[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 131 (Friday, July 9, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37151-37152]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-17486]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[ID-065-1220-00]
Notice of Restriction Orders for BLM Lands within the Lower
Salmon River Recreation Area from Vinegar Creek to Hammer Creek, Orders
No. ID-060-16 and ID-060-17
agency: Bureau of Land Management, Upper Columbia-Salmon Clearwater
District, Idaho.
Summary: By order, the following restrictions apply to all public land
administered by the Bureau of Land Management within the Lower Salmon
River Recreation Area from Vinegar Creek (river mile 112) to Hammer
Creek (river mile 53), Idaho County, Idaho.
The following acts are prohibited yearlong:
1. Building, maintaining, or using a fire or campfire.
The following persons are exempt from this order:
A. A person with a burning permit for fires other than campfires,
cooking fires, or warming fires;
B. A person using any of the following types of equipment:
1. FIREPAN, INCLUDING PORTABLE BARBECUE WITH GRILL: A device made
of fire-resistant material or metal, with raised edges of a height
sufficient to contain all ash and residue from a wood or charcoal fire.
All ash and wood or charcoal residue must be packed out, including
partially consumed briquets.
2. GAS STOVES: Pressurized liquid or gas stoves including space
heating devices.
3. PERMANENTLY INSTALLED FIRE RINGS AND GRILLS IN DEVELOPED
RECREATION SITES: For the purposes of this closure, developed
recreation sites are Spring Bar, Allison Creek, Shorts Bar, Riggins
City Park, Lucile, Slate Creek, Skookumchuck, and Hammer Creek.
4. ENCLOSED WOOD STOVE: A fully enclosed stove for burning wood or
charcoal. The stove must be enclosed on six sides with \1/4\ inch or
smaller screening covering the chimney opening. Ash and wood residue
must be packed out.
C. A person on public land more than 200 feet from the edge of the
Salmon River.
2. Operating non-valid watercraft on the Salmon River between
Vinegar Creek (river mile 112) and Hammer Creek (river mile 53). The
area between the Lucile Bridge (river mile 76.5) and the Deer Creek
Bridge (river mile 53.7) is exempt from this restriction between the
dates of April 1 and September 15 each year.
Non-valid watercraft on the Lower Salmon River are those types of
equipment that were not traditionally and commonly being used for
recreational purposes on this section of the river prior to 1999 when
the Recreation Area Management Plan Revision for the Lower Salmon River
Recreation Area was approved.
Non-valid Types of Watercraft Include: Personal water vehicles such
as jet skis, air boats, motorized surf boards, wind surf boards,
sailboats, hover craft, winged watercraft, any powerboats equipped with
an over the transom exhaust system, amphibious craft, mini submarines,
powerboats under 12 feet in length and designed to carry a maximum of
two passengers, watercraft that must be straddled when ridden by the
operator and/or passengers, devices towed behind a powerboat for
recreational purposes (such as water skis, kneeboards, and various
types of tubes), and devices attached to a fixed point on the bank for
purposes of surfing or water skating.
Authorized Float Boats Include: Sweep boats, pontoons, catarafts,
inflatable rafts, rigid hull and inflatable kayaks, canoes, dories,
drift boats, and inner tubes. They may be propelled by paddles, oars,
motors, or other devices,
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but are not capable of upstream travel through rapids.
Authorized Powerboats Include: Motorized, rigid hull watercraft
with water cooled exhaust that are driven by propeller(s) or jet
pump(s), are capable of upstream and downstream travel, and usually
require trailering to enter and exit the water.
Authorized watercraft on the Lower Salmon River are those types of
float boats and powerboats traditionally and commonly being used for
recreational purposes on this section of the Lower Salmon River prior
to 1999 when the Recreation Area Management Plan Revision for the Lower
Salmon River Recreation Area was approved.
The following persons are exempt from this order:
A. Any Federal, State, or local officer or member of an organized
rescue or firefighting force in the performance of an official duty.
B. Any person holding a Special Recreation Permit authorizing use
of non-valid watercraft during specific times listed on the permit.
The authority for establishing these restrictions is Title 43, Code
of Federal Regulations, Sections 8364.1 and 8365.1-6.
Violation of these orders is punishable by a fine not to exceed
$1,000 and/or imprisonment not to exceed one year.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Greg Yuncevich, Area Manager, Bureau
of Land Management, Cottonwood Field Office, Rt. 3, Box 181,
Cottonwood, ID 83522.
Dated: July 1, 1999.
Fritz U. Rennebaum,
District Manager.
[FR Doc. 99-17486 Filed 7-8-99; 8:45 am]
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