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Environmental Officer, Region IX,
FEMA, 1111 Broadway, Suite 1200,
Oakland, CA 94607–4052 and phone
number at (510) 627–7027.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
102(2)(C) of the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), the Council
on Environmental Quality (CEQ)
regulations implementing NEPA, and
FEMA’s Environmental Considerations
regulations require the preparation of an
environmental impact statement (EIS)
for major Federal actions that would
have significant impacts on the quality
of the human environment. The CEQ
regulations at 40 CFR 1501.7 require the
issuance of a notice of intent to prepare
an EIS to initiate the scoping process.
Scoping is an early and open process
that assists the Federal action agency in
determining the scope of issues to be
addressed and for identifying significant
issues related to a proposed action.
FEMA has received four hazard
mitigation applications for fuel
reduction projects in the East Bay Hills
area in California. The proposed action
is to fund these four projects under
section 404 of the Robert T. Stafford
Disaster Relief and Emergency
Assistance Act (Stafford Act), Public
Law 93–288, as amended, establishing
the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program
(HMGP) and Section 203 of the Stafford
Act, establishing the Pre-Disaster
Mitigation (PDM) grant program. The
Strawberry Canyon Vegetation
Management Project involves the
removal of eucalyptus and other exoticnon native trees in a 60-acre area,
chipping the downed trees and
scattering the chips in portions of the
cleared area, and the semiannual
application of herbicides, as needed, to
eradicate eucalyptus tree sprouts from
the area. The Claremont Canyon
Vegetation Management Project involves
the removal of eucalyptus, Monterey
pine, and acacia trees in a 45-acre area,
chipping the downed trees and
scattering the chips in portions of the
cleared area, and the semiannual
application of herbicides, as needed, to
eradicate eucalyptus tree sprouts from
the area. The City of Oakland’s project
involves thinning and eradication
techniques within 325 acres. The East
Bay Regional Park District project
involves the treatment of 590 acres to
reduce fuel load through brush removal
(mechanical and hand), chemical
treatment, limbing and mowing,
thinning, and grazing techniques as
appropriate to reduce the risk of fire
hazard. These projects would affect
approximately 980 acres of the
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Wildcat Canyon and Sobrante Ridge,
encompassing both Alameda and Contra
Costa Counties.
In January 2008, FEMA published a
notice of availability of a draft
environmental assessment for the
Strawberry Canyon Vegetation
Management Project for public
comment. The draft environmental
assessment can be found at FEMA’s
Web page http://www.fema.gov/library/
viewRecord.do?id=3111. The public
involvement process revealed concerns
regarding the effectiveness and scope of
the vegetation removal methodologies
and application of wood chips in
portions of the area, impacts to plant
and animal species in the area, and
concerns regarding cumulative impacts
of all projects in the area. FEMA has
determined that an EIS should be
conducted to address cumulatively the
Vegetation Management Projects for the
Strawberry Canyon as well as the
Claremont Canyon, and the ones
proposed by the City of Oakland and the
East Bay Regional Park District.
In addition to the proposed action,
FEMA is considering the following
alternatives:
(1) No action, which involves denying
the grant applications;
(2) Funding the grant applications
with conditions to address their
environmental impacts;
(3) Funding the grant applications
with fuel reduction methodologies that
are different than as proposed by the
applicants; and
(4) Partially funding the grant
applications, including funding some
grant projects and denying others.
FEMA plans to conduct public
scoping meetings during July 2010.
FEMA will provide notices of the time
and place of the meetings through local
news media.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 4331 et seq.; 40 CFR
part 1500; 44 CFR part 10.
W. Craig Fugate,
Administrator, Federal Emergency
Management Agency.
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National Park Service
30-Day Federal Register Notice of
Intention To Request Clearance of
Collection of Information; Opportunity
for Public Comment
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice and request for
comments.

AGENCY:
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Under the provisions of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub.
L. 104–13, 44 U.S.C., Chapter 3507) and
5 CFR Part 1320, Reporting and Record
Keeping Requirements, the National
Park Service (NPS) invites public
comments on an extension of a
currently approved information
collection Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) Control # 1024–0231.
The OMB has up to 60 days to
approve or disapprove the requested
information collection, but may respond
after 30 days. Therefore, to ensure
maximum consideration, OMB should
receive public comments within 30 days
of the date on which this notice is
published in the Federal Register.
The National Park Service published
the 60-day Federal Register notice to
solicit comments on this proposed
information collection on April 5, 2010
(75 FR 17152–17153). No comments
were received on this notice.
DATES: Public comments on the
proposed Information Collection
Request (ICR) must be received by July
12, 2010.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
directly to the Desk Officer for the
Department of the Interior (OMB #1024–
0231), Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, OMB by fax at 202/
395–5806, or by electronic mail at
OIRA_DOCKET@omb.eop.gov. Please
also send a copy of your comments to
Ms. Jo A. Pendry, Chief, Commercial
Services Program, National Park
Service, 1849 C Street, NW. (2410),
Washington, DC 20240, or electronically
to jo_pendry@nps.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jo
A. Pendry, phone: 202–513–7156, fax:
202–371–2090, or at the address above.
You are entitled to a copy of the entire
ICR package free-of-charge.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Concession Contracts—36 CFR
Part 51.
OMB Control Number: 1024–0231.
Expiration Date of Approval: July 31,
2010.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved information
collection.
Description of Need: The information
is being collected to meet the
requirements of Sections 403(7) and (8)
of the NPS Concessions Management
Improvement Act of 1998 (the Act),
concerning the granting of a preferential
right to renew a concession contract and
Section 405 of the Act regarding the
construction of capital improvements by
concessioners. The information will be
used by the agency in considering
appeals concerning preferred offeror
determinations and agency review and
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approval of construction projects and
determinations with regard to the
leasehold surrender interest value of
such projects. The request to OMB is to
renew approval of the collection of
information in 36 CFR Part 51, Section

51.47, regarding the appeal of a
preferred offeror determination, and
Sections 51.54 and 51.55 regarding NPS
approval of the construction of capital
improvements by concessioners. NPS is
requesting a 3-year term of approval for

Number of
respondents
per year

Section
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36
36
36
36

CFR
CFR
CFR
CFR
CFR

51.47
51.54
51.54
51.55
51.55

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(Small projects) ....................................................................................................

Comments are invited on: (1) The
practical utility of the information being
gathered; (2) the accuracy of the burden
hour estimate; (3) ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information being collected; and (4)
ways to minimize the burden to
respondents, including use of
automated information collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology. Before including your
address, phone number, e-mail 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. 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 OMB control
number for this collection of
information is 1024–0231.
Dated: June 3, 2010.
Cartina A. Miller,
Information Collection Clearance Officer,
National Park Service.
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Notice of Intent To Prepare a Resource
Management Plan for the Carlsbad
Field Office, New Mexico and
Associated Environmental Impact
Statement
AGENCY:

Bureau of Land Management,

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this collection activity. The following
chart provides the number of
respondents annually, average
completion time, and total annual
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712
1,736
2,136

For
further information and/or to have your
name added to our mailing list, contact
James B. Smith, Planning and
Environmental Coordinator, telephone
575–234–5986; address BLM, Carlsbad
Field Office, Attention: James B. Smith,
620 E. Greene St., Carlsbad, New
Mexico 88220; e-mail
James_B_Smith@blm.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

In compliance with the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, as amended, (NEPA), and the
Federal Land Policy and Management
Act of 1976, as amended, (FLPMA), the
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Carlsbad Field Office, Carlsbad, New
Mexico, intends to prepare a Resource
Management Plan (RMP) with an
associated Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) for the Carlsbad Field
Office and by this notice is announcing
the beginning of the scoping process to
solicit public comments and identify
issues. The RMP will replace the
existing 1988 Carlsbad RMP.
DATES: This notice initiates the public
scoping process for the RMP and the
associated EIS. In order to be included
in the Draft EIS, comments on issues
and planning criteria may be submitted
in writing by any of the methods
described in the ADDRESSES section
below, until July 12, 2010 (the 30-day
scoping period). Alternatively you may
submit comments at any public scoping
meeting or 30 days after the last public
meeting, whichever is later. The date(s)
and location(s) of any scoping meetings
will be announced at least 15 days in
advance through local media,
newspapers, and at the following BLM
Web site: http://www.blm.gov/nm/st/en/
fo/Carlsbad_Field_Office.html. We will
provide additional opportunities for
public participation upon publication of
the Draft EIS.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
on issues and planning criteria by any
of the following methods:
• Web site: http://www.blm.gov/nm/
st/en/fo/Carlsbad_Field_Office.html.
• E-mail: nm_cfo_rmp@blm.gov.
• Fax: 575–885–9264.
• Mail: BLM, Carlsbad Field Office,
RMP Project Manager, 620 E. Greene St.,
Carlsbad, New Mexico 88220.
Documents pertinent to this proposal
may be examined at the Carlsbad Field
Office.
SUMMARY:

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This
document provides notice that the BLM
Carlsbad Field Office, New Mexico,
intends to prepare an RMP with an
associated EIS for the Carlsbad Field
Office, announces the beginning of the
scoping process, and seeks public input
on issues and planning criteria. The
planning area is located in Eddy, Lea,
and Chaves counties, New Mexico, and
encompasses approximately 2.2 million
surface acres of public land and 4.1
million acres of mineral estate (1.9
million acres is split estate). The
purpose of the public scoping process is
to determine relevant issues that will
influence 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. The
issues include:
1. What management actions, best
management practices (BMP), and
mitigation measures are necessary to
protect or enhance resources, such as:
visual resources, air quality,
groundwater and karst aquifers,
watersheds and riparian areas,
recreational areas, wilderness areas,
vegetation, soils, cultural sites, cave/
karst, specially designated areas,
wildlife habitat, and rangeland health?
2. What areas should be identified as
open, limited, or closed to travel to meet
resource and recreational demands?
What major roads and ways should be
identified in the transportation

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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