[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 10 (Wednesday, January 15, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 2176]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-963]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management


Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project

AGENCIES: Forest Service, USDA; Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Revised notice of intent to prepare environmental impact 
statements.

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SUMMARY: Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project (ICBEMP). 
The purpose for this revised notice of intent is to provide public 
notice of the changed completion schedule for the ICBEMP's 
environmental impact statements (EIS). This Federal Register notice 
revises the schedule published in the September 11, 1996 Federal 
Register (61 FR 47859) for the completion of the EISs. The Executive 
Steering Committee (ESC), at its meeting from December 2-4, 1996, took 
the important step of approving the alternatives for inclusion in the 
draft EISs. The ESC also directed changes to the draft EISs to improve 
them and address specific concerns raised in its earlier internal 
review of the draft documents. The directed changes focus on 
clarification of the objectives and standards for the alternatives. 
Based on the amount of time to implement these changes and then to 
prepare and print the document, the draft EISs are now planned to go to 
the printer in April, with a scheduled release for public comment in 
June 1997. Release of the final EISs and Records of Decision is 
anticipated approximately one year later.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Linda S. Colville, Project Management Team, Interior Columbia Basin 
Ecosystem Management Project; 304 North 8th Street, Room 246, Boise, 
Idaho 83702, phone 208-334-1770.

    Dated: January 6, 1997.
Robert W. Williams,
Regional Forester.

    Dated: January 6, 1997.
Elaine Y. Zielinski,
State Director.
[FR Doc. 97-963 Filed 1-14-97; 8:45 am]
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