[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 139 (Monday, July 21, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 38971]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-19038]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation Service


Notice of Proposed Changes to Section IV of the Field Office 
Technical Guide (FOTG) of the Natural Resources Conservation Service in 
Oklahoma

AGENCY: Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Oklahoma, U.S. 
Department of Agriculture.

ACTION: Notice of availability of proposed changes in Section IV of the 
FOTG of the NRCS in Oklahoma for review and comment.

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SUMMARY: Is is the intention of NRCS in Oklahoma to issue a series of 
new and revised conservation practice standards in Section IV of the 
FOTG. These new standards include Channel Vegetation (Code 322); 
Chiseling and Subsoiling (Code 324); Conservation Crop Rotation (Code 
328); Cross Wind Ridges (Code 589A); Cross Wind Stripcropping (Code 
489B); Cross Wind Trap Strips (Code 489C); and Herbaceous Wind Barriers 
(Code 422A). Some of these practices may be used in conservation 
systems that treat highly erodible land.

DATES: Comments will be received on or before August 20, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Inquire in writing to Kevin D. Norton, 
Acting State Resource Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation 
Service (NRCS), 100 USDA, Suite 203, Stillwater, OK 74074-2655. Copies 
of these standards will be made available upon written request.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 343 of the Federal Agriculture 
Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 states that revisions made after 
enactment of the law, to NRCS State technical guides used to carry out 
highly erodible land and wetland provisions of the law, shall be made 
available for public review and comment. For the next 30 days, the NRCS 
in Oklahoma will receive comments relative to the proposed changes. 
Following the period, a determination will be made by the NRCS in 
Oklahoma regarding disposition of those comments and a final 
determination of change will be made.

    Dated: July 9, 1997.
Ronnie L. Clark,
State Conservationist, Stillwater, Oklahoma.
[FR Doc. 97-19038 Filed 7-18-97; 8:45 am]
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