2000 Final Regulations and Correcting Amendments

1. 43 CFR Part 1880-Financial Assistance, Local Governments--Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT), 8/23/00, 65 FR 51229-51234
2. 43 CFR Parts 2090, 2200, 2710, 2740, 3800 and 9260--Mining Claims Under the General Mining Laws; Surface Management, 11/21/00, 65 FR 69997-70132
3. 43 CFR Part 2560-Alaska Native Veterans, 6/30/00, 65 FR 40953-40966
4. 43 CFR Part 3500--Leasing of Solid Minerals Other Than Coal and Oil Shale, 8/18/00, 65 FR 50446-50449
5. 43 CFR Parts 6300 and 8560--Wilderness Management, 12/14/00, 65 FR 78357-78376.
6. Interim Final Supplementary Rules for Public Land Within Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and At Associated Facilities, Cedar City Field Office, Utah, 9/1/00, 65 FR 53515-53521

• 43 CFR Parts 6300 and 8560--Wilderness Management. (Federal Register, 12/14/00, 65 FR 78357-78376).  This final rule revises and updates the regulations for management of designated wilderness areas.  The rule also meets the need for updated regulations by--
• Adding new requirements based on changes in legislation or agency objectives;
• Clarifying what use BLM allows and authorizes in wilderness areas, and what acts BLM prohibits; and
• Explaining special uses the Wilderness Act explicitly allows, and how BLM allows access to non-Federal lands located within BLM wilderness areas.

• 43 CFR Parts 2090, 2200, 2710, 2740, 3800 and 9260--Mining Claims Under the General Mining Laws; Surface Management.  (Federal Register, 11/21/00, 65 FR 69997-70132). The text of the final regulation is in three segments as follows--
• Page 69997-70046


• Page 70047-70096


• Page 70097-70132
• Final 43 CFR 3809 Environmental Impact Statement
• Final 43 CFR 3809 Benefit-Cost Analysis/Unfunded Mandates Reform Act Analysis
• Final 43 CFR 3809 Small Business and Regulatory Flexibility Act Analysis

This final rule amends the regulations to--

• Improve the clarity and organization;
• Address technical advances in mining;
• Incorporate policies developed after we issued the previous regulations 20 years ago; and
• Better protect natural resources and our Nation's natural heritage lands from the adverse impacts of mining.

We intend these regulations to prevent unnecessary or undue degradation of BLM-administered lands by mining operations authorized under the mining laws.

• Interim Final Supplementary Rules for Public Land Within Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (Monument), and At Associated Facilities, Cedar City Field Office, Utah.  (Federal Register, 9/1/00, 65 FR 53515-53521).  The final supplementary rules--
• Require groups exercising First Amendment rights to get permits for demonstrations at the Monument; and
• Promote peace and good order at the Monument and at visitor centers and other facilities.


• 43 CFR Part 3500--Leasing of Solid Minerals Other Than Coal and Oil Shale.  (Federal Register, 8/18/00, 65 FR 50446-50449).  This direct final rule updates a chart in the final rule at 43 CFR 3503.37 which shows the acreage limitations.  Congress expanded the single-state limit for sodium leases (P.L. 106-191). 
• 43 CFR Part 2560--Alaska Native Veterans  (Federal Register, 6/30/00, 65 FR 40953-40966).  This final rule implements recently passed legislation to allow for an 18-month open season in which certain Alaska Native veterans would be eligible for a 160-acre allotment under the 1906 Native Allotment Act.  The basic requirements are that the veteran--
• Must have served between January 1, 1969 and December 1971; and
• Must have been otherwise eligible under the 1906 Act as it was in effect before December 18, 1971.
• 43 CFR Part 1880--Financial Assistance, Local Governments--Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT)  (Federal Register, 8/23/00, 65 FR 51229-51234).  This final rule incorporates the following changes made to the authorizing legislation in the 103rd, 104th, and 105th Congresses by--
  • Increasing payments for entitlement lands based on the Consumer Price Index and increasing the maximum payments that BLM may make to each county based on population;
  • Indexing payments for inflation;
  • Authorizing payments for certain land exchanges and acquisitions;
  • Amending the definition of "unit of general local government";
  • Stipulating which units of general local governments are eligible to receive PILT payments; and
  • Prohibiting BLM from disbursing PILT payments to cities in Alaska.

• 43 CFR Part 3500--Leasing of Solid Minerals Other Than Coal and Oil Shale, Federal Register, 3/5/00, 65 FR 11475-11476.  This document contains corrections to the final regulations for leasing of solid minerals other than coal and oil shale published in the Federal Register on October 1, 1999 (64 FR 53511-53556).

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