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[FR Doc No: 94-13247]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[NV-050-4410-08]
Notice of Availability of the Supplement to the Draft Stateline
Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: The Supplement to the Draft Stateline Resource Management Plan
and Environmental Impact Statement (RMP/EIS) is available to the public
for a 90 day review period. The purpose of this supplement is to
analyze four additional issues: (1) Ephemeral/perennial rangeland
classification; (2) utility corridors; (3) mineral management in
Wilderness Study Areas not designated by Congress; and (4) implications
of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) Draft Tortoise Recovery
Plan and Proposed Critical Habitat. These four issues have implications
to all of the resources of the area, therefore a complete Alternative E
was developed for consideration in this Supplement.
DATES: All written comments on the Supplement to the Draft RMP/EIS must
be submitted to BLM in person or postmarked no later than August 19,
1994.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be addressed to: Stateline Resource
Area Manager, Attn. RMP Team Leader, Bureau of Land Management, 4765
Vegas Drive, P.O. Box 26569, Las Vegas, NV 89126.
Copies of the Supplement to the Draft RMP/EIS may be obtained from
the above BLM Las Vegas District Office.
Public reading copies are available for review at the public
libraries of Clark and Nye Counties, all government depository
libraries and at the following BLM locations:
Office of External Affairs, Main Interior Building, room 5000, 1849
C Street, NW., Washington, DC
Public Room, Nevada State Office, 850 Harvard Way, Reno, Nevada
Las Vegas District Office at the above address
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jerry Wickstrom, RMP Team Leader, at BLM's Las Vegas District Office
listed above or telephone (702) 647-5000.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Supplement to the Draft is a complete
alternative, Alternative E, to the five previous alternatives analyzed
in the Draft RMP/EIS. All of these alternatives, along with public
comment received during review of the Draft and also this Supplement,
will be considered in preparation of a Proposed Resource Management
Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement.
The Supplement to the Draft provides resource recommendations that
differ from the previous alternatives. Major variations include
ephemeral/perennial range classification, revision and relocation of
utility corridors, opening of wilderness study areas to mineral
development if Congress does not designate, and incorporation of desert
tortoise critical habitat and the Draft Desert Tortoise Recovery Plan.
Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACECs) for protection of the
desert tortoise have been reduced in size from the Preferred
Alternative of the Draft RMP/EIS.
During the 90 day comment period, public workshops may be held to
discuss specific issues of the Supplement. Dates and location of these
workshops will be announced at least 15 days prior to the meetings.
Public requests for specific workshops will be considered during the 90
day comment period.
No public hearings are scheduled to be held on this Supplement.
Dated: May 13, 1994.
Ronald B. Wenker,
Acting State Director, Nevada.
[FR Doc. 94-13247 Filed 5-31-94; 8:45 am]
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