[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 43 (Monday, March 6, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 12250]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-5432]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[AZ-024-1330-00]
Intent To Amend the Phoenix Resource Management Plan and the
Safford District Resource Management Plan, Arizona
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior
ACTION: Notice of Intent.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management, Phoenix District, in response
to a land exchange proposal, is preparing an Environmental Assessment
to amend the Phoenix Resource Management Plan and the Safford District
Resource Management Plan (RMPs) in compliance with the Federal Land
Policy and Management Act of 1976, as amended, and Section 102(2)(c) of
the National Environment Policy Act of 1969. The exchange, as proposed,
involves trading selected public lands for private lands with high
resource values. The public lands selected include 160 non-wilderness
acres of the remaining segments of the White Canyon Area of Critical
Environmental Concern (ACEC)--most of the ACEC is now managed as the
White Canyon Wilderness--and 4,561 acres which were designated as
retention lands within the RMPs. Three hundred fifty-five (355) of
these selected public lands were transferred from the Safford District
to the Phoenix Resource Area (Phoenix District) under a 1991 boundary
adjustment. The proposed land exchange will be analyzed under a
separate environmental impact statement (Federal Register Notice of
Intent, December 19, 1994: 65383). Management actions proposed in the
Environmental Assessment include altering the ACEC designation and
changing the classification of selected public lands from retention to
disposal parcels available under an exchange. The Environmental
Assessment to amend the two Resource Management Plans will identify a
proposed action and no action alternative as well as appropriate
alternatives derived through the analysis of planning issues and
criteria. Once the Environmental Assessment draft has been completed, a
Notice of Availability will be published in the Federal Register
followed by a 60-day comment period.
Public comment is needed now to identify issues and criteria for
consideration during the amendment process. Public open houses/scoping
meetings will be held at the following locations and times:
Florence Open House, March 28, 1995, 4-8 p.m. at the Florence
Unified School District Office, Administration Building, 350 S. Main
St., Florence, AZ 85232, (602) 868-2300. Mesa Open House, March 30,
1995, 4-8 p.m. at the Rendezvous Center, 263 North Center Street, Mesa,
Arizona (602) 644-2178.
DATES: Written public comments may be submitted during the open houses
or to the address given below. Public comments will be accepted until
April 10, 1995.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be mailed to, and copies of the
scoping documentation are available from: Bureau of Land Management,
Phoenix District Office, 2015 West Deer Valley Road, Phoenix, AZ 85027,
ATTENTION McFARLIN AMENDMENT.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Shela McFarlin, Bureau of Land
Management, Phoenix District Office, 2015 West Deer Valley Road,
Phoenix, AZ 85027 or telephone (602) 780-8090.
Dated February 28, 1995.
David J. Miller,
Associate District Manager.
[FR Doc. 95-5432 Filed 3-3-95; 8:45 am]
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