[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 125 (Thursday, June 29, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33843-33844]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-16018]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[CO-034-95-1220-00]
Designation Order; Moratorium on Commercial Outfitting Permits
for the San Miguel River Special Recreation Management Area and Area of
Critical Environmental Concern
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Montrose District, Uncompahgre Basin
Resource Area, Montrose Colorado.
ACTION: Establishment of a moratorium on the number of commercial
outfitting permits for the San Miguel River Special Recreation
Management Area (SRMA) and Area of Critical Environmental Concern
(ACEC) administered by the Bureau of Land Management Montrose District.
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SUMMARY: The BLM Montrose District, the Telluride Institute, San Miguel
County, and the Town of Telluride are jointly sponsoring the writing of
a Multi-Objective Plan for the San Miguel River Basin. Partners in the
planning effort include over 50 representatives of local, state, and
federal agencies, interest groups, and interested individuals. The plan
will address
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numerous issues concerning the protection of the San Miguel River's
natural resources and the management of users, including commercial
recreation users that operate under Special Recreation Permits issued
by the BLM. The final plan will provide strategies for determining
thresholds for commercial use and the means for rationing use should
those thresholds be exceeded.
The BLM has determined that a moratorium on the number of
commercial outfitting permits is needed to hold the commercial use at
1994 levels while the multi-objective plan is being prepared. The
moratorium will allow BLM to direct full management attention to the
planning process instead of spending significant amounts of time,
personnel, and budget reacting to higher and higher levels of
uncontrolled use and resources damage.
The moratorium will go into effect immediately and remain in effect
until the final plan is approved. Only those commercial outfitters that
had a valid permit in 1994, and properly met the requirements of that
permit, will be eligible to obtain permits in 1995 and any future year
until the plan is approved.
When the plan is approved, the moratorium will be lifted and
constraints on the number of outfitting permits and/or the total number
of user days associated with those permit, if any, will be implemented.
Sales of outfitting businesses and any transfer of permits that may
apply during the period of the moratorium will be dealt with through
BLM Manual H8372-1.
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 15, 1995.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Additional information concerning this
moratorium on commercial outfitting permits in the San Miguel River
Special Recreation Management Area and Area of Critical Environmental
Concern may be obtained from Karen Tucker, Recreation Planner,
Uncompahgre Basin Resource Area, Montrose District, 2505 South Townsend
Ave., Montrose, Colorado 80401, (970) 249-6047.
Authority for implementing this action is contained in 43 CFR
8372.3.
Dated: June 20, 1995.
Jamie Connell,
Associate District Manager.
[FR Doc. 95-16018 Filed 6-28-95; 8:45 am]
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