[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 64 (Monday, April 3, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17480-17481]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-8132]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service


Northern Sierra Forest Plan Amendment EIS: Humboldt-Toiyabe 
National Forest, Stanislaus National Forest, Lake Tahoe Basin 
Management Unit: Carson City, Douglas, and Washoe Counties, Nevada and 
Alpine, Eldorado, Nevada, Sierra, Lassen, and Toulumne Counties, 
California

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Supplement of a notice of intent to revise expected public 
comment availability, clarify the forest plans amended, and identify 
changes in the scope of the amendment.

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SUMMARY: This Federal Register notice revises the Notice of Intent 
published in the November 10, 1998 Federal Register

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Vol. 63, No. 217, Pages 63023-63024. The agency expects to file the 
draft EIS with the Environmental Protection Agency and make it 
available for public comment in May, 2000.
    In addition to comprehensive amendment of the Toiyabe Land and 
Resource Management plan for the Carson Ranger District, the EIS will 
address amendment of the Stanislaus Land and Resource Management Plan 
for management of that portion of the Carson Iceberg Wilderness Area in 
the Stanislaus National Forest and the Lake Tahoe Basin Land and 
Resource Management Plan for management of that portion of the Mount 
Rose Wilderness Area in the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit.
    Based on public input and further analysis, the scope of the 
amendment for the Toiyabe Plan has been modified from that published in 
the original notice. Topics to be included are now: (1) Improving 
public access, (2) enhancing recreation opportunities and reducing user 
conflicts, (3) protecting scenery along scenic corridors and as a 
backdrop the areas communities, (4) preserving wilderness character, 
(5) protecting watersheds, (6) enhancing ecosystem integrity and 
biodiversity, (7) improving the landownership pattern, (8) protecting 
and interpreting heritage resources, (9) managing American Indian 
religious and cultural uses in a government-to-government relationship 
with tribes, (10) providing for harvest of forest products to achieve 
ecosystem integrity goals, (11) managing livestock grazing to ensure 
long-term ecological sustainability, (12) managing mining to protect 
scenic and other resources, and (13) providing for development of 
special use facilities compatible with scenic integrity and other 
resource objectives.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Loomis, Sierra Ecosystem 
Planner, 1536 South Carson Street, Carson City, NV 89701, phone 775 
884-8132.

    Dated: March 21, 2000.
Karen Shimamoto,
Deputy Forest Supervisor, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.
[FR Doc. 00-8132 Filed 3-31-00; 8:45 am]
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