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Bears Ears National Monument: Monument Management Plans And U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Land Management U.S. Forest Service Bea rs Ears National Monument: Mon ument Management Plans and Environmental Impact Statement Sha sh Jaá and Indian Creek Units Scopi ng Report August 2018 CONTENTS 1 Introduction .............................................................................................................................................. 1 2 Scoping Process ....................................................................................................................................... 3 2.1 Purpose of Scoping ........................................................................................................................... 3 2.2 Scoping Outreach .............................................................................................................................. 3 2.2.1 Publication of the Notice of Intent ....................................................................................... 3 2.2.2 Other Outreach Methods ....................................................................................................... 3 2.3 Opportunities for Public Comment ................................................................................................ 3 2.4 Public Scoping Meetings .................................................................................................................. 4 2.5 Cooperating Agency Involvement ................................................................................................... 4 2.6 National Historic Preservation Act and Tribal Consultation ....................................................... 5 3 Submission Processing and Comment Coding .................................................................................... 6 3.1 Submission-Level Processing .......................................................................................................... 6 3.2 Comment-Level Coding .................................................................................................................... 6 4 Issues Raised that Will Not be Addressed as Part of This Planning Process................................... 8 5 Summary of Public Concerns and Issues ............................................................................................. 9 5.1 Air Resources and Climate Change ............................................................................................... 9 5.2 Soils and Water ................................................................................................................................. 9 5.3 Biological Resources (Vegetation, Fisheries, and Wildlife, including special status species) ............................................................................................................................................ 10 5.4 Cultural Resources and Native American Concerns ................................................................. 11 5.5 Paleontological Resources ........................................................................................................... 12 5.6 Aesthetic Resources (Visual Resource Management and Soundscapes) ............................ 13 5.7 Wildland Fire Management .......................................................................................................... 13 5.8 Land with Wilderness Characteristics ........................................................................................ 14 5.9 Forestry and Woodlands ............................................................................................................... 14 5.10 Livestock Grazing ........................................................................................................................... 15 5.11 Recreation and Travel ................................................................................................................... 16 5.12 Lands and Realty ........................................................................................................................... 17 5.13 Energy Development ..................................................................................................................... 18 5.14 Special Designations ..................................................................................................................... 19 5.15 Social and Economic Conditions ................................................................................................. 19 5.16 Other Planning Issues ................................................................................................................... 20 6 Future Steps in the Monument Management Plans/Environmental Impact Statement Process ................................................................................................................................................... 21 7 Contact Information .............................................................................................................................. 23 i Appendices Appendix A. Comment Summary by Resource Topic Appendix B. Comment Summary by Management Unit Figures Figure 1. BENM Planning Area. ........................................................................................................................ 2 Figure 2. National Environmental Policy Act and land use planning process graphic. ........................ 22 Tables Table 1. Scoping Meetings ............................................................................................................................... 4 Table 2. Summary of Submissions by Type ................................................................................................... 6 Table 3. Comments by Issue Category ........................................................................................................... 7 ii 1 INTRODUCTION The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Canyon Country District Office in Moab, Utah, intends to prepare a Monument Management Plan (MMP) for the Bears Ears National Monument (BENM or Monument) Indian Creek Unit, and intends to jointly prepare, with the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Manti-La Sal National Forest in Price, Utah, an MMP for the BENM Shash Jaá Unit. The Planning Area for this effort is shown in Figure 1. The BLM will also act as the lead agency for preparation of a single Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for both units to satisfy the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA), requirements for this planning process. Preparation of the MMPs and EIS satisfies the requirements of NEPA; the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, as amended (FLPMA); the National Forest Management Act of 1976, as amended (NFMA); and Presidential Proclamation 9558, as modified by Presidential Proclamation 9681. The BLM will not repeat or duplicate direction from law, regulation, policy, or agency guidance (e.g., instructional memoranda, manuals, handbooks) in the MMPs. The BLM began a scoping process on January 16, 2018, to solicit public comments and to identify issues to be addressed in the development of the MMPs and EIS. Comments were received by U.S. Postal Service mail, email, and website form, and verbal and written comments were submitted at two public meetings. The scoping period ended on April 11, 2018. This report summarizes the issues identified in the comments submitted. 1 Figure 1. BENM Planning Area. 2 2 SCOPING PROCESS 2.1 Purpose of Scoping In accordance with Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) NEPA regulations (40 Code of Federal Regulations [CFR] 1501.7), it is through the scoping process that the lead agency will 1) determine the scope and significant issues to be analyzed in depth in the EIS; 2) identify and eliminate from detailed study the issues that are not significant, narrowing the discussion of such issues to a brief presentation in the EIS regarding why they will not have a significant effect on the human environment; and 3) identify a range of reasonable alternatives that address issues identified during scoping. The scoping process will also help the BLM identify issues to be addressed in the MMPs/EIS. 2.2 Scoping Outreach 2.2.1 Publication of the Notice of Intent The formal public scoping process began on January 16, 2018, with the publication of the Notice of Intent (NOI) in the Federal Register informing the public of the BLM’s intent to prepare MMPs for the BENM Shash Jaá and Indian Creek Units and an associated EIS (Federal Register Vol. 83, No. 10, 2018; available on the BLM’s ePlanning website at https://goo.gl/uLrEae). The NOI defined the end date of the scoping period as March 19, 2018, or 15 days after the last public meeting, whichever was later. The last public meeting was held on March 27, 2018, and the public period closed on April 11, 2018, for a total scoping period of 105 days. 2.2.2 Other Outreach Methods Other outreach methods included the following: • A media release distributed on January 16, 2018, identifying the start of the public scoping period and methods by which interested parties can comment (distributed on January 16, 2018) • A media release distributed on March 9, 2018, announcing meeting dates and locations • Scoping notification letters sent to the BLM’s interested party list 2.3 Opportunities for Public Comment Members of the public and agencies had several methods for providing comments during the scoping period, as follows: • Comments could be submitted via the BLM’s ePlanning website at https://goo.gl/uLrEae. • Comments could be handwritten
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