[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 85 (Wednesday, May 2, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 21909]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-10536]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service


Availability of the Luna Lake Trail Relocation Environmental 
Assessment, Including a Proposed Non-Significant Amendment to the 1997 
Revision to the Routt National Forest Land and Resource Management 
Plan, Garfield, Grand, Jackson, Moffat, Rio Blanco, and Routt Counties, 
CO

AGENCY: U.S. Forest Service, U.S.D.A.

ACTION: Notice of availability of an environmental assessment.

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SUMMARY: An environmental assessment of the proposed relocation of 
approximately three miles of the Luna Lake Trail in the Mt. Zirkel 
Wilderness that was heavily impacted by the Routt Divide Blowdown event 
in October 1997 is available upon request. The analysis includes a 
proposed non-significant amendment to the 1997 Revision to Routt 
National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan to reallocate acres 
in management area prescriptions in the project area. The amendment is 
necessary to reflect the change in recreational use patterns and social 
encounters that would result from trail relocation. This notice is 
provided pursuant to National Forest System Land and Resource 
Management Planning regulations (36 CFR 219.35, 65 FR 67579, November 
9, 2000).

DATES: Public scoping on this proposed project was initiated on August 
8, 1999. A pre-decisional Environmental Assessment was issued on August 
2, 2000. The official public comment period ended on September 11, 
2000.

ADDRESSES: Send requests for documents to: Forest Supervisor, Medicine 
Bow-Routt National Forests and Thunder Basin National Grassland, 2468 
Jackson Street, Laramie, WY 82070-6535.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ed Patalik, Recreation Planner, Hahns 
Peak-Bears Ears Ranger District, 925 Weiss Drive, Steamboat Springs, CO 
80487-9315. Phone: (970) 870-2245 Electronic mail: [email protected]

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public scoping for this project was 
initiated with an article in the Steamboat TODAY newspaper, Steamboat 
Springs, Colorado, on August 8, 1999.
    On April 7, 2000, a letter describing this proposed project and the 
non-significant amendment to the 1997 Revision to the Routt National 
Forest Land and Resource Management Plan was mailed to over 1,800 
individuals and organizations on the Routt Forest Plan and Routt Divide 
Blowdown mailing lists. This mailing was followed with another article 
about the proposed project in the Steamboat TODAY newspaper on April 
14, 2000.
    A pre-decisional Environmental Assessment was made available for 
review and public comment invited in legal notices published in the 
Steamboat TODAY newspaper on August 2, 2000, and in the Laramie Daily 
Boomerang, Laramie, Wyoming on August 9, 2000. The official public 
comment period ended on September 11, 2000.

    Dated: April 17, 2001.
Mary H. Peterson,
Forest Supervisor.
[FR Doc. 01-10536 Filed 5-1-01; 8:45 am]
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