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__, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGR1C,uLTURE -';'1 FOREST SERVICE : ',';')1 Dolores Ranger District P.O. Box 210 Dolores, Colorado 81323~:, 303-882-7296 / .. , /... "'/'" . . ;....) 1'[ , John Brown, Projects }mnager Bureau of Reclamation P,O. Box 640 Durango, Colorado 81301 L 2510 September 14, 1982 ~ I i3RDGQ CO IlE COPY :1 Dear Mr. Brown: Code '00 ~ /-;~'- We have reviewed the Draft Environmental Assessment for the Project Road Upgrading and offer the following comments for in the final statement. res ~ usion ~_. u. General It is noted that throughout the assessment, the Ormiston Point Road (11521) is referred to as a "stock driveway" or "stock trail". This road is in fact classified on the National Forest Transportation System as an arterial route that is presently in a primitive con- dition. The Ormiston Stock Driveway is a designated route for trailing stock to National Forest grazing allotments that happens to coincide and parallel the system road (#521). It should also be noted vice roads'" and "1ands"e Forest" as the roads are portation System and the Forest System. that the assessment refers to '~orest Ser- Proper designation should be "National facilities of the National Forest Trans- lands are public lands of the National Specific Comments Page 1, A. Background, Fourth Paragraph. This paragraph refers to potential sources of gravel surfacing material. The actual designation for the "Beaver Rim Gravel Pit" should be the Dolores-Norwood Gravel Pit. The Forest Service is in the process of designating this gravel source for long-range development of aggregate materials for gravel surfacing. The "Ormiston Point Gravel Pit" has not been designated for development of aggregate materials, but exists as a potential source site. Before this potential site can be allocated for aggregate development, further investigation, testing and mapping of aggregate materials by a Special Use applicant or the Forest Service, and a site specific environmental assessment will be required. It is our opinion that the draft assess- ment does not sufficently access the site specific impacts of this aggregate source site nor comply with Forest Service planning require- ments for aggregate resource developement. 6200-11 (1/159)