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to leasing the federal coal that is located 

on USFS-administered lands. 

The Black Thunder Mine, Jacobs 

Ranch Mine, and North Antelope 

Rochelle Mine are operating under 

approved mining permits from the 

WDEQ Land Quality and Air Quality 

Divisions. 

If the tracts are leased to existing 

mines, the new leases must be 

incorporated into the existing mining 

and reclamation plans for the adjacent 

mines. Before the Federal coal in each 

tract can be mined, the Secretary of the 

Interior must approve the revised 

Mineral Leasing Act (MLA) mining plan 

for the mine in which each tract will be 

included. OSM is the Federal agency 

that is responsible for recommending 

approval, approval with conditions, or 

disapproval of the revised MLA mining 

plan to the Office of the Secretary of the 

Interior. 

The DEIS analyzes and discloses to 

the public the direct, indirect, and 

cumulative environmental impacts 

associated with leasing six Federal coal 

tracts in the Wyoming portion of the 

Powder River Basin. A copy of the DEIS 

has been sent to affected Federal, State, 

and local government agencies; persons 

and entities identified as potentially 

being affected by a decision to lease the 

Federal coal in each of the tracts; and 

persons who indicated to the BLM that 

they wished to receive a copy of the 

DEIS. The purpose of the public hearing 

is to solicit comments on the DEIS, on 

the proposed competitive sales of the 

six Federal coal lease maintenance 

tracts, and on the FMV and MER of the 

Federal coal. 

The DEIS analyzes leasing the six 

Wright Area coal tracts as the Proposed 

Action. Under the Proposed Action, a 

competitive sale would be held and a 

lease issued for Federal coal contained 

in the tracts as applied for by each of the 

applicants. As part of the coal leasing 

process, the BLM is evaluating adding 

additional Federal coal to the tracts to 

avoid bypassing coal or to prompt 

competitive interest in unleased Federal 

coal in the area. The alternate tract 

configurations for each of the LBAs that 

BLM is evaluating are described and 

analyzed as separate alternatives in the 

DEIS. Under these alternatives, 

competitive sales would be held and 

leases would be issued for Federal coal 

lands included in tracts modified by the 

BLM. The DEIS also analyzes the 

alternative of rejecting the application(s) 

to lease Federal coal as the No Action 

Alternative. The Proposed Actions and 

alternatives for each of the LBAs being 

considered in the DEIS are in 

conformance with the Approved 

Resource Management Plan for Public 

Lands Administered by the Bureau of 

Land Management Buffalo Field Office 

(2001) and the USDA-Forest Service 

Land and Resource Management Plan 

for the Thunder Basin National 

Grassland (2002). 

Requests to be included on the 

mailing list for this project and requests 

for copies of the DEIS may be sent in 

writing, by fax, or electronically to the 

addresses previously stated at the 

beginning of this notice. For those 

submitting comments on the DEIS, 

please make the comments as specific as 

possible with reference to page numbers 

and sections of the document. 

Comments that contain only opinions or 

preferences will not receive a formal 

response; however, they will be 

considered as part of the BLM decisionmaking process. 

Please note that public comments and 

information submitted to the BLM 

including the commenter’s name, street 

address, and e-mail address will be 

available for public review and 

disclosure at the above address during 

regular business hours (7:45 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: 40 CFR 1506.6. 

Mary E. Trautner, 

Acting Associate State Director. 

[FR Doc. E9–16048 Filed 7–7–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[ID–957–1420–BJ] 

Idaho: Filing of Plats of Survey 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of filing of plats of 

surveys. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) has officially filed 

the plats of survey of the lands 

described below in the BLM Idaho State 

Office, Boise, Idaho, effective 9 a.m., on 

the dates specified. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bureau of Land Management, 1387 

South Vinnell Way, Boise, Idaho 83709– 

1657. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: These 

surveys were executed at the request of 

the Bureau of Land Management to meet 

their administrative needs. The lands 

surveyed are: 

The plat representing the dependent 

resurvey of a portion of the 

subdivisional lines and the subdivision 

of sections 4, 9, 10, 11, and 12 in T. 11 

N., R. 16 E., Boise Meridian, Idaho, 

Group Number 1264, was accepted 

April 28, 2009. 

The field notes representing the 

perpetuation of Angle Point Number 1, 

in section 27 in T. 9 S., R. 20 E., Boise 

Meridian, Idaho, Group Number 1000, 

were accepted May 7, 2009. 

The plat representing the dependent 

resurvey of portions of the south 

boundary, subdivisional lines, and 

subdivision of section lines, and the 

subdivision of sections 26, 29, 32, 33, 

and 34, and the metes-and-bounds 

survey of lot 2 in section 20, T. 7 S., R. 

35 E., Boise Meridian, Idaho, Group 

Number 1148, was accepted May 7, 

2009. 

The supplemental plat of section 20, 

lots 1 and 2, T. 7 S., R. 35 E., Boise 

Meridian, Idaho, was prepared to amend 

certain erroneous acreages as depicted 

on the plat accepted May 7, 2009. 

The plat representing the dependent 

resurvey of a portion of the south 

boundary and a portion of the 

subdivisional lines, and subdivision of 

sections 27 and 34, T. 14 S., R. 22 E., 

Boise Meridian, Idaho, Group Number 

1276, was accepted June 25, 2009. 

Dated: July 2, 2009. 

Stanley G. French, 

Chief Cadastral Surveyor for Idaho. 

[FR Doc. E9–16149 Filed 7–7–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–GG–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLORB00000.L10600000.HG0000; HAG 09– 

0224] 

Notice of Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

DOI. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) Burns District has 

scheduled a public meeting to discuss 

agency procedures for gathering wild 

horses and how helicopters and other 

motorized equipment help the process. 

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The public is encouraged to attend and 

hear information from BLM about the 

issue. 

DATES: Thursday, August 13, 2009, 5:30 

p.m. PDT. 

ADDRESSES: Harney County Senior 

Center, 17 South Alder, in Burns, 

Oregon. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tara 

Martinak, (541) 573–4519, or 

Tara_Martinak@blm.gov or the Burns 

District Office, 28910 Hwy 20 West, 

Hines, Oregon 97738. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BLM 

estimates about 36,000 wild horses and 

burros are roaming on BLMadministered rangelands in 10 Western 

states. Wild horses and burros have 

virtually no natural predators and their 

herd sizes can double about every four 

years. As a result, the agency must 

remove thousands of animals from the 

range each year to control herd sizes. 

The estimated current free-roaming 

population is 9,400 more than the level 

that the BLM has determined can exist 

in balance with other public rangeland 

resources and uses. Oregon/Washington 

BLM averages 400–500 horses gathered 

annually from public lands. For 2009, 

gathers are tentatively planned for Herd 

Management Areas within the Burns, 

Lakeview, and Prineville Districts. 

Dated: July 1, 2009. 

Approved: 

Kenny McDaniel, 

District Manager. 

[FR Doc. E9–16145 Filed 7–7–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–33–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLAZP01000–09–L14300000.ES0000; AZA– 

32053] 

Notice of Realty Action; Recreation 

and Public Purposes (R&PP) Act 

Classification; Arizona 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of realty action. 

SUMMARY: The following public lands in 

Maricopa County, Arizona, have been 

examined by the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) and found suitable 

for classification for lease and/or 

conveyance to the Town of Buckeye 

under the provisions of the R&PP Act, 

as amended, 43 United States Code 

(U.S.C.) 869 et seq., and under Sec. 7 of 

the Taylor Grazing Act, 43 U.S.C. 315(f), 

and Executive Order No. 6910. 

Gila and Salt River Meridian 

T. 2 N., R. 3 W., 

Sec. 4, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, S1⁄2N1⁄2, and 

S1⁄2; 

Sec. 5, lot 1, SE1⁄4NE1⁄4, and E1⁄2SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 8, E1⁄2E1⁄2; 

Sec. 9; 

Sec. 14, W1⁄2; 

secs. 15 and 17; 

Sec. 18, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, and E1⁄2E1⁄2; 

Sec. 19, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, and E1⁄2E1⁄2; 

Secs. 20, 21, and 22; 

Sec. 26, S1⁄2; 

Sec. 27, N1⁄2, N1⁄2S1⁄2, SE1⁄4SW1⁄4, and 

S1⁄2SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 28, N1⁄2, N1⁄2S1⁄2, S1⁄2SW1⁄4, and 

SW1⁄4SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 29; 

Sec. 33, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, W1⁄2NE1⁄4, 

NW1⁄4, and N1⁄2S1⁄2; 

Sec. 34, lot 1, N1⁄2NE1⁄4, and NE1⁄4NW1⁄4; 

Sec. 35, NE1⁄4NE1⁄4, E1⁄2NW1⁄4NE1⁄4, and 

W1⁄2NW1⁄4NW1⁄4. 

The area described contains 8675.36 acres 

in Maricopa County. 

The Town of Buckeye has applied for 

more than the 6,400 acre limitation for 

recreation uses in a year. Under the 

provisions of the R&PP Act, BLM will 

not lease or convey more than 6,400 

acres (with limited exceptions) to the 

Town of Buckeye in any one calendar 

year. 

The Town of Buckeye has submitted 

a statement in compliance with the 

regulations at 43 Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR) 2741.4(b). The Town 

of Buckeye proposes to use the land as 

open space and for recreational park 

purposes. Related facilities will include 

hiking trails, picnicking and camping 

areas, restroom facilities, and parking. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

August 24, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Detailed information 

including, but not limited to, a proposed 

development plan and documentation 

relating to compliance with applicable 

environmental and cultural resource 

laws is available for review at the 

Bureau of Land Management, Phoenix 

District, 21605 North 7th Avenue, 

Phoenix, Arizona 85027. Written 

comments should also be directed to 

this address. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jo 

Ann Goodlow, Realty Specialist, at 623– 

580–5548. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The lands 

are not needed for any Federal 

purposes. 

Lease and/or conveyance of the lands 

for recreational or public purposes use 

is consistent with the BLM Amendment 

and Environmental Assessment to the 

Lower Gila North Management 

Framework Plan and the Lower Gila 

South Resource Management Plan dated 

July 2005, and would be in the public 

interest. 

All interested parties will receive a 

copy of this notice once it is published 

in the Federal Register. The notice will 

be published in the newspaper of local 

circulation for 3 consecutive weeks. 

Upon publication of this notice in the 

Federal Register, the lands will be 

segregated from all other forms of 

appropriation under the public land 

laws, including the general mining laws, 

except for lease or conveyance under 

the R&PP Act and leasing under the 

mineral leasing laws. 

The lease and/or patent of the land, if 

issued, will be subject to the following 

terms, conditions, and reservations: 

1. A right-of-way thereon for ditches 

and canals constructed by the authority 

of the United States Act of August 30, 

1890, 26 Statute (Stat.) 391 (43 U.S.C. 

945). 

2. Provisions of the R&PP Act and to 

all applicable regulations of the 

Secretary of the Interior, including, but 

not limited to, those terms required by 

43 CFR 2741.9. 

3. All minerals shall be reserved to 

the United States, together with the 

right to prospect for, mine, and remove 

the minerals. 

4. All valid existing rights 

documented on the official public land 

records at the time of lease or patent 

issuance. 

5. CERCLA Term: ‘‘Pursuant to the 

requirements established by Section 

120(h) of the Comprehensive 

Environmental Response, Compensation 

and Liability Act, (42 U.S.C. 9620 (h)) 

(CERCLA), as amended by the 

Superfund Amendments and 

Reauthorization Act of 1988, (100 Stat. 

1670) notice is hereby given that the 

above-described land has been 

examined and no evidence was found to 

indicate that any hazardous substances 

had been stored for one year or more, 

nor had any hazardous substances been 

disposed of or released on the subject 

property.’’ 

6. Indemnification Term: ‘‘All lessees, 

purchasers, or patentees, by accepting a 

lease or patent, covenant and agree to 

indemnify, defend, and hold the United 

States harmless from any costs, 

damages, claims, causes of action, 

penalties, fines, liabilities, and 

judgments of any kind or nature arising 

from the past, present, and future acts 

or omissions of the patentees or their 

employees, agents, contractors, or 

lessees, or any third party, arising out of 

or in connection with the lessee’s/ 

patentee’s use, occupancy, or operations 

on the patented real property. This 

indemnification and hold harmless 

agreement includes, but is not limited 

to, acts and omissions of the lessee/ 

patentee and their employees, agents, 

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