[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 131 (Friday, July 9, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37151-37152]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-17486]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[ID-065-1220-00]


Notice of Restriction Orders for BLM Lands within the Lower 
Salmon River Recreation Area from Vinegar Creek to Hammer Creek, Orders 
No. ID-060-16 and ID-060-17

agency: Bureau of Land Management, Upper Columbia-Salmon Clearwater 
District, Idaho.

Summary: By order, the following restrictions apply to all public land 
administered by the Bureau of Land Management within the Lower Salmon 
River Recreation Area from Vinegar Creek (river mile 112) to Hammer 
Creek (river mile 53), Idaho County, Idaho.
    The following acts are prohibited yearlong:
    1. Building, maintaining, or using a fire or campfire.
    The following persons are exempt from this order:
    A. A person with a burning permit for fires other than campfires, 
cooking fires, or warming fires;
    B. A person using any of the following types of equipment:
    1. FIREPAN, INCLUDING PORTABLE BARBECUE WITH GRILL: A device made 
of fire-resistant material or metal, with raised edges of a height 
sufficient to contain all ash and residue from a wood or charcoal fire. 
All ash and wood or charcoal residue must be packed out, including 
partially consumed briquets.
    2. GAS STOVES: Pressurized liquid or gas stoves including space 
heating devices.
    3. PERMANENTLY INSTALLED FIRE RINGS AND GRILLS IN DEVELOPED 
RECREATION SITES: For the purposes of this closure, developed 
recreation sites are Spring Bar, Allison Creek, Shorts Bar, Riggins 
City Park, Lucile, Slate Creek, Skookumchuck, and Hammer Creek.
    4. ENCLOSED WOOD STOVE: A fully enclosed stove for burning wood or 
charcoal. The stove must be enclosed on six sides with \1/4\ inch or 
smaller screening covering the chimney opening. Ash and wood residue 
must be packed out.
    C. A person on public land more than 200 feet from the edge of the 
Salmon River.
    2. Operating non-valid watercraft on the Salmon River between 
Vinegar Creek (river mile 112) and Hammer Creek (river mile 53). The 
area between the Lucile Bridge (river mile 76.5) and the Deer Creek 
Bridge (river mile 53.7) is exempt from this restriction between the 
dates of April 1 and September 15 each year.
    Non-valid watercraft on the Lower Salmon River are those types of 
equipment that were not traditionally and commonly being used for 
recreational purposes on this section of the river prior to 1999 when 
the Recreation Area Management Plan Revision for the Lower Salmon River 
Recreation Area was approved.
    Non-valid Types of Watercraft Include: Personal water vehicles such 
as jet skis, air boats, motorized surf boards, wind surf boards, 
sailboats, hover craft, winged watercraft, any powerboats equipped with 
an over the transom exhaust system, amphibious craft, mini submarines, 
powerboats under 12 feet in length and designed to carry a maximum of 
two passengers, watercraft that must be straddled when ridden by the 
operator and/or passengers, devices towed behind a powerboat for 
recreational purposes (such as water skis, kneeboards, and various 
types of tubes), and devices attached to a fixed point on the bank for 
purposes of surfing or water skating.
    Authorized Float Boats Include: Sweep boats, pontoons, catarafts, 
inflatable rafts, rigid hull and inflatable kayaks, canoes, dories, 
drift boats, and inner tubes. They may be propelled by paddles, oars, 
motors, or other devices,

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but are not capable of upstream travel through rapids.
    Authorized Powerboats Include: Motorized, rigid hull watercraft 
with water cooled exhaust that are driven by propeller(s) or jet 
pump(s), are capable of upstream and downstream travel, and usually 
require trailering to enter and exit the water.
    Authorized watercraft on the Lower Salmon River are those types of 
float boats and powerboats traditionally and commonly being used for 
recreational purposes on this section of the Lower Salmon River prior 
to 1999 when the Recreation Area Management Plan Revision for the Lower 
Salmon River Recreation Area was approved.
    The following persons are exempt from this order:
    A. Any Federal, State, or local officer or member of an organized 
rescue or firefighting force in the performance of an official duty.
    B. Any person holding a Special Recreation Permit authorizing use 
of non-valid watercraft during specific times listed on the permit.
    The authority for establishing these restrictions is Title 43, Code 
of Federal Regulations, Sections 8364.1 and 8365.1-6.
    Violation of these orders is punishable by a fine not to exceed 
$1,000 and/or imprisonment not to exceed one year.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Greg Yuncevich, Area Manager, Bureau 
of Land Management, Cottonwood Field Office, Rt. 3, Box 181, 
Cottonwood, ID 83522.

    Dated: July 1, 1999.
Fritz U. Rennebaum,
District Manager.
[FR Doc. 99-17486 Filed 7-8-99; 8:45 am]
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