[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 86 (Monday, May 5, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 23693]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-11038]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation Service


Notice of Proposed Change to Section IV of the Virginia State 
Technical Guide

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

ACTION: Notice of availability of proposed changes in the Virginia NRCS 
State Technical Guide for review and comment.

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SUMMARY: It has been determined by the NRCS State Conservationist for 
Virginia that changes must be made in the NRCS State Technical Guide 
specifically in practice standards: 316, Animal Mortality 
Facility; 584, Channel Stabilization; 326, Clearing 
and Snagging; 317, Composting Facility; 402, Dam; 
356, Dike; 554, Drainage Water Management; 
552, Irrigation Regulating Reservoir; 436, Irrigation 
Storage Reservoir; 634, Manure Transfer; 582, Open 
Channel; 378, Pond; 587, Structure for Water Control; 
607, Surface Drainage, Field Ditch; 600, Terrace; and 
359, Waste Treatment Lagoon to account for improved 
technology. These practices will be used to plan and install 
conservation practices on cropland, pastureland, woodland, and wildlife 
land.

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Inquire in writing to M. Denise 
Doetzer, State Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Service 
(NRCS), 1606 Santa Rosa Road, Suite 209, Richmond, Virginia 23229-5014; 
Telephone number (804) 287-1665; Fax number (804) 287-1736. Copies of 
the practice standards will be made available upon written request to 
the address shown above or on the Virginia NRCS Web site http://www.va.nrcs.usda.gov/DataTechRefs/Standards&Specs/EDITStds/EditStandards.htm.

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

    Dated: April 25, 2003.
Dwight A. Towler,
Assistant State Conservationist, Field Operations, Natural Resources 
Conservation Service, Richmond, Virginia.
[FR Doc. 03-11038 Filed 5-2-03; 8:45 am]
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