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a separate transaction, the City is also 

proposing to obtain a conveyance of the 

surface interest from the BLM. The City 

has been leasing 80 acres of this public 

land and using it as a landfill under the 

provisions of the Recreation and Public 

Purposes Act, as amended. The Notice 

of Realty Action for the surface-interest 

conveyance published in the Federal 

Register on November 12, 2014 (79 FR 

67186). The case file number is NMNM 

133158. 

The parcel of land referred to in this 

notice consists of 125 acres of land 

situated in Don ̃ a Ana County, and is 

described as follows: 

New Mexico Principal Meridian, New 

Mexico 

T. 23 S., R. 2 E., 

SEC. 11, W1⁄2NW1⁄4NW1⁄4NW1⁄4NE1⁄4, 

W1⁄2SW1⁄4NW1⁄4NW1⁄4NE1⁄4, N1⁄2NW1⁄4, 

N1⁄2SW1⁄4NW1⁄4, NW1⁄4SW1⁄4SW1⁄4NW1⁄4, 

N1⁄2SE1⁄4NW1⁄4. 

The area described contains 125 acres. 

Under certain conditions, Section 209(b) 

of FLPMA, 43 U.S.C. 1719(b) authorizes 

the sale and conveyance of the federally 

owned mineral interest in land to the 

surface owner when the surface interest 

is not federally owned. The objective is 

to allow consolidation of the surface 

and mineral interests when either one of 

the following conditions exist: (1) There 

are no known mineral values in the 

land; or (2) Where continued Federal 

ownership of the mineral interests 

interferes with or precludes appropriate 

non-mineral development and such 

development is a more beneficial use of 

the land than mineral development. 

The lands were segregated from 

operation of the public land laws, 

including the general mining law, 

subject to valid existing rights, when the 

BLM published the Notice of Realty 

Action pertaining to the application for 

conveyance of the land for landfill use 

under the Recreation and Public 

Purposes Act. The application is being 

processed to determine if either one of 

the two specific FLPMA section 209 

conditions exists and, if so, to otherwise 

comply with the procedural 

requirements of 43 CFR part 2720 and 

Section 209 of the FLPMA. The 

segregative effect of the previously 

published Notice of Realty Action shall 

terminate: (1) Upon issuance of a patent 

or other document of conveyance as to 

such mineral interests; (2) Upon final 

rejection of the application; or (3) Two 

years (August 1, 2016) after the date of 

filing of the application, whichever 

occurs first. 

Comments: Your comments are 

invited. Please submit all comments in 

writing to Anthony Hom at the address 

listed above. 

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: 43 CFR 2720.1–1(b). 

Aden L. Seidlitz, 

Associate State Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

[LLOR930000.L51010000.ER0000. 

LVRWH09H0320.14XL5017AP; HAG14– 

0178] 

Notice of Availability of the Jordan 

Cove Energy and Pacific Connector 

Gas Pipeline Projects Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

the Draft Associated Land 

Management Plan Amendments 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior; Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA), as amended; the Federal 

Land Policy and Management Act of 

1976, as amended; and the National 

Forest Management Act of 1976, as 

amended (NFMA), the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest 

Service (USFS) have participated as 

Cooperating Agencies with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) 

in the preparation of the Jordan Cove 

Energy and Pacific Connector Pipeline 

(PCGP) Projects Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS). The Draft EIS 

addresses the impacts of these projects, 

the associated draft Land Management 

Plan (LMP) amendments of the BLM 

and the USFS, and the application to 

the BLM for a Right-of-Way Grant 

sought by Pacific Connector Gas 

Pipeline LP for the PCGP project. With 

this agency-specific Notice of 

Availability, the BLM and the USFS are 

announcing the opening of the FERC 

comment period. 

DATES: To ensure that comments will be 

considered, the FERC must receive 

written comments on the draft Jordan 

Cove Energy and PCGP Projects Draft 

EIS within 90 days following the date 

the Environmental Protection Agency 

published its Notice of Availability 

(NOA) in the Federal Register, which 

occurred on November 17, 2014. The 

FERC will announce future meetings or 

hearings and any other public 

involvement activities at least 15 days 

in advance through public notices, 

media releases, and/or mailings. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

related to the Jordan Cove Energy and 

PCGP Projects Draft EIS by any of the 

following methods: 

Web site: www.ferc.gov under the 

Documents and Filings link. The 

eComment tool is limited to text-only 

comments on the project. The eFiling 

tool allows users to submit files in a 

variety of formats. First-time users of 

eFiling must first create an account 

using eRegister. 

Mail: Kimberley D. Bose, Secretary, 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE., Room 1A, 

Washington, DC 20426 

Your comments must reference the 

FERC Docket number(s) (Jordan Cove 

Energy Project, L.P., Docket No. CP13– 

483–000 and/or Pacific Connector Gas 

Pipeline Project, L.P., Docket No. CP13– 

492–000) to be correctly attributed to 

this specific project. 

Copies of the Jordan Cove Energy and 

PCGP Projects Draft EIS are available for 

inspection in the BLM district offices 

and the offices of the Forest Supervisors 

listed under SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Additional information about the 

projects is available from the FERC’s 

Office of External Affairs at 866–208– 

FERC (3372), or on the FERC Web site 

(www.ferc.gov). On the FERC Web site, 

go to Documents and Filings and click 

on the eLibrary link. Then click on 

‘‘General Search’’ and enter the docket 

number, excluding the last three digits 

in the field (i.e., CP13–492). For 

assistance, please contact FERC Online 

Support at FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, 

or toll free at 866–208–3676, or for TTY, 

contact 202–502–8659. The eLibrary 

link also provides access to the texts of 

formal documents issues by the FERC 

such as orders, notices, and 

rulemakings. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This NOA 

is specific to the BLM and the USFS and 

provides notice that these agencies have 

participated as cooperating agencies 

with FERC in the preparation of the 

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Draft EIS. The comprehensive Draft EIS 

includes consideration of the proposed 

actions of the FERC and the cooperating 

agencies, including a BLM right-of-way 

grant and the associated BLM and USFS 

LMP amendments. Following issuance 

of a FERC-prepared Final EIS, the 

Bureau of Reclamation and the USFS 

will determine whether to provide 

letters of concurrence to the BLM with 

regard to the issuance of a right-of-waygrant. Through this concurrence 

process, the Bureau of Reclamation and 

USFS will submit to the BLM any 

specific stipulations applicable to lands, 

facilities, water bodies, and easements 

for inclusion in the right-of-way grant. 

In order for these potential actions to 

be consistent with the respective BLM 

Resource Management Plans (RMP) and 

USFS Land and Resource Management 

Plans (LRMP), collectively referred to 

asLMP, a number of amendments to 

these LMPs would be required prior to 

authorization of a Right-of-Way Grant 

for the PCGP Project. The proposed 

action described in the FERC Draft EIS 

includes a number of amendments to 

the BLM and USFS LMPs for the BLM’s 

Coos Bay, Roseburg, and Medford 

Districts and the Klamath Falls Resource 

Area of the Lakeview District and the 

Umpqua, Rogue River, and Winema 

National Forests. In addition, the 

proposed action in the Draft EIS 

includes the Right-of-Way Grant across 

Federal lands managed by the BLM, 

USFS, and Bureau of Reclamation. 

The FERC is the NEPA Lead Federal 

Agency for the environmental analysis 

of the construction and operation of the 

proposed Jordan Cove Energy and PCGP 

Projects. The BLM, the Bureau of 

Reclamation, and the USFS are 

cooperating agencies with the FERC for 

the preparation of the FERC Draft EIS. 

The BLM’s identified Purpose and 

Need for the proposed action is to 

respond to a right-of-way grant 

application submitted by the applicant 

to the BLM on February 25, 2013, to 

construct, operate, maintain, and 

eventually decommission a 234-milelong, 36-inch-diameter, high-pressure 

natural gas pipeline between the 

proposed Jordan Cove Liquefied Natural 

Gas terminal in Coos Bay, Oregon, and 

the Malin Hub, where several interstate 

natural gas pipelines converge near 

Malin, Oregon. The Secretary of the 

Interior has delegated authority to the 

BLM to grant a right-of-way in response 

to the PCGP application for natural gas 

transmission on Federal lands under the 

Mineral Leasing Act of 1920. Before 

issuing the right-of-way grant, the BLM 

will acquire the written concurrence of 

the surface managing Federal agencies. 

In addition, there is a need for the BLM 

and the USFS to amend affected LMPs. 

Although the Bureau of Reclamation has 

facilities that would be affected by the 

PCGP, it has not identified any agencyspecific actions for analysis in the Draft 

EIS. 

In accordance with 36 CFR 

219.17(b)(2), the Deciding Official for 

the USFS has elected to use the 1982 

planning rule procedures to amend U.S. 

Forest Service LRMPs as provided in the 

transition procedures of the 2000 

planning rule. The 1982 planning rule 

procedures require the USFS to 

determine the significance of the draft 

amendments or alternatives in 

accordance with national forest 

planning regulation 36 CFR 219.10(f) 

(1982 procedures). The USFS will use 

criteria in Forest Service Manual 1926.5 

to make this determination of the 

significance of draft LRMP amendments. 

The following amendments have been 

drafted by the BLM and the USFS as 

part of the proposed action in FERC’s 

Draft EIS: 

Amendment of the BLM’s Coos Bay 

District, Roseburg District, Medford 

District, and Klamath Falls Resource 

Area of the Lakeview District RMPs 

and the Umpqua National Forest, 

Rogue River National Forest, and 

Winema National Forest LMPs 

BLM/USFS–1—Applicable BLM 

RMPs and USFS LMPs would be 

amended to exempt ‘‘certain known 

sites’’ within the area of the proposed 

PCGP Project from the Management 

Recommendations required by the 2001 

‘‘Record of Decision and Standards and 

Guidelines for Amendments to the 

Survey and Manage, Protection Buffer, 

and other Mitigation Measures 

Standards and Guidelines,’’ as modified 

by court order. 

Amendment of the BLM Coos Bay 

District and Roseburg District RMPs 

BLM–1—The Coos Bay District and 

Roseburg District RMPs would be 

amended to waive the requirements to 

protect occupied, suitable, and potential 

habitat for the marbled murrelet, as 

mapped by the BLM within the 

proposed PCGP Project area. 

Amendments of BLM Roseburg District 

RMP 

BLM–2—The Roseburg District RMP 

would be amended to exempt the PCGP 

Project from the requirement to retain 

habitat in ‘‘Known Owl Activity 

Centers’’ at three locations. 

BLM–3—The Roseburg District RMP 

would be amended to change the 

designation of approximately 409 acres 

from the Matrix land allocation to the 

Late Successional Reserve (LSR) land 

allocation in Sections 32 and 34, T. 29 

1/2 S., R. 7 W., and Section 1, T. 30 S., 

R. 7 W., W.M., Oregon. 

Amendment of BLM Coos Bay District 

RMP 

BLM–4—The Coos Bay District RMP 

would be amended to change the 

designation of approximately 387 acres 

from the Matrix land allocation to the 

LSR land allocation in Sections 19 and 

29, T. 28 S., R. 10 W., W.M., Oregon. 

Amendments of the Rogue River 

National Forest LMP 

RRNF–2—The Rogue River National 

Forest LMP would be amended to 

change the Visual Quality Objective 

(VQO) in the area where the PCGP 

Project corridor would cross the Big Elk 

Road at pipeline milepost 161.4 in 

Section 16, T. 37 S., R. 4 E., W.M., 

Oregon, from ‘‘foreground retention’’ to 

‘‘foreground partial retention’’ and 

allow more time for amended visual 

quality objectives to be attained. 

RRNF–3—The Rogue River National 

Forest LMP would be amended to 

change the VQO in the vicinity where 

the PCGP Project corridor would cross 

the Pacific Crest Trail at pipeline 

milepost 167.84 in Section 32, T. 37 S., 

R. 5 E., W.M., Oregon, from ‘‘foreground 

partial retention’’ to ‘‘modification’’ and 

allow more time for amended VQOs to 

be attained. 

RRNF–4—The Rogue River National 

Forest LMP would be amended to allow 

more time to meet the VQO between the 

PCGP Project corridor mileposts 156.3 

to 156.8 and 157.2 to 157.5 in Sections 

11 and 12, T. 37 S., R. 3 E., W.M., 

Oregon. Standards and Guidelines for 

‘‘middleground partial retention’’ 

require that VQOs for a given location 

be achieved within one year of 

completion of the project. 

Approximately 0.8 miles or 9 acres of 

Middleground Partial Retention VQO 

visible at distances of 0.75 to 5 miles 

from State Highway 140 would be 

affected by this amendment. 

RRNF–5—The Rogue River National 

Forest LMP would be amended to allow 

the PCGP Project corridor to cross lands 

subject to the ‘‘restricted riparian 

management strategy’’ Standards and 

Guidelines. This would potentially 

affect approximately 2.5 acres of the 

PCGP Project corridor associated with 

one perennial stream crossing of the 

South Fork of Little Butte Creek at 

milepost 162.45 in Section 15, T. 37 S., 

R. 4 E., W.M., Oregon. 

RRNF–6—The Rogue River National 

Forest LMP would be amended to waive 

limitations on areas affected by 

detrimental soil conditions from 

displacement and compaction within 

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the proposed PCGP Project corridor in 

all affected management areas. 

RRNF–7—The Rogue River National 

Forest LMP would be amended to 

change the designation of approximately 

512 acres from the Matrix land 

allocation to the LSR land allocation in 

Section 32, T. 36 S., R. 4 E., W.M., 

Oregon. 

Amendments of the Umpqua National 

Forest LMP 

UNF–1—The Umpqua National Forest 

LMP would be amended to change the 

Standards and Guidelines for Fisheries 

to allow the removal of effective shading 

vegetation where perennial streams 

would be crossed by the PCGP Project 

corridor. This change would potentially 

affect an estimated three acres of 

shading vegetation at four perennial 

stream crossings in the East Fork of Cow 

Creek from pipeline mileposts 109 to 

110 in Sections 16 and 21, T. 32 S., R. 

2 W., W.M., Oregon. 

UNF–2—The Umpqua National Forest 

LMP would be amended to change 

prescriptions C2–II and C2–IV and to 

allow the PCGP Project corridor to cross 

Riparian Areas (i.e., Riparian Reserves) 

and run parallel to the East Fork of Cow 

Creek for approximately 0.1 mile 

between milepost 109.68 and 109.78 in 

Section 21, T. 32 S., R. 2 W., W.M., 

Oregon. This change would potentially 

affect approximately one acre of 

Riparian Reserve along the East Fork of 

Cow Creek. 

UNF–3—The Umpqua National Forest 

LMP would be amended to waive 

limitations on the area affected by 

detrimental soil conditions from 

displacement and compaction within 

the proposed PCGP Project corridor. 

Standards and Guidelines for Soils 

requires that not more than 20 percent 

of the project area have detrimental 

compaction, displacement, or puddling 

after completion of a project. 

UNF–4—The Umpqua National Forest 

LMP would be amended to change the 

designation of approximately 588 acres 

from the Matrix land allocation to the 

LSR 223 land allocation in Sections 7, 

18, and 19, T. 32 S., R. 2 W., and 

Sections 13 and 24, T. 32 S., R. 3 W., 

W.M., Oregon. 

Amendments of the Winema National 

Forest LMP 

WNF–1—The Winema National 

Forest LMP would be amended to 

change the Standards and Guidelines for 

Management Area 3 (MA–3) to allow for 

development of the 95-foot-wide PCGP 

Project corridor in MA–3 from the 

Forest Boundary in Section 32, T. 37 S., 

R. 5 E., to the Clover Creek Road 

corridor in Section 4, T. 38 S, R. 5 E., 

W.M., Oregon. Standards and 

Guidelines for MA–3 state that the area 

is currently an avoidance area for new 

utility corridors. This amendment 

would apply to a portion of the 

proposed PCGP Project corridor that 

would be approximately 1.5 miles long 

and occupy approximately 17 acres. 

WNF–2—The Winema National 

Forest LMP would be amended to allow 

more time to achieve the VQO where 

the PCGP Project corridor would cross 

the Dead Indian Memorial Highway at 

approximately milepost 168.84 in 

Section 33, T. 37 S., R. 5 E., W.M., 

Oregon. 

WNF–3—The Winema National 

Forest LMP would be amended to allow 

more time to meet the VQO for Scenic 

Management, Foreground Partial 

Retention, where the PCGP Project 

corridor would be adjacent to the Clover 

Creek Road from approximately 

milepost 170 to 175 in Sections 2, 3, 4, 

11 and 12, T. 38 S., R. 5 E., and Sections 

7, 17 and 18, T. 38 S., R. 6 E., W.M., 

Oregon. This amendment would be 

applicable to approximately 50 acres of 

the proposed PCGP Project corridor. 

WNF–4—The Winema National 

Forest LMP would be amended to waive 

restrictions on detrimental soil 

conditions from displacement and 

compaction within the proposed PCGP 

Project corridor in all affected 

management areas. 

WNF–5—The Winema National 

Forest LMP would be amended to waive 

restrictions on detrimental soil 

conditions from displacement and 

compaction within the proposed PCGP 

Project corridor within Management 

Area 8, Riparian Area (MA–8). This 

amendment would be applicable to 

approximately 0.5 mile or an estimated 

9.6 acres of MA–8. Standards and 

Guidelines for Soil and Water, MA–8 

require that not more than 10 percent of 

the total riparian zone in an activity area 

be in a detrimental soil condition upon 

the completion of a project. 

Copies of the Jordan Cove Energy and 

PCGP Projects Draft EIS are available for 

inspection in the BLM’s Coos Bay, 

Roseburg, and Medford District offices; 

the Klamath Falls Resource Area of the 

Lakeview District office; and at the 

offices of the Forest Supervisors for the 

Rogue River, Umpqua, and Winema 

National Forests. 

Consistent with BLM land use 

planning regulations at 43 CFR 

1610.2(f)(3), the BLM is requesting 

comments on the draft amendments of 

BLM RMPs that are necessary to allow 

for the PCGP Project in the Coos Bay, 

Roseburg, and Medford Districts and 

Klamath Falls Resource Area of the 

Lakeview District. The BLM is also 

requesting public comments on the 

issuance of a right-of-way grant that 

would allow the PCGP to to be 

constructed on Federal lands managed 

by the BLM, USFS, and Reclamation. 

The USFS is requesting public 

comments on the draft amendments of 

USFS LMPs to allow for the PCGP 

Project on the Rogue River, Umpqua, 

and Winema National Forests. 

Reclamation is not offering plan 

amendments and is not requesting 

specific comments. All comments must 

be submitted to the FERC, the Lead 

Federal Agency. You may submit 

comments in writing at any public 

meeting, or you may submit comments 

to the FERC using one of the methods 

listed in the ‘‘ADDRESSES’’ section above. 

As noted above, the comment period on 

the Draft EIS has already commenced 

following publication of the NOA by 

EPA. 

Refer to Dockets CP13–483–000 

[Jordan Cove Energy Project] and/or 

CP13–492–000 [Pacific Connector Gas 

Pipeline Project] in all correspondence 

to ensure that your comments are 

correctly filed in the record for the 

Jordan Cove Energy and PCGP Projects. 

The FERC offers a free service called 

e-subscription that allows you to keep 

track of all formal issuances and 

submittals in specific dockets. This can 

reduce the amount of time you spend 

researching proceedings by 

automatically providing you with 

notification of these filings, document 

summaries, and direct links to the 

documents at: http://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/esubscription.asp. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comments, you should be aware that the 

entire text of your comments—including 

your personal identifying information— 

would be publicly available through the 

FERC eLibrary system, if you file your 

comments with the Secretary of the 

Commission. 

Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1506.10, 

43 CFR 1610.2. 

Jerome E. Perez, 

State Director, Oregon/Washington. 

Alice Carlton, 

Forest Supervisor, Umpqua National Forest. 

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