[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 196 (Thursday, October 9, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 58303]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-25565]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service


Southwestern Region, Arizona, New Mexico, West Texas, and West 
Oklahoma Amendment of Land and Resource Management Plans in the 
Southwestern Region

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Cancellation notice.

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SUMMARY: On August 7, 2001, a Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare an 
environmental impact statement to amend National Forest land and 
resource management plans in the Southwestern Region to modify 
standards and guidelines for Mexican spotted owl and northern goshawk 
within wildland-urban interface areas and to emphasize the management 
of wildland-urban interface areas throughout the southwest was 
published in the Federal Register (66 FR 41198-41200). This 2001 NOI is 
hereby rescinded.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peter Gaulke, Regional Environmental 
Coordinator, USDA Forest Service Southwestern Regional Office, 333 
Broadway Blvd., SE., Albuquerque, NM 87102-3498, telephone (505) 842-
3256.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The need to amend forest plans to modify 
standards and guidelines for Mexican spotted owl and northern goshawk 
within wildland-urban interface areas varied throughout the forests and 
grasslands of the Southwestern Region. As such, a region wide amendment 
of all forest plans was not deemed necessary. Those forest that have a 
need to their respective plans may do so on a case-by-case basis. As 
the forests of the Southwestern Region begin the Forest Plan revision 
process in Fiscal Year 2004, they can address this need in context with 
other resource and social issues.

    Dated: September 29, 2003.
Lucia M. Turner,
Deputy Regional Forester.
[FR Doc. 03-25565 Filed 10-8-03; 8:45 am]
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