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Notices Federal Register

654 

Vol. 83, No. 4 

Friday, January 5, 2018 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Idaho and Southwestern Montana 

(Beaverhead-Deerlodge, Boise, 

Caribou-Targhee, Salmon-Challis, and 

Sawtooth National Forests and Curlew 

National Grassland); Nevada 

(Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest); 

Utah (Ashley, Dixie, Fishlake, Manti-La 

Sal, and Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National 

Forests); Wyoming (Bridger-Teton 

National Forest); and Wyoming/ 

Colorado (Medicine Bow-Routt 

National Forest and Thunder Basin 

National Grassland) Amendments to 

Land Management Plans for Greater 

Sage-Grouse Conservation 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice to Extend the Public 

Scoping Period for the Notice of Intent 

to Prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement for the Amendments to Land 

Management Plans for Greater SageGrouse Conservation 

SUMMARY: The Forest Service is issuing 

this notice to advise the public of a 14- 

day extension to the public scoping 

period on the notice of intent to prepare 

an environmental impact statement for 

the amendments to land management 

plans for greater sage-grouse 

conservation. 

DATES: Comments concerning the scope 

of the analysis must be received by 

January 19, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to 

Sage-grouse Amendment Comment, 

USDA Forest Service Intermountain 

Region, Federal Building, 324 25th 

Street, Ogden, UT 84401. Comments 

may also be sent via email to, 

comments-intermtn-regional-office@

fs.fed.us, or via facsimile to 801–625– 

5277. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Shivik at 801–625–5667 or email 

johnashivik@fs.fed.us. Individuals who 

use telecommunication devices for the 

deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– 

800–877–8339 between 8 a.m. and 8 

p.m., Eastern Time, Monday through 

Friday. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

original notice of intent for public 

comment on the greater sage-grouse 

plan amendments was published in the 

Federal Register on November 21, 2017 

(82 FR 55346). The original notice of 

intent provided a 45 day comment 

period, which may be insufficient for 

comment preparation from all interested 

parties. As such, the comment period 

for the original notice is being extended 

by 14 days. 

If the Forest Service amends land 

management plans, we hereby give 

notice that substantive requirements of 

the 2012 Planning Rule (36 CFR 219) 

likely to be directly related, and 

therefore applicable, to the amendments 

are in sections 219.8(b) (social and 

economic sustainability), 219.9 

(diversity of plant and animal 

communities), and 219.10(a)(1) 

(integrated resource management). 

The public is encouraged to help 

identify any issues, management 

questions, or concerns that should be 

addressed in plan amendment(s) or 

policy or administrative action. The 

Forest Service will work collaboratively 

with interested parties to identify the 

management direction that is best suited 

to local, regional, and national needs 

and concerns. The Forest Service will 

use an interdisciplinary approach as it 

considers the variety of resource issues 

and concerns. 

Dated: December 29, 2017. 

Chris French, 

Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest 

System. 

[FR Doc. 2018–00045 Filed 1–4–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3411–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest; 

Oregon; Shasta Agness Landscape 

Restoration Project Environmental 

Impact Statement 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement. 

SUMMARY: The USDA Forest Service, 

Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest 

(RRSNF), Gold Beach Ranger District is 

providing notice that it will prepare an 

environmental impact statement (EIS) 

for the Shasta Agness Landscape 

Restoration Project, which would 

implement multiple landscape 

restoration actions on National Forest 

System lands within an approximately 

93,000-acre project planning area. 

Restoration actions include vegetation 

treatments, prescribed fire, sustainable 

recreation, and sustainable roads 

actions. In order to implement the 

project, the Forest Service identified the 

need for a project-specific amendment 

to exempt commercial and 

noncommercial thinning restoration 

actions in unique oak and pine units 

from the silviculture standard. This 

notice identifies the planning rule 

provisions likely to be directly related to 

the plan amendment. 

DATES: Comments concerning the scope 

of the analysis must be received by 

February 5, 2018. The draft 

environmental impact statement is 

expected early 2018, and the final 

environmental impact statement is 

expected fall of 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to 

Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest 

(RRSNF), 3040 Biddle Road, Medford, 

OR 97504. 

Comments may also be submitted 

online at https://cara.ecosystemmanagement.org/Public// 

CommentInput?Project=49607; or via 

the Gold Beach Ranger District facsimile 

at 541–247–3641; or the RRSNF 

facsimile at (541) 618–2400. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Craig Trulock, Deputy Forest 

Supervisor, ctrulock@fs.fed.us, 541– 

618–2032. Individuals who use 

telecommunication devices for the deaf 

may call the Federal Information Relay 

Service at 1–800–877–8339 between 8 

a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern Time, Monday 

through Friday. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose and Need 

As a result of past fire exclusion and 

vegetation management regimes 

conducted within the project area, 

current ecosystem conditions have 

departed from natural conditions and 

exhibit lower compositions of certain 

species, plant communities, and habitat 

types. The result is that some of these 


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