Notice2021-16628
Notice of Availability of the Cedar Fields Plan Amendment Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Monument Resource Management Plan, Idaho
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Published
August 6, 2021
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentLand Management Bureau
Abstract
In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA), and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, as amended (FLPMA), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared the Draft Monument Resource Management Plan (RMP) Amendment and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Cedar Fields Project Area and by this notice is announcing the opening of the public comment period.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 149 (Friday, August 6, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43268-43269]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-16628]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[212.LLIDT02000.L12200000.JX0000.241A0.4500154358]
Notice of Availability of the Cedar Fields Plan Amendment Draft
Environmental Impact Statement for the Monument Resource Management
Plan, Idaho
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, as amended (NEPA), and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act
of 1976, as amended (FLPMA), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has
prepared the Draft Monument Resource Management Plan (RMP) Amendment
and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Cedar Fields
Project Area and by this notice is announcing the opening of the public
comment period.
DATES: To ensure that comments will be considered, the BLM must receive
written comments on the Draft RMP Amendment/Draft EIS within 90 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 at least 15 days in advance through public
notices, media releases, and/or mailings.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments related to the Draft RMP Amendment/
Draft EIS by any of the following methods:
<bullet> Website: <a href="https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/36660/510">https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/36660/510</a>.
<bullet> Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#cba9a7a694a2af94a6a4a5bea6aea5bfa8aab8b8a2aab9a6bbaaa6aea5af8ba9a7a6e5aca4bd"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="680a040537010c370507061d050d061c0b091b1b01091a051809050d060c280a0405460f071e">[email protected]</span></a>.
<bullet> Fax: 208-677-6699.
<bullet> Mail: BLM Burley Field Office, 15 East 200 South, Burley,
ID 83318.
Copies of the Draft RMP Amendment/Draft EIS are available in the
Burley Field Office at the above address.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lisa Cresswell, Assistant Field
Manager, Shoshone Field Office, telephone 208-732-7270; address BLM
Burley Field
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Office, 15 East 200 South, Burley, ID 83318; email
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e88a8485b7818cb78587869d858d869c8b899b9b81899a859889858d868ca88a8485c68f879e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="97f5fbfac8fef3c8faf8f9e2faf2f9e3f4f6e4e4fef6e5fae7f6faf2f9f3d7f5fbfab9f0f8e1">[email protected]</span></a>. Persons who use a
telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay
Service (FRS) at 1-800-877-8339 to contact Ms. Cresswell. The FIRS is
available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a message or question
for Ms. Cresswell. You will receive a reply during normal business
hours.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Draft RMP Amendment/Draft EIS for the
Cedar Fields is now available. The BLM prepared this document in
consultation with cooperating agencies and in accordance with NEPA,
FLPMA, implementing regulations, the BLM's Land Use Planning Handbook
(H-1601-1) and National Environmental Policy Handbook (H-1790-1), and
other applicable law and policy.
The Draft RMP Amendment/Draft EIS analyzes management options for
the BLM-managed portions of Cedar Fields that were not evaluated in the
EIS for the 1985 Monument Resource Management Plan. Its purpose is to
consider a range of reasonable alternatives for managing recreation use
while providing cultural resource protection on BLM-managed lands and
adjacent U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR)-managed lands in Cedar
Fields. This will be done in a manner that maintains the values
identified in the 1985 Monument RMP and the 1999 American Falls
Archaeological District (Archaeological District) listing on the
National Register of Historic Places. The five alternatives range from
reducing the area available for rock climbing and off-highway vehicle
use, to limiting the type of rock climbing allowed in the
Archaeological District to traditional climbing only.
The BLM initiated the land use planning process on August 23, 2011,
through a Notice of Intent published in the Federal Register, notifying
the public of a formal scoping period and soliciting public
participation in the planning process. The BLM held three scoping
meetings in September and October 2011 in Pocatello, Burley, and
American Falls, Idaho. Based on public input gathered during initial
scoping, and from stakeholders throughout the process, the BLM
formulated the five alternatives considered and analyzed in the Draft
RMP Amendment/Draft EIS. Because nominations for the designation of
Areas of Critical Environmental Concern were previously analyzed for
the RMP, the BLM did not solicit new nominations during scoping for the
amendment.
Following the close of the public review and comment period, the
Draft RMP Amendment/Draft EIS will be revised in preparation for its
release as the Proposed RMP Amendment and Final EIS. The BLM will
respond to substantive comments by making appropriate revisions to the
document or explain why a comment did not warrant a change.
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.
Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1506.10, 43 CFR 1610.2.
John F. Ruhs,
BLM Idaho State Director.
[FR Doc. 2021-16628 Filed 8-5-21; 8:45 am]
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