[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 61 (Friday, March 29, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15172-15173]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-7555]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation Service


Notice of Proposed Change to Section IV of the Field Office 
Technical Guide (FOTG) of the Natural Resources Conservation Service in 
Idaho

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

ACTION: Notice of availability of proposed changes in the NRCS National 
Handbook of Conservation Practices for review and comment.

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SUMMARY: It is the intention of the NRCS in Idaho to issue revised 
conservation practice standard: Agrichemical Mixing Facility (702), 
Alley Cropping (311), Composting Facility (317), Conservation Cover 
(327), Conservation Crop Rotation (328), Contour Farming (330), Contour 
Stripcropping (585), Cover Crop (340), Deep Tillage (324), Fish Passage 
(396), Grassed Waterway (412), Grazing Land Mechanical Treatment (548), 
Irrigation Water Conveyance, Ditch and Canal Lining Nonreinforced 
Concrete (428A), Irrigation Water Management (449), Land Smoothing 
(466), Nutrient Management (590), Pest Management (595), Pipeline 
(516), Prescribed Burning (338), Pumping Plant for Water Control (533), 
Residue Management, Mulch Till (329B), Riparian Forest Buffer (391), 
Spoil Spreading (572), Spring Development (574), Stream Habitat 
Improvement and Management (395), Surface Roughening (609), Underground 
Outlet (620), Use Exclusion (472), and Windbreak/Shelterbelt 
Establishment (380).

DATES: Comments will be received for a 30-day period commending with 
this date of publication.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Inquire in writing to Richard W. Sims, 
State Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), 
9173 W. Barnes Dr., Suite C, Boise, Idaho 83709. Copies of the practice 
standards will be made available upon written request.

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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. The next 30 days the NRCS in 
Idaho will receive comments relative to the proposed changes. Following 
that period a determination will be made by the NRCS in Idaho regarding 
disposition of those comments and a final determination of change will 
be made.

    Dated: March 15, 2002.
Richard W. Sims,
State Conservationist, USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service, 
Boise, Idaho 83709.
[FR Doc. 02-7555 Filed 3-28-02; 8:45 am]
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