[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 115 (Friday, June 15, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33194-33195]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-2975]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service


Cibola National Forest; New Mexico; Tajique Watershed Restoration 
Project

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Withdrawal of an environmental impact statement.

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SUMMARY: On August 20, 2004, the Federal Register published a Notice of 
Intent (NOI) to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the 
Tajique Watershed Restoration Project on the Cibola National Forest, 
Mountainair Ranger District (69 FR 51626-51628). The Environmental 
Protection Agency (EPA) published the notice of availability of the 
Draft EIS in the Federal Register on February 4, 2006 (70 FR 6004). The 
EPA published a notice of availability for the Final EIS in the Federal 
Register on October 21, 2005 (69 FR 61287) and an amended notice of 
availability of the Final EIS on November 4, 2005 (70 FR 67166). The 
project had been developed in accordance with Title I of the Healthy 
Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (Pub. L. 108-148). After the 
distribution of the Final EIS, the Forest Service received an objection 
during the pre-decisional administrative review period on the project. 
There was no resolution to the objection and the Forest Service has

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made no decision to implement any alternative analyzed in the document. 
The Department of Agriculture, Forest Service is issuing this notice to 
advise the public that we are withdrawing the Tajique Watershed 
Restoration EIS and will not issue a Record of Decision. The Forest 
Service plans to reassess the proposal and determine whether or not to 
propose any activities within the Tajique project area. The NEPA 
process would be re-initiated for any new proposed actions.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Lessard, District Ranger, 
Mountainair Ranger District, Cibola National Forest, P.O. Box 69, 
Mountainair, NM 87036-0069, Phone (505) 847-2290, Fax (505) 847-2238.

    Dated: May 22, 2007.
Nancy Rose,
Forest Supervisor.
[FR Doc. 07-2975 Filed 6-14-07; 8:45 am]
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