Friday, September 25, 2015

Montana Speed Limit/ Bitterroot Timber Sale/ Protecting Water

Missoulian: Montana to increase speed limits on some highways to 80 mph
Chapter 395: Revise certain highway speed limits
“on a federal-aid interstate highway outside an urbanized area of 50,000 population or more is 75 80 miles an hour at all times and the speed limit for vehicles traveling on federal-aid interstate highways within an urbanized area of 50,000 population or more is 65 miles an hour at all times”

Missoulian: Pyramid Mountain Lumber awarded Bitterroot timber sale
Timber Sale Area Open for Firewood Cutting
“Hamilton, Montana  – The Stevensville Ranger District has announced that beginning this Friday, September 18, it will allow the public to access the Three Saddle timber sale area to gather firewood.  The Three Saddle project which began last year is located east of Stevensville on Ambrose Road #428 in the Sapphire Mountains.
Pyramid Mountain Lumber of Seeley Lake is the contractor.  They are thinning overstocked areas of the forest through commercial and non-commercial timber harvests, which has resulted in large landing/slash piles along the road.”


Missoulian:  Nation's water challenges are many, but so are the solutions
Final Rulemaking to Update the National Water Quality Standards Regulation
“The following key program areas are addressed in the final rule: (1) the EPA Administrator's determinations that new or revised water quality standards are necessary, (2) designated uses for water bodies, (3) triennial reviews of state and tribal WQS, (4) antidegradation requirements, (5) WQS variances, and (6) provisions authorizing the use of schedules of compliance for water quality-based effluent limits (WQBELs) in NPDES permits.  The docket for this rulemaking is available at Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2010-0606.” 

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