BLM UT Preliminary Disturbance Inventory Polygon

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Publication Date: 2015-06-01
Time Period: 2015-06-01

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U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Utah State Office, 2015-06-01, BLM UT Preliminary Disturbance Inventory Polygon: , http://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/prog/planning/SG_RMP_rev/FEIS.html.

Summary

This data set was created to facilitate the BLM Greater Sage-Grouse Land Use Planning Strategy in the Utah Sub-Region. This data was developed and addressed, and used during preparation of an environmental impact statement to consider amendments to 14 BLM land use plans throughout the State of Utah, as well as 6 Forest Service land use plans. This planning process was initiated through issuance of a Notice of Intent published on December 6, 2011. This dataset is associated with the Final Environmental Impact Statement, released to the public via a Notice of Availability on May 29, 2015. The purpose of the planning process is to address protection of greater sage-grouse, in partial response to a March 2010 decision by the U.S. Fish [...]

Summary

This data set was created to facilitate the BLM Greater Sage-Grouse Land Use Planning Strategy in the Utah Sub-Region. This data was developed and addressed, and used during preparation of an environmental impact statement to consider amendments to 14 BLM land use plans throughout the State of Utah, as well as 6 Forest Service land use plans. This planning process was initiated through issuance of a Notice of Intent published on December 6, 2011. This dataset is associated with the Final Environmental Impact Statement, released to the public via a Notice of Availability on May 29, 2015. The purpose of the planning process is to address protection of greater sage-grouse, in partial response to a March 2010 decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) that found the greater sage-grouse was eligible for listing under the authorities of the Endangered Species Act. The planning process will prepare a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) and final environmental impact statement (FEIS) in close coordination with the US Forest Service, which is a cooperating agency on this planning effort. The planning effort will address the adequacy of regulatory mechanisms found in the land use plans, and will address the myriad threats to grouse and their habitat that were identified by the FWS.Geospatial data were acquired for all threats identified in the FWS listing decision that can be represented spatially. These data were acquired, as available, from both internal (BLM and USFS) and external sources. All data, both internal and external, were considered the “best available” at the time of data collection. Other data (for example, compiled from other sources) were the most current available based on the supplying office, agency, or organization. Additionally, mineral material, coal, locatables, and phosphate polygons and portions of transmission and telephone lines were digitized using satellite imagery and the BLM’s Master Title Plats. After data collection was complete and new features were digitized, input datasets were preprocessed. Preprocessing steps included buffering, dissolving, merging and other formatting tasks. Buffers were developed for each resource based on the amount of disturbance typically associated with their respective authorizations. Finally all datasets were clipped to the mapped occupied habitat within named greater sage-grouse population areas and sorted by the population areas for analyses. Oil and Gas Wells - 5 acresCoal Mines - Polygon AreaLocatable Minerals - Polygon AreaMineral Materials - Polygon AreaRoads - 8 ft (Designated Routes), 14 ft (D level), 32 ft (B level), 84 ft (Federal & State Hwy), 240 ft (Interstate)Railroads - 30.8 feet Power lines - 12 ft (= 138 kV), 40 ft (230 kV), 90 ft (345 kV+)Communication Towers - 2.5 acresTelephone lines - 12 feet Phosphate Mines - Polygon AreaThis preliminary inventory represents the best information available at a state-wide scale in mapped occupied greater sage-grouse habtiat for use in the sage-grouse land use plan amendments and determining impacts in the Final EIS. Locally collected disturbance data will be used, as available, to determine if the cap has been exceeded for project authorizations.

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Point of Contact :: Bureau of Land Managment - Utah State Office
Process Contact :: Bureau of Land Management - Utah State Office
Distributor :: Bureau of Land Management, Utah State Office
Metadata Contact :: Bureau of Land Management, Utah State Office
Originator :: U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Utah State Office

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Web Link	http://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/prog/planning/SG_RMP_rev/FEIS.html

Purpose

To illustrate the results of a preliminary inventory of aspects of disturbance applicable to the disturbance cap for greater sage-grouse priority habitat management areas in the Proposed Plan in the Final Environmental Impact Statement of the BLM Greater Sage-Grouse Utah Sub-Region. For more details, see the project website: http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/more/sagegrouse.html.

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