Zasoby i środowisko · 16/12/1994

West HiLine Resource Management Plan Amendment; Liberty County, MT

This notice supplements the Notice of Intent for the ``West HiLine Resource Management Plan Amendment; Liberty County, MT'' published in the Federal Register, Volume 58, No. 96, page 29,432, on Thursday, May 20, 1993. This notice expands the amendment to include the following land exchange. The Bureau of Land Management proposes exchanging 120.00 acres of Federal Surface estate to the Meissner Ranches Incorporated for 125.27 acres of private land. The Public land is legally described as S\1/ 2\SE\1/4\ Section 19, SE\1/4\NE\1/4\ Section 20, T. 29 N., R. 7 E., P.M.M., Liberty County, Montana. The private land is legally described as Lot 1, Section 17, Lots 2, 3, and 4, Section 20, T. 29 N., R. 8 E., P.M.M., Hill County, Montana. The Meissner Ranches would use the land for farming and grazing. The private land has recreation, wildlife, and riparian values. Disposal and acquisition of these lands were not analyzed in the West HiLine Resource Management Plan (RMP) and associated Environmental Impact Statement. Disposal of Federal land requires that the specific tract be identified in the land use plan with the criteria to be met for exchange and discussion of how the criteria have been