[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 35 (Wednesday, February 22, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 9144]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-2425]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[CA-190-05-1610-DT]


Notice of Availability of Record of Decision for the Clear Creek 
Management Area Resource Management Plan Amendment and Route 
Designations

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability of record of decision.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 
1969, the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, and the 
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) management policies, the BLM announces 
the availability of the Record of Decision (ROD) for the Clear Creek 
Management Area (CCMA) Resource Management Plan Amendment (RMPA) and 
Route Designations. CCMA is located in San Benito and western Fresno 
counties in California. In accordance with BLM regulations, 43 Code of 
Federal Regulation 1610.5-2(b), all protests to the Director on 
planning decisions were resolved prior to approving the ROD. The 
decision of the Director is the final decision for land use planning 
decisions of the Department of the Interior. The ROD was signed on 
January 13, 2006 and was effective immediately.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the ROD are available upon request from the 
Hollister Field Office, Bureau of Land Management, 20 Hamilton Court 
Hollister, CA 95023 or e-mail, [email protected]. An electronic 
copy of the ROD is also available on-line at http://www.ca.blm.gov/hollister.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: George Hill, Hollister Field Office 
Manager, Address: 20 Hamilton Court, Hollister, CA 95023, Telephone: 
(831) 630-5000 E-mail address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The CCMA ROD/Approved RMPA was developed 
with broad public participation through a three year collaborative 
planning process. The CCMA ROD and RMPA address BLM management on 
approximately 63,000 acres of public land in the planning area. The 
CCMA ROD/Approved RMPA is designed to achieve or maintain desired 
future conditions developed through the planning process. It includes a 
series of management actions to meet the desired resource conditions 
for recreation resources, watershed resources, and special status 
species. The CCMA ROD/Approved RMPA is essentially the same as the 
proposed action in the CCMA Proposed Resource Management Plan/Final 
Environmental Impact Statement (PRMP/FEIS), published in September 
2005. BLM received eleven protests to the PRMP/FEIS. No inconsistencies 
with State or local plans, policies, or programs were identified during 
the Governor's consistency review of the PRMP/FEIS. As a result, only 
minor modifications were made in preparing the CCMA ROD and Approved 
RMPA. These modifications corrected errors that were noted during 
review of the PRMP/FEIS and provide further clarification for some of 
the decisions. The CCMA ROD includes a section titled ``Changes to the 
Proposed RMP Amendment'' that identifies the location of the 
corrections in the Clear Creek Management Area Record of Decision and 
Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment.

    Dated: December 30, 2005.
J. Anthony Danna,
Deputy State Director, Resources.
[FR Doc. E6-2425 Filed 2-21-06; 8:45 am]
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