Decision Memo Completed

Union Telephone Company - Muddy Pass Communications Site Telecommunications Conduit Install

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

Union Telephone Company proposes to install 5,085 feet of buried conduit for telecommunications cables at the existing Muddy Pass Communications Site; alongside National Forest System Roads 307.1A, 307.1 and under Highway 40 to a vault directly north

Location

Muddy Pass Communications Site on the Hahns Peak/Bears Ears Ranger District of the Routt National Forest, Sections 15 & 22, Township 5 North, Range 82 West, 6TH Principal Meridian, Jackson County, CO.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
11/30/2021
2
Decision
04/2022 (Estimated)
3
Implementation
05/2022 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Categorical Exclusion32.2 (3), 36 Cfr 220.6(E)(3)
Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment RegulationNot Subject to Regulations
Project ActivitySpecial Use Authorizations
Union Telephone Company - Muddy Pass Communications Site Telecommunications Conduit InstallDecision Signed Date: 04/05/2022
ForestsMedicine Bow-Routt National Forest
DistrictsHahns Peak/Bears Ears Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionNot Applicable
Special use management