.December 5, 2014. 

Submitting Written Information or 

Questions 

Interested members of the public may 

submit relevant information or 

questions to be consider during the 

public meetings. If you wish to submit 

a written statement, so that the 

information may be made available to 

the Council or Advisory Group for their 

consideration prior to the meetings, you 

must contact the Council Coordinator by 

the date in Public Input. Written 

statements must be supplied to the 

Council Coordinator in both of the 

following formats: One hard copy with 

original signature, and one electronic 

copy via email (acceptable file formats 

are Adobe Acrobat PDF, MS Word, MS 

PowerPoint, or rich text file). 

Giving an Oral Presentation 

Individuals or groups requesting to 

make an oral presentation at the 

meetings will be limited to 2 minutes 

per speaker, with no more than a total 

of 30 minutes for all speakers. Interested 

parties should contact the Council 

Coordinator by the date above, in 

writing (preferably via email; see FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT), to be 

placed on the public speaker list for 

either of these meetings. Nonregistered 

public speakers will not be considered 

during the Council meeting. Registered 

speakers who wish to expand upon their 

oral statements, or those who had 

wished to speak but could not be 

accommodated on the agenda, are 

invited to submit written statements to 

the Council within 30 days following 

the meeting. 

Meeting Minutes 

Summary minutes of the Council and 

Advisory Group meetings will be 

maintained by the Council Coordinator 

at the address under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. Meeting notes 

will be available by contacting the 

Council Coordinator within 30 days 

following the meeting. Personal copies 

may be purchased for the cost of 

duplication. 

Jerome Ford, 

Assistant Director, Migratory Birds. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[14X LLORE00000.L63500000.DQ0000.

LXSS021H0000.HAG14–0117] 

Notice of Availability of the Proposed 

Resource Management Plan and Final 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the West Eugene Wetlands in Oregon 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management. 

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 

Proposed Resource Management Plan 

(RMP) and Final Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) for the West Eugene 

Wetlands and by this notice is 

announcing its availability. 

DATES: BLM planning regulations state 

that any person who meets the 

conditions as described in the 

regulations may protest the BLM’s 

Proposed RMP/Final EIS. 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. 


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ADDRESSES: Copies of the West Eugene 

Wetlands Final EIS/Proposed RMP have 

been sent to affected Federal, State, and 

local government agencies and to other 

stakeholders including public libraries 

in the Project Area, tribal governments, 

and to interested parties that previously 

requested a copy. Copies of the 

Proposed RMP/Final EIS are available 

for public inspection at at the Eugene 

District Office 3106 Pierce Parkway, 

Springfield, OR, 97477. Interested 

persons may also review the Proposed 

RMP/Final EIS on the Internet at 

http://www.blm.gov/or/districts/eugene/

plans/eugenermp.php. All protests must 

be in writing and mailed to one of the 

following addresses: 

Regular Mail: BLM Director (210), 

Attention: Protest Coordinator, P.O. Box 

71383, Washington, DC 20024–1383. 

Overnight Delivery: BLM Director 

(210), Attention: Protest Coordinator, 20 

M Street SE., Room 2134LM, 

Washington, DC 20003. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Panchita Paulete, District Planning and 

Environmental Coordinator, telephone 

541–683–6976; address 3106 Pierce 

Parkway, Suite E; Springfield, OR 

97477; or email BLM_OR_EU_Mail@

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 the above individual during 

normal business hours. The FIRS is 

available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 

to leave a message or question with the 

above individual. You will receive a 

reply during normal business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the 

West Eugene Wetlands Final EIS/

Proposed RMP, the BLM analyzes the 

environmental consequences of seven 

alternatives for managing approximately 

1,340 acres of BLM-administered lands 

in and near the city of Eugene, in Lane 

County, Oregon. The planning area does 

not currently have an RMP. The 

planning area is made up of acquired 

lands and survey hiatuses. This RMP is 

being developed separately from the 

Eugene District RMP, because the 

planning area is geographically and 

ecologically distinct from the rest of the 

BLM-administered lands in the Eugene 

District, and many of the resources and 

issues in the planning area are unrelated 

to those addressed in the Eugene 

District RMP. The approved West 

Eugene Wetlands RMP will apply only 

to the BLM-administered lands in the 

West Eugene Wetlands. 

The purpose of the action is to 

manage the planning area to contribute 

to the recovery of species listed under 

the Endangered Species Act, while 

providing other benefits. There are 

specific considerations in the planning 

area that lead the BLM to focus 

management on threatened and 

endangered species: the scarcity of the 

listed species and their habitat; the 

importance of the planning area to the 

recovery of the listed species; and the 

purposes for which the BLM acquired 

the lands in the planning area. 

Therefore, the purpose and need for this 

RMP is more specific than the broad 

mandate of multiple-use alone. 

The West Eugene Wetlands Proposed 

RMP/Final EIS analyzes in detail six 

action alternatives and the No Action 

alternative. The No Action alternative 

would continue the current 

management approach into the future 

with no change in the management 

actions and level of management 

intensity in the planning area. Because 

the current management approach was 

not developed in an RMP, there are no 

land use allocations, management 

objectives, or management direction 

established for the planning area. 

The design of the action alternatives 

varies primarily in the amount and 

location of lands within the planning 

area that would be allocated to the 

restoration of threatened and 

endangered species habitat. The action 

alternatives also vary in the 

management emphasis for lands which 

are not managed for habitat restoration. 

Additionally, the action alternatives 

vary in whether herbicides would be 

included as a management tool. Under 

the action alternatives, most or all of the 

planning area would be allocated to two 

land use allocations: 

• Prairie Restoration Area, which 

would have a management objective to 

restore and maintain habitat for prairierelated species; and 

• Natural Maintenance Area, which 

would have a management objective to 

maintain existing resources and provide 

opportunities for a variety of goods and 

services. 

Alternative 1 would allocate most of 

the planning area to the Prairie 

Restoration Area. The Proposed RMP 

(Alternative 2A—Modified), would 

allocate to the Prairie Restoration Area 

all designated critical habitat, including 

a previously overlooked critical habitat 

area adjacent to KL–12B; some extant 

populations of Willamette daisy and 

Bradshaw’s lomatium; and 93 acres of 

contiguous high-quality habitat to 

support streaked horned lark. This 

alternative would enhance recreation 

opportunities to the extent compatible 

with threatened and endangered species 

management. 

Alternative 2B would allocate to the 

Prairie Restoration Area all designated 

critical habitat. Alternative 2B would 

emphasize providing commodities and 

services to the extent compatible with 

threatened and endangered species 

management, and would make 

approximately two-thirds of the 

planning area open to saleable mineral 

development. Alternatives 3A, 3B, and 

3C would allocate to the Prairie 

Restoration Area all good quality habitat 

that is currently occupied by threatened 

or endangered species. Alternative 3C 

and the Proposed RMP would enhance 

recreation opportunities to the extent 

compatible with threatened and 

endangered species management. 

Alternatives 1, 2B, and 3A, and the 

Proposed RMP would include 

herbicides among the management 

tools. 

The only nomination for an Area of 

Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) 

received in this planning effort was to 

continue designation of the currently 

designated Long Tom ACEC. Under 

Alternatives 1, 3A, 3B, and 3C, and the 

Proposed RMP, the site of the currently 

designated Long Tom ACEC would be 

included within the Prairie Restoration 

Area and would not need special 

management to protect the relevant and 

important values of the ACEC. 

Therefore, under these alternatives, the 

ACEC designation for this site would be 

removed. Under the No Action 

alternative and Alternative 2B, the Long 

Tom site would continue to be 

designated as an ACEC. 

Under all action alternatives, 

motorized vehicle use would be limited 

to designated roads throughout the 

planning area. This planning effort will 

include implementation decisions 

related to travel management networks, 

including a travel management plan 

identifying the specific roads and trails 

that will be available for public use and 

the limitations on use of roads and 

trails. These implementation decisions 

are not protestable, and upon approval 

would be appealable to the Interior 

Board of Land Appeals (43 CFR 1610.5). 

The land-use planning process was 

initiated on June 8, 2011, through a 

Notice of Intent published in the 

Federal Register, notifying the public of 

a formal scoping period and soliciting 

public participation. Cooperating 

agencies in the preparation of this land 

use plan are the United States Army 

Corps of Engineers, City of Eugene Parks 

and Open Space Division, and the 

Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. 

Comments on the Draft RMP/Draft EIS 

received from the public and internal 

BLM review were considered and 

incorporated as appropriate into the 

proposed plan. Public comments 

resulted in the addition of clarifying 


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text, but did not significantly change 

proposed land use plan decisions. 

Instructions for filing a protest with 

the Director of the BLM regarding the 

proposed RMP/final EIS may be found 

in the ‘‘Dear Reader’’ Letter of the West 

Eugene Wetlands proposed RMP/final 

EIS and at 43 CFR 1610.5–2. All protests 

must be in writing and mailed to the 

appropriate address, as set forth in the 

ADDRESSES section above. Emailed 

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 emailed protest as an advance copy 

and it will receive full consideration. If 

you wish to provide the BLM with such 

advance notification, please direct 

emails to protest@blm.gov 

Before including your phone number, 

email 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, 40 CFR 1506.10, 

43 CFR 1610.2, 43 CFR 1610.5 

Robert B. Towne, 

Acting Eugene District Manager. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–33–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLCAD01000 L12100000.MD 0000 

15XL1109AF] 

Meeting of the California Desert 

District Advisory Council 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given, in 

accordance with Public Laws 92–463 

and 94–579, that the California Desert 

District Advisory Council (DAC) to the 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM), 

U.S. Department of the Interior, will 

participate in a field tour of BLMadministered public lands on Friday, 

December 5, 2014, from 8:00 a.m. to 

4:30 p.m. and will meet in formal 

session on Saturday, December 6, 2014, 

from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Palm 

Springs, CA. Exact meeting location is 

yet to be determined. Agenda for the 

Saturday meeting will include updates 

by council members, the BLM California 

Desert District Manager, five Field 

Managers, and council subgroups. Final 

agenda items for the field trip, public 

meeting, and meeting location will be 

posted on the DAC Web page at http:// 

www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/rac/

dac.html when finalized. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: All DAC 

meetings are open to the public. Public 

comment for items not on the agenda 

will be scheduled at the beginning of 

the meeting Saturday morning. Time for 

public comment is made available by 

the council chairman during the 

presentation of various agenda items, 

and is scheduled at the end of the 

meeting for topics not on the agenda. 

While the Saturday meeting is 

tentatively scheduled from 8:00 a.m. to 

4:30 p.m., the meeting could conclude 

prior to 4:30 p.m. should the council 

conclude its presentations and 

discussions. Therefore, members of the 

public interested in a particular agenda 

item or discussion should schedule 

their arrival accordingly. 

Written comments may be filed in 

advance of the meeting for the 

California Desert District Advisory 

Council, c/o Bureau of Land 

Management, External Affairs, 22835 

Calle San Juan de Los Lagos, Moreno 

Valley, CA 92553. Written comments 

also are accepted at the time of the 

meeting and, if copies are provided to 

the recorder, will be incorporated into 

the minutes. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephen Razo, BLM California Desert 

District External Affairs, (951) 697– 

5217. 

Dated: October 27, 2014. 

Teresa A. Raml, 

California Desert District Manager. 

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BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLWYD03000.L14300000.EU0000; WYW– 

170692] 

Notice of Realty Action: NonCompetitive (Direct) Sale of Public 

Land in Carbon County, Wyoming 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior 

ACTION: Notice of realty action. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) is proposing a noncompetitive (direct) sale of a parcel of 

public land totaling 1.52 acres in Carbon 

County, Wyoming, to Philip A. and Ray 

Deane Card under the provisions of the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act of 1976 (FLPMA), as amended, at 

not less than the fair market value of 

$1,350.00. The Sale is pursuant to 

Section 203 of the Federal Land Policy 

and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA), 

and BLM regulations. In accordance 

with BLM regulations, the BLM 

authorized officer finds that the public 

interest would be best served by 

resolving the inadvertent unauthorized 

use of public lands by Philip A. Card 

and Ray Deane Card whose 

improvements occupy the proposed sale 

parcel. 

DATES: Submit written comments to the 

BLM at the address below. The BLM 

must receive comments on or before 

December 29, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Bureau of Land 

Management, Field Manager, Rawlins 

Field Office, 1300 N. Third Street, 

Rawlins, Wyoming 82301 or by emailed 

to blm_wy_rawlins_wymail@blm.gov or 

by faxed to 307–328–4224. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Annette M. Treat, Realty Specialist, 

307–328–4307, at the above address. 

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 above 

individual. The FIRS is available 24 

hours a day, 7 days a week. You will 

receive a reply during the normal 

business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BLM 

will conduct a direct sale for the 

following parcel of public land located 

in Carbon County, Wyoming. The land 

is described as: 

Sixth Principal Meridian, Wyoming 

T. 12 N., R. 90 W., 

Sec. 15, lot 2. 

The area described contains 1.52 acres. 

The proposed direct sale is in 

conformance with the BLM, Rawlins 

Resource Management Plan approved 

December 24, 2008. The parcel meets 

the land disposal criteria found in 

Appendix 6 and is consistent with 43 

CFR 2711.3–3(a)(5). The BLM is offering 

the parcel by direct sale to resolve 

inadvertent unauthorized use and 

occupancy of the land pursuant to 43 

CFR 2711.3–3(a)(5). The parcel is not 

required for any other Federal purpose. 

The regulation at 43 CFR 2711.3–3(a) 

permit the BLM to make direct sales of 

public lands when a competitive sale is 

not appropriate and the public interest 

is best served by a direct sale. 

Upon publication of this Notice in the 

Federal Register, the above land will be 

segregated from all forms of 

appropriation under the public land 

laws, including the mining laws, except 


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