[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 248 (Thursday, December 27, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 66870]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-31731]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service


Lassen National Forest; California; Lakes Forest Recovery Project

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA

ACTION: Cancellation of Notice of Intent.

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SUMMARY: This notice cancels the Notice of Intent to analyze the Lakes 
Forest Recovery Project on the Lassen National Forest, published in the 
Federal Register on December 13, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 240, 77848-
77849). The Lakes Forest Recovery Project was cancelled because the 
area in which the project was to be implemented has been incorporated 
into another project known as the Treatment Unit-1 Project.

ADDRESSES: Almanor District Ranger, Lassen National Forest, P.O. Box 
767, Chester, CA, 96020.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dominic Cesmat, Interdisciplinary Team 
Leader, telephone (530) 258-2141.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A Notice of Intent to prepare an 
environmental impact statement for the Lakes Forest Recovery Project 
was published in the Federal Register on December 13, 2000 (Volume 65, 
Number 240, 77848-77849). The Lakes Forest Recovery Project was 
designed to reduce wildland fire hazard, promote forest health and 
provide economic benefits as described within the Herger-Feinstein 
Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act of October 21, 1998. From the 
date of that filing, the Lassen National Forest's Land and Resource 
Management Plan has been amended by the signing of the Record of 
Decision (January 12, 2001) by the Regional Forester for the Sierra 
Nevada Forest Plan Amendment (SNFPA) Final Environmental Impact 
Statement. The Record of Decision made changes to the way Herger-
Feinstein Quincy Library Group projects are implemented.
    Amongst changes to the Lassen National Forest's Land and Resource 
Management Plan, the Record of Decision for the SNFPA called for an 
administrative study to examine the relationship between management-
caused changes in vegetation and their effects on California spotted 
owl habitat and spotted owl population dynamics. One of the proposed 
administrative study areas, known as Treatment Unit-1, includes a large 
portion of the Lakes Forest Recovery Project area. Based on the changes 
to the Land and Resource Management Plan, the planning effort on the 
Lakes Forest Recovery Project was stopped, and a new planning effort 
has begun on the Treatment Unit-1 Project.

    Dated: December 14, 2001.
Edward C. Cole,
Forest Supervisor.
[FR Doc. 01-31731 Filed 12-26-01; 8:45 am]
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