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for the Lake Havasu Plan once the
protests are resolved.
Public comments, including names
and street addresses of respondents, will
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The LHFO PRMP/FEIS is being
developed by the BLM. The PRMP/FEIS
includes strategies for protecting and
preserving the biological, cultural,
recreational, geological, educational,
scientific, and scenic values that
balance multiple uses of the BLMadministered lands throughout the
LHFO planning area.
The Proposed Plan attempts to
accomplish the above through
coordination with the Bureau of
Reclamation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
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Transportation, Arizona State Land
Department, Arizona Game and Fish
Department, California Department of
Fish and Game, the BLM, and other land
managing agencies within the
boundaries of the planning areas. The
range of alternatives in this PRMP\FEIS
evaluates planning decisions brought
forward from the current BLM planning
documents; the Yuma District Resource
Management Plan (1987), Kingman
Resource Area Resource Management
Plan (1995), Lower Gila South Resource
Management Plan (1988) and Lower
Gila North Management Framework
Plan (1983).
The Proposed Plan identifies five
potential Areas of Critical
Environmental Concern (ACECs): Beale
Slough Riparian and Cultural ACEC
(2,395 acres); Bullhead Bajada Natural
and Cultural ACEC (7,090 acres);
Crossman Peak Scenic ACEC (48,855
acres); Swansea Historic District ACEC
(5,973 acres); and Three Rivers Riparian
ACEC (2,246 acres). The following types
of resource use limitations would
generally apply to these ACECs: (1)
Design grazing prescriptions to achieve
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the desired plant community objectives;
(2) Recreation facilities would be
limited to projects that protect ACEC
values; (3) Camping would be limited to
developed or signed sites; and (4) Travel
would be permitted only on designated
open and signed routes. For detailed
information see Chapter 2 Description of
Alternatives, Special Area Designations
section.
Teresa A. Raml,
Associate State Director.
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Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Implementation of Recreation
Resource Advisory Committee
Provisions of the Federal Lands
Recreation Enhancement Act (Public
Law 108–447, Div. J, Title VIII)
Bureau of Land Management,
Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of BLM implementation
of the Recreation Resource Advisory
Committee provisions of the Federal
Lands Recreation Enhancement Act.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the
Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s)
implementation of the Recreation
Resource Advisory Committee
provisions of the Federal Lands
Recreation Enhancement Act.
Pursuant to the Federal Lands
Recreation Enhancement Act and a
signed Interagency Agreement between
the Department of the Interior and the
Department of Agriculture, the BLM
will utilize existing BLM Resource
Advisory Councils to make
recommendations on BLM and Forest
Service recreation fee issues in the
following States: Arizona, Idaho,
Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North
Dakota, South Dakota and Utah.
Both the BLM and the FS will use
new Recreation RACs, chartered by the
FS, for the Pacific Northwest Region
(Oregon and Washington), the Pacific
Southwest Region (California), the State
of Colorado, and for the Eastern and
Southern Regions (these represent most
States east of the Rockies).
Any of the existing BLM Resource
Advisory Councils or the new FSchartered RRACs may also establish
Subcommittees for recreation fee-related
matters.
Note: Neither the FS nor the BLM will use
Recreation RACs where the Secretaries of
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Patrick Wilkinson, U.S. Department of
the Interior, Bureau of Land
Management, 1849 C Street, MS–LS–
250, Washington, DC, 20240; 202–452–
7796.
The
Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement
Act (REA), enacted December 8, 2004,
directs the Secretary of the Interior, the
Secretary of Agriculture, or both, to
establish Recreation Resource Advisory
Committees, or to use existing Resource
Advisory Councils or boards to perform
the duties of Recreation Resource
Advisory Committees, in each State or
region for Federal recreation lands and
waters managed by the BLM or Forest
Service. These committees, councils or
boards will make recreation fee program
recommendations on:
• Implementing or eliminating
standard amenity fees, expanded
amenity fees, and non-commercial,
individual special recreation permit
fees;
• Expanding or limiting the
recreation fee program; and
• Changing fee levels.
REA also states that the Secretaries
shall not establish a Recreation
Resource Advisory Committees in a
State if the Secretaries determine, in
consultation with the Governor of the
State, that sufficient interest does not
exist to ensure that participation on the
committee is balanced in terms of the
points of view represented and the
functions to be performed.
To help determine the appropriate
configuration of these advisory groups,
the BLM and the Forest Service held 11
listening sessions in Idaho, Oregon,
California, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada,
Georgia, and Washington DC, during
June and July of 2005. Attendees
included key partners, organizations
with an interest in recreation
management on Federal lands, and
existing BLM and Forest Service
Resource Advisory Council members.
After more than a year of these public
meetings, internal agency analysis, and
legal review, the agencies established an
organizational structure that has been
approved by both the Department of the
Interior and the Department of
Agriculture. This organization includes
using existing BLM Resource Advisory
Councils where appropriate. It also
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Agriculture and the Interior, in consultation
with the Governor of individual States, have
determined that sufficient interest does not
exist in forming a FS-chartered Recreation
RAC or using a BLM RAC as allowed in the
Recreation Enhancement Act (REA). Those
States that are not establishing Recreation
RACs are Alaska, Wyoming and Nebraska.
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includes establishing five new
Recreation Resource Advisory
Committees for the Forest Service’s
Eastern, Southern, Pacific Northwest
(including BLM states of Oregon and
Washington), Pacific Southwest
(including the BLM state of California)
Regions and the State of Colorado; using
an existing Forest Service advisory
committee for one Forest; and not
establishing Recreation Resource
Advisory Committees where Secretaries,
in consultation with the Governor of
each State, have determined that
sufficient interest does not exist as
allowed in REA (Alaska, Nebraska, and
Wyoming).
The agencies and Secretaries have
signed an Interagency Agreement which
provides the structure necessary for the
Forest Service to use existing BLM
Resource Advisory Councils and the
BLM to use Forest Service-established
Recreation Resource Advisory
Committees for the purposes stated in
REA. Where the Agencies determined it
was inappropriate to use existing BLM
Advisory Councils, the Agencies have
agreed to either: (1) Establish a new
Recreation RAC, which may serve both
Agencies or may only serve one Agency;
(2) use an existing FS advisory
committee; or (3) not establish a
Recreation RAC in a State where the
Secretaries, in consultation with the
Governor of the affected State, have
determined that sufficient interest does
not exist, as allowed under REA.
For the new Recreation Resource
Advisory Committees, the Forest
Service will be the lead agency
(including the BLM states of California,
Colorado, Oregon and Washington). The
BLM will continue to be the lead agency
for its Resource Advisory Councils.
Dated: June 8, 2006.
Kathleen Clarke,
Director.
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Gila Box Riparian National
Conservation Area Advisory
Committee Meeting
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AGENCY:
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is
to announce an upcoming meeting of
the Gila Box Riparian National
Conservation Area Advisory Committee
Meeting. The purpose of the Advisory
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Committee is to provide informed
advice to the Safford Field Manager on
management of public lands in the Gila
Box Riparian National Conservation
Area in southeastern Arizona.
The meeting will be held at the
Bureau of Land Management Safford
Field Office on October 18, 2006,
commencing at 8 a.m. and ending at
approximately 4 p.m. The meeting will
serve as an orientation for the newly
appointed representatives to the sevenmember committee, and will include a
field trip to the Gila Box. The entire
meeting is open to the public, but those
wishing to accompany the Committee
on the field trip must provide their own
transportation. The public can speak
before the Committee at 9 a.m.
DATES: Wednesday, October 18, 2006.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tom
Schnell, Gila Box Manager, BLM Safford
Field Office, 711 14th Avenue, Safford,
AZ 85546. Telephone (928) 348–4420.
Dated: September 14, 2006.
Tom Schnell,
Acting Field Manager.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
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Notice of the Pinedale Anticline
Working Group Meeting
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Federal Land Policy and Management
Act (1976) and the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (1972), the U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Land Management (BLM) Pinedale
Anticline Working Group (PAWG) will
meet in Pinedale, Wyoming, for a
business meeting. Group meetings are
open to the public.
DATES: 8 a.m. to 12 noon September 26,
2006.
ADDRESSES: The meeting was scheduled
to be held in the Lovatt room of the
Pinedale Library, 155 S. Tyler Ave.,
Pinedale, WY.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Matt
Anderson, BLM/PAWG Liaison, Bureau
of Land Management, Pinedale Field
Office, 432 E. Mills St., PO Box 738,
Pinedale, WY 82941; 307–367–5328.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Pinedale Anticline Working Group
(PAWG) was authorized and established
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with release of the Record of Decision
(ROD) for the Pinedale Anticline Oil
and Gas Exploration and Development
Project on July 27, 2000. The PAWG
advises the BLM on the development
and implementation of monitoring plans
and adaptive management decisions as
development of the Pinedale Anticline
Natural Gas Field proceeds for the life
of the field.
Dated: September 14, 2006.
Dennis Stenger,
Field Office Manager.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[WO-250-1220-PA-24 1A]
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Implementation of Recreation
Resource Advisory Committee Provisions of the Federal Lands Recreation
Enhancement Act (Public Law 108-447, Div. J, Title VIII)
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of BLM implementation of the Recreation Resource
Advisory Committee provisions of the Federal Lands Recreation
Enhancement Act.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the Bureau of Land Management's
(BLM's) implementation of the Recreation Resource Advisory Committee
provisions of the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act.
Pursuant to the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act and a
signed Interagency Agreement between the Department of the Interior and
the Department of Agriculture, the BLM will utilize existing BLM
Resource Advisory Councils to make recommendations on BLM and Forest
Service recreation fee issues in the following States: Arizona, Idaho,
Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota and Utah.
Both the BLM and the FS will use new Recreation RACs, chartered by
the FS, for the Pacific Northwest Region (Oregon and Washington), the
Pacific Southwest Region (California), the State of Colorado, and for
the Eastern and Southern Regions (these represent most States east of
the Rockies).
Any of the existing BLM Resource Advisory Councils or the new FS-
chartered RRACs may also establish Subcommittees for recreation fee-
related matters.
Note: Neither the FS nor the BLM will use Recreation RACs where
the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior, in consultation
with the Governor of individual States, have determined that
sufficient interest does not exist in forming a FS-chartered
Recreation RAC or using a BLM RAC as allowed in the Recreation
Enhancement Act (REA). Those States that are not establishing
Recreation RACs are Alaska, Wyoming and Nebraska.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patrick Wilkinson, U.S. Department of
the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, 1849 C Street, MS-LS-250,
Washington, DC, 20240; 202-452-7796.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act
(REA), enacted December 8, 2004, directs the Secretary of the Interior,
the Secretary of Agriculture, or both, to establish Recreation Resource
Advisory Committees, or to use existing Resource Advisory Councils or
boards to perform the duties of Recreation Resource Advisory
Committees, in each State or region for Federal recreation lands and
waters managed by the BLM or Forest Service. These committees, councils
or boards will make recreation fee program recommendations on:
Implementing or eliminating standard amenity fees,
expanded amenity fees, and non-commercial, individual special
recreation permit fees;
Expanding or limiting the recreation fee program; and
Changing fee levels.
REA also states that the Secretaries shall not establish a
Recreation Resource Advisory Committees in a State if the Secretaries
determine, in consultation with the Governor of the State, that
sufficient interest does not exist to ensure that participation on the
committee is balanced in terms of the points of view represented and
the functions to be performed.
To help determine the appropriate configuration of these advisory
groups, the BLM and the Forest Service held 11 listening sessions in
Idaho, Oregon, California, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, and
Washington DC, during June and July of 2005. Attendees included key
partners, organizations with an interest in recreation management on
Federal lands, and existing BLM and Forest Service Resource Advisory
Council members.
After more than a year of these public meetings, internal agency
analysis, and legal review, the agencies established an organizational
structure that has been approved by both the Department of the Interior
and the Department of Agriculture. This organization includes using
existing BLM Resource Advisory Councils where appropriate. It also
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includes establishing five new Recreation Resource Advisory Committees
for the Forest Service's Eastern, Southern, Pacific Northwest
(including BLM states of Oregon and Washington), Pacific Southwest
(including the BLM state of California) Regions and the State of
Colorado; using an existing Forest Service advisory committee for one
Forest; and not establishing Recreation Resource Advisory Committees
where Secretaries, in consultation with the Governor of each State,
have determined that sufficient interest does not exist as allowed in
REA (Alaska, Nebraska, and Wyoming).
The agencies and Secretaries have signed an Interagency Agreement
which provides the structure necessary for the Forest Service to use
existing BLM Resource Advisory Councils and the BLM to use Forest
Service-established Recreation Resource Advisory Committees for the
purposes stated in REA. Where the Agencies determined it was
inappropriate to use existing BLM Advisory Councils, the Agencies have
agreed to either: (1) Establish a new Recreation RAC, which may serve
both Agencies or may only serve one Agency; (2) use an existing FS
advisory committee; or (3) not establish a Recreation RAC in a State
where the Secretaries, in consultation with the Governor of the
affected State, have determined that sufficient interest does not
exist, as allowed under REA.
For the new Recreation Resource Advisory Committees, the Forest
Service will be the lead agency (including the BLM states of
California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington). The BLM will continue to
be the lead agency for its Resource Advisory Councils.
Dated: June 8, 2006.
Kathleen Clarke,
Director.
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