[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 208 (Thursday, October 26, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 64202]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-27519]


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Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 208 / Thursday, October 26, 2000 / 
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation Service


Mission-Lapwai Creek Supplemental Number 2 Watershed Protection 
Project, Nez Perce County, ID

AGENCY: Natural Resources Conservation Service.

ACTION: Notice of a Finding of No Significant Impact.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Richard Sims, State Conservationist, 
Natural Resources Conservation Service, 9173 W. Barnes Dr., Suite C, 
Boise, Idaho 83709-1555, telephone (208) 378-5700.
    Notice: Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969; the Council on Environmental Quality Guidelines (40 
CFR part 1500); and the Natural Resources Conservation Service 
Guidelines (7 CFR part 650); the Natural Resources Conservation 
Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, gives notice that an 
environmental impact statement is not being prepared for the Mission-
Lapwai Creek Supplemental Number 2 Watershed Protection Project, Nez 
Perce County, Idaho.
    The Plan/Environmental Assessment of this federally assisted action 
indicates that the project will not cause significant local, regional, 
or national impacts on the environment. As a result of these findings, 
Richard Sims, State Conservationist, has determined that the 
preparation and review of an environmental impact statement was not 
needed for this project.
    The Mission-Lapwai Creek Supplement Number 2 Watershed Protection 
Project consists of a system of land treatment measures designed to 
protect the resource base, reduce off-site sediment and associated 
nutrients and bacteria, improve the quality of ground water, and water 
entering the Clearwater River. Planned treatment practices include: 
access roads, agrichemical handling facilities, animal trails and 
walkways, buffers strips, channel vegetation, constructed wetlands, 
critical area planting, diversions, fencing, field borders, filter 
strips, fish stream improvement structures, forest site preparation, 
forest stand improvement, grade stabilization structures, grassed 
waterways, heavy use area protection, nutrient management, pasture and 
hayland planting, pest management, ponds, prescribed grazing, range 
planting, residue management (no-till, mulch-till, direct seeding), 
riparian forest buffers, rock-lined waterways, runoff management 
systems, sediment basins, stockwater development, streambank and 
shoreline protection, stripcropping, structure for water control, 
subsoiling, terraces, tree and shrub establishment, use exclusion, 
waste management systems, water and sediment control basins, wildlife 
upland habitat management, and wildlife wetland habitat management.
    The Notice of Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) has been 
forwarded to the Environmental Protection Agency. The basic data 
developed during the plan/environmental assessment are on file and may 
be reviewed by contacting Mr. Richard Sims. The FONSI has been sent to 
various Federal, State, and local agencies, and interested parties. A 
limited number of copies of the FONSI are available to fill single copy 
requests at the address stated on the previous page.
    No administrative action on the proposal will be initiated until 30 
days after the date of this publication in the Federal Register.

(This activity is listed in the catalog of Federal Domestic 
Assistance under No. 10.904, Watershed Protection and Flood 
Prevention, and is subject to the provisions of Executive Order 
12372, which requires intergovernmental consultation with State and 
local officials.)

    Dated: October 17, 2000.
Richard Sims,
State Conservationist.
[FR Doc. 00-27519 Filed 10-25-00; 8:45 am]
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