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BMP ID: 912
Title: Develop a master plan to reduce unnecessary roads.
Text: Pad Design to Minimize Disturbance: "Pads do not have to be rectangular."
Source Publication Name: BLM Best Management Practices
Citation Section: Wildlife Management Best Management Practices for Fluid Minerals
Citation Page: 3
Supplemental Documents:  
Usage Type: Recommended
Timing: • Planning / Environmental Review
Oil / Gas Field:  
Surface Ownership: • Federal
• State
• Private
Mineral Ownership: • Federal
• State
• Private
Primary Contact: Jim Perry
Minerals, Realty, and Resource Protection Directorate,Division of Fluid Minerals
1620 L Street, N.W, Room 501
Washington, DC  20036  United States
Phone:(202) 452-5063     Alt. Phone:
Fax:(202) 452-0386     E-mail: 
Alternate Contact: No Contact Listed
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Categories: Land Surface Disturbance
Location: General / Federal
Species:
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General Comments:
Cost-Benefit Analysis: Pads built to the shape of the environment instead of rectangular are a less cost to build.
BMP Efficacy:
Date Entered: 2009-02-04 13:38 UTC
Last Updated: 2011-07-17 12:36 UTC