Decision Memo Completed

Buffalo Pass Road Improvement Projects

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests & Thunder Basin National Grassland Routt, Colorado Hahns Peak/Bears Ears Ranger District

The proposed project would include the development of one new gravel pit, and extracting materials from an existing borrow pit and an existing gravel pit located near Fish Creek Reservoir along NFSR 60.

Location

Buffalo Pass, NFSR 60 & 310.1B northeast of Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
06/18/2012
2
Comment Period
06/18/2012
3
Decision
04/2013 (Estimated)
4
Implementation
05/2014 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Categorical Exclusion32.2 (3), 36 Cfr 220.6(E)(3)
Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation215
Project ActivityRoad Maintenance
Buffalo Pass Road Improvement ProjectDecision Signed Date: 04/04/2013
ForestsMedicine Bow-Routt National Forest
DistrictsHahns Peak/Bears Ears Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionBorrow pit: T7N, R84W, Sec 36; existing gravel pit : T6N, R83W, Sec 15; proposed new gravel pit :T7N, R83W, Section 32.
Road management