[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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