[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 154 (Thursday, August 8, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 41422]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-20233]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[ID-030-1110-04]


Land Use Plan Amendment: Medicine Lodge Resource Management Plan 
(RMP); Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) Designation; Idaho

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Intent to prepare a Plan Amendment/EA for the 
Medicine Lodge RMP for the proposed Henrys Lake ACEC.

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SUMMARY: Approximately 1,681 acres of public land listed below possess 
excellent fish and wildlife habitat as well as recreation 
opportunities. They are sufficiently unique to deserve special 
management attention obtained by an ACEC designation. This would 
provide sufficient priority status to help ensure funding for adequate 
multiple use management. Such special designations are made through the 
land use planning process required in the Federal Land Policy and 
Management Act (FLPMA). The intended effect of this action is to 
designate as an ACEC a composite of the BLM-administered parcels listed 
below and to identify in the RMP a proximal area containing non-BLM 
land on which ACEC designation would be instantly conferred in the 
event of future acquisition by BLM for that stated purpose.

DATES: Comments with information useful to formulate supplemental 
issues and alternatives for the environmental analysis are hereby 
requested and will be accepted until September 9, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Rice, Bureau of Land Management, 
1405 Hollipark Drive, Idaho Falls, ID 83401, (208) 524-7549.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Several scattered tracts of public land, 
collectively comprising approximately 1,681 acres more or less, possess 
important fish, wildlife, and threatened and endangered species habitat 
as well as recreation opportunities. All of the tracts are in the 
Henrys Lake Flat area. Several tracts are along the Henrys Lake shore. 
All are influenced by the resources and activity occurring in and 
around the lake. An additional 350 acres of BLM-administered land 
immediately north of Henrys Lake comprise the Henrys Lake Wilderness 
Study Area. The following public land in Fremont County, Idaho, will be 
analyzed for possible collective designation as the Henrys Lake Area 
ACEC:

Boise Meridian, Idaho

T. 15N., R. 42 E.,
    Sec. 1, E\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 12, NE\1/4\NE\1/4\, S\1/2\NE\1/4\.
T. 16 N., R. 43 E.,
    Sec. 31, Lot 3;
    Sec. 32, N\1/2\NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 33, N\1/2\, N\1/2\NE\1/4\SE\1/4\, NW\1/4\SW\1/4\NE\1/
4\SE\1/4\, E\1/2\SE\1/4\NE\1/4\SE\1/4\, SW\1/4\SE\1/4\NE\1/4\SE\1/
4\.
T. 15 N., R. 43 E.,
    Sec. 3, SW\1/4\NW\1/4\, W\1/2\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 4, Lots 2 to 4, inclusive;
    Sec. 7, Lot 8;
    Sec. 8, Lot 1;
    Sec. 9, Lots 1, 3 and 4;
    Sec. 13, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\;
    Sec. 17, Lots 1 to 3, inclusive;
    Sec. 18, Lot 5, NE\1/4\SW\1/4\, NE\1/4\SE\1/4\, SW\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 20, Lots 1 to 4, inclusive;
    Sec. 21, Lot 3;
    Sec. 27, Lots 4 and 5, SW\1/4\SW\1/4\.
T. 14 N., R. 43 E.,
    Sec. 2, Lot 3.
T. 16 N., R. 44 E.,
    Sec. 31, E\1/2\SW\1/4\.
T. 15 N., R. 44 E,
    Sec. 31, Lot 8.
T. 14 N., R. 44 E.,
    Sec. 5, Lots 1 and 2;
    Sec. 7, Lots 1 to 3, inclusive, Lot 8;
    Sec. 17, SE\1/4\SW\1/4\, S\1/2\SE\1/4\.

    The primary issues envisioned are: (a) protection of special 
riparian areas, (b) protection of threatened and endangered species 
habitat, (c) land acquisition, and (d) recreation 
enhancementespecially for fishermen and hunters. The same planning 
criteria used for the original RMP will be used for this amendment. No 
meetings are planned at this time, however, all known affected parties 
and other interested parties will have opportunities to have input to 
this amendment. All of the tracts listed above are proposed for 
multiple use management in perpetuity.

    Dated: July 31, 1996.
Joe Kraayenbrink,
Area Manager, Medicine Lodge Resource Area.
[FR Doc. 96-20233 Filed 8-7-96; 8:45 am]
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