[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 230 (Wednesday, December 1, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74742-74743]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-30190]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
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Notice of Extension of Public Comment Period to Notice of
Availability of the Draft Jarbidge Field Office Resource Management
Plan and Environmental Impact Statement, Idaho
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of extension.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) published a Notice of
Availability of the Draft Jarbidge Field Office Resource Management
Plan (RMP) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) in the Federal
Register on September 3, 2010 [75 FR 54177] and
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announced the availability of these documents. In response to multiple
requests, the BLM is extending the public comment period for the Draft
RMP and Draft EIS until January 31, 2010.
DATES: The comment period is extended to January 31, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the Jarbidge Field Office Draft RMP/Draft EIS have
been sent to tribal governments, Federal, state, and local government
agencies and other stakeholders. Copies of the Draft RMP/Draft EIS are
available for public inspection at the Jarbidge Field Office, Bureau of
Land Management, 2536 Kimberly Road, Twin Falls, Idaho 83301.
Interested persons may also review the Draft RMP/Draft EIS at the
following Web site: http://www.blm.gov/id/st/en/prog/planning/jarbidge_resource.html. You may submit comments by any of the
following methods:
E-mail: [email protected].
Fax: (208) 736-2375, Attention: Jarbidge Planning Team.
Mail: Jarbidge Planning Team, BLM Jarbidge Field Office,
2536 Kimberly Road, Twin Falls, Idaho 83301.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Richard Vander Voet, Jarbidge Field
Office Manager, or Aimee Betts, Jarbidge RMP Project Manager, telephone
(208) 736-2350; address Jarbidge Field Office, 2536 Kimberly Road, Twin
Falls, Idaho 83301. Before including your address, phone number, e-mail
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.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Draft RMP/Draft EIS addresses public
land and resources managed by the Jarbidge Field Office in parts of
Elmore, Owyhee, and Twin Falls Counties in south-central Idaho and Elko
County in northern Nevada. These lands and resources are currently
managed under the 1987 Jarbidge RMP, as amended. The planning area
extends from the Bruneau River on the west to Salmon Falls Creek on the
east, and from the Snake River on the north to the northern boundaries
of the BLM Elko Field Office and the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest
on the south.
The Jarbidge RMP addresses management on approximately 1.4 million
acres of public land and 1.6 million acres of Federal mineral estate in
the Jarbidge Field Office. Planning decisions in the RMP will only
apply to the BLM-administered public lands and mineral estate in the
planning area.
The Draft RMP/Draft EIS includes a series of management actions,
within six management alternatives, designed to achieve or maintain
desired future conditions that have been defined through the planning
process for various concerns including, but not limited to: vegetation,
livestock grazing, recreation, energy development, and Areas of
Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC).
Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 1506.10 and 43 CFR 1610.2, 1610.5.
Steven A. Ellis,
Bureau of Land Management, Idaho State Director.
[FR Doc. 2010-30190 Filed 11-30-10; 8:45 am]
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