[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 137 (Tuesday, July 18, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40689-40690]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-11351]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation Service


Notice of Proposed Changes to the Natural Resources Conservation 
Service's 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: 
``Stream Habitat Improvement and Management (Code 395),'' ``Fish 
Passage (Code 396),'' and ``Fishpond Management (Code 399).'' 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: Effective Dates: Comments will be received for a 30-day period 
commencing with this date of publication. After consideration of all 
comments, final versions of these new or revised conservation practice 
standards will be adopted after the close

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of the 30-day period. Comments should be submitted to Daniel Meyer, 
National Agricultural Engineer, Post Office Box 2890, Room 6139-S, 
Washington, DC 20013-2890, or via e-mail: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Copies of these standards can be 
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 also available from NRCS in Washington, 
DC. Submit individual inquiries, in writing, to Daniel Meyer, National 
Agricultural Engineer, Post Office Box 2890, Room 6139-S, Washington, 
DC 20013-2890, or via e-mail: [email protected].

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 July 11, 2006.
Bruce I. Knight,
Chief.
 [FR Doc. E6-11351 Filed 7-17-06; 8:45 am]
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