[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 82 (Monday, April 29, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20991-20992]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-10431]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[NV-030-1610-DO-033F]


Notice of Intent To Prepare an Amendment to the Carson City Field 
Office Consolidated Resource Management Plan

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Intent to conduct public scoping meetings and solicit 
scoping comments in the preparation of an Environmental Impact 
Statement and an amendment to the Carson City Field Office Consolidated 
Resource Management Plan.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Carson City Field Office, 
the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, the Yerington Paiute Tribe, 
Douglas County, Lyon County, Carson City, other State and Federal 
agencies, and interested citizens and organizations will jointly 
prepare an amendment to the Carson City Field Office Consolidated 
Resource Management Plan. The planning area is composed of 
approximately 400,000 acres of BLM-managed public land, Public Domain 
Individual Indian Allotments, and intermingled private lands in the 
Pine Nut Mountains, east of Carson City, Nevada. The Environmental 
Impact Statement, will analyze the impacts of the proposed plan 
amendment and alternatives.
    Issues identified during preliminary internal BLM scoping include:
    (1) Urban Interface Management, (2) Off Highway Vehicle Use and 
Management, (3) Recreation/Visual and Scenic Resources, (4) Lands and 
Land Tenure Issues, (5) Wildlife and Threatened and Endangered Species 
Management, (6) Livestock Management, (7) Wild Horse Population 
Management, (8) Fire Management, (9) Cultural Resource Management, (10) 
Native American Issues, (11) Minerals, (12) Air Quality, (13) Water 
Resources, (14) Soils and Noxious Weeds, (15) Special Areas, (16) 
Hazardous Wastes/Materials. State and Federal Agency resource 
specialists, Native Americans, and individuals with expertise in the 
disciplines and issues listed above will participate in preparation of 
this plan amendment.

DATES: Public participation opportunities will be provided by the 
collaborative nature of this planning process in addition to those 
prescribed by BLM planning and NEPA regulations. BLM has engaged a 
diverse

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group of local government representatives, State agency personnel, 
other Federal agencies, members of the Washoe Tribe and the Yerington 
Paiute Tribe, organizations, and interested citizens to jointly prepare 
the Pine Nut Mountain Plan Amendment. Public scoping meetings will be 
held in conjunction with the Douglas and Lyon County regularly 
scheduled County Commissioner meetings and the Carson City Board of 
Supervisors meetings. Public participation activities, including 
scoping meetings to identify issues and planning criteria, will be 
announced at least 15 days before the scheduled meeting in the local 
news media and notices sent to persons and parties on the mailing list. 
These meetings will be held in order to allow the public an opportunity 
to identify issues and concerns to be addressed in the plan amendment 
and environmental analysis. Scoping comments will be accepted until 
March 31, 2002, or 60 days from the publication of this notice, 
whichever is later. Scoping comments may be submitted during the public 
meetings or sent to: Field Office Manager, Bureau of Land Management, 
5665 Morgan Mill Road, Carson City, NV 89701.
    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. 
Such requests will be honored to the extent allowed by law. All 
submissions from organizations and businesses, and from individuals 
identifying themselves as representatives or officials of organizations 
or businesses, will be available for public inspection in their 
entirety.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information, write to 
the Field Manager of the Carson City Field Office at the address listed 
in the DATES section of this notice, call or email Tom Crawford (BLM 
Team Leader) at (775) 885-6169, or Mike McQueen (BLM NEPA Coordinator) 
at (775) 885-6120.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The proposed plan amendment schedule is as 
follows:

Begin Public Scoping and Planning Criteria Review--January, 2002
Release Draft Plan Amendment/EIS for 90-day Public Review--April, 2003
Release Proposed Plan Amendment and Final EIS for 60-day Governor's 
Consistency
Review and concurrent 30-day public protest period--April, 2004
Issue Plan Amendment and Record of Decision--June, 2004

    The Carson City Field Office Consolidated Resource Management Plan 
and the Pre-Plan Analysis and Project Management Plan for the Pine Nut 
mountains Plan Amendment are available at the Carson City Field Office.

Preliminary Planning Criteria

    Preliminary planning criteria have been developed to ensure that 
the plan amendment is tailored to the issues identified and ensure that 
unnecessary data collection and analysis would be avoided. These 
criteria may change in response to public comment and coordination with 
State and local governments or other Federal agencies. The criteria 
developed for the Pine Nut Mountains Plan Amendment are described 
below.
    1. Any lands located within the Pine Nut Mountains Planning Area 
administrative boundary, which are acquired by the BLM, will be managed 
in a manner consistent with the plan subject to any constraints 
associated with the acquisition.
    2. The plan will recognize the State's responsibility to manage 
wildlife.
    3. The plan will address transportation and access.
    4. The planning process will involve Native American tribal 
governments and will provide strategies for the consideration of 
recognized traditional uses.
    5. Decisions in the plan will strive to be consistent with the 
existing plans and policies of adjacent local, State, Tribal and 
Federal agencies, to the extent consistent with Federal law.
    6. Plan will support BLM's noxious weed policy as outlined in the 
Partners Against Weeds document (January 1996) and the CCFO's Weed 
Prevention Schedule (1997).
    7. GIS and metadata information will meet FGDC EO 12906 (June 8, 
1994) standards.

    Dated: December 11, 2001.
John O. Singlaub,
Field Office Manager.
[FR Doc. 02-10431 Filed 4-26-02; 8:45 am]
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