[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 89 (Friday, May 8, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 25521]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-12272]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[MT-060-08-1610-00, 1617P]
Notice of Intent To Prepare a Land Disposal Plan Amendment for
the Judith-Valley-Phillips and West HiLine Resource Management Plans
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Bureau of Land Management
(BLM) will amend the Judith-Valley-Phillips and West HiLine Resource
Management Plans (RMPs). The Bureau of Land Management is amending the
RMPs to allow the disposal of small isolated tracts which were not
specifically identified and listed in the RMPs. The public land being
considered is located in Blaine, Chouteau, Fergus, Glacier, Hill,
Judith Basin, Liberty, Petroleum, Phillips, Toole, and Valley Counties,
Montana. An environmental assessment will be prepared by the Lewistown
District Office to analyze the impacts of this proposal and any
alternatives.
DATES: Comments and recommendations on this notice to amend the Judith-
Valley-Phillips and West HiLine RMPs should be received on or before
June 8, 1998.
ADDRESSES: Address all comments concerning this notice to David L.
Mari, District Manager, Lewistown District Office, P.O. Box 1160,
Lewistown, MT 59457-1160.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jerry Majerus, 406-538-7461.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The West HiLine (1988) and Judith-Valley-
Phillips (1994) Resource Management Plans (RMP) identified specific
parcels of public land for disposal. Under these RMPs, a plan amendment
is required for any land exchange, or sale, that involves public land
not specifically identified for disposal and listed in the RMPs no
matter how small and insignificant the sale or exchange. Over the past
seven years this has required six plan amendments to complete eight
minor land sales exchanges which ranged in size from 20 to 382 acres.
The purpose of each amendment was to dispose of small isolated tracts
that were not identified in the RMPs, but upon closer examination did
meet disposal criteria. Completing this plan amendment would allow the
BLM the option, and flexibility, to identify additional disposal tracts
in the future, provided they meet the disposal criteria and the
management objectives in the RMPs. Under the plan amendment, additional
disposal tracts would not be identified for major land exchanges that
do not meet RMP objectives.
(Authority: Sec. 202, Pub. L. 94-579, 90 Stat. 2747 (43 U.S.C.
1712))
Dated: April 29, 1998.
M. James Feist,
Acting District Manager.
[FR Doc. 98-12272 Filed 5-7-98; 8:45 am]
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