Notice2023-28673
Notice of Availability of the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Approval of Herbicide Active Ingredients for Use on Public Lands
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Published
December 29, 2023
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 (FLPMA), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces the availability of the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Approval of Herbicide Active Ingredients for Use on Public Lands.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 249 (Friday, December 29, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 90199-90200]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-28673]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[BLM_HQ_FRN_MO4500176406]
Notice of Availability of the Final Programmatic Environmental
Impact Statement for Approval of Herbicide Active Ingredients for Use
on Public Lands
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 (FLPMA), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
announces the availability of the final Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS) for the Approval of Herbicide Active Ingredients for Use on
Public Lands.
DATES: The BLM will not issue a decision on the proposal for a minimum
of 30 days after the date that the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) publishes its Notice of Availability
[[Page 90200]]
(NOA) in the Federal Register. The EPA usually publishes its NOAs on
Fridays.
ADDRESSES: The final EIS and documents pertinent to this proposal are
available for review on the BLM ePlanning project website at <a href="https://go.usa.gov/xtk6a">https://go.usa.gov/xtk6a</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Seth Flanigan, Project Manager,
telephone: 208-373-4094; email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f88b9e949996919f9996b89a9495d69f978e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d1a2b7bdb0bfb8b6b0bf91b3bdbcffb6bea7">[email protected]</span></a>. Individuals in the
United States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have a
speech disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access
telecommunications relay services for contacting Mr. Flanigan.
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: This document provides notice that the BLM
has prepared a final programmatic EIS for a review of active
ingredients that may be approved for use in vegetation treatments on
BLM-managed public lands.
Purpose and Need for the Proposed Action
The BLM's purpose and need is to improve the effectiveness of its
invasive plant management efforts by allowing the use of EPA-registered
active ingredients not currently authorized for use on BLM public
lands. Approving additional active ingredients would diversify the
BLM's herbicide treatment options and help meet the purposes that were
first identified in the 2007 and 2016 programmatic EISs related to
vegetation treatments, which are to make herbicides available for
vegetation treatment on public lands and to describe the stipulations
that apply to their use.
Proposed Action and Alternatives
The proposed action is to approve the following herbicide active
ingredients for use in vegetation treatments on public lands:
aminocyclopyrachlor, clethodim, fluozifop-p-butyl, flumioxazin,
imazamox, indaziflam, and oryzalin. These active ingredients are
registered by the EPA. As part of the process for evaluating whether to
approve these active ingredients, the BLM will adopt and depend on
Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessments prepared by the U.S.
Forest Service.
Schedule for the Decision-Making Process
The BLM anticipates releasing a Record of Decision in January 2024.
Responsible Official
Assistant Director for Resources and Planning.
Nature of Decision To Be Made
Through this process, the BLM will decide whether to approve the
seven additional herbicide active ingredients identified earlier for
use on BLM-managed public lands. This decision will be based on the
best available science and current needs for vegetation management. Any
authorization to apply any of these active ingredients at a particular
site will be made through a separate, site-specific decision and so is
not within the scope of the programmatic EIS or potential decision
described in this notice.
Public Participation
In addition to making the draft programmatic EIS available for
public comment and review, the BLM hosted a virtual public meeting
during the public comment period. The agency received 46 comments,
which were incorporated in the final programmatic EIS as appropriate.
In coordination with comments received from Native American Tribes, the
BLM emphasizes, in the EIS, the need to coordinate with local Tribes
during implementation-level analyses and authorizations to reduce and
avoid impacts to Tribes that may gather and use native plant materials
for cultural or subsistence purposes.
Comments on the draft EIS received from the public and from
internal BLM review were considered and incorporated as appropriate
into the final EIS. These comments resulted in the addition of
clarifying text but did not significantly change the impact analysis.
(Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1506.10)
Brian St George,
Acting Assistant Director for Resources and Planning.
[FR Doc. 2023-28673 Filed 12-28-23; 8:45 am]
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