[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 61 (Monday, March 31, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 15155]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-8023]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Natural Resources Conservation Service


Changes in the State Technical Guides in Oregon

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 
Agricultural Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (FAIRA) that requires 
the Secretary of Agriculture to provide public notice and comment under 
Section 553 of Title, United States Code, with regard to any future 
technical guides that are used to carry out Subtitles A, B, and C of 
Title XII of the Food Security Action 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 Oregon. The distribution of 
these revisions and an updated index of conservation practices 
standards and specifications will be via Oregon Bulletin OR 450-7-2 
dated March 14, 1997.
    These revisions to conservation practices in Section IV of State 
technical guides are subject to these provisions since one or more used 
or could be used as part of a conservation management system to comply 
with the Highly Erodible Land Conservation or Wetland Conservation 
requirements.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Roy M. Carlson, Jr., Leader--Technology Development, USDA-NRCS, 101 SW 
Main, Suite 1300, Portland, OR 97204-3221. FAX (503) 414-3277 or 
Internet: [email protected].
    A copy of the new index and any of the revised items can be 
obtained from Roy Carlson. These items will also be available at each 
of the NRCS field offices in Oregon beginning March 31, 1997. Comments 
can be sent to Roy Carlson at the NRCS state office in Portland, 
Oregon.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In Oregon, ``technical guides'' refers to 
the Field Office Technical Guide maintained at each NRCS field Office 
in Oregon. The previous revisions to conservation practices in 
technical guides in Oregon were issued in June 1994. The former Oregon 
``Index of Conservation Practice Standards and Specifications'' was 
dated June 1994. The revised conservation practices and revised index 
will be dated March 1997 and include all of the conservation practices 
and standards and conservation practice specifications. Revisions 
include word changes, reformatting sections of practice standards to be 
consistent with new national guidelines, name changes, renumbering, 
additions, deletions and redating.

    Dated: March 25, 1997.
Leonard Jordan,
Asst. State Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Service.
[FR Doc. 97-8023 Filed 3-28-97; 8:45 am]
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