[Federal Register: April 4, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 65)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[OR-026-1610-DE; GP01-0131]
Steens Mountain Advisory Council; Notice of Intent to Establish
and Call for Nominations
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Burns District, Oregon.
ACTION: Notice of intent to establish and call for nominations for the
Steens Mountain Advisory Council under the Steens Mountain Cooperative
Management and Protection Act of 2000 (PL 106-399).
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SUMMARY: BLM is publishing this notice under section 9(a)(2) of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act. Pursuant to the Steens Mountain
Cooperative Management and Protection Act of 2000, (Pub. L. 106-399),
BLM gives notice that the Secretary of the Interior intends to
establish the Steens Mountain Advisory Council (Council). The notice
requests the public to submit nominations for membership on the
Council. The Council is necessary to advise the Secretary and BLM on
resource management issues associated with the Steens Mountain
Cooperative Management and Protection Area (CMPA).
DATES: Submit a completed nomination form and nomination letters to the
address listed below no later than May 4, 2001.
ADDRESSES: Send nominations to: Burns District Manager, Burns District
Office, Bureau of Land Management, HC 74-12533, Hwy. 20 West, Hines,
Oregon, 97738.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rhonda Karges, Management Support
Specialist, (541) 573-4433, or Rhonda Karges@or.blm.gov or from the
following web sites http://www.or.blm.gov/Burns or http://
www.or.blm.gov/steens.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Any individual or organization may nominate
one or more persons to serve on the Steens Mountain Advisory Council.
Individuals may nominate themselves for Council membership. You may
obtain nomination forms from the Burns District Office, Bureau of Land
Management (see ADDRESSES, above). To make a nomination, you must
submit a completed nomination form, letters of reference from the
represented interests or organizations, as well as any other
information that speaks to the nominee's qualifications, to the Burns
District Office. You may make nominations for the following categories
of interest:
A private landowner in the CMPA (appointed from nominees
submitted by the county court of Harney County);
Two persons who are grazing permittees on Federal lands in
the CMPA (appointed from nominees submitted by the county court of
Harney County);
A person interested in fish and recreational fishing in
the CMPA (appointed from nominees submitted by the Governor of Oregon);
A member of the Burns Paiute Tribe (appointed from
nominees submitted by the Burns Paiute Tribe);
Two persons who are recognized environmental
representatives, one of whom represents the State as a whole, and one
of whom is from the local area (appointed from nominees submitted by
the Governor of Oregon);
A person who participates in what is commonly called
dispersed recreation, such as hiking, camping, nature viewing, nature
photography, bird watching, horse back riding, or trail walking
(appointed from nominees submitted by the Bureau of Land Management);
A person who is a recreation permit holder or is a
representative of a commercial recreation operation in the CMPA
(appointed from nominees submitted by the county court of Harney County
and the Bureau of Land Management);
A person who participates in what is commonly called
mechanized or consumptive recreation, such as hunting, fishing, off-
road driving, hang gliding, or parasailing (appointed from nominees
submitted by the Bureau of Land Management);
A person with expertise and interest in wild horse
management on Steens Mountain (appointed from nominees submitted by the
Bureau of Land Management);
A person who has no financial interest in the CMPA to
represent statewide interests (appointed from nominees submitted by the
Bureau of Land Management).
The specific category the nominee would like to represent should be
identified in the letter of nomination and in the nomination form. The
Burns District will collect the nomination forms and letters of
reference and distribute them to the officials responsible for
submitting nominations (county court of Harney County, the Governor of
Oregon, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Burns Paiute Tribe). The
Bureau of Land Management will then forward recommended nominations to
the Secretary of the
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Interior, who has responsibility for making the appointments.
The purpose of the Steens Mountain Advisory Council is to advise
the Bureau of Land Management on the management of the CMPA as
described in Title 1 of the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and
Protection Act of 2000 (PL 106-399). Each member will be a person who,
as a result of training and experience, has knowledge or special
expertise which qualifies him or her to provide advice from among the
categories of interest listed above.
Members will serve without monetary compensation, but will be
reimbursed for travel and per diem expenses at current rates for
Government employees.
Dated: March 28, 2001.
Nina Rose Hatfield,
Acting Director, Bureau of Land Management.
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