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

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[LLNVS01000.L13400000.DJ0000 241A MO# 4500074734]

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 for public comment until

January 7, 2015. In response to multiple requests and because the

comment period includes the holiday season, the BLM is extending the

public comment period for the Draft RMP and Draft EIS until February 6,

2015.

DATES: The comment period is extended to February 6, 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, 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.

Amy L. Lueders,

State Director, Nevada.

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