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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY MARCH 10, 1899 News National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalant- e Kane County agreement of operational support WHEREAS Kane County and NaGrand Staircase-Escalant- e tional Monument have mutual interests in the maintenance of roads, public information, trash collection, law enforcement, and. search and rescue, and WHEREAS both entities may have some jurisdictional claims or responsibilities for these activities, and WHEREAS it is mutually beneficial that these issues be resolved by agreement, IT IS THEREFORE MUTUALLY AGREED THAT: 1. being used in specified areas mutually agreed, and described Gravel will be speciin the fied in areas where rain makes travel on native soils unsafe, where gravel will reduce erosion, and where gravel will help control unusually difficult dust grant will pockets. The establish standards, but not require the County to achieve those w. w for all other routes shown in green on attached map (dated October 30, 1998) will maintain the travel 5. Rights f-way surface, alignment and maximum travel sur face width width as of the date of this agreement. No additional disturbance will be included in these rights of way. Travel surface will remain native soils. Maintenance is to litigation or not. COUNTY RIGHTS OF WAY x 1. BLM will issue FLPMA Title 5 rights-of-waat no cost to the 4. BLM will issue y, County, for those routes shown in green on the attached map (dated October 30, 1998). These routes were selected because they meet BLM and County needs for the proper management of transportation within the Monument, and were not based on the requirements of R.S. 2477. occur on an as needed basis only to repair damage to permit pas- sage by high clearance vehicles. 6. Maximum travel surface is 5. The BLM will develop a Coo- that the will main- (r-o-- tain the current alignment, width, and speed limits, and that changes from current conditions will be specifically described in the Title 5 rights of way and confined to changes needed to ensure public safety or environmental stabilization. r-o- -w w. i 3. BLM will issue rights-of-wa- y for the routes listed below to the following general standards. Any exceptions to these standards will be specifically noted in the w. Maximum travel surface is 20 feet. In addition, 4 feet on each side of the travel surface will be for conincluded in the of needed struction drainage. will The explicitly grant establish specific areas where additional width is needed to repairprevent wash outs or where serious erosion problems need to be controlled. Where r-o- -w r-o- -w ditches currently exist, occasional bnishing of the slopes will be allowed when necessary to maintain the ditches. 'Brushing the slopes is the cutting of vegetation from the outside slope of a roadside ditch, when that vegetation interferes with the function of the ditch. This will be done in a manner to cause the least disturbance to BLM land outside the width provided for maximum travel surface and M. drainage. These rights-of-wa- y will also state that the travel surface is a combination of native soil and gravel, with gravel with the perative Agreement County to provide joint information dissemination at BLM visitor centers with the County. BLM will construct and operate the centers, the County role will be to assist in providing trainII Other Joint Concerns ing, staffing, and public inforAll of these joint concerns re- mation needed by the visiting quire the expenditure of funds public. that may or may not be available through the BLMs normal 11498 Date from Signed Congress. appropriation The Grand Staircase-Escalant- e S Norman Carroll National Monument has been Chairman approved for a fee demonstraCommission . Kane County tion project. The funds generated from this project will be S A. Jerrv Meredith used, in part, to fund the following cooperative efforts. Manager defined as the road surface used by vehicles and shoulders. It Maximum travel surface is 16 does not include any additional . 1. The BLM will develop a Coopfeet. In addition, 4 feet on each disturbance. erative Agreement with the side of the travel surface will be County whereby the County may for con- 7. Maintenance of included in the be reimbursed for providing to this maintenance on BLM roads issued pursuant struction of needed drainage. The grant will explicitly agreement will be the responsi- within the Monument that cart not be maintained by BLM. This establish specific areas where bility of the County. additional width is needed to Agreement will also provide a de8. issued for or wash If outs mechanism for the BLM to share are permits repairprevent where serious erosion problems velopment of any valid existing the cost of purchasing signs need to be controlled. These rights that would have been ac- needed for public information rights-of-wa- y will also state that cessed by a route closed pursu- cn County roada within the the travel surface is generally ant to this agreement, the route Monument, and for reimbursnati ve soil. Gravel may be used will be reopened for access by ing the County for a portion of in specified areas mutually the permittee only. sign installation expenses. described in and the agreed, Gravel will be specified in 9. Nothing in this agreement 2. The BLM will develop a Coopareas where rain makes travel affects applications by third par- erative Agreement with the on native soils unsafe, or where ties for rights-of-wa-y under Title County to purchase trash collecV of is reduce to Federal Land the gravel Policy and tion bins for agreed upon locanecessary will erosion. The grant Management Act, 43 U.S.C. tions served by County special establish standards, but not re- 1761-7service districts, and a reimthe to those achieve bursement schedule for the spequire County 10. The parties to this agreestandards. cial service district to collect trash at those locations. Route Name Where A. Smokey Hollow Entire Length 3. The BLM will develop a CoopB. Smokey Mountain Garfield County to GCNRA erative Agreement with the C. Croton Road Entire Length County to address law enforceD. Bench Road To Paradise Road ment issues. This agreement E. Cottonwood Road Between Paria Box and Grosvenor will recognize the role of the Arch County Sheriff, establish workF. Long Canyon Road U.S. 89 southwest of Monument ing procedures between the Sheriffs Office and BLM Law boundary G. House Rock Valley Road U.S. 89 south to Monument bound Enforcement Rangers, and provide personnel and monetary ary H. Paria Tovvn&iie rvoad Entire Length assistance from the BLM to the I. Buckskin Overlook Road U.S. 89 to ring tank County in efforts agreed upon J. Kitchen Corral Road Entire Length by the County and the BLM. K. Timber Mtn. Road Skutumpah Rd. South through N.. 12 Section 20 . 4. The BLM will develop a CoopL. road segments Adjoining U.S. Highway 89 in erative Agreement with the T43S, R3W and R4W, and in T44S, County to assist in paying for R3W and R4W, d combined distraining, equipment, and operatance of approximately 25 miles, tions necessary to provide adas shown on map dated October equate search and rescue funcw. working procedures between the Sheriffs Office and BLM personnel who may be available to assist in these operations. Grand Staircase-Escalant- e National Monument Amendment To: r-o- -w 2. The parties intend rights-of-wa- y rights-of-wa- y for the routes listed below to the following general standards. Any exceptions to these standards will be specifically Rioted in the ment will petition the U.S. District Court to dismiss all RS 2477 claims involving roads within the Monument, and in doing so declare this agreement as a complete, legally binding settlement between the United States and the County ofall RS 2477 claims and rights in the Monument whether currently asserted in Grand Staircase-Escalant- e National Monument And Kane County Agreement of Operational Support The map referred to in paragraphs 1. 1. and I. 5. of the subject agreement has been updated by mutual agreement and has been replaced with the map dated November 25, 1998. IS Norman Carroll Chairman Kane County Commission r-o- -w SA. Jerrv Meredith 1. Manager Grand Staircase-Escalant- e National Monument 112498 Date Signed ile Un-nam- Editor's Note: The above agreement was between the Kane County Commissioners and Jerry Meredith, manager of the NaGrand Staircase-Escalant- e tional Monument. It was reported in last week's Southern Utah News article on the Kane County Commission meeting of February 24, 1999. ed 30, 1998 Un-nam- ed road segments From Skutumpah Rd. in T40S, tions within the Monument. This agreement will recognize R4W, Sec. 16, to end at Deer Spring the role of the County Sheriff as Wash, in Section 23, a distance of the lead for all search, and rescue operations and establish L approximately 2 miles. I i KM Vt fl !kij fli X : ) |
