Notice2022-23241
Notice of Availability of the Cedar Fields Proposed Resource Management Plan Amendment and Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Monument Resource Management Plan, Idaho
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Published
October 26, 2022
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentLand Management Bureau
Abstract
In compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA), and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, as amended, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared the Cedar Fields Proposed Resource Management Plan (RMP) Amendment and Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Monument Resource Management Plan, and by this notice is announcing the start of a 30-day protest period of the Proposed RMP Amendment.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 206 (Wednesday, October 26, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64814-64815]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-23241]
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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 Proposed Resource
Management Plan Amendment and Final 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 compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, as amended (NEPA), and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act
of 1976, as amended, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared
the Cedar Fields Proposed Resource Management Plan (RMP) Amendment and
Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Monument Resource
Management Plan, and by this notice is announcing the start of a 30-day
protest period of the Proposed RMP Amendment.
DATES: This notice announces the beginning of a 30-day protest period
to the BLM on the Proposed RMP Amendment. Protests must be postmarked
or electronically submitted on the BLM's ePlanning site by November 25,
2022.
ADDRESSES: The Proposed RMP Amendment/Final EIS is available on the BLM
ePlanning project website at <a href="https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/36660/510">https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/36660/510</a>. Documents pertinent to this proposal may be examined
online at <a href="https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/36660/510">https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/36660/510</a> and
at the Burley Field Office 15 East 200 South, Burley ID, 83318.
Instructions for filing a protest with the BLM for the Cedar Fields
Proposed RMP Amendment and Final EIS for the Monument RMP can be found
at: <a href="https://www.blm.gov/programs/planning-and-nepa/public-participation/filing-a-plan-protest">https://www.blm.gov/programs/planning-and-nepa/public-participation/filing-a-plan-protest</a> and at 43 CFR 1610.5-2.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Terrell Dobis, Planning and
Environmental Coordinator, Twin Falls District Office, telephone (208)
735-2075; address BLM Twin Falls District Office, 2878 Addison Ave. E,
Twin Falls, ID 83301; email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2a5e4e454843596a484647044d455c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e99d8d868b809aa98b8584c78e869f">[email protected]</span></a>. Individuals in the United
States who are deaf, deaf, blind, hard of hearing, or have a speech
disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access
telecommunications relay services for
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contacting Ms. Dobis. Individuals outside the United States should use
the relay services offered within their country to make international
calls to the point-of-contact in the United States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Cedar Fields Proposed RMP Amendment
would change the existing Monument RMP.
The Cedar Fields Proposed RMP Amendment/Final EIS analyzes
management options for the BLM-managed portions of the Cedar Fields
Project Area (Project Area) that were not evaluated in the EIS for the
1985 Monument RMP. 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-managed lands in the Project Area. This will be done in a
manner that maintains the values identified in the 1985 Monument RMP
and the 1999 American Falls Archaeological District (AFAD) 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 AFAD.
The BLM initiated the land use planning process on August 23, 2011,
through a Notice of Intent published in the Federal Register (76 FR
52687), which notified the public of a formal scoping period and
solicited 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
Cedar Fields Proposed RMP Amendment/Final EIS.
Comments received on the Cedar Fields Draft RMP Amendment/Draft EIS
were considered and incorporated as appropriate into the Proposed RMP
Amendment/Final EIS. Public comments resulted in the addition of
clarifying text but did not significantly change proposed decisions.
Protest of the Proposed RMP Amendment
BLM planning regulations state that any person who participated in
the preparation of the RMP and has an interest that will or might be
adversely affected by approval of the Proposed RMP Amendment may
protest its approval to the BLM. Protest on the Proposed RMP Amendment
constitutes the final opportunity for administrative review of the
proposed land use planning decisions prior to the BLM adopting an
approved RMP Amendment. Instructions for filing a protest with the BLM
regarding the Proposed RMP Amendment may be found online (see
ADDRESSES). All protests must be in writing and mailed to the
appropriate address or submitted electronically through the BLM
ePlanning project website (see ADDRESSES). Protests submitted
electronically by any means other than the ePlanning project website or
by fax will be invalid unless a hard copy of the protest is also
submitted. The BLM will render a written decision on each protest. The
protest decision shall be the final decision of the Department of the
Interior. Responses to valid protest issues will be compiled and
documented in a Protest Resolution Report made available following the
protest resolution online at: <a href="https://www.blm.gov/programs/planning-and-nepa/public-participation/protest-resolution-reports">https://www.blm.gov/programs/planning-and-nepa/public-participation/protest-resolution-reports</a>. Upon
resolution of protests, the BLM will issue a Record of Decision and
Approved RMP.
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)
Karen Kelleher,
BLM Idaho State Director.
[FR Doc. 2022-23241 Filed 10-25-22; 8:45 am]
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