[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 191 (Monday, October 4, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 53661]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-25659]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service


Stewardship Contracting Pilot Project; Multiparty Monitoring and 
Evaluation Process

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice; reopen comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Forest Service is reopening the comment period on the 
proposed framework for the multiparty monitoring and evaluation 
component of the stewardship contracting pilot projects. Notice of this 
framework was published on August 17, 1999, in the Federal Register; 
and the comment period ended September 16, 1999. The agency has 
received requests to reopen the comment period from interested parties 
and from representatives of communities involved in the pilots. The 
agency realizes that many local groups may not have been aware of the 
Federal Register notice and may not have had adequate time to provide 
comment on the proposed framework during the summer field season. 
Therefore, the agency is reopening the comment period for 30 days.

DATES: Comments must be received, in writing, on or before November 3, 
1999.

ADDRESSES: Questions about this notice may be sent to Cliff Hickman, 
via mail at USDA Forest Service, Forest Management, Mail Stop 1105, 
P.O. Box 96090, Washington, DC 20090-6090 or electronically to 
chickman/[email protected].
    Electronic copies of the FY 1999 Omnibus Appropriations Act or 
copies of the draft framework may be obtained via Internet at 
www.fs.fed.us/land/fm/stewardship/framework.html.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cliff Hickman, Forest Management 
Staff, (202) 205-1162, or chickman/[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 347 of the FY 1999 Omnibus 
Appropriations Act authorized the Forest Service to implement up to 28 
stewardship end results contracting projects. Notice of the draft 
framework for multiparty monitoring and evaluation for these projects 
was published in the Federal Register on August 17, 1999 (64 FRO 
44685). The Forest Service provided background information about the 
provisions of Section 347 and its progress in implementing the 
legislation, in a notice that appeared on the July 9, 1999, issue of 
the Federal Register (64 FR 37096).

    Dated: September 27, 1999.
Hilda Diaz-Soltero,
Associate Chief for Natural Resources.
[FR Doc. 99-25659 Filed 10-1-99; 8:45 am]
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