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Notice is hereby given that the Gunnison and the Uncompahgre Field Offices, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Colorado, propose to prepare an Environmental Assessment and amend their respective resource management plans to prohibit cross-country travel by off-highway vehicles and mountain bikes on certain lands managed by each of these agency offices. Cross-country travel is defined as travel off established, existing roads and trails. Established, existing roads and trails, for this proposal, are defined as: roads and trails that exist on the ground at the time agency decisions become effective, and are described in agency travel inventories, or are easily recognizable on the ground as a route, and have been traveled routinely by users. This action is interim in nature, and is necessary so these offices can responsibly manage the land and meet people needs by preventing the proliferation of new, user-created routes and help maintain a quality recreation experience until intensive travel management planning can be completed by the agencies for the affected lands. The affected BLM offices propose changing OHV designations under 43 CFR 8342.2 on BLM- managed lands currently designated "open" year-long, and "limited seasonally", to "limited to existing roads and trails", in order to prohibit cross-country travel by OHVs. In addition, under 43 CFR 8364.1 the offices propose to limit mountain bike use to "existing roads and trails" on all lands where use is not currently prohibited. Snowmobile use would not be addressed in this proposal. Implementing these proposed land use plan amendments would be an interim and temporary measure until the offices can conduct intensive and detailed travel management planning on the affected lands. After the completion of the EA, the BLM offices would then issue decisions amending existing resource management plans. This effort is being undertaken in coordination with the Forest Service which is proposing similar measures on National Forest lands managed by the Gunnison and Paonia Ranger Districts within the Gunnison National Forest, Region 2. The public is invited to comment on this proposal and to contact the local offices for additional information. The 30-day time period for receiving comments from the public will begin on the day this notice is published in the Federal Register, and will end 30 days after the publication of this notice in the Federal Register. Informal scoping occurred from February 24, 2000, through March 24, 2000. This notice will satisfy the requirement for the affected BLM offices to conduct formal scoping. Comments received during the scoping period will be considered during the preparation of the EA. All alternatives to be considered during the EA process will be formulated after the scoping period is over and all comments are received.
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