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presentation on the Draft Carlsbad 

Resource Management Plan/ 

Environmental Impact Statement; 

Overviews on the Proposed Recreation 

Fee at the Rob Jaggers Campground, the 

Rio Bonito Wetlands Proposed Project, 

and District workload priorities, and 

updates on Area of Critical 

Environmental Concern guidance 

(ACEC) Plan, Fort Stanton Cave, and Oil 

and Gas Regulations Update. Additional 

agenda topics or changes to the agenda 

will be announced in local news 

releases. More information is available 

at https://www.blm.gov/site-page/getinvolved-pecos-district-rac. RAC 

meetings are open to the public. 

Public Disclosure of Comments: The 

meeting will include a public comment 

period which will begin at 2:00 p.m. 

and continue to 2:30 p.m. Depending on 

the number of persons wishing to 

comment and time available, the 

amount of time for individual oral 

comments may be limited. To allow for 

full consideration of information by the 

council members, written comments 

must be provided to Glen Garnand, 

Pecos District, New Mexico, 2909 West 

Second Street, Roswell, NM 88201; or 

by telephone (575) 627–0209, no later 

than December 5, 2017, to be made 

available to the RAC at the December 6, 

2017 meeting. All written comments 

received will be provided to the council 

members. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comments, please 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. Individuals who plan to attend 

and need special assistance, such as 

sign language interpretation, tour 

transportation or other reasonable 

accommodations, should contact the 

BLM as provided above. 

Authority: 43 CFR 1784.4–2. 

Melanie Barnes, 

Deputy State Director, Lands and Resources. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[AZ–P040–2017–1711–PH–1000–241A 

17X.LLAZP04000.L1711.PH0000] 

Notice of Availability of the Proposed 

Resource Management Plan 

Amendment/Final Environmental 

Impact Statement for Recreational 

Target Shooting in the Sonoran Desert 

National Monument, AZ 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969, as amended, and the Federal Land 

Policy and Management Act of 1976, as 

amended, the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) has prepared a 

proposed Resource Management Plan 

(RMP) Amendment and Final 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

for Recreational Target Shooting in the 

Sonoran Desert National Monument 

(SDNM) and by this Notice is 

announcing its availability. 

DATES: BLM planning regulations state 

that any person who meets the 

conditions as described in the 

regulations may protest the BLM’s 

proposed RMP Amendment/Final EIS. 

A person who meets the conditions and 

files a protest must file the protest 

within 30 days of the date that the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

publishes its Notice of Availability 

(NOA) in the Federal Register. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the Proposed RMP 

Amendment/Final EIS for Recreational 

Target Shooting in the SDNM have been 

sent to affected Federal, State, and local 

government agencies and to other 

stakeholders. Copies of the Proposed 

RMP Amendment/Final EIS are 

available for public inspection at the 

Lower Sonoran Field Office, 21605 

North 7th Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85027. 

Interested persons may also review the 

proposed RMP Amendment/Final EIS 

on the Internet at http://1.usa.gov/ 

1ZPyFSA. 

All protests must be in writing and 

mailed to one of the following 

addresses: 

Regular Mail: BLM Director (210), 

Attention: Protest Coordinator, WO– 

210, P.O. Box 71383, Washington, DC 

20024–1383. 

Overnight Delivery: BLM Director 

(210), Attention: Protest Coordinator, 

WO–210, 20 M Street SE., Room 

2134LM, Washington, DC 20003. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Wayne Monger, Monument Manager, 

telephone: 623–580–5683; address: 

Lower Sonoran Field Office, 21605 

North 7th Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 

85027; email: blm_az_

sdnmtargetshooting@blm.gov. Persons 

who use a telecommunications device 

for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Relay Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339 

to contact the above individual during 

normal business hours. FRS 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 

planning area covers nearly 496,400 

surface acres of south-central Arizona 

and lies within Maricopa and Pinal 

Counties. Population centers adjacent to 

the planning area include metropolitan 

Phoenix, and the communities of Ajo, 

Goodyear, Buckeye, Gila Bend, Mobile, 

and Maricopa. The planning area 

encompasses Federal- and Stateadministered lands as well as private 

lands. The BLM manages 486,400 

surface acres of public lands in the 

planning area, as well as 461,000 acres 

of (sub-surface) mineral estate. The State 

of Arizona manages 3,900 surface acres 

in the planning area, with the remaining 

6,100 surface acres being privately 

owned land. 

The BLM has prepared the Proposed 

RMP Amendment/Final EIS to address 

management of recreational target 

shooting in the SDNM and to address 

rulings by the U.S. District Court— 

District of Arizona. The Proposed RMP 

Amendment/Final EIS was required to 

analyze recreational target shooting in 

the SDNM due to a ruling by the U.S. 

District Court—District of Arizona that 

vacated portions of the 2012 Record of 

Decision, approved RMP, and Final EIS 

related to recreational target shooting 

throughout the SDNM, and remanded 

the decision to the BLM for 

reconsideration. The Court ordered the 

BLM to issue the decision for this 

amendment by September 30, 2017. The 

formal public scoping process for the 

RMP Amendment began on January 21, 

2016, with the publication of a Notice 

of Intent in the Federal Register (81 FR 

3463), and ended on March 21, 2016. 

The BLM held three public scoping 

meetings in February 2016. The BLM 

used public scoping comments to help 

identify planning issues that directed 

the formulation of alternatives and 

framed the scope of analysis in the Draft 

RMP Amendment/Draft EIS. The formal 

90-day public comment period for the 

Draft RMP Amendment/Draft EIS began 

on December 16, 2016, with the 

publication of a NOA by the 

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Federal Register (81 FR 91169), and 

ended on March 15, 2017. The BLM also 

published a NOA in the Federal 

Register (81 FR 90865) for the Draft 

RMP Amendment/Draft EIS. To allow 

the public an opportunity to review the 

Draft EIS, the BLM conducted five 

public meetings in January and 

February of 2017 at the following 

locations: BLM National Training 

Center, Phoenix; Arizona Game and 

Fish Department, Phoenix, Casa Grande, 

and Maricopa City; and Burton Barr 

Library, Phoenix. During the comment 

period, the BLM received 437 unique 

submittals containing 121 substantive 

comments from Federal, State, and local 

agencies; public and private 

organizations; and individuals. 

Following the public comment period 

on the Draft RMP Amendment/Draft 

EIS, comments were used to inform the 

proposed RMP Amendment and Final 

EIS. Public comments resulted in the 

addition of clarifying text, but did not 

significantly change proposed land use 

plan amendment decisions. The BLM 

responded to substantive comments and 

made appropriate revisions to the 

document, or explained why a comment 

did not warrant a change. 

The Proposed RMP Amendment/Final 

EIS evaluates five alternatives in detail, 

including the No Action Alternative 

(Alternative A) and four action 

alternatives (Alternatives B, C, D, and 

E). Alternative A, the No Action 

Alternative, provides that recreational 

target shooting on the SDNM will 

continue to be managed in accordance 

with land use planning guidance of the 

Lower Gila South Resource Management 

Plan of 1988, which did not include any 

management restrictions on recreational 

target shooting. Thus, the entire SDNM 

would be available for recreational 

target shooting. Under Alternative B, an 

area temporarily restricted from 

recreational target shooting, by order of 

the U.S. District Court, District of 

Arizona (approximately 10,599 acres or 

2.1 percent of the SDNM) would be 

permanently unavailable to recreational 

target shooting. The Final EIS identifies 

Alternative C as the BLM Proposed RMP 

Amendment. Alternative C would make 

recreational target shooting available in 

the Desert Back Country Recreational 

Management Zone only, resulting in 

approximately 53,300 acres, or 11 

percent of the SDNM, unavailable for 

this activity. Alternative C would 

protect the monument’s resources, 

objects, and values as well as the public 

health. Under Alternative D, 

recreational target shooting would be 

available only outside of designated 

wilderness areas, land managed for 

wilderness characteristics, and the Juan 

Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail 

Recreation Management Zone, resulting 

in approximately 320,317 acres, or 66 

percent of the SDNM, unavailable for 

this activity. Under Alternative E, the 

entire SDNM would be unavailable for 

recreational target shooting. 

Additionally, Alternative C is consistent 

with Department of the Interior 

Secretarial Order (SO) 3356 titled, 

‘‘Hunting, Fishing, Recreational 

Shooting, and Wildlife Conservation 

Opportunities and Coordination with 

States, Tribes, and Territories.’’ Within 

SO 3356, several sections speak to 

expanding or providing opportunities 

for ‘‘recreational shooting.’’ For 

example, Sec 4b.(1) speaks to amending 

‘‘National Monument Management 

Plans to include or expand hunting, 

recreational shooting, and fishing 

opportunities to the extent practicable 

under the law.’’ Whereas, Sec 4b.(6) 

requires Departmental Bureaus to 

‘‘incorporate analysis of the impacts of 

Federal land and water management 

actions on hunting, fishing, and 

recreational shooting access in planning 

and decisionmaking.’’ Although 

unstated in SO 3356, inherent therein is 

that public safety is paramount under 

actions taken to fulfill the Order. 

Further, responsible use of our public 

lands is necessary by all users for the 

continued enjoyment of these lands by 

the American people. 

The BLM will issue a Record of 

Decision for this planning effort after 

the 30-day protest period, the 60-day 

Governor’s Consistency Review, and 

after any protest resolution. 

Instructions for filing a protest with 

the BLM Director regarding the 

Proposed RMP/Final EIS may be found 

in the ‘‘Dear Reader’’ Letter of the 

proposed RMP Amendment/Final EIS 

for Recreational Target Shooting in the 

SDNM and at 43 CFR 1610.5–2. All 

protests must be in writing and mailed 

to the appropriate address, see the 

ADDRESSES section above. Emailed 

protests will not be accepted as valid 

protests unless the protesting party also 

provides the original letter by either 

regular or overnight mail postmarked by 

the close of the protest period. Under 

these conditions, the BLM will consider 

the emailed protest as an advance copy 

and it will receive full consideration. If 

you wish to provide the BLM with such 

advance notification, please direct 

emails to protest@blm.gov. 

Before including your phone number, 

email address, or other personal 

identifying information in your protest, 

you should be aware that your entire 

protest—including your personal 

identifying information—may be made 

publicly available at any time. While 

you can ask us in your protest 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, 40 CFR 

1506.10, 43 CFR 1610.2, 43 CFR 1610.5. 

Edward J. Kender, 

Field Manager, Lower Sonoran Field Office. 

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Federal Bureau of Investigation 

[OMB Number 1110–0015] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed eCollection; 

eComments Requested: Hate Crime 

Incident Report 

AGENCY: Federal Bureau of 

Investigation, Department of Justice. 

ACTION: 30-Day notice. 

SUMMARY: Department of Justice (DOJ), 

Federal Bureau of Investigation, 

Criminal Justice Information Services 

Division will be submitting the 

following information collection request 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. This proposed 

information collection was previously 

published in the Federal Register on 

August 16, 2017 allowing for a 60 day 

comment period. 

DATES: Comments are encourages and 

will be accepted for an additional 30 

day until November 20, 2017. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Written comments and/or suggestions 

regarding the items contained in this 

notice, especially the estimated public 

burden and associated response time, 

should be directed to Mrs. Amy Blasher, 

Unit Chief, Federal Bureau of 

Investigation, CJIS Division, Module E– 

3, 1000 Custer Hollow Road, Clarksburg, 

West Virginia 26306; facsimile (304) 

625–3566. Written comments and/or 

suggestions can also be sent to the 

Office of Management and Budget, 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Attention Department of Justice 

Desk Officer, Washington, DC 20503 or 

sent to OIRA_submissions@

omb.eop.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMAITON: Written 

comments and suggestions from the 

public and affected agencies concerning 

the proposed collection of information 

are encouraged. Your comments should 


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