[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 71 (Friday, April 12, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18023-18024]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-8879]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[OR-015-1220-AA; GP-2-0056]


Notice of Temporary Motor Vehicle Restriction on Public Lands; 
Lake County, OR

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Lakeview District, Lakeview Resource 
Area, Oregon, Interior.

ACTION: A temporary restriction to motorized vehicle use on public 
lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Lakeview 
District, Lakeview Resource Area, Oregon.

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SUMMARY: The BLM is temporarily restricting some uses of motorized 
vehicles on approximately 2,500 acres of public lands in Lake County. 
Vehicles will be required to stay on existing roads and trails in the 
Juniper Mountain area. No cross-country vehicle use will be allowed. 
This restriction will enable vegetation to recover on an area burned in 
a wildfire during July of 2001.

DATES: This restriction will take effect on the published date of this 
notice. The restriction will continue until the Lakeview Resource 
Management Plan (RMP) is completed (currently scheduled for late 2002), 
which will specify the long-term vehicle management for the area.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Trish Lindaman, BLM, Lakeview Resource 
Area, 1301 South G Street, Lakeview, OR 97630; telephone (541) 947-
6136.

Discussion of the Rules

    The public lands affected by this restriction are all lands 
administered by the BLM west of BLM Roads 6185-2 and 7155, in Sections 
18, 19, 20, 29, 30, 31, and 32 of Township 30 South, Range 24 East; and 
Sections 13 and 24 of Township 30 South, Range 25 East, Willamette 
Meridian, Oregon. This area is known as Juniper Mountain. The affected 
lands are those which burned in a wildfire in July of 2001, and which 
are also within the proposed Juniper Mountain Area of Critical 
Environmental Concern (ACEC). The Emergency Stabilization and 
Rehabilitation Plan and EA (OR-010-2001-07) outlined actions to restore 
vegetation and stabilize portions of the burned area, which included 
seeding, fencing, and restricting vehicles within the area. Restricting 
vehicles to existing roads and trails will help in the revegetation of 
the area and prevent soil erosion while the area is recovering from the 
effects of the fire. Vehicle restriction signs will be posted along the 
main access roads to this area. Maps of the vehicle use limitation area 
and information on the rehabilitation plans may be obtained from the 
Lakeview District office. Notice of the EA, FONSI, and DR for the 
rehabilitation plan was publicized in October of 2001. Due to the 
immediate resource protection concerns and requirements, there will not 
be a comment period for this emergency vehicle use restriction.

Prohibited Act

    Under 43 CFR 8364.1, the Bureau of Land Management will enforce the 
following rule within the Juniper Mountain restriction area:
    i. Motorized vehicles are not allowed off of existing roads and 
trails.

Exemptions

    Persons who are exempt from these rules include any Federal, State, 
or local officer or employee in the scope of their duties, members of 
any organized rescue or fire-fighting force in performance of an 
official duty, and any person authorized in writing by the Bureau of 
Land Management.

Penalties

    The authority for this closure is found under section 303(a) of the 
Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1733(a)) and 
43 CFR 8360.0-7. Any person who violates this closure and restriction 
order may be tried before a United States Magistrate and fined no more 
than $1,000 or imprisoned for no

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more than 12 months, or both. Such violations may also be subject to 
the enhanced fines provided for by 18 U.S.C. 3571.

    Dated: February 22, 2002.
Scott R. Florence,
Field Manager, Lakeview Resource Area.
[FR Doc. 02-8879 Filed 4-11-02; 8:45 am]
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