[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 218 (Friday, November 12, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61574-61575]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29526]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation Service


New Mexico Field Office Technical Guide; Changes

AGENCY: Untied States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources 
Conservation Service, New Mexico.

ACTION: Notice of availability of proposed changes in the NRCS New 
Mexico FOTG, Section IV, conservation practices for review and comment.

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AUTHORITY: 16 U.S.C. 3801; Public Law 104-127.

SUMMARY: It is the intention of NRCS New Mexico to issue a series of 
new conservation practice standards and specifications in its FOTG on 
Conservation Practices. These revised standards and specifications 
include: Conservation crop rotation, Cross wind ridges, Cross wind 
stripcropping, Cross wind trap strips, Residue management, seasonal, 
Residue management, mulch till, residue management, no-till & strip 
till, Residue management, ridge till, Restoration and Management of 
Declining Habitat, Shallow Water Management for Wildlife, Wetland 
Creation, Wetland wildlife habitat management, Wildlife watering 
facility, Prescribed burning, Brush management, Forage Harvest 
Management, Grazing land mechanical treatment, Pasture and hay 
planting, prescribed grazing, and range planting.
    The NRCS New Mexico State Conservationist has chosen to revise and 
supplement the National Standards and add specifications adapted to the 
State of New Mexico. These will be incorporated into Section IV of the 
New Mexico Field Office Technical Guide (FOTG). Some of these practices 
may be used in conservation systems that treat highly erodible land and 
wetlands.
    Copies of these standards are available from NRCS in Albuquerque, 
NM and are also available electronically on the NRCS New Mexico 
Internet Homepage at: http://www.nm.nrcs.usda.gov/techserv/
sec4home.htm.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 343 on 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

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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 
will receive comments relative to these proposed changes. Following 
that period a determination will be made by the NRCS regarding 
disposition of those comments and a final determination of change will 
be made.

DATES: Comments will be received on or before December 13, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Inquire in writing to Mr. Rosendo Trevino, State 
Conservationist, NRCS, 6200 Jefferson NE, Suite 305, Albuquerque, New 
Mexico 87109.

    Dated: October 21, 1999.
Rosendo Trevino III,
State Conservationist.
[FR Doc. 99-29526 Filed 11-10-99; 8:45 am]
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