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Vol. 60, No. 237

Monday, December 11, 1995

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

Formulation of the Communications

Strategy for the Revision of the Cibola

National Forest Land and Resource

Management Plan

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

SUMMARY: The Cibola National Forest

requests comment on the formulation of

a communications strategy that will

describe how the public and

government entities may participate that

will describe how the public and

government entities may participate in

the prerevision review and revision of

the Cibola National Forest Plan on an

ongoing basis. This is an invitation to

the public and representatives of

government entities to express their

ideas and suggestions on ways that the

Cibola National Forest can coordinate

and disseminate information throughout

the entire forest planning process.

DATES: This notice is effective the

December 11, 1995. Comments must be

submitted in writing on or before

February 9, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Direct comments to: Jeanine

A. Derby, Forest Supervisor, Cibola

National Forest, 2113 Osuna Road NE,

Suite A, Albuquerque, New Mexico

87110.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Karen Carter, Public Affairs Officer,

Cibola National Forest at 505–761–4650.

BACKGROUND: The Land and Resource

Management Plan defines the long-term

direction for managing the Cibola

National Forest and the Kiowa, Rita

Blanca, Black Kettle, and McClellan

Creek National Grasslands. The Forest

Plan will take an ecological approach to

achieve multiple-use management of the

National Forest and National

Grasslands. It means that we must blend

the needs of people and environmental

values in such a way that the National

Forest and Grasslands represent diverse,

healthy, productive, and sustainable

ecosystems. The present Cibola National

Forest Plan was approved in 1985 and

has been amended six times since then.

Revision of a forest plan should occur

about every 10 years, but no later than

15 years, from the date of approval of

the original plan or the latest plan

revision. Briefly stated, the following

steps are taken during a forest plan

revision:

(1) Prerevision review of the forest

plan. The entire forest plan is reviewed

to identify changed conditions and/or

other new information which appear to

indicate a need to change direction in

the current plan.

(2) Communications Strategy. The

Forest Supervisor shall formulate a

communications strategy that describes

how the public and government entities

may participate in the prerevision and

revision of the forest plan on an ongoing

basis.

(3) Scoping. Upon completion of the

prerevision review, the Regional

Forester shall initiate the forest plan

revision process by publishing a Notice

of Intent to revise the forest plan and to

prepare the draft environmental impact

statement.

(4) Based on analysis and public

comments, a draft environmental impact

statement is completed.

(5) Based on analysis and public

comments, a final environmental impact

statement is completed with a revised

forest plan.

(6) Following public comments a

revised forest plan is approved.

The Communications Strategy is the

tool used to guide the public

participation process. The intent of the

document is to list activities designed to

foster ongoing participation by the

public and government representatives

during the entire planning process.

We are seeking comments as to which

ways are most useful in order to receive

and disseminate information concerning

the planning process. Examples that are

presently used include, but are not

limited to, the following:

(1) Conduct public meetings, with

adequate public notice to all interested

persons, for the purpose of soliciting

comments.

(2) Initiate meeting and invite the

public and specific interested parties for

the purpose of explaining agency

proposals.

(3) Participate in one-on-one meetings

to obtain individual views.

(4) Produce news releases through

television, radio, newspapers.

(5) Write individual or group letters.

A copy of the draft Communications

Strategy is available at the Cibola

National Forest Supervisor’s Office,

2113 Osuna Road NE, Suite A,

Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110, 505–

761–4650.

Dated: December 5, 1995.

Kenneth D. Knarr,

Acting Forest Supervisor.

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Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting

of the North Dakota Advisory

Committee

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to

the provisions of the rules and

regulations of the U.S. Commission on

Civil Rights, that a meeting of the North

Dakota Advisory Committee to the

Commission will convene at 1:00 p.m.

and adjourn at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday,

December 7, 1995. The purpose of the

meeting is to provide orientation to new

members, brief Committee members on

Commission activities, discuss the

current project, and plan future

activities.

Persons desiring additional

information, or planning a presentation

to the Committee, should contact

Committee Chairperson Betty L. Mills,

701–223–4643, or John F. Dulles,

Director of the Rocky Mountain

Regional Office, 303–866–1040 (TDD

303–866–1049). Hearing-impaired

persons who will attend the meeting

and require the services of a sign

language interpreter should contact the

Regional Office at least five (5) working

days before the scheduled date of the

meeting.

The meeting will be conducted

pursuant to the provisions of the rules

and regulations of the Commission.

Dated at Washington, DC, .

Carol-Lee Hurley

Chief, Regional Programs Coordination Unit

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