BLM wants your feedback

The BLM is requesting comments on the FRRR Draft PEIS. To be most helpful, your comments should be as specific as possible. When preparing your written comments, provide as much detail as possible and relate your comments back to the FRRR Draft PEIS including organizing comments by resource topic and relating to specific sections of the Draft PEIS. This will ensure that your comments are understood, and your concerns are fully addressed in the responses.

Substantive and useful comments do the following:

  • Question, with reasonable basis, the adequacy of the analysis

  • Present reasonable alternatives other than those presented in the FRRR Draft PEIS

  • Cause changes or revisions to the actions proposed in the alternatives.

  • Provide new information about the proposed project or suggest an alternative

  • Identify a different way to meet the project need

  • Suggest alternate methodologies for analysis and the reason(s) why they should be used

  • Make factual corrections, or identify sources of credible research or data

Comments that are less helpful and considered not substantive are those that:

  • Vote in favor of or against the proposed action

  • Agree or disagree with agency policy without justification or supporting data

  • Don’t pertain to the project area or the proposed project

  • Are vague, open-ended questions

  • Are generalized, covering many resource topics, without clear requests for change

  • Personal background information or stories that would not lend to changes in the FRRR Draft PEIS

Ways to comment

The comment period for the FRRR Draft PEIS ended on June 2, 2020. Comments, including anonymous comments, will be accepted at any time. However, anonymous comments and comments submitted after the close of the FRRR Draft PEIS comment period will not provide the commenter standing for administrative review and will not be included in the FRRR Final PEIS. We thank you for your participation. If you wish to provide a comment outside the scoping comment period, please use the following methods:

  • Mail:

    • BLM Idaho State Office

      ATTN: Fuels Reduction and Rangeland Restoration Draft PEIS

      387 S. Vinnell Way, Boise, Idaho 83709

  • Email: BLM_PEIS_Comments@blm.gov — please indicate “FRRR Draft PEIS Comments” in the email subject line

Be sure to review our Frequently Asked Questions to see if your concern has been addressed.

Public Disclosure

Before including your address, phone number, e-mail address, or other personal identifying information in your comments, be advised that your entire comment, including your personal identifying information, may be made publicly available at any time. While you may request that we withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.

 

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For more information on the FRRR Draft PEIS please contact Ammon Wilhelm, 208-373-4000.

If you have questions about the FRRR Draft PEIS or wish to be added or removed from the mailing list, please contact BLM at BLM_PEIS_Questions@blm.gov.