Notice of Availability of the Supplement to the Draft Stateline Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement

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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