[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 121 (Friday, June 23, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 32651]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-15388]



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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Eagle Rock and Granite Timber Sales, Colville National Forest, 
Ferry County, Washington

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

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

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SUMMARY: On November 6, 1990, the Forest Service, USDA, published a 
Notice of Intent (NOI) in the Federal Register (55 FR 46693). The 
notice stated that the proposed action was to harvest 5.0 million board 
feet (MMBF) of timber and construct 6.0 miles of roads in the Eagle 
Rock timber sale, and to harvest 5.0 MMBF of timber and construct 7.0 
miles of road in the Granite timber sale. Both timber sales were within 
portions of the South Fork O'Brien Creek, Rabbit Creek, and South Fork 
Rabbit Creek drainages on the Republic Ranger District and were to be 
sold in Fiscal Year 1993.
    This revised NOI changes the name of this project to ``Eagle Rock 
Ecosystem Restoration'' with the Proposed Action changed to timber 
harvesting and prescribed burning, in which we propose to restore 
portions of the area to a sustainable forest condition. Road 
construction and reconstruction is still included in the Proposed 
Action.
    The location of the revised project is now within Thirteenmile 
Creek, Ninemile Creek (formerly called Rabbit Creek), McMann Creek, 
Camel Creek, and other unnamed smaller drainages flowing westerly into 
the Sanpoil River between the Colville Indian Reservation and the town 
of Republic, Washington. The South Fork O'Brien Creek drainage is no 
longer included.
    The revised Proposed Action includes timber harvest and subsequent 
prescribed burning or thinning on approximately 2,520 acres, prescribed 
burning without timber harvest on approximately 3,360 acres, and 
approximately 7 miles of road construction and reconstruction. The 
timber harvest portion of the project, called Eagle Rock timber sale, 
is now proposed to sell in Fiscal Year 1996. Burning treatments are 
proposed to occur over a five year period beginning in 1996.
    The draft environmental impact statement (EIS) will be tiered to 
the Forest Land and Resource Management Plan as amended by Regional 
Forester's Forest Plan Amendments for Eastside Forests, May 24, 1994 
and June 12, 1995. The revised date of filing the draft EIS is October 
1995 and the final EIS in February 1996.

DATES: Comments concerning the scope of the revised analysis should be 
received in writing by July 24, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Send written comments and suggestions concerning the 
proposed project to Patricia Egan, District Ranger, P.O. Box 468, 
Republic, Washington, 99166.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions should be directed to Pat Egan, Kristie Miller, or Jim 
Parker, Republic Ranger District, Colville National Forest; at P.O. Box 
468, Republic, Washington, 99166 or telephone 509-775-3305.

    Dated: June 9, 1995.
Tim Town,
Acting Forest Supervisor.
[FR Doc. 95-15388 Filed 6-22-95; 8:45 am]
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