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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 69, No. 23

Wednesday, February 4, 2004

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Bighorn National Forest; Wyoming; 

Woodrock Project EIS

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Revision of notice of intent.

SUMMARY: The Forest Supervisor of the 

Bighorn National Forest, responsible 

official for the Woodrock Project EIS, is 

designating the Tongue District Ranger 

as the responsible official for the action 

listed in the Federal Register Friday 

April 4, 2003, volume 68, number 65, 

pp. 16464 to 16465. All other project 

proposed actions are unchanged.

DATES: Scoping and the comment period 

have been completed. The Forest 

Service estimates the Final EIS will be 

filed approximately September of 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Scott Hill, EIS Team Leader Woodrock 

Project, Bighorn National Forest, 2013 

Eastside 2nd Street, Sheridan, WY, 

82801, electronic mail: 

shill02@fs.fed.us.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose and Need for Action 

The Woodrock Project proposed to 

implement the Forest Plan. The project 

includes: implementation of Forest Plan 

allocations, implementing past forest 

management decisions and silvicultural 

prescriptions, improve watershed 

conditions, improve travel management 

and existing road systems, and improve 

or maintain the forested vegetation 

within the forest plan standard and 

guidelines and other legal requirements. 

Proposed Action 

The Forest Service proposes to: 

Improve diversity of forested vegetation 

by mimicking scale and intensity of 

natural disturbance patterns within the 

project area; reduce impacts to 

watershed conditions from roads and 

trails by changing travel management 

restrictions, reconstructing, restricting 

travel, or decommissioning existing 

roads where problems cannot be 

mitigated; on roads and trails; harden, 

relocate, or close dispersed campsites to 

meet Forest Plan direction; timber 

harvest of stands to produce wood fiber 

and reduce the spread of forest pests on 

approximately 1,800 acres. 

Responsible Official 

The designated responsible official for 

this project is the Tongue District 

Ranger, Bighorn National Forest, 

National Forest, 2013 Eastside 2nd 

Street, Sheridan, WY, 82801. 

Nature of Decision To Be Made 

The District Ranger will decide: If 

changes should be made to the 

transportation system within the area; 

whether and where timber harvest 

should be implemented; if timber 

harvest occurs, what silvicultural 

systems and size of openings would be 

created; what noncommercial vegetation 

and fuels treatments should be taken; 

and what watershed improvements 

should be undertaken. He will decide 

when, or if, any management activities 

would take place, what mitigation 

measures would be implemented to 

address concerns, and whether the 

action requires amendment(s) to the 

Bighorn Forest Plan. 

Scoping Process 

The NOA for the DEIS was published 

in the Federal Register November 11, 

2003, on page 63085. The NOI was 

originally mailed and posted in the 

Federal Register on April 4, 2003. The 

Woodrock project was initially 

developed as an Environmental 

Assessment. Scoping notices were sent 

on September 2, 1997, inviting 

comments from Federal, State and local 

agencies, special interest groups and 

individuals who had expressed interest 

in National Forest projects in the area. 

Scoping notices were sent to 

newspapers across northern Wyoming. 

A field trip was held on September 30, 

1997. A public meeting addressing 

travel management in the Woodrock 

area was held at Bear Lodge on October 

7, 2000. The project has been listed in 

the Quarterly Schedule of Proposed 

Actions from 1997 to the present. 

A 60-day review period for comments 

on the Draft EIS was completed January 

9, 2004. Comments received are being 

considered and included in 

documentation of the Final EIS. 

Comments which have been received, 

including the names and addresses of 

those who commented, are considered 

part of the public record on this 

proposal and are available for public 

inspection (Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7 

and 1508.22; Forest Service Handbook 

1909.15, section 21).

Dated: January 29, 2004. 

Bernard R. Bornong, 

Acting Forest Supervisor.

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service 

West Maurys Fuels and Vegetation 

Management Project, Ochoco National 

Forest, Crook County, OR

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Revised notice of intent to 

prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement. 

SUMMARY: On January 16, 2004, the 

USDA, Forest Service, Ochoco National 

Forest, published a notice of intent in 

Federal Register (69 FR 2563) to prepare 

an Environmental Impact Statement 

(EIS) on a proposal to manage the fuels 

and vegetation in the west half of the 

West Maury Mountains. The original 

notice of intent identified 7,650 acres of 

fuels treatment; the correct number is 

17,890 acres.

DATES: The original notice of intent 

asked that comments concerning the 

scope of the analysis would be most 

helpful if received by February 16, 2004. 

To provide adequate time for 

meaningful participation, comments are 

now due March 1, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to 

Arthur Currier, District Ranger, Lookout 

Mountain District, Ochoco National 

Forest, 3160 NE., Third Street, 

Prineville, Oregon 97754.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Bryan Scholz, Interdisciplinary Team 

leader, phone: (541) 416–6500, or email: comments-pacificnorthwestochoco@fs.fed.us.

Dated: January 28, 2004. 

Craig Courtright, 

Acting Forest Supervisor.

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