[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 230 (Wednesday, December 1, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69885-69886]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-26446]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation Service


Notice of Proposed Changes to the Natural Resources Conservation 
Service National Handbook of Conservation Practices

AGENCY: Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), USDA.

ACTION: Notice of availability of proposed changes in the NRCS National 
Handbook of Conservation Practices for public review and comment.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the intention of NRCS to issue a 
series of new or revised conservation practice standards in its 
National Handbook of Conservation Practices. These standards include: 
Closure of Waste Impoundments (Code 360), Cross Wind Trap Strips (Code 
589C), Irrigation Water Management (Code 449), Land Reclamation, 
Landslide Treatment (Code 453), Mine Shaft and Adit Closing (Code 457), 
Pond Sealing or Lining, Compacted Clay Treatment (Code 521D), and Water 
Well (Code 642). NRCS State Conservationists who choose to adopt these 
practices for use within their States will incorporate them into 
Section IV of their respective electronic Field Office Technical Guides 
(eFOTG). These practices may be used in conservation systems that treat 
highly erodible land, or on land determined to be wetland.

DATES: Comments will be received for a 30-day period commencing with 
this date of publication. This series of new or revised conservation 
practice standards will be adopted after the close of the 30-day 
period.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Copies of these standards can be

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downloaded or printed from the following Web site: ftp://ftp-fc.sc.egov.usda.gov/NHQ/practice-standards/federal-register/. Single 
copies of these standards are available from NRCS in Washington, DC. 
Submit individual inquiries in writing to Daniel Meyer, National 
Agricultural Engineer, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Post 
Office Box 2890, Room 6139-S, Washington, DC 20013-2890.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 343 of the Federal Agriculture 
Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 requires NRCS to make available, for 
public review and comment, proposed revisions to conservation practice 
standards used to carry out the highly erodible land and wetland 
provisions of the law. For the next 30 days, NRCS will receive comments 
relative to the proposed changes. Following that period, a 
determination will be made by NRCS regarding disposition of those 
comments, and a final determination of changes will be made.

    Signed in Washington, DC, on November 17, 2004.
Bruce I. Knight,
Chief, Natural Resources Conservation Service.
[FR Doc. 04-26446 Filed 11-30-04; 8:45 am]
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