WSPC03469

• File Number: 7630.285
• Description: Wild and Scenic - General
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 2/27/1978
• Author: BLM
• Title: Bureau of Land Management Proposed Wilderness Policy and Review Procedure - Draft
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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I. Purposes

A. The purposes of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM's) Wilderness

Policy and Review Procedure ar~ to:

1. Meet the legal requirements of section 603 of the Federal Land

Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA) and the intent of Congress;

2. Inventory those public lands under the jurisdiction of the

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that meet the criteria of section 2(c) of

the Wilderness Preservation Act of 1964 for possible designation as

wilderness (the inventory, study, and reporting of wilderness preservation

potential on the public lands will be accomplished prior to October 21, 1991;

however, the inventory, study, and reporting of all primitive and natural

areas formally identified prior to November 1, 1975, will be accomplished

prior to July 1, 1980);
3. Provide a wilderness review procedure which enables the public,

organizations, and State and local governments to be fully involved;

4. Manage the public lands so that multiple use activities will

continue with minimum interruption while the wilderness review program is

being conducted (for example, following is a partial list of activities

that can continue during the study and reporting of wilderness study areas:

off-road vehicle use, mining, mineral leasing, hunting, fishing, maintenance

of facilities, and access or granting of rights of way; it is the impact an

activity has on the land and the potential for wilderness designation (not

a particular activity itself) that will be measured to determine if it will

be allowed or regulated); and
5. Guide the protection and interim management of those areas

that qualify for wilderness until a final wilderness determination is made

by Congress.

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