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Show Public involvement sought as Utah BLM crews begin inventory Four public meetings in Utah have been scheduled by the Bureau of Land Management to gain public pub-lic involvement in evalu ating wilderness aspects of roadless areas that would be affected by proposed electrical transmission, trans-mission, railroad and pipeline routes for the proposed Intermountain Power Project (IPP). Meetings are scheduled as follows: Delta - Novem ber 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the Delta High School auditorium; auditor-ium; Cedar City - November Novem-ber 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the BLM Cedar City district office, 1579 North Main Street; Castle Dale -November 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Emery County Courthouse courtroom; Salt Lake City - November 17, at 7 p.m. in room 1408 of the University Club Building, 136 East South Temple. According to Paul L. Howard, BLM Utah state director, findings from wilderness inventories done on the areas by BLM will be explained during the meetings.' He noted that all roadless areas associated with the power project in Utah will be discussed at the Salt Lake City meeting. Areas in Juab and Millard Counties will be discussed at the Delta meeting, areas in Garfield, Beaver, Iron and Washington Counties at the Cedar City meeting, and areas in Emery, Sevier, Wayne and Piute Counties at the Castle Dale meeting. Howard added that information gained from the public and the wilderness inventories inven-tories will be discussed in a draft environmental statement now being prepared pre-pared by BLM on the proposed Intermountain Power Project. It was emphasized by Howard that special approval ap-proval was granted by the national director of BLM, Frank Gregg, to make these wilderness inventories invento-ries so the IPP draft environmental statement would not be delayed any longer than necessary. The recently published BLM Wilderness Inventory Inven-tory Handbook is being used as a guideline for these inventories, added Howard. Public comments on the wilderness aspects of the areas will be accepted until December 18. Comments Com-ments should be mailed to: BLM Utah' State Director, University Club |