Public Workshops for the Northern & Eastern Colorado Desert Coordinated Management Plan

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

[CA-063-1150-00]

Public Workshops for the Northern & Eastern Colorado Desert

Coordinated Management Plan

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given, in accordance with Public Laws 92-463

and 94-579, that a series of multi-agency meetings have been scheduled

to update the public on the status of the Northern and Eastern Colorado

Desert Coordinated Management Plan. The agencies urge interested

individuals and organizations to attend these workshops to review

progress and offer specific suggestions on the preparation of the draft

plan. The following public workshops are scheduled:

Monday, January 8, 7-10 p.m., BLM Riverside District Office, 6221 Box

Springs Boulevard, Riverside, CA

Tuesday, January 9, 7-10 p.m., Holiday Inn, 2640 Lakewood Boulevard,

Long Beach, CA

Wednesday, January 10, 7-10 p.m., Joshua Tree National Park, Park

Headquarters, 54485 Joshua Tree National Park, Twentynine Palms, CA

Thursday, January 11, 7-10 p.m., BLM Palm Springs Resource Area, 630500

Garnet Avenue, Palm Springs, CA

Tuesday, January 16, 7-10 p.m., BLM Needles Resource Area Office, 101

W. Spike's Road, Needles, CA

Wednesday, January 17, 7-10 p.m., Blythe City Council Chambers, 220

North Spring Street, Blythe, CA

Thursday, January 18, 7-10 p.m., Imperial Irrigation District, 1285

Broadway, El Centro, CA

Monday, January 22, 7-10 p.m., U.S. Forest Service, Cleveland National

Forest, 10875 Rancho Bernardo Road, Suite 200, Rancho Bernardo, CA

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The purpose of the meetings includes: updating

the public on the status of the Plan, including the scope and

summarized issues that will guide decision making; invite public

inspection of some of the information collected on resources and uses

that will be used in analyzing values and conflicts and in making

decisions focusing on wildlife habitats and the vehicle routes of

travel inventories; gathering public comment about the plan's direction

and process to date, the information that has been gathered; and

advising the public about how to review and study the information

gathered and obtain copies of some of the data to be better prepared to

review and comment on the draft plan when it is issued.

The Bureau of Land Management is the lead agency and cooperating

agencies are: National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service,

National Biological Service, Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma; and the

California Department of Fish and Game.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND MEETING CONFIRMATION: Contact the Bureau of

Land Management, California Desert District, External Affairs Office,

6221 Box Springs Boulevard, Riverside, California 92507; (909) 697-

5215.

Dated: November 29, 1995.

Jo Simpson,

Acting, District Manager.

[FR Doc. 95-30423 Filed 12-12-95; 8:45 am]

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