[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 154 (Friday, August 8, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46331-46332]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-18193]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[ID-420-1610-DQ-034D]
Notice of Availability of the Proposed Cottonwood Resource
Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement; 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 (NEPA, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and the Federal Land Policy and
Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA, 43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the Bureau of
Land Management (BLM) has prepared a Proposed Resource Management Plan/
Final Environmental Impact Statement (PRMP/FEIS) for the Cottonwood
Field Office, Idaho.
DATES: The BLM Planning Regulations (43 CFR 1610.5-2) state that any
person who participated in the planning process, and has an interest
which is or may be adversely affected, may protest BLM's approval of a
Resource Management Plan. You must file a protest within 30 days of the
date that the Environmental Protection Agency publishes their Notice of
Availability in the Federal Register. Instructions for filing of
protests are described in the Dear Reader letter of the Cottonwood
PRMP/FEIS and in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice.
To ensure compliance with the protest regulations, please consult BLM's
Planning Regulations at 43 CFR 1610.5-2.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dean Huibregtse, RMP Team Lead, BLM
Cottonwood Field Office, 1 Butte Drive, Cottonwood, ID 83522; (208)
962-3784; or Dean_Huibregtse@blm.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The planning area covers approximately
143,830 acres of public lands within the following Idaho Counties:
Latah, Clearwater, Nez Perce, Lewis, Idaho and Adams. The Cottonwood
RMP, when completed, will provide management guidance for use and
protection of the resources managed by the Cottonwood Field Office. The
Draft Cottonwood RMP/EIS was published for public comment on August 25,
2006. During the 90-day public comment period BLM received 30 comment
letters, e-mails, and faxes containing 376 individual comments.
Comments on the Draft RMP/EIS from the public and internal BLM review
comments were incorporated into the proposed plan. Public comments
resulted in the addition of clarifying text and minor changes to the
Preferred Alternative, but did not significantly change proposed land
use decisions. The planning issues addressed in the PRMP/FEIS include:
invasive plant species, forest vegetation, special status species,
watershed management, transportation and travel management, commercial
land uses, fuels reduction treatments, public land management and
recreational demands.
Copies of the Cottonwood PRMP/FEIS have been sent to affected
Federal, State and Local Government agencies and to interested parties.
Copies of the PRMP/FEIS are available for public inspection at the BLM
Cottonwood Field Office at the address shown above. Interested persons
may review the PRMP/FEIS on the Internet at http://www.blm.gov/rmp/id/
cottonwood/. You may also obtain a copy on CD-ROM, or paper copy at the
BLM Cottonwood Office at the address listed above, or by contacting
Dean Huibregtse at (208) 962-3784.
As noted above, instructions for filing a protest with the Director
of the BLM regarding the PRMP/FEIS may be found at 43 CFR 1610.5-2. A
protest may only raise those issues which were submitted for the record
during the planning process. E-mail and faxed 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, BLM will
consider the e-mail or faxed protest as an advance copy
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and it will receive full consideration. If you wish to provide the BLM
with such advance notification, please direct faxed protests to the
attention of the BLM protest coordinator at 202-452-5112, and e-mails
to Brenda_Hudgens-Williams@blm.gov.
All protests including the follow-up letter (if e-mailing or
faxing) must be in writing and mailed to one of the following
addresses:
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Regular mail: Overnight mail:
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Director (210), Attention: Brenda Hudgens- Director (210), Attention:
Williams, P.O. Box 66538, Washington, DC Brenda Hudgens-Williams,
20035. 1620 L Street, NW., Suite
107, Washington, DC 20036.
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Before including your address, phone number, e-mail 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.
Thomas H. Dyer,
Idaho State Director.
[FR Doc. E8-18193 Filed 8-7-08; 8:45 am]
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