[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 187 (Tuesday, September 26, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 57803]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-24613]


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Federal Register/Vol. 65, No. 187/Tuesday, September 26, 2000/
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation Service


Notice of Proposed Changes in the National Handbook of 
Conservation Practices

AGENCY: Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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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: 
Anionic Polyacrylamide (PAM) Erosion Control; Composting Facility; Deep 
Tillage; Fish Passage; Stream Habitat Management; Land Reconstruction, 
Abandoned Mined; Land Reconstruction, Currently Mined; Underground 
Outlet; and Vegetative Barrier. These standards are used to convey 
national guidance when developing Field Office Technical Guide 
Standards used in the States. NRCS State Conservationists who choose to 
adopt these practices for use within their States will incorporate them 
into Section IV of their Field Office Technical Guides. These practices 
may be used in conservation systems that treat highly erodible land or 
on land determined to be wetlands.

EFFECTIVE DATES: Comments will be received until November 27, 2000. 
This series of new or revised conservation practice standards will be 
adopted after November 27, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Single copies of these standards are 
available from NRCS Conservation Engineering Division (CED) in 
Washington, DC. Submit individual inquiries and return any comments in 
writing to William Hughey, National Agricultural Engineer, Natural 
Resources Conservation Service, Post Office Box 2890, Room 6139-S, 
Washington, DC 20013-2890; telephone: (202) 720-5023. The standards are 
also available and can be downloaded from the Internet at: http://www.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/practice_stds.html.

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 60 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 change will be made.

    Signed at Washington, DC, on September 14, 2000.
Pearlie S. Reed,
Chief, Natural Resources Conservation Service.
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