[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 25 (Friday, February 6, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 6747]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-02371]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[LLNVS01000.L13400000.DJ0000 241A MO# 4500076407]


Notice of Extension of the Public Comment Period for the Notice 
of Availability of the Las Vegas and Pahrump Field Offices Draft 
Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement, Nevada

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) published a Notice of 
Availability for the Las Vegas and Pahrump Field Offices Draft Resource 
Management Plan (RMP) and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) in 
the Federal Register on October 10, 2014 [FR Doc. 2014-24135] and 
announced the availability of these documents. On December 23, 2014, 
the BLM announced the extension the public comment period for the Draft 
RMP and Draft EIS until February 6, 2015 in the Federal Register [FR 
Doc. 2014-29923]. In response to requests, the BLM is extending the 
public comment period for the Draft RMP and Draft EIS until March 9, 
2015.

DATES: The comment period is extended to March 9, 2015.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments related to the Las Vegas and Pahrump 
Field Offices Draft RMP/Draft EIS by any of the following methods:
     Web site: http://tinyurl.com/qzvaht7.
     Email: [email protected].
     Fax: 702-515-5023.
     Mail: BLM Southern Nevada District Office, Las Vegas/
Pahrump Field Offices Draft RMP/Draft EIS, 4701 N. Torrey Pines Drive, 
Las Vegas, NV 89130.
    Copies of the Las Vegas and Pahrump Field Offices Draft RMP/Draft 
EIS are available in the Southern Nevada District Office at the above 
address or on the following Web site http://tinyurl.com/qzvaht7

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lee Kirk, RMP Team Lead, telephone: 
702- 515-5026; address: 4701 N. Torrey Pines Drive, Las Vegas, NV 
89130; email: [email protected]. Persons who use a 
telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 to contact the above 
individual during normal business hours. The FIRS is available 24 hours 
a day, 7 days a week, to leave a message or question with the above 
individual. You will receive a reply during normal business hours.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Las Vegas and Pahrump Field Offices 
Draft RMP/Draft EIS would replace the existing 1998 Las Vegas Field 
Office RMP. The Draft RMP/Draft EIS was developed through a 
collaborative planning process. The Las Vegas and Pahrump Field Offices 
Draft RMP/Draft EIS decision area encompasses approximately 3.1 million 
acres of public land administered by the BLM Southern Nevada District 
in Clark and Southern Nye counties, Nevada. It does not include private 
lands, State lands, Indian reservations, Federal lands not administered 
by BLM or lands addressed in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation 
Area RMP (2005) and Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area RMP (2006). 
The Las Vegas and Pahrump Field Offices Draft RMP/Draft EIS includes 
goals, objectives and management actions for protecting and preserving 
natural resources which includes air quality, soil and water resources, 
vegetation, fish and wildlife, special status species, wild horses and 
burros, wildland fire management, cultural and paleontological 
resources, visual resource values, and lands with wilderness 
characteristics. Multiple resource uses are addressed which include 
management and forage allocations for livestock grazing; delineation of 
lands open, closed, or subject to special stipulations or mitigation 
measures for minerals development; recreation and travel management 
designations; management of lands and realty actions, including 
delineation of avoidance and exclusion areas applicable to rights-of-
ways (ROWs), land tenure adjustments, and solar and wind energy 
development. The planning effort will consider establishment of a 
national trail management corridor for the congressionally-designated 
Old Spanish National Historic Trail. Eligible river segments will be 
evaluated for suitability as components of the National Wild and Scenic 
River System and 23 new Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACECs) 
are proposed. The ACECs are proposed to protect natural and cultural 
resource values and traditional Native American use areas.

    Authority:  40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1506.10, 43 CFR 1610.2.

Raul Morales,
Acting State Director, Nevada.
[FR Doc. 2015-02371 Filed 2-5-15; 8:45 am]
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