| Contacts: | Cass Cairns, 719-269-8553 |
BLM Front Range Resource Advisory Council to meet (08-10-10)
Cañon City, Colo. – The BLM Front Range Resource Advisory Council will hold their next meeting on Thursday, August 19, 2010 at the BLM Royal Gorge Field Office, 3028 East Main Street in Cañon City.
The meeting will be held from 9:15 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. to discuss the issues and concerns the RAC identified during their July 2009 meeting regarding the proposed Over The River™ art project. The RAC will determine if those issues and concerns have been adequately addressed in the OTR Draft Environmental Impact Statement. The public will have an opportunity to provide oral or written comments to the RAC between 9:35 a.m. – 9:50 a.m. The meeting agenda is provided on the BLM Front Range RAC Web page at www.blm.gov/co/st/en/BLM_Resources/racs/frrac.html.
This meeting is not part of the OTR Draft EIS public involvement process. Comments provided by any party during the RAC public comment session are considered comments to the RAC and will not be considered part of the EIS comment record. The public must submit their written comments by any of the methods provided by the BLM to be considered into the EIS comment record. Those methods are: email to co_otr_comments@blm.gov; mail at BLM RGFO, OTR Comments, 3028 E. Main St., Cañon City, CO 81212; fax at 719-269-8599; or by using the Web comment form at www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/rgfo/planning/otr.html.
For additional information about the RAC visit the Front Range RAC Web site or contact Cass Cairns at the BLM office at 719-269-8553.
The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land, the most of any Federal agency. This land, known as the National System of Public Lands, is primarily located in 12 Western states, including Alaska. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2011, recreational and other activities on BLM-managed land contributed more than $130 billion to the U.S. economy and supported more than 600,000 American jobs. The Bureau is also one of a handful of agencies that collects more revenue than it spends. In FY 2012, nearly $5.7 billion will be generated on lands managed by the BLM, which operates on a $1.1 billion budget. The BLM's multiple-use mission is to sustain the health and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. The Bureau accomplishes this by managing such activities as outdoor recreation, livestock grazing, mineral development, and energy production, and by conserving natural, historical, cultural, and other resources on public lands.
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