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Show bud Hearing Slated Wednesday A public hearing will be held by the Bureau of Land Management next Tuesday ' on a proposed classification for multiple use management manage-ment of most of Grand county coun-ty and a portion of San Juan county. The hearing, according tu Robert E. Anderson, Monti- -cello BLM district manager, will be held at 1:30 p.m. May 7 in the Grand county courthouse. court-house. Any persons with comments, com-ments, suggestions or objections objec-tions to the proposed classification classifi-cation should attend, he said. The classification unit includes in-cludes public domain lands in the Book Cliffs, Big Flat, Ten Mile. Castle Valley and Cisco areas in Grand county, and a part of the northern portion of San Juan county. Under the authority of the Multiple Use Act of Sept. 19, 1964 and its implementing regulations, the piece of land which is approximately 1.645,062 acres, wou'd be put under intensive multiple use management. Multiple use management practices include the following follow-ing policies: preservation, protection pro-tection and development of recreational potential; management man-agement of the resources for the benefit of wildlife; management man-agement of grazing of livestock live-stock and range development to stabilize the livestock industry in-dustry under the Taylor Grazing Graz-ing Act by allowing and encouraging en-couraging range reliability tion and other improvement practices. Also, management of mineral min-eral resources under the general gen-eral mining laws, mineral leasing laws and material sale laws; and protection of watersheds, soils and vegetative vege-tative resources from misuse, fire and erosion, will all be given consideration. Said Mr. Anderson, the proposed pro-posed classification would provide pro-vide for these multiple use practices, but would not ba limited to them. The classification classifi-cation would, however, restrict re-strict the included lands from disposal under the agricultural agricultur-al land laws and the old Public Pub-lic Land Sale Act, but would keep them open to disposal for agriculture, industrial development, devel-opment, urban expansion and other uses under the new Public Pub-lic Land Sale Act. Approximately Approxi-mately 8,820 acres which are important recreation sites, would be segregaled from the general mining laws. Comments on the proposed classification may be submitted submit-ted in writing before June 22, 1968 to the Monticello District Manager, BLM, Box 1327, Monticello, Utah, or to the State Director, BLM, 125 S State, Salt Lake City, Utah Final determination on tin classification will be made after that dale. |