[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 19 (Monday, January 31, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4816-4817]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-1745]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation Service


Notice of Proposed Changes to the Natural Resources Conservation 
Service's National Handbook of Conservation Practices

AGENCY: Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), USDA.

ACTION: Notice of availability of proposed changes in the NRCS National 
Handbook of Conservation Practices for public review and comment.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the intention of NRCS to issue 21 
new or revised conservation practice standards in its National Handbook 
of Conservation Practices. These standards include: Amendments for 
Treatment of Agricultural Waste (Code 591), Early Successional Habitat 
Development (Code 647), Firebreak (Code 394), Fuel Break (Code 383), 
Land Reclamation,

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Toxic Discharge Control (Code 455), Residue and Tillage Management--
Mulch Till (Code 345), Residue and Tillage Management--No Till/Strip 
Till/Direct Seed (Code 329), Residue and Tillage Management--Ridge Till 
(Code 346), Restoration and Management of Declining Habitats (Code 
643), Riparian Herbaceous Cover (Code 390), Shallow Water Management 
for Wildlife (Code 646), Slash Treatment (Code 384), Streambank and 
Shoreline Protection (Code 580), Solid/Liquid Waste Separation Facility 
(Code 632), Upland Wildlife Habitat Management (Code 645), Use 
Exclusion (Code 472), Waste Treatment (Code 629), Wetland Creation 
(Code 658), Wetland Enhancement (Code 659), Wetland Restoration (Code 
657), and Wetland Wildlife Habitat Management (Code 644). NRCS State 
Conservationists who choose to adopt these practices for use within 
their States will incorporate them into Section IV of their respective 
electronic Field Office Technical Guides. These practices may be used 
in conservation systems that treat highly erodible land, or on land 
determined to be wetland.

DATES: Effective Dates:
    Comments will be received for a 30-day period commencing with this 
date of publication. This series of new or revised conservation 
practice standards will be adopted after the close of the 30-day 
period.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Copies of these standards can be 
downloaded or printed from the following Web site: ftp://ftp-fc.sc.egov.usda.gov/NHQ/practice-standards/federal-register/. Single 
copies of these standards are also available from NRCS in Washington, 
DC. Submit individual inquiries in writing to Daniel Meyer, National 
Agricultural Engineer, Natural Resources Conservation Service, P.O. Box 
2890, Room 6139-S, Washington, DC 20013-2890.

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 30 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 changes will be made.

    Signed in Washington, DC, on January 24, 2005.
Bruce I. Knight,
Chief, Natural Resources Conservation Service.
[FR Doc. 05-1745 Filed 1-28-05; 8:45 am]
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