95-4571. Amendment to Notice of Intent to Initiate a Resource Management Plan and Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Challis Reource Area

[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 37 (Friday, February 24, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 10403]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-4571]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[ID-040-4610-00]


Amendment to Notice of Intent to Initiate a Resource Management 
Plan and Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Challis 
Reource Area

ACTION: Amendment to Notice of Intent (NOI) to initiate a Resource 
Management Plan (RMP) and prepare an Environmental Impact Statement 
(EIS) for the Challis Resource Area in Lemhi and Custer Counties, Idaho 
and invitation to participate in the identification of issues 
(scoping).

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SUMMARY: Original notice was published in the Federal Register November 
25, 1991. Original notice is hereby amended to also include 
approximately 2,000 acres adjoining the Challis Resource Area, but 
presently managed by the Big Butte Resources Area, Idaho Falls 
District. The purpose of amending the Notice is to notify the public 
that we are now considering an Area of Critical Environmental Concern 
(ACEC) designation, which is managed under the Little Lost-Birch Creek 
Management Framework Plan (MFP) (June 1981). If the decision following 
the Challis EIS is to designate the area as an ACEC, then that decision 
would amend the existing Little Lost-Birch Creek MFP.

DATES: Dates and locations for future meetings will be announced in the 
local media and through a mailing list, as appropriate.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to: Challis Resource Area Manager, 
Bureau of Land Management, P.O. Box 430, Salmon, ID 83467.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mark Johnson, Challis Resource Area Manager, Bureau of Land Management, 
P.O. Box 430, Salmon, ID 83467, or telephone [phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Challis Resource Area Draft RMP and 
Draft EIS will examine alternative recommendations regarding Areas of 
Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC). At least one such alternative is 
expected to affect lands managed by the Big Butte Resource Area in the 
Donkey Hills area near the Lemhi County/Butte County line in Idaho. 
These lands adjoin lands managed by the Challis Resource Area and 
collectively comprise an area with important resource values. If a 
recommendation for designation of this area as an ACEC is included in 
the proposed RMP and final EIS, the subsequent record of decision would 
amend the existing Little Lost-Birch Creek Management Framework Plan 
(June 1981).

    Public participation will continue throughout the remainder of the 
planning process. The next step of the planning process in which the 
public will be specifically invited to participate will be review of 
the Draft RMP/EIS, followed by a review of the Proposed RMP/Final EIS.

    Dated: February 13, 1995.
Fritz U. Rennebaum,
Ecsystem Manager.
[FR Doc. 95-4571 Filed 2-23-95; 8:45 am]
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