97-23581. Beaver Creek Salvage Timber Sale and Other Restoration Projects, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, Union County, OR

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 172 (Friday, September 5, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46942-46943]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-23581]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service


Beaver Creek Salvage Timber Sale and Other Restoration Projects, 
Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, Union County, OR

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Revised notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact 
statement.

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SUMMARY: On December 30, 1996, a notice of intent to prepare an 
environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Beaver Creek Salvage 
Timber

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Sale was published in the Federal Register (61 FR 68704). This notice 
announces the new dates for release of draft and final EIS and the 
change in EIS title. The draft EIS is now expected to be completed 
February, 1998 and the final EIS to be published in December, 1998. The 
title of the EIS will be ``Beaver Creek Fuels Reduction and Watershed 
Restoration Project.'' This new title more accurately reflects the 
purpose and need for this project and the activities being proposed to 
accomplish them.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Cindy Whitlock, Project Coordinator, 3502 Highway 30, La Grande, Oregon 
97850, phone [phone].

    Dated: August 25, 1997.
Karyn L. Wood,
Forest Supervisor.
[FR Doc. 97-23581 Filed 9-4-97; 8:45 am]
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