[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 53 (Monday, March 20, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 14719]
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[FR Doc No: 95-6775]



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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.
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