[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 29 (Monday, February 12, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 9879]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-3474]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[OR-932-1330-PC-010H:GP1-0086]


Nominations for Emergency Land Purchase

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Oregon.

ACTION: Public notice.

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SUMMARY: The fiscal year 2001 appropriation (United States House of 
Representatives Report 106-914) for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 
contained language in section 349(b) that requires the Bureau, acting 
on behalf of the Secretary of the Interior, to identify lands or 
interest in lands which merit emergency purchase in the lower Umpqua 
River basin from willing sellers, generally in the central coast 
mountain range.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Nominations are being accepted by the BLM 
for lands or interests in land that have critical environmental values 
or the possibility of imminent development which would merit emergency 
purchase by BLM from willing sellers in the lower Umpqua River basin, 
generally in the central coast mountain range. These nominations must 
be received at the BLM Coos Bay District Office, at the address below, 
no later than the close of business on Friday, March 9, 2001. BLM will 
evaluate the nominations and identify the lands that meet the criteria 
by March 31, 2001. This notice does not constitute initiation of 
scoping for environmental analysis of alternative land ownership 
patterns; scoping will be announced with a later notice in the Federal 
Register. Nomination worksheets and a map of the eligible area are 
available on the Internet at www.or.blm.gov/umpqua or by contacting the 
following BLM personnel:

Alan Hoffmeister, BLM Coos Bay District Office, 1300 Airport Lane, 
North Bend, OR 97459, Phone: 541-751-4249

or

E. Lynn Burkett, BLM Roseburg District Office, 777 NW Garden Valley 
Blvd., Roseburg, OR 97470, Phone: 541-440-4930, Extension 3245

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patrick Geehan, Lower Umpqua Land 
Ownership Adjustment Project Manager, P.O. Box 2965, Portland, Oregon, 
97208, phone: 503-952-6445.

    Dated: January 30, 2001.
Edward W. Shepard,
Deputy State Director, Division of Resource Planning, Use, and 
Protection.
[FR Doc. 01-3474 Filed 2-9-01; 8:45 am]
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