[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 250 (Friday, December 29, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 78395]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-9926]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service


Newspapers Used for Publication of Legal Notice of Appealable 
Decisions for the Northern Region; Northern Idaho, Montana, North 
Dakota, and portions of South Dakota and Eastern Washington

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice lists the newspapers that will be used by all 
Ranger Districts, Forests, Grasslands, and the Regional Office of the 
Northern Region to publish legal notices for public comment and 
decisions subject to appeal and predecisional administrative review 
under 36 CFR 215, 217, and 218. The intended effect of this action is 
to inform interested members of the public which newspapers will be 
used to publish legal notices for public comment or decisions; thereby 
allowing them to receive constructive notice of a decision, to provide 
clear evidence of timely notice, and to achieve consistency in 
administering the appeals process.

DATES: Publication of legal notices in the listed newspapers will begin 
with decisions subject to appeal that are made on or after January 2, 
2007. The list of newspapers will remain in effect until another notice 
is published in the Federal Register.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Appeals and Litigation Group Leader; 
Northern Region; P.O. Box 7669; Missoula, Montana 59807, Phone: (406) 
327-3696.
    The newspapers to be used are as follows:

Northern Regional Office

Regional Forester decisions in Montana: The Missoulian, Great Falls 
Tribune, and The Billings Gazette.
Regional Forester decisions in Northern Idaho and Eastern 
Washington: The Spokesman Review and Lewiston Tribune.
Beaverhead/Deerlodge NF--Montana Standard
Bitterroot NF--Ravalli Republic
Clearwater NF--Lewiston Tribune
Custer NF--Billings Gazette (Montana)
Rapid City Journal (South Dakota)
Dakota Prairie Grasslands----Bismarck Tribune (North and South 
Dakota)
Flathead NF----Daily Inter Lake
Gallatin NF--Bozeman Chronicle
Helena NF--Independent Record
Idaho Panhandle NFs--Coeur d'Alene Press
Kootenai NF--Daily Inter Lake
Lewis & Clark NF--Great Falls Tribune
Lolo NF--Missoulian
Nez Perce NF--Lewiston Tribune

    Supplemental notices may be placed in any newspaper, but time 
frames/deadlines will be calculated based upon notices in newspapers of 
record listed above.

    Dated: December 22, 2006.
Kathleen A. McAllister,
Deputy Regional Forester.
[FR Doc. 06-9926 Filed 12-28-06; 8:45 am]
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