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<br />',.n02Sg4 <br /> <br />4310-J8-P <br /> <br />DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR <br />Bureau of Land Management <br /> <br />(CO-120-00-161 0-DH-241 A) <br /> <br />Notice of Availability of Proposed Resource Management Plan Amendments for Kremmling Field Office <br />Resource Management Plan <br /> <br />AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior <br /> <br />ACTION: Notices of Availability <br /> <br />SUMMARY: The Kremmling Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management is proposing to make two <br />amendments to the Kremmling Resource Management Plan (RMP). One amendment would establish <br />management direction for lands recently acquired through land acquisitions. The other amendment would <br />expand the boundary of the Upper Colorado River Special Recreation Management Area (SRMA) and <br />consider management changes for the SRMA. The amendments only affect public lands in the Kremmling <br />Field Office, and would have no affect on private lands. <br /> <br />ADDRESSES: For further information contact Dave Atkins, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), 2815 H <br />Road, Grand Junction, Colorado 81505; Telephone (970) 244-3074. <br /> <br />DATES: The final decision on the amendments will be made following a SO-day Govemor's Consistency <br />Review, a 3D-day protest period, and resolution of inconsistencies and protests, if any. The 3D-day protest <br />period is initiated by this notice. <br /> <br />SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION: Notices of Intent for these two Plan amendments were published in the. <br />Federal Register on August 26, 1999. All comments received as a result of the Notices were considered <br />in preparation of the Plan amendments and environmental assessments. <br /> <br />. The first Plan amendment would establish land use planning prescriptions and land use priorities for <br />fourteen separate parcels of land acquired by the Kremmling Field Office since the Kremmling RMP was <br />completed in 1984. The RMP amendment would aiso facilitate establishing land management <br />.prescriptions and land use priorities for future land acquisitions during the environmental analysis process <br />associated with each specific land acquisition. <br /> <br />The second Plan amendment would expand the boundary of the Upper Colorado River Special Recreation <br />Management Area (SRMA) and consider management changes for the SRMA. The specific management <br />changes include the following: <br />#1. Modify the boundary of the SRMA. The current SRMA boundarY would be expanded to approximately <br />Y2 mile each side of the Colorado river, and would be extended approximately 7 Y. miles upstream to near <br />Reeder Creek. <br />#2. Land use priorities would be changed for some public lands in the proposed SRMA. Of the 12,237 <br />acres.of public land in the SRMA, approximately 8,787 acres would be. identified as a recreation priority, <br />2,542 acres as a wildlife priority, 833 acres as a soil priority, 35 acres as a protected area priority, and 40 <br /> <br />1 <br />