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Show One More For Garfield County In Ongoing Burr Trail Battle Garfield County won another major Burr Trail battle April 13 in Salt Lake City in a decision handed down by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Bruce Jenkins. Environmentalists factions that have dogged the county with lawsuits law-suits for the past several years in an attempt to stop construction of the Burr Trail took a significant setback as Judge Jenkins ruled that the Interior Inte-rior Board of Land Appeals had erred in its 1989 decision and he ordered the IBLA to make a determination regarding the sufficiency of the BLM's 1989 Environmental Assessment and Finding Of No Significant Impact as it relates only to a short segment of the road that adjoins a Wilderness Study Area, rather than the road's entire 66-mile length. The county has been in federal district court on its lawsuit protesting protest-ing that IBLA ruling that an Environmental Envi-ronmental Impact Statement was needed on the entire length of the scenic 66-mile road in eastern Garfield County. Although Judge Jenkins had asked the Bureau of Land Management Manage-ment to provide a schedule for completion of an EIS, he had not asked the BLM to prepare one. The judge had earlier clarified and reconfirmed recon-firmed the contention the county has always held that it has a valid right-of-way on the entire 66-mile length of the Burr Trail road. He also refused to allow the environmentalist environ-mentalist group to supplement the record upon which prior decisions had already been made and he refused re-fused to order sanctions against the county. The group had also sought a temporary injunction against continuing con-tinuing work on the road, but the judge had denied their request |