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Show OLD drops 800,000 cores from study The Muddy Creek WSA and seven other WSAs throughout Utah are associated with IPP and its power corridors. Those eight WSAs in Utah are associated with the IPP C associated with the IPP total 240,000 acres. Throughout Utah more than 2.7 million acres were inventoried by : BLM for the IPP, and 2.4 million acres have been restored re-stored by the bureau for full multiple use. The BLM in Utah has dropped drop-ped from any further wilderness wil-derness study more than 368,000 acres associated with the Intermountain Power Project (IPP). According to Gary J. Wicks, BLM State Director in Utah, the bureau earlier this . year completed, an. in-, . ventory throughout .Utah,, of . lands associated with the proposed power project. As a result of public com -, ments on the units inventoried inventor-ied by the Moab District, 10 were dropped and only a portion of one has been retained. re-tained. The retained portion, por-tion, known as Muddy Creek, totals 31,360 acres and is about 20 miles northwest of Hanksville. |