[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 131 (Monday, July 10, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 35561]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-16781]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[AZ-024-1330-00]
Draft White Canyon Resource Plan Amendment and Environmental
Assessment for the Phoenix Resource Management Plan and the Safford
District Resource Management Plan, AZ
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management, Phoenix District, in response
to a land exchange proposal, is preparing a Plan Amendment and
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 Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
The proposal involves exchanging selected public lands for private
lands with high resource values. The selected lands include 1,828 acres
of federal mineral estate and 4,721 acres of public lands which
includes 160 non-wilderness acres of the White Canyon Area of Critical
Environmental Concern (ACEC)--most of the ACEC is now managed as the
White Canyon Wilderness. Three hundred fifty-five (355) acres of these
selected public lands were transferred from the Safford District to the
Phoenix Resource Area (Phoenix District) under a 1991 boundary
adjustment. The plan amendment/environmental assessment considers
changing the current land tenure decision from retention for these
lands and mineral estate to disposal through an exchange and considers
changing the White Canyon ACEC designation. Four plan amendment
alternatives, including the no action alternative, are analyzed. The
proposed action is to make available for exchange 4,721 acres of public
lands and 1,828 acres of federal minerals, and to remove ACEC
designation from 300 non-wilderness acres of which 160 acres are to be
included in the proposed exchange. The proposed action would also
remove ACEC designation from 1,620 acres now included within the White
Canyon Wilderness.
Written specific comments are needed on the draft to be considered
in the final amendment/environmental assessment. Public open houses
will be held at the following locations and times:
Florence Open House, August 1, 1995, 3-7 p.m. at the Florence Unified
School District Office, Administration Building, 350 S. Main St.,
Florence, Arizona 85232 (602) 868-2300.
Mesa Open House, August 2, 1995, 3-7 p.m. at the Cholla Room,
Centennial Hall, 201 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
September 8, 1995.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be mailed to and copies of the draft
plan amendment/environmental assessment 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: June 30, 1995.
G.L. Cheniae,
District Manager.
[FR Doc. 95-16781 Filed 7-7-95; 8:45 am]
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