[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 139 (Thursday, July 18, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 37440]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-18235]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Natural Resources Conservation Service


Changes in the State Technical Guides in California

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 
Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (FAIRA) that requires 
the Secretary of Agriculture to provide public notice and comment under 
Section 553 of Title 5, United States Code, with regard to any future 
revisions to those provisions of the Natural Resources Conservation 
Service (NRCS) State technical guides that are used to carry out 
Subtitles A, B, and C of Title XII of the Food Security Act 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 California. The distribution of these revisions and an updated index 
of conservation practice standards and specifications will be via 
California Technical Guide Notice 14 during August 1996.
    These revisions to conservation practices in Section IV of State 
technical guides are subject to these provisions since one or more are 
used or could be used a part of a conservation management system to 
comply with the Highly Erodible Land Conservation or Wetland 
Conservation requirements.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Charles W. Bell, State Resource 
Conservationist, USDA-NRCS, 2121-C Second Street, Suite 102, Davis, CA 
95616-5475. FAX (916) 757-8382 or Internet: [email protected]
    A copy of the new index and any of the revised items can be 
obtained from Charles W. Bell. These items will also be available at 
each of the NRCS field offices in California beginning in September 
1996. Comments can be sent at anytime to Charles W. Bell or to the 
District Conservationist at any NRCS field office in California.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In California, ``State technical guides'' 
refers to the State Office Technical Guide maintained by the NRCS State 
Resource Conservationist in Davis, California; to the Area Office 
Technical Guide maintained at each NRCS Area Office in Red Bluff, 
Salinas, and Fresno, California; and to the Field Office Technical 
Guide maintained at each NRCS Field Office in California.
    The last revisions to conservation practices in State technical 
guides in California were issued via California Technical Guide Notice 
Number 9 on December 14, 1995. The current California ``Index of 
Conservation Practice Standards and Specifications'' is dated November 
1995.
    Revisions include word changes, reformatting sections of practice 
standards to be consistent with new national guidelines, name changes, 
renumbering, additions, deletions, and redating.
    The revised conservation practices and revised Index will be dated 
July 1996 and include all of the 171 conservation practice standards, 
122 conservation practice specifications and their practice 
requirements sheets, 9 conservation practice material specifications, 
and 8 conservation practice construction standards.
    Revisions include deletion of two practice standards and four 
practice specifications and their practice requirements sheets, the 
addition of four new practice standards and 24 new practice 
specifications and their practice requirements sheets, modifications to 
the names of 9 practices, renumbering 37 practice standards and 28 
practice specifications and their practice requirements sheets, the 
deletion of material specification 606, and the addition of material 
specification 606A.

    Dated: July 11, 1996.
Henry C. Wyman,
Deputy State Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Service.
[FR Doc. 96-18235 Filed 7-17-96; 8:45 am]
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