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Revised Notice of Intent, Land Management Planning

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 [Federal Register: December 30, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 250)]
[Notices]
[Page 78387-78388]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr30de04-37]

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
 
Revised Notice of Intent, Land Management Planning

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice revises the previous notice of intent to prepare 
an evironmental impact statement for the Southern Rockies Lynx 
Amendment published on June 30, 2000 (Volume 65 number 127, pages 40601 
through 40606) to add the White River National Forest to the Southern 
Rockies Canada Lynx Amendment effort. USDA Deputy Under Secretary for 
Natural Resources and Environment, David Tenny, instructed the Forest 
Service to include the White River National Forest in the Southern 
Rockies Lynx Amendment process in his December 2, 2004 Discretionary 
Review Decision regarding the White River National Forest Revised Land 
and Resource Management Plan. This notice pertains only to the addition 
of the White River National Forest with the ongoing amendment effort.

DATES: Comments concerning the addition of the White River National 
Forest to the Southern Rockies Lynx Amendment effort should be 
postmarked by February 14, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Sylvia Arbelbide, Deputy Director of Strategic Planning, 
USDA Forest Service, 740 Simms Street, Golden, CO 80401.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lois Pfeffer, Interdisciplinary Team 
Leader, 559-359-7023.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The White River National Forest completed 
its final revised forest plan April 2, 2002. USDA Deputy Under 
Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, David Tenny, 
instructed the Forest Service to include the White River in the 
Southern Rockies Lynx Amendment process in his December 2, 2004 
Discretionary Review Decision regarding the White River National Forest 
Revised Land and Resource Management Plan. This notice pertains only to 
the addition of the White River National Forest with the ongoing 
amendment effort. Comments specific to the addition of the White River 
National Forest are requested.
    Comments previously submitted for the Southern Rockies Canada Lynx 
Amendnent draft environmental impact statement will be addressed in the 
final environmental impact statement and do not need to be resubmitted. 
The agency expects to file a supplemental draft environmental impact 
statement with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and make it 
available for public, agency, and tribal government comment in April 
2005. A final environmental impact statement is expected to be filed in 
late 2005.

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    Responsible Official: Rick Cables, Rocky Mountain Regional 
Forester, P.O. Box 25127, Lakewood, CO 80225-0127.

    Dated: December 22, 2004.
James M. Moe,
Deputy Director, Engineering, Rocky Mountain Region.
[FR Doc. 04-28659 Filed 12-29-04; 8:45 am]

 
 

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