[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 28 (Friday, February 10, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8056-8057]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-3505]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[MT-060-05-1610-00]
Availability of the Draft Sweet Grass Hills Resource Management
Plan Amendment and Environmental Impact Statement; Liberty and Toole
Counties, MT
AGENCY: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management.
ACTION: Notice of Availability of the Draft Sweet Grass Hills Resource
Management Plan Amendment and Environmental Impact Statement.
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SUMMARY: The draft Amendment and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
addresses future management options for land tenure adjustment, off-
road vehicle use, oil and gas leasing, and locatable mineral
development for lands and minerals administered by the Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) in the Sweet Grass Hills in Toole and Liberty
Counties, Montana, and amends the West HiLine Resource Management Plan
(1988 and 1992). This includes approximately 7,717 surface acres,
19,765 acres of all mineral estate, and 1,644 acres of only oil and gas
estate. These lands are administered by the BLM through the Great Falls
Resource Area. The draft preferred alternative and three other
alternatives have been developed to provide management options for the
Sweet Grass Hills.
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: Copies of the draft Amendment/EIS will be
available from the Lewistown District Office, P.O. Box 1160, Lewistown,
MT 59457-1160, (406) 538-7461. Public reading copies will be available
for review at the following BLM locations: Office of External Affairs,
Main Interior Building, Room 5600, 18th and C Streets, NW., Washington,
DC 20240; External Affairs Office, Montana State Office, P.O. Box
36800, 222 North 32nd Street, Billings, MT 59107; Lewistown District
Office, Airport Road, P.O. Box 1160, Lewistown, MT 59457-1160; and
Great Falls Resource Area, 812 14th St. N., Great Falls, MT 59401.
Written comments on the draft Amendment/EIS will be accepted for 90
days following the date the Environmental Protection Agency publishes
the Notice of Filing of the Draft in the Federal Register. Comments can
also be presented at four public meetings to be held at: Shelby, MT,
Shelby High School Auditorium, February 27, 1995, 7 p.m.; Browning, MT,
Browning High School Annex, February 28, 1995, 7 p.m.; Chester, MT,
Chester High School Auditorium, March 1, 1995, 7 p.m.; and, Rocky Boy,
MT, Community Hall, March 2, 1995, 10 a.m.
ADDRESSES: Written comments on the document should be addressed to
Richard Hopkins, Area Manager, Great Falls Resource Area, 812 14th St.
N., Great Falls, MT 59401.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tad Day, Team Lead, Great Falls
Resource Area, 812 14th St. N., Great Falls, MT 59401, (406) 727-0503.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In August 1993, the BLM segregated the
Federal mineral estate in the Sweet Grass Hills for a two-year period
which closed the area to the location of new mining claims until August
1995. The BLM also began amending the West HiLine Resource Management
Plan to reevaluate current management decisions for the Sweet Grass
Hills. The amendment to the West HiLine Resource Management Plan will
provide specific direction concerning locatable mineral development and
will recommend whether some or all of the area should be closed to
mining claim location. If the final amendment and record of decision
recommends closure, the BLM would begin processing a 20-year term
withdrawal.
[[Page 8057]] Dated: February 7, 1995.
Gary Slagel,
Acting District Manager.
[FR Doc. 95-3505 Filed 2-9-95; 8:45 am]
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