Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 85 / Wednesday, May 2, 2001 / Notices 21909

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

Notice of Availability of an

Environmental Assessment; Ashley,

Dixie, Fishlake, Manti-La Sal, Uinta,

and Wasatch-Cache National Forest’s;

Utah Counties: Beaver, Box Elder,

Cache, Carbon, Daggett, Davis,

Duchesne, Emery, Garfield, Grand,

Iron, Juab, Kane, Millard, Morgan,

Piute, Rich, Salt Lake, San Juan,

Sanpete, Sevier, Summit, Tooele,

Uintah, Utah, Wasatch, Washington,

Wayne, and Weber; Wyoming

Counties: Sweetwater and Uinta;

Colorado Counties: Mesa and

Montrose

AGENCY: USDA Forest Service.

ACTION: Notice of availability of an

environmental assessment.

SUMMARY: The Utah Fire Amendment

Project was initiated October 13, 1998

with the published public notification

of proposed Forest Plan amendments in

the newspaper of general circulation for

each National Forest. The responsible

officials are the Forest Supervisors for

the Ashley, Dixie, Fishlake, Manti-La

Sal, Uinta, and Wasatch-Cache National

Forest’s. In accordance with planning

regulations issued November 9, 2000 at

36 CFR § 219.35 the responsible

official’s have decided to proceed under

the 1982 regulations in effect prior to

November 9, 2000. In addition, the

responsible official’s have decided to

proceed under the administrative appeal

and review procedures of 36 CFR § 217

in effect prior to November 9, 2000.

DATES: Effective as of May 2, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

David Hatfield, Manti-La Sal National

Forest, 599 West Price River Drive,

Price, UT 84501, (435) 637–2817.

Dated: April 19, 2001.

Pam Gardiner,

Forest Supervisor, Wasatch-Cache National

Forest.

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

Availability of the Luna Lake Trail

Relocation Environmental

Assessment, Including a Proposed

Non-Significant Amendment to the

1997 Revision to the Routt National

Forest Land and Resource

Management Plan, Garfield, Grand,

Jackson, Moffat, Rio Blanco, and Routt

Counties, CO

AGENCY: U.S. Forest Service, U.S.D.A.

ACTION: Notice of availability of an

environmental assessment.

SUMMARY: An environmental assessment

of the proposed relocation of

approximately three miles of the Luna

Lake Trail in the Mt. Zirkel Wilderness

that was heavily impacted by the Routt

Divide Blowdown event in October

1997 is available upon request. The

analysis includes a proposed nonsignificant amendment to the 1997

Revision to Routt National Forest Land

and Resource Management Plan to

reallocate acres in management area

prescriptions in the project area. The

amendment is necessary to reflect the

change in recreational use patterns and

social encounters that would result from

trail relocation. This notice is provided

pursuant to National Forest System

Land and Resource Management

Planning regulations (36 CFR 219.35, 65

FR 67579, November 9, 2000).

DATES: Public scoping on this proposed

project was initiated on August 8, 1999.

A pre-decisional Environmental

Assessment was issued on August 2,

2000. The official public comment

period ended on September 11, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Send requests for

documents to: Forest Supervisor,

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests

and Thunder Basin National Grassland,

2468 Jackson Street, Laramie, WY

82070–6535.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ed

Patalik, Recreation Planner, Hahns

Peak-Bears Ears Ranger District, 925

Weiss Drive, Steamboat Springs, CO

80487–9315. Phone: (970) 870–2245

Electronic mail: epatalik@fs.fed.us

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public

scoping for this project was initiated

with an article in the Steamboat TODAY

newspaper, Steamboat Springs,

Colorado, on August 8, 1999.

On April 7, 2000, a letter describing

this proposed project and the nonsignificant amendment to the 1997

Revision to the Routt National Forest

Land and Resource Management Plan

was mailed to over 1,800 individuals

and organizations on the Routt Forest

Plan and Routt Divide Blowdown

mailing lists. This mailing was followed

with another article about the proposed

project in the Steamboat TODAY

newspaper on April 14, 2000.

A pre-decisional Environmental

Assessment was made available for

review and public comment invited in

legal notices published in the

Steamboat TODAY newspaper on

August 2, 2000, and in the Laramie

Daily Boomerang, Laramie, Wyoming on

August 9, 2000. The official public

comment period ended on September

11, 2000.

Dated: April 17, 2001.

Mary H. Peterson,

Forest Supervisor.

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Rural Housing Service

Notice of Availability of Funding and

Requests for Proposals for Guaranteed

Loans Under the Section 538

Guaranteed Rural Rental Housing

Program; Correction

AGENCY: Rural Housing Service (RHS),

USDA.

ACTION: Correction.

SUMMARY: The Rural Housing Service

(RHS) corrects a notice published

December 26, 2000 (65 FR 81650). This

action is taken to correct the authorized

purposes of section 538 guaranteed

loans by eliminating the requirement

that acquisition loans result in the

creation of new units.

Accordingly, the notice published

December 26, 2000, (65 FR 81650–

81656), is corrected as follows:

On page 81650 in the third column,

Item I, ‘‘Purpose and Program

Summary,’’ the fourth sentence should

read ‘‘Qualified lenders will be

authorized to originate, underwrite, and

close loans for multi-family housing

projects requiring new construction or

acquisition with rehabilitation of at least

$15,000 per unit.’’

Dated: April 17, 2001.

James C. Alsop,

Acting Administrator, Rural Housing Service.

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