[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 24 (Friday, February 4, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 5657]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-2223]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[NV-030-1492-ER]

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Navy Department


Notice of Availability for the Final Environmental Impact 
Statement, Bureau of Land Management Carson City and Battle Mountain, 
Nevada Field Offices and Department of the Navy, Naval Air Station 
Fallon, Nevada

AGENCY:  Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior and 
Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada, Department of the Navy.

COOPERATING AGENCIES:  Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Fish and 
Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Yomba 
Shoshone Tribe, Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe, Walker River Paiute 
Tribe, Nevada Division of Wildlife, Eureka, Lander, and Churchill 
County Commissions, and Kingston Town Board.

ACTION:  Notice of availability of a final environmental impact 
statement (EIS) for the Naval Air Station Fallon's proposed Fallon 
Range Training Complex Requirements.

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SUMMARY:  Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental 
Policy Act (NEPA) and 40 CFR 1500-1508 Council on Environmental Quality 
Regulations (CEQ), notice is given that the Bureau of Land Management 
(BLM) Carson City and Battle Mountain, Nevada Field Offices and the 
Department of the Navy (Navy) Naval Air Station Fallon have jointly 
prepared, with the assistance of a third-party consultant, a Final EIS 
on the proposed Fallon Range Training Complex Requirements, and has 
made the document available for public and agency review.

DATES:  Comments will be accepted until March 6, 2000.

ADDRESSES:  Comments should be sent to: Bureau of Land Management, 
Carson City Field Office, 5665 Morgan Mill Road, Carson City, NV 89701, 
Attn: Terri Knutson, Project Manager. Comments may also be sent via 
electronic mail to the following address: [email protected] or via 
fax: (775) 885-6147. A limited number of copies of the Draft EIS may be 
obtained at the above BLM Field Office in Carson City, NV, as well as, 
BLM Battle Mountain Field Office, 50 Bastian Road, Battle Mountain, NV 
89820. In addition, the Final EIS is available on the internet via the 
Carson City Field Office Home Page at: www.nv.blm.gov/carson.
    Comments, including names and addresses of respondents, will be 
available for public review at the above address during regular 
business hours (7:30 a.m.--5:00 p.m.), Monday through Friday, except 
holidays, and may be published as part of the EIS. Individual 
respondents may request confidentiality. If you wish to withhold your 
name or street address from public review or from disclosure under the 
Freedom of Information Act, you must state this prominently at the 
beginning of your written comment. However, we will not consider 
anonymous comments. Such requests will be honored to the extent allowed 
by law. All submissions from organizations or businesses, and from 
individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of 
organizations or businesses, will be made available for public 
inspection in their entirety.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Terri Knutson, Carson City BLM, at 
(775) 885-6156 or Gary Foulkes, Battle Mountain BLM, at (775) 635-4060, 
or John Smith, NAS Fallon, at (775) 426-2101.
    After the review period ends for the Final EIS, comments will be 
analyzed and considered jointly by the BLM and the Navy in preparing 
the Record of Decision (ROD).

    Dated: January 25, 2000.
John Singlaub,
Manager, BLM Carson City.

    Dated: January 24, 2000.
RADM T.R. Beard,
Commander, Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center Fallon.
[FR Doc. 00-2223 Filed 2-3-00; 8:45 am]
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