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54 Fed. ReR. 43627, October 26, 1989. BLM published a notice amending the previous Final Wilderness Inventory Decision for the Redcloud Peak Wilderness Study Area (CO-030-208) as announced by publication in the Federal Register on November 14, 1980 and January 5, 1981. The amended decision is to adjust the boundary to exclude a road and two houses that are located within the existing boundary and were inadvertently included within the wilderness study area boundary during the inventory in the late 1970's. This decision will become effective 30 days from the date of this announcement in the Federal Register. 54 Fed. ReR. 43869, October 27, 1989. BLM announced the availability of the draft Resource Management Plan/Environ- mental Impact Statement (RMP/EIS) for the Dixie Resource Area, Cedar City District, Washington County, Utah. The RMP/EIS presents three alternative land use plans for management of approximately 628,000 acres of publi~ land i.n Washington County, Utah. To be considered in the final RMP/EIS, comments must be received in the Dixie Resource Area office within 90 days after publication of the Environmental Protection Agency's notice in the Federal Register. Bureau of Reclamation 54 Fed. ReR. 43870. October 27. 1989. The Bureau gave notice of its intent to prepare a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) to analyze the existing operating criteria of Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona, Colorado River Storage Project, and to develop a set of environmental criteria that will be used by the Department of the Interior during the develop- ment of the Annual Operating Plan for the operation of Glen Canyon Dam. The DEIS will present an analysis of the impacts of various alternative management practices, including existing ones, as affected by changes in the operating criteria for Glen Canyon Dam. Reclamation will conduct scoping meetings in several locations to obtain information on which to base management options to be analyzed in the NEPA process; the formal public involvement process and scoping efforts will begin in January of 1990. The DEIS is expected to be completed and available for review and comment by the end of 1991. 54 Fed. ReR. 43994, October 30. 1989. The Bureau provided a tabulation of all proposed contractual actions in each of the five Reclamation regions. including 14 proposed actions in the Upptr Colorado Region. Each proposed action listed is, or is expected to be. in some stage of the contract negotiation process during October, November. or December of 1989. Environmental Protection ARency 54 Fed. ReR. 41340, October 6. 1989. EPA announced the availability of its comments on the Bureau of Reclamation's final EIS on the Ruedi Reservoir Round II Water Sale Marketing Program. Fryingpan- Arkansas Project, Colorado. In the summary of its comments. EPA states that it "has no objections to the proposed action." 2