[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 109 (Wednesday, June 5, 1996)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 28545-28547]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-14095]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

43 CFR Parts 6000-9000

[WO-340-1220-00-24 1A]
RIN 1004-AC87


Preservation and Conservation Health, Safety, and Enforcement

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Advance notice of proposed rulemaking.

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SUMMARY: In response to President Clinton's Government-wide regulatory 
reform initiative, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has conducted a 
page-by-page review of its regulations to determine which should be 
eliminated, revised, or moved to internal guidelines. The purpose of 
this notice is to share with the public how the BLM plans to 
restructure Parts 6000-9000 of Title 43 CFR into a more streamlined, 
user-friendly framework. The notice has no regulatory text.

DATES: Comments must be received by July 5, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Send Comments to the mail address: Regulatory Management 
Team (420), Bureau of Land Management, 1849 C Street, NW., Room 401LS, 
Washington, D.C. 20240, OR the Internet address: 
[email protected] [For Internet, please include ``Attn: 
AC87'', your name and return address.] You may also hand deliver 
comments to the BLM Regulatory Management Team, Room 401, 1620 L 
Street, NW., Washington, D.C.
    Comments will be available for public review at the L Street 
address during regular business hours, from 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., 
Monday through Friday.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Frances Watson, Regulatory Management Team, at 202-452-5006.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 4, 1996, President Clinton issued a 
Memorandum to all Federal Departments and Agencies directing them to 
simplify their regulations. In response to this directive, the BLM 
reviewed its regulations using the following criteria:
     Is the regulation current?
     Can the regulation be eliminated without negative 
consequences?
     Is the regulation's subject matter better suited for 
policy statements or manual/handbook guidance?
     Can the regulation be easily understood?
    This Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking shows how the BLM plans 
to reorganize, renumber and retitle 43 CFR Parts 6000-9000; it includes 
no regulatory text. The text for these parts will be available in the 
near future when the BLM publishes proposed rulemaking in the Federal 
Register for public review and comment. Some of the proposed 
regulations will be revised substantively; some merely will be 
rewritten in a more readable format; some will be removed. We will 
provide detailed explanations for our actions when the proposed 
rulemakings are published in the Federal Register.
    Under the Regulatory Reform effort, the BLM has revoked some 
unnecessary regulations in previous issues of the Federal Register, and 
will publish reinvention proposals in coming issues in a continuing 
effort to implement the President's plan.
    For convenience, this preamble includes two charts. The first chart 
shows the new framework for 43 CFR Parts 6000-9000. The second is a 
conversion chart for these parts, which shows the existing parts and 
the corresponding new parts. It also indicates the parts that have been 
deleted and will be deleted, and lists the disposition of those parts 
that will be moved out of Parts 6000-9000 to other parts of Title 43 of 
the Code of Federal Regulations.

Framework for 43 CFR Parts 6000-9000

SUBCHAPTER F--PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION (6000)

Part
6000  [Reserved]
6100  Wildlife Management
6200  Wild Free-Roaming Horses & Burros
6300  Wilderness and Primitive Areas
6400  Wild and Scenic Rivers
6500  Areas of Critical Environmental Concern
6600  Paleontological Resources

SUBCHAPTER G--HEALTH, SAFETY, AND ENFORCEMENT (7000)

7100  Trespass
7200  Law Enforcement, Criminal

SUBCHAPTERS H-I [RESERVED]

7300-9000  [Reserved]

               Conversion Table for 43 CFR Parts 6000-9000              
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                                          New                           
            Existing parts               parts           Comments       
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6000.................................      6100                         
4700, 4710, 4720, 4730, 4740, 4750,        6200                         
 4760, 4770.2, 4770.3.                                                  
8500, 8560.0 (All sections), 8560.1,       6300                         
 8560.1-1, 8560.2, 8560.3, 8560.4                                       
 (All sections), 8560.5(b).                                             
8350, 8351...........................      6400                         
1610.7-2.............................      6500                         
3622, 8224, 8365.1-5(b)..............      6600                         
9230.................................      7100                         
4770.1, 4770.4, 4770.5, 8340.0-7,          7200                         
 8341.1, 8343, 8343.1, 8560.1-2,                                        
 8560.5(a), 9000, 9239, 9260, 9261,                                     
 9262, 9263, 9264, 9265, 9266, 9267,                                    
 9268, 9269.                                                            
6220.................................  ........  Removed 11/30/95, 60 FR
                                                  61487.                
8000.................................  ........  Removed 04/09/96, 61 FR
                                                  15753.                
8100.................................  ........  To be removed.         
8200, 8223                             ........  To be removed.         
8300                                   ........  Removed 04/09/96, 61 FR
                                                  15753.                
8342.3...............................  ........  Moved to new Part 1500.
8340.0-1, 8340.0-2, 8340.0-3, 8340.0-  ........  Moved to Part 1600.    
 5, 8340.0-8, 8341.2, 8342.1, 8342.2.                                   
8344.................................  ........  Moved to Part 2920.    
8360.0 (All sections), 8361, 8362,     ........  To be removed.         
 8363, 8364, 8365.0, 8365.1, 8365.1-                                    
 1, 8365.1-2, 8365.1-3, 8365.1-4,                                       
 8365.1-5(a), 8365.1-6, 8365.1-7,                                       
 8365.2 (All sections).                                                 
8370, 8371...........................  ........  To be removed.         
8372.................................  ........  Moved to Part 2920.    

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8400.................................  ........  Removed 04/09/96, 61 FR
                                                  15722.                
8600.................................  ........  To be removed.         
9100, 9180, 9183, 9185...............  ........  Moved to Part 2000.    
9210.................................  ........  To be removed.         
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    Dated: May 24, 1996.
Bob Armstrong,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior.
[FR Doc. 96-14095 Filed 6-4-96; 8:45 am]
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