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Show BLM Schedules Guideline Meeting Public comment on the proposed guidelines will be accepted until August 6, 1979, and should be addressed ad-dressed to the Director (303), Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. 20240. Copies of the proposed guidelines are available from BLM offices throughout Utah. A public meeting to explain ex-plain and discuss proposed guidelines for identifying and designating areas of the public lands where special management is needed will be conducted by the Bureau of Land Management July 25 in the Salt Palace, room 128, at 7 p.m. The proposed guidelines for "areas of critical environmental en-vironmental concern" (ACECs) were published in the June 67 Federal Register. According to William G. Leavell, BLM Utah associate state director, the kinds of areas that would be involved are those where special management is resources, or other natural systems or processes, or (2) provide portection to the public from natural hazards. Leavell added that recognition of such areas is not new to the BLM. In the past, however, such designations as "research areas" or "natural areas" have not necessarily included in-cluded commitment to providing special management on a continuing con-tinuing basis. In the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, Congress directed BLM to give special management attention to ACEDs on such a continuing basis. required to (1) protect important and critical historic, cultural, or scenic values, fish and wildlife |