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Availability of an Environmental Assessment for an Amendment to the White Mountain National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan; Grafton, Coos, and Carroll Counties, New Hampshire, and Oxford County, Maine

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 [Federal Register: March 20, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 54)]
[Notices]
[Page 15686-15687]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr20mr01-26]

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service


Availability of an Environmental Assessment for an Amendment to
the White Mountain National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan;
Grafton, Coos, and Carroll Counties, New Hampshire, and Oxford County,
Maine

AGENCY: Forest Service, Agriculture.

ACTION: Notice of availability of an environmental assessment.

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SUMMARY: The White Mountain National Forest proposes to amend the
Forest Plan to address threatened, endangered, and sensitive species.
Supervisor Donna L. Hepp (Responsible Official) made available copies
of the Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Amendment to the White
Mountain

[[Page 15687]]

National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan for Threatened,
Endangered, and Sensitive Species. This amendment adds required Terms
and Conditions from a Biological Opinion issued by the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, to minimize impacts to the federally endangered
Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis). The amendment also provides new standards
to protect the federally threatened small whorled pogonia (Isotria
medeoloides) and includes new direction on protection of Regional
Forester Sensitive Species. This notice is required pursuant to
National Forest System Land and Resource Management Planning
regulations (36 CFR 219.35(b)).

DATES: On April 21, 2000, the White Mountain National Forest initiated
scoping for the proposal to amend the White Mountain National Forest
Land and Resource Management Plan (Forest Plan). On January 22, 2001,
White Mountain National Forest Supervisor Donna L. Hepp (Responsible
Official) made available for public notice and comment an Environmental
Assessment to amend the White Mountain National Forest Land and
Resource Management Plan for Threatened, Endangered, and Sensitive
species. The Environmental Assessment was available for public comment
beginning January 22, 2001. Comments were accepted through February 21,
2001. A decision is expected in April of 2001.

ADDRESSES: The Forest Supervisor's address is Forest Supervisor, White
Mountain National Forest, 719 North Main St., Laconia, NH 03246.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leighlan Prout, Forest Biologist, at
603-528-8721 or TTY 603-528-8722.
    Responsible Official: Donna L. Hepp, Forest Supervisor, 719 North
Main Street, Laconia, NH 03246.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: New standards are being proposed for several
reasons: (1) To officially adopt Terms and Conditions specified by the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to minimize ``take'' (under the
Endangered Species Act) of Indiana bats, as well as propose additional
measures to aid in Indiana bat recovery; (2) To incorporate standards
for protecting small whorled pogonia, a threatened species discovered
after the approval of the original Forest Plan in 1986; and (3) To
provide protective standards for Regional Forester Sensitive Species,
the list of which was recently evaluated and updated in February 2000.
This is a non-significant amendment.

    Dated: March 9, 2001.
Donna L. Hepp,
Forest Supervisor.
[FR Doc. 01-6874 Filed 3-19-01; 8:45 am]
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