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(A plan amendment may be required because alternatives considered could, if selected, modify grazing management currently administered under existing Management Framework Plans)

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 [Federal Register: August 31, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 170)]
[Notices]
[Page 53028-53029]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[UT-030-1652-00]


Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for
Livestock Grazing Management on Allotments Administered by the Bureau
of Land Management, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah

(A plan amendment may be required because alternatives considered
could, if selected, modify grazing management currently administered
under existing Management Framework Plans)

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS) and notice to conduct scoping for livestock grazing management on
allotments administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Grand
Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM), Kane and Garfield
Counties, Utah.

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    A plan amendment to the BLM Paria, Vermilion, Zion, and Escalante
Management Framework Plans (MFPs) may be required because alternatives
considered during the preparation of the EIS could, if selected, modify
grazing management and allocations currently managed under portions of
the MFPs.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969, the BLM, Grand Staircase-Escalante National
Monument will be preparing an EIS to analyze the impacts of domestic
livestock grazing through renewing grazing permits on 76 allotments
managed by GSENM.
    The issues anticipated include: (1) Potential impacts to vegetative
communities, wildlife, riparian/wetland areas, and soil resources; (2)
potential impacts to archaeological, historic, and paleontological
resources; (3) potential impacts to recreation activities; (4)
potential impacts to the socio-economics of Kane and Garfield Counties;
(5) potential impacts on grazing permittees.
    Alternatives identified at this time include: (1) issuing livestock
grazing permits based on the present permittee applications for permit
renewal; (2) issuing new permits with the same terms and conditions as
the expiring permits (No Action Alternative); (3) issuing a new permit
with modifications to the existing terms and conditions; and (4) a no
grazing alternative.

DATES: This notice announces the beginning of the public scoping
period. If you have information, data or concerns related to the
potential impacts of livestock grazing management or have suggestions
for additional alternatives, please submit them to address below.
Public scoping comments will be accepted on or before November 15,
2000. Three public scoping open house information sessions will be held
on:
    --September 18, 2000, 7-9 pm, Kanab, Utah;
    --September 20, 2000, 7-9 pm, Salt Lake City, Utah; and
    --October 4, 2000, 7-9 pm, Escalante, Utah.

ADDRESSES: Written scoping comments should be sent to: Monument
Manager,

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Bureau of Land Management, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument,
180 West 300 North, Kanab, Utah 84741, ATTN: Livestock Grazing EIS.
Public scoping open house locations are:
    --Kanab City Library, 533 East 300 South, Kanab, Utah;
    --Salt Lake City Marriott University Park Hotel--Ballroom 1, 480
Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, Utah; and
    --Escalante Community Center, 85 North 100 West, Escalante, Utah.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: GSENM, Chris Killingsworth, Assistant
Monument Manager Biological Resources, 180 West 300 North, Kanab, Utah
84741, telephone (435) 644-4300.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EIS will cover permit renewal and
grazing management on 76 allotments managed by GSENM, including
allotments within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and on adjoining
BLM lands. This process will conform with the regulations for grazing
public rangelands, the fundamentals for rangeland health, and Utah's
Standards for Rangeland Health and Guidelines for Grazing Management.
Comments, including names and street addresses of respondents will be
available for public review at the BLM Grand Staircase-Escalante
National Monument Office in Kanab, Utah and will be subject to
disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). They may be
published as part of the EIS and other related documents. Individual
respondents may request confidentiality. If you wish to withhold your
name or street address from public review and disclosure under the
FOIA, you must state this prominently at the beginning of your written
comment. Such requests will be honored to the extent allowed by law.
All submissions from organizations or businesses will be made available
for public inspection in their entirety.

Sally Wisely,
Utah State Director.
[FR Doc. 00-22289 Filed 8-30-00; 8:45 am]
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