[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 250 (Friday, December 27, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68289-68290]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-33028]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[OR-056-1220-00;GP7-0044]


Motor Vehicle Closure; Prineville District

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, 
Prineville District.

ACTION: Notice is hereby given that effective immediately, the 
following legally described area below, including all roads and trails, 
is closed to motor vehicle use year-round.

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LEGAL DESCRIPTION: This closure order applies to the entire area, and 
all roads and trails within the area, located on Public Lands in 
Township 16 South, Range 13 East, Sections 25, 35, 36; Township 16 
South, Range 14 East, Section 19, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34; Township 17 
South, Range 13 East, Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 
15, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27; and Township 17 South, Range 14 East, 
Sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 30 W.M. Southeast 
of the Powell Butte Highway; East of the subdivisions known as 
Cimmarron City, Terry Drive, and Sunset Acres; North of Alfalfa Market 
Road; West of the subdivision known as Cascade View Estates; West of 
Johnson Market Road; and Southwest of the B.P.A. Powerline Right of Way 
#ORE 010362. Exemptions to this closure are: Portions of BLM Roads 
6589-A and 6589 where 6589-A

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intersects the Powell Butte Highway at Township 17 South, Range 13 
East, and the southwest quarter of Section 3; Mayfield Pond Access Road 
which originates where it intersects Alfalfa Market Road at Township 17 
South, Range 13 East, and the SE quarter of Section 26 and continues 
north towards the B.P.A. Powerline; the Access Road into the North 
Mayfield Pond Pasture beginning in Township 17 South, Range 13 East, 
and the east half of Section 23; and the B.P.A. Powerline Right of Way 
#ORE 010362, All other roads, trails, and BLM managed public lands are 
closed to motorized vehicle use. The purpose of this closure is to 
protect resource values in this area and increase visitor safety and 
public satisfaction. More specifically, this closure is to reduce 
impacts to soils, vegetation, wildlife, and adjacent landowners and to 
reduce unsafe access off of main roads or highways. Exemptions to this 
closure order apply to administrative personnel, allotment permittees, 
the National Guard, the Electric companies for access along and 
maintenance of the existing powerlines and right of ways, landowners 
with inholdings, and the Central Oregon Irrigation District for 
maintenance of irrigation canals. Other exemptions to this closure 
order may be made on a case by case basis by the authorized officer. 
This emergency order will be evaluated in the Urban Interface plan 
Amendment to the 1989 Brothers/La Pine Resource management Plan. The 
authority for this closure is 43 CFR 8364.1: Closure and restriction 
orders.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Violation of this closure order is 
punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000 and/or imprisonment not to 
exceed 12 months as provided in 43 CFR 8360.0-7.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Perault, BLM Prineville District 
Office, P.O. Box 550, Prineville, Oregon 97754, (Telephone 541-416-
6711).

    Dated: December 16, 1996.
Donald L. Smith,
Associate District Manager, Prineville District Office.
[FR Doc. 96-33028 Filed 12-26-96; 8:45 am]
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