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property is described as for ‘‘off-site use 

only’’ recipients of the property will be 

required to relocate the building to their 

own site at their own expense. 

Homeless assistance providers 

interested in any such property should 

send a written expression of interest to 

HHS, addressed to Theresa Ritta, Ms. 

Theresa M. Ritta, Chief Real Property 

Branch, the Department of Health and 

Human Services, Room 5B–17, 

Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, 

Rockville, MD 20857, (301) 443–6672 

(This is not a toll-free number.) HHS 

will mail to the interested provider an 

application packet, which will include 

instructions for completing the 

application. In order to maximize the 

opportunity to utilize a suitable 

property, providers should submit their 

written expressions of interest as soon 

as possible. For complete details 

concerning the processing of 

applications, the reader is encouraged to 

refer to the interim rule governing this 

program, 24 CFR part 581. 

For properties listed as suitable/to be 

excess, that property may, if 

subsequently accepted as excess by 

GSA, be made available for use by the 

homeless in accordance with applicable 

law, subject to screening for other 

Federal use. At the appropriate time, 

HUD will publish the property in a 

Notice showing it as either suitable/ 

available or suitable/unavailable. 

For properties listed as suitable/ 

unavailable, the landholding agency has 

decided that the property cannot be 

declared excess or made available for 

use to assist the homeless, and the 

property will not be available. 

Properties listed as unsuitable will 

not be made available for any other 

purpose for 20 days from the date of this 

Notice. Homeless assistance providers 

interested in a review by HUD of the 

determination of unsuitability should 

call the toll free information line at 1– 

800–927–7588 for detailed instructions 

or write a letter to Ann Marie Oliva at 

the address listed at the beginning of 

this Notice. Included in the request for 

review should be the property address 

(including zip code), the date of 

publication in the Federal Register, the 

landholding agency, and the property 

number. 

For more information regarding 

particular properties identified in this 

Notice (i.e., acreage, floor plan, existing 

sanitary facilities, exact street address), 

providers should contact the 

appropriate landholding agencies at the 

following addresses: COE: Ms. Brenda 

John-Turner, Army Corps of Engineers, 

Real Estate, HQUSACE/CEMP–CR, 441 

G Street NW., Washington, DC 20314; 

(202) 761–5222 (This is not a toll-free 

number). 

Dated: December 18, 2014. 

Brian P. Fitzmaurice, 

Director, Division of Community Assistance, 

Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs. 

TITLE V, FEDERAL SURPLUS PROPERTY 

PROGRAM FEDERAL REGISTER REPORT 

FOR 01/02/2015 

Suitable/Available Properties 

Building 

Virginia 

Comfort Stations, Property ID# 

PHL–17771 

1058 Philpott Dam Rd 

Bassett VA 24055 

Landholding Agency: COE 

Property Number: 31201440010 

Status: Unutilized 

Comments: off-site removal only; 189 sq. ft.; 

difficult to remove due to structure type; 

no future agency need; contact COE for 

more information. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLORW00000 L51010000.ER0000 

LVRWH09H0570 14XL5017AP; HAG–14– 

0191] 

WAOR65753; Notice of Availability of 

the Supplemental Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement for the Proposed 

Vantage to Pomona Heights 230 kV 

Transmission Line Project in Benton, 

Grant, Kittitas, and Yakima Counties, 

Washington 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969, as amended, the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) has prepared a 

Supplemental Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS) for the Vantage 

to Pomona Heights 230 kV Transmission 

Line Project 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 Supplemental 

Draft EIS for the Vantage to Pomona 

Heights 230 kV Transmission Line 

Project within 45 days following the 

date the Environmental Protection 

Agency publishes its 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 releases, and/or mailings. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

related to the Vantage to Pomona 

Heights 230 kV Transmission Line 

Project by any of the following methods: 

• Web site: http://www.blm.gov/or/

districts/spokane/plans/vph230.php. 

• Email: blm_or_vantage_pomona@

blm.gov (please reference Vantage to 

Pomona Heights Supplemental Draft EIS 

in the subject line). 

• Fax: 509–536–1275 Attn: Vantage to 

Pomona Heights Supplemental Draft EIS 

Project Manager. 

• Mail to: Spokane District, Records 

Manager, 1103 North Fancher Road, 

Spokane, Washington 99212, Attn: 

Vantage to Pomona Heights 

Supplemental Draft EIS. 

• Hand-deliver to: BLM Wenatchee 

Field Office, Attn: Vantage to Pomona 

Heights Supplemental Draft EIS, 915 

Walla Walla Avenue, Wenatchee, 

Washington 98801–1521, between 8:00 

a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Monday through 

Friday, excluding Federal holidays. 

Copies of the Supplemental Draft EIS 

for the Vantage to Pomona Heights 230 

kV Transmission Line Project, as well as 

copies of the January 2013 DEIS, are 

available in the BLM Wenatchee Field 

Office at the above address and 

electronically at the following Web site: 

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

spokane/plans/vph230.php. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Vantage to Pomona Heights 

Supplemental Draft EIS Project 

Manager; telephone, 509–665–2100; 

address, BLM Wenatchee Field Office, 

915 Walla Walla Avenue, Wenatchee, 

Washington 98801–1521; email, blm_

or_vantage_pomona@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: The 

project proponent, Pacific Power, filed 

Federal applications for rights-of-way 

with the BLM, the U.S. Department of 

Defense Joint Base Lewis McChord 

Yakima Training Center (JBLM YTC), 

and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation 

(Reclamation) for construction, 

operation, and maintenance of a 230- 

kilovolt (kV) transmission line from 

Pacific Power’s Pomona Heights 

Substation located east of Selah, 

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Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) 

Vantage Substation located just east of 

the Wanapum Dam in Grant County, 

Washington. The project proponent’s 

interest in the new line is to enhance 

overall operating flexibility and security 

of the regional transmission grid and to 

improve system reliability in the 

Yakima Valley. 

On January 4, 2013, the BLM released 

a Draft EIS for public review and 

comment. As a result of the comments 

received at public meetings and 

submitted in writing during the Draft 

EIS comment period, the BLM, Pacific 

Power, and the JBLM YTC met and 

identified a New Northern Route 

Alternative that is located largely on 

JBLM YTC land. The BLM therefore 

decided to prepare a Supplemental Draft 

EIS to fully describe the New Northern 

Route Alternative, analyze the direct, 

indirect, and cumulative impacts 

associated with this alternative, and 

describe mitigation measures that could 

avoid, minimize, or reduce impacts. The 

Supplemental Draft EIS focuses the 

analysis on the New Northern Route 

Alternative as well as any significant 

new circumstances or information that 

has become available since the January 

2013 publication of the Draft EIS. New 

information that has been incorporated 

into the Supplemental Draft EIS is 

primarily related to Greater SageGrouse, a Candidate species under the 

Endangered Species Act. Following 

publication of the Draft EIS, the U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) 

Conservation Objectives Team (COT) 

published the Greater Sage-grouse 

Conservation Objectives: Final Report 

(COT Report). A key component of the 

COT Report is the identification of 

Priority Areas of Conservation (PACs), 

which are considered key habitats 

essential for Greater Sage-Grouse 

conservation. The COT Report identifies 

four PACs within the state of 

Washington, two of which have extant 

populations, Moses Coulee and Yakima 

Training Center. With the exception of 

a small portion of the New Northern 

Route Alternative, the Project is located 

entirely within the Yakima Training 

Center PAC. The impact analysis for 

Sage-Grouse was expanded in the 

Supplemental Draft EIS to address 

USFWS and Washington Department of 

Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) concerns 

regarding sage-grouse and to incorporate 

information from the COT Report and 

the Yakima Training Center PAC. In 

addition, the Supplemental Draft EIS 

analyzed two identified areas 

(approximately 10 miles in total length) 

with both an Overhead and an 

Underground Design Option to address 

wildlife agency concerns regarding 

impacts to sage-grouse. 

The BLM remains the lead Federal 

agency and, along with the Cooperating 

Agencies, is responsible for analyzing 

the effects of Pacific Power’s right-ofway applications to construct, operate, 

and maintain a 230 kV transmission 

line, associated access roads, and other 

ancillary facilities. The JBLM YTC, 

Reclamation, BPA, Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), USFWS, 

Washington Department of Natural 

Resources (DNR), Washington 

Department of Transportation (WSDOT), 

and Kittitas and Yakima Counties are 

Cooperating Agencies and assisted with 

the preparation of the Supplemental 

Draft EIS. 

As preliminarily designed by Pacific 

Power and analyzed in the Draft EIS and 

the Supplemental DEIS, most of the 

proposed transmission line would be 

constructed on H-frame wood pole 

structures between 65 and 90 feet tall 

and spaced approximately 650 to 1,000 

feet apart, depending on terrain. In 

developed or agricultural areas, single 

wood or steel monopole structures 

would be used. The single pole 

structures would be between 80 and 110 

feet tall and spaced approximately 400 

to 700 feet apart. The right-of-way width 

for the H-frame structure type would be 

between 125 to 150 feet and, for the 

single pole structure type, between 75 to 

100 feet. For the Columbia River 

crossing, steel lattice structures 

approximately 200 feet tall would be 

used to safely span the up to 2,800-foot 

crossing. 

The Supplemental Draft EIS considers 

three alternatives: No Action, New 

Northern Route Alternative, and the 

Draft EIS Agency Preferred Alternative. 

The New Northern Route Alternative is 

41 miles in length and includes one 

potential subroute section and analyzes 

two identified areas (approximately 10 

miles in total length) with both an 

Overhead and an Underground Design 

Option to address wildlife agency 

concerns regarding impacts to sagegrouse. The New Northern Route 

Alternative crosses Federal land 

managed by the BLM, the JBLM YTC, 

and Reclamation; State land managed by 

the WSDOT and the WDNR; and 

Yakima, Kittitas, and Grant Counties. 

The Supplemental Draft EIS also 

identifies mitigation measures to avoid, 

minimize, or reduce impacts for the 

New Northern Route Alternative. To 

minimize the amount and significance 

of impacts from the proposed Project to 

sage-grouse, a Framework for the 

Development of a Sage-grouse Habitat 

Mitigation Plan is currently being 

developed by the project’s Sage-grouse 

Subgroup which is comprised of 

wildlife biologists representing the 

USFWS, WDFW, JBLM YTC, and BLM. 

This framework will provide the basis 

for the project proponent to prepare a 

Sage-grouse Habitat Mitigation Plan 

which will provide an overview of 

impacts and proposed sage-grouse 

compensatory mitigation actions for the 

project. The draft ‘‘Vantage to Pomona 

Heights 230 kV Transmission Line 

Project Framework for Development of a 

Sage-Grouse Habitat Mitigation Plan’’ is 

included as an appendix to the 

Supplemental Draft EIS. 

The BLM will continue to use the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) public participation 

requirements to assist the agency in 

satisfying the public involvement 

requirements under Section 106 of the 

National Preservation Act (NHPA) (16 

U.S.C. 470(f)) pursuant to 36 CFR 

800.2(d)(3). The information about 

historic and cultural resources within 

the area potentially affected by the 

proposed Vantage to Pomona Heights 

230 kV Transmission Line Project will 

continue to assist BLM in identifying 

and evaluating impacts to such 

resources in the context of both NEPA 

and Section 106 of the NHPA. 

The BLM will continue to consult 

with Indian tribes on a government-togovernment basis in accordance with 

Executive Order 13175 and other 

policies. Tribal concerns, including 

impacts to trust assets and potential 

impacts to cultural resources, will be 

given due consideration. Federal, state, 

and local agencies, along with tribes and 

other stakeholders that may be 

interested in or affected by the proposed 

Vantage to Pomona Heights 230 kV 

Transmission Line Project were invited 

to participate in the scoping process and 

comment on the Draft EIS. 

The BLM has consulted with the 

federally recognized Yakama Nation and 

the Colville Confederated Tribes and 

with the non-federally recognized 

Wanapum Band of Indians. BLM 

continues to work with the state and 

federal agencies and consulting tribes 

regarding development of a 

Programmatic Agreement (PA) that 

outlines how the federal agencies will 

comply with Section 106 for this 

undertaking, the draft PA is included as 

an appendix to the Supplemental Draft 

EIS. 

Major issues brought forward during 

the scoping process that were addressed 

in the Draft EIS and carried forward in 

the Supplemental Draft EIS include: 

• Land use conflicts and effects on 

agricultural operations and property 

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• Effects on wildlife habitat, plants, and 

animals including threatened, 

endangered, and sensitive species 

(especially sage-grouse) 

• Potential effects to JBLM YTC military 

training operations 

• Effects to visual resources and 

existing view sheds 

• Effects to cultural resources 

• Effects to soils and water from 

surface-disturbing activities 

• Social and economic effects 

• Management and control of invasive 

plant species 

• Public health and safety 

The Supplemental Draft EIS analysis 

identified several advantages associated 

with the New Northern Route 

Alternative and they include: 

• Reduced overall transmission line 

length; approximately 22-miles shorter 

than the DEIS Agency Preferred 

Alternative. The reduced transmission 

line length provides reduced resource 

impacts for several issues compared to 

the original DEIS Agency Preferred 

Alternative. 

• Reduced overall transmission line 

length across non-federal lands; The 

New Northern Route Alternative occurs 

primarily on federal lands and therefore 

has less impacts on land use, public 

health and safety, and other issues 

compared to the DEIS Agency Preferred 

Alternative. 

• Reduced overall disturbance 

footprint; the New Northern Route 

Alternative is consolidated in an 

existing transmission line corridor 

(approximately 200-foot centerline-tocenterline separation) for the majority of 

the proposed routing. The reduced 

disturbance foot-print thus reduced 

resource impacts such as impacts to 

wildlife habitat (especially SageGrouse), military training, soils, water 

resources, invasive species spread, and 

others issues compared to the DEIS 

Agency Preferred Alternative. 

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. Please note that public comments 

and information submitted, including 

names, street addresses, and email 

addresses of persons who submit 

comments, 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. 

Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 

1506.10. 

Daniel C. Picard, 

Spokane District Manager. 

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DEPARMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[14XLLAKF02000.L16100000. 

DQ0000.LXSS094L0000] 

Notice of Availability of Additional 

Information on Proposed Areas of 

Critical Environmental Concern and 

Associated Resource Use Limitations 

Identified in the Draft Eastern Interior 

Resource Management Plan/Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement, 

Alaska 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Department of the Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: On February 24, 2012, the 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 

published a Notice of Availability 

(NOA) of the Eastern Interior Draft 

Resource Management Plan (RMP)/ 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

for public review and comment in the 

Federal Register. BLM planning 

regulations require the BLM to notify 

the public of proposed Areas of Critical 

Environmental Concern (ACEC) and 

specify the resource use limitations 

which would occur if the ACECs were 

formally designated through approval of 

the Eastern Interior RMP. Based on 

public comment on the Draft RMP, the 

BLM proposes the reconfiguration of the 

Fortymile ACEC and proposes a new 

ACEC on the Mosquito Flats. These 

specific proposed ACEC boundaries 

were not noticed in the Draft RMP/EIS. 

Thus, the BLM is providing this notice 

and public comment period for these 

two proposed ACECs. 

DATES: You may submit comments 

related to the new ACEC information in 

this notice until March 3, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

related to the new ACEC information by 

any of the following methods: 

• Email: easterninterior@blm.gov. 

• Fax: 907–474–2282. 

• Mail: Eastern Interior Field Office, 

Attention—Eastern Interior RMP, 

Bureau of Land Management, 1150 

University Avenue, Fairbanks, Alaska 

99709. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jeanie Cole, telephone 907–474–2340 or 

email j05cole@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: Comments 

on the Draft RMP/EIS received from the 

public and internal BLM analyses on 

ACECs were reviewed and considered 

for incorporation into the proposed 

plan. As a result, the BLM now proposes 

the addition of the 30,000 acre Mosquito 

Flats ACEC and reconfiguration of the 

Fortymile ACEC to 685,000 acres. It is 

unnecessary to issue a supplement to 

the Draft EIS pursuant to 40 CFR 1502.9 

because the proposed land management 

direction for these ACECs was within 

the spectrum of alternatives analyzed in 

the Draft EIS. The following description 

details the information for these two 

proposed ACECs. Maps of both ACECs 

are available on the BLM’s Eastern 

Interior RMP Web site at www.blm.gov/ 

ak/eirmp. 

Mosquito Flats ACEC (30,000 Acres) 

During the public comment period for 

the Eastern Interior RMP, the BLM 

received two nominations for an ACEC 

on the Mosquito Flats. The proposed 

Mosquito Flats ACEC is a large wetland 

complex unique to BLM lands in the 

planning area; it consists of a wetland 

basin situated in the upper portion of 

the drainage, at relatively high elevation 

(∼2250 ft), and surrounded by 

mountains. Mosquito Flats provides 

unique wetland and aquatic habitats 

and supports a variety of wildlife 

species. 

The proposed ACEC is comprised of 

a complex of floating bog wetland 

vegetation partially surrounded by 

mountains. The Mosquito Fork River 

flows over continuous sand beds that 

are uncharacteristically clean, light 

colored, well-sorted, and low in 

organics. These sand beds provide 

unique aquatic habitat essential for 

maintaining diverse species within the 

planning area. 

Mosquito Flats is an important moose 

calving area and summer habitat for the 

regional moose population. The area 

also supports short-eared owls and 

nesting trumpeter swans, both BLMAlaska sensitive species. It may also 

support other BLM-sensitive species, 

including olive-sided flycatcher, rusty 

blackbird, and blackpoll warbler. 

Proposed Use Limitations: Closed to 

locatable mineral entry and mineral 

leasing, subject to valid existing rights. 

Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) use is 


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