(CO) DMRP EIS Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area

[Ed A. Stevens]

Notice of Availability of a Draft Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement for the Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area


http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2...03/03-5889.htm
[Federal Register: March 14, 2003 (Volume 68, Number
50)]
[Notices]
[Page 12363-12365]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[CO-154-1610-DP-GGCA]


Notice of Availability of a Draft Resource Management
Plan and Environmental Impact Statement for the
Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability of Draft Resource
Management Plan and
Environmental Impact Statement (DRMP/EIS) for the
Gunnison Gorge
National Conservation Area (NCA).

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SUMMARY: In accordance with section 202 of the
National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, and under authority of the
Federal Land
Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA), a Draft
RMP/EIS has been
prepared for the

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Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area. The
planning area lies in
Montrose and Delta Counties, Colorado. The DRMP/EIS
provides direction
and guidance for the management of public lands and
resources of the
NCA, as well as monitoring and evaluation
requirements. The RMP will
also amend the Uncompahgre RMP (1989) for the affected
lands in the
planning area. Some decisions in the existing planning
and management
documents may be carried forward into the new NCA RMP.
Once approved in
a Record of Decision (ROD), the RMP for the NCA will
supercede all
existing management plans for the public lands within
the NCA. The
DRMP/EIS evaluates the Current Management Alternative,
the Agency
Preferred Alternative, and two other alternative
management approaches.
Tetra Tech, Inc., an environmental consulting firm in
Boulder,
Colorado, is assisting the BLM in the preparation of
these documents
and in the planning process for the NCA.

DATES: Written comments on the DRMP/EIS will be
accepted for 90 days
following the date the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) publishes
this Notice of Availability in the Federal Register.
Future public
meetings and any other public involvement activities
will be announced
at least 15 days in advance through public notices,
media news
releases, the project Web site at
http://www.gunnison-gorge-eis.com,

releases, the project Web site at
http://www.gunnison-gorge-eis.com,

and/or mailings.