[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 144 (Friday, July 25, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43471-43472]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-17115]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[ID-300-2824-DS-PJ04]


Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision for the Fire, 
Fuels and Related Vegetation Management Direction Plan Amendment

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Availability.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces the availability 
of the Record of Decision (ROD) for the Fire, Fuels and Related 
Vegetation Management Direction Plan Amendment located in south central 
and southeastern Idaho.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the Fire, Fuels and Related Vegetation Management 
Direction Plan Amendment ROD are available upon request from the 
Pocatello Field Office, Bureau of Land Management, 4350 Cliffs Drive, 
Pocatello, Idaho 83204, phone 208-478-6340, or it can be downloaded in 
its entirety at http://www.blm.gov/id/st/en/prog/planning/fire_fuels_and_related.html via the Internet.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Terry Lee Smith, Project Manager, 4350 
Cliffs Drive, Pocatello, Idaho 83204, phone 208-478-6340, e-mail 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Fire, Fuels and Related Vegetation 
Management Direction Plan Amendment (hereafter referred to as the Plan 
Amendment) was developed with broad public participation through a 
five-year collaborative planning process. It addresses management on 
approximately 5 million acres of public land comprising the Burley, 
Shoshone, Pocatello and Upper Snake Field Offices in south-central and 
southeastern Idaho. Twelve land use plans were amended upon signing of 
the ROD by the Idaho State Director.
    The Plan Amendment incorporates the National Fire Plan's Cohesive 
Strategy and the Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy of 1995, as 
revised, into existing BLM land use plans. The purpose of the plan 
amendments is to:
     Establish fire management guidance, objectives, policies, 
and management actions;
     Identify resource goals and methods, including desired 
future condition of the fire-related vegetation resources, and 
management actions necessary to achieve objectives;
     Form the basis to update fire management plans and 
integrate them with allotment management plans, wildlife management 
plans, recreation management plans, Idaho Standards for Rangeland 
Health and Guidelines for Livestock Grazing, and other applicable 
plans, to the greatest extent possible; and
     Provide consistent land use plan level direction to enable 
incremental steps toward a long-term resource goal of conditions that 
minimize risk to human life and property and maintain or restore 
vegetation that is resistant to catastrophic wildfire.
    The approved Plan Amendment is Alternative E in the Proposed Fire, 
Fuels and Related Vegetation Management Direction Amendment and Final 
EIS published in February 2008. The Plan Amendment institutes 
management direction that will promote the maintenance or restoration 
of the sagebrush steppe ecosystem and its associated wildlife species, 
including sage grouse, as well as the maintenance and restoration of 
forested vegetation types.
    All protests received by the BLM regarding the plan amendment have 
been addressed. No inconsistencies with State or local plans, policies, 
or programs were identified during the Governor's consistency review of 
the proposed plan.

    Dated: June 19, 2008.
Thomas H. Dyer,
Idaho State Director, Bureau of Land Management.
[FR Doc. E8-17115 Filed 7-24-08; 8:45 am]
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