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that will inform the scope of the
environmental analysis, including
alternatives, and guide the planning
process. Preliminary issues for the
planning area have been identified by
BLM personnel; Federal, State, and local
agencies; and other stakeholders. These
preliminary issues include
paleontology, geology, cultural and
historic resources, travel management,
livestock grazing, vegetation and fire
management, outdoor recreation,
wildlife, and other resources.
Preliminary planning criteria include:
(1) The public planning process for the
RMPs will be guided by Presidential
Proclamation 6920 as modified by
Proclamation 9682 in addition to
FLPMA and NEPA. (2) Those Federal
lands excluded from the Monument will
remain in Federal ownership and will
be managed by the BLM under
applicable laws. (3) The BLM will use
current scientific information, and
results of inventory, monitoring, and
coordination to determine appropriate
management. (4) The BLM will strive for
consistency of management decisions
with other adjoining planning
jurisdictions, both Federal and nonFederal. (5) Decisions made in the
planning process will only apply to
Federal lands and, where appropriate, to
split-estate lands where the subsurface
mineral estate is managed by the BLM.
(6) Existing Wilderness Study Areas
(WSAs) will continue to be managed to
prevent impairment and ensure
continued suitability for designation as
wilderness. Should Congress release all
or part of a WSA from wilderness study,
resource management will be
determined by preparing an amendment
to the RMPs. (7) A baseline reasonably
foreseeable development scenario will
be developed for oil and gas and other
mineral resources for Federal lands
previously included in the GSENM that
are now excluded from the monument
boundaries. (8) The BLM will consider
changes to off-highway vehicle (OHV)
area designations. (9) The public is
invited to nominate or recommend areas
on public lands that are excluded from
the modified monument boundaries as
potentially new special management
areas as part of this planning process
(BLM Manual 1613.3.31). (10) Parties
interested in leasing and development
of Federal coal in areas that are
excluded from the monument should
provide coal resource data for their
area(s) of interest. Specifically,
information is requested on surface
resource values related to the 20 coal
unsuitability criteria described at 43
CFR part 3461. This information will be
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screening determinations (43 CFR
3420.1–4) and in the environmental
analysis, completion of which would be
necessary before any proposal to lease
or develop Federal coal in such areas.
You may submit comments on issues
and planning criteria in writing to the
BLM at any public scoping meeting, or
you may submit them to the BLM using
one of the methods listed in the
ADDRESSES section above. To be most
helpful, and to ensure inclusion in the
Draft EIS, you should submit comments
prior to the close of the 60-day scoping
period or 15 days after the last public
meeting, whichever is later. Before
including your address, phone number,
email address, or other personal
identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you can ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so. The BLM will evaluate identified
issues to be addressed in the plans, and
will place them into one of three
categories:
1. Issues to be resolved in the plans;
2. Issues to be resolved through policy
or administrative action; or
3. Issues beyond the scope of the
plans.
The BLM will provide an explanation
in the Draft RMP/Draft EIS as to why an
issue was placed in category two or
three. The public is also encouraged to
help identify any management questions
and concerns that should be addressed
in the plans. The BLM will work
collaboratively with interested parties to
identify the management decisions that
are best suited to local, regional, and
national needs and concerns.
The BLM will utilize and coordinate
the NEPA scoping process to help fulfill
the public involvement process under
the National Historic Preservation Act
(54 U.S.C. 306108) as provided in 36
CFR 800.2(d)(3). The information about
historic and cultural resources within
the area potentially affected by the
proposed action will assist the BLM in
identifying and evaluating impacts to
such resources.
The BLM will consult with Indian
tribes on a government-to-government
basis in accordance with Executive
Order 13175 and other policies. Tribal
concerns, including impacts on Indian
trust assets and potential impacts to
cultural resources, will be given full
consideration consistent with these
authorities and policies. Federal, State,
and local agencies, along with tribes and
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interested in or affected by the proposed
action that the BLM is evaluating, are
invited to participate in the scoping
process and, if eligible, may request or
be requested by the BLM to participate
in the development of the
environmental analysis as a cooperating
agency.
The BLM will use an interdisciplinary
approach to develop the plan in order
to consider the variety of resource issues
and concerns identified. Specialists
with expertise in the following
disciplines will be involved in the
planning process: Rangeland
management, minerals and geology,
forestry, outdoor recreation,
archaeology, paleontology, wildlife and
fisheries, lands and realty, hydrology,
soils, sociology and economics.
Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7, 43 CFR 1610.2.
Edwin L. Roberson,
State Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
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PM0000; OMB Control Number 1004–0165]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Cave Management: Cave
Nominations and Requests for
Confidential Information
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we,
the Bureau of Land Management (BLM),
are proposing to renew an information
collection with revisions.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before March
19, 2018.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments on
this information collection request (ICR)
by mail to the U.S. Department of the
Interior, Bureau of Land Management,
1849 C Street NW, Room 2134LM,
Washington DC 20240, Attention: Jean
Sonneman; by email to jesonnem@
blm.gov. Please reference OMB Control
Number 1004–0165 in the subject line of
your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this ICR, contact Dorothy Morgan by
email at [email protected], or by
telephone at 202–689–5684.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the Paperwork
SUMMARY:

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Reduction Act of 1995, we provide the
general public and other Federal
agencies with an opportunity to
comment on new, proposed, revised,
and continuing collections of
information. This helps us assess the
impact of our information collection
requirements and minimize the public’s
reporting burden. It also helps the
public understand our information
collection requirements and provide the
requested data in the desired format.
We are soliciting comments on the
proposed ICR that is described below.
We are especially interested in public
comment addressing the following
issues: (1) Is the collection necessary to
the proper functions of the BLM; (2) will
this information be processed and used
in a timely manner; (3) is the estimate
of burden accurate; (4) how might the
BLM enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (5) how might the BLM
minimize the burden of this collection
on the respondents, including through
the use of information technology.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. We will include or
summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve this ICR. Before
including your address, phone number,
email address, or other personal
identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your

personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you can ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Abstract: Agencies within the
Department of the Interior use the
information in a cave nomination to
determine if the nominated cave will be
listed as significant in accordance with
the Federal Cave Resources Protection
Act (FCRPA), 16 U.S.C. 4301 through
4310 and the Department’s regulations
at 43 CFR 37.11(c). The information is
thus necessary for full compliance with
agencies’ responsibilities to identify and
protect significant caves and their
resources.
Agencies within the Department of
the Interior use the information in
requests for confidential cave
information to determine whether to
grant access to confidential cave data.
Agencies need this information in order
to comply with their statutory
responsibilities to communicate,
cooperate, and exchange information,
within the limits prescribed by the
FCRPA.
Title of Collection: Cave Management:
Cave Nominations and Requests for
Confidential Information.
OMB Control Number: 1004–0165.
Form Numbers: None.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.

Respondents/Affected Public: Cave
nominations may be submitted pursuant
to 16 U.S.C. 4303 and 43 CFR 37.11 by
governmental agencies and the public,
including those who utilize caves for
scientific, education, and recreational
purposes. Requests for confidential
information may be submitted pursuant
to 16 U.S.C. 4304 and 43 CFR 37.12 by
Federal and state governmental agencies
and their cooperators, bona fide
educational and research institutions,
and individuals or organizations
assisting a land management agency
with cave management activities.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Respondents: 16.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 16.
Estimated Completion Time per
Response: Varies from 1 hour to 10
hours, depending on activity.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 124.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain a benefit.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
Total Estimated Annual Nonhour
Burden Cost: None.
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor and a person is not required to
respond to a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number.
The estimated annual burdens are
itemized in the following table:

Type of response

Number of
responses

Hours per
response

Total Hours
(Column B ×
Column C)

A.

B.

C.

D.

Cave Nomination .........................................................................................................................
Request for Confidential Cave Information .................................................................................
Totals ....................................................................................................................................

The authority for this action is the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq).

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Jean Sonneman,
Information Collection Clearance Officer,
Bureau of Land Management.

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Bureau of Land Management

Notice of Intent To Prepare Monument
Management Plans for the Bears Ears
National Monument Indian Creek and
Shash Ja´a Units and Associated
Environmental Impact Statement, Utah
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of intent.

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AGENCY:

In compliance with the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, as amended (NEPA), the Federal
Land Policy and Management Act of
1976, as amended (FLPMA), the

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National Forest Management Act of
1976, as amended (NFMA), and
Presidential Proclamation 9558 as
modified by Presidential Proclamation
9681, the Bureau of Land Management
(BLM) Canyon Country District Office,
Moab, Utah intends to prepare a
Monument Management Plan (MMP) for
the Bears Ears National Monument
Indian Creek Unit, and intends to jointly
prepare, with the Manti La-Sal National
Forest (USFS), Price, Utah, a MMP for
the Shash Ja´a Unit. The BLM and USFS,
which is a co-manager of the Shash Ja´a
Unit, will prepare a single
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
to satisfy the NEPA requirements for
this planning process. By this Notice,
the BLM announces the beginning of the
scoping process to solicit public

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