[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 28 (Thursday, February 10, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-3127]


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[Federal Register: February 10, 1994]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[AZ-020-04-4410-10]

 

Arizona: Resource Management Planning

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of intent.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with 43 CFR 1610.2(c) and 1610.3-1(d), notice is 
hereby given of intent to prepare a Category I amendment to Lower Gila 
North and Lower Gila South planning documents, Lower Gila Resource 
Area, Phoenix District, Arizona. This notice also constitutes the 
scoping notice required by regulation for the National Environmental 
Policy Act (43 CFR 1507.7). The proposed action is to amend the Lower 
Gila North Management Framework Plan (MFP) completed in December 1982 
and the Lower Gila South Resource Management Plan (RMP) completed in 
June 1988. The Category I planning amendment will be based on existing 
statutory requirements and policies and will carry out the requirements 
of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA). The 
amendment and accompanying environmental assessment (EA) will provide 
the basis for modifying the recreation, wildlife, minerals, wild burros 
and lands sections of the existing land use plans. The times and 
schedules for public meetings will be announced in the local news 
media. A thirty- (30) day time schedule for written public comment will 
follow the scheduled public meetings. Relevant documents will be 
available for public review at the Phoenix District Office, 2015 West 
Deer Valley Road, Phoenix, Arizona.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hank Molz, Phoenix District Office, 
Lower Gila Resource Area, 2015 West Deer Valley Road, Phoenix, Arizona 
85027. Telephone (602) 780-8090.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The planning areas are in the Lower Gila 
Resource Area in portions of Yuma, La Paz, Maricopa, Pima, Pinal and 
Yavapai Counties. The proposed amendment addresses land tenure, oil and 
gas, desert tortoise habitat management, recreation and wild burro 
management. Disciplines to be represented and used to prepare the 
amendment include lands, recreation, wildlife, botany, archaeology, 
geology, economics, range, wilderness and fire management. Public 
meetings will be held in Ajo, Gila Bend, Buckeye, Sun City, Wickenburg 
and Phoenix, Arizona. All public input will be through written comments 
during the plan amendment process.

    Date: January 31, 1994.
David J. Miller,
Associate District Manager.
[FR Doc. 94-3127 Filed 2-9-94; 8:45 am]
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