Mill Springs Battlefield National Monument
| Published date | 17 November 2020 |
| Citation | 85 FR 73293 |
| Record Number | 2020-25343 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Interior Department,National Park Service |
73293
Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 222 / Tuesday, November 17, 2020 / Notices
SUMMARY
: The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) Alaska State Office
is issuing a call for nominations and
comments on the lease tracts considered
for the upcoming Coastal Plain (CP) Oil
and Gas Lease Sale.
DATES
: BLM Alaska must receive all
nominations and comments on these
tracts on or before December 17, 2020.
ADDRESSES
: Mail nominations and/or
comments to: State Director, Bureau of
Land Management, Alaska State Office,
222 West 7th Avenue, Mailstop 13,
Anchorage, AK 99513–7504.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
Wayne Svejnoha, BLM Alaska Energy
and Minerals Branch Chief, 907–271–
4407. People who use a
telecommunications device for the deaf
(TDD) may call the Federal Relay
Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to
contact the above individual during
normal business hours. The FRS is
available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,
to leave a message or question with the
above individual. You will receive a
reply during normal business hours.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
: Pursuant
to 43 CFR 3131.2, the BLM is issuing
this call for nominations and comments
on tracts within the Coastal Plain (CP)
of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
that may be offered for lease in the
upcoming CP Oil and Gas Lease Sale.
The BLM also requests comments on
tracts which should receive special
concern and analysis as well as the size
of the tracts and, specifically, whether
the sizes of any tracts should be
reduced.
BLM will protect privileged or
proprietary information in nominations
in accordance with the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) requirements.
To avoid inadvertent release of such
information, all documents and every
page containing such information
should be marked with ‘‘Confidential—
Contains Proprietary Information.’’ To
the extent a document contains a mix of
proprietary and nonproprietary
information, the document should be
clearly marked to indicate which
portion of the document is proprietary
and which is not. Exemption 4 of FOIA
applies to trade secrets and commercial
or financial information that you submit
that is privileged or confidential. BLM
considers nominations of specific tracts
to be proprietary, and therefore BLM
will not release information that
identifies any particular nomination or
any particular submitting party, so as
not to compromise the competitive
position of any participants in the
process of indicating interest.
However, BLM’s practice is to make
all comments, including the names and
addresses of individuals, available for
public inspection. Before including your
address, phone number, email address,
or other personal identifying
information in your comments, 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.
A Coastal Plain map showing the
tracts considered for leasing is online at
https://www.blm.gov/programs/energy-
and-minerals/oil-and-gas/leasing/
regional-lease-sales/alaska. Tract
number 29 covers the disputed Staines-
Canning River area. It is currently under
litigation with the State of Alaska. The
BLM may elect to not offer this tract in
the upcoming sale.
To describe the tract(s) you are
nominating for leasing or providing
comments on, please use the tract
number(s) on the referenced Coastal
Plain map available at https://
www.blm.gov/programs/energy-and-
minerals/oil-and-gas/leasing/regional-
lease-sales/alaska.
Chad B. Padgett,
State Director, Alaska.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
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Mill Springs Battlefield National
Monument
AGENCY
: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION
: Notice.
SUMMARY
: As authorized by the John D.
Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management,
and Recreation Act, the National Park
Service announces that the Secretary of
the Interior (Secretary) has established,
in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Mill
Springs Battlefield National Monument
as a unit of the National Park System.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
Karen Cucurullo, Deputy Regional
Director, National Park Service, South
Atlantic Gulf Regional Office at (404)
507–5611.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
: Section
2302 of the John D. Dingell, Jr.
Conservation, Management, and
Recreation Act, Public Law 116–9,
includes a specific provision relating to
establishment of this unit of the
National Park System. To establish the
national monument, the Secretary must
determine that a sufficient quantity of
land, or interests in land, has been
acquired to constitute a manageable
park unit and must publish notice of the
establishment of the national monument
in the Federal Register.
Fought on January 19, 1862, the Battle
of Mill Springs is considered one of the
earliest major victories for the Union
Army on the field of battle during the
Civil War. The National Park Service
acquired by general warranty deed the
fee simple interests in the
approximately one-acre Zollicoffer Park
on March 6, 2020. Zollicoffer Park is
located within the center of the core
battlefield area and includes the area of
direct engagement between Union and
Confederate forces during the Battle of
Mill Springs. The National Park Service
acquired by general warranty deed the
fee simple interests in an approximately
17-acre parcel that includes the Mill
Springs Visitor Center/Museum and
adjacent parking area on March 24,
2020. The Visitor Center/Museum is
currently open to the public and
includes artifacts found on the
battlefield, interpretive displays, a
library, administrative offices, gift shop,
and theater room. It is also at this
location that visitors begin their visit to
Mill Springs Battlefield by following a
self-guided automobile tour throughout
the battlefield landscape.
On September 22, 2020, the Secretary
of the Interior signed a Decision
Memorandum determining that a
sufficient quantity of land, or interests
in land, had been acquired to constitute
a manageable park unit. With the
signing of this Decision Memorandum
by the Secretary, the site to be known
as the ‘‘Mill Springs Battlefield National
Monument’’ was established as a unit of
the National Park System, effective
September 22, 2020, and is subject to all
laws, regulations, and policies
pertaining to such units.
Margaret Everson,
Counselor to the Secretary, Exercising the
Delegated Authority of the Director, National
Park Service.
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