[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 12 (Wednesday, January 19, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 2996]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-997]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service


Payette National Forest, ID; Proposed Grouse Creek Road 
Relocation

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Cancellation of an environmental statement.

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SUMMARY: In 2002, the USDA Forest Service, Intermountain Region, gave 
notice that the agency would prepare an environmental impact statement 
(EIS) for the relocation of the existing Grouse Creek Road (Forest 
Service Road 50325). The road is located on the Payette National 
Forest, McCall Ranger district, Near the Secesh River and within the 
Crystal Mountain Inventoried Roadless Area. Because the new road would 
have been located in an inventoried roadless area, the Regional 
Forester was the Responsible Official. The Notice of Intent (NOI) to 
prepare an EIS was published in the June 21, 2002 Federal Register (67 
FR 42230). Since that time, review of the proposed project by research 
scientists and other Forest Service specialists has determined that 
improvements to the existing road would cause fewer impacts to critical 
fish resources than relocating the road. The identified improvements 
can be accomplished using normal road maintenance practices, which do 
not require preparation of an EIS. Therefore, the planned EIS is not 
needed, and the NOI is hereby rescinded.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dan Anderson, Environmental 
Coordinator, Payette National Forest, McCall Ranger District, P.O. Box 
1026, McCall, ID 83638, or by phone at (208) 634-0400, by fax at (208) 
634-0433, or by e-mail: [email protected].

    Dated: January 7, 2005.
Jack G. Troyer,
Intermountain Regional Forester.
[FR Doc. 05-997 Filed 1-18-05; 8:45 am]
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