1978 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 10 / Wednesday, January 17, 2007 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Extension of Call for Nominations for 

Appointment, Santa Rosa and San 

Jacinto Mountains National Monument 

Advisory Committee 

AGENCIES: Bureau of Land Management, 

U.S. Department of the Interior; and 

Forest Service, U.S. Department of 

Agriculture. 

ACTION: Notice of extension to the call 

for nominations for appointment or reappointment of representatives and 

alternates for five positions on the Santa 

Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains 

National Monument Advisory 

Committee. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) and Forest Service 

announce an extension to the call for 

nominations for appointment or 

reappointment for the following five 

positions on the Santa Rosa and San 

Jacinto Mountains National Monument 

Advisory Committee: representative and 

alternate for the City of Palm Springs; 

representative and alternate for a local 

developer or builder organization; 

representative and alternate for the City 

of La Quinta; representative and 

alternate for a local conservation 

organization; and representative and 

alternate for the California Department 

of Fish and Game or the California 

Department of Parks and Recreation. 

DATES: Nomination applications must be 

submitted to the address listed below no 

later than 30 days after the date of 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register. 

ADDRESSES: Santa Rosa and San Jacinto 

Mountains National Monument, c/o 

Bureau of Land Management, Palm 

Springs-South Coast Field Office, Attn: 

Monument Manager, Advisory 

Committee Nomination Application, 

P.O. Box 581260, North Palm Springs, 

California 92258–1260. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim 

Foote, Monument Manager, Santa Rosa 

and San Jacinto Mountains National 

Monument, telephone (760) 251–4800; 

facsimile message (760) 251–4899; email jfoote@ca.blm.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BLM 

and Forest Service jointly published 

notice in the Federal Register on April 

24, 2006 (71 FR 21039), calling for 

nominations for appointment or 

reappointment of representatives and 

alternates for the five positions listed 

above. The closing date for submission 

of nominations was identified as 90 

days from the date of publication in the 

Federal Register. Information regarding 

qualifications, terms of appointment, 

and availability of nomination 

application packages was included in 

the notice. 

Dated: November 2, 2006. 

Gail Acheson, 

Field Manager, Bureau of Land Management, 

Palm Springs-South Coast Field Office. 

Dated: November 6, 2006. 

Laurie Rosenthal, 

District Ranger, USDA Forest Service, San 

Jacinto Ranger District, San Bernardino 

National Forest. 

Dated: November 1, 2006. 

Jim Foote, 

Monument Manager, Santa Rosa and San 

Jacinto Mountains National Monument. 

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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), U.S. 

Department of Agriculture. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of 

proposed changes in the NRCS National 

Handbook of Conservation Practices for 

public review and comment. 

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: ‘‘Conservation Cover (Code 

327)’’, ‘‘Contour Farming (Code 330)’’, 

‘‘Contour Buffer Strips (Code 332)’’, 

‘‘Critical Area Treatment (Code 342)’’, 

‘‘Field Border (Code 386)’’, ‘‘Irrigation 

System, Tailwater Recovery (Code 

447)’’, ‘‘Sinkhole and Sinkhole Area 

Treatment (Code 527)’’, and ‘‘Prescribed 

Grazing (Code 528).’’ 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 a wetland. 

DATES: Comments will be received for a 

30-day period commencing with this 

date of publication. Final versions of 

these new or revised conservation 

practice standards will be adopted after 

the close of the 30-day period, after 

consideration of all comments. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

submitted by one of the following 

methods: 

1. By replying directly to this Notice 

through the automatic comment feature 

of the Federal Register; 

2. In writing to: National Agricultural 

Engineer, Natural Resources 

Conservation Service, Post Office Box 

2890, Room 6139–S, Washington, DC 

20013–2890; or 

3. Electronically by e-mail to: 

daniel.meyer@wdc.usda.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Copies of these standards are attached to 

this Notice or 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, Natural 

Resources Conservation Service, Post 

Office Box 2890, Room 6139–S, 

Washington, DC 20013–2890, or 

electronically to 

daniel.meyer@wdc.usda.gov. 

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 December 

22, 2006. 

Arlen L. Lancaster, 

Chief. 

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