[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 53 (Monday, March 20, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 14719]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-6775]
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Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 53 / Monday, March 20, 1995 /
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Soutwestern Region, Arizona; Timber Resource Analysis--Kaibab
National Forest
AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.
ACTION: Cancellation of notice of intent to prepare an environmental
impact statement.
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SUMMARY: The Southwestern Region of the Forest Service filed a Notice
of Intent to prepare an environmental impact statement in the Federal
Register (Vol. 56, No. 37, pages 7659-7660) on February 25, 1991.
Because of changing resource conditions and new planning issues, the
original Notice of Intent is cancelled.
RESPONSIBLE OFFICIAL: The Regional Forester, Southwestern Region, is
the responsible official for decisions that affect the Kaibab National
Forest Land and Resource Management Plan.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Director of Ecosystem Management Planning, Southwestern Regional
Office, 517 Gold Avenue SW., Albuquerque, NM 87102, (505) 842-3210.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The original environmental impact statement
process was initiated to reanalyze the timber resource and to amend the
Kaibab Land and Resource Management Plan as needed. A draft
environmental impact statement was circulated for comment in July,
1994.
Concurrent to the Kaibab process, the Regional Forester conducted
another environmental impact statement process to amend Southwestern
Region Forest Plans to include guidelines for management for the
Mexican spotted owl and northern goshawk. This process did not include
the Kaibab National Forest. The Notice of Intent for the region-wide
amendment was filed in the Federal Register (Vol. 57, No. 122, pages
28171-28172) on June 24, 1992. A draft environmental impact statement
for this process was circulated in December, 1994.
Public comments received from both environmental impact statement
efforts requested that the two separate forest plan amendment
procedures be combined. Other comments suggested that other
alternatives need to be considered. Additionally, the Mexican spotted
owl was listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act
with a recovery plan and critical habitat designation currently under
consideration by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The Regional Forester decided to combine both environmental impact
statement processes and issue a revised draft environmental impact
statement that covers amendment of all forest plans in the Southwestern
Region. Comments received from review of both draft environmental
impact statements will be considered.
Dated: March 14, 1995.
Arthur S. Briggs,
Acting Deputy Regional Forester, Southwestern Region.
[FR Doc. 95-6775 Filed 3-17-95; 8:45 am]
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