[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 149 (Friday, August 6, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43268-43269]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-16628]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[212.LLIDT02000.L12200000.JX0000.241A0.4500154358]


Notice of Availability of the Cedar Fields Plan Amendment Draft 
Environmental Impact Statement for the Monument Resource Management 
Plan, Idaho

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 
1969, as amended (NEPA), and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act 
of 1976, as amended (FLPMA), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has 
prepared the Draft Monument Resource Management Plan (RMP) Amendment 
and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Cedar Fields 
Project Area and by this notice is announcing the opening of the public 
comment period.

DATES: To ensure that comments will be considered, the BLM must receive 
written comments on the Draft RMP Amendment/Draft EIS within 90 days 
following the date the Environmental Protection Agency publishes its 
Notice of Availability in the Federal Register. The BLM will announce 
future meetings or hearings at least 15 days in advance through public 
notices, media releases, and/or mailings.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments related to the Draft RMP Amendment/
Draft EIS by any of the following methods:
     Website: https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/36660/510.
     Email: [email protected].
     Fax: 208-677-6699.
     Mail: BLM Burley Field Office, 15 East 200 South, Burley, 
ID 83318.
    Copies of the Draft RMP Amendment/Draft EIS are available in the 
Burley Field Office at the above address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lisa Cresswell, Assistant Field 
Manager, Shoshone Field Office, telephone 208-732-7270; address BLM 
Burley Field

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Office, 15 East 200 South, Burley, ID 83318; email 
[email protected]. Persons who use a 
telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay 
Service (FRS) at 1-800-877-8339 to contact Ms. Cresswell. The FIRS is 
available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a message or question 
for Ms. Cresswell. You will receive a reply during normal business 
hours.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Draft RMP Amendment/Draft EIS for the 
Cedar Fields is now available. The BLM prepared this document in 
consultation with cooperating agencies and in accordance with NEPA, 
FLPMA, implementing regulations, the BLM's Land Use Planning Handbook 
(H-1601-1) and National Environmental Policy Handbook (H-1790-1), and 
other applicable law and policy.
    The Draft RMP Amendment/Draft EIS analyzes management options for 
the BLM-managed portions of Cedar Fields that were not evaluated in the 
EIS for the 1985 Monument Resource Management Plan. Its purpose is to 
consider a range of reasonable alternatives for managing recreation use 
while providing cultural resource protection on BLM-managed lands and 
adjacent U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR)-managed lands in Cedar 
Fields. This will be done in a manner that maintains the values 
identified in the 1985 Monument RMP and the 1999 American Falls 
Archaeological District (Archaeological District) listing on the 
National Register of Historic Places. The five alternatives range from 
reducing the area available for rock climbing and off-highway vehicle 
use, to limiting the type of rock climbing allowed in the 
Archaeological District to traditional climbing only.
    The BLM initiated the land use planning process on August 23, 2011, 
through a Notice of Intent published in the Federal Register, notifying 
the public of a formal scoping period and soliciting public 
participation in the planning process. The BLM held three scoping 
meetings in September and October 2011 in Pocatello, Burley, and 
American Falls, Idaho. Based on public input gathered during initial 
scoping, and from stakeholders throughout the process, the BLM 
formulated the five alternatives considered and analyzed in the Draft 
RMP Amendment/Draft EIS. Because nominations for the designation of 
Areas of Critical Environmental Concern were previously analyzed for 
the RMP, the BLM did not solicit new nominations during scoping for the 
amendment.
    Following the close of the public review and comment period, the 
Draft RMP Amendment/Draft EIS will be revised in preparation for its 
release as the Proposed RMP Amendment and Final EIS. The BLM will 
respond to substantive comments by making appropriate revisions to the 
document or explain why a comment did not warrant a change.
    Before including your address, phone number, email address, or 
other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be 
aware that your entire comment--including your personal identifying 
information--may be made publicly available at any time. While you can 
ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying 
information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be 
able to do so.
    Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1506.10, 43 CFR 1610.2.

John F. Ruhs,
BLM Idaho State Director.
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