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751

Vol. 66, No. 3

Thursday, January 4, 2001

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

Availability of a Draft Environmental

Assessment for Amendment No. 21 to

the Hiawatha National Forest Land and

Resource Management Plan; Alger

County, Michigan

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of availability of a draft

environmental assessment.

SUMMARY: On December 5, 2000,

Hiawatha National Forest Supervisor,

Clyde N. Thompson (Responsible

Official) announced his preferred

alternative for a Draft Environmental

Assessment that would amend the 1986

Hiawatha National Forest Land and

Resource Management Plan (Forest

Plan) in a 30-day pre-decision period.

This amendment updates the standards

and guidelines for Grand Island

Research Natural Area (GI–RNA),

creates a new Management Area 8.1.2

specific to GI–RNA and updates the GI–

RNA Establishment Record. 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). Copies of

the Draft Environmental Assessment are

available upon request.

DATES: On December 5, 2000, Hiawatha

National Forest Supervisor, Clyde N.

Thompson (Responsible Official)

announced his preferred alternative for

a Draft Environmental Assessment that

would amend the 1986 Hiawatha

National Forest Land and Resource

Management Plan (Forest Plan). A legal

notice was published in the Escanaba

Daily Press, Escanaba, Michigan

newspaper in accordance with 36 CFR

217.8(a)(2) on December 5, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Send requests for

documents to: Forest Supervisor,

Hiawatha National Forest, 2727 North

Lincoln Road, Escanaba, MI 49829.

Alternatively, direct electronic mail

to: pbeyer@fs.fed.us ATTN: GI–RNA

Amendment.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Patty Beyer, Project Coordinator, at 906–

228–9681. TDD 906–789–3337; or direct

electronic mail to: pbeyer@fs.fed.us, or

access the forest web page at http://

www.fs.fed.us/r9/hiawatha.

Responsible Official: Clyde N.

Thompson, Forest Supervisor, 2727

North Lincoln Rd., Escanaba, Michigan,

49829.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

proposed Forest Plan Amendment No.

21 describes site-specific standards and

guidelines that allow for existing

recreation use while reducing resource

impacts to the GI–RNA. These standards

and guidelines offer protection of soils,

watershed, botanical communities, old

growth, Great Lakes shoreline and

heritage resources. The preferred

alternative maintains the historic use

patterns of Grand Island within the GI–

RNA. This is non-significant

amendment.

Public involvement was an important

part of the decision making process for

this proposal. On December 9, 1999 a

public scoping letter was sent to over

700 interested parties and a notice was

published in the local newspaper. A

second round of public involvement

occurred with the issuance of the predecisional environmental assessment on

December 1, 2000. We published a legal

notice notifying the public of the

availability of the EA for review in the

Escanaba Daily Press, Escanaba,

Michigan on December 5, 2000. A 30-

day comment period follows release of

the pre-decisional EA on December 5,

2000 for review (until January 5, 2001).

A final decision is expected in January

2001.

This decision will be subject to appeal

pursuant to USDA Forest Service

regulations 36 CFR 217.3. Any written

appeal must be postmarked or

submitted to the Regional Forester,

USDA Forest Service, Eastern Region,

310 West Wisconsin Ave., Suite 500,

Milwaukee, WI 53203, within 45 days of

the date the legal notice will be

published in the Escanaba Daily Press,

Escanaba, Michigan in accordance with

36 CFR 217.8(a)(2). The appeal period

begins the day following the legal notice

publication in the Escanaba Daily Press.

Appeals must meet the content

requirements of 36 CFR 217.9. The

Forest Service is an equal opportunity

organization.

Dated: December 18, 2000.

Clyde N. Thompson,

Forest Supervisor.

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BILLING CODE 3410–11–M

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Indian Affairs

Bureau of Land Management

Fish and Wildlife Service

National Park Service

Urban Wildland Interface Communities

Within the Vicinity of Federal Lands

That Are at High Risk From Wildfire

AGENCIES: Forest Service, USDA; Bureau

of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land

Management, Fish and Wildlife Service,

and National Park Service, USDI.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice provides an initial

list of urban wildland interface

communities in the vicinity of Federal

lands that are at high risk from wildfire.

The list, compiled from information

provided by States and Tribes, and

prepared for publication by the

Secretaries of Agriculture and the

Interior, responds to Congressional

direction to identify communities

within the vicinity of Federal lands that

are at high risk from wildfire, and

publish a list of these communities in

the Federal Register. States and Tribes

used different criteria for selecting

communities at risk. This initial list of

communities is incomplete, and will be

updated as additional information from

the States and Tribes becomes available.

The information included in the list has

not been altered by the Federal agencies.

Pursuant to direction from Congress,

the lists submitted by States and Tribes

have been annotated by the Secretaries

to identify communities around which

hazardous fuel reduction treatments on

Federal lands are ongoing or are

planned to begin in fiscal year 2001.

The Secretaries will continue to work

with States, Tribes, local governments,