- Location
- Desert Beach So Cal
Notice of Availability of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails...
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2003/03-5304.htm
[Federal Register: March 7, 2003 (Volume 68, Number
45)]
[Notices]
[Page 11127-11129]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr07mr03-112]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
Notice of Availability of a Draft Environmental Impact
Statement for the Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon
Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area Resource
Management Plan, Nevada
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Availability of a Draft
Environmental Impact
Statement (DEIS) for the Black Rock Desert-High Rock
Canyon Emigrant
Trails National Conservation Area Resource Management
Plan (RMP),
Nevada.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 202 of the
National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969, a Draft Resource Management
Plan/Environmental
Impact Statement has been prepared for the Black Rock
Desert-High Rock
Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area.
The Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant
Trails National
Conservation Area Act of 2000 (the Act) gave special
designation to 1.2
million acres of public lands managed by the Bureau of
Land Management
(BLM) in northwestern Nevada, collectively known as
``Black Rock-High
Rock.'' The Act designated 815,000 acres as a National
Conservation
Area (NCA) and 752,000 acres as 10 Wilderness Areas
(378,000 of the
Wilderness acres overlap the NCA). The NCA and
associated Wilderness
Areas were created specifically to protect one of the
last nationally
significant segments of the historic emigrant trails
used by pioneers
to travel from the eastern States to Oregon and
California, and a
landscape largely unchanged since the mid-1800s. Black
Rock-High Rock
contains an array of unique historic, cultural,
educational, wildlife,
riparian, and wilderness resources, threatened
species, and
recreational values. The Act also identified
wilderness, grazing, and
special recreation permit events as valuable existing
land uses that
are expected to continue.
Designating Black Rock-High Rock as an NCA and
Wilderness Areas
placed new emphasis and requirements on resource uses
in the area. The
DEIS/RMP has been developed to address these changes.
This DEIS/RMP
does not evaluate the designation of the NCA and
Wilderness Areas, but
rather develops several resource management
alternatives that fully
comply with the NCA Act and the Wilderness Act and
other applicable
laws, regulations and
[[Page 11128]]
policies, and analyzes the environmental consequences
associated with
implementation of each alternative. Additionally,
approximately 15,000
acres in the south playa, 16,000 acres in the Lahontan
Cutthroat Trout
(LCT) Area, and 3,000 acres included in wilderness
access and boundary
roads and road corridors located outside the NCA that
are not included
in the designation are evaluated in the DEIS/RMP due
to their being
contiguous lands with similar planning issues. These
designated and
adjacent areas, totaling approximately 1,221,000 acres
of public lands,
are referred to as the planning area.
In addition to other existing laws, regulations
and policies, the
NCA Act and the Wilderness Act govern land and
resource use decisions
in 97.4% of the planning area. As a result, the range
of alternatives
presented in this planning document and the impacts
anticipated from
their implementation are more constrained than is
typical of BLM
management plans.
Current management is guided by four Management
Framework Plans
(MFPs): The Sonoma-Gerlach, Paradise-Denio,
Tuledad-Homecamp, and
Cowhead-Massacre MFPs. The No Action Alternative in
the DEIS/RMP would
continue management under these MFPs consistent with
the requirements
of the NCA Act of 2000 as amended and the Wilderness
Act of 1964.
DATES: Written comments on the Draft RMP/EIS will be
accepted for 90
days following the date the Environmental Protection
Agency publishes
the Notice of Availability in the Federal Register.
Future meetings or
hearings and any other public involvement activities
will be announced
in 15 days in advance through public notices, media
news releases, and/
or mailings.
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/14mar20010800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2003/03-5304.htm
[Federal Register: March 7, 2003 (Volume 68, Number
45)]
[Notices]
[Page 11127-11129]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr07mr03-112]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
Notice of Availability of a Draft Environmental Impact
Statement for the Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon
Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area Resource
Management Plan, Nevada
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Availability of a Draft
Environmental Impact
Statement (DEIS) for the Black Rock Desert-High Rock
Canyon Emigrant
Trails National Conservation Area Resource Management
Plan (RMP),
Nevada.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 202 of the
National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969, a Draft Resource Management
Plan/Environmental
Impact Statement has been prepared for the Black Rock
Desert-High Rock
Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area.
The Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant
Trails National
Conservation Area Act of 2000 (the Act) gave special
designation to 1.2
million acres of public lands managed by the Bureau of
Land Management
(BLM) in northwestern Nevada, collectively known as
``Black Rock-High
Rock.'' The Act designated 815,000 acres as a National
Conservation
Area (NCA) and 752,000 acres as 10 Wilderness Areas
(378,000 of the
Wilderness acres overlap the NCA). The NCA and
associated Wilderness
Areas were created specifically to protect one of the
last nationally
significant segments of the historic emigrant trails
used by pioneers
to travel from the eastern States to Oregon and
California, and a
landscape largely unchanged since the mid-1800s. Black
Rock-High Rock
contains an array of unique historic, cultural,
educational, wildlife,
riparian, and wilderness resources, threatened
species, and
recreational values. The Act also identified
wilderness, grazing, and
special recreation permit events as valuable existing
land uses that
are expected to continue.
Designating Black Rock-High Rock as an NCA and
Wilderness Areas
placed new emphasis and requirements on resource uses
in the area. The
DEIS/RMP has been developed to address these changes.
This DEIS/RMP
does not evaluate the designation of the NCA and
Wilderness Areas, but
rather develops several resource management
alternatives that fully
comply with the NCA Act and the Wilderness Act and
other applicable
laws, regulations and
[[Page 11128]]
policies, and analyzes the environmental consequences
associated with
implementation of each alternative. Additionally,
approximately 15,000
acres in the south playa, 16,000 acres in the Lahontan
Cutthroat Trout
(LCT) Area, and 3,000 acres included in wilderness
access and boundary
roads and road corridors located outside the NCA that
are not included
in the designation are evaluated in the DEIS/RMP due
to their being
contiguous lands with similar planning issues. These
designated and
adjacent areas, totaling approximately 1,221,000 acres
of public lands,
are referred to as the planning area.
In addition to other existing laws, regulations
and policies, the
NCA Act and the Wilderness Act govern land and
resource use decisions
in 97.4% of the planning area. As a result, the range
of alternatives
presented in this planning document and the impacts
anticipated from
their implementation are more constrained than is
typical of BLM
management plans.
Current management is guided by four Management
Framework Plans
(MFPs): The Sonoma-Gerlach, Paradise-Denio,
Tuledad-Homecamp, and
Cowhead-Massacre MFPs. The No Action Alternative in
the DEIS/RMP would
continue management under these MFPs consistent with
the requirements
of the NCA Act of 2000 as amended and the Wilderness
Act of 1964.
DATES: Written comments on the Draft RMP/EIS will be
accepted for 90
days following the date the Environmental Protection
Agency publishes
the Notice of Availability in the Federal Register.
Future meetings or
hearings and any other public involvement activities
will be announced
in 15 days in advance through public notices, media
news releases, and/
or mailings.