[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 146 (Friday, July 28, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 46492]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-19066]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[1610 (014); Re: DCN #0-0264]


Notice of Intent To Prepare a Plan Amendment for the Upper 
Klamath Basin and Wood River Wetland RMP/EIS, Oregon

June 29, 2000.
AGENCY: Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Lakeview 
District, Klamath Falls Resource Area.

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Prepare a Plan Amendment and Environmental 
Impact Statement for the Upper Klamath Basin and Wood River Wetland 
RMP/EIS nominating and designating the Fourmile property as an Area of 
Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) in South-central Oregon.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969, the Bureau of Land Management, Lakeview District/
Klamath Falls Resource Area will be directing the preparation of a Plan 
Amendment and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) evaluating the 
impacts of designating the Fourmile property as an Area of Critical 
Environmental Concern (ACEC), proposed on public lands in Klamath 
County of south-central Oregon.

DATES: The Draft RMP plan amendment and EIS analysis would be available 
for public review by December of 2000. The Record of Decision and Final 
RMP designating Fourmile as an ACEC will be made in July of 2001.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to Manager, Bureau of Land 
Management, Klamath Falls Resource Area, 2795 Anderson Avenue, Klamath 
Falls, OR 97603, ATTN: Upper Klamath Basin Wood River Wetland Plan 
Amendment.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Teresa A. Raml, Manager, (541) 883-
6916

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The proposed Plan Amendment is located on 
the Klamath Falls Resource Area of the Lakeview District. The 
evaluation for nominating the Fourmile area as an Area of Critical 
Environmental Concern will be completed in the summer of 2000. An ACEC 
designation allows the BLM to give special management attention to an 
area to protect and prevent irreparable damage to important historic, 
cultural and scenic values; fish or wildlife resources; or other 
natural systems or processes; or to protect human life and safety from 
natural hazards. The ACEC designation indicates that the BLM not only 
recognizes an area possesses significant values, but has also 
established special management measures to protect those values.
    The primary reasons for the ACEC designation are (1) Klamath Basin 
water quality concerns, (2) endangered sucker species and critical 
habitat, and (3) other species of special importance (yellow rails and 
spotted frogs).

Teresa A. Raml,
Manager, Klamath Falls Resource Area.
[FR Doc. 00-19066 Filed 7-27-00; 8:45 am]
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