[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 15 (Friday, January 23, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3316-3317]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-1293]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[OR-930-6334 DT-COMP, HA604-0068]


To Remove or Modify the Survey and Manage Mitigation Measure 
Standards and Guidelines

AGENCIES: Forest Service, USDA; Bureau of Land Management, USDI.

ACTION: Notice of availability of the Final Supplemental Environmental 
Impact Statement (FSEIS) to remove or modify the survey and manage 
mitigation measure standards and guidelines.

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SUMMARY: The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 
(collectively the Agencies) have prepared a FSEIS. The Agencies are 
supplementing the analyses contained in the FSEIS (2000) for amendment 
to the survey and manage, protection buffer, and other mitigation 
measures standards and guidelines, and the FSEIS (1994) for amendments 
to Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management planning documents 
within the range of the Northern Spotted Owl.
    The FSEIS is now available to the public. Requests to receive 
copies of the FSEIS should be sent to the address listed below. 
Alternately, the FSEIS is available on the Internet at www.or.blm.gov/nwfpnepa.

DATES: Publication of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) notice 
of availability and filing of the FSEIS in the Federal Register 
initiates a 30-day availability period. This 30-day availability period 
is not a comment period.

ADDRESSES: To request copies of the document, or add your name to the 
mailing list, contact: Survey and Manage FSEIS, 333 SW., First Avenue, 
P.O. Box 2965, Portland, Oregon 97208; fax: (503) 326-2396 (please 
address fax to: ``Survey and Manage FSEIS'').

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jerry Hubbard, Survey and Manage FSEIS 
Team Logistics Coordinator; telephone (503) 326-2355; or e-mail: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A limited number of individual copies of the 
Draft SEIS may also be obtained by contacting Jerry Hubbard. Copies are 
also available for inspection at public libraries and Forest Service or 
BLM offices in western Washington, western Oregon, and northwestern 
California.
    Three alternatives, including no action, are considered in detail 
in the FSEIS. The preferred alternative is Alternative 2. The preferred 
alternative would remove the survey and manage mitigation measure and 
the Agencies would rely on other elements of the Northwest Forest Plan 
and their existing Special Status Species Programs to conserve rare 
species. A decision to select one of the action alternatives would 
amend the management direction in all 28 Forest Service land and 
resource management plans and BLM resource management plans in the 
Northwest Forest Plan area.
    Readers should note that the Secretary of Agriculture and the 
Secretary of the Interior are the responsible officials for this 
proposed action.
    Therefore, no administrative review (``appeal'') through the Forest 
Service will be available on the Record of Decision under 36 CFR part 
217, and no administrative review (``protest'')

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through the BLM will be available on the proposed decision under 43 CFR 
1610.5-2. Because there is no administrative review of the decision, 
the record of decision will not be signed for a minimum of 30 days 
after the EPA notice of availability of this FSEIS appears in the 
Federal Register.

    Dated: January 14, 2004.
A. Barron Bail,
Associate State Director, Oregon and Washington, Bureau of Land 
Management.
    Dated: January 14, 2004.
Linda Goodman,
Regional Forester, Pacific Northwest Region, Forest Service.
[FR Doc. 04-1293 Filed 1-22-04; 8:45 am]
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