Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 126 / Thursday, July 2, 2009 / Notices 31747 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[F–21901–36, F–221901–37, F–21901–38, F– 

21901–39, F–21901–40, F–21905–46; AK– 

964–1410–KC–P] 

Alaska Native Claims Selection 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of decision approving 

lands for conveyance. 

SUMMARY: As required by 43 CFR 

2650.7(d), notice is hereby given that an 

appealable decision approving the 

surface and subsurface estates in certain 

lands for conveyance pursuant to the 

Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act 

will be issued to Doyon, Limited. The 

lands are in the vicinity of Tanana, 

Alaska, and are located in: 

Fairbanks Meridian, Alaska 

T. 6 N., R. 17 W., 

Secs. 5, 7, and 8. 

Containing approximately 1,898 acres. 

T. 5 N., R. 18 W., 

Secs. 2 to 6, inclusive. 

Containing approximately 3,188 acres. 

T. 6 N., R. 18 W., 

Secs. 1 to 12, inclusive; 

Secs. 14 to 23, inclusive; 

Secs. 26 to 35, inclusive. 

Containing approximately 20,364 acres. 

T. 5 N., R. 19 W., 

Secs. 1 to 6, inclusive. 

Containing approximately 3,828 acres. 

T. 6 N., R. 19 W., 

Secs. 1 and 2; 

Secs. 11 to 14, inclusive; 

Secs. 23 to 26, inclusive; 

Secs. 35 and 36. 

Containing approximately 7,680 acres. 

Aggregating approximately 36,958 acres. 

Notice of the decision will also be 

published four times in the Fairbanks 

Daily News-Miner. 

DATES: The time limits for filing an 

appeal are: 

1. Any party claiming a property 

interest which is adversely affected by 

the decision shall have until August 3, 

2009 to file an appeal. 

2. Parties receiving service of the 

decision by certified mail shall have 30 

days from the date of receipt to file an 

appeal. 

Parties who do not file an appeal in 

accordance with the requirements of 43 

CFR Part 4, Subpart E, shall be deemed 

to have waived their rights. 

ADDRESSES: A copy of the decision may 

be obtained from: Bureau of Land 

Management, Alaska State Office, 222 

West Seventh Avenue, #13, Anchorage, 

Alaska 99513–7504. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

Bureau of Land Management by phone 

at 907–271–5960, or by e-mail at 

ak.blm.conveyance@ak.blm.gov. Persons 

who use a telecommunication device 

(TTD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877– 

8330, 24 hours a day, seven days a 

week, to contact the Bureau of Land 

Management. 

Jason Robinson, 

Land Law Examiner, Land Transfer 

Adjudication I. 

[FR Doc. E9–15664 Filed 7–1–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–JA–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Indian Affairs 

Draft Environmental Impact Statement 

for the Soboba Band of Luisen ̃o 

Indians’ Proposed 534-Acre Trust 

Acquisition and Casino Project, 

Riverside County, California 

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: This notice advises the public 

that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) 

as lead agency, with the Soboba Band of 

Luisen ̃o Indians (Tribe), City of San 

Jacinto and U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) as cooperating 

agencies, intends to file a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) 

with the EPA for the Tribe’s proposed 

534.91± acre trust acquisition and 

subsequent construction of a hotel/ 

casino project to be located within the 

City of San Jacinto, Riverside County, 

California, and that the DEIS is now 

available for public review and 

comment. This notice provides a 75-day 

public comment period and thereby 

grants a 30-day extension to the normal 

45-day public comment period. 

DATES: The DEIS will be available for 

public comment beginning July 2, 2009. 

Written comments on the DEIS must 

arrive by September 15, 2009. A public 

hearing will be held on Wednesday, 

August 5, 2009 starting at 6 p.m. to 9 

p.m. or until the last public comment is 

received. 

ADDRESSES: You may mail or hand-carry 

written comments to Dale Morris, 

Regional Director, Pacific Region, 

Bureau of Indian Affairs 2800 Cottage 

Way, Sacramento, California 95825. 

The public hearing will be held at: 

Hemet Public Library, 2nd Floor, 300 E. 

Latham, Hemet, CA 92543 

See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for 

locations where the DEIS will be 

available for review and instructions for 

submitting comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Rydzik, (916) 978–6051. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Soboba Band of Luisen ̃ o Indians (Tribe) 

has requested the BIA to acquire 34 

parcels totaling 534.91± acres of land 

currently held in fee by the Tribe into 

trust, of which the Tribe proposes to 

develop approximately 55 acres into a 

destination hotel/casino complex. The 

Tribe proposes to relocate its existing 

casino, which presently resides on trust 

lands, to the project site. In addition to 

the fee-to-trust action and casino 

relocation, the proposed action also 

includes the development of a 300-room 

hotel, casino, restaurants, retail 

establishments, a convention center, an 

events arena, and a spa and fitness 

center, within a 729,500± square-foot 

complex. The proposed developments 

also include a Tribal fire station, and a 

12-pump gas station with a 6,000 

square-foot convenience store. 

Approximately 300 acres (56 percent) 

of the project site is incorporated in the 

City of San Jacinto, California, while the 

remainder is within unincorporated 

Riverside County, California. The 

proposed hotel and casino complex 

would be generally located at the 

intersection of Soboba Road and Lake 

Park Drive and abut the existing Soboba 

Springs Country Club. Lake Park Drive 

may or may not be realigned as part of 

the proposed action contingent upon 

consultation with the City of San 

Jacinto. 

The BIA, serving as the lead agency 

for compliance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 

published a Notice of Intent (NOI) to 

prepare the EIS for the proposed action 

in the Federal Register on December 14, 

2007. The EPA and the City of San 

Jacinto have accepted invitations to be 

cooperating agencies, as entities having 

jurisdiction by law or special expertise 

relevant to environmental issues. 

BIA held a public scoping meeting on 

January 8, 2008, at the Hemet Public 

Library in Hemet, California. From that 

scoping meeting, a range of project 

alternatives were developed and 

subsequently analyzed in the DEIS, 

including: (1) Proposed Action A— 

Hotel/Casino Complex with 

Realignment of Lake Park Drive; (2) 

Proposed Action B—Hotel/Casino 

Complex without Realignment of Lake 

Park Drive; (3) Reduced Hotel/Casino 

Complex; (4) Hotel and Convention 

Center (No Casino Relocation); (5) 

Commercial Enterprise (No Casino or 

Hotel); and (6) No Action alternative. 

Environmental issues addressed in the 

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DEIS include land resources; water 

resources; air quality; biological 

resources; cultural resources; economic 

and socioeconomic conditions; resource 

use patterns; public services; other 

values including noise, hazardous 

materials, and visual resources; 

cumulative effects; indirect effects; 

growth inducing effects; and mitigation 

measures. 

Directions for Submitting Comments 

Please include your name, return 

address, and the caption: ‘‘DEIS 

Comments, Soboba Band of Luisen ̃ o 

Indians’ Casino Project,’’ on the first 

page of your written comments and 

submit comments to the BIA address 

listed in the ADDRESSES section of this 

notice. 

Public Availability of the DEIS 

The DEIS will be available for review 

at: 

• The San Jacinto Public Library, 500 

Idyllwild Dr., San Jacinto, CA 92583, 

telephone (951) 654–8635; and 

• The Hemet Public Library, 2nd 

Floor, 300 E. Latham, Hemet, CA 92543, 

telephone (951) 765–2440. 

The DEIS is also available on the 

following Web site: http:// 

team.entrix.com/clientsite/soboba.nsf. 

To obtain a compact disk copy of the 

DEIS, please provide your name and 

address in writing to: Chief, Division of 

Environmental, Cultural Resource 

Management and Safety, Pacific 

Regional Office, Bureau of Indian 

Affairs, 2800 Cottage Way, Room W 

2820, Sacramento, CA 95825 or call the 

number listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

notice. Individual paper copies of the 

DEIS can be provided upon payment of 

the applicable printing cost for the 

number of copies requested. 

Public Comment Availability 

Written comments, including the 

names and addresses of respondents, 

will be available for public review at the 

BIA address shown in the ADDRESSES

section, during regular business hours, 8 

a.m. to 4:30 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. 

Authority 

This notice is published pursuant to 

section 1503.1 of the Council of 

Environmental Quality Regulations (40 

CFR parts 1500 through 1508) 

implementing the procedural 

requirements of the NEPA of 1969, as 

amended (42 U.S.C. 4371 et seq.), 

Department of the Interior Manual (516 

DM 1–6) and is in the exercise of 

authority delegated to the Principal 

Deputy Assistant Secretary—Indian 

Affairs by 209 DM 8.1. 

Dated: June 11, 2009. 

Larry Echo Hawk, 

Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs. 

[FR Doc. E9–15435 Filed 7–1–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[ES–956–1420–BJ; Group No. 553, 

Minnesota] 

Eastern States: Filing of Plat of Survey 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior 

ACTION: Notice of filing of plats of 

survey; Minnesota. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) will file the plats of 

survey of the lands described below in 

the BLM-Eastern States office in 

Springfield, Virginia, 30 calendar days 

from the date of publication in the 

Federal Register. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bureau of Land Management, 7450 

Boston Boulevard, Springfield, Virginia 

22153. Attn: Cadastral Survey. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

survey was requested by the Bureau of 

Land Management, Eastern States, 

Division of Lands and Renewable 

Resources, Milwaukee Field Office. 

The lands surveyed are: 

Fourth Principal Meridian, Minnesota 

The plat of survey represents the 

survey of an island in Kabetogama Lake, 

designated Tract No. 37, Township 69 

North, Range 20 West, of the Fourth 

Principal Meridian, in the State of 

Minnesota, and was accepted June 5, 

2009. 

The plat of survey represents the 

survey of an island in Kabetogama Lake, 

designated Tract No. 37, Township 69 

North, Range 21 West, of the Fourth 

Principal Meridian, in the State of 

Minnesota, and was accepted June 5, 

2009. 

We will place copies of the plats we 

described in the open files. They will be 

available to the public as a matter of 

information. 

If BLM receives a protest against a 

survey, as shown on the plat, prior to 

the date of the official filing, we will 

stay the filing pending our 

consideration of the protest. 

We will not officially file the plats 

until the day after we have accepted or 

dismissed all protests and they have 

become final, including decisions on 

appeals. 

Dated: June 23, 2009. 

Dominica Van Koten, 

Chief Cadastral Surveyor. 

[FR Doc. E9–15662 Filed 7–1–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–GJ–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLNM920000 L13100000 FI0000; NMNM– 

96574] 

Notice of Proposed Reinstatement of 

Terminated Oil and Gas Lease NMNM 

96574 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of reinstatement of 

terminated oil and gas lease. 

SUMMARY: Under the Class II provisions 

of Title IV, Public Law 97–451, the 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 

received a petition for reinstatement of 

oil and gas lease NMNM 96574 from the 

lessee, OXY USA, Inc., for lands in Lea 

County, New Mexico. The petition was 

filed on time and was accompanied by 

all the rentals due since the date the 

lease terminated under the law. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Margie Dupre, Bureau of Land 

Management, New Mexico State Office, 

P.O. Box 27115, Santa Fe, New Mexico 

87502 or at (505) 438–7520. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: No valid 

lease has been issued that affects the 

lands. The lessee agrees to new lease 

terms for rentals and royalties of $10.00 

per acre or fraction thereof, per year, 

and 162⁄3 percent, respectively. The 

lessee paid the required $500.00 

administrative fee for the reinstatement 

of the lease and $166.00 cost for 

publishing this Notice in the Federal 

Register. The lessee met all the 

requirements for reinstatement of the 

lease as set out in Section 31(d) and (e) 

of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 (30 

U.S.C. 188). We are proposing to 

reinstate lease NMNM 96574, effective 

the date of termination, October 1, 2008, 

under the original terms and conditions