August 1, 2024 - The DNA was signed.
July 5, 2024 - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Burns District Office
has prepared the unsigned South Steens Herd Management Area (HMA) Population
Management Plan DNA (DOI-BLM-ORWA-B070-2024-0001-DNA) for your review. This
document is available for public comment period, ending on July 19, 2024.
The DNA is being completed in response to proposed
gather and associated actions planned for later in 2024, in order to help the HMA achieve and maintain
a thriving natural ecological balance and manage the South
Steens HMA wild horse population within appropriate
management level (AML). The
DNA reviews the current proposed action to determine if the 2015 South Steens
HMA Population Management Plan meets the NEPA requirements for the proposed
action.
If you have substantive comments regarding the NEPA Adequacy of the proposed action (gather and fertility control treatments), please submit them postmarked by July 19, 2024, to Kylie Caraher, BLM Burn District, 28910 Hwy 20 W., Hines, OR 97738. Email comments should be sent to: [email protected].
If you submit
comments to this DNA please include your name and mailing address, and you will
receive any future documents related to this DNA. If
you do not have comments but wish to receive a copy of future documents, please
submit
a written request, otherwise you will not receive a copy.
Comments, including the names and addresses of respondents, will be available for public review at the Burns District Office during regular business hours of 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday (except holidays), and may be published as part of future documents. 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. Anonymous comments will not be considered. All submissions from organizations and businesses, and from individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of organizations or businesses, will be available for public inspection in their entirety. Similar comments or form letters will be considered one comment and summarized with one response given.
| Substantive
comments do one or more of the following: NEPA Handbook pg 66, H-1790-1 |
Comments that
are not considered substantive include the following. NEPA Handbook pg 66,
H-1790-1 |
| 1: Question, with
reasonable basis, the accuracy of information in the EIS or EA. |
6: Comments in favor of or against the
proposed action or alternatives without reasoning that meet the criteria
listed above (such as “we disagree with Alternative Two and believe the BLM
should select Alternative Three”). |
| 2: Question, with
reasonable basis, the adequacy of, methodology for, or assumptions used for
the environmental analysis. |
7: Comments that only agree or disagree with
BLM policy or resource decisions without justification or supporting data
that meet the criteria listed above (such as “more grazing should be
permitted”). |
| 3: Present new
information relevant to the analysis. |
8: Comments that don’t pertain to the project
area or the project (such as “the government should eliminate all dams,” when
the project is about a grazing permit). |
| 4: Present reasonable
alternatives other than those analyzed in the EIS or EA. |
9: Comments that take the form of vague,
open-ended questions. |
| 5: Cause changes or
revisions in one or more of the alternatives. |
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