2.3.5.1. Land Use Allocations

LR-1. Land Tenure Adjustments: The Approved RMP identifies 39,395 acres as potentially suitable for disposal. Of these, 29,870 acres are potentially available for sale or disposal under any authority, and 9,525 acres are available only through exchange. The lands include scattered parcels as shown in Map 8 and listed in Appendix B, Lands Available for Sale or Exchange. Lands found to be potentially suitable for disposal by sale or exchange in this land use plan meet the criteria in Sections 203 and 206 of the FLPMA of 1976, and other laws and regulations.

LR-2. Utility Corridors: Utility corridors are designated to meet future expected demands for energy and water transmission facilities. These corridors are shown on Map 9 . These designations conform to the utility regulations of the Arizona Corporation Commission and are consistent with the Approved Resource Management Plan Amendments and Record of Decision for Designation of Energy Corridors on Bureau of Land Management-Administered Lands in the 11 Western States (BLM 2009).

Facilities significant enough to be the basis for corridor designation are the following:

The following corridors include areas that currently contain at least one authorized right-of-way for a major utility line.

LR-3. Transportation Corridors: Two currently undeveloped areas are designated as transportation corridors to accommodate a potential route that would bypass Wickenburg (Map 9 ). Any proposal for development would require an analysis of environmental impacts, in accordance with NEPA , to evaluate which of these corridors (or other alternatives) would be more appropriate for meeting future transportation needs. No existing state highway system routes (Interstate, U.S. routes, and Arizona State routes) are designated as transportation corridors as the existing highway system routes, as they pertain to public lands, have been issued right-of-ways, and will remain issued under a right-of-way.

A designated transportation corridor means a designated parcel of land with specific boundaries identified by law, Secretarial Order, the land-use planning process, or other management decision, as being a proposed location for one or more transportation rights-of-way and other compatible facilities. The designated transportation corridor may be suitable to accommodate more than one type of right-of-way use or facility or one or more right-of-way uses or facilities which are similar, identical, or compatible.

Title V, Section 503 of [43 U.S.C. 1763] provides the guidelines in which transportation corridors will be identified and designated. Any existing transportation corridor may be designated as a transportation corridor without further review.

LR-4. Communication Sites: Nine areas are designated to accommodate communication sites, shown on Map 9 . These sites include Lone Mountain, Harquahala Mountain, Burnt Mountain, Valencia, Black Canyon City, and four sites in the White Tank Mountains (North, Middle, East, and West).