[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 216 (Tuesday, November 9, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61062-61063]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29256]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service


Utah Northern Goshawk Project

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The Intermountain Region of the Forest Service is announcing 
the availability of the predecisional Environmental Assessment for the 
Utah Northern Goshawk project. Pursuant to the National Forest 
Management Act (36 CFR 219.19), the Intermountain Region of the Forest 
Service is proposing to modify or delete current programmatic direction 
and add new direction in response to new information concerning 
management of habitat for the northern goshawk and its prey. This 
action will amend the management direction established in the current 
land and resource management plans for the Ashley, Dixie, Fishlake, 
Manti-LaSal, Uinta, and Wasatch-Cache National Forests. The direction 
will be in the form of goals, objectives, standards, guidelines, and 
monitoring requirements.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kathryn Hauser, 801/625-5897; e-mail: 
goshawks3/[email protected].

RESPONSIBLE OFFICIAL: Jack Blackwell, Intermountain Regional Forester, 
324 25th Street, Ogden, UT 84401.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Intermountain Region of the Forest 
Service filed a notice in the Federal Register (Vol. 63, No. 172, pages 
47224-47225) on September 4, 1998 stating that the Forest Service, in 
cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management and the USDI, Fish and 
Wildlife Service (FWS), was reviewing the latest Utah state-wide 
information relating to the sustainability of habitat for the northern 
goshawk (Northern Goshawk in Utah: Habitat Assessment and 
Recommendations (Graham et al. 1999) and the USDI, FWS 12-month finding 
on a petition to list the northern

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goshawk (FR, June 29, 1998, Vol. 63, No. 124, pages 35183-35184). This 
notice stated that the Intermountain Region was proposing to amend 
regional direction, Regional Guide, and/or Forest Plans to incorporate 
interim direction in the form of goals and objectives, desired habitat 
conditions, standards and guidelines, and monitoring requirements 
developed in response to new scientific information concerning the 
management of forested habitat for the northern goshawk and its prey in 
Utah. A notice was filed in the Federal Register (Vol. 64, No. 24, 
pages 5758-5764) on February 5, 1999 stating that the scoping phase of 
public involvement for the Utah Northern Goshawk Habitat Management 
Project was beginning. That notice described the proposed management 
direction (in the form of goals, standards and guidelines, and 
monitoring requirements) and a desired habitat condition statement 
giving a portrayal of land conditions expected to result from the 
implementation of the proposed management direction over time.
    This is a programmatic environmental assessment that examines six 
alternatives which address issues identified through the scoping and 
public involvement phases of the project. The Environmental Assessment 
is available electronically on the Project's website at www.fs.fed.us/
r4/goshawk.

DATES: Written comments should be sent to the Utah Northern Goshawk 
project by January 10, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to: USDA Forest Service, Utah Northern 
Goshawk Project Team, c/o Uinta NF, P.O. Box 1428, Provo, UT 84601, or 
on-line at: www.fs.fed.us/r4/goshawk, or e-mail to: goshawk3/
[email protected].

    Dated: November 9, 1999.
Christopher L. Pyron,
Deputy Regional Forester, Intermountain Region.
[FR Doc. 99-29256 Filed 11-8-99; 8:45 am]
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