[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 181 (Wednesday, September 18, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 58756]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-23683]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation Service


Changes in Hydric Soils of the United States

AGENCY: Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of change.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to 7 CFR 12.30(a)(4), The Natural Resources 
Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture gives 
notice of a change in the wording of the criteria used to generate the 
list of hydric soils of the United States as published in the third 
edition of Hydric Soils of the United States, Miscellaneous Publication 
1491, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, June 
1991.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karl W. Hipple, Chair, National 
Technical Committee for Hydric Soils, National Soil Survey Center, 
NRCS, Room 152, Mail Stop 36, Federal Building, 100 Centennial Mall 
North, Lincoln, Nebraska 68508-3866, Telephone (402) 437-5351.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The wording of criteria 1 and 2 has been 
changed to incorporate recent changes in Soil Taxonomy.

Criteria for Hydric Soils

    1. All Histels except Folistels, and all Histosols except Folists, 
or
    2. Soils in Aquic suborders, great groups, or subgroups; Albolls 
suborder; Historthels and Histoturbels great groups; and Cumulic or 
Pachic subgroups that are:
    a. Somewhat poorly drained with a water table equal to 0.0 foot 
(ft) from the surface during the growing season, or
    b. poorly drained or very poorly drained and have either:
    (1) Water table equal to 0.0 ft from the surface during the growing 
season if textures are coarse sand, sand, or fine sand in all layers 
within 20 inches (in) of the surface, or for other soils,
    (2) Water table at less than or equal to 0.5 ft from the surface 
during the growing season if permeability is equal to or greater than 
6.0 in/hour (h) in all layers within 20 in of the surface, or
    (3) Water table at less than or equal to 1.0 ft from the surface 
during the growing season, if permeability is less than 6.0 in/h in any 
layer within 20 in, or
    3. Soils that are frequently ponded for long duration or very long 
duration during the growing season, or
    4. Soils that are frequently flooded for long duration or very long 
duration during the growing season.

    Signed in Washington, DC, on August 5, 2002.
Bruce I. Knight,
Chief.
[FR Doc. 02-23683 Filed 9-17-02; 8:45 am]
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