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Show UN tifitfinrfiiiiii BLM announces 2002 federal grazing fee The grazing fee for the 2002 grazing year on western public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be $1.43 per animal unit month (AUM). The formula used for calculating the fee was established by Congress in the 1978 Public Rangelands Improvement Act and continues under a Presidential Executive Order issued Clarke said, The $1.43 per AUM grazing fee applies to lands in the west administered by the BLM and to national forests and national grass- THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday, February 27, 2002 - Page 3 ROUND THE REGION livestock grazing on public lands in Western States. The figure is then adjusted according to three factors - current private grazing land lease Man with suspected terrorist ties arrested a routine traffic stop, Sevier County Sheriff Depulands administered by the Forties arrested a man who is suspected of having ties with and est Service. Under the Federal transporting money for terrorist networks. Sheriff Deputies Land Policy and Management pulled over a vehicle and noticed a strong smell of perfume in Act (FLPMA), by which the the car, according to Sevier County Sheriff Bill Barney. They level. 2002 from the BLM fulfills its multiple use questioned the driver who said he didnt have anything illegal the of an The a BLM, is agency recogmandate, grazing in the car and invited officers to search his vehicle. Inside the Intenized and appropriate use of U.S. Department of the trunk of the car, the officers found a bag of marijuana and suit262 land more 1986. in rior, manages the public lands. case which contained nearly $300,000. The man claimed he An AUM is the amount of million surface acres - than was from Kuwait and he didnt know anything about the money The annually adjusted grazforage needed to sustain one ing fee, effective March 1, 2002 any other Federal agency. Of except his brother had asked him to transport it from Los Ancow and her calf, one horse, or through February 28, 2003, is this, about 164 million acres geles to Chicago. A search of the car turned up evidence of five sheep or goats for a month. computed by using a 1966 base are permitted for livestock three different names for the drivers. After sending the names BLM Director Kathleen value of $1.23 per AUM for grazing. Most of the countrys and fingerprints to Washington, D.C., authorities said that the public land is man is from Jordan and that his brother is on the list of suslocated in 12 western states, pected terrorists. The mans sister-in-lahad called law enincluding Alaska. The agency, forcement authorities in Chicago and said that she felt they which has a budget of $1.8 bil- were involved with terrorist activities. The suspect was translion and a workforce of 10,000 ported to Salt Lake City where he was taken into custody by also administers employees, Richfield Reaper the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Richfield-Aft- er rates, beef cattle prices and the cost of livestock production. Based on the formula, the 2002 fee is an increase of 8 cents BLM-manag- ed w Jensen Orthodontics 700 million acres of Alan C. Jensen, D.D.S., M.S. 570 West 400 North Toll Free 60 SPECIALIZING IN BRACES ce mineral estate throughout coming to Moab the Nation. The BLMs mul- Austin tiple use mission is to sustain Moab - Mike Meyers and his lowbrow secret agent parody Austhe health, diversity and pro- tin Powers descends on Moab March 5. A second unit crew ductivity of the public lands for from an L.A. based production company is slated to arrive for the use and enjoyment of nine days of shooting on Austin Powers III, the third installpresent and future genera- ment in the big box office series. Word has it that the film tions. The BLM accomplishes begins with Powers tumbling back to earth from space. It is a this by managing for such re- second unit crew, meaning the stars of the film, including sources as outdoor recreation, Meyers, Danny Devito, Kevin Spacey, Gwenith Paltrow and livestock grazing, and energy Brittany Spears, probably wont be in Moab. Local insiders'say and mineral development that one of the reasons the project is coming to Moab is producer helps meet the nations energy Eric McLeod, son of Grand County Council member A1 McLeod. needs, and by conserving natuEric, a Grand County High School alumnus is listed as one of ral, historical, cultural and six producers on the project, but Eric is apparently the real other resources on the public hands-o- n producer the others are simply financing the film. lands. Times Independent Powers Moab, Utah 84532 Call for an appointment 877-322-73- sub-surfa- s - Tribal system can prevent DUI reporting Nizhoni Bridges presents Cortez - When repeat DUI offender Wilson Jones allegedly climbed behind the wheel and drove drunk in December, the result was a head-o- n collision that killed a young Cortez couple old daughter. But the triple fatality Jones and their one-yesince been has charged with, was not formally reported to the ar 'Evening of Music state, nor was the general public initially informed of it because the crash involved a Native American and happened on the Ute Mountain Ute Reservation under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Likewise, a Native American man who has been charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter in a January 25 crash had previously appeared before the Navajo Tribal Court on five driving while intoxicated charges. 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