[Federal Register: May 31, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 105)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[CA-660-02-1610-DS]
Notice of Availability of Draft California Desert Conservation
Area Plan Amendment for the Coachella Valley, Draft Trails Management
Plan and Draft Environmental Impact Statement
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Availability of Draft California Desert Conservation
Area (CDCA) Plan Amendment for the Coachella Valley, Draft Trails
Management Plan and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS).
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SUMMARY: In compliance with Title 43 Code of Federal Regulations (CFF)
Part 1610.2(f)(3) and Title 40 CFR part 1500, the Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) hereby gives notice that the Draft CDCA Plan Amendment
for the Coachella Valley, Draft Trails Management Plan, and DEIS is
available for public review and comment.
DATES: Comments will be accepted until 90-days have elapsed after
publication of notice in the Federal Register by the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA).
ADDRESSES: If you wish to comment, you may submit your comments by any
of several methods. You may mail comments to: James G. Kenna, Field
Manager; Bureau of Land Management, Palm Springs-South Coast Field
Office, P.O. Box 581260, North Palm Springs, CA 92258.
You may also comment via the Internet to emisquez@ca.blm.gov.
Please submit Internet comments as an ASCII file, avoiding the use of
special characters and any form of encryption. Please also include in
the subject line: ``Draft CDCA Plan Amendment and EIS'' and your name
and return address in your Internet message. If you do not receive a
confirmation from the system that we have received your Internet
message, contact Elena Misquez at (760) 251-4810. Finally, you may
hand-deliver comments to: Bureau of Land Management, Palm Springs-South
Coast Field Office, 690 W. Garnet Avenue, North Palm Springs, CA 92258.
Oral comments will be accepted and recorded at any of three public
meetings to be held during the month of July, 2002. Notice published in
local media will also be provided at least 15 days prior to the
scheduled public meetings.
Our practice is to make comments, including names and home
addresses of respondents, available for public review during regular
business hours. Individual respondents may request that we withhold
their home address from the record, which we will honor to the extent
allowable by law. There also may be circumstances in which we would
withhold from the record a respondent's identity, as allowable by law.
If you wish us to withhold your name and/or address, you must state
this prominently at the beginning of your comment. We will make all
submissions from organizations or businesses, and from individuals
identifying themselves as representatives or officials of organizations
or businesses, available for public inspection in their entirety.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elena Misquez at (760) 251-4810 or
emisquez@ca.blm.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A copy of the Draft CDCA Plan Amendment for
the Coachella Valley, Draft Trails Management Plan, and DEIS is
available for review via the internet at www.ca.blm.gov/palmsprings.
Electronic (on CD-ROM) and paper copies may also be obtained by
contacting Elena Misquez at the aforementioned addresses and phone
number.
This Draft CDCA Plan Amendment for the Coachella Valley and draft
Trails Management Plan is being developed in partnership with the
Coachella Valley Association of Governments (CVAG) in support of their
efforts to prepare a Coachella Valley Multi-Species Habitat
Conservation Area Plan (CVMSHCP). The Trails Management Plan will be
incorporated into the CVMSHCP. Upon completion of the environmental
impact statement/environmental impact report for the CVMSHCP, BLM may
adopt the CVMSHCP as an activity (implementation) level plan in
accordance with Bureau Manual guidance and the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). A separate record of decision will be
prepared for the CDCA Plan Amendment for the Coachella Valley in
accordance with the planning regulations at Title 43 CFR 1610 and NEPA.
Dated: May 6, 2002.
James G. Kenna,
Field Manager.
[FR Doc. 02-13475 Filed 5-30-02; 8:45 am]
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