[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 92 (Thursday, May 11, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 30390]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-11842]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation Service


Revision to Section IV of the Field Office Technical Guide; 
Oregon and Washington State

AGENCY: Natural Resources Conservation Service

ACTION: Notice of change.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 343 of Subtitle E of the Federal 
Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (FAIRA) that requires 
the Secretary of Agriculture to provide public notice and comment under 
Section 553 of Title 5, United States Code, with regard to any future 
technical guides that are used to carry out Subtitles A, B, and C of 
title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3801 et seq.), 
the Natural Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Department of 
Agriculture, gives notice of revisions to applicable conservation 
practices in Section IV of the Field Office Technical Guide (FOTG) 
located in Oregon and Washington State.
    The proposed revisions to conservation practices in Section IV of 
State Technical Guides are subject to these provisions, since one or 
more could be used as part of a conservation management system to 
comply with the Highly Erodible Land Conservation or Wetland 
Conservation requirements.
    At this time, two versions of conservation practice standard 777 
Residue Management, Direct Seed (Interim) are being added and/or 
revised to Section IV of the FOTG; one for Oregon and one for 
Washington (see below):

 Residue Management, Direct Seed (Interim) (Oregon)--NRCS Code 
Number 777
 Residue Management, Direct Seed (Interim) (Washington)--NRCS 
Code Number 777

    You may request a hard copy of the practice standards and provide 
your comments to:

Oregon
    Roy Carlson, State Resource Conservationist, 101 SW Main Street, 
Suite 1300, Portland, OR, 97204-3221, (503) 414-3277
Washington
    Marty Seamons, Program Support Specialist, W. 316 Boone Avenue, 
Suite 450, Spokane, WA 99201-2348, (509) 323-2967

    You may also obtain a copy of both Oregon and/or Washington's 
practice standard by accessing the NRCS Washington State Internet 
website. The internet address is: http://www.wa.nrcs.usda.gov/nrcs/
    Click on ``Field Office Technical Guide'' on the left side of the 
page, then click on ``Section IV,'' then ``Index of Draft Standards and 
Specifications for Review and Comment,'' and finally click on the blue 
star of the appropriate standard.

    Dated: April 28, 2000.
Leonard Jordan,
State Conservationist.
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