22960 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 93 / Friday, May 15, 2009 / Notices 

GMP/EA. You may submit comments on 

the NPS’s Planning, Environment, and 

Public Comment (PEPC) Web site at 

http://parkplanning.nps.gov/cawo. 

Comments on this proposed action may 

also be mailed or hand-delivered to: 

Superintendent Gayle Hazelwood, c/o 

GMP for the Carter G. Woodson Home 

National Historic Site, National Capital 

Parks East, 1900 Anacostia Drive, SE., 

Washington, DC 20020–6722. 

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. 

Although 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. We will make all 

submissions from organizations, 

businesses, or individuals identifying 

themselves as representatives or 

officials of organizations or businesses, 

available for public inspection in their 

entirety. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Superintendent Gayle Hazelwood, 

National Capital Parks East, at 1900 

Anacostia Drive, SE., Washington, DC 

20020–6722, by telephone at (202) 690– 

5127, or telefax at (202) 690–1425. 

Information will also be available online 

throughout the scoping and planning 

process at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/ 

cawo. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Carter G. 

Woodson Home National Historic Site is 

in Washington, DC. Congress authorized 

the site on December 19, 2003, and 

charged NPS with the responsibility to 

acquire and manage the site in 

accordance with this Act and with laws 

generally applicable to units of the 

National Park System, including the Act 

of August 25, 1916 (16 U.S.C. 1, 2–4) 

and the Act of August 21, 1935 (16 

U.S.C. 461 et seq.). The enabling 

legislation also states that the Secretary 

of the Interior may acquire any of the 

three properties immediately north of 

the Carter G. Woodson Home, may enter 

into an agreement with public or private 

entities to restore and rehabilitate the 

Woodson Home and other properties 

within the boundary, and may enter into 

cooperative agreements with public or 

private entities to provide public 

interpretation and education of AfricanAmerican heritage in the Shaw area of 

the District of Columbia. Further, the 

legislation allows the Secretary of the 

Interior to ‘‘* * * enter into an 

agreement with The Association for the 

Study of African-American Life and 

History that allows the association to 

use a portion of the historic site for its 

own administrative purposes.’’ 

Alternatives will be developed 

through this planning process. Major 

issues considered during this process 

will include the protection and 

interpretation of the Carter G. Woodson 

Home, adaptive re-use of historic 

structures, quality of visitor experience, 

land acquisition, and potential 

relationships with The Association for 

the Study of African American Life and 

History and other potential agencies, 

organizations, and local interests. 

Dated: April 27, 2009. 

Margaret O’Dell, 

Regional Director, National Capital Region. 

[FR Doc. E9–11378 Filed 5–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–JK–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLUT01000–09–L51010000–ER0000–24– 

1A00] 

Notice of Availability of Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Mona to Oquirrh Transmission 

Corridor Project and Draft Pony 

Express Resource Management Plan 

Amendment, Utah 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

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

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has 

prepared a Draft Environmental Impact 

Statement (DEIS) for the Mona to 

Oquirrh Transmission Corridor Project 

and Draft Pony Express Resource 

Management Plan (RMP) Amendment 

and by this Notice is announcing the 

opening of the comment period. 

DATES: To ensure comments will be 

considered, the BLM must receive 

written comments on the Mona to 

Oquirrh Transmission Corridor Project 

DEIS within 90 days following the date 

the Environmental Protection Agency 

publishes a 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 the Utah BLM Web site 

(http://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/fo/ 

salt_lake/planning/ 

mona_to_oquirrh_transmission.html), 

public notices, media news releases, 

and/or mailings. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• E-mail: UT_M2OTL_EIS@blm.gov. 

• Fax: (801) 977–4397 or (435) 743– 

3135. 

• Mail: Mike Nelson, Realty 

Specialist, BLM Salt Lake Field Office, 

2370 South 2300 West, Salt Lake City, 

UT 84119, or Clara Stevens, Realty 

Specialist, BLM Fillmore Field Office, 

35 East 500 North, Fillmore, UT 84631. 

Copies of the Mona to Oquirrh 

Transmission Corridor Project DEIS are 

available in the Salt Lake Field Office 

and Fillmore Field Office at the above 

addresses. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

• Mike Nelson at the BLM Salt Lake 

Field Office, 2370 South 2300 West, Salt 

Lake City, UT 84119; by phone: (801) 

977–4300; or 

• Clara Stevens at the BLM Fillmore 

Field Office, 35 East 500 North, 

Fillmore, UT 84631; by phone: (435) 

743–3100. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Rocky 

Mountain Power has submitted a rightof-way application for a double-circuit 

500/345 kilovolt (kV) transmission line 

from the existing Mona Substation, 

located in Juab County, to the existing 

Oquirrh Substation and Terminal 

Substation located in Salt Lake County, 

Utah. The Mona to Oquirrh 

Transmission Corridor Project also 

includes the siting of two new future 

substations and a Salt Lake Field Office 

(SLFO) Pony Express RMP Amendment 

for utility corridors. The corridor to be 

established by this amendment would 

be wide enough to accommodate 

potential future utility rights-of-way, 

including a possible second future 

double-circuit 500kV line, if and when 

needed. The estimated length of the 

proposed transmission line route is 

approximately 140 miles. A right-of-way 

of up to 300 feet in width would be 

required to construct, operate, and 

maintain the transmission line and 

structures. The proposed project would 

take approximately 18 months to 

construct. 

To simplify the analysis of 

alternatives, the project area has been 

divided into three major areas: (1) From 

the future Mona Annex Substation to 

the future Limber Substation, (2) from 

the future Limber Substation to the 

existing Oquirrh Substation, and (3) 

from the future Limber Substation to the 

existing Terminal Substation. 

Mona Annex to Limber: There are six 

alternative transmission line routes that 

connect the future Mona Annex 

Substation to the future Limber 

Substation with a double-circuit 500kV 

transmission line, ranging from 65.3 to 

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67.7 miles in length. The routes cross 

portions of Juab, Utah and Tooele 

Counties. 

Limber to Oquirrh: There are six 

alternative transmission line routes that 

connect the future Limber Substation to 

the existing Oquirrh Substation with a 

double-circuit 345kV transmission line, 

ranging from 28.9 to 49.0 miles in 

length. The routes cross portions of 

Tooele and Salt Lake Counties. 

Limber to Terminal: There are two 

alternative transmission line routes that 

connect the future Limber Substation to 

the existing Terminal Substation with a 

double-circuit 345kV transmission line, 

ranging from 40.0 to 45.1 miles in 

length. The routes cross portions of 

Tooele and Salt Lake counties. 

The proposed transmission line(s) 

right-of-way (ROW) alignment would 

fall outside of current utility corridors 

designated by the BLM in the SLFO 

Pony Express RMP. For the project to be 

in conformance with the Pony Express 

RMP, this RMP would be amended to 

designate a new utility corridor. The 

DEIS addresses the establishment of a 

new utility corridor that would 

accommodate the proposed 

transmission line ROW. 

The planning issues for the RMP 

amendment include: 

• Access to and transportation on the 

public lands. 

• Existing and planned land uses, 

including recreation, transportation, 

agriculture, grazing, rights-of-way, and 

other authorized land uses. 

• Wildlife habitat and management of 

summer and winter ranges and 

migration corridors for antelope, mule 

deer, and elk. 

• Cumulative effects of land uses and 

human activities on threatened, 

endangered, candidate, and sensitive 

species and their habitats. 

• Vegetation, including impacts of 

invasive non-native species. 

• Cultural, historic and 

paleontological resources and tribal 

values. 

• Management objectives in the North 

Oquirrh Management Area. 

• Visual resource management. 

• Air, soil, and water resources. 

• Sociology and economics. 

• Human health and safety. 

An interdisciplinary approach was 

used to develop the DEIS, in order to 

consider the variety of resource issues 

and concerns identified. An amendment 

to the Pony Express RMP would be 

based upon the following planning 

criteria: 

• The amendment will be completed 

in compliance with the Federal Land 

Policy Management Act, NEPA, and all 

other relevant Federal law, Executive 

Orders, and management policies of the 

BLM; 

• Where existing planning decisions 

are still valid, those decisions will 

remain unchanged and be incorporated 

into the new amendment; and 

• The amendment will recognize 

valid existing rights. 

Please note that public comments and 

information submitted including names, 

street addresses, and e-mail addresses of 

respondents 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. 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. 

Selma Sierra, 

State Director. 

[FR Doc. E9–11297 Filed 5–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–DQ–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Availability of the Draft General 

Management Plan and Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

Effigy Mounds National Monument, 

Iowa 

AGENCY: National Park Service. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability of the 

Draft General Management Plan and 

Draft Environmental Impact Statement 

for Effigy Mounds National Monument, 

Iowa. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act of 1969, 42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C), the 

National Park Service announces the 

availability of a Draft General 

Management Plan (GMP)/Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS) for Effigy 

Mounds National Monument 

(Monument), Iowa. 

DATES: The GMP/EIS will remain 

available for public review for 60 days 

following the publishing of the notice of 

availability in the Federal Register by 

the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency. Public meetings will be held 

during the 60-day review period on the 

GMP/EIS, and specific dates and 

locations will be announced in local 

and regional media sources of record 

and on the NPS planning Web site at 

http://parkplanning.nps.gov/efmo. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the GMP/EIS are 

available by request by writing to 

Superintendent Phyllis Ewing, Effigy 

Mounds National Monument, 151 

Highway 76, Harpers Ferry, Iowa 52146, 

or by telephoning 563–873–3491. The 

document is also available to be pickedup in person at the address above. The 

document can be found on the Internet 

on the NPS Planning Web site at: 

http://parkplanning.nps.gov/efmo. 

You may submit your comments by 

any of several methods. You may 

comment via the Internet through the 

NPS planning Web site http:// 

parkplanning.nps.gov/efmo; simply 

click on the link to the Effigy Mounds 

National Monument. You may mail 

comments to Superintendent Ewing, 

Effigy Mounds National Monument, at 

the address above. Finally, you may 

hand-deliver comments to the park 

headquarters at the address above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Superintendent Phyllis Ewing, Effigy 

Mounds National Monument, 151 

Highway 76, Harpers Ferry, Iowa 52146, 

telephone 563–873–3491. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Monument was established by 

presidential proclamation on October 

25, 1949 to protect significant 

prehistoric earth mounds found in 

northeast Iowa. Subsequent legislation 

expanded the purpose and significance 

by specifying the wildlife, scenic, and 

other natural values of the area. The 

Monument’s authorized boundary was 

expanded in 1961 and again in 2000 

until it now encompasses a total of 

2,256 acres. 

The purpose of the GMP is to set forth 

the basic management philosophy for 

the Monument and to provide strategies 

for addressing issues and achieving 

identified management objectives. The 

GMP/EIS describes and analyzes the 

environmental impacts of the proposed 

action and one other action alternative 

for the future management direction of 

the Monument. A no action alternative 

is also evaluated. 

The preferred alternative (Alternative 

B) in the draft General Management 

Plan would provide an enhanced visitor 

experience with increasing 

understanding of the monument while 

protecting and preserving natural and 

cultural resources. An overall goal for 

the park would be to serve as a catalyst 

for mound research and management in 

the region. A new multi-purpose facility 

in the visitor center area would 

accommodate research needs and a 

small visitor contact station on newly