[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 61 (Monday, March 31, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 15155]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-8023]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Changes in the State Technical Guides in Oregon
AGENCY: Natural Resources Conservation Service (formerly the Soil
Conservation Service), USDA.
ACTION: Notice of change.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 343 of Subtitle E of the Federal
Agricultural Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (FAIRA) that requires
the Secretary of Agriculture to provide public notice and comment under
Section 553 of Title, United States Code, with regard to any future
technical guides that are used to carry out Subtitles A, B, and C of
Title XII of the Food Security Action of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3801 et seq.),
the Natural Resources Conservation Service, United States Department of
Agriculture, gives notice of revisions to all conservation practices in
Section IV of the State technical guides in Oregon. The distribution of
these revisions and an updated index of conservation practices
standards and specifications will be via Oregon Bulletin OR 450-7-2
dated March 14, 1997.
These revisions to conservation practices in Section IV of State
technical guides are subject to these provisions since one or more used
or could be used as part of a conservation management system to comply
with the Highly Erodible Land Conservation or Wetland Conservation
requirements.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Roy M. Carlson, Jr., Leader--Technology Development, USDA-NRCS, 101 SW
Main, Suite 1300, Portland, OR 97204-3221. FAX (503) 414-3277 or
Internet: rcarlson@or.nrcs.usda.gov.
A copy of the new index and any of the revised items can be
obtained from Roy Carlson. These items will also be available at each
of the NRCS field offices in Oregon beginning March 31, 1997. Comments
can be sent to Roy Carlson at the NRCS state office in Portland,
Oregon.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In Oregon, ``technical guides'' refers to
the Field Office Technical Guide maintained at each NRCS field Office
in Oregon. The previous revisions to conservation practices in
technical guides in Oregon were issued in June 1994. The former Oregon
``Index of Conservation Practice Standards and Specifications'' was
dated June 1994. The revised conservation practices and revised index
will be dated March 1997 and include all of the conservation practices
and standards and conservation practice specifications. Revisions
include word changes, reformatting sections of practice standards to be
consistent with new national guidelines, name changes, renumbering,
additions, deletions and redating.
Dated: March 25, 1997.
Leonard Jordan,
Asst. State Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Service.
[FR Doc. 97-8023 Filed 3-28-97; 8:45 am]
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