[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 206 (Wednesday, October 26, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64814-64815]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-23241]


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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 Proposed Resource 
Management Plan Amendment and Final 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 compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 
1969, as amended (NEPA), and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act 
of 1976, as amended, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared 
the Cedar Fields Proposed Resource Management Plan (RMP) Amendment and 
Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Monument Resource 
Management Plan, and by this notice is announcing the start of a 30-day 
protest period of the Proposed RMP Amendment.

DATES: This notice announces the beginning of a 30-day protest period 
to the BLM on the Proposed RMP Amendment. Protests must be postmarked 
or electronically submitted on the BLM's ePlanning site by November 25, 
2022.

ADDRESSES: The Proposed RMP Amendment/Final EIS is available on the BLM 
ePlanning project website at https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/36660/510. Documents pertinent to this proposal may be examined 
online at https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/36660/510 and 
at the Burley Field Office 15 East 200 South, Burley ID, 83318.
    Instructions for filing a protest with the BLM for the Cedar Fields 
Proposed RMP Amendment and Final EIS for the Monument RMP can be found 
at: https://www.blm.gov/programs/planning-and-nepa/public-participation/filing-a-plan-protest and at 43 CFR 1610.5-2.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Terrell Dobis, Planning and 
Environmental Coordinator, Twin Falls District Office, telephone (208) 
735-2075; address BLM Twin Falls District Office, 2878 Addison Ave. E, 
Twin Falls, ID 83301; email [email protected]. Individuals in the United 
States who are deaf, deaf, blind, hard of hearing, or have a speech 
disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access 
telecommunications relay services for

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contacting Ms. Dobis. Individuals outside the United States should use 
the relay services offered within their country to make international 
calls to the point-of-contact in the United States.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Cedar Fields Proposed RMP Amendment 
would change the existing Monument RMP.
    The Cedar Fields Proposed RMP Amendment/Final EIS analyzes 
management options for the BLM-managed portions of the Cedar Fields 
Project Area (Project Area) that were not evaluated in the EIS for the 
1985 Monument RMP. 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-managed lands in the Project Area. This will be done in a 
manner that maintains the values identified in the 1985 Monument RMP 
and the 1999 American Falls Archaeological District (AFAD) 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 AFAD.
    The BLM initiated the land use planning process on August 23, 2011, 
through a Notice of Intent published in the Federal Register (76 FR 
52687), which notified the public of a formal scoping period and 
solicited 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 
Cedar Fields Proposed RMP Amendment/Final EIS.
    Comments received on the Cedar Fields Draft RMP Amendment/Draft EIS 
were considered and incorporated as appropriate into the Proposed RMP 
Amendment/Final EIS. Public comments resulted in the addition of 
clarifying text but did not significantly change proposed decisions.

Protest of the Proposed RMP Amendment

    BLM planning regulations state that any person who participated in 
the preparation of the RMP and has an interest that will or might be 
adversely affected by approval of the Proposed RMP Amendment may 
protest its approval to the BLM. Protest on the Proposed RMP Amendment 
constitutes the final opportunity for administrative review of the 
proposed land use planning decisions prior to the BLM adopting an 
approved RMP Amendment. Instructions for filing a protest with the BLM 
regarding the Proposed RMP Amendment may be found online (see 
ADDRESSES). All protests must be in writing and mailed to the 
appropriate address or submitted electronically through the BLM 
ePlanning project website (see ADDRESSES). Protests submitted 
electronically by any means other than the ePlanning project website or 
by fax will be invalid unless a hard copy of the protest is also 
submitted. The BLM will render a written decision on each protest. The 
protest decision shall be the final decision of the Department of the 
Interior. Responses to valid protest issues will be compiled and 
documented in a Protest Resolution Report made available following the 
protest resolution online at: https://www.blm.gov/programs/planning-and-nepa/public-participation/protest-resolution-reports. Upon 
resolution of protests, the BLM will issue a Record of Decision and 
Approved RMP.
    Before including your phone number, email address, or other 
personal identifying information in your protest, you should be aware 
that your entire protest--including your personal identifying 
information--may be made publicly available at any time. While you can 
ask us in your protest 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; 43 CFR 
1610.5)

Karen Kelleher,
BLM Idaho State Director.
[FR Doc. 2022-23241 Filed 10-25-22; 8:45 am]
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