[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 68 (Friday, April 9, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17311-17312]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-8836]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation Service


Notice of Proposed Changes in the NRCS National Handbook of 
Conservation Practices for Review and Comment

AGENCY: Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).

ACTION: Notice of proposed changes in the NRCS National Handbook of 
Conservation Practices for review and comment.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the intention of NRCS to issue a 
series of new or revised conservation practice standards in its 
National Handbook of Conservation Practices. These standards include 
Conservation Crop Rotation, Pond Sealing or Lining--Flexible Membrane, 
Streambank and Shoreline Protection, Waste Storage Facility, Waste 
Treatment Lagoon, and Water Well. NRCS State Conservationists who 
choose to adopt these practices for use within their States will 
incorporate them into Section IV of their Field Office Technical Guide. 
These practices may be used in conservation systems that treat highly 
erodible land or on land determined to be wetland.

EFFECTIVE DATES: Comments will be received on or before June 8, 1999. 
This series of new or revised conservation practice standards will be 
adopted after the close of the 60-day period.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Single copies of these standards are 
available from NRCS-CED in Washington, DC. Submit individual inquiries 
in writing to William Hughey, National Agricultural Engineer, Natural 
Resources Conservation Service, Post Office Box 2890, Room 6139-S, 
Washington, DC 20013-2890.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 343 of the Federal Agriculture 
Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 requires NRCS to make available for 
public review and comment proposed revisions to conservation practice 
standards used to carry out the highly erodible land and wetland 
provisions of the law. For the next 60 days, NRCS will receive comments 
relative to the proposed changes. Following that period, a 
determination will be made by NRCS regarding disposition of those 
comments, and a final determination of change will be made.


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    Signed at Washington DC on April 2, 1999.
Pearlie S. Reed,
Chief, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Washington, DC.
[FR Doc. 99-8836 Filed 4-8-99; 8:45 am]
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