[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 75 (Wednesday, April 19, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 20073]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-5867]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation Service


Notice of Proposed Changes for Section IV of the Field Office 
Technical Guide

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

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: It is the intention of NRCS in Maryland to issue new or 
revised conservation practice standards for Section IV of the Field 
Office Technical Guide. These standards include, but are not limited 
to, the following: Anaerobic Digester, Controlled Temperature (Code 
366); Animal Mortality Facility (Code 316); Brush Management (Code 
314); Closure of Waste Impoundments (Code 360); Composting Facility 
(Code 317); Feed Management (Code 592); Field Border (Code 386); Filter 
Strip (Code 393); Fishpond Management (Code 399); Forage Harvest 
Management (Code 511); Forest Stand Improvement (Code 666); Heavy Use 
Area Protection (Code 561); Hedgerow Planting (Code 422); Irrigation 
Water Management (Code 449); Lined Waterway or Outlet (Code 468); 
Manure Transfer (Code 634); Nutrient Management (Code 590); Pest 
Management (Code 595); Pond Sealing or Lining, Compacted Clay Treatment 
(Code 521D); Residue and Tillage Management (Codes 329, 345, and 346); 
Riparian Forest Buffer (Code 391); Sediment Basin (Code 350); Shallow 
Water Development and Management (Code 646); Streambank and Shoreline 
Protection (Code 580); Structure for Water Control (Code 587); 
Subsurface Drain (Code 606); Surface Drain, Field Ditch (Code 607); 
Tree/Shrub Establishment (Code 612); Upland Wildlife Habitat Management 
(Code 645); Use Exclusion (Code 472); Waste Storage Facility (Code 
313); Waste Treatment Lagoon (Code 359); Waste Utilization (Code 633); 
Wastewater Treatment Strip (Code 635); Water and Sediment Control Basin 
(Code 638); Water Well (Code 642); Wetland Creation (Code 658); Wetland 
Restoration (Code 657); Wetland Wildlife Habitat Management (Code 644); 
Windbreak/Shelterbelt Establishment (Code 380). Some of these practice 
standards may be used in conservation systems to comply with Highly 
Erodible Land and Wetland Conservation provisions of the Farm Bill.

DATES: Revised standards and new standards will be issued periodically 
during calendar year 2006. There will be a 30-day public comment period 
for each draft standard. Conservation practice standards will be issued 
as final after the close of the comment period.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Electronic copies will be posted on 
the Internet at the following address: http://www.md.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/draftcps_no.html. Paper copies will be mailed to persons who 
do not have Internet access. Please submit requests for paper copies to 
Anne M. Lynn, State Resource Conservationist, Natural Resources 
Conservation Service, 339 Busch's Frontage Road, Suite 301, Annapolis, 
MD 21401.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 343 of the Federal Agriculture 
Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 states that revisions made 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. NRCS will provide a 30-day public review and comment 
period concerning the proposed changes. At the close of the comment 
period, NRCS will make a determination regarding any changes to the 
draft conservation practice standards, and will publish the final 
standards for use in NRCS field offices. The final standards will also 
be posted on the Internet at the following address: http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/efotg.

    Dated: April 10, 2006.
Virginia (Ginger) L. Murphy,
State Conservationist, NRCS, Annapolis, Maryland.
[FR Doc. E6-5867 Filed 4-18-06; 8:45 am]
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