[Federal Register: October 19, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 201)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[NV-030-1492-00]

 
Notice of Availability and Extension of Comment Period for the 
Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Bureau of Land Management, Carson 
City and Battle Mountain, Nevada Field Offices and Department of the 
Navy, Naval Air Station, Fallon, NV

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior and Naval 
Air Station Fallon, Nevada, Department of the Navy.

COOPERATING AGENCIES: Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Fish and 
Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Yomba 
Shoshone Tribe, Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe, Walker River Paiute 
Tribe, Nevada Division of Wildlife, Eureka, Lander, and Churchill 
County Commissions, and Kingston Town Board.

ACTION: Notice of availability and extension of comment period of a 
draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Naval Air Station 
Fallon's proposed Fallon Range Training Complex Requirements.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102 (2) (C) of the National Environmental 
Policy Act (NEPA) and 40 CFR 1500-1508 Council on Environmental Quality 
Regulations (CEQ), notice is given that the Bureau of Land Management 
(BLM) Carson City and Battle Mountain, Nevada Field Offices and the 
Department of the Navy (Navy) Naval Air Station Fallon have jointly 
prepared, with the assistance of a third-party consultant, a Draft EIS 
on the proposed Fallon Range Training Complex Requirements, and has 
made the document available for public and agency review. The original 
Notice of Availability was published by the Environmental Protection 
Agency and the BLM in the Federal Register on August 13, 1999 and 
provided for a 60-day comment period with comments due on October 13, 
1999. Five public hearings to receive comments on the Draft EIS were 
conducted in Eureka, Austin, Gabbs, Fallon, and Reno, NV in September, 
1999.

DATES: Comments will be accepted until November 12, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to: Bureau of Land Management, 
Carson City Field Office, 5665 Morgan Mill Road, Carson City, NV 89701, 
Attn: Terri Knutson, Project Manager. Comments may also be sent via

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electronic mail to the following address: tknutson@nv.blm.gov or via 
fax: (775) 885-6147. A limited number of copies of the Draft EIS may be 
obtained at the above BLM Field Office in Carson City, NV, as well as, 
BLM Battle Mountain Field Office, 50 Bastian Road, Battle Mountain, NV 
89820. In addition, the Draft EIS is available on the internet via the 
Carson City Field Office Home Page at: www.nv.blm.gov/carson.
    Comments, including names and addresses of respondents, will be 
available for public review at the above address during regular 
business hours (7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.), Monday through Friday, except 
holidays, and may be published as part of the EIS. Individual 
respondents may request confidentiality. If you wish to withhold your 
name or street address from public review or from disclosure under the 
Freedom of Information Act, you must state this prominently at the 
beginning of your written comment. However, we will not consider 
anonymous comments. Such requests will be honored to the extent allowed 
by law. All submissions from organizations or businesses, and from 
individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of 
organizations or businesses, will be made available for public 
inspection in their entirety.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Terri Knutson, Carson City BLM, at 
(775) 885-6156 or Gary Foulkes, Battle Mountain BLM, at (775) 635-4060, 
or Larry Jones, NAS Fallon, at (775) 426-2405.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Naval Air Station Fallon completed the 
Fallon Range Training Complex Requirements Document in November 1998 
which identifies and updates Navy training on public and Navy-owned 
lands in central Nevada. This Draft EIS analyzes the environmental 
impacts associated with the proposed action, three action alternatives, 
and the no action alternative.
    To assist the BLM and Navy in identifying and considering issues 
and concerns regarding the proposed action and alternatives, comments 
on the Draft EIS should be as specific as possible. It is also helpful 
if comments refer to specific pages or chapters in the document. 
Comments may address the adequacy of the Draft EIS and/or the merits of 
the alternatives formulated and discussed in the document.
    After the extended comment period ends for the Draft EIS, comments 
will be analyzed and considered jointly by the BLM and the Navy in 
preparing the Final EIS.

    Dated: October 13, 1999.
Karl Kipping,
Associate Manager, Carson City Field Office.
[FR Doc. 99-27271 Filed 10-18-99; 8:45 am]
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