[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 129 (Friday, July 5, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 44805]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-16878]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service


Southwestern Region; Authorization of Livestock Grazing 
Activities on the Sacramento Grazing Allotment, Sacramento Ranger 
District, Lincoln National Forest, Otero County, NM

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Revised notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact 
statement.

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    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 472,551.

SUMMARY: The Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact 
statement on a proposal to authorize livestock grazing activities on 
the Sacramento Grazing Allotment. The project area encompasses over 
111,000 acres of National Forest lands on the Sacramento Ranger 
District of the Lincoln National Forest. The Sacramento Grazing 
Allotment comprises approximately 25% of the ranger district. The 
project has generated controversy on three main points; effects to 
threatened and endangered animal and plant species, concern for 
degraded riparian areas, and forage competition between wildlife and 
livestock.
    The Notice of Intent to prepare an environmental impact statement 
was first published in the Federal Register on Friday, May 5, 1999 
(Volume 64, Number 86, pages 24132-24134). The Notice announced that a 
draft environmental impact statement would be available for review in 
July 1999, and a final environmental impact statement would be 
available for review in September 1999. A Revised Notice of Intent was 
published in the Federal Register on March 8, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 
46, page 12202). The revised Notice announced that a draft 
environmental impact statement was now expected to be available for 
public review in July 2000 and a final environmental impact statement 
should be available for review by October 2000. This Notice revises the 
expected date of availability for public review of a draft 
environmental impact statement to June 2002, a final environmental 
impact statement should be available for review in October 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rick Newmon or Mark Cadwallader, 
Lincoln National Forest, Sacramento Ranger District, P.O. Box 288, 
Cloudcroft, New Mexico 88317, (505) 682-2551.

    Dated: April 17, 2002.
Jose M. Martinez,
Forest Supervisor, Lincoln National Forest.
[FR Doc. 02-16878 Filed 7-3-02; 8:45 am]
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