[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 110 (Thursday, June 7, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 30687]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-14314]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation Service


Notice of Proposed Change to the Natural Resources Conservation 
Service's National Handbook of Conservation Practices

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

ACTION: Notice of availability of proposed changes in the NRCS National 
Handbook of Conservation Practices, Section IV of the Maine State NRCS 
Field Office Technical Guide (FOTG) located at www.me.nrcs.usda.gov 
under ``Draft Standards for Comments'' for review and comment.

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SUMMARY: It is the intention of NRCS to issue revised conservation 
practice standards in its National Handbook of Conservation Practices. 
These revised standards are the following: 327 Conservation Cover; 330 
Contour Farming; 340 Cover & Green Manure Crop; 324 Deep Tillage; 380 
Farmstead & Feedlot Windbreak; 394 Firebreak; 511 Forage Harvest 
Management; 666 Forest Stand Improvement; 655 Forest Harvest Trails and 
Landings; 412 Grassed Waterway or Outlet; 561 Heavy Use Area 
Protection; 441 Irrigation System, Microirrigation; 590 Nutrient 
Management; 595 Pest Management; 516 Pipeline; 521A Pond Sealing or 
Lining Flexible Membrance Lining; 338 Prescribed Burning; 391 Riparian 
Forest Buffer; 490 Site for Woody Plant Establishment; 580 Streambank & 
Shoreline Protection; 395 Stream Habitat Improvement and Management; 
585 Stripcropping, Contour; 612 Tree and Shrub Establishment; 660 Tree 
and Shrub Pruning; 620 Underground Outlet; 472 Use Exclusion; 313 Waste 
Storage Facility; 359 Waste Treatment Lagoon; 642 Water Well; 351 Well 
Decommissioning; 657 Wetland Restoration; 644 Wildlife Upland Habitat 
Management.

DATES: Comments will be received on or before July 9, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Inquire in writing to Christopher R. 
Jones, Assistant State Conservationist for Technology/Planning, Natural 
Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), 967 Illinois Avenue, Suite #3; 
Bangor, Maine 04401.
    A copy of this standard is available from the above individual.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 343 of the Federal Agricultural 
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 
will receive comments relative to the 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.

    Dated: May 4, 2001.
Christopher R. Jones,
Assistant State Conservationist for Technology/Planning.
[FR Doc. 01-14314 Filed 6-6-01; 8:45 am]
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