[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 115 (Tuesday, June 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32808-32809]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-15923]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation Service


Tammany Creek Supplemental Watershed Protection Project, Nez 
Perce County, Idaho

AGENCY: Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of a Finding of No Significant Impact.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Luana E. Kiger, State Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation 
Service, 9173 W. Barnes Dr., Suite C, Boise, Idaho 83709-1555, 
telephone (208) 378-5700.

NOTICE: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969; the Council on Environmental Quality Guidelines (40 
CFR Part 1500); and the Natural Resources Conservation Service 
Guidelines (7 CFR Part 650); the Natural Resources Conservation 
Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, gives notice that an 
environmental impact statement is not being prepared for the Tammany 
Creek Supplemental Watershed Protection Project, Nez Perce County, 
Idaho.
    The Plan/Environmental Assessment of this federally assisted action 
indicated that the project will not cause significant local, regional, 
or national impacts on the environment. As a result of these findings, 
Luana E. Kiger, State Conservationist, has determined that the 
preparation and review of an environmental impact statement was not 
needed for this project.
    The Tammany Creek Supplemental Watershed Protection Project 
consists of a system of land treatment measures designed to protect the 
resource base, reduce off-site sediment and associated nutrients and 
bacteria, improve the

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quality of ground water, and waters entering the Snake River. Planned 
treatment practices include: buffer strip, channel vegetation, critical 
area planting, diversion, dike, fencing, filter strip, fish stream 
improvement, grade stabilization structure, heavy use area protection, 
livestock exclusion, nutrient management, pasture and hayland planting, 
pesticide disposal system, pest management, pond, proper grazing use, 
recordkeeping, reservoir tillage, riparian (floodplain) easement, 
sediment basin, septic system testing, slot tillage, soil testing, 
stockwater development, steambank and shoreline protection, stream 
channel stabilization, structure for water control, subsoiling, water 
and sediment control basin, waterway, waste storage pond, waste storage 
system, well testing, wetland development and restoration, wildlife 
upland habitat management and wildlife wetland habitat management.
    The Notice of Finding of No Significant Impact (FONS) has been 
forwarded to the Environmental Protection Agency. The basic data 
developed during the plan/environmental assessment are on file and may 
be reviewed by contacting Ms. Luana E. Kiger. The FONSI has been sent 
to various Federal, State, and local agencies, and interested parties. 
A limited number of copies of the FONSI are available to fill single 
copy requests at the address stated on the previous page.
    No administrative action on the proposal will be initiated until 30 
days after the date of this publication in the Federal Register.

    Dated: June 10 1998.
Luana E. Kiger,
State Conservationist.

(This activity is listed in the catalog of Federal Domestic 
Assistance under NO. 10.904, Watershed Protection and Flood 
Prevention, and is subject to the provisions of Executive Order 
12372, which requires intergovernmental consultation with State and 
local officials)

[FR Doc. 98-15923 Filed 6-15-98; 8:45 am]
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