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Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 135 / Tuesday, July 14, 2020 / Notices 42425 would also concentrate the minor Protection regulations. Reclamation comment, you should be aware that amounts of uranium contained in the activities proposed in the Plan of your entire comment—including your ore. Operations include the following: personal identifying information—may • Construction and operation of • Drill hole plugging; be made publicly available at any time. processing facilities designed to extract • regrading and reshaping of While you can ask us in your comment and recover vanadium and uranium. topography to the approximate original to withhold your personal identifying The processing facilities would include contour; information from public review, we a processing facility, ancillary facilities, • wildlife habitat rehabilitation; cannot guarantee that we will be able to • process offices and laboratory, septic revegetation; do so. • removal or stabilization of tank and leach field, and a pond system. Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7. • Development of various ponds to buildings, structures, and support support ore processing and mine facilities; Jon D. Sherve, • operations that would work together to returning of existing roads in Field Manager, Mount Lewis Field Office. keep process solution and incident project area to pre-project conditions; [FR Doc. 2020–15174 Filed 7–13–20; 8:45 am] • recontouring or regrading of all stormwater fully contained within the BILLING CODE 4310–HC–P zero-discharge process solution system. other mine-related roads and safety • Construction and operation of a berms to approximate original contour; stormwater management system that and • DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR would divert stormwater away from isolation, removal, and/or control of mining and processing facilities. acid-forming, toxic, or deleterious National Park Service • Development of a borrow area for materials. The purpose of the public scoping [NPS–WASO–D–COS–POL–30460; durable rhyolite rock material, which PPWODIREP0] [PPMPSAS1Y.YP0000] would be used for overliner, riprap, process is to identify relevant issues that roads, and infrastructure, was identified will influence the scope of the Notice of the September 16–17, 2020, from outcrops located approximately environmental analysis, including Meeting of the National Park System one mile to the southeast of the mine alternatives, and guide the process for Advisory Board site. developing the EIS. The BLM has • Development of mine access roads identified preliminary issues associated AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. including haul, secondary, and general with the project: (1) Closure of the heap ACTION: Notice of meeting. mine roads. The project includes leach facility; (2) potential impacts to greater sage-grouse, a BLM sensitive SUMMARY: In accordance with the upgrades to approximately 7 miles of Federal Advisory Committee Act of the Fish Creek Ranch Road for mine species; (3) potential impacts to visual resources; (4) potential impacts to 1972, the National Park Service (NPS) is access from State Route 379. hereby giving notice that the National • Construction and operation of wildlife habitat; (5) potential impacts to Park System Advisory Board (Board) power transmission lines surface and groundwater resources; and will meet as noted below. The agenda (approximately 3.6 miles) that would tie (6) potential impacts to cultural will include the review of proposed into the 69-kilovolt (kV) power line that resources eligible under the National actions regarding the National Historic currently provides power to the Pan Register of Historic Places. Landmarks (NHL) Program and the Mine (the Pan Line). The 24.9-kV The BLM will use and coordinate the National Natural Landmarks (NNL) Gibellini Project power line would NEPA scoping process to help fulfill the Program. Interested parties are extend to the proposed project area and public involvement process under the encouraged to submit written comments would include a substation in the NHPA (54 U.S.C. 306108) as provided in and recommendations that will be project area. An additional line would 42 CFR 800.2(d)(3). The information presented to the Board. Interested power the water pumps near Fish Creek about historic and cultural resources parties also may attend the board Ranch. within the area potentially affected by • Development of mine water the proposed project will assist the BLM meeting and upon request may address resource, which would be supplied by in identifying and evaluating impacts to the Board concerning an area’s national the Fish Creek Ranch irrigation system such resources in the context of both significance. and pumped from a 15,000-gallon water NEPA and the NHPA. DATES: On Wednesday, September 16, collection tank south of the ranch to the The BLM will consult with Native 2020, the meeting will convene at 1:00 project area via an approximately 6.25- American tribes on a government-to- p.m., and adjourn for the day at 5:00 mile water pipeline. The estimated government basis in accordance with p.m., Eastern Daylight Time. The water use for the project is Executive Order 13175 and other meeting will reconvene on Thursday, approximately 500 gallons per minute policies. Tribal concerns, including September 17 at 9:00 a.m., and adjourn (gpm) 24 hours per day, 365 days per impacts on Indian trust assets and at 5:00 p.m. NHL and NNL matters will year for mine use. potential impacts to cultural resources, be presented on September 17. For • Development of mineral exploration will be given due consideration. instructions on registering to attend, activities, including access roads, drill Federal, State, and local agencies, along submitting written material, or giving an pads, sumps, trenches, surface with tribes and other stakeholders who oral presentation at the meeting, please sampling, bulk sampling, staging areas, may be interested in or affected by the see guidance under FOR FURTHER and monitor wells, which would total proposed project that the BLM is INFORMATION CONTACT. approximately 46 acres of disturbance evaluating, are invited to participate in ADDRESSES: The meeting will be in the project area. Exact locations the scoping process and, if eligible, may conducted at the American Geophysical would be identified during plan request or be asked by the BLM to Union, 2000 Florida Avenue NW, implementation. participate in the development of the Washington, DC 20036, telephone (202) Reclamation of disturbed areas EIS as a cooperating agency. 462–6900. A teleconference may resulting from mining operations would Before including your address, phone substitute for an in-person meeting if be completed in accordance with BLM number, email address, or other public health restrictions are in effect. and Nevada Division of Environmental personal identifying information in your In the event of a switch to VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:58 Jul 13, 2020 Jkt 250001 PO 00000 Frm 00080 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\14JYN1.SGM 14JYN1 42426 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 135 / Tuesday, July 14, 2020 / Notices teleconference, notification and access District of Columbia West Virginia information will be posted by • Pan American Union Headquarters, • Bear Rocks and Allegheny Front September 9, 2020, to the Board’s Washington, DC Preserve, Grant and Tucker Counties, website at https://www.nps.gov/ WV advisoryboard.htm. Georgia The meeting is open to the public. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: (a) • Andalusia Farm (Flannery O’Connor Interested persons may choose to make For information concerning attending Home), Milledgeville, GA oral comments at the meeting during the the Board meeting or to request to Massachusetts designated time for this purpose. address the Board, contact Joshua Depending on the number of people • Winchell, Staff Director for the National Western Railroad Stone Arch Bridges wishing to comment and the time Park System Advisory Board, Office of and Chester Factory Village Depot, available, the amount of time for oral Policy, National Park Service, telephone Becket, Middlefield, and Chester, MA comments may be limited. Interested (202) 513–7053, or email joshua_ Michigan parties should contact the Staff Director [email protected]. (b) To submit a for the Board (see FOR FURTHER written statement specific to, or request • Minong Copper Mining District, Isle INFORMATION CONTACT), for advance information about, any NHL matter Royale National Park, Keweenaw placement on the public speaker list for listed below, or for information about County, MI this meeting. Members of the public the NHL Program or NHL designation Nebraska may also choose to submit written process and the effects of designation, comments by emailing them to joshua_ contact Sherry A. Frear, RLA, Chief, • Scout’s Rest Ranch Headquarters, [email protected]. National Register of Historic Places and North Platte, NE Public Disclosure of Comments: National Historic Landmarks Program, Before including your address, phone National Park Service, email sherry_ New York number, email address, or other [email protected]. Written comments • Grant Cottage, Wilton, NY personal identifying information in your specific to any NHL matter listed below • West Point Foundry Archeological comment, you should be aware that must be submitted by no later than Site, Cold Spring, NY your entire comment—including your September 15, 2020. (c) To submit a personal identifying information—may written statement specific to, or request Texas be made publicly available at any time. information about, any NNL matter