WSP12286

• File Number: 8200.765
• Description: White River General
• State: CO
• Basin: Yampa/White
• Water Division: 6
• Date: 8/1/1983
• Author: USFS
• Title: Summary of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Proposed Forest Plan - White River National Forest
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

D00290,

SUMMARY OF THE
DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT
FOR THE
WHITE RIVER NATIONAL FOREST
LAND AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLAN
02-15-83-01
Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison, Mesa, Moffat,
Pitkin, Rio Blanco, Routt, and Summit Counties, Colorado

TYPE OF ACTION: Administrative

LEADING AGENCY: USDA, Forest Service

RESPONSIBLE OFFICIAL:

Craig W. Rupp, Regional Forester

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Richard Woodrow, Forest Supervisor
White River National Forest
P.O. Box 948
Glenwood Springs, Colorado 81602
Telephone: [phone]

ABSTRACT: This draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) describes a
Proposed Action (Proposed Forest Plan) and Alternatives to the proposed
action for managing 2,435,905 acres of National Forest System land. There
are six alternatives analyzed. Alternative A, the Proposed Forest Plan,
emphasizes production of goods and services such as downhill skiing, developed
recreation, and water yield while giving consideration to values such as
wildlife and wilderness. Alternative B continues the present course of action
with the modification of meeting and responding to present and projected
program levels and consumptive demands (No Action Alternative). Alternative
C emphasizes meeting targets assigned to the Forest by the R-2 Regional Guide
in conformance with the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act
(RPA) for 1980. Alternative D emphasizes providing goods and services with a
monetary value at the highest expected level of demand. Alternative E empha-
sizes providing a variety of non-market outputs. Alternative F emphasizes the
production of inarket outputs while operating on a budget which would be 25
percent less than 1982.

Alternative A is the Forest Service Preferred Alternative and proposed Forest
Plan.

Please retain your copy of this draft Environmental Impact Statement (JnS).
Unless the extent of public comment or new information requires substantial
revision, only. the changes in the Draft EIS and the responses of the Forest
Service will be circulated as the Final EIS [40 CFR l503.4(c)]. Copies of
the Final EIS will be sent only to those agencies and organizations listed
in Chapter VI; to those who comment on this Draft EIS; and to those who
specifically request a copy of the Final EIS.

Please send your comments
must be received by

to the Forest Supervisor.
NOV 2 3 1983 .

Comments on the Draft EIS