Environmental Assessment Completed

Yellowstone Pipe Line Pipe Abandonment

Lolo National Forest Missoula; Sanders, Montana Lolo National Forest All Units

Removal of and/or abandonment-in-place of approximately 9,693 feet of out-of-service pipeline located on three separate sites within Missoula and Sanders Counties on the Missoula and Plains/Thompson Falls Ranger Districts

Location

Site 1: NW of Missoula in OKeefe Creek (Missoula County); Site 2: 6.5 miles west of Plains (Sanders County); Site 3: islands in the Clark Fork River east of Thompson Falls (Sanders County)

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
11/22/2013
2
Comment Period
02/13/2019
3
Objection Period Start
09/18/2019
4
Decision
11/2019 (Estimated)
5
Implementation
06/2020 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) Non-HFRA
Project ActivitySpecial Use Authorizations
Yellowstone Pipe Line Pipe AbandonmentDecision Signed Date: 11/14/2019
ForestsLolo National Forest
DistrictsMissoula Ranger District; Plains/Thompson Falls Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionNot Applicable
Special use management