[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 51 (Thursday, March 15, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 15073]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-6292]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation Service


Notice of Proposed Change to Section IV of the Virginia Field 
Office Technical Guide

AGENCY: Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), U.S. Department 
of Agriculture.

ACTION: Notice of availability of proposed changes in the Virginia NRCS 
Field Office Technical Guide for review and comment.

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SUMMARY: It has been determined by the NRCS State Conservationist for 
Virginia that changes must be made in the NRCS Field Office Technical 
Guide specifically in practice standards: #332, Contour Buffer Strips; 
#585, Contour Stripcropping; #340, Cover Crop; #647, Early Successional 
Habitat Development/Management; #382, Fence; #528A, Prescribed Grazing; 
329A Residue Management, No-Till/Strip-Till; and #351, Well 
Decommissioning to account for improved technology. These practices 
will be used to plan and install conservation practices on cropland, 
pastureland, woodland, and wildlife land.

DATES: Comments will be received on or before April 16, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Inquire in writing to M. Denise 
Doetzer, State Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Service 
(NRCS), 1606 Santa Rosa Road, Suite 209, Richmond, Virginia 23229-5014; 
Telephone number (804) 287-1665; Fax number (804) 287-1736. Copies of 
the practice standards will be made available upon written request to 
the address shown above or on the Virginia NRCS web site:

http://www.va.nrcs.gov/DataTechRefs/Standards&Specs/EDITtds/EditStandards.htm.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 343 of 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 
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 
in Virginia will receive comments relative to the proposed changes. 
Following that period, a determination will be made by the NRCS in 
Virginia regarding disposition of those comments and a final 
determination of change will be made to the subject standards.

    Dated: February 5, 2001.
L. Willis Miller, Jr.,
Acting State Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Service, 
Richmond, Virginia.
[FR Doc. 01-6292 Filed 3-14-01; 8:45 am]
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